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Lex FridmanPodcastFrom NAND Gates to Self-Driving Traffic: Deep Reinforcement Learning in One LectureHost Lex FridmanLex Fridman's second MIT 6.S094 lecture walks from the humble perceptron to deep Q-learning and the browser-based DeepTraffic competition.
1:05:15ENLex FridmanPodcastTaming the Long Tail: How Waymo Builds a Self-Driving FactoryHost Lex FridmanWaymo principal scientist Drago Anguelov explains how machine learning infrastructure, hybrid design and smart simulated agents tackle the rare events of autonomous driving.
1:27:15ENLex FridmanPodcastPolicy Gradients vs. Q-Learning: John Schulman's Field Guide to Deep Reinforcement LearningHost Lex FridmanOpenAI's John Schulman walks through the core methods of deep RL, from the score function estimator to TRPO and DQN, and says when each one is worth using.
1:19:21ENLex FridmanPodcastVapnik's Case for Learning by Predicates, Not Just by More DataHost Lex FridmanIn an MIT lecture, Vladimir Vapnik argues that complete statistical learning needs two mechanisms, data and invariants, and that choosing smart predicates is where intelligence lives.
1:03:25ENLex FridmanPodcastTheano in an Hour: Symbolic Graphs, Automatic Gradients and a Compiler That Rewrites Your MathHost Lex FridmanPascal Lamblin of MILA walks through how Theano builds, differentiates, optimizes and runs computation graphs, then trains logistic regression, a convnet and an LSTM.
1:08:06ENLex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersDeep Learning in One Lecture: From Perceptrons to AutoML and the Limits of LearningGuest Deep Learning Basics · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman's opening lecture for MIT's 6.S094 course surveys why deep learning took off, how neural networks learn, and where the technique still falls short.
13:58ENLex FridmanPodcastDeep Reinforcement Learning, Explained by the Researcher Behind AlphaGoHost Lex FridmanDavid Silver of DeepMind walks through what reinforcement learning is, how its building blocks fit together, and why deep neural networks keep surprising even the experts.
57:55ENLex FridmanPodcastFrom Q-Tables to AlphaGo Zero: A Self-Driving Car Lecture on Deep Reinforcement LearningHost Lex FridmanLex Fridman's MIT 6.S094 lecture walks from the AI pipeline and Q-learning to deep Q-networks, AlphaGo Zero and the DeepTraffic competition.
1:13:22ENLex FridmanPodcastThe Second 90%: What It Really Takes to Put Deep Learning on a Driverless CarHost Lex FridmanWaymo's Sacha Arnoud walks MIT students through Waymo's history, its perception stack, and the industrial-scale labeling, compute and testing behind it.
57:15ENLex FridmanPodcastInside Torch and Autograd: How Deep Learning Libraries Compute GradientsHost Lex FridmanAlex Wiltschko of Twitter walks through Lua Torch, then explains automatic differentiation and what separates modern deep learning frameworks.
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Lenny's PodcastPodcastModels Are Grown, Not Built: What Anthropic's Interpretability Research Sees Inside ClaudeHost Lenny RachitskyAnthropic researcher Emmanuel Ameisen explains how studying a language model's intermediate computations reveals concepts, plans and surprising quirks, and why that matters for alignment.
1:20:58ENLex FridmanPodcastFrom Bag of Words to Attention: Quoc Le Teaches Sequence-to-Sequence Learning Through Email RepliesHost Lex FridmanA Deep Learning School talk that builds sequence-to-sequence models step by step around one running example, automatic email reply, and then surveys memory and operation-augmented networks.
1:19:48ENLex FridmanPodcastBigger Models, Cleaner Splits and Human Baselines: Andrew Ng's Practical Recipe for Applied Deep LearningHost Lex FridmanIn a 2016 Deep Learning School talk, Andrew Ng distills lessons from leading Baidu's AI team into a workflow for diagnosing models, handling data and building a career.
1:02:06ENLex FridmanPodcastLearning TensorFlow Hands-On: From a Mystery Line to Handwritten DigitsHost Lex FridmanGoogle Brain's Sherry Moore walks a Deep Learning School audience through how TensorFlow works and two core labs, linear regression and MNIST digit recognition.
20:36ENLex FridmanPodcastWhy Simple Theories Win: Marcus Hutter on Occam's Razor, Compression and Kolmogorov ComplexityHost Lex FridmanDeepMind researcher Marcus Hutter explains Solomonoff induction, why compression equals understanding, and how a simple universe can still look rich.
10:34ENLex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersWhy Deep Learning Needs Rules: Chollet on Interpolation, Abstraction and Hybrid AIGuest François Chollet · Host Lex FridmanFrançois Chollet explains why neural networks only interpolate between points they have seen, and why the best AI systems pair them with symbolic rules.
10:39ENLex FridmanPodcastStatistics as Decision-Making: Michael I. Jordan on Bayesians, Frequentists and the Ideas Between ThemHost Lex FridmanBerkeley's Michael I. Jordan explains where statistics came from, why it is really about decisions, and how empirical Bayes and false discovery rate bridge two rival philosophies.
1:00:15ENLex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersCircuit Search, Hindsight and Self-Play: Ilya Sutskever's Case for Where Learning Is GoingGuest Ilya Sutskever · Host Lex FridmanIn an MIT AGI lecture, OpenAI's co-founder explains why deep learning works, then walks through meta-learning, hindsight experience replay, sim-to-real transfer, self-play and learning goals from human feedback.
20:50ENLex FridmanPodcastGlitches as Features: What John Hopfield Says Artificial Neural Networks Are MissingHost Lex FridmanIn a short conversation with Lex Fridman, physicist and neural-network pioneer John Hopfield compares evolved brains with today's artificial networks and explains why he expects AI to borrow from biology generation after generation.
1:35:09ENLex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersReverse-Engineering the Child: Josh Tenenbaum's Case for Human-Like AIGuest MIT AGI · Host Lex FridmanMIT cognitive scientist Josh Tenenbaum argues that real machine intelligence needs models of the world, built by studying how babies think and learn, not just better pattern recognition.
11:59ENLex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersFrom a Side Project to TensorFlow's Core: François Chollet on How Keras Came to BeGuest François Chollet · Host Lex FridmanThe creator of Keras recalls why he built it in 2015 around recurrent networks, how it moved onto TensorFlow, and what TensorFlow 2.0 means for its design.
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Cognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"PodcastPause Tokens, Analogical Prompts and Ring Attention: A Tour of the Transformer's Next UpgradesHost Nathan LabenzNathan Labenz and Trey Kollmer walk through five recent papers on pausing, backspacing, prompting, streaming and long-context training, and sketch how they might combine into a more capable model.
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.
1:31:29ENLex FridmanPodcastIs Driving More Like Chess or Conversation? Lex Fridman's Opening Lecture on Deep Learning for Self-Driving CarsHost Lex FridmanThe first lecture of MIT 6.S094 introduces neural networks, reinforcement learning and computer vision through the question of how hard driving really is.Load moreShowing 24 of 101