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Michael Littman

lines on the record: 118
first: 2020-12-13
most recent: 2020-12-13
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: podcast

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“He's Dr. Awkward, which, by the way, is a palindrome. That's a poundrum that I happen to know from other parts of my life. You just threw it out. Well, he's going to stick against Charles.”
2020-12-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #144 – Michael Littman: Reinforcement Learning and the Future of AI · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“People, the video is almost all the videos except for the ones that people would have actually seen are just me. I write the lyrics, I sing the song, I generally find Like a backing track online because I'm like you can't really play an instrument. And then I do, in some cases, I'll do visuals using just like PowerPoint. Lots and lots of PowerPoint to make it sort of like an animation. The most produced one is the one that people might have seen, which is the overfitting video that I did with Charles Isabel. And that was produced by the Georgia Tech and Udacity people because we were doing a class together. It was kind of, I usually do parody songs kind of to cap off a class at the end of a class.”
2020-12-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #144 – Michael Littman: Reinforcement Learning and the Future of AI · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, well, I mean, the reality of it is I stood outside in the blazing sun. There was someone whose job it was to keep an umbrella over me because I started to schwitz. I started to sweat. And so I would wreck the shot because my face was all shiny with sweat. So there was one person who would dab me off, had an umbrella. But yeah, like the reality of it, like why is this strange stalkery person hanging around outside somebody's house?”
2020-12-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #144 – Michael Littman: Reinforcement Learning and the Future of AI · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Going to do this as improv. I'm like, I don't know how to improv. Like, this is not, I don't know what this, I don't know what you're telling me to do here. Don't worry, she knows. Okay.”
2020-12-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #144 – Michael Littman: Reinforcement Learning and the Future of AI · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Improv comedian New York City. And then when I got there, they had given me a script such as it was. And then I got there and they said,”
2020-12-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #144 – Michael Littman: Reinforcement Learning and the Future of AI · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And I think the reason for all this is because so many people are in one place at one time. They have to be time efficient. They have to get it done. The morning they were going to do my commercial and the afternoon they were going to do a commercial of a mathematics professor from Princeton. They had to get it done. No wasted time or energy. And so there's just a fleet of people all working as an organism. And it was fascinating. I was just the whole time just looking around like this is so neat. Like one person whose job it was to take the camera off of the cameraman. So that someone else whose job it was to remove the film canister, because every couple's takes, they had to replace the film because, you know, film gets used up. It was just, I don't know, I was geeking out the whole time. It was so fun.”
2020-12-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #144 – Michael Littman: Reinforcement Learning and the Future of AI · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, so I went to, it was just somebody's house that they rented in New Jersey. But in the commercial, it's just me and this other woman. In reality, there were 50 people in that room, and another, I don't know, half a dozen kind of spread out around the house in various ways. There were people whose job it was to control the sun. They were in the backyard on ladders putting filters up to try to make sure that the sun didn't glare off the window in a way that would wreck the shot. So there was like six people out there doing that. There was three people out there giving snacks, the craft table. There was another three people giving healthy snacks because that was a separate craft table. There was one person whose job it was to keep me from getting lost.”
2020-12-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #144 – Michael Littman: Reinforcement Learning and the Future of AI · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“With a little blurb about each one and why I thought that would make sense for them to do it. And they reached out to a handful of them, but then they ultimately YouTube stalked me a little bit and they thought, oh, I think he could do this. And they said, okay, we're going to offer you the commercial. I'm like, what? So it was such an interesting experience because they have another world. The people who do nationwide kind of ad campaigns and television shows and movies and so forth. It's quite a remarkable system that they have going because.”
2020-12-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #144 – Michael Littman: Reinforcement Learning and the Future of AI · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Scientists for this ad, this turbo tax set of ads. And he said, we wrote the ad with the idea that we get the most brilliant researchers. But they all said no. So can you help us find B level scientists? And I'm like, sure, that's who I hang out with. So that should be fine. So I put together a list and I did what some people called a dick chaney. So I included myself on the list of possible candidates.”
2020-12-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #144 – Michael Littman: Reinforcement Learning and the Future of AI · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think it's an interesting story. So I was teaching my class. It was an intro computer science class for non-concentrators, non-majors. And sometimes when people would visit campus, they would check in to say, hey, we want to see what a class is like. Can we sit on your class? So a person came to my class who was the daughter of the brother of the husband of the best friend of my wife. Anyway, basically, a family friend came to campus to check out Brown and asked to come to my class and came with her dad. Her dad is, who I've known from various kinds of family events and so forth, but he also does advertising. And he said that he was recruiting.”
2020-12-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #144 – Michael Littman: Reinforcement Learning and the Future of AI · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Doesn't need a brilliant person. Very few things need someone like me. But yes, they would specifically emphasizing the idea that you don't need to be like a computer expert to be able to use their software.”
2020-12-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #144 – Michael Littman: Reinforcement Learning and the Future of AI · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. It's like at an academic conference and he's doing a demo. He was presenting, right? It was sort of a cross between the Apple Steve Jobs kind of talk and Nureps.”
2020-12-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #144 – Michael Littman: Reinforcement Learning and the Future of AI · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“If you haven't heard Justin Timberlake's top 10 in the last few years, there was one song that he did where the music video was set at essentially Nureps.”
2020-12-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #144 – Michael Littman: Reinforcement Learning and the Future of AI · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well said. I really like pop music. I've enjoyed pop music ever since I was very young. So 60s music, 70s music, 80s music. This is all awesome. And then I had kids and I think I stopped listening to music and I was starting to realize that my musical taste had sort of frozen out. And so I decided in 2011, I think, to start listening to the top 10 billboard songs each week. So I'd be on the treadmill and I would listen to that week's top 10 songs so I could find out what was popular now. And what I discovered is that I have no musical taste whatsoever. I like what I'm familiar with. And so The first time I'd hear a song is the first week that was on the charts, I'd be like, and then the second week, I was into it a little bit. And the third week, I was loving it. And by the fourth week is like just part of me. And so.”
2020-12-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #144 – Michael Littman: Reinforcement Learning and the Future of AI · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's right. I've been watching the presidential debates and vice presidential debates. And it turns out, yeah, it's really you can just answer any question you want. It's a related question.”
2020-12-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #144 – Michael Littman: Reinforcement Learning and the Future of AI · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It explains a lot about this apartment, actually. But no, the idea that people should have the ability to make this technology their own, that it becomes part of their lives. And I think that's. It's hard for us as technologists to make that kind of technology. It's easier to mold people into what we need them to be. And just that opposite vision, I think, is really inspiring.”
2020-12-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #144 – Michael Littman: Reinforcement Learning and the Future of AI · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“This is meaningful to you exactly so, yeah. And I think from that perspective, I mean, not all of us are jewel thieves. And so when we bring our robots into ourself.”
2020-12-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #144 – Michael Littman: Reinforcement Learning and the Future of AI · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, interesting. I think a lot of us have been inspired by robots in movies. The one that I really like is there's a movie called Robot and Frank, which I think is really interesting because it's very near-term future where robots are being deployed as helpers in people's homes. And we don't know how to make robots like that at this point, but it seemed very plausible. It seemed very realistic or imaginable. And I thought that was really cool because they're awkward. They do funny things. It raised some interesting issues, but it seemed like something that would ultimately be helpful and good if we could do it right.”
2020-12-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #144 – Michael Littman: Reinforcement Learning and the Future of AI · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source