Anima Anandkumar - Artificial Intelligence and a flourishing society

Origins Podcast with Ryan McGranaghan

Professor Anima Anandkumar is a meteor in the field of artificial intelligence or AI. Her rise in the space has been a phenomenon to behold and her voice is a refreshing and inviting one that might just alter the trajectory of AI and society.
Show Notes:

• Artificial Intelligence (AI) (01:00)
• Love of the liminal spaces (03:20)
• Philosophy and connection to AI (07:30)
  • Advaita Vedanta
• The science of creativity (10:00)
• Never run out of problems to solve (11:20)
• Supervised and Unsupervised Learning (14:00)
• Doris Tsao at Caltech (15:30)
• AGI = Artificial General Intelligence (16:30)
• TED talks (19:40)
  • 2018 "Trinity of Artificial Intelligence"
  • 2021 "Can Artificial Intelligence be conscious too?"
• What can you not do by simply scaling up? (20:20)
• Bongard-LOGO Challenge (21:00)
• Edge AI (23:30)
• Doris Tsao - what is the role of feedback in how we study things? (26:10)
• “What I cannot create, I do not understand” -Richard Feynman (26:40)
• The alignment problem (28:40)
• GPT model (37:00)
• The importance of metrics (38:50)
• Flourishing (39:00)
• Nick Bostrom paper clip thought experiment (39:50)
• Social media (41:00)
• Advocacy for women and minorities (43:00)
  • Timnit Gebru (44:00)
  • Joy Buolamwini (44:00)
  • AI4All (45:30)
  • Caltech Wave Program (45:40)
• me too. Movement (47:40)
• Curriculum for a flourishing society (50:00)
• Frederick Eberhardt at Caltech
• Lightning Round (54:20)
  • Book: Michio Kaku Hyperspace
  • Passion: Dancing
  • Heart sing: Rethinking how we interact with the world; yoga
  • Screwed up: Twitter presence
• Find Anima online:
  • http://tensorlab.cms.caltech.edu/users/anima/
  • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anima-anandkumar/
• 'Five-Cut Fridays’ five-song music playlist series
  • Anima’s playlist