Lex Fridman PodcastJuergen Schmidhuber: Godel Machines, Meta-Learning, and LSTMs | Lex Fridman Podcast #11
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- Released
- December 23, 2018
- Duration
- 1h 19m
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION
Juergen Schmidhuber is the co-creator of long short-term memory networks (LSTMs) which are used in billions of devices today for speech recognition, translation, and much more. Over 30 years, he has proposed a lot of interesting, out-of-the-box ideas in artificial intelligence including a formal theory of creativity. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: https://lexfridman.com/sponsors/ep11-sb See below for timestamps, and to give feedback, submit questions, contact Lex, etc. *CONTACT LEX:* *Feedback* - give feedback to Lex: https://lexfridman.com/survey *AMA* - submit questions, videos or call-in: https://lexfridman.com/ama *Hiring* - join our team: https://lexfridman.com/hiring *Other* - other ways to get in touch: https://lexfridman.com/contact *PODCAST LINKS:*
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Lex Fridman
hostJürgen Schmidhuber
guest
EPISODE SUMMARY
In this episode of Lex Fridman Podcast, featuring Lex Fridman and Jürgen Schmidhuber, Juergen Schmidhuber: Godel Machines, Meta-Learning, and LSTMs | Lex Fridman Podcast #11 explores jurgen Schmidhuber on self-improving AI, curiosity, and universal intelligence Lex Fridman and Jürgen Schmidhuber discuss foundational ideas for building truly general, self-improving AI systems. Schmidhuber contrasts narrow, practical deep learning (like LSTMs and transfer learning) with his theoretical work on meta-learning, Gödel machines, and asymptotically optimal universal problem solvers. They explore curiosity, creativity, and compression as core principles of both human and machine intelligence, arguing that intelligence and even consciousness emerge as side effects of efficient problem solving and data compression. The conversation extends to evolution, the nature of physical reality, future robot learning, economic impact, and the possibility that humanity may be the first civilization poised to fill the universe with intelligence.
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