Guido van Rossum: Python | Artificial Intelligence (AI) Podcast

44 thoughts on “Guido van Rossum: Python | Artificial Intelligence (AI) Podcast”

1. He might be an Atheist, but we Python developers worship Guido. All hail 🙂

2. Computer will be able to think. hahaha. Brain is an antenna.

3. Great interview Lex!

4. I get this feeling that Lex is constantly looking for proof or indications that agi is achievable or making any progress, but various guests’ answers indicate that we are very far off from achieving that goal, which seems to make him doubt about his own ideas on how the field should move forward.

5. this guy is a code god, this interview is terribly interesting

6. Design of a language is art
   How a transistor works
   1970s – personal computer
   Amazing thing called a computer

   Hour later – print out

7. 8 instructions or so
   Universe let it run

   Layers of abstraction
   Shell scripting and c
   Parsing the source code. Executing it.

8. Python to interface w neural networks
   Science is the Titanic attempt of the human intellect to deliver itself out of its cosmic isolation by understanding

   Not connected to the real world

9. Rossum is surprisingly… mundane?

10. The look Guido gives when he realizes Lex not only knows what he’s talking about but is adding to the conversation is super heartwarming.

    Also Lex you could do a companion series going down the conscious experience route with people like Wim Hoff, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Malcolm Gladwell, Robert Sapolsky, etc…. (then cap it off with another Rogan appearance). If you could cross-pollinate these folks the results would be epic!

11. https://www.quora.com/Are-Neural-Nets-algorithms

12. Very uninteresting talk. Guido sounds like a rather dull person.

13. this interview is amazing! :O well done.

14. Sam who?

15. Sam Harris is no one. He just wants publicity!

16. My boss 🤟🏻

17. is he sending morse code with his right shoulder or what

18. nice lex

19. Happy that he doesn't know who San harris is

20. Lex, you are doing good at the scale of old boomers who are fuzzy at the logical edges these days.

21. I was interested in what Guido might have to say, not the ENDLESS irrelevant ego trips and self agrandisement this so called interviewer added. What an insufferable egotistical prick.

22. Wow Lex, unrevealing guest ecosystems !!! And getting deep truth as the interviewer doesn’t expect those existentially formulate question : Bravo Lex🙏🏼

23. When Guido makes reference to the strong opinions against assignment expressions – that the feature was not Pythonic, can someone elaborate on what those arguments were, for and against. Thank you.

24. I think Guido has insight that some AGI may be missing in terms of some degree of consciousness being shared with higher animals.

25. AI does not exist people! These are just neural networks !

26. Keypunch machines, operator with a very serious look on their face putting decks of cards in the reader, adding the mystic JCL cards in between, big IBM mainframe crunching the program and huge line printer spitting out copious amounts of printed results. People dropping their decks of cards and crying afterwards, trying to put them back in order. The waiting time, and the extreme care NOT to make any typos! The things from another life Guido reminded me of 🙂

27. I love how Lex only gives people two options for answers

28. Inspirational clip! Watch a lot of YouTube but that's the first time I'm saying inspirational. Thanks for getting BDFL on camera lex.

29. 35:05 Guido (an atheist since age 10) not knowing who Sam Harris is … now that's MY "Billie Eilish doesn't know Van Halen" moment. 🤘🏼😎

30. Robots will never have consciousness. We are more than memory.
    In simple term, there is a two things happening. One is reaction(memory) and other is realization( awarness). For eg, when we feel cold (let say input) we react by shaking (output) but there is a awarness which we will maKe us know we are shaking but we may create robot that can measure temp and shake but it will have no realization. it is just a reaction tool..

31. 47:35

32. Why did you cut 20:50???

33. HOERRRAAA! W. F. Hermans!

34. 40:59 To my knowledge, Descartes believed in Dualism not b/c of religious reasons, but rather b/c he assumed predermined mechanisms cannot explain consciousness, and our own consciousness is the thing we have the most direct evidence for. (cf. "I think therefore I am.") Since we don't have such evidence for other animals, their behavior seemed fully explainable in principle by them being mindless automatons, which e.g. justified vivesection as ethically unproblematic.

    Fun fact: He speculated that the pineal gland must be the interface between mind and body, b/c all the other anatomical structures he found in the brain occured twice – one in each hemisphere – and consciousness should be singular.

35. The interviewer is all about the cringe… yo man didnt jesus.. i mean art inspire you to do all those things? G.: Ehm well… I dont explicitly disagree with you here…(but) I dont feel…

36. Great Interview! I discovered the beauty of Python when I recently started taking a deep dive into AI&ML and came across with all the libraries&frameworks.

37. Lex "Echoes of it" Friedman

38. Guido van Rossum has his feet on the ground. I like that! AI as it is seen by real technicians is far away from the magic of life itself. Let it be that way. Thank you for the interview.

39. I don't like saying that a language can be art. The artists I know (my parents for example) do paintings or sculptures based on ideas/subject matter they think of or like or even to provoke a reaction in others. IF the art is not realistic, then they paint based on how they feel and what they like (the placement of the paint, and the colours).
    When designing a programming language, I am assuming everything is thought of, designed and evaluated based on requirements and technical reasons, no emotions. Programming languages are technical.

40. A lot of beautiful's.

41. Lex, Sam Harris has a PHD in neuroscience. He isn't just a philosopher talking about humans' brains.

42. I wish if he could pull off a podcast with Robert Sapolsky, in my book, his little time existence on Earth is well spent.

43. The interviewer is boring. Dude doesnt know how to make a conversation flow well.

44. Good effort at interviewing him and sticking with it. As someone else said, questions much better than the answers – what a terrible interviewee.

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