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Lex Fridman· Feb 22, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersQuantum Supremacy Is a Well-Defined Speedup, Not a Useful TaskGuest Scott Aaronson · Host Lex FridmanScott Aaronson explains what Google's 53-qubit experiment actually demonstrated, how it was verified, and why complexity theory can offer evidence but not proof against classical spoofing.
20:44ENLex Fridman· Jan 5, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersThe Staff Job That Became a Dictatorship: Stalin's Improbable Road to PowerGuest Stephen Kotkin · Host Lex FridmanStephen Kotkin traces how war, revolution, contingency, and a new administrative post let Stalin build a personal dictatorship inside the Bolshevik regime.
20:34ENLex Fridman· Oct 26, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersTeaching Machines the Frameworks Humans Take for GrantedGuest David Ferrucci · Host Lex FridmanDavid Ferrucci explains why AI needs shared interpretive frameworks, not just data and pattern matching, to reason and communicate like humans.
24:22ENLex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersCraftsmanship, First Principles and the Road to Self-Driving: Jim Keller on Working with Elon MuskGuest Jim Keller · Host Lex FridmanThe veteran chip architect explains why he thinks autonomous driving is a tractable engineering problem, how Tesla's cost constraints shaped its hardware, and what he took from Musk's way of thinking.
21:43ENLex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersRented Cars, 27 Rejections and the Love Quotient: Arianna Huffington on Obsession and RechargingGuest Arianna Huffington · Host Lex FridmanThe Thrive Global and Huffington Post founder talks to Lex Fridman about mortality, failure, work obsession, polarized media and balancing ambition with love.
15:01ENLex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersDeep Learning Is a System 1 Machine: Daniel Kahneman on What AI Still LacksGuest Daniel Kahneman · Host Lex FridmanThe Nobel-winning psychologist tells Lex Fridman how his fast-and-slow thinking framework maps onto deep learning, and why driving among pedestrians may require understanding people.
20:07ENLex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersThe Hard Problem and the Case for a Conscious Universe: David Chalmers on ConsciousnessGuest David Chalmers · Host Lex FridmanDavid Chalmers explains what consciousness is, why the hard problem resists physical explanation, and why he takes panpsychism seriously.
21:55ENLex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersQuantum Computing Without the Hype: Amplitudes, Interference and the Long Road to Error CorrectionGuest Scott Aaronson · Host Lex FridmanScott Aaronson explains what a quantum computer really is, why it is not just trying every answer at once, and why noise is the field's central obstacle.
18:45ENLex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersWhy Sean Carroll Thinks Many-Worlds Is the Cleanest Version of Quantum MechanicsGuest Sean Carroll · Host Lex FridmanThe Caltech physicist explains how Everett's idea works, answers the energy-conservation objection, and compares it with its rivals.
17:21ENLex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersHow Alexa Learned to Hear From Across the Room: Rohit Prasad on Far-Field Speech and IntentGuest Rohit Prasad · Host Lex FridmanAlexa's head scientist recalls the early days of the Echo, when far-field speech recognition seemed unsolvable and there were no customers to collect data from.
24:08ENLex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersIntelligence Is Not Just Prediction: David Ferrucci on Explanation, Persuasion and Shared MeaningGuest David Ferrucci · Host Lex FridmanThe lead of IBM's Watson team argues that predicting well is only half of intelligence, and that being understood by others is the other half.
23:11ENLex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersNick Bostrom on Superintelligence: Why the Upside Deserves as Much Attention as the RiskGuest Nick Bostrom · Host Lex FridmanIn a clip from the Lex Fridman Podcast, Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom defines superintelligence, discusses intelligence explosions, and sketches what a good AGI future might look like.
15:43ENLex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersInside RIDER: The Rugged Black Box Behind MIT's Large-Scale Driving StudyGuest MIT-AVT · Host Lex FridmanA walkthrough of the data-collection device MIT-AVT uses to record drivers and vehicles in semi-autonomous cars month after month.
17:19ENLex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersFrom Atoms to Data Centers: How a Modern Processor Finds Parallelism in a Serial ProgramGuest Jim Keller · Host Lex FridmanJim Keller walks through the layers of abstraction in computer design, from transistors to out-of-order execution, branch prediction and deterministic answers.
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.