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1:26:27ENKai-Fu Lee: Originality Pride Is a Handcuff on What a Company Can BecomeGuest Kai-Fu Lee · Host Lex FridmanIn a 2019 conversation with Lex Fridman, the investor and former Google China president explains why China's copycat years were a training ground, why data often beats clever algorithms, and what facing death did to his idea of work.
34:50ENA cheap simulation would render only you, and the wall would have nothing behind itGuest Sean Carroll · Host Lex FridmanSean Carroll walks Lex Fridman from ice-cream emergence and quantum-circuit cosmology to Fermi's paradox, the origin of life, and why academia punishes the conversations that actually change fields.
2:09:42ENThe 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.
1:33:13ENDon Jones on PowerShell, Career Growth, and the First FollowerDon Jones · PluralsightPowerShell educator Don Jones reflects on writing small composable tools, building a resilient career, and helping others join a community.
1:00:11ENRosalind Picard: Clippy Never Saw You Frown, and That's the Whole ProblemGuest Rosalind Picard · Host Lex FridmanThe MIT professor who named affective computing on emotion recognition, privacy, seizure-detecting wearables, and why a device you can take off is safer than a camera you cannot see.
1:09:11ENDon'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.
1:10:58ENThe Hadoop Lesson That Made Google Give TensorFlow AwayGuest Rajat Monga · Host Lex FridmanIn November 2015, Google put its core internal machine-learning system on GitHub. Rajat Monga explains why a company of that size would hand over the hard-to-copy part.
1:13:06ENThe Compiler That Got Apple, Google, and Intel to Share a CodebaseGuest Chris Lattner · Host Lex FridmanChris Lattner walks through LLVM, Clang, Swift, TPU numeric formats, and why compiler work is mostly software engineering.
57:57ENSebastian Funk on a Fast, Safe and Maintainable Packet ProcessorSebastian Funk · Jane StreetA single-core market-data case study shows how latency targets, allocation control and generated code can coexist with high-level abstractions.
1:46:01ENThe 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.
1:08:37ENA Bar in Montreal, Then a Night of Code: Ian Goodfellow on Why GANs WorkGuest Ian Goodfellow · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman talks with Ian Goodfellow about the 2014 invention of generative adversarial networks, adversarial examples as a security problem, and what still has to be built before machines can hold a fact the way a person does.
32:45ENElon 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.
1:25:07ENThe 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.
1:21:56ENWe 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.
1:01:24ENLeslie 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.
1:08:44ENNathan 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.
1:18:13ENLindsey 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.
55:24ENKyle 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.
1:20:21ENEinstein 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.
46:25ENDeep 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.
5:12ENThe Collision Puzzle That Reveals Digits of πAn idealized pair of sliding blocks produces a surprising counting pattern.
21:42ENDavid 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.
26:16ENInnovation, 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.
35:37ENCoding 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.
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