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Every book Melanie Mitchell recommended on podcasts
Key facts
- Melanie Mitchell has recommended or discussed 3 books on podcasts, as of January 6, 2020.
- Melanie Mitchell has talked about books on 2 podcasts, as of January 6, 2020.
- Those books came up in 2 episodes, as of January 6, 2020.
- The 3 books Melanie Mitchell has mentioned in the most episodes, as of January 6, 2020: Human Compatible, Fluid Concepts And Creative Analogies and Gödel, Escher, Bach.
- The latest episode with a book mention from Melanie Mitchell aired on January 6, 2020.
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Across 2 podcasts. Every show Melanie Mitchell appears on, in one place, not just one.
Melanie Mitchell is a computer scientist and author who has shared several notable book recommendations and discussions on artificial intelligence podcasts. Appearing on the Lex Fridman Podcast, Mitchell recommended Douglas R. Hofstadter's Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies, specifically noting that the book explores the Copycat architecture in great detail for readers wishing to learn more about concepts, analogies, and creative machine intelligence. In her conversation on EconTalk, Mitchell also discussed Douglas R. Hofstadter's classic work Gödel, Escher, Bach, describing how reading those foundational ideas initially inspired her own career path into artificial intelligence. Additionally, Mitchell frequently referenced Stuart Russell's book Human Compatible across multiple podcast appearances, including the Lex Fridman Podcast and EconTalk. She mentioned Russell's book while examining the critical importance of AI safety, discussing how artificial intelligence systems must be designed to align their ethics and values with human goals, a topic spurred by an earlier New York Times op-ed written by Russell summarizing his arguments.
Books Melanie Mitchell recommended or discussed
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Human Compatible
Discussed“I quoted from Stuart Russell who's wrote a book called human compatible about aligning AI ethics with ours or values”
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Fluid Concepts And Creative Analogies
Recommended“so there's a Douglas Hofstadter's book called fluid concepts and creative analogies talks in great detail about copycat”
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Gödel, Escher, Bach
Discussed“I'm like those Google engineers I got into AI cuz I was excited about the ideas in Colonel Escher Bach”
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Books Melanie Mitchell wrote
Appearances
| Episode | Podcast | Date | Books |
|---|---|---|---|
| Melanie Mitchell on Artificial Intelligence | EconTalk | 2020-01-06 | 2 |
| Melanie Mitchell: Concepts, Analogies, Common Sense & Future of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast | 2019-12-28 | 3 |
Other mentions (8: passing, ad reads, own books)
“so in the book I talk about my former PhD advisor Douglas Hofstadter who encountered a music generation program and that was really the line for him that if a machine could create beautiful music that would be terrifying for him”
“which I like because it's a it's a nice way to to sort of it's a nice unit for prediction and it's like that many fantastic discoveries have to be made”
“but and there's some fundamental weaknesses that they have that I talked about in the book that that just comes from this approach of supervised learning”
“one thing that surprised me when I was writing the book is how far apart different people are in the field are artisan their opinion of how how far the field has come”
“so so one example here's an example i had in the book that that i think is useful to me at least in thinking about this”
“I have a book called analogy making as perception which is a version of my PhD thesis on it”
“i have a book called analogy making as perception which is a version of my PhD thesis on it”
“i have a book called analogy making as perception which is a version of my PhD thesis on it”