Episode · Lex Fridman Podcast · 2021-09-03
Books mentioned on #217 – Rodney Brooks: Robotics
Rodney Brooks is a roboticist, former head of CSAIL at MIT, and co-founder of iRobot, Rethink Robotics, and Robust.AI.
Rodney Brooks discussed The book of electricity by Geoffrey Gerard, Giant brains; or, Machines that think by Edmund Callis Berkeley, Computation: Finite and Infinite Machines by Marvin Minsky, The Art of Computer Programming by Donald E. Knuth, Perceptrons by Marvin Minsky and others, and Perceptrons by Marvin Lee Minsky.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Giant brains; or, Machines that think
Discussed“and how i won the book of giant brains and robots”
Where to get it
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Computation: Finite and Infinite Machines
Computation: Finite and Infinite Machines by Marvin Minsky is a foundational text in computer science and mathematics that explores the theoretical underpinnings of computation and artificial intelligence.
Discussed“and so marvin minsky very well known in ai but also a fantastic mathematician uh in his book finite and infinite machines from the mid 60s which is a beautiful beautiful mathematical book”
Where to get it
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The Art of Computer Programming
The Art of Computer Programming by Donald E.
Discussed“and donald knuth uh in his first volume of his you know art of computer programming in around 1968 says well what's computation”
Where to get it
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Perceptrons
Discussed“i should have asked marvin why he he and seymour pappet came down so hard on neural networks in 1968 in their book perceptrons”
Where to get it
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Perceptrons
Perceptrons by Marvin Lee Minsky and Seymour Papert is a foundational academic text in artificial intelligence that analyzed the mathematical limitations of early neural networks.
Discussed“uh i i should have asked marvin why he he and seymour pappet came down so hard on neural networks in 1968 in their book perceptrons”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (5) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“how and why wonder books um how am i on the book of electricity and how i won the book of giant brains and robots”
“how and why wonder books um how am i on the book of electricity and how i won the book of giant brains and robots”
“um how am i on the book of electricity and how i won the book of giant brains and robots”
“in fact i'm halfway through a i think it'll be about a 480 page book um titled the working title is not even wrong”
“and now let me leave you with the three laws of robotics from isaac asimov”