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No Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Sep 18, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersDiffusion Will Win Inference: Stefano Ermon Bets Parallel Tokens Beat Custom SiliconHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilThe Stanford diffusion pioneer tells No Priors why a 50-person lab is training language models that generate many tokens at once — and why that maps to GPUs the way transformers once mapped to training.
36:19ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Jun 26, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersThe Benchmark Grid Is Broken: Why Test-Time Compute Has Outrun How We Score ModelsHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilOpenAI researcher Noam Brown argues that static leaderboards hide how long a model is allowed to think — and that safety evals, research taste, and the release cycle have not caught up.
42:09ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Jun 26, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersAlphaEvolve found algorithms humans missed for 50 years — then sped up Gemini 23%Host Sarah Guo, Elad GilGoogle DeepMind’s Pushmeet Kohli and Matej Balog tell No Priors how an evolutionary coding agent searches algorithm space the way AlphaGo searched Go.
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Lex 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.
38:10ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· May 1, 2025Podcast · 2 speakerso3 should wait exactly as long as the answer takesHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilOpenAI researchers Eric Mitchell and Brandon McKinzie tell No Priors why o3's leap is a chain of tools during reasoning — and why you should send the same prompt a hundred times.
34:09ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Jun 27, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersFive Independent Teams Found the Same 10-to-1 Mix That Beats TransformersHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilThe authors of S4 and Mamba argue that mostly state-space layers plus a dash of attention is the architecture that actually works—and they are shipping it first as real-time speech.
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.
2:50:44ENLex Fridman· Apr 17, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersThe Pirahã Have No Word for OneGuest Edward Gibson · Host Lex FridmanMIT psycholinguist Ted Gibson tells Lex Fridman why related words sit together, why language is not thought, and why large language models ace form while missing meaning.
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.
41:58ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Nov 2, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersReliability is the bottleneck. Autonomy is what would make AI feel alive.Host Sarah Guo, Elad GilIlya Sutskever talks with Sarah Guo and Elad Gil about AlexNet, OpenAI’s capped-profit bet, why smaller models mainly lose reliability, and the line he draws for digital life.
39:50ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Jul 20, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersWhy AI Video Is Still a Four-Second CorgiHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilMeta research director Devi Parikh explains why text-to-video has stalled on short animated images, and what it will take to get past that plateau.
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.
2:07:04ENLex Fridman· May 28, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersThe Ribosome Already Solved Digital ManufacturingGuest Neil Gershenfeld · Host Lex FridmanNeil Gershenfeld tells Lex Fridman why Turing separated the head from the tape, how fab labs are the personal-computer moment for making things, and what it would take to grow a civilization from about twenty parts.
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.
37:18ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· May 4, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersUse Retrieval for a Wi-Fi Password. Use Experts for a Company's Private Language.Host Sarah Guo, Elad GilGoogle Brain's Kelvin Guu on REALM, FLAN, model surgery, and why personalizing large models is still an unsolved interface problem.
2:27:58ENLex Fridman· Apr 28, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersIt took Atlas fourteen years to walk the way Playter wantedGuest Robert Playter · Host Lex FridmanBoston Dynamics CEO Robert Playter traces thirty years from a MIT basement pogo stick to Atlas, Spot, and Stretch — and why the company still designs machines that are allowed to fall.
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.
53:37ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Mar 9, 2023Podcast · 2 speakers30 models, 42 scenarios, 7 metrics: Percy Liang's public checkup for language modelsHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilA PubMed-only model once led the U.S. medical licensing exam — until a system roughly 200 times larger overtook it.
1:00:36ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Feb 2, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersForty games of Diplomacy, and nobody spotted the bot: Noam Brown’s 100,000x lessonHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilMeta’s Noam Brown tells Sarah Guo and Elad Gil how Cicero negotiated in English for 40 games on a tiny web community — and why thinking at decision time beat three years of scaling.
2:29:21ENLex Fridman· Dec 6, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersThe Poker Bot That Never Tried to Read a SoulGuest Noam Brown · Host Lex FridmanNoam Brown tells Lex Fridman how a Nash-equilibrium bot crushed heads-up no-limit Hold'em, how Pluribus did it six-handed, and why Diplomacy required an AI that could earn human trust.
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.
3:00:21ENLex Fridman· Oct 1, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersCut Off a Planarian's Head. The New Brain Still RemembersGuest Michael Levin · Host Lex FridmanMichael Levin argues that DNA only builds hardware, bioelectric networks store body plans, and frog skin cells can become robots that evolution never designed.
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.Load moreShowing 24 of 85