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Cognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Feb 27, 2024PodcastNine Hundred Occupations, Twenty Years, and Still No AI RevolutionHost Nathan LabenzEconomist Robin Hanson tells Cognitive Revolution why each new AI demo looks like the last one, and why wages and headcount are the tests that matter.
2:42:44ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jul 11, 2023PodcastThe Former Trader Who Writes 10,000 Words a Week Puts AI Doom at 60 PercentHost Nathan LabenzZvi Mowshowitz tells Nathan Labenz why today's language models are a gift, why the default future past human level is extinction or a worthless universe, and who actually moves the AI debate.
1:42:48ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Apr 13, 2023PodcastThe 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.
1:33:49ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Apr 4, 2023PodcastSafe Only Because It's Weak: A GPT-4 Red-Teamer and Two Founders Debate the PauseHost Nathan LabenzNathan Labenz, who spent six months trying to make GPT-4 misbehave, wants labs to stop training anything bigger; Chroma's Anton Troynikov and Lindy's Flo Crivello argue a six-month freeze buys little and may select for the least careful labs.
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Lex Fridman· Sep 17, 2022Podcast · 2 speakers2029 Passes the Turing Test. 2045 Is Still the SingularityGuest Ray Kurzweil · Host Lex FridmanRay Kurzweil tells Lex Fridman why his dates have not moved, how to invent in the present tense, and why the replica of his father answered the meaning of life with one word: love.
1:56:38ENLex Fridman· Mar 25, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersBostrom Will Not Pick a Fork: The Simulation Argument Is a Disjunction, Not a BetGuest Nick Bostrom · Host Lex FridmanNick Bostrom walks Lex Fridman through the simulation argument, anthropic reasoning, and why superintelligence talk should be split into near-term and long-term conversations.
1:52:40ENLex Fridman· Dec 28, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersWithout Analogies, There Can Be No ConceptsGuest Melanie Mitchell · Host Lex FridmanMelanie Mitchell talks with Lex Fridman about why analogy sits at the core of thought, why scaled-up learning still fails at common sense, and why she thinks human-level AI is more than a century away.
1:01:00ENLex Fridman· Oct 22, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersA Hundred Billion Galaxies, and We're Still a Type 0.7 CivilizationGuest Michio Kaku · Host Lex FridmanTheoretical physicist Michio Kaku talks with Lex Fridman about aliens, string theory, digital immortality, and why fusion and Mars are the next civilizational steps.
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.
1:25:07ENLex Fridman· Apr 3, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersThe Only Real Freedom Is How AGI Is BornGuest Greg Brockman · Host Lex FridmanGreg Brockman tells Lex Fridman why OpenAI’s job is to set the initial conditions of general intelligence, not to monopolize who builds it.
1:19:59ENLex Fridman· Dec 23, 2018Podcast · 2 speakersSchmidhuber’s bet: true meta-learning rewrites the learner, not the last layerGuest Juergen Schmidhuber · Host Lex FridmanJürgen Schmidhuber tells Lex Fridman how Gödel machines, compression-as-science, Power Play, LSTMs, and world models all descend from a teenage plan to multiply one person’s curiosity into a better physicist than he could ever be.
1:22:58ENLex Fridman· Aug 26, 2018Podcast · 2 speakersIf NASA finds nothing on Mars, Max Tegmark cheersGuest Max Tegmark · Host Lex FridmanThe MIT physicist behind Life 3.0 tells Lex Fridman why we may be the only advanced life in the observable universe, and why that makes AGI alignment a cosmic responsibility rather than a science-fiction subplot.
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Lenny's PodcastPodcastCodex Is Not Just a Coding Tool: OpenAI's Plan for an Agent That Behaves Like a TeammateHost Lenny RachitskyCodex product lead Alexander Embiricos explains the 20x growth, why every useful agent may need to write code, and why human review speed is the real bottleneck.
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Unsupervised Learning: With Jacob EffronPodcastA Three-Month Window: The AI 2027 Authors on Superhuman Coders, Faked Alignment and Who Ends Up in ControlHost Jacob EffronDaniel Kokotajlo and Thomas Larsen walk through their AI 2027 scenario, where they disagree on timelines and alignment, and what they think governments and the public should do.
1:07:08ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersIf the Model Is the Product, the Eval Is the PRD: Inside Mercor's RiseGuest Brendan Foody · Host Lenny RachitskyMercor CEO Brendan Foody explains why AI labs will pay almost anything for expert-written evals, how his company grew from $1 million to a $400 million run rate in 16 months, and what that means for jobs and founders.
1:14:59ENLenny's PodcastPodcastWhy Anthropic's Ben Mann Thinks the Exponential Hasn't Slowed, and Why He Still Worries About SafetyHost Lenny RachitskyThe Anthropic co-founder on the AI talent war, scaling laws, the economic Turing test, jobs, leaving OpenAI, constitutional AI and how he forecasts the risk of superintelligence.
50:23ENUnsupervised Learning: With Jacob EffronPodcastOpenAI’s Platform Bet: Where AI Value Accrues, Why Open Source Trails, and When Superintelligence ArrivesHost Jacob EffronPeter Welinder explains OpenAI’s platform strategy, the case for proprietary frontier models over open source, the enterprise hallucination problem, and his speculative timeline for AGI and superintelligence.
2:18:07ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"PodcastGambling on Trump for the AI Era: Nathan Labenz and Samuel Hammond Argue the StakesHost Nathan LabenzA long, good-natured debate over whether Trump's high-variance, ideas-driven coalition or a stable incrementalist Democratic establishment is the better bet for governing AI, China policy and a possible intelligence explosion.
11:23ENLex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersScience Is a Self-Improving System That Isn't Exploding: Chollet on the Limits of an Intelligence ExplosionGuest François Chollet · Host Lex FridmanFrançois Chollet uses the history of science to argue that recursive self-improvement meets exponential friction and yields linear, not explosive, progress.