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1:24:24ENIntelligence for Heavy Machines: Qasar Younis on Why Physical AI Will Change Farms, Mines and Roads FirstHost Lenny RachitskyThe Applied Intuition co-founder explains why the biggest near-term AI impact is in vehicles and industrial machines, and shares the values, reading habits and management philosophy behind a quiet $15 billion company.
1:13:18ENHuman-Centered or Fully Autonomous? Lex Fridman's Case for Collaboration Between Driver and MachineHost Lex FridmanLecture 2 of MIT's 2018 course on deep learning for self-driving cars covers the two paths to autonomy, how sensors compare, who is building what, and where deep learning can help.
1:18:48ENData Movement, Not Math: How to Make Deep Learning Fit on Robots and PhonesHost Lex FridmanMIT professor Vivienne Sze explains why moving data dominates the energy cost of neural networks and how co-designing hardware and algorithms can cut it by orders of magnitude.
1:05:15ENTaming 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.
1:27:15ENPolicy 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.
17:35ENHands Off the Wheel in San Diego: A Comma Two Demo Drive and a Tour of comma.ai's Hardware ShopHost Lex FridmanAfter their podcast conversation, George Hotz takes Lex Fridman on an openpilot drive and then through the comma.ai offices, dashboards, assembly line and compute cluster.
1:13:22ENThe 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.
18:46ENA Brooding Stuffed Hedgehog and Lex Fridman's Case for Owning LessHost Lex FridmanIn an AMA, Lex Fridman uses his thrift-store hedgehog to talk about minimalism, anthropomorphism in robotics, and why shared experience binds people together.
37:18ENFrom Intelligent Copilots to Aurora: Sterling Anderson on Shared Control and Building a Self-Driving CompanyHost Lex FridmanA guest lecture in MIT's 6.S094 course tracing Anderson's path from shared human-machine control research, through Tesla Autopilot, to co-founding Aurora.
1:39:10ENAfter the Keyboard: Why Physical AI Is the Next Frontier, According to a Veteran Hardware LeaderHost Lenny RachitskyCaitlin Kalinowski, who has built products at Apple, Meta and OpenAI, explains why robotics is heating up, what actually gates it, and how to build hardware that ships.
1:13:40ENThe Long Tail, the World Model, and the 1995 Problem: Inside Waymo's Scaling Phase and Robotics' Missing MomentHost Jacob EffronVincent, a distinguished engineer at Waymo, explains how foundation models became teachers for self-driving, why the long tail and causality are the real frontier, and where robotics still lacks its generalist proof point.
1:19:34ENFei-Fei Li on ImageNet, World Models and Why Everyone Has a Role in AIHost Lenny RachitskyThe scientist often called the godmother of AI traces how big data sparked deep learning, explains why spatial intelligence is the next frontier, and shows what World Labs' first product, Marble, can do.
11:29ENWhy Tesla AI Day Was the Most Impressive Real-World AI Effort Lex Fridman Has SeenHost Lex FridmanLex Fridman walks through the neural network, data annotation, Dojo and Tesla Bot announcements and what they say about solving real-world robotics.
1:48:13ENRobotics Hits Its GPT-3.5 Moment: Inside Gemini Robotics, From Embodied Reasoning to OrigamiHost Nathan LabenzGoogle DeepMind researchers Keerthana Gopalakrishnan and Ted Xiao explain how Gemini Robotics works, what it can and cannot do, and where the field goes next.
26:51ENA Walking Skeleton in a Beautiful Face: Ben Goertzel on What Sophia Really IsHost Lex FridmanThe former Hanson Robotics chief scientist explains how Sophia works, why she is not AGI, and why he thinks the illusion can still be put to good use.
1:02:24ENFrom Looping Forklifts to Self-Driving Cities: Sertac Karaman on Motion PlanningHost Lex FridmanAn MIT professor traces motion planning from the DARPA Urban Challenge to the future of transportation and the cities built around cars.
1:04:39ENFrom Udacity's Self-Driving Car Course to a Startup for Retirement Communities: Oliver Cameron on Building VoyageHost Lex FridmanVoyage CEO Oliver Cameron tells the unconventional story of how a self-driving curriculum became a car, then a company that deploys in retirement communities, and what he learned along the way.









