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Lex 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.
45:31ENLex Fridman· Jul 1, 2020PodcastYou Are Your Own Existence Proof: Karl Friston on Free Energy, Life, and Self-AwarenessHost Lex FridmanKarl Friston explains how the free energy principle reframes existence, life, planning, and self-awareness as inference problems.
26:02ENLex Fridman· Feb 9, 2020PodcastMoore’s Law Is Not Dead—It Is a Cascade of S-CurvesHost Lex FridmanJim Keller explains why transistor scaling keeps outrunning its obituary, and how exponential hardware changes the mathematics AI can attempt.
46:25ENLex Fridman· Jan 17, 2019PodcastDeep Learning at the Edge of 2019: BERT, Autopilot, and the Ideas That Broke ThroughHost Lex FridmanA tour of the architectural, applied, and automation breakthroughs that defined deep learning in 2018 and set up 2019.
1:29:03ENLex Fridman· Sep 27, 2016PodcastFrom Word Vectors to Memory Networks: The Building Blocks of Deep NLPHost Lex FridmanRichard Socher explains how word embeddings, recurrent models, GRUs, pointer mixtures, and dynamic memory networks turn language tasks into trainable end-to-end systems.
1:00:51ENLex FridmanPodcastDeep Learning From the Ground Up: Hugo Larochelle's One-Hour Tour of Neural Network FoundationsHost Lex FridmanA fast, equation-level walk through feed-forward networks, backpropagation, practical training tricks, dropout and batch normalization, from the 2016 Deep Learning School.
1:07:29ENLex FridmanPodcastDeep Reinforcement Learning from First Principles: Rewards, Q-Learning, Policy Gradients and AlphaZeroHost Lex FridmanLex Fridman's MIT 6.S091 opening lecture walks from the basic RL framework through DQN, actor-critic methods and AlphaZero to the unsolved problem of moving from simulation to the real world.
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.
1:25:16ENLex FridmanPodcastFrom Hand-Built Features to ResNets: Andrej Karpathy's Crash Course in Convolutional NetworksHost Lex FridmanA 2016 Deep Learning School talk covering how convnets work, how the ImageNet winners evolved, and how to apply them without being a hero.
1:24:43ENLex FridmanPodcastFrom Sparse Coding to GANs: A Tour of Unsupervised Deep Learning in 2016Host Lex FridmanRuslan Salakhutdinov walks through autoencoders, Boltzmann machines, variational autoencoders and adversarial networks at the Deep Learning School, with candid notes on what did and did not work.
1:15:59ENLex FridmanPodcastSteering Through Time: How Recurrent Networks and LSTMs Learn from SequencesHost Lex FridmanLex Fridman's MIT 6.S094 lecture walks from backpropagation basics to LSTMs and the way they are used to predict steering in self-driving cars.
37:00ENLex FridmanPodcastInside the YouTube Algorithm: Related Graphs, Satisfaction Surveys and the Viewers Who Are Part of the CodeHost Lex FridmanYouTube's head of search and discovery, Cristos Goodrow, explains to Lex Fridman how search and recommendations work, which signals matter, and how the team measures whether viewers are better off.
1:31:52ENLex FridmanPodcastFrom Phonemes to CTC: How Deep Learning Rebuilt Speech RecognitionHost Lex FridmanBaidu's Adam Coates walks through the traditional speech pipeline, the CTC-based end-to-end engine that replaced much of it, and what it takes to scale and deploy it.
17:40ENLex FridmanPodcastFrom AlphaGo Zero to MuZero: How Self-Play Strips Knowledge Out of AIHost Lex FridmanDeepMind's David Silver explains why removing human knowledge made AlphaZero stronger and more general, and how MuZero extended the idea to worlds with unknown rules.
1:07:35ENLex FridmanPodcastWhy AI Will Never Be Perfect: Lex Fridman's Case for Keeping Humans in the LoopHost Lex FridmanIn MIT 6.S093's opening lecture, Lex Fridman lays out five research areas of human-centered AI, from machine teaching to arguing machines that flag their own uncertainty.
1:19:52ENLex FridmanPodcastFrom Pixels to Steering Wheels: Convolutional Networks and End-to-End DrivingHost Lex FridmanLex Fridman's MIT 6.S094 lecture explains how convolutional neural networks work, where deep learning helps a self-driving car, and how to train a network to steer from video.
1:27:30ENLex FridmanPodcastFrom NAND Gates to Self-Driving Traffic: Deep Reinforcement Learning in One LectureHost Lex FridmanLex Fridman's second MIT 6.S094 lecture walks from the humble perceptron to deep Q-learning and the browser-based DeepTraffic competition.
1:05:15ENLex FridmanPodcastTaming the Long Tail: How Waymo Builds a Self-Driving FactoryHost Lex FridmanWaymo principal scientist Drago Anguelov explains how machine learning infrastructure, hybrid design and smart simulated agents tackle the rare events of autonomous driving.
1:27:15ENLex FridmanPodcastPolicy Gradients vs. Q-Learning: John Schulman's Field Guide to Deep Reinforcement LearningHost Lex FridmanOpenAI's John Schulman walks through the core methods of deep RL, from the score function estimator to TRPO and DQN, and says when each one is worth using.
1:19:21ENLex FridmanPodcastVapnik's Case for Learning by Predicates, Not Just by More DataHost Lex FridmanIn an MIT lecture, Vladimir Vapnik argues that complete statistical learning needs two mechanisms, data and invariants, and that choosing smart predicates is where intelligence lives.
1:03:25ENLex FridmanPodcastTheano in an Hour: Symbolic Graphs, Automatic Gradients and a Compiler That Rewrites Your MathHost Lex FridmanPascal Lamblin of MILA walks through how Theano builds, differentiates, optimizes and runs computation graphs, then trains logistic regression, a convnet and an LSTM.
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.
57:55ENLex FridmanPodcastFrom Q-Tables to AlphaGo Zero: A Self-Driving Car Lecture on Deep Reinforcement LearningHost Lex FridmanLex Fridman's MIT 6.S094 lecture walks from the AI pipeline and Q-learning to deep Q-networks, AlphaGo Zero and the DeepTraffic competition.
1:13:22ENLex FridmanPodcastThe Second 90%: What It Really Takes to Put Deep Learning on a Driverless CarHost Lex FridmanWaymo's Sacha Arnoud walks MIT students through Waymo's history, its perception stack, and the industrial-scale labeling, compute and testing behind it.Load moreShowing 24 of 35