Vladimir Vapnik: Predicates, Invariants, and the Essence of Intelligence | Lex Fridman Podcast #71

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. The associate lecture that Vladimir gave as part of the MIT Deep Learning series can be viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ow25mjFjSmg This episode is presented by Cash App. Download it & use code "LexPodcast": Cash App (App Store): https://apple.co/2sPrUHe Cash App (Google Play): https://bit.ly/2MlvP5w PODCAST INFO: Podcast website: https://lexfridman.com/podcast Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2lwqZIr Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2nEwCF8 RSS: https://lexfridman.com/feed/podcast/ Full episodes playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrAXtmErZgOdP_8GztsuKi9nrraNbKKp4 Clips playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrAXtmErZgOeciFP3CBCIEElOJeitOr41 OUTLINE: 0:00 - Introduction 2:55 - Alan Turing: science and engineering of intelligence 9:09 - What is a predicate? 14:22 - Plato's world of ideas and world of things 21:06 - Strong and weak convergence 28:37 - Deep learning and the essence of intelligence 50:36 - Symbolic AI and logic-based systems 54:31 - How hard is 2D image understanding? 1:00:23 - Data 1:06:39 - Language 1:14:54 - Beautiful idea in statistical theory of learning 1:19:28 - Intelligence and heuristics 1:22:23 - Reasoning 1:25:11 - Role of philosophy in learning theory 1:31:40 - Music (speaking in Russian) 1:35:08 - Mortality CONNECT: - Subscribe to this YouTube channel - Twitter: https://twitter.com/lexfridman - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lexfridman - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LexFridmanPage - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lexfridman - Medium: https://medium.com/@lexfridman - Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/lexfridman