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Lex 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.
1:09:10ENLex Fridman· Apr 27, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersThe Same Snapdragon That Flies on Mars Powers a Galaxy PhoneGuest Cristiano Amon · Host Lex FridmanQualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon talks with Lex Fridman about 5G, Snapdragon, cars, the chip shortage, and how to map the border of your own competence.
2:31:48ENLex Fridman· Dec 28, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersA Car That Cannot Drive Itself Will Be About as Useful as a HorseGuest Elon Musk · Host Lex FridmanIn a Lex Fridman conversation built around Tesla Autopilot, Elon Musk argues that every driver input is an error, that today’s hardware is already enough for full self-driving, and that watching the human will soon matter less than making the system safer than a person.
3:14:14ENLex Fridman· Nov 16, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersFour Joints, Eighty Thousand Pounds: Boris Sofman on Cozmo and WaymoGuest Boris Sofman · Host Lex FridmanAnki's co-founder on saturating a few channels of expression, why a beloved robot company still died, and how the same constraint mindset now runs Waymo's trucks.
3:12:17ENLex Fridman· Nov 3, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersYou Better Already Have Everything You Ever WantedGuest Steve Viscelli · Host Lex FridmanA former long-haul driver turned Penn sociologist walks Lex Fridman through how trucking fell from a golden-age trade to a last-resort job, and the six ways robots might finish the work.
2:23:10ENLex Fridman· Dec 20, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersBuilding a Driver, Not a Copilot: Waymo CTO Dmitri Dolgov on Fully Driverless CarsGuest Dmitri Dolgov · Host Lex FridmanFrom a 3 a.m. parking-lot planner at Stanford to a public robotaxi in Phoenix, Dolgov tells Lex Fridman why driver assist and a real driver are different products.
1:44:47ENLex Fridman· Nov 25, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersErik Brynjolfsson on the Exponential Mismatch Remaking Work and PoliticsGuest Erik Brynjolfsson · Host Lex FridmanThe Stanford economist tells Lex Fridman why COVID, AI, and social networks all punish linear intuition — and why shared prosperity is the only way the pie-growing story holds.
3:12:55ENLex Fridman· Oct 21, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersThe IQ required to destroy the world drops by one point every yearGuest George Hotz · Host Lex FridmanGeorge Hotz on Fermi's paradox, hacking the simulation, and teaching cars to drive with neural nets.
1:41:37ENLex Fridman· Jul 21, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersThe Fallacy of the Successful First Step: Jitendra Malik on Why Seeing Still Isn't SolvedGuest Jitendra Malik · Host Lex FridmanBerkeley's Jitendra Malik tells Lex Fridman why computer vision keeps underestimating itself, why full self-driving still needs cognition, and why vision is the parent of language.
1:22:51ENLex Fridman· May 19, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersDensity, Not Demos: Sertac Karaman on Robots That Fly and DriveGuest Sertac Karaman · Host Lex FridmanThe MIT roboticist and Optimus Ride co-founder on why sharing space with people is harder than building the machine, and why flying at transportation scale is still the tougher problem.
1:38:33ENLex Fridman· Mar 19, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersMaybe people are rational under different assumptionsGuest Anca Dragan · Host Lex FridmanAnca Dragan talks with Lex Fridman about inverse reinforcement learning, autonomous driving, and why a written reward is evidence rather than law.
1:34:44ENLex Fridman· Feb 5, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersMoore's Law Has Been About to Die for Forty YearsGuest Jim Keller · Host Lex FridmanChip architect Jim Keller tells Lex Fridman why a cascade of diminishing-return curves still looks exponential, why you rewrite the CPU every five years, and why driving a car is not a super-hard problem.
1:18:41ENLex Fridman· Jan 14, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersThe SS Soldier Who Hugged a Jewish Boy, and the Systems That Still Fool UsGuest Daniel Kahneman · Host Lex FridmanDaniel Kahneman on System 1, deep learning that does not know what it is saying, and why a machine that must call a human is almost as hard as a machine that never needs one.
1:18:35ENLex 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.
56:47ENLex Fridman· Sep 8, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersWhy Vijay Kumar Refuses to Call Them DronesGuest Vijay Kumar · Host Lex FridmanThe Penn roboticist on swarm design, true autonomy, and why batteries — not algorithms — still limit the sky.
1:59:37ENLex Fridman· Aug 5, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersLane Centering Is the Only Self-Driving Feature That Already HelpsGuest George Hotz · Host Lex Fridmancomma.ai founder George Hotz tells Lex Fridman why staying in the lane beats Level 5 promises, and why a robotaxi stack still has no network effect.
44:48ENLex Fridman· Jul 22, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersChris Urmson: The Path to Driverless Cars Splits Away From the One That Lets You NapGuest Chris Urmson · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman talks with Aurora CEO Chris Urmson about the DARPA races, why lidar is a tool rather than a crutch, and why Level 2 economics will not grow into true autonomy.
32:45ENLex Fridman· Apr 12, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersElon Musk: Every Driver Input Is an Error Tesla Autopilot Must EliminateGuest Elon Musk · Host Lex FridmanAfter MIT published a study of functional vigilance on Autopilot, Lex Fridman sat down with Musk to argue about cameras on drivers, fleet data, and whether humans still belong in the loop.
55:24ENLex Fridman· Feb 7, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersKyle Vogt Built the Highway Kit, Then Scrapped It Before Selling a Single OneGuest Kyle Vogt · Host Lex FridmanThe Cruise president and CTO tells Lex Fridman why a BattleBots kid from Kansas walked away from a working product, partnered with GM, and is spending 2019 grinding from prototype to production.
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.
1:00:38ENLex Fridman· Dec 6, 2017PodcastThe Race Car and the Rulebook: Chris Gerdes on Automated Vehicle SafetyHost Lex FridmanA Stanford engineer and former DOT innovation chief explains how autonomous racing, voluntary safety guidance, and data sharing could shape safer self-driving cars.
24:22ENLex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersCraftsmanship, First Principles and the Road to Self-Driving: Jim Keller on Working with Elon MuskGuest Jim Keller · Host Lex FridmanThe veteran chip architect explains why he thinks autonomous driving is a tractable engineering problem, how Tesla's cost constraints shaped its hardware, and what he took from Musk's way of thinking.
54:33ENLex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersVision or Lidar, Human or Machine: Lex Fridman's 2019 Map of the Self-Driving RaceGuest Self-Driving Cars · Host Lex FridmanThe opening lecture of MIT's 6.S094 course surveys 2018's milestones, the industry's optimistic predictions, and the beliefs about driving and humans that will decide who wins.
58:46ENLex FridmanPodcastCaging the Neural Network: How Aptiv Thinks About Safe Self-DrivingHost Lex FridmanAptiv Autonomous Mobility's Karl Iagnemma and Oscar Beijbom explain why end-to-end learning is hard to trust in cars, and show how PointPillars and nuScenes push lidar perception forward.Load moreShowing 24 of 45