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Melanie Mitchell
AI Researcher & Professor
Melanie Mitchell appears on the Lex Fridman Podcast across artificial intelligence, biology. Lex describes Melanie Mitchell as ai researcher & professor.
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2019
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Lex Fridman Podcast / December 28, 2019 / Episode #0
Melanie Mitchell: Concepts, Analogies, Common Sense & Future of AI
Melanie Mitchell is a professor of computer science at Portland State University and an external professor at Santa Fe Institute. She has worked on and written about artificial intelligence from fascinating perspectives including adaptive complex systems, genetic algorithms, and the Copycat cognitive architecture which places the process of analogy making at the core of human cognition. From her doctoral work with her advisors Douglas Hofstadter and John Holland to today, she has contributed a lot of important ideas to the field of AI, including her recent book, simply called Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans.
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Melanie Mitchell is a professor of computer science at Portland State University and an external professor at Santa Fe Institute. She has worked on and written about artificial intelligence from fascinating perspectives including adaptive complex systems, genetic algorithms, and the Copycat cognitive architecture which places the process of analogy making at the core of human cognition. From her doctoral work with her advisors Douglas Hofstadter and John Holland to today, she has contributed a lot of important ideas to the field of AI, including her recent book, simply called Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans.
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Melanie Mitchell
AI Researcher & Professor
Melanie Mitchell appears on the Lex Fridman Podcast across artificial intelligence, biology. Lex describes Melanie Mitchell as ai researcher & professor.
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December 28, 2019 to December 28, 2019
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