#177 – Risto Miikkulainen: Neuroevolution and Evolutionary Computation

Risto Miikkulainen is a computer scientist at UT Austin. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: – The Jordan Harbinger Show: https://jordanharbinger.com/lex/ – Grammarly: https://grammarly.com/lex to get 20% off premium – Belcampo: https://belcampo.com/lex and use code LEX to get 20% off first order – Indeed: https://indeed.com/lex to get $75 credit EPISODE LINKS: Risto’s Website: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/risto/ PODCAST INFO: Podcast website: https://lexfridman.com/podcast Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2lwqZIr Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2nEwCF8 RSS: https://lexfridman.com/feed/podcast/ YouTube Full Episodes: https://youtube.com/lexfridman YouTube Clips: https://youtube.com/lexclips SUPPORT & CONNECT: – Check out the sponsors above, it’s the best way to support this podcast – Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/lexfridman – Twitter: https://twitter.com/lexfridman – Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lexfridman – LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lexfridman – Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lexfridman – Medium: https://medium.com/@lexfridman 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