Michael Littman: Reinforcement Learning and the Future of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #144

Michael Littman is a computer scientist at Brown University. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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OUTLINE:
0:00 – Introduction
2:30 – Robot and Frank
4:50 – Music
8:01 – Starring in a TurboTax commercial
18:14 – Existential risks of AI
36:36 – Reinforcement learning
1:02:24 – AlphaGo and David Silver
1:12:03 – Will neural networks achieve AGI?
1:24:30 – Bitter Lesson
1:37:20 – Does driving require a theory of mind?
1:46:46 – Book Recommendations
1:52:08 – Meaning of life

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