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Lex Fridman· Oct 26, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersTeaching Machines the Frameworks Humans Take for GrantedGuest David Ferrucci · Host Lex FridmanDavid Ferrucci explains why AI needs shared interpretive frameworks, not just data and pattern matching, to reason and communicate like humans.
1:25:01ENLex Fridman· Oct 3, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersGary Marcus: Deep Learning Imitates Intelligence. It Does Not Understand.Guest Gary Marcus · Host Lex FridmanOn Lex Fridman's podcast, the NYU emeritus and Rebooting AI co-author argues that perception and reasoning need different tools — and that trustworthy AI is impossible until machines can represent harm, bottles, and intent.
1:59:49ENLex Fridman· Sep 14, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersIntelligence is not the height of a building: François Chollet on Keras, deep learning, and why AGI will not explodeGuest François Chollet · Host Lex FridmanThe Keras creator tells Lex Fridman that intelligence lives in a brain, a body, and a problem, that science already is a recursively self-improving superhuman system with linear output, and that the real near-term danger is the newsfeed.
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.
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.
37:53ENLex Fridman· Oct 17, 2018Podcast · 2 speakersSteven Pinker: Intelligence Is Not a Will to PowerGuest Steven Pinker · Host Lex FridmanThe Harvard psychologist tells Lex Fridman why nuke analogies, paperclip stories, and AI-takeover fears mix up problem-solving with domination.
57:54ENLex Fridman· Sep 1, 2018Podcast · 2 speakersA 2040 Siri That Passes Every Turing Test Still Wouldn't Be ConsciousGuest Christof Koch · Host Lex FridmanNeuroscientist Christof Koch tells Lex Fridman why intelligence is function, consciousness is being, and a perfect brain simulation has no more inner life than a laptop simulating a black hole.
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Jane Street· Jul 18, 2017Yudkowsky and Hanson Debate Whether an Intelligence Explosion Would Be LocalEliezer Yudkowsky, Robin HansonA historical debate about self-improving AI, accumulated knowledge, innovation and whether a first mover could gain a decisive lead.
15:01ENLex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersDeep Learning Is a System 1 Machine: Daniel Kahneman on What AI Still LacksGuest Daniel Kahneman · Host Lex FridmanThe Nobel-winning psychologist tells Lex Fridman how his fast-and-slow thinking framework maps onto deep learning, and why driving among pedestrians may require understanding people.
11:11ENLex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersYann LeCun on Benchmarks, Interactive Environments, and Why Human Intelligence Is Not GeneralGuest Yann Lecun · Host Lex FridmanIn a 2019 clip, LeCun defends benchmarks as a test of AI claims, explains why interactive environments break the usual train-test protocol, and argues that "general intelligence" is a misnomer.
1:17:38ENLex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersBrains Are Body Regulators: Lisa Feldman Barrett on Why Emotions Are Constructed, Not DetectedGuest Lisa Feldman Barrett · Host Lex FridmanIn a guest talk for MIT's AGI course, neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett explains why faces don't display emotions, why brains exist to run bodies, and what that means for building human-like AI.
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Cognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"PodcastAlien Intelligence, Radical Upside: Nathan Labenz on Why AI Is the Next Industrial RevolutionHost Nathan LabenzIn the second episode of The Cognitive Revolution, Nathan Labenz tells Erik Torenberg how he went from asteroid-watching AI skeptic to full-time AI scout, and lays out the upside and downside cases.
18:46ENLex FridmanPodcastDeep Learning Plus One Idea: Ilya Sutskever on Building AGIHost Lex FridmanIn a May 2020 conversation, Sutskever discusses self-play, simulation, bodies and consciousness, tests of intelligence, and how an AGI might be governed and aligned.
15:41ENLex FridmanPodcastAbolishing Involuntary Death: Ben Goertzel on Immortality, Pain and the Meaning of LifeHost Lex FridmanIn a clip from Lex Fridman's podcast, AI researcher Ben Goertzel argues that death and pain should be optional, and sketches what it would take to fund a serious attack on aging.
2:53:45ENLex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersJoscha Bach on Seven Stages of Lucidity, Brutalist LLMs, and Why Life on Earth Isn't Only About HumansGuest Joscha Bach · Host Lex FridmanA wide-ranging conversation on how minds are built, what language models are missing, and how an AI-saturated world might change consciousness, identity and risk.
17:40ENLex FridmanPodcastFrom AlphaGo Zero to MuZero: How Self-Play Strips Knowledge Out of AIHost Lex FridmanDeepMind's David Silver explains why removing human knowledge made AlphaZero stronger and more general, and how MuZero extended the idea to worlds with unknown rules.
53:39ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"PodcastA Libertarian's Case for Regulating AI: Kill Switches, Chip Choke Points and a New Form of LifeHost Nathan LabenzLindy founder Flo Crivello explains why a self-described accelerationist makes an exception for superintelligence, and what he thinks of Biden's executive order.
1:30:52ENLex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersBuilding Minds from Unified Theories: Nate Derbinsky on Cognitive Architectures, Soar, and the Case for ForgettingGuest MIT AGI · Host Lex FridmanA guest lecture in MIT's AGI course on how cognitive architectures try to assemble human-level intelligence, and how studying human memory made the Soar architecture faster and better.
11:41ENLex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersTeaching Machines Humility: Stuart Russell on Escaping the King Midas ProblemGuest Stuart Russell · Host Lex FridmanIn a short clip from a 2018 conversation, Berkeley's Stuart Russell explains why fixed objectives make superintelligent AI dangerous and why uncertainty about our goals is the fix.
1:55:04ENLex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersMining the Computational Universe: Stephen Wolfram on What AI Can and Can't Be Told to DoGuest Stephen Wolfram · Host Lex FridmanIn a talk for MIT's AGI course, Stephen Wolfram connects Wolfram Alpha, simple programs, computational irreducibility and the problem of telling machines what humans want.
1:00:25ENLex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersCan Machines Think? A Guided Tour of Turing's Test, Its Critics and Its SuccessorsGuest Turing Test · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman walks through Alan Turing's 1950 paper, the objections to it, and the benchmarks that have tried to replace or extend the imitation game.
24:08ENLex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersIntelligence Is Not Just Prediction: David Ferrucci on Explanation, Persuasion and Shared MeaningGuest David Ferrucci · Host Lex FridmanThe lead of IBM's Watson team argues that predicting well is only half of intelligence, and that being understood by others is the other half.
23:11ENLex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersNick Bostrom on Superintelligence: Why the Upside Deserves as Much Attention as the RiskGuest Nick Bostrom · Host Lex FridmanIn a clip from the Lex Fridman Podcast, Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom defines superintelligence, discusses intelligence explosions, and sketches what a good AGI future might look like.
20:36ENLex FridmanPodcastWhy Simple Theories Win: Marcus Hutter on Occam's Razor, Compression and Kolmogorov ComplexityHost Lex FridmanDeepMind researcher Marcus Hutter explains Solomonoff induction, why compression equals understanding, and how a simple universe can still look rich.Load moreShowing 24 of 164