EPISODE · Aug 17, 2021 · 1H
Anima Anandkumar - Artificial Intelligence and a flourishing society
from Origins Podcast with Ryan McGranaghan · host Ryan McGranaghan
Professor Anima Anandkumar is a meteor in the field of artificial intelligence or AI. Her rise in the space has been a phenomenon to behold and her voice is a refreshing and inviting one that might just alter the trajectory of AI and society.Show Notes:Artificial Intelligence (AI) (01:00)Love of the liminal spaces (03:20)Philosophy and connection to AI (07:30)Advaita VedantaThe science of creativity (10:00)Never run out of problems to solve (11:20)Supervised and Unsupervised Learning (14:00)Doris Tsao at Caltech (15:30)AGI = Artificial General Intelligence (16:30)TED talks (19:40)2018 "Trinity of Artificial Intelligence" 2021 "Can Artificial Intelligence be conscious too?"What can you not do by simply scaling up? (20:20)Bongard-LOGO Challenge (21:00)Edge AI (23:30)Doris Tsao - what is the role of feedback in how we study things? (26:10)“What I cannot create, I do not understand” -Richard Feynman (26:40)The alignment problem (28:40)GPT model (37:00)The importance of metrics (38:50)Flourishing (39:00)Nick Bostrom paper clip thought experiment (39:50)Social media (41:00)Advocacy for women and minorities (43:00)Timnit Gebru (44:00)Joy Buolamwini (44:00)AI4All (45:30)Caltech Wave Program (45:40)me too. Movement (47:40)Curriculum for a flourishing society (50:00)Frederick Eberhardt at CaltechLightning Round (54:20)Book: Michio Kaku HyperspacePassion: DancingHeart sing: Rethinking how we interact with the world; yogaScrewed up: Twitter presenceFind Anima online:http://tensorlab.cms.caltech.edu/users/anima/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anima-anandkumar/'Five-Cut Fridays’ five-song music playlist series Anima’s playlist
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Professor Anima Anandkumar is a meteor in the field of artificial intelligence or AI. Her rise in the space has been a phenomenon to behold and her voice is a refreshing and inviting one that might just alter the trajectory of AI and society. Show Notes: Artificial Intelligence (AI) (01:00)Love of the liminal spaces (03:20)Philosophy and connection to AI (07:30)Advaita VedantaThe science of creativity (10:00)Never run out of problems to solve (11:20)Supervised and Unsupervised Learning (14:0...
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