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Human Compatible

“Betting against human ingenuity is foolhardy, particularly when our future is at stake.” Russell uses this dramatic example to argue that sudden breakthroughs are unpredictable, and it’s not safe to think that general AI is impossible or that it is very far in the future.

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Stuart Russell is a professor of Computer Science and holder of the Smith-Zadeh Chair in Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, where he also directs the Center for Human Compatible Artificial Intelligence. He is an Honorary Fellow of Wadham College, University of Oxford and the vice-chair of the World Economic Forum’s Council on AI and Robotics. His work for the UN building a new global seismic monitoring system for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty has been recognized by the Feigenbaum Prize of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. He has been an invited speaker at TED, the World Economic Forum, and the Nobel Dialogues in Stockholm and Tokyo. He is the author (with Peter Norvig) of Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, the number one bestselling textbook in AI which is used in over 1,400 universities in 128 countries.


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