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Michael Littman is a computer scientist at Brown University. 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
  (07:43) - Robot and Frank
  (10:02) - Music
  (13:13) - Starring in a TurboTax commercial
  (23:26) - Existential risks of AI
  (41:48) - Reinforcement learning
  (1:07:36) - AlphaGo and David Silver
  (1:17:15) - Will neural networks achieve AGI?
  (1:29:42) - Bitter Lesson
  (1:42:32) - Does driving require a theory of mind?
  (1:51:58) - Book Recommendations
  (1:57:20) - Meaning of life

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