Risto Miikkulainen- Sentient- Discovering Novel Solutions
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 August 2018
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
"There's a lot to be discovered if you let evolution run its course and be creative," says Risto Miikkulainen, CTO of Sentient and professor of computer science at the University of Texas. As the author of over 380 articles covering research topics in neuroevolution and neural network models of language processing and vision, Miikkulainen is an expert in his field.
Among many topics, he joins the conversation today to discuss the distinction between neuroevolution and standard neural networks, the novel solutions and unanticipated discoveries that result from evolutionary optimization, the application of neuroevolution to robotics, and Sentient Ascent--a website optimization system built by the team at Sentient, whose job is to optimize the design of websites in order to increase the level of user engagement.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Almost Here, Around the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs. |
| 0:07.0 | Future Technologies is to transform our lives for better or worse or the focus of this podcast. |
| 0:13.0 | Almost here means these technologies are now here and starting to be used. |
| 0:17.0 | Or just around the corner, for Bitcoin to artificial intelligence, |
| 0:21.0 | 3D printing, blockchain, virtual reality, and more. |
| 0:25.0 | Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Future Trek Podcast. |
| 0:30.0 | My guest today is Risto Igolenin. He's a C.C. |
| 0:34.5 | He's a CEO of a company called Sentient. |
| 0:36.1 | He's also a professor of computer science at the University of Texas. |
| 0:40.1 | And his current research focuses on methods and applications of neuroevolution and neural network models of natural language processing and vision. |
| 0:48.0 | He is the author of over 380 articles in research areas that cover these topics. |
| 0:53.4 | So, Rieso, how you doing? |
| 0:55.0 | I've been great. |
| 0:55.9 | Good morning. |
| 0:56.9 | Yeah, thanks for coming. |
| 0:59.0 | Tell me, what is neuroevolution versus neural networks or other methods of machine learning? |
| 1:06.0 | Yes, neuroevolution is a particular method for training and constructing neural |
| 1:11.7 | networks and they've been around for quite a long time and they have a special niche. |
| 1:18.0 | They are distinctly different from your standard neural network training |
| 1:22.5 | where you collect first a data set, a training set, |
| 1:27.1 | and you train a neural network to do something |
| 1:28.8 | where you already know what the correct answers are. |
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