Peter Norvig
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first heard Dec 2025
last heard 29 Apr
Peter Norvig’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The key is deciding what is it that you want?
What is it that you're trying to build?
So we have a great system that says, if you give me a bunch of data, I've got an algorithm that can optimize some objective that you're shooting for.
But you got to tell me what the objective is.
What is it that you're trying to do?
And for some tasks, that's easy.
You know, if I'm playing chess, it's better to win than to lose.
But in other tasks, that's the whole problem.
And so we look at things like we have these systems that help judges make decisions for parole, who gets out on parole and who doesn't.
And you want to parole somebody if they're going to behave well, and you want to not parole them if you think they're going to recommit a crime.
But of course, these systems aren't going to be perfect.
They're going to make mistakes.
And so the question you have to answer is, what's the trade-off between those mistakes?
How many innocent people should we jail to prevent one guilty person from getting away?
And so there's this trade-off.
You're going to make
false positives and false negatives, and what's one worth against another.
And even before there was AI or any kind of automation, we've had these kinds of discussions in our societies, going back to Judge Blackmun in England more than a century ago.
who said, it's better that 10 guilty men go free than that one innocent man be jailed.
Now, I don't think he meant it that literally, like, you know, 10's the boundary and 9's okay and 11 would be bad.
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