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Lex Fridman· Dec 21, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersThe last job Sebastian Thrun wants is one he is already good atGuest Sebastian Thrun · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman talks with the roboticist behind Stanley, Google’s self-driving car, Udacity, and Kitty Hawk about learning, safety, and why traffic is a choice.
5:14ENLex Fridman· Dec 13, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersJudea Pearl on Human-Level AI and a Test of Free WillGuest Judea Pearl · Host Lex FridmanA 2019 thought experiment about causal reasoning, communication and self-models.
1:23:01ENLex Fridman· Dec 11, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersYou Cannot Ask a Question You Have No Words ForGuest Judea Pearl · Host Lex FridmanA teenager spent three days in bed with a fever after learning that geometry could be done in algebra — then spent a career giving cause and effect a mathematics.
20:34ENLex Fridman· Oct 26, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersTeaching Machines the Frameworks Humans Take for GrantedGuest David Ferrucci · Host Lex FridmanDavid Ferrucci explains why AI needs shared interpretive frameworks, not just data and pattern matching, to reason and communicate like humans.
2:24:31ENLex Fridman· Oct 11, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersWatson Won Jeopardy Without Understanding. Ferrucci Wants AI That Can Explain ItselfGuest David Ferrucci · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman talks with David Ferrucci about IBM Watson, why prediction is not understanding, and why high-stakes decisions need machines that can reason with us.
1:25:01ENLex Fridman· Oct 3, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersGary Marcus: Deep Learning Imitates Intelligence. It Does Not Understand.Guest Gary Marcus · Host Lex FridmanOn Lex Fridman's podcast, the NYU emeritus and Rebooting AI co-author argues that perception and reasoning need different tools — and that trustworthy AI is impossible until machines can represent harm, bottles, and intent.
1:03:13ENLex Fridman· Sep 30, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersYou Can't Have Both Kinds of Fairness, Says Peter NorvigGuest Peter Norvig · Host Lex FridmanThe co-author of Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach walks Lex Fridman through recidivism scores, utility functions, Lisp, MOOCs, and why human-level intelligence should not be the goal.
1:59:49ENLex Fridman· Sep 14, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersIntelligence is not the height of a building: François Chollet on Keras, deep learning, and why AGI will not explodeGuest François Chollet · Host Lex FridmanThe Keras creator tells Lex Fridman that intelligence lives in a brain, a body, and a problem, that science already is a recursively self-improving superhuman system with linear output, and that the real near-term danger is the newsfeed.
1:15:58ENLex Fridman· Aug 31, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersHuman Intelligence Is a Ridiculously Narrow SliverGuest Yann Lecun · Host Lex FridmanYann LeCun tells Lex Fridman why giant nets plus gradient descent broke the textbooks, why "AGI" is the wrong word, and why the next leap is a world model learned like a baby.
1:44:11ENLex Fridman· Aug 27, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersA Single GPU Is Enough: Jeremy Howard on Teaching Deep LearningGuest Jeremy Howard · Host Lex FridmanThe fast.ai founder tells Lex Fridman why domain experts, not more papers or more TPUs, will decide whether deep learning actually helps people.
1:00:06ENLex Fridman· Aug 23, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersPamela McCorduck: AI Began With the Ancient Wish to Forge the GodsGuest Pamela McCorduck · Host Lex FridmanThe novelist who wrote the first popular history of artificial intelligence talks with Lex Fridman about Dartmouth, AI winters, and why existential panic looks like the male gaze.
2:09:42ENLex Fridman· Jul 1, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersThe Brain Does Not Classify Images. It Navigates Maps.Guest Jeff Hawkins · Host Lex FridmanJeff Hawkins tells Lex Fridman why the neocortex stores the world as thousands of voting reference frames, and why scaling today's networks will not get us there.
1:09:11ENLex Fridman· Jun 10, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersDon't Ship Autopilot: Gavin Miller on AI That Leaves Creatives in ChargeGuest Gavin Miller · Host Lex FridmanAdobe Research's head tells Lex Fridman why smart defaults, fixable errors, and intern-scale bets matter more than a fully automatic Photoshop.
1:46:01ENLex Fridman· Apr 29, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersThe Night AlphaStar Beat TLO, the Team Went to a BarGuest Oriol Vinyals · Host Lex FridmanOriol Vinyals on how DeepMind turned StarCraft II into a sequence problem, built a league of agents, and still refuses to call the game solved.
1:25:07ENLex Fridman· Apr 3, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersThe Only Real Freedom Is How AGI Is BornGuest Greg Brockman · Host Lex FridmanGreg Brockman tells Lex Fridman why OpenAI’s job is to set the initial conditions of general intelligence, not to monopolize who builds it.
1:01:24ENLex Fridman· Mar 12, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersLeslie Kaelbling: You Buy the Ticket Before You Can Plan the AirportGuest Leslie Kaelbling · Host Lex FridmanThe MIT roboticist tells Lex Fridman why abstractions, belief-space control, and built-in bias matter more than picking a tribe of symbols or neural nets.
1:20:21ENLex Fridman· Jan 19, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersEinstein Was the Worst of Five Ph.D. StudentsGuest Tomaso Poggio · Host Lex FridmanMIT neuroscientist Tomaso Poggio on why intelligence is science's deepest problem, and what brains still have to teach machines.
46:25ENLex Fridman· Jan 17, 2019PodcastDeep Learning at the Edge of 2019: BERT, Autopilot, and the Ideas That Broke ThroughHost Lex FridmanA tour of the architectural, applied, and automation breakthroughs that defined deep learning in 2018 and set up 2019.
1:06:17ENLex Fridman· Dec 28, 2018Podcast · 2 speakersLibratus Beat the World's Best Poker Players Without a Neural NetworkGuest Tuomas Sandholm · Host Lex FridmanTuomas Sandholm tells Lex Fridman how game theory, abstraction, and search — not deep learning — took heads-up no-limit Texas Hold'em, and why the harder work is deploying that toolkit outside the casino.
1:26:21ENLex Fridman· Dec 9, 2018Podcast · 2 speakersThe Machine Should Never Treat Its Objective as GospelGuest Stuart Russell · Host Lex FridmanStuart Russell talks with Lex Fridman about metareasoning, self-driving reliability, and why uncertainty about human goals is the core of the control problem.
54:03ENLex Fridman· Nov 16, 2018Podcast · 2 speakersThe Hardest Part of Learning Was Left Out of the TextbooksGuest Vladimir Vapnik · Host Lex FridmanVladimir Vapnik tells Lex Fridman why intelligence is the work of inventing predicates that shrink the admissible set of functions, not of fitting a rule to a mountain of data.
42:18ENLex Fridman· Oct 20, 2018Podcast · 2 speakersAn Adult Can Change Last Year's Mind. A Network Still Cannot.Guest Yoshua Bengio · Host Lex FridmanYoshua Bengio tells Lex Fridman that the missing pieces of deep learning sit in credit assignment, training objectives, and a kind of compositionality borrowed from classical AI — not in ten thousand layers.
57:54ENLex Fridman· Sep 1, 2018Podcast · 2 speakersA 2040 Siri That Passes Every Turing Test Still Wouldn't Be ConsciousGuest Christof Koch · Host Lex FridmanNeuroscientist Christof Koch tells Lex Fridman why intelligence is function, consciousness is being, and a perfect brain simulation has no more inner life than a laptop simulating a black hole.
1:22:58ENLex Fridman· Aug 26, 2018Podcast · 2 speakersIf NASA finds nothing on Mars, Max Tegmark cheersGuest Max Tegmark · Host Lex FridmanThe MIT physicist behind Life 3.0 tells Lex Fridman why we may be the only advanced life in the observable universe, and why that makes AGI alignment a cosmic responsibility rather than a science-fiction subplot.