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Sean Gerrish is a software engineer and has worked as an engineer for Teza Technologies and as an engineering manager for machine learning and data science teams at Google. We spoke about his latest book on machine learning. Sean’s comments in this interview reflect his views and not necessarily those of his employers.

0:41 – Sean talks about how he got into studying machine learning.

2:26 – Sean talks about the book and how it’s broken down. He touches on self-driving cars, IBM’s Watson, and machines that can play Atari games and so on.

4:31 – Sean talks about the most difficult concepts for people to understand.

6:51 – Sean talks about what intelligence in machines is.

12:01 – Sean talks about machine learning and the future of robots that can think for themselves.

15:39 – Sean talks about the large amount of labor needed to create machines that learn.

18:53 – Sean talks about AI and the marketplace.

24:01 – Sean talks about how he did the research for the book.

28:46 – Sean talks about a problem he grappled with in the research.

32:02 – The book has a sci-fi related Easter egg.

39:16 – Sean can be found on twitter @seannyg, and he writes frequently on Quora.

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Guests: Sean Gerrish

Host: Cris Alvarez

Tags: Netflix, Watson, Atari, machine learning, intelligent machines, robots, bladerunner