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52:11ENJensen Huang: For 25 Years, 99 Percent Were Right. NVIDIA Bet on the 1 PercentHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilThe NVIDIA CEO tells No Priors how CUDA survived a decade without customers, why the company tries to stay lazy, and what he wants built for drugs and climate.
10:01ENEight AI Developments That Surprised a 2023 ObserverA snapshot of early generative video, image controversies, experimental brain decoding and AI risk debates.
1:29:59ENA College Senior Built a Jailbreak Leaderboard. GPT-4 Was Hardest — Until "Dr. AI"Host Nathan LabenzAlex Albert, a University of Washington computer science senior, tells Nathan Labenz why collecting jailbreaks is a public good, where he would draw the safety line, and how three prompts leaked a system message verbatim.
0:20ENJoost de Valk on WordPress Design: Decisions and OptionsGuest Joost de ValkA short explanation of why useful defaults can make a product easier to use.
59:06ENMark Goldberger on Enterprise Sales, Hiring and Deal QualificationGuest Mark Goldberger · Host Harry StebbingsRamp’s enterprise sales leader discusses founder-led selling, champions, onboarding and building a disciplined pipeline.
5:47ENSam Altman on Scaling AI Models: Matthew Berman Examines OpenAI’s 2023 DirectionMatthew Berman · Forward FutureA 2023 discussion of model scaling, possible ways to improve GPT-4 and the safety priorities OpenAI described at the time.
1:25:50ENPrompt Engineering Became Programming, and Riley Goodside Is Fine With ThatHost Nathan LabenzScale AI’s first staff prompt engineer on tool use, fine-tuning without amnesia, generate-then-rank, and why the 2023 job-of-the-future story never arrived.
2:09ENJoost de Valk on Budgeting and Measuring SEOGuest Joost de Valk · Host Harry StebbingsThe Yoast founder offers a starting allocation and discusses attribution limits.
1:25ENScooter Braun on Success and Losing Touch with HimselfGuest Scooter Braun · Host Harry StebbingsA short conversation about achievement, identity and personal reflection.
1:42:20ENScooter Braun on Success, Vulnerability and Finding Time for FamilyGuest Scooter Braun · Host Harry StebbingsThe music executive and investor reflects on achievement, public identity and the personal work he began after a difficult period in his life.
1:59:13ENSimone Giertz Spent Two and a Half Years on a Coat HangerGuest Simone Giertz · Host Lex FridmanThe inventor formerly known as the Queen of Shitty Robots talks with Lex Fridman about everyday objects, spectacular failure, a brain tumor, and why enthusiasm beats duty.
0:48ENMike Salguero’s Hypothetical Celebrity Pick for ButcherBoxGuest Mike Salguero · Host Harry StebbingsThe founder explains why he would choose Arnold Schwarzenegger and jokes with Harry Stebbings about Mike Tyson.
1:13:52ENAndriy Mulyar on GPT4All, Data Quality and Open Local ModelsMatthew Berman, Andriy Mulyar · Forward FutureThe Nomic AI co-founder explains how GPT4All emerged, why training data matters, and the tradeoffs between local and centralized AI.
43:43ENDavid Marcus on PayPal, Libra and Building Open PaymentsGuest David Marcus · Host Harry StebbingsThe Lightspark co-founder reflects on entrepreneurship, payment infrastructure and his 2023 views on regulation and AI.
35:36ENAGI as a side effect: Noam Shazeer on Transformers, Character.AI, and two-hour chatsHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilIn April 2023, the Transformer co-author told No Priors how a 22-person startup turned open-ended chat into a consumer product — and treated AGI as a byproduct of making the model smarter.
2:48:12ENThe Asteroid We Are Building OurselvesGuest Max Tegmark · Host Lex FridmanPhysicist Max Tegmark tells Lex Fridman why a six-month pause on models larger than GPT-4 is not a ban on AI, but a chance to stop a suicide race.
1:42:48ENThe Skype Co-Founder Who Wants a Six-Month Pause on Frontier AIHost Nathan LabenzJaan Tallinn argues that each 10× jump in training compute carries a 1 to 50 percent chance of ending everything, and that the labs still will not say when they will stop.
11:16ENA 2023 Discussion of Incremental AI Releases and SafetyIlya Sutskever, Sebastien Bubeck · OpenAIAI Explained examines Greg Brockman’s proposal for gradual model improvements, the uncertainty of forecasts and the challenge of reliability.
13:22ENTobi Lütke on Progress, Contentment and WealthGuest Tobi Lütke · Host Harry StebbingsA 2023 conversation contrasts concerns about the world with a founder’s optimistic perspective.
1:02:01ENJoost de Valk on Building Yoast, SEO Fundamentals and the AI Content ShiftGuest Joost de Valk · Host Harry StebbingsThe Yoast founder explains how a free WordPress plugin became a business, what founders get wrong about search, and how AI may change content and software.
8:02ENMeta’s Segment Anything: Promptable Image Masks and the SA-1B DatasetMatthew Berman · Forward FutureIn April 2023, Matthew Berman reviews Meta’s Segment Anything project and demonstrates selecting image regions with clicks, boxes and automatic mask generation. The model segments pixels; it does not by itself name every object or guarantee accurate results on every image.
11:38ENHow Generative Agents Populate a Simulated TownMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman explores a Stanford and Google research prototype in which language-model agents remember, plan and interact in a small virtual town.
1:09:54ENA $100 Doctor Visit and a $1 AI: GPT-4 Was Already Unbundling WorkHost Nathan LabenzBefore GPT-4 launched, Nathan Labenz spent two months making the model play a dozen paid professions, then argued with Erik Torenberg about what that does to jobs, regulation, and white-collar status.
3:46:39ENHe Hated School Math Until a Professor Opened the Book to QuarksGuest Edward Frenkel · Host Lex FridmanEdward Frenkel talks with Lex Fridman about Soviet childhood, the Langlands program, Gödel, AI, and why every hard objective theory still ends with an observer.
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