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Matthew Berman· Oct 15, 2026From Punched Cards to AI Software FactoriesMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman contrasts early programming with an AI-assisted workflow and promotes Factory’s development tools.
10:16ENMatthew Berman· Jan 14, 2026Matthew Berman Reviews Disclosures in the Musk–OpenAI LawsuitMatthew Berman · Forward FutureEmails, messages and journal excerpts illuminate disputes over OpenAI’s early direction and the 2023 leadership crisis, while the underlying legal claims remain contested.
15:09ENMatthew Berman· Sep 21, 2024AI News in September 2024: ChatGPT, Nuclear Power and New ModelsMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman reviews a week of AI and technology news, from the Three Mile Island power agreement to new reasoning, voice and open-weight models.
12:03ENMatthew Berman· Sep 6, 2024Reflection 70B: Self-Correction Claims and the Limits of a 2024 DemoMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman reviews a model trained to generate reflection steps. Its initial benchmark claims later proved difficult for independent evaluators to reproduce.
1:44:29ENMatthew Berman· Sep 5, 2024Discussing TIME’s 2024 AI 100: Leaders, Researchers and OmissionsMatthew Berman, Alex, Melissa · Forward FutureMatthew Berman, Alex and Melissa review TIME’s list, debate its choices and answer viewers’ questions about AI tools and the industry.
22:27ENMatthew Berman· Mar 6, 2024OpenAI’s 2024 Response to Elon Musk’s Lawsuit: Funding, Control and OpennessMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman examines OpenAI’s published account and emails while weighing contested claims about its founding mission, financing and whether AI research should remain open.
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Cognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Feb 27, 2024PodcastNine Hundred Occupations, Twenty Years, and Still No AI RevolutionHost Nathan LabenzEconomist Robin Hanson tells Cognitive Revolution why each new AI demo looks like the last one, and why wages and headcount are the tests that matter.
1:58:43ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Feb 7, 2024PodcastA Worm With 302 Neurons Already Makes Trade-offs. AI Is Still on the Same Ladder.Host Nathan LabenzMax Bennett maps 600 million years of brain evolution onto five breakthroughs — and asks which rungs today's models have actually reached.
3:37ENMatthew Berman· Jan 18, 2024Mark Zuckerberg Announces Llama 3 Training and Meta’s AI PlansMatthew Berman, Mark Zuckerberg · Forward FutureIn January 2024, Matthew Berman reacts to Zuckerberg’s remarks on general intelligence, compute and AI devices.
7:09ENMatthew Berman· Jul 28, 2023AI News in July 2023: SDXL, Worldcoin, and Biological ComputingMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman reviews a week of AI developments, from Google’s Gemini project and new generative models to biometric identity and experiments with cultured neurons.
1:25:50ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Apr 18, 2023PodcastPrompt Engineering Became Programming, and Riley Goodside Is Fine With ThatHost Nathan LabenzScale AI’s first staff prompt engineer on tool use, fine-tuning without amnesia, generate-then-rank, and why the 2023 job-of-the-future story never arrived.
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Lex Fridman· Sep 20, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersJay McClelland on How Thought Emerges From Neural NetworksGuest Jay McClelland · Host Lex FridmanThe Stanford cognitive scientist talks with Lex Fridman about connectionism, backpropagation, David Rumelhart, and why intuition discovers what logic later proves.
2:52:56ENLex Fridman· Sep 15, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersDouglas Lenat's 37-Year Bet That Common Sense Can Be Written DownGuest Douglas Lenat · Host Lex FridmanSince 1984, Cyc has been encoding the unstated rules of the world so machines can reason instead of merely pattern-match.
2:24:52ENLex Fridman· Sep 3, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersJudge a robot by the environment it forces to change, not by the demoGuest Rodney Brooks · Host Lex FridmanRodney Brooks tells Lex Fridman why faces are promises, why computation is an overworked metaphor, and why robot companies die on price, expectation, and habit.
2:02:45ENLex Fridman· Dec 26, 2020PodcastSteal the Code: You Get Zero Points for Making the Algorithm RunHost Lex FridmanCharles Isbell and Michael Littman tell Lex Fridman why machine learning is not just statistics, why struggle has to stay hopeful, and what a $6,600 online master's actually sells.
2:01:07ENLex Fridman· Dec 12, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersMichael Littman isn’t waiting for a runaway god. He’s watching us.Guest Michael Littman · Host Lex FridmanThe Brown reinforcement-learning researcher tells Lex Fridman why accidental superintelligence feels like a 747 assembling itself — and why social media, rote language, and theory of mind worry him more.
1:56:31ENLex Fridman· Oct 12, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersA Blank Wall Is Not More Conscious Than a PersonGuest Scott Aaronson · Host Lex FridmanScott Aaronson walks Lex Fridman through integrated information theory, Penrose’s uncomputable mind, GPT-3, P versus NP, and why silent support for open discourse has to get louder.
3:00:18ENLex Fridman· Jun 13, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersOnly a Simulation Can Be ConsciousGuest Joscha Bach · Host Lex FridmanJoscha Bach tells Lex Fridman why a neuron cannot feel anything, why existence is the default, and why this dying world is still the best level of the game.
1:48:01ENLex Fridman· Apr 3, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersDavid Silver: AlphaGo Won by Taking Human Knowledge OutGuest David Silver · Host Lex FridmanThe DeepMind researcher behind AlphaGo and AlphaZero tells Lex Fridman how an unclaimed million-dollar Go prize, a BBC Micro at age seven, and a honeymoon insight led to superhuman self-play.
1:45:56ENLex Fridman· Dec 30, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersPoint eight is enough: Donald Knuth on algorithms, TeX, and a life in one chairGuest Donald Knuth · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman visits Donald Knuth at home for a conversation about the IBM 650, geek brains, literate programming, The Art of Computer Programming, TeX, P versus NP, and a happiness budget of 80 percent.
1:52:40ENLex Fridman· Dec 28, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersWithout Analogies, There Can Be No ConceptsGuest Melanie Mitchell · Host Lex FridmanMelanie Mitchell talks with Lex Fridman about why analogy sits at the core of thought, why scaled-up learning still fails at common sense, and why she thinks human-level AI is more than a century away.
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.
55:24ENLex Fridman· Oct 27, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersThe Machine Has a Steady Hand: Garry Kasparov on Deep Blue, AlphaZero, and PutinGuest Garry Kasparov · Host Lex FridmanThe former world champion tells Lex Fridman why losing to IBM still hurt, why chess was never the peak of intellect, and why he lives in New York.
1:00:06ENLex Fridman· Aug 23, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersPamela McCorduck: AI Began With the Ancient Wish to Forge the GodsGuest Pamela McCorduck · Host Lex FridmanThe novelist who wrote the first popular history of artificial intelligence talks with Lex Fridman about Dartmouth, AI winters, and why existential panic looks like the male gaze.Load moreShowing 24 of 40