#177 – Risto Miikkulainen: Neuroevolution and Evolutionary Computation

Risto Miikkulainen is a computer scientist at UT Austin. Please
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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