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Lex Fridman· Jun 14, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersIf ten things make a problem hard, Terence Tao turns nine of them offGuest Terence Tao · Host Lex FridmanThe Fields Medalist walks Lex Fridman from the Kakeya needle and Navier-Stokes through Lean, Perelman, and why today's AI still cannot smell a dead-end proof.
2:15:39ENLex Fridman· Jun 2, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersRoman Yampolskiy Puts Superintelligent Ruin at 99.99 PercentGuest Roman Yampolskiy · Host Lex FridmanThe AI safety researcher tells Lex Fridman that controlling AGI is as impossible as a perpetual motion machine, and that tests, open source, and regulation cannot close the gap.
2:50:44ENLex Fridman· Apr 17, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersThe Pirahã Have No Word for OneGuest Edward Gibson · Host Lex FridmanMIT psycholinguist Ted Gibson tells Lex Fridman why related words sit together, why language is not thought, and why large language models ace form while missing meaning.
2:47:17ENLex Fridman· Mar 7, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersIf You Want Human-Level AI, Abandon Generative ModelsGuest Yann Lecun · Host Lex FridmanYann LeCun tells Lex Fridman why autoregressive LLMs cannot plan, remember, or understand the physical world — and why open source is the only democratic answer.
3:11:35ENLex Fridman· Jun 21, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersSearch was always a hack: Marc Andreessen on AI, truth, and the next internetGuest Marc Andreessen · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman sits down with the Mosaic co-creator and Andreessen Horowitz founder to ask whether Google Search, the browser, and open-source AI survive the decade.
2:07:04ENLex Fridman· May 28, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersThe Ribosome Already Solved Digital ManufacturingGuest Neil Gershenfeld · Host Lex FridmanNeil Gershenfeld tells Lex Fridman why Turing separated the head from the tape, how fab labs are the personal-computer moment for making things, and what it would take to grow a civilization from about twenty parts.
4:14:33ENLex Fridman· May 9, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersThe Next Token Is Not a Proof: Stephen Wolfram on ChatGPT and Computational TruthGuest Stephen Wolfram · Host Lex FridmanIn his fourth conversation with Lex Fridman, Stephen Wolfram contrasts large language models with Wolfram|Alpha, then follows computational irreducibility from ChatGPT through observers, thermodynamics, and the three great theories of twentieth-century physics.
2:27:58ENLex Fridman· Apr 28, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersIt took Atlas fourteen years to walk the way Playter wantedGuest Robert Playter · Host Lex FridmanBoston Dynamics CEO Robert Playter traces thirty years from a MIT basement pogo stick to Atlas, Spot, and Stretch — and why the company still designs machines that are allowed to fall.
2:30:28ENLex Fridman· Apr 21, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersAI Only Has a Neocortex: Manolis Kellis on Evolutionary Baggage and Superintelligent PartnersGuest Manolis Kellis · Host Lex FridmanOn his fifth Lex Fridman podcast, the MIT computational biologist argues that layered evolutionary history is what makes humans irreplaceable — and that alignment with AI has to run both ways.
2:29:21ENLex Fridman· Dec 6, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersThe Poker Bot That Never Tried to Read a SoulGuest Noam Brown · Host Lex FridmanNoam Brown tells Lex Fridman how a Nash-equilibrium bot crushed heads-up no-limit Hold'em, how Pluribus did it six-handed, and why Diplomacy required an AI that could earn human trust.
3:28:47ENLex Fridman· Oct 29, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersKarpathy Calls Trained Neural Nets Complicated Alien ArtifactsGuest Andrej Karpathy · Host Lex FridmanOn Lex Fridman's podcast, Andrej Karpathy refuses the brain analogy, walks the Fermi paradox through Nick Lane's chemistry, and treats the Transformer as a general-purpose differentiable computer.
3:00:21ENLex Fridman· Oct 1, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersCut Off a Planarian's Head. The New Brain Still RemembersGuest Michael Levin · Host Lex FridmanMichael Levin argues that DNA only builds hardware, bioelectric networks store body plans, and frog skin cells can become robots that evolution never designed.
2:10:08ENLex Fridman· Jul 26, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersGato Is Only the BeginningGuest Oriol Vinyals · Host Lex FridmanDeepMind's Oriol Vinyals talks with Lex Fridman about generalist agents, thrown-away weights, and whether human-level AGI arrives in his lifetime.
2:10:39ENLex Fridman· Jul 1, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersDemis Hassabis: Solve Intelligence, Then Solve Everything ElseGuest Demis Hassabis · Host Lex FridmanThe DeepMind CEO tells Lex Fridman why the Turing Test is the wrong exam, how AlphaFold rewrote biology, and why the quiet radio sky suggests we are probably alone.
2:45:10ENLex Fridman· Jan 22, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersA Teenager Learns to Drive in Twenty Hours. A Car Still Cannot.Guest Yann Lecun · Host Lex FridmanYann LeCun tells Lex Fridman why self-supervised world models are the missing dark matter of intelligence, and why machines are not even at the level of a house cat.
2:56:42ENLex Fridman· Sep 26, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersSilicon Does Not Emit LightGuest Jeffrey Shainline · Host Lex FridmanNIST physicist Jeffrey Shainline on why a brain-like computer should calculate in superconducting electronics and talk with single photons.
2:24:52ENLex Fridman· Sep 3, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersJudge a robot by the environment it forces to change, not by the demoGuest Rodney Brooks · Host Lex FridmanRodney Brooks tells Lex Fridman why faces are promises, why computation is an overworked metaphor, and why robot companies die on price, expectation, and habit.
2:51:33ENLex Fridman· Aug 29, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersThe Self Is a GPT Prompt: Wojciech Zaremba on Consciousness, Codex, and Fermi's SilenceGuest Wojciech Zaremba · Host Lex FridmanOpenAI co-founder Wojciech Zaremba tells Lex Fridman he thinks we might be alone in the universe — and that GPT-3, Codex, and a one-handed robot already hint at how intelligence is built.
3:12:21ENLex Fridman· Aug 21, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersThe Ape's Brain Runs a Dream: Joscha Bach on Consciousness, Freedom, and MeaningGuest Joscha Bach · Host Lex FridmanA long conversation about the self as a control model, the dream world generated by the brain, free will, language models, evil, love, and how to live without a fixed self.
2:18:29ENLex Fridman· Aug 8, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersYour Cortex Is 150,000 Brains Voting on a Coffee CupGuest Jeff Hawkins · Host Lex FridmanJeff Hawkins tells Lex Fridman that intelligence is learning a model of the world, the neocortex is tens of thousands of independent maps that vote, and the fastest path to machine intelligence is reverse-engineering that sheet.
1:56:17ENLex Fridman· Apr 19, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersIf You Reran Earth a Million Times, Would Anything Like Us Appear?Guest Risto Miikkulainen · Host Lex FridmanRisto Miikkulainen on neuroevolution, hyena raids, basil that never sleeps, and why variation-plus-selection still finds solutions backpropagation cannot see.
2:39:15ENLex Fridman· Feb 18, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersCraftsmanship, Graphs and Consciousness: Jim Keller on Building Computers That ThinkGuest Jim Keller · Host Lex FridmanLegendary chip architect Jim Keller talks with Lex Fridman about design philosophy, the future of AI hardware, the human mind and how to live well.
1:44:32ENLex Fridman· Feb 5, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersThe Philosopher’s Risk: Zev Weinstein on Stagnation, Truth, and the Courage to Change Your MindGuest Zev Weinstein · Host Lex FridmanZev Weinstein talks with Lex Fridman about why radical thought is both dangerous and necessary, and how truth, language, media, mathematics and mortality shape a meaningful life.
3:02:43ENLex Fridman· Jan 18, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersHumanity Cannot Survive on the Right Person Showing Up at the Right TimeGuest Max Tegmark · Host Lex FridmanMIT physicist Max Tegmark tells Lex Fridman why AI should be as well understood as rockets, why 2020 was a warning on weapons and news, and why luck is a terrible long-term plan.Load moreShowing 24 of 83