Podcast

Description

Risto Miikkulainen is a computer scientist at UT Austin. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:

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  OUTLINE:
  Here’s the timestamps for the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.
  (00:00) - Introduction
  (06:51) - If we re-ran Earth over 1 million times
  (10:08) - Would aliens detect humans?
  (12:46) - Evolution of intelligent life
  (16:31) - Fear of death
  (22:47) - Hyenas
  (26:12) - Language
  (29:43) - The magic of programming
  (35:43) - Neuralink
  (43:15) - Surprising discoveries by AI
  (46:49) - How evolutionary computation works
  (58:12) - Learning to walk
  (1:01:25) - Robots and a theory of mind
  (1:10:29) - Neuroevolution
  (1:20:47) - Tesla Autopilot
  (1:24:11) - Language and vision
  (1:29:53) - Aliens communicating with humans
  (1:35:29) - Would AI learn to lie to humans?
  (1:42:03) - Artificial life
  (1:46:56) - Cellular automata
  (1:52:32) - Advice for young people
  (1:57:09) - Meaning of life

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