Melanie Mitchell: Concepts, Analogies, Common Sense & Future of AI

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4.7 • 13K Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2019

⏱️ 113 minutes

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Melanie Mitchell is a professor of computer science at Portland State University and an external professor at Santa Fe Institute. She has worked on and written about artificial intelligence from fascinating perspectives including adaptive complex systems, genetic algorithms, and the Copycat cognitive architecture which places the process of analogy making at the core of human cognition. From her doctoral work with her advisors Douglas Hofstadter and John Holland to today, she has contributed a lot of important ideas to the field of AI, including her recent book, simply called Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans. This conversation is part

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0:00.0	The following is a conversation with Melanie Mitchell.
0:03.2	She's a professor of computer science at Portland State University
0:06.7	and an external professor at Santa Fe Institute.
0:10.0	She has worked on and written about artificial intelligence
0:13.0	from fascinating perspectives, including adaptive complex
0:16.3	systems, genetic algorithms, and the copycat cognitive
0:20.0	architecture, which places the process of analogy
0:22.7	making at the core of human cognition.
0:26.3	From her doctoral work with her advisors, Douglas
0:28.9	Hofstadter and John Holland to today, she has contributed
0:32.7	a lot of important ideas to the field of AI,
0:35.5	including her recent book, Simply Called Artificial Intelligence,
0:39.9	A Guide for Thinking Humans.
0:42.8	This is the Artificial Intelligence Podcast.
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0:53.8	Alex Friedman spelled F-R-I-D-M-A-N.
0:58.1	I recently started doing ads at the end of the introduction.
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1:06.8	of the conversation.
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