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Lex Fridman· Jan 22, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersA Teenager Learns to Drive in Twenty Hours. A Car Still Cannot.Guest Yann Lecun · Host Lex FridmanYann LeCun tells Lex Fridman why self-supervised world models are the missing dark matter of intelligence, and why machines are not even at the level of a house cat.
2:31:57ENLex Fridman· Sep 20, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersJay McClelland on How Thought Emerges From Neural NetworksGuest Jay McClelland · Host Lex FridmanThe Stanford cognitive scientist talks with Lex Fridman about connectionism, backpropagation, David Rumelhart, and why intuition discovers what logic later proves.
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.
2:18:29ENLex Fridman· Aug 8, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersYour Cortex Is 150,000 Brains Voting on a Coffee CupGuest Jeff Hawkins · Host Lex FridmanJeff Hawkins tells Lex Fridman that intelligence is learning a model of the world, the neocortex is tens of thousands of independent maps that vote, and the fastest path to machine intelligence is reverse-engineering that sheet.
2:30:30ENLex Fridman· Jul 31, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersThe Fallacy of the Successful First StepGuest Ishan Misra · Host Lex FridmanBerkeley's Jitendra Malik explains why computer vision still looks easy, why fully autonomous driving is not near, and what children know that today's networks do not.
1:56:17ENLex Fridman· Apr 19, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersIf You Reran Earth a Million Times, Would Anything Like Us Appear?Guest Risto Miikkulainen · Host Lex FridmanRisto Miikkulainen on neuroevolution, hyena raids, basil that never sleeps, and why variation-plus-selection still finds solutions backpropagation cannot see.
2:01:07ENLex Fridman· Dec 12, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersMichael Littman isn’t waiting for a runaway god. He’s watching us.Guest Michael Littman · Host Lex FridmanThe Brown reinforcement-learning researcher tells Lex Fridman why accidental superintelligence feels like a 747 assembling itself — and why social media, rote language, and theory of mind worry him more.
2:10:06ENLex Fridman· Aug 14, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersYou Might Have to Understand the World to Understand the Letter AGuest Dileep George · Host Lex FridmanDileep George on recursive cortical networks, why a five-year-old can read any new CAPTCHA, and what the Wright brothers actually learned from birds.
1:41:37ENLex Fridman· Jul 21, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersThe Fallacy of the Successful First Step: Jitendra Malik on Why Seeing Still Isn't SolvedGuest Jitendra Malik · Host Lex FridmanBerkeley's Jitendra Malik tells Lex Fridman why computer vision keeps underestimating itself, why full self-driving still needs cognition, and why vision is the parent of language.
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.
2:00:32ENLex Fridman· Jul 3, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersSlow Synapses Grow Fast Learners — Warmth Is the Harder ProblemGuest Matt Botvinick · Host Lex FridmanDeepMind neuroscience director Matt Botvinick tells Lex Fridman how prefrontal cortex, meta-reinforcement learning, and dopamine research meet the human question of what a better life with AI would actually look like.
3:00:18ENLex Fridman· Jun 13, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersOnly a Simulation Can Be ConsciousGuest Joscha Bach · Host Lex FridmanJoscha Bach tells Lex Fridman why a neuron cannot feel anything, why existence is the default, and why this dying world is still the best level of the game.
1:37:28ENLex Fridman· May 8, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersWe Are Still Massively Underestimating Deep LearningGuest Ilya Sutskever · Host Lex FridmanIlya Sutskever tells Lex Fridman why 2012 was about conviction, why bigger models can get worse before they get better, and what he would do with an AGI.
1:48:01ENLex Fridman· Apr 3, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersDavid Silver: AlphaGo Won by Taking Human Knowledge OutGuest David Silver · Host Lex FridmanThe DeepMind researcher behind AlphaGo and AlphaZero tells Lex Fridman how an unclaimed million-dollar Go prize, a BBC Micro at age seven, and a honeymoon insight led to superhuman self-play.
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.
1:44:55ENLex 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.
49:53ENLex Fridman· Nov 25, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersGilbert Strang still teaches with thick chalk and four subspacesGuest Gilbert Strang · Host Lex FridmanThe MIT linear-algebra legend talks with Lex Fridman about OpenCourseWare, singular values, neural nets as a million folds, and why calculus hogged the undergraduate timetable.
55:24ENLex Fridman· Oct 27, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersThe Machine Has a Steady Hand: Garry Kasparov on Deep Blue, AlphaZero, and PutinGuest Garry Kasparov · Host Lex FridmanThe former world champion tells Lex Fridman why losing to IBM still hurt, why chess was never the peak of intellect, and why he lives in New York.
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.
1:03:13ENLex Fridman· Sep 30, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersYou Can't Have Both Kinds of Fairness, Says Peter NorvigGuest Peter Norvig · Host Lex FridmanThe co-author of Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach walks Lex Fridman through recidivism scores, utility functions, Lisp, MOOCs, and why human-level intelligence should not be the goal.
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.
1:15:58ENLex Fridman· Aug 31, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersHuman Intelligence Is a Ridiculously Narrow SliverGuest Yann Lecun · Host Lex FridmanYann LeCun tells Lex Fridman why giant nets plus gradient descent broke the textbooks, why "AGI" is the wrong word, and why the next leap is a world model learned like a baby.
1:44:11ENLex Fridman· Aug 27, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersA Single GPU Is Enough: Jeremy Howard on Teaching Deep LearningGuest Jeremy Howard · Host Lex FridmanThe fast.ai founder tells Lex Fridman why domain experts, not more papers or more TPUs, will decide whether deep learning actually helps people.
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.Load moreShowing 24 of 344