Vladimir Vapnik: Predicates, Invariants, and the Essence of Intelligence

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<p>Vladimir Vapnik is the co-inventor of support vector machines, support vector clustering, VC theory, and many foundational ideas in statistical learning. He was born in the Soviet Union, worked at the Institute of Control Sciences in Moscow, then in the US, worked at AT&#38;T, NEC Labs, Facebook AI Research, and now is a professor at Columbia University. His work has been cited over 200,000 times.</p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This conversation is part of the Artificial Intelligence podcast.</span>&#160;If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to <a href="https://lexfridman.com/ai">https://lexfridman.com/ai</a> or connect with @lexfridman on <a href="https://twitter.com/lexfridman">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/lexfridman/">LinkedIn</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/lexfridman">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://medium.com/@lexfridman">Medium</a>, or <a href="https://www.youtube.com/lexfridman">YouTube</a> where you can watch the video versions of these conversations. If you enjoy the podcast, please rate it 5 stars on <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/artificial-intelligence/id1434243584">Apple Podcasts</a>, follow on <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/2MAi0BvDc6GTFvKFPXnkCL">Spotify</a>, or support it on <a href="https://www.patreon.com/lexfridman">Patreon</a>.</p> <p>This episode is presented by Cash App. Download it (<a href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/cash-app/id711923939">App Store</a>, <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.squareup.cash&#38;hl=en_US">Google Play</a>), use code &#8220;LexPodcast&#8221;.&#160;</p> <p>Here&#8217;s the outline of the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.</p> <p>00:00 &#8211; Introduction<br /> 02:55 &#8211; Alan Turing: science and engineering of intelligence<br /> 09:09 &#8211; What is a predicate?<br /> 14:22 &#8211; Plato&#8217;s world of ideas and world of things<br /> 21:06 &#8211; Strong and weak convergence<br /> 28:37 &#8211; Deep learning and the essence of intelligence<br /> 50:36 &#8211; Symbolic AI and logic-based systems<br /> 54:31 &#8211; How hard is 2D image understanding?<br /> 1:00:23 &#8211; Data<br /> 1:06:39 &#8211; Language<br /> 1:14:54 &#8211; Beautiful idea in statistical theory of learning<br /> 1:19:28 &#8211; Intelligence and heuristics<br /> 1:22:23 &#8211; Reasoning<br /> 1:25:11 &#8211; Role of philosophy in learning theory<br /> 1:31:40 &#8211; Music (speaking in Russian)<br /> 1:35:08 &#8211; Mortality</p>