Risto Miikkulainen: Neuroevolution and Evolutionary Computation | Lex Fridman Podcast #177

Risto Miikkulainen is a computer scientist at UT Austin. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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Risto’s Website: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/risto/

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OUTLINE:
0:00 – Introduction
1:07 – If we re-ran Earth over 1 million times
4:24 – Would aliens detect humans?
7:02 – Evolution of intelligent life
10:47 – Fear of death
17:03 – Hyenas
20:28 – Language
23:59 – The magic of programming
29:59 – Neuralink
37:31 – Surprising discoveries by AI
41:06 – How evolutionary computation works
52:28 – Learning to walk
55:41 – Robots and a theory of mind
1:04:45 – Neuroevolution
1:15:03 – Tesla Autopilot
1:18:28 – Language and vision
1:24:09 – Aliens communicating with humans
1:29:45 – Would AI learn to lie to humans?
1:36:20 – Artificial life
1:41:12 – Cellular automata
1:46:49 – Advice for young people
1:51:25 – Meaning of life

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