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Oct 28, 2026
Terry CroninGUEST
around.
Terry CroninGUEST
And then I think it was just last year that Bennett and Broussard actually actually got the Turing Award for this technology.
Konstantinos KaragiannisHOST
Yep, from a few months ago.
Konstantinos KaragiannisHOST
Yeah, it's pretty crazy.
Eric ZimmerHOST
So talk to me about constraints in solving problems.
David EpsteinGUEST
Yeah, and that comes from the work of Herbert Simon, who was probably the biggest influence on this book, who was trained as a political scientist, but he won the Turing Award, the highest award in computer science for doing one of the first AI demonstrations.
David EpsteinGUEST
He was one of the founders of cognitive psychology, and then he won a Nobel Prize in economics.
Eric ZimmerHOST
That's crazy.
Hannes MühleisenGUEST
Yeah, I mean, Mike Stonebreaker is, of course, our dear leader in databases.
Hannes MühleisenGUEST
He's our only living Turing Award winner in databases, and very, very deservedly, of course.
Hannes MühleisenGUEST
I have a fun story about this.
Hannes MühleisenGUEST
I went to the Computer History Museum.
Hannes MühleisenGUEST
Yeah, I mean, Mike Stonebreaker is, of course, our dear leader in databases.
Hannes MühleisenGUEST
He's our only living Turing Award winner in databases, and very, very deservedly, of course.
Hannes MühleisenGUEST
I have a fun story about this.
Hannes MühleisenGUEST
I went to the Computer History Museum.
Andy PalmerGUEST
If you've got a great, very mission-driven, inspired technical founder, great to have somebody along with them that is more of a business person.
Andy PalmerGUEST
My partner, Mike Stonebreaker, and I have done this now many, many times together where we deeply appreciate each other And Mike is a great computer scientist, Turing Award winner, and has been amazingly innovative through his whole career.
Andy PalmerGUEST
But smart people are smart all the time.
Andy PalmerGUEST
Mike knows way more about business and startups than anyone might believe.
Ryan PetermanHOST
But
Brian KernighanGUEST
possibly he did win the third Turing Award.
Brian KernighanGUEST
Won it? Was it that summer or the next summer? I'd have to go and look.
Brian KernighanGUEST
And so there were people like that around.
Brian KernighanGUEST
And I don't know whether any of them ever got tenure because the older folks didn't really grok the newer field.
Brian KernighanGUEST
John Hopcroft, to pick a random example, was my technical advisor for a year, although it was quickly discovered I was not a theoretician.
Brian KernighanGUEST
But, you know, John went on to win a Turing Award and was Dean of Engineering at Cornell.
Brian KernighanGUEST
He's just a great guy.
Jamison DanceHOST
And somebody wrote a paper.
Jamison DanceHOST
It was actually like a, I think it was their Turing Award speech or I don't know.
Jamison DanceHOST
It wasn't like an academic paper.
Jamison DanceHOST
It was something.
John DelaneyHOST
For more than four decades, he's worked where intelligent systems, ethics, and innovation meet.
John DelaneyHOST
He began his career collaborating with Dr. Herbert Simon, a Nobel laureate and a Turing Award winner.
John DelaneyHOST
on how human intelligence could be understood and modeled.
John DelaneyHOST
In 1993, he founded IQ Company, whose intelligent systems powered financial technology that achieved top performance on Wall Street and executed billions of dollars in trades.
John DelaneyHOST
That's a long journey.
John DelaneyHOST
I think a lot of people don't understand that artificial intelligence has been around that long.
John DelaneyHOST
And you say you started your career working with Dr. Herbert Simon, the Nobel Prize winner, Turing Award winner.
John DelaneyHOST
What's a lesson from working with him that still kind of shapes how you think about intelligence today?
Mike MullHOST
I mean, there's, there's, Amadei has said things about existential risk and Sam Altman has said things about existential risk.
Mike MullHOST
And, uh, you know, Jeffrey Hinton, who's one of the guys who won the Turing prize and who also won the Nobel prize has talked about, uh, AI risks.
Mike MullHOST
So it's not just random researchers from who are doing AI safety stuff that it is a widely held opinion.
Mike MullHOST
And I guess the, the question we have to ask ourselves as engineers is do any of these people have any credibility? Um, and you know, my, my sense is I don't know exactly, but I want more explanation.
14 MINS LATER
Erik AkerHOST
Again, I'm just a random commentator on the internet.
Erik AkerHOST
You probably shouldn't listen to me.
Erik AkerHOST
What about these people who won the Turing Prize for neural networks? What are they saying about it?
Mike MullHOST
You know, like I already mentioned, you know, Hinton is a pretty serious doomer.
Vasanthan RamakrishnanGUEST
And I'm like, you should not be having an Academy Award because you are a software engineer.
Vasanthan RamakrishnanGUEST
So there's no such Academy Awards, right? And some people are like, oh, I don't have the Alan Turing Award or I don't have Forbes 30 under 30.
Vasanthan RamakrishnanGUEST
Yes, these are great accomplishments.
Vasanthan RamakrishnanGUEST
And of course, if someone has those, yes, they'd be readily, I mean, most likely they'd be readily qualifying for, you know, like an extraordinary ability category.
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