Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach

This book by Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig has been genuinely recommended 3 times on Lex Fridman. The people who vouched for it on air: Lex Fridman, Marcus Hutter, guest. It comes up in conversations about consciousness, productivity & performance. The earliest recommendation we indexed is from Jan 2017 and the most recent from Mar 2020. Every quote below is verbatim, attributed, and linked to the exact second it was said. Sourced expert opinion, not medical advice.

• “I got my hands on a PDF copy in Romania of Russell Norvig a I modern approach... it was so captivating”

  Why it counts as a recommendation: “I'm you know I'm biased but that's a cool book”
  guest · Lex Fridman Podcast · Mar 202001:26:44

  Said during "Anca Dragan: Human-Robot Interaction and Reward Engineering | Lex Fridman Podcast #81". The episode features Anca Dragan: A professor at UC Berkeley working on human-robot interaction and reward engineering algorithms, who also consults at Waymo. She studies how robots can generate behavior that accounts for coordinating with people. Berkeley roboticist Anca Dragan on why robots must model messy humans, learn hidden rewards, and treat human-robot interaction as a shared game.

• “I would always start with Russell and Norvig artificial intelligence a modern approach that's the AI Bible it's an amazing book”

  Why it counts as a recommendation: “I can most highly recommend; the AI Bible; it's an amazing book”
  Marcus Hutter · Lex Fridman Podcast · Feb 202001:33:09

  Said during "Marcus Hutter: Universal Artificial Intelligence, AIXI, and AGI | Lex Fridman Podcast #75". The episode features Marcus Hutter: Senior research scientist at Google DeepMind and a pioneer of universal artificial intelligence. He created the AIXI model and the Hutter Prize for lossless compression of human knowledge. Marcus Hutter explains AIXI, his single-equation mathematical theory of universal intelligence built on compression, Occam's razor, and reinforcement learning.

• “from a book that got me into artificial intelligence as a bright-eyed high school student they are artificial intelligence to modern approach”

  Why it counts as a recommendation: “a book that got me into artificial intelligence as a bright-eyed high school student”
  Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 201700:06:53

  Said during "MIT 6.S094: Introduction to Deep Learning and Self-Driving Cars". The episode features Lex Fridman: MIT researcher and instructor of course 6.S094, Deep Learning for Self-Driving Cars, focused on driver-state sensing and autonomous vehicles. Lex Fridman's opening MIT lecture on deep learning for self-driving cars, framing driving as chess versus conversation.