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1:30:21ENA Million DALL-E Images, Distilled into Twelve Minutes of FilmHost Nathan LabenzWaymark’s Stephen Parker and Josh Rubin walk through how they turned stills from DALL-E 2 into The Frost, a narrative short, and what the next generation of video models changes.
47:42ENSal Khan Thinks Every Child Can Finally Have a TutorHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilThe Khan Academy founder tells Sarah Guo and Elad Gil how a family tutoring side project became an AI teaching assistant, and why he believes education is on the cusp of its biggest positive shift.
39:50ENWhy AI Video Is Still a Four-Second CorgiHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilMeta research director Devi Parikh explains why text-to-video has stalled on short animated images, and what it will take to get past that plateau.
2:44:47ENThe Next Machines Will Steal Intimacy, Not Just AttentionGuest Yuval Noah Harari · Host Lex FridmanHistorian Yuval Noah Harari tells Lex Fridman how stories built civilization, why fascism looks beautiful in the mirror, and why AI is the first tool that takes power away from humans.
1:03:40ENWho Banks the AI Wave: Startups or the Giants Already in Place?Host Nathan LabenzStability AI’s Emad Mostaque and Slow Ventures’ Sam Lessin debate whether generative AI is a reshuffler for new companies or an extender for Meta, Google, and Hollywood.
1:41:45ENThe Writers Aren't Luddites. They're Bargaining Over Who Holds the ModelsHost Nathan LabenzThree WGA members tell Nathan Labenz what ChatGPT can already do in a writers’ room — and which two studio nightmares the strike is trying to lock out.
58:24ENAmong 100 Random Doctors, Zak Kohane Would Be Surprised If One Beat GPT-4Host Nathan LabenzHarvard's biomedical informatics chair on a rare newborn case, why drug-style trials will not certify a general medical model, and why the AI should still work for the patient.
51:55ENNine orders of magnitude later, he shipped a companion, not an oracleHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilDeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman tells No Priors why Inflection’s first product is a personal AI that sits in your corner, and why the missing piece is a router, not a bigger model.
2:30:28ENAI Only Has a Neocortex: Manolis Kellis on Evolutionary Baggage and Superintelligent PartnersGuest Manolis Kellis · Host Lex FridmanOn his fifth Lex Fridman podcast, the MIT computational biologist argues that layered evolutionary history is what makes humans irreplaceable — and that alignment with AI has to run both ways.
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.
1:00:36ENForty games of Diplomacy, and nobody spotted the bot: Noam Brown’s 100,000x lessonHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilMeta’s Noam Brown tells Sarah Guo and Elad Gil how Cicero negotiated in English for 40 games on a tiny web community — and why thinking at decision time beat three years of scaling.
3:03:33ENA Robot Is Whatever Still Has MagicGuest Kate Darling · Host Lex FridmanKate Darling tells Lex Fridman why grocery-store Marty is a real-life Clippy, why animal history is a better guide than humanoid fantasy, and what the Epstein scandal revealed about MIT.
2:36:21ENA 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.
2:32:00ENA Cube Inside a Sphere, Right Between Two Super HornetsGuest Ryan Graves · Host Lex FridmanFormer Navy F/A-18 pilot Ryan Graves tells Lex Fridman how unexplained objects filled East Coast training airspace after a radar upgrade, and why a near-collision made it a safety problem the system still cannot process.
1:39:09ENBobby Lee Was Not Invited to the WeddingGuest Bobby Lee · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman talks with the comedian about a snub that still stings, twelve-hour Skyrim grinds, sex robots, Khalyla, relapse, and the chances he never asks for.
2:04:58ENWe're Not Homo Sapiens Anymore, Grimes Says. Call Us Homo TechnoGuest Grimes · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman rarely records after midnight. This episode is the exception: Grimes, eight hours late, on music, memes, motherhood, and why consciousness might be sacred even if humans are not.
2:00:13ENHalf of America Dislikes Him. Zuckerberg Still Wants Presence, Not ScreensGuest Mark Zuckerberg · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman sits with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on virtual presence, Instagram's teen research, free speech, and why every content decision costs the company half the country.
2:31:48ENA 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.
2:46:40ENThe Tools That Fit in a Head Were Built by People Who Fit in a VanGuest Peter Wang · Host Lex FridmanAnaconda's Peter Wang talks with Lex Fridman about Python, cybernetic systems, and why sharing software creates value that scarcity economics still cannot price.
3:14:14ENFour 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.
1:52:29ENThe Most Valuable Moment in VR Is Taking Off the HeadsetGuest Jaron Lanier · Host Lex FridmanJaron Lanier on why virtual reality's gift is a refreshed real world, why he refuses to call algorithms creatures, and how data dignity could replace the lizard-brain economy of social media.
1:18:35ENAn AI That Walks Among Us May Have to Know DepressionHost Lex FridmanIn a January 2021 AMA, Lex Fridman answers listeners on suffering machines, immigration, aliens, career pivots, and why happiness is a signal rather than a goal.
3:01:27ENA Belief Does Not Have to Be True to Remake the WorldGuest Diana Walsh Pasulka · Host Lex FridmanReligious-studies scholar Diana Walsh Pasulka tells Lex Fridman how Catholic limbo, Nietzsche, Silicon Valley “downloads,” and a desert monolith all describe the same machinery of belief and technology.
1:44:47ENErik Brynjolfsson on the Exponential Mismatch Remaking Work and PoliticsGuest Erik Brynjolfsson · Host Lex FridmanThe Stanford economist tells Lex Fridman why COVID, AI, and social networks all punish linear intuition — and why shared prosperity is the only way the pie-growing story holds.
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