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Matthew Berman· Aug 6, 2024Figure 02: A Look at Figure AI’s Humanoid Robot and Its Long-Term AmbitionsMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman examines Figure’s 2024 announcement, from redesigned hands and onboard vision to the company’s ambitions for physical labor and homes.
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Lex Fridman· Aug 2, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersThe first Neuralink patient beat a world record with most of his electrodes goneGuest Elon Musk · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman talks with Elon Musk, the Neuralink team, and Noland Arbaugh about a wireless brain implant, the software that rescued it, and why bandwidth is Musk’s bet on living with AI.
15:16ENMatthew Berman· Jul 19, 2024AI News in July 2024: Small Models, Robot Hands and a Self-Charging DroneMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman reviews model announcements, creative demonstrations, AI education and training-data concerns in a snapshot of one week in 2024.
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Cognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jul 11, 2024PodcastScooping Food Into Boxes Is 70 Percent of Plant LaborHost Nathan LabenzChef Robotics CEO Rajat Bhageria on 20 million plated meals, a foundation model for food, and why the kitchen may leave the house.
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No Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Jul 11, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersA Prompt Cannot Hold a Good Design: Six AI Practitioners at Midyear 2024Host Sarah Guo, Elad GilSarah Guo and Elad Gil stitch together clips from Stripe, Figma, Figure, OpenAI's Sora team, Cognition, and Scale into a half-year snapshot of what people actually shipping AI were willing to claim.
16:06ENMatthew Berman· Jun 18, 2024AI News: Video Generation, Apple Intelligence, Robotics and DeepSeek Coder V2Matthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman reviews a week of launches and research, from Luma and Runway to NVIDIA, robotics and coding models.
0:53ENMatthew Berman· Jun 7, 2024NVIDIA’s Computex Keynote: Digital Humans, Weather and RoboticsMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman briefly reviews Jensen Huang’s announcements on AI-generated characters, weather modeling, Blackwell hardware and factory robots.
1:13:59ENMatthew Berman· Jun 5, 2024Jensen Huang’s Computex 2024 Vision: NIM, Blackwell and Physical AIMatthew Berman, Jensen Huang · Forward FutureMatthew Berman presents NVIDIA’s keynote on AI infrastructure, digital humans, weather simulation and robot factories, with the demonstrations and vendor claims in context.
38:01ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Apr 4, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersHalf of GDP Is Labor. Figure Wants Humanoids to Do the Work.Host Sarah Guo, Elad GilBrett Adcock tells No Priors why a 21-month-old company raised $675 million to put general-purpose humanoid robots in factories first, then homes.
12:34ENMatthew Berman· Mar 14, 2024Figure 01 and the Path Toward More Capable RobotsMatthew Berman, Lex Fridman, Yann Lecun · Forward FutureMatthew Berman surveys humanoid and other robotics demonstrations, then shares Yann LeCun’s view on the work still needed for general-purpose robots.
15:58ENMatthew Berman· Mar 2, 2024Elon Musk on Self-Driving, AI Compute and Electricity ConstraintsElon Musk, Matthew Berman · TeslaA 2024 Bosch interview and Matthew Berman’s commentary explore autonomous vehicles, robots and the infrastructure needed for AI.
30:39ENMatthew Berman· Feb 25, 2024NVIDIA’s GEAR Research, Gemini 1.5 and Fast AI InferenceMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman reviews embodied-agent research and a February 2024 set of AI releases and demonstrations.
1:43:47ENLex Fridman· Feb 16, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersYou Have to Run Before You Can Walk: Marc Raibert on Making Metal Look AliveGuest Marc Raibert · Host Lex FridmanThe Boston Dynamics founder tells Lex Fridman why aggressive hopping beat cautious walking, how 109 Atlas falls became a method, and why robots still need a second kind of intelligence.
40:58ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Jan 25, 2024Podcast · 2 speakers99% of Factory Robots Are Dumb. Covariant Wants the Smart Ones Working in Warehouses FirstHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilFormer OpenAI researcher Peter Chen explains why robot foundation models have to be trained on production floors, not in labs.
21:00ENMatthew Berman· Jan 23, 2024Jim Fan's Foundation Agent Vision: Skills, Robot Bodies, and SimulationMatthew Berman, Jim Fan · Forward FutureMatthew Berman examines research on Minecraft agents, varied robot bodies, and simulation as steps toward more general embodied AI.
35:22ENMatthew Berman· Jan 3, 2024Matthew Berman’s Ten AI Predictions for 2024Matthew Berman, Mark Zuckerberg, Lex Fridman, Jaron Lanier, Joon Park, Elon Musk · Forward FutureAn early-2024 forecast covers model releases, robotics, agents, synthetic data and the risks of increasingly convincing bots.
19:32ENMatthew Berman· Oct 14, 2023AI News in October 2023: Disney Robotics, Creative Tools and Synthetic Driving DataMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman reviews a week of developments in robots, generative media, chips, satellite internet and AI copyright debates.
2:18:25ENLex Fridman· Sep 1, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersGrow Everything: Neri Oxman on Giving Nature a VoteGuest Neri Oxman · Host Lex FridmanThe designer-scientist who left MIT to build OXMAN talks silkworm pavilions, bees in space, and why the end of human agency might be the start of nature's.
10:22ENMatthew Berman· Aug 4, 2023Matthew Berman on Llama 2, AI Tools, Robots, and the LK-99 ClaimMatthew Berman · Forward FutureA 2023 AI news roundup covers open-weight models, synthetic influencers, tool use and robotics, alongside an early superconductivity claim that later research challenged.
1:40:07ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jul 4, 2023PodcastThirty thousand voltage updates a second: inside Skydio’s autonomy stackHost Nathan LabenzHayk Martiros walks Nathan Labenz through a two-pound drone that sees in every direction, runs more than ten neural nets on board, and will not be weaponized.
2:07:04ENLex Fridman· May 28, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersThe Ribosome Already Solved Digital ManufacturingGuest Neil Gershenfeld · Host Lex FridmanNeil Gershenfeld tells Lex Fridman why Turing separated the head from the tape, how fab labs are the personal-computer moment for making things, and what it would take to grow a civilization from about twenty parts.
1:01:17ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· May 9, 2023PodcastThe $300 million Gates refused, and the $10 billion that went to OpenAIHost Nathan LabenzRobert Scoble and Ben Tossell talk with Nathan Labenz about AI scouting, Apple's still-sleeping neural engines, and whether incumbents or AI-first startups will win.
2:27:58ENLex Fridman· Apr 28, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersIt took Atlas fourteen years to walk the way Playter wantedGuest Robert Playter · Host Lex FridmanBoston Dynamics CEO Robert Playter traces thirty years from a MIT basement pogo stick to Atlas, Spot, and Stretch — and why the company still designs machines that are allowed to fall.
1:59:13ENLex Fridman· Apr 16, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersSimone 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.Load moreShowing 24 of 145