Kevin Leyton-Brown on the kitten algorithm, computer science, and economics

Kevin Leyton-Brown is an award-winning computer scientist focusing on predominantly two streams of research: 1) algorithmic game theory and 2) empirical algorithms and machine learning. He is a professor of computer science at University of British Columbia and co-teaches two popular Coursera courses on game theory, which are approaching one million participants.

In our conversation with Kevin, we cover why the intersection of economics and computer science is particularly fertile, the art and science of modeling human strategic interaction and incentives in multi-agent systems, his work with the Federal Communications Commission incentive auction, moral and ethical implications of artificial intelligence, using AI to do good, applying the kitten algorithm, and much more.

About and from Prof. Kevin Leyton-Brown:

Website: https://www.cs.ubc.ca/~kevinlb/Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Leyton-BrownBooks http://www.masfoundations.org/http://www.gtessentials.org/ Coursera courses: https://www.coursera.org/instructor/kevinlbAAAI fellow: https://twitter.com/RealAAAI/status/947985533887684608Twitter: https://twitter.com/k_leyton_brown

Assorted links:

Franz Edelman award recipient: https://www.informs.org/Recognizing-Excellence/Award-Recipients/Federal-Communications-CommissionKudu: https://kudu.ug/about/Papers:Deep Learning for Predicting Human Strategic InteractionPredicting Human Behavior in Unrepeated, Simultaneous-Move GamesIncentives for Sharing in Peer-to-Peer NetworksTalks:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7WAt5KvgvUhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4yvpOLd-5M https://video.seas.harvard.edu/media/CS+Colloquium+Kevin+Leyton-Brown+2018-06-04/1_k1d32qgw/13151421John Nash: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Forbes_Nash_Jr.Theory of Games and Economic Behavior: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_Games_and_Economic_Behavior

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Music used in this podcast: Simplex Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0Chipper Doodle Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

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