Vladimir Vapnik: Statistical Learning

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Lex Fridman

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Science, Technology

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🗓️ 16 November 2018

⏱️ 54 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. His work has been cited over 170,000 times. He has some very interesting ideas about artificial intelligence and the nature of learning, especially on the limits of our current approaches and the open problems in the field. Video version is available on YouTube. 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, or YouTube where you can watch the video versions of these conversations.

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0:00.0	The following is a conversation with Latimer Vapnik.
0:02.8	He's the co-inventor of the support vector machines,
0:05.2	support vector clustering, VC theory,
0:07.8	and many foundational ideas in statistical learning.
0:10.8	He was born in the Soviet Union and worked at
0:13.7	the Institute of Control Sciences in Moscow.
0:16.1	Then in the United States, he worked at AT&T and
0:19.4	EC Labs, Facebook Research, and now is a professor at Columbia University.
0:25.8	His work has been cited over 170,000 times.
0:30.2	He has some very interesting ideas about artificial intelligence and
0:33.4	the nature of learning, especially on the limits of our current approaches
0:37.5	and the open problems in the field.
0:40.3	This conversation is part of MIT course on artificial general intelligence
0:44.3	and the artificial intelligence podcast.
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0:56.8	Lex Friedman spelled F-R-I-D.
1:00.1	And now here's my conversation with Latimer Vapnik.
1:03.9	I Einstein famously said that God doesn't play dice.
1:23.9	You have studied the world to the eyes of statistics.
1:27.9	So let me ask you in terms of the nature of reality, fundamental nature
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