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#177 – Risto Miikkulainen: Neuroevolution and Evolutionary Computation
Lex Fridman Podcast
Apr 19, 2021
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2 hr 2 min
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Risto Miikkulainen is a computer scientist at UT Austin. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - The Jordan Harbinger Show:
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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
