Lex Fridman Podcast: Peter Norvig: Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach

Lex Fridman Lex Fridman 9/30/19 - Episode Page

Peter Norvig is a research director at Google and the co-author with Stuart Russell of the book Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach that educated and inspired a whole generation of researchers including myself to get into the field. This conversation is part of the Artificial Intelligence podcast. If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to https://lexfridman.com/ai or connect with @lexfridman on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Medium, or YouTube where you can watch the video versions of these conversations. If you enjoy the podcast, please rate it 5 stars on iTunes or support it on Patreon. Here’s the outline with timestamps for this episode (on some players you can click on the timestamp to jump to that point in the episode):

00:00 – Introduction

00:37 – Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach

09:11 – Covering the entire field of AI

15:42 – Expert systems and knowledge representation

18:31 – Explainable AI

23:15 – Trust

25:47 – Education – Intro to AI – MOOC

32:43 – Learning to program in 10 years

37:12 – Changing nature of mastery

40:01 – Code review

41:17 – How have you changed as a programmer

43:05 – LISP

47:41 – Python

48:32 – Early days of Google Search

53:24 – What does it take to build human-level intelligence

55:14 – Her

57:00 – Test of intelligence

58:41 – Future threats from AI

1:00:58 – Exciting open problems in AI