Marvin Minsky
American cognitive scientist (1927-2016)
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Tomaso Poggio: Brains, Minds, and Machines | Lex Fridman Podcast #13
Lex Fridman
A figure in early AI research whose work in the 1960s is linked to the development of reinforcement learning concepts.
MIT AGI: Building machines that see, learn, and think like people (Josh Tenenbaum)
Lex Fridman
A pioneer in AI who, like Turing, proposed the idea of building systems that grow into intelligence much like humans do.
Ep. 255: The Failure Of Cybernetic Productivity
Cal Newport
Organizer of the Dartmouth conference where the term artificial intelligence was coined.
Ray Kurzweil: Singularity, Superintelligence, and Immortality | Lex Fridman Podcast #321
Lex Fridman
An AI pioneer who believed consciousness was not logical or scientific and should be dismissed, yet acted as if others were conscious in his interactions.
Demis Hassabis: DeepMind - AI, Superintelligence & the Future of Humanity | Lex Fridman Podcast #299
Lex Fridman
A figure associated with 'good old-fashioned AI' and logic systems, whose views differed from Demis Hassabis's belief in learning systems.
19 Uncomfortable Truths About Human Nature - Gurwinder Bhogal
Chris Williamson
A pioneer in AI and neural networks, who in the 1970s, inaccurately predicted human-level intelligence in neural networks within a short timeframe, illustrating the hype cycle.
Botez Sisters: Chess, Streaming, and Fame | Lex Fridman Podcast #319
Lex Fridman
A famous MIT professor whose advice to students was that the secret to his success was 'I always hated everything I did in the past,' advocating for extreme self-criticism.
Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling | Lex Fridman Podcast #128
Lex Fridman
A seminal figure in artificial intelligence and MIT professor, posthumously accused of 'rape' based on his interaction with Jeffrey Epstein and a solicited minor, a claim that was debated by Richard Stallman.
Roger Penrose: Physics of Consciousness and the Infinite Universe | Lex Fridman Podcast #85
Lex Fridman
AI researcher and co-founder of the MIT AI Lab, who participated in a radio discussion that influenced Penrose's views on AI and computation.
Melanie Mitchell: Concepts, Analogies, Common Sense & Future of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #61
Lex Fridman
A highly intelligent and sophisticated thinker in AI, who famously underestimated the difficulty of computer vision, assigning it as a summer project.
Pamela McCorduck: Machines Who Think and the Early Days of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #34
Lex Fridman
One of the four founding fathers of AI, known for his speculative approach.
Is Consciousness a Fundamental Building Block of the Universe? | Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
Closer To Truth
Mentioned as a figure who argued against the existence of a substantial self, a concept relevant to the discussion on mattering.
Hacking on the PDP1 Raspberry Pi Emulator - Computerphile
Computerphile
Discovered an efficient algorithm for drawing circles, which ensures stability by linking x and y coordinates rather than calculating each point sequentially. This algorithm is used in the PDP-1 demonstration.