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Lex 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.
1:13:06ENLex Fridman· Aug 19, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersLockheed Martin's CTO on Autonomy, the Moon, and the Culture of Not Getting It WrongGuest Keoki Jackson · Host Lex FridmanKeoki Jackson tells Lex Fridman why going back to the Moon is the easy part—and why proving a learning system will still do the right thing is not.
57:42ENLex Fridman· Aug 12, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersA Brain Organoid Is Not a BrainGuest Paola Arlotta · Host Lex FridmanHarvard developmental biologist Paola Arlotta on how the cerebral cortex is built, why timing and mechanical force are part of the code, and why a dish of stem cells is only a window onto that process.
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.
57:44ENLex Fridman· Aug 1, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersKevin Scott: Treat AI Like a Hash Table, and Measure Platforms by What Others EarnGuest Kevin Scott · Host Lex FridmanMicrosoft's CTO talks radical markets, data dignity, Dunbar's number, and why a platform fails if only a handful of companies decide what AI is for.
1:47:04ENLex Fridman· Jul 29, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersGustav Söderström on Why Spotify Could Only Be Born in SwedenGuest Gustav Soderstrom · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman talks with Spotify’s chief R&D officer about three-minute songs, 250-millisecond playback, playlist luck, and herding record labels.
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.
1:26:27ENLex Fridman· Jul 15, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersKai-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.
34:50ENLex Fridman· Jul 10, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersA 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.
2:09:42ENLex 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.
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Jane Street· Jun 27, 2019Don 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.
1:00:11ENLex Fridman· Jun 17, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersRosalind 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.
1:09:11ENLex 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.
1:10:58ENLex Fridman· Jun 3, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersThe 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.
1:13:06ENLex Fridman· May 13, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersThe 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.
57:57ENJane Street· May 8, 2019Sebastian 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.
1:46:01ENLex 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.
1:08:37ENLex Fridman· Apr 18, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersA 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.
32:45ENLex 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.
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.
1:21:56ENLex 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.
1:08:44ENJane 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.Load moreShowing 24 of 4,484