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Lex Fridman· Sep 3, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersJudge a robot by the environment it forces to change, not by the demoGuest Rodney Brooks · Host Lex FridmanRodney Brooks tells Lex Fridman why faces are promises, why computation is an overworked metaphor, and why robot companies die on price, expectation, and habit.
2:51:33ENLex Fridman· Aug 29, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersThe Self Is a GPT Prompt: Wojciech Zaremba on Consciousness, Codex, and Fermi's SilenceGuest Wojciech Zaremba · Host Lex FridmanOpenAI co-founder Wojciech Zaremba tells Lex Fridman he thinks we might be alone in the universe — and that GPT-3, Codex, and a one-handed robot already hint at how intelligence is built.
1:39:29ENLex Fridman· Feb 1, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersElectric engines, 20-nanometer cones, and why Natalya Bailey would skip the first thousand on MarsGuest Natalya Bailey · Host Lex FridmanThe Accion Systems founder walks Lex Fridman from ion physics to orbital debris, chip-made thrusters, and the kind of culture that oozes out of a founder.
2:23:10ENLex Fridman· Dec 20, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersBuilding a Driver, Not a Copilot: Waymo CTO Dmitri Dolgov on Fully Driverless CarsGuest Dmitri Dolgov · Host Lex FridmanFrom a 3 a.m. parking-lot planner at Stanford to a public robotaxi in Phoenix, Dolgov tells Lex Fridman why driver assist and a real driver are different products.
2:48:46ENLex Fridman· Aug 9, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersLet Physics Walk: Russ Tedrake on Underactuated Robots, Contact, and Barefoot CommutesGuest Russ Tedrake · Host Lex FridmanMIT’s Russ Tedrake talks with Lex Fridman about gravity-powered walkers, a dead trout that swims upstream, why contact still breaks classical control, and what the DARPA Robotics Challenge taught him about testing.
1:37:31ENLex Fridman· Jul 14, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersThe Robot That Brought the Beer Was Being TeleoperatedGuest Sergey Levine · Host Lex FridmanSergey Levine tells Lex Fridman why hardware is almost closed, why common sense has to be lived, and why offline reinforcement learning is the missing on-ramp from logs to robots that keep getting better.
4:08:58ENLex Fridman· Jun 22, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersThe Man Who Named AGI Wants Superintelligence Raised on CompassionGuest Ben Goertzel · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman talks with Ben Goertzel for four hours about OpenCog, Sophia, SingularityNET, and why a bigger neural net is not a mind.
1:12:36ENLex Fridman· Jun 5, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersKate Darling on Why We Name the Roomba and Mourn the Bomb RobotGuest Kate Darling · Host Lex FridmanAn MIT Media Lab researcher argues that our feelings about machines track the history of animal domestication — and that design can steer that instinct for better or worse.
1:22:51ENLex Fridman· May 19, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersDensity, Not Demos: Sertac Karaman on Robots That Fly and DriveGuest Sertac Karaman · Host Lex FridmanThe MIT roboticist and Optimus Ride co-founder on why sharing space with people is harder than building the machine, and why flying at transportation scale is still the tougher problem.
1:38:33ENLex Fridman· Mar 19, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersMaybe people are rational under different assumptionsGuest Anca Dragan · Host Lex FridmanAnca Dragan talks with Lex Fridman about inverse reinforcement learning, autonomous driving, and why a written reward is evidence rather than law.
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.
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.
1:18:35ENLex Fridman· Dec 21, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersThe last job Sebastian Thrun wants is one he is already good atGuest Sebastian Thrun · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman talks with the roboticist behind Stanley, Google’s self-driving car, Udacity, and Kitty Hawk about learning, safety, and why traffic is a choice.
1:16:58ENLex Fridman· Dec 5, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersFear of Robots Is a Champagne Problem, Says Whitney CummingsGuest Whitney Cummings · Host Lex FridmanThe comedian talks with Lex Fridman about Bear Claw, sex robots, factory farms, codependency, and terror management.
39:33ENLex Fridman· Nov 22, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersMars is not Plan B: Dava Newman on spacesuits, autonomy, and Spaceship EarthGuest Dava Newman · Host Lex FridmanThe MIT Apollo professor and former NASA deputy administrator on Magellan’s crew, mechanical counterpressure, and why the next decade belongs to Earth.
37:38ENLex 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.
1:00:38ENLex Fridman· Dec 6, 2017PodcastThe Race Car and the Rulebook: Chris Gerdes on Automated Vehicle SafetyHost Lex FridmanA Stanford engineer and former DOT innovation chief explains how autonomous racing, voluntary safety guidance, and data sharing could shape safer self-driving cars.Load moreShowing 24 of 99