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Lex Fridman· Feb 11, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersThe Voice Note His Bot Couldn't Handle — and the Agent That Built Itself AnywayGuest OpenClaw · Host Lex FridmanPeter Steinberger tells Lex Fridman how a one-hour WhatsApp toy became GitHub's fastest-growing project, and what it cost him to keep it open.
3:18:09ENLex Fridman· Nov 30, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersA Thing Is Alive When Its Goals Outrun Its PartsGuest Michael Levin · Host Lex FridmanTufts biologist Michael Levin tells Lex Fridman that intelligence is a spectrum of persuadability, that even a bubble sort hosts unexpected goals, and that the brain is a thin client to a space physics does not own.
2:29:21ENLex Fridman· Dec 6, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersThe Poker Bot That Never Tried to Read a SoulGuest Noam Brown · Host Lex FridmanNoam Brown tells Lex Fridman how a Nash-equilibrium bot crushed heads-up no-limit Hold'em, how Pluribus did it six-handed, and why Diplomacy required an AI that could earn human trust.
3:12:55ENLex Fridman· Oct 21, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersThe IQ required to destroy the world drops by one point every yearGuest George Hotz · Host Lex FridmanGeorge Hotz on Fermi's paradox, hacking the simulation, and teaching cars to drive with neural nets.
4:08:58ENLex Fridman· Jun 22, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersThe Man Who Named AGI Wants Superintelligence Raised on CompassionGuest Ben Goertzel · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman talks with Ben Goertzel for four hours about OpenCog, Sophia, SingularityNET, and why a bigger neural net is not a mind.
1:12:36ENLex Fridman· Jun 5, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersKate Darling on Why We Name the Roomba and Mourn the Bomb RobotGuest Kate Darling · Host Lex FridmanAn MIT Media Lab researcher argues that our feelings about machines track the history of animal domestication — and that design can steer that instinct for better or worse.
1:38:33ENLex Fridman· Mar 19, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersMaybe people are rational under different assumptionsGuest Anca Dragan · Host Lex FridmanAnca Dragan talks with Lex Fridman about inverse reinforcement learning, autonomous driving, and why a written reward is evidence rather than law.
1:39:56ENLex Fridman· Feb 26, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersWhy Marcus Hutter Treats Compression as Intelligence ItselfGuest Marcus Hutter · Host Lex FridmanThe DeepMind researcher behind AIXI tells Lex Fridman why a Wikipedia compression contest, Solomonoff induction, and an incomputable formula belong in the same conversation.
1:45:58ENLex Fridman· Dec 14, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersNine of ten colleagues said far-field speech was impossibleGuest Rohit Prasad · Host Lex FridmanRohit Prasad, Amazon’s vice president and head scientist for Alexa, talks with Lex Fridman about conversational AI, the Alexa Prize, trust, and why a 20-minute chat is still years away.
1:23:01ENLex Fridman· Dec 11, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersYou Cannot Ask a Question You Have No Words ForGuest Judea Pearl · Host Lex FridmanA teenager spent three days in bed with a fever after learning that geometry could be done in algebra — then spent a career giving cause and effect a mathematics.
44:48ENLex Fridman· Jul 22, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersChris Urmson: The Path to Driverless Cars Splits Away From the One That Lets You NapGuest Chris Urmson · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman talks with Aurora CEO Chris Urmson about the DARPA races, why lidar is a tool rather than a crutch, and why Level 2 economics will not grow into true autonomy.
1:46:01ENLex Fridman· Apr 29, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersThe Night AlphaStar Beat TLO, the Team Went to a BarGuest Oriol Vinyals · Host Lex FridmanOriol Vinyals on how DeepMind turned StarCraft II into a sequence problem, built a league of agents, and still refuses to call the game solved.
1:01:24ENLex Fridman· Mar 12, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersLeslie Kaelbling: You Buy the Ticket Before You Can Plan the AirportGuest Leslie Kaelbling · Host Lex FridmanThe MIT roboticist tells Lex Fridman why abstractions, belief-space control, and built-in bias matter more than picking a tribe of symbols or neural nets.
1:06:17ENLex Fridman· Dec 28, 2018Podcast · 2 speakersLibratus Beat the World's Best Poker Players Without a Neural NetworkGuest Tuomas Sandholm · Host Lex FridmanTuomas Sandholm tells Lex Fridman how game theory, abstraction, and search — not deep learning — took heads-up no-limit Texas Hold'em, and why the harder work is deploying that toolkit outside the casino.
1:30:52ENLex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersBuilding Minds from Unified Theories: Nate Derbinsky on Cognitive Architectures, Soar, and the Case for ForgettingGuest MIT AGI · Host Lex FridmanA guest lecture in MIT's AGI course on how cognitive architectures try to assemble human-level intelligence, and how studying human memory made the Soar architecture faster and better.