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Lex Fridman· Mar 5, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersAnn Druyan on Voyager, Carl Sagan, and Love Without IllusionGuest Ann Druyan · Host Lex FridmanThe creative director of the Voyager Golden Record argues that science is an error-correcting way of seeing the universe — and of seeing another person.
1:11:09ENLex Fridman· Mar 3, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersAva smiled when nobody was watchingGuest Alex Garland · Host Lex FridmanAlex Garland talks with Lex Fridman about Ex Machina, Annihilation, Devs, and how you tell whether anything is really in there.
1:12:48ENLex Fridman· Feb 29, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersJohn Hopfield's Physics of Mind: Glitches Become FeaturesGuest John Hopfield · Host Lex FridmanThe Princeton physicist walks Lex Fridman from a wobbly London bridge to Hopfield networks, consciousness-as-story, and why his famous model still does not explain learning.
1:39:56ENLex Fridman· Feb 26, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersWhy Marcus Hutter Treats Compression as Intelligence ItselfGuest Marcus Hutter · Host Lex FridmanThe DeepMind researcher behind AIXI tells Lex Fridman why a Wikipedia compression contest, Solomonoff induction, and an incomputable formula belong in the same conversation.
1:45:49ENLex Fridman· Feb 24, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersPrediction is not a decision: Michael I. Jordan on markets and the unfinished AI revolutionGuest Michael I. Jordan · Host Lex FridmanThe Berkeley statistician tells Lex Fridman that today's systems are a proto-engineering field, and that the hard work is connecting producers and consumers — not imitating minds.
16:03ENLex Fridman· Feb 22, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersQuantum Supremacy Is a Well-Defined Speedup, Not a Useful TaskGuest Scott Aaronson · Host Lex FridmanScott Aaronson explains what Google's 53-qubit experiment actually demonstrated, how it was verified, and why complexity theory can offer evidence but not proof against classical spoofing.
1:29:10ENLex Fridman· Feb 20, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersAndrew Ng: The Hardest Part of AI Is Rarely the AlgorithmGuest Andrew Ng · Host Lex FridmanIn a conversation with Lex Fridman, Ng traces a path from late-night Coursera recordings to factory floors, arguing that messy data, habits, and starting small matter more than hype.
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Jane Street· Feb 18, 2020Matt Might on an Algorithm for Precision MedicineMatt Might · University of Alabama at BirminghamA computer scientist describes how genetic data, experimental models and logic programming can help clinicians investigate difficult cases.
1:33:42ENLex Fridman· Feb 17, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersAsk One Question of Every Quantum Headline: Is It Faster Than Classical?Guest Scott Aaronson · Host Lex FridmanScott Aaronson walks Lex Fridman from Turing's method of replacing unanswerable riddles with workable ones to Google's quantum supremacy experiment, and explains why useful chemistry simulation is closer than breaking RSA.
1:44:55ENLex Fridman· Feb 14, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersIf You Need 60,000 Digits, You Have Not Found IntelligenceGuest Vladimir Vapnik · Host Lex FridmanVladimir Vapnik tells Lex Fridman that intelligence is the art of shrinking a sea of functions with a few good predicates — and that MNIST, solved with sixty examples per class, is the test.
7:45ENLex Fridman· Feb 10, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersJim Keller on Recipes, Understanding and RedesignGuest Jim Keller · Host Lex FridmanWhy an efficient procedure can become a constraint, and when computer architects may need to rethink the problem.
26:02ENLex Fridman· Feb 9, 2020PodcastMoore’s Law Is Not Dead—It Is a Cascade of S-CurvesHost Lex FridmanJim Keller explains why transistor scaling keeps outrunning its obituary, and how exponential hardware changes the mathematics AI can attempt.
1:34:44ENLex Fridman· Feb 5, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersMoore's Law Has Been About to Die for Forty YearsGuest Jim Keller · Host Lex FridmanChip architect Jim Keller tells Lex Fridman why a cascade of diminishing-return curves still looks exponential, why you rewrite the CPU every five years, and why driving a car is not a super-hard problem.
1:23:49ENJane Street· Jan 31, 2020Steve Lee on PowerShell 7: Compatibility, New Features and the RoadmapSteve Lee · MicrosoftA historical look at the move from Windows PowerShell to cross-platform PowerShell, including demonstrations of the version 7 preview and its compatibility trade-offs.
1:38:49ENLex Fridman· Jan 29, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersEven a simulation would still be realGuest David Chalmers · Host Lex FridmanDavid Chalmers tells Lex Fridman why a simulated world would still count as reality, and why the hard problem of consciousness still will not go away.
1:30:52ENLex Fridman· Jan 25, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersCristos Goodrow: There Is No YouTube Algorithm, Only People Moving Through VideoGuest Cristos Goodrow · Host Lex FridmanYouTube’s head of search and discovery tells Lex Fridman why collaborative filtering learned language on its own, why watch time is not satisfaction, and why nobody can predict a viral hit.
1:03:12ENLex Fridman· Jan 21, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersPaul Krugman: America's Cruelty Is a Choice, Not a Law of TechnologyGuest Paul Krugman · Host Lex FridmanThe Nobel economist tells Lex Fridman why productivity data undercut the robot-job panic, why markets fail in health care, and why universal programs beat a premature basic income.
1:13:51ENLex Fridman· Jan 19, 2020PodcastAnswering Questions Without Seeing the Data: Andrew Trask on the Privacy-Preserving AI StackHost Lex FridmanA tour of remote execution, differential privacy, secure multiparty computation, and the societal consequences of making private data usable.
1:39:57ENLex Fridman· Jan 17, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersPeople Say They Want Perfect Robots. They Trust the Ones That Push BackGuest Ayanna Howard · Host Lex FridmanAyanna Howard on human-robot interaction, the ethics of safety-critical code, and why a little imperfection is what actually earns trust.
1:18:41ENLex Fridman· Jan 14, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersThe SS Soldier Who Hugged a Jewish Boy, and the Systems That Still Fool UsGuest Daniel Kahneman · Host Lex FridmanDaniel Kahneman on System 1, deep learning that does not know what it is saying, and why a machine that must call a human is almost as hard as a machine that never needs one.
1:02:45ENLex Fridman· Jan 7, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersAliens Would Count. They Probably Wouldn't Write e^x.Guest Grant Sanderson · Host Lex FridmanGrant Sanderson of 3Blue1Brown talks with Lex Fridman about notation, infinity, and why a visualization has to pick a single arrow.
20:44ENLex Fridman· Jan 5, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersThe Staff Job That Became a Dictatorship: Stalin's Improbable Road to PowerGuest Stephen Kotkin · Host Lex FridmanStephen Kotkin traces how war, revolution, contingency, and a new administrative post let Stalin build a personal dictatorship inside the Bolshevik regime.
1:37:22ENLex Fridman· Jan 3, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersLenin Wanted an Assistant. Stalin Built a DictatorshipGuest Stephen Kotkin · Host Lex FridmanPrinceton historian Stephen Kotkin talks with Lex Fridman about Stalin’s rise, Putin’s popularity, and why checks on power are a feature, not a bug.
1:45:56ENLex Fridman· Dec 30, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersPoint eight is enough: Donald Knuth on algorithms, TeX, and a life in one chairGuest Donald Knuth · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman visits Donald Knuth at home for a conversation about the IBM 650, geek brains, literate programming, The Art of Computer Programming, TeX, P versus NP, and a happiness budget of 80 percent.Load moreShowing 24 of 4,484