Peter Norvig: Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach | Lex Fridman Podcast #42

ℹ️ EPISODE INFO

Released

September 30, 2019

Duration

1h 3m

Channel

Lex Fridman Podcast

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🎤 SPEAKERS

• Lex Fridman

  host

• Peter Norvig

  guest

• Narrator

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🧾 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Lex Fridman Podcast, featuring Lex Fridman and Peter Norvig, Peter Norvig: Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach | Lex Fridman Podcast #42 explores peter Norvig on AI’s Past, Present, Ethics, and Human-Centered Future Peter Norvig discusses how AI has evolved since the 1990s, reflected through successive editions of *Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach*, emphasizing shifts from logic and knowledge engineering to probability, machine learning, and now deep learning. He highlights that defining the “utility function” and human values in AI systems is becoming harder than optimization itself, especially around fairness, bias, and societal impact. The conversation also explores explainability versus trust, the adversarial nature of search and the web, and how education and programming have changed with MOOCs, high‑level tools, and ubiquitous data. Norvig closes by stressing useful, human-aligned AI (e.g., conversational assistants, programming tools) over abstract pursuit of “human-level” intelligence, while acknowledging real risks like inequality and misuse of powerful technologies.

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