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Every book Brian Christian recommended on podcasts
Key facts
- Brian Christian has recommended or discussed 4 books on podcasts, as of March 20, 2021.
- Brian Christian has talked about books on 2 podcasts, as of March 20, 2021.
- Those books came up in 2 episodes, as of March 20, 2021.
- The 2 books Brian Christian has mentioned in the most episodes, not counting Brian Christian's own, as of March 20, 2021: Artificial Intelligence: a Modern Approach and Superintelligence.
- The latest episode with a book mention from Brian Christian aired on March 20, 2021.
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Across 2 podcasts. Every show Brian Christian appears on, in one place, not just one.
Brian Christian appeared on podcast episodes to discuss computers, artificial intelligence, and his own writing. During an appearance on Invest Like the Best, Brian Christian introduced his second book, Algorithms to Live By, describing it as a lens on career decisions from an explicit algorithmic perspective. Host Patrick O'Shaughnessy noted that the explore-exploit chapter was his favorite and recommended the book to others. Later, during an appearance on Modern Wisdom, Brian Christian discussed Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig's book Artificial Intelligence: a Modern Approach, identifying it as the standard artificial intelligence textbook used across the world. In the same podcast conversation, he also referred to Nick Bostrom's Superintelligence as a cosmic wake-up call or fire alarm for the artificial intelligence safety movement. Additionally, during his conversation on Invest Like the Best, Brian Christian mentioned his own earlier work, The Most Human Human, and shared an example from the book regarding how a chatbot responded during the Turing test era when asked about the capital of Romania.
Books Brian Christian recommended or discussed
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Algorithms to Live By
Recommended“So my second book, which we haven't really touched on at all. We're going to get to, yeah. Yeah, it's called Algorithms to Live By and it looks at things like career decisions from an explicitly algorithmic perspective. So we can get into this more later if you're interested, but there's this paradigm called the explore-exploit trade-off,”
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Artificial Intelligence: a Modern Approach
Discussed“The standard ai textbook that um is used across the world is called artificial intelligence and modern approach by stuart russell and peter norvig”
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Superintelligence
Discussed“i sort of think of books like super intelligence as um a kind of cosmic you know breaking the glass and pulling the fire alarm”
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The Most Human Human
Discussed“there's an example that i give in the book which is i asked it what is the capital of romania and it said budapest i don't know which and the real answer is bucharest”
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Brian Christian talked about Superintelligence, one of the books trending on podcasts right now.
Books Brian Christian wrote
Appearances
| Episode | Podcast | Date | Books |
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| The Alignment Problem - Brian Christian | Modern Wisdom Podcast 297 | Modern Wisdom | 2021-03-20 | 2 |
| Brian Christian – How to Live with Computers - [Invest Like the Best, EP.140] | Invest Like the Best | 2019-07-30 | 2 |