This film or show by Jake Schreier came up once on Lex Fridman in the episodes we index. That mention was a genuine on-air recommendation, not just a passing reference. The people who brought it up: Michael Littman. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
Every time it came up
Michael Littman: Reinforcement Learning and the Future of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #144
“there's a movie called robot and frank which i think is really interesting because it's very near-term future”— Michael Littman
The guest here is Michael Littman: Computer science professor at Brown University researching and teaching machine learning, reinforcement learning, and AI. A prolific maker of computer-science parody songs and a former TurboTax commercial cameo, he has had a front-row seat to RL's history since the 1980s. Brown professor Michael Littman on reinforcement learning, why he is unmoved by AI doom, AlphaGo, and the social subtlety of self-driving cars.
