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Lex Fridman· Oct 1, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersCut Off a Planarian's Head. The New Brain Still RemembersGuest Michael Levin · Host Lex FridmanMichael Levin argues that DNA only builds hardware, bioelectric networks store body plans, and frog skin cells can become robots that evolution never designed.
2:36:21ENLex Fridman· Sep 21, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersA Smile Is Not Happiness: Rana el Kaliouby on Emotion AI and the Empathy CrisisGuest Rana el Kaliouby · Host Lex FridmanThe Affectiva founder and Smart Eye deputy CEO talks with Lex Fridman about teaching machines to read faces, sensing drivers inside the cabin, and why she is proudest of the people her company grew.
1:09:10ENLex Fridman· Apr 27, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersThe Same Snapdragon That Flies on Mars Powers a Galaxy PhoneGuest Cristiano Amon · Host Lex FridmanQualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon talks with Lex Fridman about 5G, Snapdragon, cars, the chip shortage, and how to map the border of your own competence.
1:46:49ENLex Fridman· Mar 23, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersAriel Ekblaw on Self-Assembling Habitats and Why the Real Space Cities Will FloatGuest Ariel Ekblaw · Host Lex FridmanThe MIT Space Exploration Initiative director talks swarm tiles, lunar ants, and why Mars is a research station rather than a backup Earth.
1:50:07ENLex Fridman· Jan 8, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersBombing Is Data: Mark Normand on Love, Comedy, and Eating Shit EarlyGuest Mark Normand · Host Lex FridmanStand-up comedian Mark Normand talks with Lex Fridman about keeping love in shape, growing up the odd kid in New Orleans, why open-mic hell is comedy’s first level, and when a joke is finally done.
2:31:48ENLex Fridman· Dec 28, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersA Car That Cannot Drive Itself Will Be About as Useful as a HorseGuest Elon Musk · Host Lex FridmanIn a Lex Fridman conversation built around Tesla Autopilot, Elon Musk argues that every driver input is an error, that today’s hardware is already enough for full self-driving, and that watching the human will soon matter less than making the system safer than a person.
2:15:27ENLex Fridman· Nov 20, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersHe Took People Down in 53 of 55 MMA Rounds. Then Two Clips Defined Him.Guest Ben Askren · Host Lex FridmanBen Askren talks with Lex Fridman about scoring fights, chasing hard matches, building a wrestling robot, and why he says he never proved he was the best.
3:14:14ENLex Fridman· Nov 16, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersFour Joints, Eighty Thousand Pounds: Boris Sofman on Cozmo and WaymoGuest Boris Sofman · Host Lex FridmanAnki's co-founder on saturating a few channels of expression, why a beloved robot company still died, and how the same constraint mindset now runs Waymo's trucks.
3:12:17ENLex Fridman· Nov 3, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersYou Better Already Have Everything You Ever WantedGuest Steve Viscelli · Host Lex FridmanA former long-haul driver turned Penn sociologist walks Lex Fridman through how trucking fell from a golden-age trade to a last-resort job, and the six ways robots might finish the work.
2:24:52ENLex 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.Load moreShowing 24 of 81