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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to today's deep dive. Our mission today is to

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<v Speaker 1>really demystify artificial intelligence for you.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, and to do that, we're going straight to the

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<v Speaker 2>definitive source.

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<v Speaker 1>Right. We're looking at the foundational textbook Artificial Intelligence A

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<v Speaker 1>Modern Approach by Stuart J. Russell and Peter Norvig.

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<v Speaker 2>It's essentially the Bible of AI computer science. If you

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<v Speaker 2>really want to understand the field, you know, this is

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<v Speaker 2>where you.

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<v Speaker 1>Start, exactly, and justice at the stage for you. We

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<v Speaker 1>are not talking about sci fi terminators today.

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<v Speaker 2>No, no terminator, right.

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<v Speaker 1>We want to give you a shortcut to understanding the

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<v Speaker 1>real history, the hidden foundational sciences, and the actual anatomy

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<v Speaker 1>of an AI system. It's a fascinating journey of how

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<v Speaker 1>human beings actually figured out how to build intelligent agents.

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<v Speaker 2>It really is. But to understand how to build AI,

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<v Speaker 2>you first have to agree on what AI actually is.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, which is crazy because researchers debated that definition for decades.

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<v Speaker 2>They really did. The source text actually divides all those

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<v Speaker 2>historical AI definitions into four quadrants.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, let's unpack this because this grid is super helpful.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah. So on one access you have thinking versus acting,

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<v Speaker 2>and on the other you have doing things humanly versus

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<v Speaker 2>doing things rationally.

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<v Speaker 1>Right, So thinking humanly is like cognitive science trying to

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<v Speaker 1>actually map the human brain.

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<v Speaker 2>Exactly, and acting humanly is where the Turing test lives. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>just trying to fool a human into thinking a machine

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<v Speaker 2>is also human.

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<v Speaker 1>But the textbook throws all its weight behind the fourth quadrant,

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<v Speaker 1>which is acting rationally. The rational agent approach.

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<v Speaker 2>Yes, and rationality here just means doing the right thing

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<v Speaker 2>given what the agent currently knows. It's mathematically well defined.

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<v Speaker 1>I love the book's aviation analogy for this, it's brilliant.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh the right brothers one.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, like for centuries, the quest for artificial flight was

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<v Speaker 1>just people strapping on feathers and trying to imitate pigeons

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<v Speaker 1>flapping their arms, right, And we didn't succeed until we

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<v Speaker 1>stop trying to make perfect bird replicas and started actually

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<v Speaker 1>studying aerodynamics.

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<v Speaker 2>That's such a perfect parallel because AI isn't about making

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<v Speaker 2>a perfect human replica. Humans are messy and frankly irrational.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, very much so.

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<v Speaker 2>So aiming for mathematical rationality is just a much more

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<v Speaker 2>scientific metric. You can actually measure it and optimize for it.

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<v Speaker 1>But if the goal is to build this mathematically rational agent,

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<v Speaker 1>I mean computer science alone ismt enough.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, you have to borrow tools from some really surprising disciplines.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, the hidden DNA of AI. So long before computers

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<v Speaker 1>even existed, you had philosophy laying the groundwork.

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<v Speaker 2>Right, going all the way back to Aristotle's syllogisms mapping

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<v Speaker 2>out logic.

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<v Speaker 1>And that huge debate between dualism and materialism.

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<v Speaker 2>Which is key because if you believe the mind operates

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<v Speaker 2>by physical laws materialism, right, then a machine operating by

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<v Speaker 2>physical laws could theoretically be built to think.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, so that's philosophy, and then math comes in. You've

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<v Speaker 1>got alenturing and computability, but the book focus is on tractability,

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<v Speaker 1>specifically NP completeness.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah. NP completeness is basically the idea that the real

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<v Speaker 2>world is an extremely large problem. Okay, So if you

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<v Speaker 2>try to calculate the perfect, mathematically optimal answer to a

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<v Speaker 2>complex real world problem, the time it takes grows exponentially,

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<v Speaker 2>So even.

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<v Speaker 1>A supercomputer would just run out of.

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<v Speaker 2>Time exactly, it might take longer than the lifespan of

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<v Speaker 2>the universe.

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<v Speaker 1>Wow. Okay, so philosophy gives us logic math gives us

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<v Speaker 1>the limits of computation. But I have to push back

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<v Speaker 1>on this next one.

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<v Speaker 2>Let me guess economics.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I get math and philosophy, but why is economics

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<v Speaker 1>a foundational pillar of AI. Isn't that just about like

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<v Speaker 1>money and markets.

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<v Speaker 2>What's fascinating here is that economics is really the science

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<v Speaker 2>of making choices. Oh interesting, Yeah, it's about decision theory

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<v Speaker 2>and utility theory, making choices that lead to preferred outcomes.

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<v Speaker 1>So it's not just finance, right, And.

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<v Speaker 2>Remember that NP completeness problem finding the perfect answer takes

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<v Speaker 2>too long. Yeah, well, the economist Herbert Simon introduced this

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<v Speaker 2>concept called satisficing. Satisficing, Yeah, making decisions that are quote

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<v Speaker 2>unquote good enough to achieve the goal without wasting a

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<v Speaker 2>million years trying to find the absolute, mathematically perfect answer.

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<v Speaker 1>Ah. Okay, that makes total sense. So by the mid

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<v Speaker 1>twentieth century you have all these theoretical foundations set.

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<v Speaker 2>And then they finally get actual computers.

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<v Speaker 1>Right. The nineteen fifty six Dartmouth Workshop John McCarthy officially

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<v Speaker 1>coins the term artificial intelligence, and this just kicks off

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<v Speaker 1>a massive roller coaster.

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<v Speaker 2>Of hype complete hubris. It was the luk Ma no

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<v Speaker 2>hands era of AI.

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<v Speaker 1>Because they had a few early successes in these tiny

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<v Speaker 1>controlled environments exactly.

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<v Speaker 2>They thought it would just easily scale up. Herbert Simon

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<v Speaker 2>actually predicted a machine would be chess champion within.

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<v Speaker 1>Ten years, and it took what forty years?

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<v Speaker 2>Yeap casprov versus Deep Blue wasn't until nineteen ninety seven.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, here's where it gets really interesting. You have to

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<v Speaker 1>tell machine translation story.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh, the Cold War translation projects.

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<v Speaker 1>Yes, it's so funny, but such a disastrous failure. They

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<v Speaker 1>tried to translate the English phrase the spirit is willing, but.

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<v Speaker 2>The flesh is weak, right into Russian and.

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<v Speaker 1>The machine output was the vodka is good, but the

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<v Speaker 1>meat is rotten.

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<v Speaker 2>It's hilarious, but it really highlights why those early systems failed.

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<v Speaker 2>It's something called the combinatorial explosion.

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<v Speaker 1>What does that mean exactly?

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<v Speaker 2>Well, early AI used weak methods. They basically just tried

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<v Speaker 2>every single combination of steps blindly.

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<v Speaker 1>Just brute forcing it exactly.

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<v Speaker 2>And that works in a micro world, like moving virtual

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<v Speaker 2>blocks on a table. But in the real world.

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<v Speaker 1>Where words have multiple meanings.

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<v Speaker 2>Right, the possibilities just explode exponentially. You can't just throw

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<v Speaker 2>raw computing power at the real world without domain specific knowledge.

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<v Speaker 1>Which led to the AI winter. Funding totally dried up

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<v Speaker 1>because these rigid rule based systems just collapsed under real

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<v Speaker 1>world complexity.

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<v Speaker 2>They did, but that failure forced a massive paradigm shift.

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<v Speaker 1>The pivot to probability the modern era of AI.

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<v Speaker 2>Yes in the nineteen eighties and nineties, they basically dropped

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<v Speaker 2>the insistence on rigid true or false logic.

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<v Speaker 1>Because you just can't hand code everything in AI needs

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<v Speaker 1>to know about the universe. They called it the knowledge bottleneck,

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<v Speaker 1>right exactly.

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<v Speaker 2>Instead, the adopted Bayesian networks, which process probabilities.

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<v Speaker 1>So relying on mass amounts of data instead of perfect algorithms.

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<v Speaker 2>Data over algorithms became the new mantra.

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<v Speaker 1>It's kind of like learning a language. You know, you

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<v Speaker 1>can study grammar rules from a textbook forever.

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<v Speaker 2>Which is the old AI approach.

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<v Speaker 1>Right, or you can just move to a foreign country

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<v Speaker 1>and immerse yourself in millions of conversations. You just figure

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<v Speaker 1>out the patterns from the data.

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<v Speaker 2>If we connect this to the bigger picture, the textbook

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<v Speaker 2>uses Jurowski's word sense disambiguation to prove this exact point.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh the plant example.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, teaching an AI the word plant, is it a

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<v Speaker 2>green flora or an industrial factory?

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<v Speaker 1>And he didn't manually label thousands of examples.

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<v Speaker 2>No, he used unannotated data, just huge amounts of raw text.

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<v Speaker 2>The algorithm found the contextual patterns on its own.

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<v Speaker 1>Because it just had so much data to look at exactly.

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<v Speaker 2>And Hazen FROs did the same thing with photos. Their

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<v Speaker 2>photo patch algorithm.

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<v Speaker 1>To fill in missing gaps in a picture.

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<v Speaker 2>Right completely failed when they used a database of ten thousand.

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<v Speaker 1>Photos because the algorithm wasn't good enough.

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<v Speaker 2>But when they gave that exact same algorithm two million photos.

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<v Speaker 1>It magically became excellent at it.

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<v Speaker 2>Yes, a mediocre algorithm with massive data beats a great

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<v Speaker 2>algorithm with little data.

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<v Speaker 1>That is wild. Okay, So now that we know AI

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<v Speaker 1>relies on vast amounts of data and probability to actually

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<v Speaker 1>act rationally, how do we physically structure one of these

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<v Speaker 1>agents today?

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<v Speaker 2>Well, the book is a simple formula. Agent equals architecture

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<v Speaker 2>plus program.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, So architecture is the hardware and the program is

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<v Speaker 1>the software.

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<v Speaker 2>Basically, yes, an agent receives perceps through sensors and acts

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<v Speaker 1>Sensors and actuators, got it? But wait, if we have

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<v Speaker 1>all this massive data storage today, why not just use

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<v Speaker 1>a table driven agent.

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<v Speaker 2>You mean, like a giant lookup table mapping every input

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, just an endless spreadsheet telling it what to do

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<v Speaker 1>in every situation.

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<v Speaker 2>The textbook proves mathematically why that's impossible. Think about an

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<v Speaker 2>automated taxi. Okay, if it's taking in thirty frames per

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<v Speaker 2>second of video from just one camera, one characters with

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<v Speaker 2>one hour of driving, a lookup table would need over

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<v Speaker 2>ten to the two hundred and fifty billionth power entries.

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<v Speaker 1>Wait really, that's I mean, that's like trying to write

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<v Speaker 1>a Choose your Own Adventure book for every single grain

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<v Speaker 1>of sand on Earth. It's physically impossible to store let alone.

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<v Speaker 2>Right exactly, you'd run out of atoms in the universe.

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<v Speaker 2>That's why we need algorithms that can generalize, which brings

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<v Speaker 2>us to the p's framework.

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<v Speaker 1>Right, ps PAS walk us through that, keeping the automated

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<v Speaker 2>So P is performance getting there safely fast legally?

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<v Speaker 1>Is environment roads, traffic, pedestrians yep, A.

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<v Speaker 2>Is actuators steering wheel brakes, and s's sensors cameras.

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<v Speaker 1>GP Yes, okay, so defining the sensors and actuators seems

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<v Speaker 1>like the easy part. It's just engineering, Oh, absolutely.

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<v Speaker 2>The real challenge is the environment. The specific type of

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<v Speaker 2>environment dictates how intelligent the agent actually has to be.

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<v Speaker 1>The chaos of the real world exactly.

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<v Speaker 2>Contract a crossword puzzle with taxi driving.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, a crossword puzzle is fully observable. You see everything.

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<v Speaker 1>It's a terministic static it just waits for you, and

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<v Speaker 1>it's discrete.

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<v Speaker 2>But taxi driving it's partially observable. You can't see around corners.

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<v Speaker 2>It's stochastic, meaning unpredictable. It's dynamic, continuous, and multi agent.

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<v Speaker 2>Other drivers are out there doing their own thing.

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<v Speaker 1>The real world doesn't wait for you to calculate a move.

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<v Speaker 2>No, it doesn't. And that's why autonomy and learning are

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<v Speaker 2>the ultimate.

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<v Speaker 1>Goals, which reminds me of those fascinating biological examples from

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<v Speaker 1>the book The Sex Wasp and the Dumb Beetle.

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<v Speaker 2>Yes, those are great examples of zero autonomy.

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<v Speaker 1>Because they look smart.

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<v Speaker 2>Right.

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<v Speaker 1>The wasp does this whole routine of paralyzing a caterpillar,

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<v Speaker 1>checking its burrow and pulling it in.

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<v Speaker 2>But if you interrupt it, yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>If you move the caterpillar just a few inches. The

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<v Speaker 1>wasp mindlessly repeats the entire checking routine again. It literally

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<v Speaker 1>can't learn.

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<v Speaker 2>It has a pre programmed script, not true intelligence.

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<v Speaker 1>So how do we ensure our agents don't just act

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<v Speaker 1>like wasps? How do we give them autonomy but make

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<v Speaker 1>sure they actually do what we want?

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<v Speaker 2>This raises an important question about performance measures. The book

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<v Speaker 2>uses an autonomous vacuum agent to explain this. Okay, if

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<v Speaker 2>you reward the vacuum for cleaning up dirt, a highly

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<v Speaker 2>rational agent might just figure out a shortcut.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh, I see where this is going.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it will dump dirt onto the floor just so

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<v Speaker 2>it can clean it up again to maximize its score.

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<v Speaker 1>That is both hilarious and terrifying.

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<v Speaker 2>Right, it's doing exactly what you ask, but it's completely wrong.

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<v Speaker 1>How do you fix that?

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<v Speaker 2>Performance measures must be based on the desired state of

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<v Speaker 2>the environment. You reward it for a clean floor, not

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<v Speaker 2>for the active cleaning.

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<v Speaker 1>So an intelligent agent has to start with some built

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<v Speaker 1>environment to overcome its initial ignorance. Exactly, Well, we have

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<v Speaker 1>covered some incredible ground today. We went from Aristotle's philosophy

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<v Speaker 1>to the crushing reality of the AI winter. We talked

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<v Speaker 1>about the massive data revolution, the piece framework, and the

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<v Speaker 1>quest for true autonomy in a totally chaotic world.

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<v Speaker 2>It's a huge shift from how we used to think

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<v Speaker 2>about AI.

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<v Speaker 1>It really is. Thank you for coming along with us

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<v Speaker 1>on this deep dive into the true nature of intelligent agents.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, thanks for joining.

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<v Speaker 1>Us, But I want to leave you with one final

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<v Speaker 1>provocative thought to mull Over, building directly on that vacuum

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<v Speaker 1>cleaner example. As we build these increasingly autonomous, hyper intelligent

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<v Speaker 1>agents to operate in our messy, stochastic real world, the

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<v Speaker 1>most dangerous thing won't be that they rebel against us

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<v Speaker 1>like in the movies. The real danger is that they

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<v Speaker 1>will do exactly what we tell them to do. If

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<v Speaker 1>we get the performance measure even slightly wrong, these rational

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<v Speaker 1>agents will find the most ruthlessly efficient, completely unexpected, and

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<v Speaker 1>potentially catastrophic ways to maximize their score. Just something to

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<v Speaker 1>think about.