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Lex Fridman· Oct 29, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersKarpathy Calls Trained Neural Nets Complicated Alien ArtifactsGuest Andrej Karpathy · Host Lex FridmanOn Lex Fridman's podcast, Andrej Karpathy refuses the brain analogy, walks the Fermi paradox through Nick Lane's chemistry, and treats the Transformer as a general-purpose differentiable computer.
2:10:08ENLex Fridman· Jul 26, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersGato Is Only the BeginningGuest Oriol Vinyals · Host Lex FridmanDeepMind's Oriol Vinyals talks with Lex Fridman about generalist agents, thrown-away weights, and whether human-level AGI arrives in his lifetime.
2:45:10ENLex Fridman· Jan 22, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersA Teenager Learns to Drive in Twenty Hours. A Car Still Cannot.Guest Yann Lecun · Host Lex FridmanYann LeCun tells Lex Fridman why self-supervised world models are the missing dark matter of intelligence, and why machines are not even at the level of a house cat.
2:31:57ENLex 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.
2:18:29ENLex Fridman· Aug 8, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersYour Cortex Is 150,000 Brains Voting on a Coffee CupGuest Jeff Hawkins · Host Lex FridmanJeff Hawkins tells Lex Fridman that intelligence is learning a model of the world, the neocortex is tens of thousands of independent maps that vote, and the fastest path to machine intelligence is reverse-engineering that sheet.
2:30:30ENLex Fridman· Jul 31, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersThe Fallacy of the Successful First StepGuest Ishan Misra · Host Lex FridmanBerkeley's Jitendra Malik explains why computer vision still looks easy, why fully autonomous driving is not near, and what children know that today's networks do not.
1:56:17ENLex Fridman· Apr 19, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersIf You Reran Earth a Million Times, Would Anything Like Us Appear?Guest Risto Miikkulainen · Host Lex FridmanRisto Miikkulainen on neuroevolution, hyena raids, basil that never sleeps, and why variation-plus-selection still finds solutions backpropagation cannot see.
2:39:15ENLex Fridman· Feb 18, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersCraftsmanship, Graphs and Consciousness: Jim Keller on Building Computers That ThinkGuest Jim Keller · Host Lex FridmanLegendary chip architect Jim Keller talks with Lex Fridman about design philosophy, the future of AI hardware, the human mind and how to live well.
2:08:26ENLex Fridman· Aug 23, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersSatisfying Lectures Don't Stick: Grant Sanderson on Feynman, Fear, and Hitting PublishGuest Grant Sanderson · Host Lex FridmanThe 3Blue1Brown creator talks with Lex Fridman about why the nicest explanations can fail, why he envies Bell Labs, and why the experts most qualified to teach are the ones least willing to post.
2:29:24ENLex Fridman· Jul 31, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersWe Are the Descendants of the First Digital ComputerGuest Manolis Kellis · Host Lex FridmanMIT computational biologist Manolis Kellis tells Lex Fridman why life is digital, why any two humans are 99.9 percent identical, and what evolutionary signatures reveal inside SARS-CoV-2.
1:41:37ENLex Fridman· Jul 21, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersThe Fallacy of the Successful First Step: Jitendra Malik on Why Seeing Still Isn't SolvedGuest Jitendra Malik · Host Lex FridmanBerkeley's Jitendra Malik tells Lex Fridman why computer vision keeps underestimating itself, why full self-driving still needs cognition, and why vision is the parent of language.
1:37:31ENLex Fridman· Jul 14, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersThe Robot That Brought the Beer Was Being TeleoperatedGuest Sergey Levine · Host Lex FridmanSergey Levine tells Lex Fridman why hardware is almost closed, why common sense has to be lived, and why offline reinforcement learning is the missing on-ramp from logs to robots that keep getting better.
2:00:32ENLex Fridman· Jul 3, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersSlow Synapses Grow Fast Learners — Warmth Is the Harder ProblemGuest Matt Botvinick · Host Lex FridmanDeepMind neuroscience director Matt Botvinick tells Lex Fridman how prefrontal cortex, meta-reinforcement learning, and dopamine research meet the human question of what a better life with AI would actually look like.
1:37:28ENLex Fridman· May 8, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersWe Are Still Massively Underestimating Deep LearningGuest Ilya Sutskever · Host Lex FridmanIlya Sutskever tells Lex Fridman why 2012 was about conviction, why bigger models can get worse before they get better, and what he would do with an AGI.
1:12:03ENLex Fridman· May 5, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersMice Don't Get Alzheimer's: Daphne Koller on Disease in a DishGuest Daphne Koller · Host Lex FridmanThe Coursera co-founder and insitro CEO on why most diseases are not one disease, how to turn cells into data, and why overconfident neural nets can kill.
2:09:02ENLex Fridman· Apr 22, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersA Hundred-Nanometer Machine That Is Not Quite AliveGuest Dmitry Korkin · Host Lex FridmanDmitry Korkin walks through the structural genomics of SARS-CoV-2, from spike-ACE2 docking to drug-binding sites, vaccines, and cruise-ship simulations, recorded in the first spring of the pandemic.
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.
1:29:10ENLex Fridman· Feb 20, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersAndrew Ng: The Hardest Part of AI Is Rarely the AlgorithmGuest Andrew Ng · Host Lex FridmanIn a conversation with Lex Fridman, Ng traces a path from late-night Coursera recordings to factory floors, arguing that messy data, habits, and starting small matter more than hype.
1:44:55ENLex Fridman· Feb 14, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersIf You Need 60,000 Digits, You Have Not Found IntelligenceGuest Vladimir Vapnik · Host Lex FridmanVladimir Vapnik tells Lex Fridman that intelligence is the art of shrinking a sea of functions with a few good predicates — and that MNIST, solved with sixty examples per class, is the test.
1:18:41ENLex Fridman· Jan 14, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersThe SS Soldier Who Hugged a Jewish Boy, and the Systems That Still Fool UsGuest Daniel Kahneman · Host Lex FridmanDaniel Kahneman on System 1, deep learning that does not know what it is saying, and why a machine that must call a human is almost as hard as a machine that never needs one.
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.
35:46ENLex Fridman· Nov 29, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersYou never hear structure: Noam Chomsky on language, cognition, and deep learningGuest Noam Chomsky · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman asks the linguist whether we could talk to aliens, how far language goes in the brain, and whether neural networks tell us anything about the mind.
49:53ENLex Fridman· Nov 25, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersGilbert Strang still teaches with thick chalk and four subspacesGuest Gilbert Strang · Host Lex FridmanThe MIT linear-algebra legend talks with Lex Fridman about OpenCourseWare, singular values, neural nets as a million folds, and why calculus hogged the undergraduate timetable.
1:25:01ENLex Fridman· Oct 3, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersGary Marcus: Deep Learning Imitates Intelligence. It Does Not Understand.Guest Gary Marcus · Host Lex FridmanOn Lex Fridman's podcast, the NYU emeritus and Rebooting AI co-author argues that perception and reasoning need different tools — and that trustworthy AI is impossible until machines can represent harm, bottles, and intent.Load moreShowing 24 of 83