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Lex Fridman· Jul 23, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersNature Has Structure: Demis Hassabis on Learnable Reality and AGIGuest Demis Hassabis · Host Lex FridmanThe Google DeepMind CEO argues that evolution-shaped systems can be modeled by classical learning, and that interactive world models sit on the path to AGI.
3:14:34ENLex Fridman· Jun 14, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersIf ten things make a problem hard, Terence Tao turns nine of them offGuest Terence Tao · Host Lex FridmanThe Fields Medalist walks Lex Fridman from the Kakeya needle and Navier-Stokes through Lean, Perelman, and why today's AI still cannot smell a dead-end proof.
8:37:34ENLex 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.
2:51:58ENLex Fridman· Jun 13, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersSara 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.
2:15:39ENLex Fridman· Jun 2, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersRoman 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.
1:55:10ENLex Fridman· Mar 18, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersSam 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.
2:47:17ENLex Fridman· Mar 7, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersIf 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.
2:53:09ENLex Fridman· Dec 29, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersFear 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.
3:19:21ENLex Fridman· Dec 9, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersComplexity 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.
2:16:46ENLex Fridman· Nov 9, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersPhysics 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.
3:08:46ENLex Fridman· Jun 29, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersWho owns the off switch? George Hotz on tinygrad, open-source AI, and GodGuest George Hotz · Host Lex FridmanOn his third Lex Fridman podcast, the comma.ai and tiny corp founder argues that compute, intelligence, and the off switch should live in people's houses, not in a trusted few.
3:11:35ENLex Fridman· Jun 21, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersSearch was always a hack: Marc Andreessen on AI, truth, and the next internetGuest Marc Andreessen · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman sits down with the Mosaic co-creator and Andreessen Horowitz founder to ask whether Google Search, the browser, and open-source AI survive the decade.
4:14:33ENLex Fridman· May 9, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersThe Next Token Is Not a Proof: Stephen Wolfram on ChatGPT and Computational TruthGuest Stephen Wolfram · Host Lex FridmanIn his fourth conversation with Lex Fridman, Stephen Wolfram contrasts large language models with Wolfram|Alpha, then follows computational irreducibility from ChatGPT through observers, thermodynamics, and the three great theories of twentieth-century physics.
2:30:28ENLex Fridman· Apr 21, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersAI Only Has a Neocortex: Manolis Kellis on Evolutionary Baggage and Superintelligent PartnersGuest Manolis Kellis · Host Lex FridmanOn his fifth Lex Fridman podcast, the MIT computational biologist argues that layered evolutionary history is what makes humans irreplaceable — and that alignment with AI has to run both ways.
2:48:12ENLex Fridman· Apr 13, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersThe Asteroid We Are Building OurselvesGuest Max Tegmark · Host Lex FridmanPhysicist Max Tegmark tells Lex Fridman why a six-month pause on models larger than GPT-4 is not a ban on AI, but a chance to stop a suicide race.
3:17:51ENLex Fridman· Mar 30, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersWhoops is the sound of getting less wrong: Yudkowsky, two weeks after GPT-4Guest Eliezer Yudkowsky · Host Lex FridmanTwo weeks after GPT-4 launched, Eliezer Yudkowsky sat down with Lex Fridman and started by admitting the transformer stack had already gone further than he expected.
3:28:47ENLex Fridman· Oct 29, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersKarpathy Calls Trained Neural Nets Complicated Alien ArtifactsGuest Andrej Karpathy · Host Lex FridmanOn Lex Fridman's podcast, Andrej Karpathy refuses the brain analogy, walks the Fermi paradox through Nick Lane's chemistry, and treats the Transformer as a general-purpose differentiable computer.
7:47:52ENLex Fridman· Oct 20, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersYou Cannot Peacefully Start a New Government. Balaji Thinks That Is the Bug.Guest Balaji Srinivasan · Host Lex FridmanIn a seven-hour conversation with Lex Fridman, Balaji Srinivasan traces a single thread from the prime-number maze to network states, Wikipedia, the FDA, and crypto property rights.
1:36:11ENLex Fridman· Sep 17, 2022Podcast · 2 speakers2029 Passes the Turing Test. 2045 Is Still the SingularityGuest Ray Kurzweil · Host Lex FridmanRay Kurzweil tells Lex Fridman why his dates have not moved, how to invent in the present tense, and why the replica of his father answered the meaning of life with one word: love.
3:19:52ENLex Fridman· Aug 16, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersDuncan Trussell Would Live This Life Again, Dark Parts IncludedGuest Duncan Trussell · Host Lex FridmanA comedian and Lex Fridman talk through eternal recurrence, machine sentience, cancer, war, depression, and the love that makes the loop worth running.
5:14:50ENLex Fridman· Aug 4, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersThe best programming language is the one you already useGuest John Carmack · Host Lex FridmanJohn Carmack talks with Lex Fridman about languages, id Software, VR, rockets, and why AGI might be tens of thousands of lines of code.
2:10:08ENLex Fridman· Jul 26, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersGato Is Only the BeginningGuest Oriol Vinyals · Host Lex FridmanDeepMind's Oriol Vinyals talks with Lex Fridman about generalist agents, thrown-away weights, and whether human-level AGI arrives in his lifetime.
2:10:39ENLex Fridman· Jul 1, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersDemis Hassabis: Solve Intelligence, Then Solve Everything ElseGuest Demis Hassabis · Host Lex FridmanThe DeepMind CEO tells Lex Fridman why the Turing Test is the wrong exam, how AlphaFold rewrote biology, and why the quiet radio sky suggests we are probably alone.
4:13:30ENLex Fridman· Jun 9, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersHumanity showed up 10^18 times too earlyGuest Robin Hanson · Host Lex FridmanRobin Hanson tells Lex Fridman why our date in cosmic history is data, and why an empty sky means the loud aliens are coming fast.Load moreShowing 24 of 61