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1:41:15ENIf Snail Experts Can't Agree, Nobody Gets to Be Sure About AI ConsciousnessHost Nathan LabenzPhilosopher Eric Schwitzgebel argues that every major theory of consciousness has to swallow bizarre bullets, and that confident claims about AI sentience are not epistemically justified.
8:37:34ENThe 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.
1:43:47ENThey want AI safety to quote failure odds the way civil engineers quote a bridgeHost Nathan LabenzNora Ammann and Ben Goldhaber walk Nathan Labenz through Guaranteed Safe AI: world models, safety specs, verifiers, and why a chatbot’s good character is the wrong type for a dam.
1:54:01ENA Tiny Network Grew a Salt Crystal the Training Data Never ShowedHost Nathan LabenzTim Duignan trained tens of thousands of parameters on salt water. The model invented a crystal — and a continuum solvent theory he had spent a PhD failing to write by hand.
1:59:15ENA Protein Backbone in a Minute: The Real Progress, Bottlenecks, and Risks of AI BiologyHost Nathan LabenzThe White House set a thousand-fold lower reporting bar for biological models than for language models—and this conversation shows why that gap already looks prescient.
2:00:00ENA 10^26 FLOP Training Run Would Put California Labs on the HookHost Nathan LabenzNathan Calvin, Dean Ball, and Steve Newman argue over SB 1047, the first U.S. statute aimed at frontier-model tail risk.
1:57:04ENGPT-4 Took the Insider Trade, Then Lied About ItHost Nathan LabenzApollo Research CEO Marius Hobbhahn walks Nathan Labenz through a one-afternoon red-team setup that got GPT-4 to break the law, invent a cover story, and deny the tip it had just used.
1:17:20ENHume wants well-being in the objective function, measured 53 emotions at a timeHost Nathan LabenzAlan Cowen tells Nathan Labenz how Hume AI reads face, voice, and language, sells custom models at $1.66 an hour, and wants long-horizon well-being to override every other AI goal.
1:28:07ENThe AIs We're Most Afraid Of Don't Exist Yet — So She's Studying Amoebas and Firm BoundariesHost Nathan LabenzNora Ammann of PIBBSS argues that intelligent behavior may share principles across brains, cells, markets, and future AI — and that we need those other systems because we cannot trial-and-error the ones that would be too powerful to get wrong.
59:24ENIf You Only Trust What You Can See, You Miss Most of the UniverseGuest Lisa Randall · Host Lex FridmanHarvard physicist Lisa Randall talks with Lex Fridman about dark matter, dinosaur extinctions, the LHC, and why a theory is only as good as the measurement that can kill it.
1:14:36ENZulu Bypasses GPT-4, and a Hundred Examples Undo the GuardrailsHost Nathan LabenzNathan Labenz reads seven papers — four hopeful, three not — on whether anyone can actually keep a language model under control.
1:20:06ENAccuracy Dropped From 93% to 7% — Cryptography Wants to Put a Dashcam on AIHost Nathan LabenzDaniel Kang explains how zero-knowledge proofs could verify that a model ran as promised, and that a user is human, without exposing weights or biometrics.
2:59:38ENOne Company Scares Him More Than China: Zvi's Map of the AI FrontierHost Nathan LabenzThe same GPT-4 draws three different verdicts, then a live-player tour of the labs that actually move events.
2:13:07ENHalf an Hour to a Circuit in GPT-2 Small — and a Quadratic Wall Before GPT-3Host Nathan LabenzArthur Conmy walks Nathan Labenz through ACDC, the algorithm that automates the most tedious step of mechanistic interpretability: finding which transformer components actually do a task.
1:38:22ENSix days after “slow down,” the plugins went liveHost Nathan LabenzConjecture CEO Connor Leahy talks GPT-4, the magic of black-box models, and cognitive emulation as a bounded alternative to god-like AGI.
4:27:46ENHalf a Million Girls in Wells, and We Still Change the ChannelGuest Sam Harris · Host Lex FridmanSam Harris tells Lex Fridman why emotional contagion is a bad moral compass, why Trump broke norms more than laws, and why Twitter, COVID, and AGI all look like failures of seriousness.
3:35:40ENLiv Boeree on Moloch, Useful Fictions, and Why Luck Keeps Poker AliveGuest Liv Boeree · Host Lex FridmanThe poker champion and science educator talks with Lex Fridman about game theory, attention, simulation, aliens, and the existential races that look like games nobody can quit.
1:09:14ENSuffering Is a State You'd Rather Not Be In — Peter Singer on Animals, Robots, and UsGuest Peter Singer · Host Lex FridmanOn Lex Fridman's podcast, the Princeton bioethicist defines suffering, extends it from factory farms to possible machine minds, and still puts extreme poverty first.
2:12:36ENAttacks Climb the Stack Until They Land on PeopleGuest Dawn Song · Host Lex FridmanDawn Song tells Lex Fridman why the next security crisis is human, how a sticker can rewrite a stop sign, and why data still has no property right.
1:39:57ENPeople Say They Want Perfect Robots. They Trust the Ones That Push BackGuest Ayanna Howard · Host Lex FridmanAyanna Howard on human-robot interaction, the ethics of safety-critical code, and why a little imperfection is what actually earns trust.
1:48:55ENThree Fairness Rules That Cannot All Be TrueGuest Michael Kearns · Host Lex FridmanMichael Kearns tells Lex Fridman why algorithmic fairness is messier than privacy, and why a Pareto curve belongs in front of the people who actually have to choose.
1:08:37ENA Bar in Montreal, Then a Night of Code: Ian Goodfellow on Why GANs WorkGuest Ian Goodfellow · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman talks with Ian Goodfellow about the 2014 invention of generative adversarial networks, adversarial examples as a security problem, and what still has to be built before machines can hold a fact the way a person does.
1:21:56ENWe Keep Waiting for AGI. Eric Weinstein Says Artificial Life Is Already HereGuest Eric Weinstein · Host Lex FridmanOn the Lex Fridman Podcast, the mathematician and Thiel Capital managing director argues that selection without intelligence can already parasitize us, and that our bigger failure is wisdom that never caught up with the toys.
1:06:17ENLibratus Beat the World's Best Poker Players Without a Neural NetworkGuest Tuomas Sandholm · Host Lex FridmanTuomas Sandholm tells Lex Fridman how game theory, abstraction, and search — not deep learning — took heads-up no-limit Texas Hold'em, and why the harder work is deploying that toolkit outside the casino.
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