Stuart Russell

And so my colleague, Ankur Dragan, actually...

If you formulate the problem game theoretically and you just let the system figure out the solution, it does interesting unexpected things.

Like sometimes at a stop sign, if no one is going first, the car will actually back up a little.

Just to indicate to the other cars that they should go first.

And that's something it invented entirely by itself.

That's interesting.

We didn't say this is the language of communication that stopped science.

It figured it out.

Maybe.

I mean, we're all individuals.

But certainly we see over and over again in history individuals who thought about this possibility.

Yeah, so I certainly understand that viewpoint.

And if you look at...

The Lighthill Report, which was committed.

So in the 70s, there was a lot of controversy in the UK about AI and whether it was for real and how much money the government should invest.

So it was a long story, but the government commissioned a report by

by Lighthill, who was a physicist, and he wrote a very damning report about AI, which I think was the point.

And he said that these are frustrated men who, unable to have children, would like to create life as a kind of replacement, which I think is really pretty unfair.

but there is i mean there there is a kind of magic i would say you when you you build something and and what you're building in is really just you're building in some understanding of the principles of learning and decision making

And to see those principles actually then turn into intelligent behavior in specific situations, it's an incredible thing.