#144 – Michael Littman: Reinforcement Learning and the Future of AI

Michael Littman is a computer scientist at Brown University. Please
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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