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#81 – Anca Dragan: Human-Robot Interaction and Reward Engineering

#81 – Anca Dragan: Human-Robot Interaction and Reward Engineering

Lex Fridman Podcast vor 6 Jahren

Anca Dragan is a professor at Berkeley, working on human-robot interaction -- algorithms that look beyond the robot's function in isolation, and generate robot behavior that accounts for interaction and coordination with human beings. -

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Anca Dragan is a professor at Berkeley, working on human-robot
interaction — algorithms that look beyond the robot’s function in
isolation, and generate robot behavior that accounts for
interaction and coordination with human beings.

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Anca’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/ancadianadragan

Anca’s Website: https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~anca/

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OUTLINE:

00:00 – Introduction

02:26 – Interest in robotics

05:32 – Computer science

07:32 – Favorite robot

13:25 – How difficult is human-robot interaction?

32:01 – HRI application domains

34:24 – Optimizing the beliefs of humans

45:59 – Difficulty of driving when humans are involved

1:05:02 – Semi-autonomous driving

1:10:39 – How do we specify good rewards?

1:17:30 – Leaked information from human behavior

1:21:59 – Three laws of robotics

1:26:31 – Book recommendation

1:29:02 – If a doctor gave you 5 years to live…

1:32:48 – Small act of kindness

1:34:31 – Meaning of life