Escaping the Local Optimum of Low Expectation

This is a talk with some advice about life and my own journey and passion in artificial intelligence. The audience is a group of Drexel engineering students, friends and family in Philadelphia.
This talk was before the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic. Stay safe everyone, stay strong, we'll beat this thing.
OUTLINE:
0:00 - Overview - The Voice poem
6:46 - Artificial intelligence
13:44 - Open problems in AI
14:10 - Problem 1: Learning to understand
17:15 - Problem 2: Learning to act
19:28 - Problem 3: Reasoning
20:44 - Problem 4: Connection between humans & AI systems
23:57 - Advice about life as an optimization problem
24:10 - Advice 1: Listen to your inner voice - ignore the gradient
25:12 - Advice 2: carve your own path
26:28 - Advice 2: Measure passion not progress
28:10 - Advice 4: work hard
29:05 - Advice 5: forever oscillate between gratitude and dissatisfaction
31:10 - Q&A: Meaning of life
33:11 - Q&A: Simulation hypothesis
36:15 - Q&A: How do you define greatness?
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