Escaping the Local Optimum of Low Expectation

This is a talk with some advice about life and my own journey and passion in artificial intelligence. The audience is a group of Drexel engineering students, friends and family in Philadelphia.

This talk was before the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic. Stay safe everyone, stay strong, we’ll beat this thing.

OUTLINE:
0:00 – Overview – The Voice poem
6:46 – Artificial intelligence
13:44 – Open problems in AI
14:10 – Problem 1: Learning to understand
17:15 – Problem 2: Learning to act
19:28 – Problem 3: Reasoning
20:44 – Problem 4: Connection between humans & AI systems
23:57 – Advice about life as an optimization problem
24:10 – Advice 1: Listen to your inner voice – ignore the gradient
25:12 – Advice 2: carve your own path
26:28 – Advice 2: Measure passion not progress
28:10 – Advice 4: work hard
29:05 – Advice 5: forever oscillate between gratitude and dissatisfaction
31:10 – Q&A: Meaning of life
33:11 – Q&A: Simulation hypothesis
36:15 – Q&A: How do you define greatness?

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