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No Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Sep 21, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersA Beginner Just Shipped a $250K Business. Professionals Got 30 Percent.Host Sarah Guo, Elad GilReplit CEO Amjad Masad on Ghostwriter, why a 3-billion-parameter model was enough, and the agents he wants earning bounties while you sleep.
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Lex Fridman· Feb 22, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersQuantum Supremacy Is a Well-Defined Speedup, Not a Useful TaskGuest Scott Aaronson · Host Lex FridmanScott Aaronson explains what Google's 53-qubit experiment actually demonstrated, how it was verified, and why complexity theory can offer evidence but not proof against classical spoofing.
20:44ENLex Fridman· Jan 5, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersThe Staff Job That Became a Dictatorship: Stalin's Improbable Road to PowerGuest Stephen Kotkin · Host Lex FridmanStephen Kotkin traces how war, revolution, contingency, and a new administrative post let Stalin build a personal dictatorship inside the Bolshevik regime.
20:34ENLex Fridman· Oct 26, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersTeaching Machines the Frameworks Humans Take for GrantedGuest David Ferrucci · Host Lex FridmanDavid Ferrucci explains why AI needs shared interpretive frameworks, not just data and pattern matching, to reason and communicate like humans.
24:22ENLex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersCraftsmanship, First Principles and the Road to Self-Driving: Jim Keller on Working with Elon MuskGuest Jim Keller · Host Lex FridmanThe veteran chip architect explains why he thinks autonomous driving is a tractable engineering problem, how Tesla's cost constraints shaped its hardware, and what he took from Musk's way of thinking.
21:43ENLex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersRented Cars, 27 Rejections and the Love Quotient: Arianna Huffington on Obsession and RechargingGuest Arianna Huffington · Host Lex FridmanThe Thrive Global and Huffington Post founder talks to Lex Fridman about mortality, failure, work obsession, polarized media and balancing ambition with love.
15:01ENLex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersDeep Learning Is a System 1 Machine: Daniel Kahneman on What AI Still LacksGuest Daniel Kahneman · Host Lex FridmanThe Nobel-winning psychologist tells Lex Fridman how his fast-and-slow thinking framework maps onto deep learning, and why driving among pedestrians may require understanding people.
20:07ENLex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersThe Hard Problem and the Case for a Conscious Universe: David Chalmers on ConsciousnessGuest David Chalmers · Host Lex FridmanDavid Chalmers explains what consciousness is, why the hard problem resists physical explanation, and why he takes panpsychism seriously.
21:55ENLex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersQuantum Computing Without the Hype: Amplitudes, Interference and the Long Road to Error CorrectionGuest Scott Aaronson · Host Lex FridmanScott Aaronson explains what a quantum computer really is, why it is not just trying every answer at once, and why noise is the field's central obstacle.
18:45ENLex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersWhy Sean Carroll Thinks Many-Worlds Is the Cleanest Version of Quantum MechanicsGuest Sean Carroll · Host Lex FridmanThe Caltech physicist explains how Everett's idea works, answers the energy-conservation objection, and compares it with its rivals.
23:57ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & StartupsPodcast · 2 speakersChips, Agents and a Reckoning: Sarah Guo and Elad Gil on the 2023 AI BoomHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilThe hosts answer listener questions on the GPU crunch, how soon enterprises will ship AI products, how to build agents, and what 2024 holds for tech valuations.
23:54ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & StartupsPodcast · 2 speakersBeyond GPT-7: The Customization Toolkit, Meta's Open Source Bet and the Return of Consumer AIHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilIn a host-only episode, the No Priors hosts map the six levers for 10x to 100x better AI, explain fine-tuning, RAG and AI feedback, and ask why consumer social is suddenly interesting again.
17:21ENLex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersHow Alexa Learned to Hear From Across the Room: Rohit Prasad on Far-Field Speech and IntentGuest Rohit Prasad · Host Lex FridmanAlexa's head scientist recalls the early days of the Echo, when far-field speech recognition seemed unsolvable and there were no customers to collect data from.
24:08ENLex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersIntelligence Is Not Just Prediction: David Ferrucci on Explanation, Persuasion and Shared MeaningGuest David Ferrucci · Host Lex FridmanThe lead of IBM's Watson team argues that predicting well is only half of intelligence, and that being understood by others is the other half.
23:11ENLex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersNick Bostrom on Superintelligence: Why the Upside Deserves as Much Attention as the RiskGuest Nick Bostrom · Host Lex FridmanIn a clip from the Lex Fridman Podcast, Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom defines superintelligence, discusses intelligence explosions, and sketches what a good AGI future might look like.
15:43ENLex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersInside RIDER: The Rugged Black Box Behind MIT's Large-Scale Driving StudyGuest MIT-AVT · Host Lex FridmanA walkthrough of the data-collection device MIT-AVT uses to record drivers and vehicles in semi-autonomous cars month after month.
26:01ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & StartupsPodcast · 2 speakersAfter the OpenAI Saga: Governance, Incentives, Diffusion Models and Why Your ASP Is My OpportunityHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilIn a host-only episode, Sarah Guo and Elad Gil unpack what OpenAI's leadership turmoil teaches about governance and incentives, then turn to AI video, small teams and the economics of AI investing.
17:19ENLex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersFrom Atoms to Data Centers: How a Modern Processor Finds Parallelism in a Serial ProgramGuest Jim Keller · Host Lex FridmanJim Keller walks through the layers of abstraction in computer design, from transistors to out-of-order execution, branch prediction and deterministic answers.
26:45ENLex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersStart Small, Build Habits, Pick Your Team: Andrew Ng's Practical Advice for Learning Deep LearningGuest Andrew Ng · Host Lex FridmanIn a clip from the Lex Fridman Podcast, Andrew Ng explains how to begin in deep learning, how to study effectively, and how to choose a career path.
29:03ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & StartupsPodcast · 2 speakersNotion's Simon Last on Rewriting the AI Harness Every Six Months and Managing a Swarm of AgentsHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilThe Notion co-founder traces the product's path from a writing assistant to custom background agents, and describes how coding agents changed the way he builds.