Peter Norvig, Research Director at Google, answered 18 questions

What does Peter Norvig do exactly at Google? Peter Norvig on May 16, 2016 What does Peter Norvig do exactly at Google? Peter Norvig, Research Director at Google 136.8k views One of the great things at Google is that there's always something new; you can't really fall into a set routine. That's true on a week-to-week basis as we respond to a fas...  Read More » Peter Norvig: In what ways has AI evolved that you didn't expect over your lifetime? Peter Norvig, Research Director at Google 134.7k views When I started in 1980, AI meant this: a graduate student writes down facts in some declarative language, and fiddles with the facts and the inference mechanism until she g...  Read More » What do you think of Deep Learning? Peter Norvig, Research Director at Google 136k views I remember vividly the day in the early 1980s when Geoff Hinton came to Berkeley to give a talk on his Boltzmann Machine work. To me it was an amazing vision -- he discarde...  Read More » What does it mean for Google to become an "AI-first" company? Peter Norvig, Research Director at Google 13.2k views “Classic” Google was an information retrieval company: you give a query, we quickly respond with ten suggestions of relevant pages, and it is your job to make sense of the ...  Read More » Is there any place for software engineers that do not learn AI or Machine Learning in the next 10 years or does everyone have to learn it? Peter Norvig, Research Director at Google 17.7k views Machine Learning will be (or perhaps already is) such an important part of software engineering that everyone will have to understand where it fits in. But just like, say, ...  Read More » How did Peter Norvig start his career? Peter Norvig, Research Director at Google 10.6k views I was lucky enough to go to a High School (in Newton, Mass.) where I could take both a computer programming class and a Linguistics class. That got me interested in putting...  Read More » Is it true that Google “Does not have better algorithms but only more data”? Peter Norvig, Research Director at Google 11.7k views I quoted a paper by Michele Banko and Eric Brill, then with Microsoft Research, that surveyed algorithms for doing word sense disambiguation, and showed that you get more i...  Read More » Are symbolic AI approaches still relevant after the recent successes of deep learning? Peter Norvig, Research Director at Google 9.6k views Yes. We developed a lot of powerful mechanisms around symbolic AI: logical inference, constraint satisfaction, planning, natural language processing, even probabilistic inf...  Read More » Where did we go wrong? Why didn't Common Lisp fix the world? Peter Norvig, Started Lisp in 1974; Symbolics/TI Lisp machines; wrote a book and toy compilers 16.2k views I think the ideas in Common Lisp did fix the world. If you go back to 1981, Lisp was considered unusual because it had features like the following that were not known to C ...  Read More » How do I train myself to transition from a career in software engineering to AI? Peter Norvig, Research Director at Google 8k views Don't think of it as a transition -- think of it as an addition of a skill set. The point of AI is to build systems, and that's what you've already been doing. So you have ...  Read More »   Read More from this Session We sent you this email because you follow Computer Science. Unfollow Computer Science This email was sent by Quora (650 Castro Street #450, Mountain View, CA 94041). Choose which emails we send you through Email Settings or Unsubscribe.