📚 3 Books mentioned in "Stuart Russell: Long-Term Future of Artificial Intelligence | Lex Fridman Podcast #9" of Lex Fridman Podcast
Podcast: Lex Fridman Podcast
Episode: Stuart Russell: Long-Term Future of Artificial Intelligence | Lex Fridman Podcast #9
Published on December 9, 2018
Here’s a list of all the books mentioned in this episode. Click on the links to watch specific excerpts on YouTube and feel free to purchase the books if they caught your interest!
Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, Global Edition
he's a professor of computer science at UC Berkeley and a co-author of a book that introduced me and millions of other people to the amazing world of AI called artificial intelligence a modern approach
The host introduces Stuart Russell as a co-author of this foundational AI textbook.
Ian Foster
Buy Ian Foster by Ian Foster on Amazon
and and there's an amazing short story that I recommend to everyone that I talk to about this called the machine stops written in 1909 by Ian Foster who you know wrote novels about the British Empire and sort of things that became costume dramas on the BBC
Stuart Russell recommends this short story as an amazing vision of the future, relevant to concerns about AI overuse.
The Time Machine
Buy The Time Machine by H. G. Wells on Amazon
so HG Wells wrote science fiction book I think in 1912 Frederick Soddy who was the guy who discovered isotopes so Nobel Prize winner he gave a speech in 1915 saying that this new explosive would be the equivalent of 150 tons of dynamite
Stuart Russell mentions H.G. Wells writing a science fiction book in 1912 that predicted powerful explosives, in the context of discussing early ideas about atomic energy.