#81 – Anca Dragan: Human-Robot Interaction and Reward Engineering

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Lex Fridman

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Science, Technology

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🗓️ 19 March 2020

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Anca Dragan is a professor at Berkeley, working on human-robot interaction — algorithms that look beyond the robot’s function in isolation, and generate robot behavior that accounts for interaction and coordination with human beings. Support this podcast by supporting the sponsors and using the special code: – Download Cash App on the App Store or Google Play & use code “LexPodcast” EPISODE LINKS: Anca’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/ancadianadragan Anca’s Website: https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~anca/ This conversation is part of the Artificial Intelligence podcast. If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to https://lexfridman.com/ai or connect with @lexfridman on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Medium,

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0:00.0	The following is a conversation with Enka Jogan, a professor at Berkeley working on human
0:06.3	robot interaction.
0:08.3	Algorithms that look beyond the robot's function in isolation and generate robot behavior
0:13.8	that accounts for interaction and coordination with human beings.
0:18.2	She also consults at Waymo, the autonomous vehicle company, but in this conversation she
0:23.7	is 100% wearing her Berkeley hat.
0:27.2	She is one of the most brilliant and fun robot assistants in the world to talk with.
0:32.4	I had a tough and crazy day leading up to this conversation, so I was a bit tired, even
0:39.6	more so than usual.
0:41.6	But almost immediately as she walked in, her energy, passion, and excitement for human
0:46.8	robot interaction was contagious.
0:49.0	So I had a lot of fun and really enjoyed this conversation.
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