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Melanie Mitchell: Concepts, Analogies, Common Sense & Future of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #61

Melanie Mitchell: Concepts, Analogies, Common Sense & Future of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #61

The guest's own work

BookBy the guest

Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans

Melanie Mitchell

“she has contributed a lot of important ideas to the field of AI including her recent book simply called artificial intelligence a guide for thinking humans”— Lex Fridman
BookBy the guestISBN verified

Analogy-Making as Perception

Melanie Mitchell

“I have a book called analogy making as perception which is a version of my PhD thesis on it”— guest

Also referenced (named, not recommended)

BookReferencedISBN verified

Surfaces and Essences

Douglas Hofstadter and Emmanuel Sander

“he has a really nice quote in in the book by by himself and Emmanuel Sanders called surfaces and essences I don't know if you've seen that book”— guest
BookReferencedISBN verified

Human Compatible

Stuart Russell

“a earlier New York Times op-ed by Stewart Russell which was summarizing his book called human compatible”— guest
BookReferencedISBN verified

Gödel, Escher, Bach

Douglas Hofstadter

“douglas hofstadter author of get olestra bach was your PhD adviser he mentioned a couple times and collaborator”— Lex Fridman
BookReferencedISBN verified

Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies

Douglas Hofstadter

“there's a Douglas Hofstadter's book called fluid concepts and creative analogies talks in great detail about copycat”— guest
MediaReferenced

Breakout (Atari)

Atari (inferred)

“it learned to play the game break out thousand percent better than humans okay that was one of the results and it was great”— guest