#13 Pedro Domingos: The Rise of The Machines

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

Farnam Street

Business, Investing, Entrepreneurship

4.7 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2016

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

In this interview with AI expert Pedro Domingos, you’ll learn about self-driving cars, where knowledge comes from, and the 5 schools of machine learning.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Knowledge Project. I'm your host, Shane Parish. I'm the curator behind
0:12.9	Farnham Street, which is an online intellectual hub of interestingness covering topics like
0:18.9	human misjudgment, decision-making, strategy, philosophy. But today we're going to be talking
0:24.8	about artificial intelligence and machine learning. The Knowledge Project allows me to interview
0:30.4	amazing people from around the world to deconstruct why they're good at what they do. More conversation
0:36.0	than prescription, it's about them, not about me. On this episode I'm so happy to have Pedro
0:41.8	Dominguez, who's a professor at the University of Washington. He's a leading researcher in machine
0:47.2	learning and recently wrote an amazing book called The Master Algorithm. I was fortunate
0:51.9	enough to have a long and fascinating conversation with him over dinner one night, which I hope
0:57.4	to never end, but that ended up leading to this episode, which I think you'll love. We're going
1:02.7	to explore the sources of knowledge, the five major schools of thought of machine learning, why
1:08.1	white color jobs are easier to replace than blue color jobs, machine wars, self-driving cars,
1:14.1	and so much more. I hope you enjoyed this conversation as much as I did.
1:21.9	Before I get started, here's a quick word from a sponsor. This podcast is supported by Slack,
1:29.6	a messaging app bringing all your team's communication into one place so you can spend less time
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1:40.1	slash farm them to create your team and get $100 in credits that you can use if you decide to
1:44.6	switch to a paid plan. Hey, thanks for coming on the show today Pedro. I'm so excited to have you.
1:50.4	I read your book, the master algorithm, and I've been thinking about it ever since. Thanks for
1:55.0	having me. So maybe you can just for the sake of our audience, can you give an overview of what is
2:02.2	artificial intelligence? Sure. Artificial intelligence or AI for short is the subfield of computer science
2:08.8	that deals with getting computers to do those things that require human intelligence to do as opposed
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