I Talked with Rich Sutton

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After a year of anticipation, I finally got to talk with Rich Sutton for the channel! Rich wrote the book on reinforcement learning, has contributed vastly to the literature, and has a unique perspective on AI. We talk about topics like reinforcement learning, the OpenMind Research Institute (OMRI), Keen Technologies, how to do good research, the problem of scale, superintelligence, and so much more. Outline 0:00 - Intro 1:33 - Interview start 2:04 - OpenMind Research Institute 4:32 - History of AI 7:13 - Is scaling easy? 10:49 - The problem with backprop & representations 21:22 - Rant on tunnel vision 23:43 - New exciting things 32:00 - Memory 35:34 - Coming up with ideas 43:47 - STOMP 45:30 - Keen Technologies 50:39 - The next stage of humanity & emotions 1:06:25 - Extraterrestrial AI 1:08:00 - A different approach to research 1:21:30 - Rich's advice 1:26:00 - Beef with RL 1:27:07 - Bringing it all together Amii's website: https://www.amii.ca/ Rich's website: http://www.incompleteideas.net/ Social Media YouTube - https://youtube.com/c/EdanMeyer Twitter/X - https://twitter.com/ejmejm1