Lex Fridman Podcast

#177 – Risto Miikkulainen: Neuroevolution and Evolutionary Computation

Apr 19, 2021

02:02:00

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Is There a Way to Translate AI?

02:51

The Evolution of AI and the Evolution of Humans

02:31

Evolution Is the Most Beautiful Algorithm in Your Work

01:40

Introduction

2min

Grammarly Premium - Grammarly Review

4min

How Much Variation Do You Think We'll See?

3min

Detection of Intelligent Communication

4min

Is the Runaway Evolution of the Brain Really Possible?

3min

What Is Intelligence?

2min

Do You Think Death Mortality Is Fundamental to an Agent?

2min

The Second Effect of Our Intelligence

2min

Emotions and Fear of Death - What Good Are They?

2min

10.

Emotions and Consciousness in AI

3min

11.

Is There a Social Component of Language?

3min

12.

Hyenas Are Intelligent, but They Are Not as Intelligent as Baboons

2min

13.

Evolution Is the Most Beautiful Algorithm in Your Work

2min

14.

Is There a Magic to Creativity?

4min

15.

The Constraints of the Environment

3min

16.

The Brain Is Already Drinking From the Water Firehose

3min

17.

Are You Impressed by the Neural Link?

2min

18.

The Unexpected Creativity of Digital Evolution

3min

19.

Evolutionary Computation

2min

20.

Is There a Way to Encode Humans?

2min

21.

Evolution and Mutation in Biology?

4min

22.

Is Evolution More Effective Than Deep Learning?

4min

23.

Learning to Walk by Embedded Robotics

3min

24.

Is There Something Subjective About Human Robot Communication?

4min

25.

Is There a Theory of Mind in Autonomous Vehicles?

3min

26.

Using Machine Learning to Predict People's Actions

2min

27.

The Evolution of Neural Networks

3min

28.

How to Grow a Neural Network?

3min

29.

Neural Networks

4min

30.

Learning From Multiple Tasks in a Multi-Task Network

3min

31.

Learning to Do Better Vision by Learning Language?

3min

32.

Is Vision Fundamental to Language?

3min

33.

Is There a Common Language?

3min

34.

Is There a Way to Translate AI?

3min

35.

Is There a Future in AI?

5min

36.

Diversity Is the Bread and Butter

2min

37.

Is There a Future in Artificial Life?

3min

38.

The Evolution of AI and the Evolution of Humans

3min

39.

How Complexity Emerges From Such Simple Principles?

3min

40.

Evolution and Computation Are a Little Bit More Efficient Than the Alternatives

2min

41.

Is There a Good Way to Live Life?

5min

42.

Is There Meaning to It All?

2min

43.

Are You a Little Cog in the Giant Machine?

3min

Risto Miikkulainen is a computer scientist at UT Austin. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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OUTLINE:
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(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