Jitendra Malik, Professor of EECS at UC Berkeley discusses with host Pieter Abbeel building AI from the ground-up and sensorimotor before language. Subscribe to the Robot Brains Podcast today | Visit therobotbrains.ai and follow us on YouTube at TheRobotBrainsPodcast and Twitter at @pabbeel. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jitendra Malik is a professor at Berkeley and one of the seminal figures in the field of computer vision, the kind before the deep learning revolution, and the kind after. He has been cited over 180,000 times and has mentored many world-class researchers in computer science. Support this podcast by supporting our sponsors: – BetterHelp: http://betterhelp.com/lex – ExpressVPN: https://www.expressvpn.com/lexpod If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to https://lexfridman.com/ai or connect with @lexfridman on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Medium, or YouTube where you can watch the video versions of these conversations. If you enjoy the podcast, please rate it 5 stars on Apple Podcasts, follow on Spotify, or support it on Patreon. Here’s the outline of the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time. OUTLINE: 00:00 – Introduction 03:17 – Computer vision is hard 10:05 – Tesla Autopilot 21:20 – Human brain vs computers 23:14 – The general problem of computer vision 29:09 – Images vs video in computer vision 37:47 – Benchmarks in computer vision 40:06 – Active learning 45:34 – From pixels to semantics 52:47 – Semantic segmentation 57:05 – The three R’s of computer vision 1:02:52 – End-to-end learning in computer vision 1:04:24 – 6 lessons we can learn from children 1:08:36 – Vision and language 1:12:30 – Turing test 1:16:17 – Open problems in computer vision 1:24:49 – AGI 1:35:47 – Pick the right problem