The Significance of Philosophy in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence

Karl Fast is an independent scholar, information architect, and futurist. He's the co-author of Figure It Out: Getting From Information to Understanding. This is the second half of a two-part conversation about interaction and embodiment. If you haven't done so already, please listen to part 1 before listening to this episode.

Show notes

• @karlfast on Twitter
•  Karl Fast on LinkedIn
• Figure It Out: Getting From Information to Understanding by Stephen P. Anderson and Karl Fast
• Bruce Alexander
• The Rat Park experiments
•  Bill Verplank's diagram of interaction
• Epigenetics
• About Face: The Essentials of Interaction Design, 4th Ed by Alan Cooper, Robert Reimann, avid Cronin, and Christopher Noessel
• Mind in Motion: How Action Shapes Thought by Barbara Tversky
• The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values by Brian Christian (Bonus: Jorge's book notes)
•  The paperclip maximizer problem
• Punctuated equilibrium

Disclosure: I received Karl’s book for free as a previous Rosenfeld Media/Two Waves author.

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