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“I look at these assistants that we have today which are very primitive like Siri, Alexa and Google. But it's really interesting, because they represent a phase change in operating systems.”

Peter Norvig is a Director of Research at Google Inc. Previously he was head of Google’s core search algorithms group, and of NASA Ames’s Computational Sciences Division, making him NASA’s senior computer scientist. He received the NASA Exceptional Achievement Award in 2001. 

In this episode, Peter Norvig speaks about how we can have a more modern approach to AI. Norvig starts with the history of the textbook.  In 1990, the textbooks were subpar.  AI was changing in three ways – moving from logic to probability, from hand coded knowledge to machine learning, and from duplicating human systems toward normative systems that got the best answer no matter what.  After leaving Berkeley to go to Sun, he helped write a new textbook about AI. 

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I Knew a Guy by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Session Summary: Peter Norvig, Google | Ai: A Modern Approach - Foresight Institute

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