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Lex Fridman· Nov 1, 2024PodcastGSP would rather street-fight Ngannou than Bas RuttenHost Lex FridmanAfter their podcast, Georges St-Pierre walks Lex Fridman through a short clinic on surprise, dirty targets, knives, and why a UFC title is worthless against a blade.
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Cognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Feb 1, 2024PodcastIf the Mind Is a Tool, AI Looks Less Like a ThreatHost Nathan LabenzYohei Nakajima and Nathan Labenz pause a TED AI talk to connect agent-building habits with East–West ideas of identity.
12:42ENLex Fridman· Mar 28, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersThe Experience Machine: What Our Refusal to Plug In Says About What We ValueGuest Nick Bostrom · Host Lex FridmanNick Bostrom unpacks Robert Nozick's experience machine, the status quo effect behind our answers, and whether a simulation convincing enough to feel real would have to contain real minds.
14:55ENLex Fridman· Oct 29, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersKasparov on Deep Blue, AlphaZero, and Why Machines Win Closed Systems but Humans Still Choose the QuestionsGuest Garry Kasparov · Host Lex FridmanGarry Kasparov revisits the 1997 loss to Deep Blue, explains why machines beat humans in closed systems, and argues that the human role is to pick the right questions and not interfere with superior machine knowledge.
9:59ENLex FridmanPodcastIs Language or Vision Harder? Ilya Sutskever on the Unity of Machine LearningHost Lex FridmanIn a short clip from his 2020 conversation with Lex Fridman, Ilya Sutskever explains why vision, language and reinforcement learning share the same few principles, and why asking which problem is harder is the wrong question.
10:20ENLex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersHow C++ Is Standardized: Votes, Consensus and the Move to a Three-Year Release CycleGuest Bjarne Stroustrup · Host Lex FridmanBjarne Stroustrup explains how the ISO committee works, why C++0x slipped to C++11, and how shorter cycles made C++14, C++17 and C++20 arrive on time.
13:55ENLex FridmanPodcastResistance Is the Ego's Voice: Steven Pressfield on Fear, the Self and the Next IdeaHost Lex FridmanSteven Pressfield explains where the force he calls Resistance comes from and why the real fight happens at the most mundane level.
11:51ENLex FridmanPodcastBuilding a Brain: Paola Arlotta on the Choreography of Human Brain DevelopmentHost Lex FridmanA Harvard stem cell biologist walks through how the embryo builds the cerebral cortex, why order and environment matter, and why development continues into our twenties.
11:11ENLex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersYann LeCun on Benchmarks, Interactive Environments, and Why Human Intelligence Is Not GeneralGuest Yann Lecun · Host Lex FridmanIn a 2019 clip, LeCun defends benchmarks as a test of AI claims, explains why interactive environments break the usual train-test protocol, and argues that "general intelligence" is a misnomer.
14:49ENLex FridmanPodcastElon Musk Rates Memes and Ends Up Defending Nuclear Power, the British Museum and the CheeseburgerHost Lex FridmanIn a lighthearted excerpt from his conversation with Lex Fridman, Elon Musk scores a stack of printed memes on a one-to-eleven scale and gives serious answers whenever a joke touches a real topic.
10:17ENLex FridmanPodcastWhy Great Robots Fail as Businesses, and What iRobot Got RightHost Lex FridmaniRobot co-founder Colin Angle explains why so many robotics companies collapse and how cost, vision and a clear user need shaped the Roomba.
14:41ENLex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersTalking for 20 Minutes: How the Alexa Prize Turns Real Customers into a Testbed for Conversational AIGuest Rohit Prasad · Host Lex FridmanRohit Prasad, head scientist of Amazon Alexa, explains the Alexa Prize grand challenge, how it is judged and why true conversation still needs reasoning.
11:41ENLex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersTeaching Machines Humility: Stuart Russell on Escaping the King Midas ProblemGuest Stuart Russell · Host Lex FridmanIn a short clip from a 2018 conversation, Berkeley's Stuart Russell explains why fixed objectives make superintelligent AI dangerous and why uncertainty about our goals is the fix.
10:16ENLex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersReasoning Without Logic: Yann LeCun on Teaching Neural Networks to ThinkGuest Yann Lecun · Host Lex FridmanYann LeCun explains why he believes neural networks can reason, and what memory, recurrence and continuous representations would need to look like.
11:19ENLex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersWhy Donald Knuth Thinks P = NP and Why It Might Not MatterGuest Donald Knuth · Host Lex FridmanKnuth explains how an algorithm can provably exist without anyone being able to write it down, and why that shapes his view of P versus NP.
12:16ENLex FridmanPodcastRule 30 and Richard Feynman: Stephen Wolfram on Intuition Versus Computational ExperimentHost Lex FridmanWolfram recalls working with Feynman at Thinking Machines, why Feynman hid his calculations, and how building a computer language changed his approach to science.
12:53ENLex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersPrinciples, Not Black Boxes: Ray Dalio on When to Trust AIGuest Ray Dalio · Host Lex FridmanRay Dalio explains how Bridgewater turns human thinking into algorithms, why machine learning is risky when the future differs from the past, and why writing down principles is the route to better decisions.
13:30ENLex FridmanPodcastDistance, Jabs and Three Rules: Georges St-Pierre Teaches Lex Fridman Wrestling and Ground DefenseHost Lex FridmanA training session in which the former champion explains how takedowns and ground fighting differ between MMA and jiu-jitsu.
12:01ENLex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersThe Big Nap: Why Eric Weinstein Thinks the Pandemic Ends 75 Quiet YearsGuest The Big Nap · Host Lex FridmanIn an April 2020 conversation, Eric Weinstein and Lex Fridman discuss what a global crisis reveals about collective action, fragility, and the institutions we treat as museum pieces.
10:24ENLex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersConcepts: How C++ Finally Got Compile-Time Constraints on TemplatesGuest Bjarne Stroustrup · Host Lex FridmanBjarne Stroustrup explains what C++ concepts are, why they are real and shippable today, and why it took decades to get them right.
11:11ENLex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersFilling the Empty Quadrants: Jim Gates on Supersymmetry and the Beauty of Broken SymmetryGuest Jim Gates · Host Lex FridmanTheoretical physicist Jim Gates explains supersymmetry with a four-slice pie, recalls how he chose it for his thesis in the 1970s, and connects it to the way physics moves from mathematics to experiment.
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.
12:52ENLex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersRoger Penrose on a Universe That Restarts: When the Far Future Becomes the Next Big BangGuest Roger Penrose · Host Lex FridmanPenrose explains conformal cyclic cosmology, in which the remote future of one cosmic eon is mathematically the same as the Big Bang of the next.
14:47ENLex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersBuild Your Own Types: What Bjarne Stroustrup Learned from Simula, Fortran and LispGuest Bjarne Stroustrup · Host Lex FridmanThe creator of C++ traces how Simula's user-defined types shaped his language, and why he builds for constrained, long-lived systems.Load moreShowing 24 of 35