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Lex Fridman Podcast

Conversations about science, technology, history, philosophy and the nature of intelligence, consciousness, love, and power. Lex is an AI researcher at MIT and beyond.

#89 – Stephen Wolfram: Cellular Automata, Computation, and Physics

18 April 2020

3:11:36

#88 – Eric Weinstein: Geometric Unity and the Call for New Ideas, Leaders & Institutions

13 April 2020

2:47:04

#87 – Richard Dawkins: Evolution, Intelligence, Simulation, and Memes

09 April 2020

1:07:48

#86 – David Silver: AlphaGo, AlphaZero, and Deep Reinforcement Learning

03 April 2020

1:48:28

#85 – Roger Penrose: Physics of Consciousness and the Infinite Universe

31 March 2020

1:28:25

#83 – Nick Bostrom: Simulation and Superintelligence

26 March 2020

1:57:06

#82 – Simon Sinek: Leadership, Hard Work, Optimism and the Infinite Game

21 March 2020

38:16

#81 – Anca Dragan: Human-Robot Interaction and Reward Engineering

19 March 2020

1:39:01

#80 – Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum, Cryptocurrency, and the Future of Money

16 March 2020

1:35:31

#79 – Lee Smolin: Quantum Gravity and Einstein’s Unfinished Revolution

07 March 2020

1:10:19

#78 – Ann Druyan: Cosmos, Carl Sagan, Voyager, and the Beauty of Science

05 March 2020

1:09:40

#77 – Alex Garland: Ex Machina, Devs, Annihilation, and the Poetry of Science

03 March 2020

1:11:37

#76 – John Hopfield: Physics View of the Mind and Neurobiology

29 February 2020

1:13:16

#75 – Marcus Hutter: Universal Artificial Intelligence, AIXI, and AGI

26 February 2020

1:40:23

#74 – Michael I. Jordan: Machine Learning, Recommender Systems, and the Future of AI

24 February 2020

1:46:17

#73 – Andrew Ng: Deep Learning, Education, and Real-World AI

20 February 2020

1:29:29

#72 – Scott Aaronson: Quantum Computing

17 February 2020

1:34:09

Vladimir Vapnik: Predicates, Invariants, and the Essence of Intelligence

14 February 2020

1:45:23

Jim Keller: Moore’s Law, Microprocessors, Abstractions, and First Principles

05 February 2020

1:35:11

David Chalmers: The Hard Problem of Consciousness

29 January 2020

1:39:06

Cristos Goodrow: YouTube Algorithm

25 January 2020

1:31:19

Paul Krugman: Economics of Innovation, Automation, Safety Nets & Universal Basic Income

21 January 2020

1:03:39

Ayanna Howard: Human-Robot Interaction and Ethics of Safety-Critical Systems

17 January 2020

1:40:24

Daniel Kahneman: Thinking Fast and Slow, Deep Learning, and AI

14 January 2020

1:19:09

Grant Sanderson: 3Blue1Brown and the Beauty of Mathematics

07 January 2020

1:03:12

Stephen Kotkin: Stalin, Putin, and the Nature of Power

03 January 2020

1:37:49

Donald Knuth: Algorithms, TeX, Life, and The Art of Computer Programming

30 December 2019

1:46:13

Melanie Mitchell: Concepts, Analogies, Common Sense & Future of AI

28 December 2019

1:53:07

Jim Gates: Supersymmetry, String Theory and Proving Einstein Right

25 December 2019

1:35:28

Sebastian Thrun: Flying Cars, Autonomous Vehicles, and Education

21 December 2019

1:19:01

Michael Stevens: Vsauce

17 December 2019

58:55

Rohit Prasad: Amazon Alexa and Conversational AI

14 December 2019

1:46:15

Judea Pearl: Causal Reasoning, Counterfactuals, Bayesian Networks, and the Path to AGI

11 December 2019

1:23:21

Whitney Cummings: Comedy, Robotics, Neurology, and Love

05 December 2019

1:17:18

Ray Dalio: Principles, the Economic Machine, Artificial Intelligence & the Arc of Life

02 December 2019

1:30:39

Noam Chomsky: Language, Cognition, and Deep Learning

29 November 2019

36:10

Gilbert Strang: Linear Algebra, Deep Learning, Teaching, and MIT OpenCourseWare

25 November 2019

50:16

Dava Newman: Space Exploration, Space Suits, and Life on Mars

22 November 2019

39:45

Michael Kearns: Algorithmic Fairness, Bias, Privacy, and Ethics in Machine Learning

19 November 2019

1:49:01

Elon Musk: Neuralink, AI, Autopilot, and the Pale Blue Dot

12 November 2019

36:22

Bjarne Stroustrup: C++

07 November 2019

1:47:19

Sean Carroll: Quantum Mechanics and the Many-Worlds Interpretation

01 November 2019

1:30:06

Garry Kasparov: Chess, Deep Blue, AI, and Putin

27 October 2019

55:34

Michio Kaku: Future of Humans, Aliens, Space Travel & Physics

22 October 2019

1:01:10

David Ferrucci: IBM Watson, Jeopardy & Deep Conversations with AI

11 October 2019

2:24:33

Gary Marcus: Toward a Hybrid of Deep Learning and Symbolic AI

03 October 2019

1:25:09

Peter Norvig: Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach

30 September 2019

1:03:22

Leonard Susskind: Quantum Mechanics, String Theory, and Black Holes

26 September 2019

57:40

Regina Barzilay: Deep Learning for Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment

23 September 2019

1:17:38

Colin Angle: iRobot

19 September 2019

37:51