Vladimir Vapnik: Predicates, Invariants, and the Essence of Intelligence

Lex Fridman Podcast

Lex Fridman

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Science, Technology

4.7 • 13K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2020

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Vladimir Vapnik is the co-inventor of support vector machines, support vector clustering, VC theory, and many foundational ideas in statistical learning. He was born in the Soviet Union, worked at the Institute of Control Sciences in Moscow, then in the US, worked at AT&T, NEC Labs, Facebook AI Research, and now is a professor at Columbia University. His work has been cited over 200,000 times. 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, or YouTube where you

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0:00.0	The following is a conversation of Vladimir Vapnik, part two.
0:04.8	The second time we spoke on the podcast.
0:07.3	He's the Co-Inventor of Support Vector Machines, Support Vector Clustering, VC Theory,
0:12.0	and many foundational ideas in statistical learning.
0:14.9	He was born in the Soviet Union, worked at the Institute of Control Sciences in Moscow,
0:20.2	then in the US, worked at AT&T, and he sea labs, Facebook AI research,
0:26.0	and now is a professor at Columbia University.
0:29.4	His work has been cited over 200,000 times.
0:33.0	The first time we spoke on the podcast was just over a year ago, one of the early episodes.
0:38.9	This time, we spoke out for a lecture he gave titled Complete Statistical Theory of Learning,
0:44.4	as part of the MIT series of lectures on deep learning and AI that I organized.
0:50.1	I'll release the video of the lecture in the next few days.
0:53.6	This podcast and lecture are independent from each other,
0:56.8	so you don't need one to understand the other.
0:59.2	The lecture is quite technical and math-heavy, so if you do watch both,
1:04.2	I recommend listening to this podcast first, since the podcast is probably a bit more accessible.
1:11.1	This is the Artificial Intelligence Podcast.
1:13.8	If you enjoy it, subscribe on YouTube, give it 5 stars on Apple Podcast,
1:17.8	support it on Patreon, or simply connect with me on Twitter,
1:20.9	at Lex Friedman's spelled F-R-I-D-M-A-N.
1:24.6	As usual, I'll do one or two minutes of ads now,
1:27.7	and never any ads in the middle that can break the flow of the conversation.
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