Risto Miikkulainen on evolutionary computation and making robots think for themselves

Summary: <p>In this week’s episode, <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/dbeyer123">David Beyer</a>, principal at Amplify Partners, co-founder of Chart.io, and part of the founding team at Patients Know Best, chats with <a target="_blank" href="http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~risto/">Risto Miikkulainen</a>, professor of computer science and neuroscience at the University of Texas at Austin. They chat about evolutionary computation, its applications in deep learning, and how it’s inspired by biology. Also note, David Beyer's new free report "The Future of Machine Intelligence" is <a href="http://www.oreilly.com/data/free/future-of-machine-intelligence.csp?intcmp=il-data-free-lp-lgen_20160310_radar_new_site_david_beyer_radar_podcast_post_body_text_report_link">now available for download</a>.</p>