#80 - Stuart Russell on why our approach to AI is broken and how to fix it

<p>Stuart Russell, Professor at UC Berkeley and co-author of the most popular AI textbook, thinks the way we approach machine learning today is fundamentally flawed.</p><p> In his new book, Human Compatible, he outlines the 'standard model' of AI development, in which intelligence is measured as the ability to achieve some definite, completely-known objective that we've stated explicitly. This is so obvious it almost doesn't even seem like a design choice, but it is.</p><p> Unfortunately there's a big problem with this approach: it's incredibly hard to say exactly what you want. AI today lacks common sense...