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Lex Fridman· Sep 19, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersThe Best-Selling Vacuum in America Is a RobotGuest Colin Angle · Host Lex FridmaniRobot CEO Colin Angle on why most robotics companies die, why a Roomba is costed by weight, and why printing privacy promises on the box would hurt sales.
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.
1:13:06ENLex 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
51:18ENLex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersEngineering Intelligence: Lex Fridman's Opening Lecture for MIT's AGI CourseGuest MIT AGI · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman lays out an engineering-first approach to artificial general intelligence, previews the course's projects and guest speakers, and frames deep learning's limits.