Stuart Russell
speaker
1,902 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2018
last heard 24 Jun
Stuart Russell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 2 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 1.
Appearances
Should we understand what's going on in the human mind, the human brain, and then sort of go ahead and implement that?
Or should we focus on a more abstract notion?
In fact, a notion that philosophers have developed for thousands of years and economists as well.
This idea of rational behavior, that an entity is intelligent
if it acts in a way that is expected to achieve its objectives.
And I would say for the most part, that second approach won out because it doesn't require doing psychological experiments on humans to find out how their brains work, right?
It's an abstract mathematical concept and
We had tools, we had formal logic so that we could create algorithms that were able to construct plans to achieve goals.
So the two views are, I would say,
the sort of rational view, i.e.
base intelligence on formal foundations of how one should reason, how one should make decisions, versus a more biology-based view, which is neurons and their computational analogs.
And so the standard model refers to this, you know, what was dominant, I would say, from like 1960 to 2010,
10, 2020, somewhere, it was much more the rational view.
Entities are intelligent to the extent that their actions can be expected to achieve their objectives.
And then it was really the 2012 work that Jeff Hinton did with Ilya Sutskever and I think Alex Krzyzewski on a system for recognizing objects in images that significantly exceeded the methods that other people had developed before that.
And then it was off to the races.
And then language models came along.
So applying somewhat similar ideas, again, large neural networks that were trained from vast amounts of data, applying that to text and then generating eventually ChatGPT and all the successors that we've seen since then.
So in 95, when I published the book with Peter, we have a section called What If We Do Succeed?
And it points out that if we create machines more intelligent than us, which is what we were trying to do,
Showing 41–60 of 1,902 · page 3 of 96
← Previous
Next →