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1:33:07ZH → EnglishLi Guangmi on a Year in Global LLMs: Scaling Law, the AGI Bet, and the US–China LandscapeGuest 李广密 · Host 张小珺Drawing on his front-row view from Silicon Valley, Shixiang Capital founder Li Guangmi looks back at the competition among OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Chinese model companies. He argues that model capability and cost together will shape the next wave of applications, while today’s enormous investments are bets on whether intelligence can keep scaling and how AI will reshape the economy and industry over the long term.
16:06ENQ* and Strawberry: What Was Known and Speculated in August 2024Matthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman reviews contemporary rumors and research concepts around reasoning, search and self-play, while the underlying project remained undisclosed.
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.
1:07:05ENAlphaGo Combined Learning and Search. Language Models Only Did the First Half.Reflection AI's Misha Laskin tells Sequoia why prompted coding agents stall in the teens, and why the missing piece is still a ground-truth reward.
14:15ENOpenAI’s Reported Strawberry Project and a Five-Level AGI FrameworkMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman examines 2024 reporting on a reasoning project, long-horizon tasks and a proposed scale for AI capabilities.
1:56:03ENHumans Near a Perfect Score. The Best AI Still Gets 39%Host Nathan LabenzZapier co-founder Mike Knoop and François Chollet put $1 million on ARC-AGI, a 2019 test of sample-efficient intelligence that language models still cannot crack under a one-cent-per-puzzle budget.
1:48:41ENAGI Has Been a Moving Goalpost for Seventy YearsHost Nathan Labenza16z’s Martin Casado and host Nathan Labenz spend two hours arguing whether today’s models will become general knowledge workers, and whether that debate should drive AI regulation.
2:51:58ENSara Walker: Life Is Huge in Time, Not in SpaceGuest Sara Walker · Host Lex FridmanThe astrobiologist tells Lex Fridman why textbook definitions of life fail, how assembly theory measures complexity, and why aliens might disappear into their own causal structure.
26:00ENWhy a Zapier founder thinks AGI research has been stalled for four yearsHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilMike Knoop and François Chollet put more than a million dollars on beating ARC-AGI, the eval they say actually measures general intelligence.
1:23:10ENThe night Flo Crivello slept five hours: GPT-4 never hit a wallHost Nathan LabenzThe Lindy AI founder walks Nathan Labenz through timelines, misuse, open-source risk, and why two longtime libertarians now want regulation.
2:15:39ENRoman Yampolskiy Puts Superintelligent Ruin at 99.99 PercentGuest Roman Yampolskiy · Host Lex FridmanThe AI safety researcher tells Lex Fridman that controlling AGI is as impossible as a perpetual motion machine, and that tests, open source, and regulation cannot close the gap.
1:55:10ENSam Altman Expects the Road to AGI to Be a Power StruggleGuest Sam Altman · Host Lex FridmanOn a Friday afternoon in November 2023, OpenAI's board fired its CEO. Four and a half days later he was back, still refusing super-voting control.
2:47:17ENIf You Want Human-Level AI, Abandon Generative ModelsGuest Yann Lecun · Host Lex FridmanYann LeCun tells Lex Fridman why autoregressive LLMs cannot plan, remember, or understand the physical world — and why open source is the only democratic answer.
40:19ENMusk's 2024 OpenAI Lawsuit: The Allegations, History and Later ProceedingsMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman examines Musk's complaint about OpenAI's mission and governance. Its claims about AGI and the 2023 board crisis were allegations, not court findings.
1:50:09ENNine 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.
2:00:03ENPatients Rated GPT-4 More Empathetic Than DoctorsHost Nathan LabenzAzeem Azhar of Exponential View maps the AI S-curve for Nathan Labenz: why the past always looks flat, why empathy went first, and what a million times more compute would actually change.
27:07ENSam Altman on AI Abundance, Regulation and the Economics of ComputeMatthew Berman, Sam Altman, Chamath Palihapitiya · Forward FutureA 2024 World Governments Summit interview is followed by Matthew Berman’s discussion of chip investment and open-model competition.
6:56ENWhy Meta Said Open AI Infrastructure Serves Its BusinessMatthew Berman, Mark Zuckerberg · Forward FutureMatthew Berman revisits Meta’s open-development history and Mark Zuckerberg’s 2024 case for sharing AI infrastructure.
1:58:43ENA Worm With 302 Neurons Already Makes Trade-offs. AI Is Still on the Same Ladder.Host Nathan LabenzMax Bennett maps 600 million years of brain evolution onto five breakthroughs — and asks which rungs today's models have actually reached.
3:37ENMark Zuckerberg Announces Llama 3 Training and Meta’s AI PlansMatthew Berman, Mark Zuckerberg · Forward FutureIn January 2024, Matthew Berman reacts to Zuckerberg’s remarks on general intelligence, compute and AI devices.
19:10ENThe World's Only Capped-Profit CompanyHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilNo Priors looks back at 2023 through eight conversations on money, intelligence, jobs, and who should put the guardrails on a model.
2:53:09ENFear is the civilization killer: Guillaume Verdon on e/acc, thermodynamics, and being unmaskedGuest Guillaume Verdon · Host Lex FridmanThe physicist behind BasedBeffJezos tells Lex Fridman why out-of-equilibrium thermodynamics, anonymity, and a meme movement are his answer to AI deceleration.
3:19:21ENComplexity without copies is just randomness: Lee Cronin on assembly theoryGuest Lee Cronin · Host Lex FridmanThe Glasgow chemist walks Lex Fridman through his controversial Nature paper, a proposed life meter for other worlds, and the claim that the universe is too big to contain its own future.
2:16:46ENPhysics is the law. Everything else is a recommendationGuest Elon Musk · Host Lex FridmanOn his fourth Lex Fridman podcast, Elon Musk runs first-principles math on Gaza, Ukraine, Grok, aliens, and the coming shortage of useful compute per watt.
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