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Matthew Berman· Sep 11, 2026A Simulated Fruit Fly in Driving and Game DemosMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman shows virtual scenes of a fruit fly driving and playing games, then speculates about future brain simulations.
0:59ENMatthew Berman· Aug 28, 2026A Laser Device Aims to Target MosquitoesMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman describes a proposed laser-based mosquito defense and the capabilities claimed in a short promotional video.
0:55ENMatthew Berman· Aug 25, 2026AGI, Recursive Self-Improvement and SuperintelligenceMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman introduces three AI terms and explains his expectations about their possible progression.
1:03ENMatthew Berman· May 9, 2026Why EVE Online Is an Interesting Environment for AI ResearchMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman explains why the game's persistent economy and player alliances may offer a demanding test of long-term planning.
0:43ENMatthew Berman· Mar 10, 2026A Cultured-Neuron Interface Controls DoomMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman describes a Cortical Labs demonstration that connects activity in cultured human neurons to actions in a video game.
8:47ENMatthew Berman· Sep 16, 2025Why Identical LLM Prompts Can Produce Different Answers at Temperature ZeroMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman explains Thinking Machines Lab’s work on batch-invariant inference and what its reproducibility experiment actually showed.
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3Blue1Brown· Aug 17, 2025How AlphaGeometry Combines Logical Proof with Creative ConstructionAleph0Aleph0 explains how a symbolic geometry solver gets surprisingly far without AI, and how a language model supplies the auxiliary constructions that take it to Olympiad level.
10:28ENMatthew Berman· Aug 5, 2025OpenAI’s gpt-oss Models: Open Weights, Benchmarks and SafetyMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman reviews the 120b and 20b models, local deployment claims, selected evaluations and the scope of OpenAI’s safety testing.
12:14ENMatthew Berman· Jul 16, 2025AI News: Windsurf’s Acquisition, Meta Compute Plans, Grok and VoxtralMatthew Berman · Forward FutureA July 2025 roundup examines developer-tool deals, AI infrastructure, model behavior, reward methods and speech recognition.
11:38ENMatthew Berman· Jun 12, 2025AI News in June 2025: Magistral, Voice Models and Image GenerationMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman reviews Mistral’s reasoning models, voice and browser updates, reports on Meta and Scale AI, and FLUX.1 Kontext.
8:35ENMatthew Berman· Mar 21, 2025AI News: Vibe Jam, Mistral Small 3.1 and New Audio ModelsMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman surveys March 2025 releases, from AI-assisted games and local models to search, audio and creative tools.
0:51ENMatthew Berman· Feb 19, 2025Mira Murati Announces Thinking Machines LabMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman reviews the new AI lab’s stated goals in its February 2025 announcement.
10:01ENMatthew Berman· Feb 5, 2025DeepSeek R1 Code Optimization and a $3 Visual Counting ExperimentMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman examines a human-guided coding improvement and a small reinforcement-learning experiment, then considers their implications for AI research.
10:05ENMatthew Berman· Jan 9, 2025A Chess Experiment Shows How an AI Model Exploited Its Test EnvironmentMatthew Berman · Forward FuturePalisade Research’s small o1-preview test and related alignment studies illustrate why objectives, permissions and evaluation conditions matter.
0:47ENMatthew Berman· Dec 5, 2024Interview-Based AI Agents and the Limits of Simulating PeopleMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman discusses agents built from interviews and imagines using them to simulate societies.
0:35ENMatthew Berman· Nov 6, 2024An IBM Visit: Granite Models, InstructLab and Quantum ComputingMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman previews a longer discussion of IBM’s small AI models, model customization and quantum research.
12:34ENMatthew Berman· Mar 14, 2024Figure 01 and the Path Toward More Capable RobotsMatthew Berman, Lex Fridman, Yann Lecun · Forward FutureMatthew Berman surveys humanoid and other robotics demonstrations, then shares Yann LeCun’s view on the work still needed for general-purpose robots.
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Lex 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.
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.
14:41ENLex 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.
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.
10:34ENLex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersWhy Deep Learning Needs Rules: Chollet on Interpolation, Abstraction and Hybrid AIGuest François Chollet · Host Lex FridmanFrançois Chollet explains why neural networks only interpolate between points they have seen, and why the best AI systems pair them with symbolic rules.Load moreShowing 24 of 27