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No Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Aug 20, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersThe Skull Is Already the Vat: Max Hodak on Restoring SightHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilPatients blinded by macular degeneration put on laser-projector glasses, read books, and fill in Sudoku — because a chip under the retina is sending vision back into the brain.
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Lex Fridman· May 6, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersEvery Cycle Matters: The Volunteers Who Decode Almost All Internet VideoGuest FFmpeg · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman talks with Jean-Baptiste Kempf and Kieran Kunhya about FFmpeg, VLC, handwritten assembly, and the unpaid crew behind YouTube, Netflix, and a rover on Mars.
35:47ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Jun 5, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersFei-Fei Li’s new bet: AI is incomplete without spatial intelligenceHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilThe ImageNet pioneer tells Sarah Guo and Elad Gil why World Labs is building 3D generative foundation models, and why language was only one piece of the puzzle.
25:56ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Jul 11, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersA Prompt Cannot Hold a Good Design: Six AI Practitioners at Midyear 2024Host Sarah Guo, Elad GilSarah Guo and Elad Gil stitch together clips from Stripe, Figma, Figure, OpenAI's Sora team, Cognition, and Scale into a half-year snapshot of what people actually shipping AI were willing to claim.
27:26ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Jun 20, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersA 40-Person Company With 40,000 Paying Customers Wants to Replace the Camera With AIHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilHeyGen CEO Joshua Xu tells Sarah Guo and Elad Gil how avatars, localization, and a component-wise video stack are meant to knock the camera out of content production.
31:24ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Apr 25, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersSora's Leads: A Minute of HD Video Is Just the GPT-1 of Video ModelsHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilAditya Ramesh, Tim Brooks, and Bill Peebles tell No Priors why text-to-video sits on the path to AGI, why they started from scratch instead of extending an image generator, and why they still have no product date.
24:32ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Apr 18, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersImage Generation Is Still a Loot Box. Suhail Doshi Wants to Scale PixelsHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilThe Playground AI founder tells No Priors why he skipped language models, how a noise-sampling trick fixed SDXL's muddy brightness, and what a large vision model would actually do.
1:55:10ENLex Fridman· Mar 18, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersSam Altman Expects the Road to AGI to Be a Power StruggleGuest Sam Altman · Host Lex FridmanOn a Friday afternoon in November 2023, OpenAI's board fired its CEO. Four and a half days later he was back, still refusing super-voting control.
39:50ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Jul 20, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersWhy AI Video Is Still a Four-Second CorgiHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilMeta research director Devi Parikh explains why text-to-video has stalled on short animated images, and what it will take to get past that plateau.
48:52ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Feb 9, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersUsers Wanted a Better Brush. Runway Built One-Click GreenscreenHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilRunway CEO Cristobal Valenzuela on why a model is not a product, why filmmakers hacked a four-frame-per-second tool, and why 80 percent is enough when nobody dies.
2:36:21ENLex Fridman· Sep 21, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersA Smile Is Not Happiness: Rana el Kaliouby on Emotion AI and the Empathy CrisisGuest Rana el Kaliouby · Host Lex FridmanThe Affectiva founder and Smart Eye deputy CEO talks with Lex Fridman about teaching machines to read faces, sensing drivers inside the cabin, and why she is proudest of the people her company grew.
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.
2:10:06ENLex Fridman· Aug 14, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersYou Might Have to Understand the World to Understand the Letter AGuest Dileep George · Host Lex FridmanDileep George on recursive cortical networks, why a five-year-old can read any new CAPTCHA, and what the Wright brothers actually learned from birds.
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.
2:12:36ENLex Fridman· May 12, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersAttacks Climb the Stack Until They Land on PeopleGuest Dawn Song · Host Lex FridmanDawn Song tells Lex Fridman why the next security crisis is human, how a sticker can rewrite a stop sign, and why data still has no property right.
1:17:29ENLex Fridman· Sep 23, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersThe Algorithm Is Already Better. The Clinic Still Uses 1967.Guest Regina Barzilay · Host Lex FridmanMIT's Regina Barzilay on why deep learning already beats the breast-cancer 'density' score — and why data, liability, and incentives still will not move.
1:15:58ENLex Fridman· Aug 31, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersHuman Intelligence Is a Ridiculously Narrow SliverGuest Yann Lecun · Host Lex FridmanYann LeCun tells Lex Fridman why giant nets plus gradient descent broke the textbooks, why "AGI" is the wrong word, and why the next leap is a world model learned like a baby.
1:59:37ENLex Fridman· Aug 5, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersLane Centering Is the Only Self-Driving Feature That Already HelpsGuest George Hotz · Host Lex Fridmancomma.ai founder George Hotz tells Lex Fridman why staying in the lane beats Level 5 promises, and why a robotaxi stack still has no network effect.
24:22ENLex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersCraftsmanship, First Principles and the Road to Self-Driving: Jim Keller on Working with Elon MuskGuest Jim Keller · Host Lex FridmanThe veteran chip architect explains why he thinks autonomous driving is a tractable engineering problem, how Tesla's cost constraints shaped its hardware, and what he took from Musk's way of thinking.