Recommended on this episode
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The Culture novels
Iain Banks
“Highly recommended”
“It's called the Culture novels by Ian Banks. Highly recommended for those people who like science fiction.”— Stuart Russell
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The Alignment Problem
Brian Christian
“nice book ... it's a pretty good book”
“Brian Christian, for example, has a nice book called the Alignment Problem... So I think it's a it's a pretty good book.”— Stuart Russell
The guest's own work
BookBy the guest
Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
Stuart Russell (and Peter Norvig) (inferred)
“uh is a textbook that I wrote. Is this the textbook that most students who study AI are likely learning from? Yep.”— Stuart Russell
BookBy the guestISBN verified
Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control
Stuart Russell
“You've written this incredible book called Human Compatible Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control, which I think was published in 2020.”— Steven Bartlett
Also referenced (named, not recommended)
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Oppenheimer
Christopher Nolan (inferred)
“I guess you've seen Oppenheimer, right? So, you're there, you're watching that first nuclear explosion.”— Stuart Russell
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Wall-E
Pixar (inferred)
“if you've seen the film Wall-E, this is one picture of that future. In fact, in Wall-E, the human race are all living on cruise ships in space.”— Stuart Russell
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Metropolis
Fritz Lang (inferred)
“even Metropolis, which is a film from 19 20, I think, the robots are humanoid, right? They're basically people covered in metal.”— Stuart Russell
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Toy Story
Pixar (inferred)
“if you look at Toy Story, they're not very human-looking, right? If you look at The Incredibles, they're not very human-looking.”— Stuart Russell
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The Incredibles
Pixar (inferred)
“If you look at The Incredibles, they're not very human-looking. And so, we think of them as cartoon characters.”— Stuart Russell
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Humans
Channel 4 / AMC (inferred)
“there was a television series called Humans. In Humans, we have extremely capable humanoid robots doing everything.”— Stuart Russell
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The Matrix
The Wachowskis (inferred)
“that's sort of what happens in the Matrix, right? The AI systems in the Matrix, they tried to give us a utopia, but it failed miserably.”— Stuart Russell
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