- 07-31#113 – Manolis Kellis: Human Genome and Evolutionary Dynamics150 分钟
- 00:00Introduction
- 03:54Human genome
- 17:47Sources of knowledge
- 29:15Free will
- 33:26Simulation
- 35:17Biological and computing
- 50:10Genome-wide evolutionary signatures
- 56:54Evolution of COVID-19
- 1:02:59Are viruses intelligent?
- 1:12:08Humans vs viruses
- 1:19:39Engineered pandemics
- 1:23:23Immune system
- 1:33:22Placebo effect
- 1:35:39Human genome source code
- 1:44:40Mutation
- 1:51:46Deep learning
- 1:58:08Neuralink
- 2:07:07Language
- 2:15:19Meaning of life
- 07-29#112 – Ian Hutchinson: Nuclear Fusion, Plasma Physics, and Religion122 分钟
- 00:00Introduction
- 05:32Nuclear physics and plasma physics
- 08:00Fusion energy
- 35:22Nuclear weapons
- 42:06Existential risks
- 50:29Personal journey in religion
- 56:27What is God like?
- 1:01:34Scientism
- 1:04:21Atheism
- 1:06:39Not knowing
- 1:09:57Faith
- 1:13:46The value of loyalty and love
- 1:23:26Why is there suffering in the world
- 1:35:08AGI
- 1:40:27Consciousness
- 1:48:14Simulation
- 1:52:20Adam and Eve
- 1:54:57Meaning of life
- 07-26#111 – Richard Karp: Algorithms and Computational Complexity128 分钟
- 00:00Introduction
- 03:50Geometry
- 09:46Visualizing an algorithm
- 13:00A beautiful algorithm
- 18:06Don Knuth and geeks
- 22:06Early days of computers
- 25:53Turing Test
- 30:05Consciousness
- 33:22Combinatorial algorithms
- 37:42Edmonds-Karp algorithm
- 40:22Algorithmic complexity
- 50:25P=NP
- 54:25NP-Complete problems
- 1:10:29Proving P=NP
- 1:12:57Stable marriage problem
- 1:20:32Randomized algorithms
- 1:33:23Can a hard problem be easy in practice?
- 1:43:57Open problems in theoretical computer science
- 1:46:21A strange idea in complexity theory
- 1:50:49Machine learning
- 1:56:26Bioinformatics
- 2:00:37Memory of Richard’s father
- 07-21#110 – Jitendra Malik: Computer Vision102 分钟
- 00:00Introduction
- 03:17Computer vision is hard
- 10:05Tesla Autopilot
- 21:20Human brain vs computers
- 23:14The general problem of computer vision
- 29:09Images vs video in computer vision
- 37:47Benchmarks in computer vision
- 40:06Active learning
- 45:34From pixels to semantics
- 52:47Semantic segmentation
- 57:05The three R’s of computer vision
- 1:02:52End-to-end learning in computer vision
- 1:04:246 lessons we can learn from children
- 1:08:36Vision and language
- 1:12:30Turing test
- 1:16:17Open problems in computer vision
- 1:24:49AGI
- 1:35:47Pick the right problem
- 07-18#109 – Brian Kernighan: UNIX, C, AWK, AMPL, and Go Programming104 分钟
- 00:00Introduction
- 04:24UNIX early days
- 22:09Unix philosophy
- 31:54Is programming art or science?
- 35:18AWK
- 42:03Programming setup
- 46:39History of programming languages
- 52:48C programming language
- 58:44Go language
- 1:01:57Learning new programming languages
- 1:04:57Javascript
- 1:08:16Variety of programming languages
- 1:10:30AMPL
- 1:18:01Graph theory
- 1:22:20AI in 1964
- 1:27:50Future of AI
- 1:29:47Moore’s law
- 1:32:54Computers in our world
- 1:40:37Life
- 07-14#108 – Sergey Levine: Robotics and Machine Learning98 分钟
- 00:00Introduction
- 03:05State-of-the-art robots vs humans
- 16:13Robotics may help us understand intelligence
- 22:49End-to-end learning in robotics
- 27:01Canonical problem in robotics
- 31:44Commonsense reasoning in robotics
- 34:41Can we solve robotics through learning?
- 44:55What is reinforcement learning?
- 1:06:36Tesla Autopilot
- 1:08:15Simulation in reinforcement learning
- 1:13:46Can we learn gravity from data?
- 1:16:03Self-play
- 1:17:39Reward functions
- 1:27:01Bitter lesson by Rich Sutton
- 1:32:13Advice for students interesting in AI
- 1:33:55Meaning of life
- 07-08#107 – Peter Singer: Suffering in Humans, Animals, and AI70 分钟
- 00:00Introduction
- 05:25World War II
- 09:53Suffering
- 16:06Is everyone capable of evil?
- 21:52Can robots suffer?
- 37:22Animal liberation
- 40:31Question for AI about suffering
- 43:32Neuralink
- 45:11Control problem of AI
- 51:08Utilitarianism
- 59:43Helping people in poverty
- 1:05:15Mortality
- 07-03#106 – Matt Botvinick: Neuroscience, Psychology, and AI at DeepMind121 分钟
- 00:00Introduction
- 03:29How much of the brain do we understand?
- 14:26Psychology
- 22:53The paradox of the human brain
- 32:23Cognition is a function of the environment
- 39:34Prefrontal cortex
- 53:27Information processing in the brain
- 1:00:11Meta-reinforcement learning
- 1:15:18Dopamine
- 1:19:01Neuroscience and AI research
- 1:23:37Human side of AI
- 1:39:56Dopamine and reinforcement learning
- 1:53:07Can we create an AI that a human can love?