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Lex 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.
1:21:56ENLex Fridman· Mar 20, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersWe Keep Waiting for AGI. Eric Weinstein Says Artificial Life Is Already HereGuest Eric Weinstein · Host Lex FridmanOn the Lex Fridman Podcast, the mathematician and Thiel Capital managing director argues that selection without intelligence can already parasitize us, and that our bigger failure is wisdom that never caught up with the toys.
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.
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Jane Street· Mar 8, 2019Nathan Linger on Ontology: A Language-Oriented Permissions SystemNathan Linger · Jane StreetHow Jane Street represents permissions as typed declarations and presents them through an English-language interface.
1:18:13ENJane Street· Feb 11, 2019Lindsey Kuper on Abstractions for Correct and Efficient Parallel ComputingLindsey Kuper · University of California, Santa CruzFrom lattice-based shared state to non-invasive parallel languages and neural-network verification, high-level abstractions can make systems both safer and faster.
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.
1:20:21ENLex 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.
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3Blue1Brown· Jan 13, 2019The Collision Puzzle That Reveals Digits of πAn idealized pair of sliding blocks produces a surprising counting pattern.
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a16z· Jan 2, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersDavid Oyelowo on Queen of Katwe and Who Gets to Tell StoriesGuest David Oyelowo · Host Ben HorowitzA 2016 conversation about the film, representation and opportunities in Hollywood.
26:16ENa16z· Jan 2, 2019Podcast · 4 speakersInnovation, AI and Google I/O: A 2016 DiscussionGuest Benedict Evans, Connie Chan, Steven Sinofsky · Host Kyle RussellA historical discussion of Google Assistant, Instant Apps and Daydream as products and platforms.
35:37ENa16z· Jan 2, 2019Podcast · 4 speakersCoding Literacy and Opening Paths Into TechnologyGuest Susan Mernit, Laura Weidman Powers, Reshma Saujani · Host Chrissie BrodiganA 2014 discussion on coding education, confidence, mentorship and barriers to tech careers.
24:58ENa16z· Jan 2, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersInvesting in Underserved CommunitiesGuest Kesha Cash · Host Tawny HolguinKesha Cash and Tawny Holguin discuss impact, returns and the Mayvenn business model.
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.
1:19:59ENLex Fridman· Dec 23, 2018Podcast · 2 speakersSchmidhuber’s bet: true meta-learning rewrites the learner, not the last layerGuest Juergen Schmidhuber · Host Lex FridmanJürgen Schmidhuber tells Lex Fridman how Gödel machines, compression-as-science, Power Play, LSTMs, and world models all descend from a teenage plan to multiply one person’s curiosity into a better physicist than he could ever be.
42:45ENLex Fridman· Dec 16, 2018Podcast · 2 speakersA one-legged robot learned a backflip from "this is better"Guest Pieter Abbeel · Host Lex FridmanPieter Abbeel tells Lex Fridman why preference comparisons, self-play, ten-minute demos, and messy ensembles of simulators are the practical path through deep reinforcement learning.
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.
1:03:45ENJane Street· Dec 7, 2018Jane Street and the OCaml CompilerYaron Minsky · Jane StreetRon Minsky traces an accidental language adoption into a long-term commitment to compiler engineering and a shared open-source ecosystem.
33:07ENLex Fridman· Dec 4, 2018Podcast · 2 speakersThey Ran an Extension Cord Next Door and Invented GoogleGuest Eric Schmidt · Host Lex FridmanEric Schmidt tells Lex Fridman that Larry and Sergey never held the entrepreneurship meeting: they had a better algorithm, too little power in the dorm, and a $100,000 check.
15:50EN3Blue1Brown· Dec 2, 2018Why a Sphere’s Surface Area Is Four Times Its ShadowGrant Sanderson · 3Blue1BrownTwo geometric routes from a sphere to circles, and a generalization to convex shapes.
1:20:09ENLex Fridman· Nov 29, 2018Podcast · 2 speakersStack Overflow Was Never Designed for BeginnersGuest Jeff Atwood · Host Lex FridmanOn Stack Overflow’s tenth birthday, Jeff Atwood talks with Lex Fridman about puzzles, leadership, Discourse, and why a software team’s health is how fast it can change one word.
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Google DeepMind· Nov 23, 2018Volodymyr Mnih: A Tour of Deep Reinforcement Learning AgentsVolodymyr Mnih · DeepMindFrom DQN and replay to A3C and IMPALA, a 2018 lecture traces the design choices behind deep RL agents.
1:26:44ENLex Fridman· Nov 22, 2018Podcast · 2 speakersHe raised Python like a child, then set it freeGuest Guido van Rossum · Host Lex FridmanIn a 2018 conversation with Lex Fridman, Guido van Rossum traces Python from electronics kits and Conway's Game of Life to the Thursday morning he resigned as benevolent dictator for life.
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.Load moreShowing 24 of 4,485