Lex Fridman Podcast
Episodes
#92 – Harry Cliff: Particle Physics and the Large Hadron Collider
29 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Harry Cliff is a particle physicist at the University of Cambridge working on the Large Hadron Collider beauty experiment that specializes in searchin...
#91 – Jack Dorsey: Square, Cryptocurrency, and Artificial Intelligence
24 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jack Dorsey is the co-founder and CEO of Twitter and the founder and CEO of Square. Support this podcast by signing up with these sponsors: - Mast...
#90 – Dmitry Korkin: Computational Biology of Coronavirus
22 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Dmitry Korkin is a professor of bioinformatics and computational biology at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, where he specializes in bioinformatics of...
#89 – Stephen Wolfram: Cellular Automata, Computation, and Physics
18 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Stephen Wolfram is a computer scientist, mathematician, and theoretical physicist who is the founder and CEO of Wolfram Research, a company behind Mat...
#88 – Eric Weinstein: Geometric Unity and the Call for New Ideas, Leaders & Institutions
13 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Weinstein is a mathematician with a bold and piercing intelligence, unafraid to explore the biggest questions in the universe and shine a light o...
#87 – Richard Dawkins: Evolution, Intelligence, Simulation, and Memes
09 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Richard Dawkins is an evolutionary biologist, and author of The Selfish Gene, The Blind Watchmaker, The God Delusion, The Magic of Reality, The Greate...
#86 – David Silver: AlphaGo, AlphaZero, and Deep Reinforcement Learning
03 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
David Silver leads the reinforcement learning research group at DeepMind and was lead researcher on AlphaGo, AlphaZero and co-lead on AlphaStar, and M...
#85 – Roger Penrose: Physics of Consciousness and the Infinite Universe
31 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Roger Penrose is physicist, mathematician, and philosopher at University of Oxford. He has made fundamental contributions in many disciplines from the...
#83 – Nick Bostrom: Simulation and Superintelligence
26 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Bostrom is a philosopher at University of Oxford and the director of the Future of Humanity Institute. He has worked on fascinating and important...
#82 – Simon Sinek: Leadership, Hard Work, Optimism and the Infinite Game
21 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Simon Sinek is an author of several books including Start With Why, Leaders Eat Last, and his latest The Infinite Game. He is one of the best communic...
#81 – Anca Dragan: Human-Robot Interaction and Reward Engineering
19 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Anca Dragan is a professor at Berkeley, working on human-robot interaction -- algorithms that look beyond the robot's function in isolation, and gener...
#80 – Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum, Cryptocurrency, and the Future of Money
16 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Vitalik Buterin is co-creator of Ethereum and ether, which is a cryptocurrency that is currently the second-largest digital currency after bitcoin. Et...
#79 – Lee Smolin: Quantum Gravity and Einstein’s Unfinished Revolution
07 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Lee Smolin is a theoretical physicist, co-inventor of loop quantum gravity, and a contributor of many interesting ideas to cosmology, quantum field th...
#78 – Ann Druyan: Cosmos, Carl Sagan, Voyager, and the Beauty of Science
05 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ann Druyan is the writer, producer, director, and one of the most important and impactful communicators of science in our time. She co-wrote the 1980 ...
#77 – Alex Garland: Ex Machina, Devs, Annihilation, and the Poetry of Science
03 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Alex Garland is a writer and director of many imaginative and philosophical films from the dreamlike exploration of human self-destruction in the movi...
#76 – John Hopfield: Physics View of the Mind and Neurobiology
29 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
John Hopfield is professor at Princeton, whose life's work weaved beautifully through biology, chemistry, neuroscience, and physics. Most crucially, h...
#75 – Marcus Hutter: Universal Artificial Intelligence, AIXI, and AGI
26 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Marcus Hutter is a senior research scientist at DeepMind and professor at Australian National University. Throughout his career of research, including...
#74 – Michael I. Jordan: Machine Learning, Recommender Systems, and the Future of AI
24 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Michael I. Jordan is a professor at Berkeley, and one of the most influential people in the history of machine learning, statistics, and artificial in...
#73 – Andrew Ng: Deep Learning, Education, and Real-World AI
20 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew Ng is one of the most impactful educators, researchers, innovators, and leaders in artificial intelligence and technology space in general. He ...
#72 – Scott Aaronson: Quantum Computing
17 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Scott Aaronson is a professor at UT Austin, director of its Quantum Information Center, and previously a professor at MIT. His research interests cent...
Vladimir Vapnik: Predicates, Invariants, and the Essence of Intelligence
14 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Vladimir Vapnik is the co-inventor of support vector machines, support vector clustering, VC theory, and many foundational ideas in statistical learni...
Jim Keller: Moore’s Law, Microprocessors, Abstractions, and First Principles
05 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jim Keller is a legendary microprocessor engineer, having worked at AMD, Apple, Tesla, and now Intel. He's known for his work on the AMD K7, K8, K12 a...
David Chalmers: The Hard Problem of Consciousness
29 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
David Chalmers is a philosopher and cognitive scientist specializing in philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and consciousness. He is perhaps b...
Cristos Goodrow: YouTube Algorithm
25 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Cristos Goodrow is VP of Engineering at Google and head of Search and Discovery at YouTube (aka YouTube Algorithm). This conversation is part of th...
Paul Krugman: Economics of Innovation, Automation, Safety Nets & Universal Basic Income
21 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Paul Krugman is a Nobel Prize winner in economics, professor at CUNY, and columnist at the New York Times. His academic work centers around internatio...
Ayanna Howard: Human-Robot Interaction and Ethics of Safety-Critical Systems
17 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ayanna Howard is a roboticist and professor at Georgia Tech, director of Human-Automation Systems lab, with research interests in human-robot interact...
Daniel Kahneman: Thinking Fast and Slow, Deep Learning, and AI
14 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Daniel Kahneman is winner of the Nobel Prize in economics for his integration of economic science with the psychology of human behavior, judgment and ...
Grant Sanderson: 3Blue1Brown and the Beauty of Mathematics
07 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Grant Sanderson is a math educator and creator of 3Blue1Brown, a popular YouTube channel that uses programmatically-animated visualizations to explain...
Stephen Kotkin: Stalin, Putin, and the Nature of Power
03 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Stephen Kotkin is a professor of history at Princeton university and one of the great historians of our time, specializing in Russian and Soviet histo...
Donald Knuth: Algorithms, TeX, Life, and The Art of Computer Programming
30 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Donald Knuth is one of the greatest and most impactful computer scientists and mathematicians ever. He is the recipient in 1974 of the Turing Award, c...
Melanie Mitchell: Concepts, Analogies, Common Sense & Future of AI
28 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Melanie Mitchell is a professor of computer science at Portland State University and an external professor at Santa Fe Institute. She has worked on an...
Jim Gates: Supersymmetry, String Theory and Proving Einstein Right
25 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jim Gates (S James Gates Jr.) is a theoretical physicist and professor at Brown University working on supersymmetry, supergravity, and superstring the...
Sebastian Thrun: Flying Cars, Autonomous Vehicles, and Education
21 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Sebastian Thrun is one of the greatest roboticists, computer scientists, and educators of our time. He led development of the autonomous vehicles at S...
Michael Stevens: Vsauce
17 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Stevens is the creator of Vsauce, one of the most popular educational YouTube channel in the world, with over 15 million subscribers and over ...
Rohit Prasad: Amazon Alexa and Conversational AI
14 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Rohit Prasad is the vice president and head scientist of Amazon Alexa and one of its original creators. This conversation is part of the Artificial...
Judea Pearl: Causal Reasoning, Counterfactuals, Bayesian Networks, and the Path to AGI
11 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Judea Pearl is a professor at UCLA and a winner of the Turing Award, that's generally recognized as the Nobel Prize of computing. He is one of the sem...
Whitney Cummings: Comedy, Robotics, Neurology, and Love
05 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Whitney Cummings is a stand-up comedian, actor, producer, writer, director, and the host of a new podcast called Good for You. Her most recent Netflix...
Ray Dalio: Principles, the Economic Machine, Artificial Intelligence & the Arc of Life
02 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Ray Dalio is the founder, Co-Chairman and Co-Chief Investment Officer of Bridgewater Associates, one of the world's largest and most successful invest...
Noam Chomsky: Language, Cognition, and Deep Learning
29 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Noam Chomsky is one of the greatest minds of our time and is one of the most cited scholars in history. He is a linguist, philosopher, cognitive scien...
Gilbert Strang: Linear Algebra, Deep Learning, Teaching, and MIT OpenCourseWare
25 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Gilbert Strang is a professor of mathematics at MIT and perhaps one of the most famous and impactful teachers of math in the world. His MIT OpenCourse...
Dava Newman: Space Exploration, Space Suits, and Life on Mars
22 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Dava Newman is the Apollo Program professor of AeroAstro at MIT and the former Deputy Administrator of NASA and has been a principal investigator on f...
Michael Kearns: Algorithmic Fairness, Bias, Privacy, and Ethics in Machine Learning
19 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Kearns is a professor at University of Pennsylvania and a co-author of the new book Ethical Algorithm that is the focus of much of our convers...
Elon Musk: Neuralink, AI, Autopilot, and the Pale Blue Dot
12 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Elon Musk is the CEO of Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink, and a co-founder of several other companies. This is the second time Elon has been on the podcast. Y...
Bjarne Stroustrup: C++
07 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Bjarne Stroustrup is the creator of C++, a programming language that after 40 years is still one of the most popular and powerful languages in the wor...
Sean Carroll: Quantum Mechanics and the Many-Worlds Interpretation
01 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Sean Carroll is a theoretical physicist at Caltech and Santa Fe Institute specializing in quantum mechanics, arrow of time, cosmology, and gravitation...
Garry Kasparov: Chess, Deep Blue, AI, and Putin
27 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Garry Kasparov is considered by many to be the greatest chess player of all time. From 1986 until his retirement in 2005, he dominated the chess world...
Michio Kaku: Future of Humans, Aliens, Space Travel & Physics
22 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Michio Kaku is a theoretical physicist, futurist, and professor at the City College of New York. He is the author of many fascinating books on the nat...
David Ferrucci: IBM Watson, Jeopardy & Deep Conversations with AI
11 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
David Ferrucci led the team that built Watson, the IBM question-answering system that beat the top humans in the world at the game of Jeopardy. He is ...
Gary Marcus: Toward a Hybrid of Deep Learning and Symbolic AI
03 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Gary Marcus is a professor emeritus at NYU, founder of Robust.AI and Geometric Intelligence, the latter is a machine learning company acquired by Uber...
Peter Norvig: Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
30 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Norvig is a research director at Google and the co-author with Stuart Russell of the book Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach that educat...
Leonard Susskind: Quantum Mechanics, String Theory, and Black Holes
26 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Leonard Susskind is a professor of theoretical physics at Stanford University, and founding director of the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics...
Regina Barzilay: Deep Learning for Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment
23 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Regina Barzilay is a professor at MIT and a world-class researcher in natural language processing and applications of deep learning to chemistry and o...
Colin Angle: iRobot
19 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Colin Angle is the CEO and co-founder of iRobot, a robotics company that for 29 years has been creating robots that operate successfully in the real w...
François Chollet: Keras, Deep Learning, and the Progress of AI
14 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
François Chollet is the creator of Keras, which is an open source deep learning library that is designed to enable fast, user-friendly experimentatio...
Vijay Kumar: Flying Robots
08 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Vijay Kumar is one of the top roboticists in the world, professor at the University of Pennsylvania, Dean of Penn Engineering, former director of GRAS...
Yann LeCun: Deep Learning, Convolutional Neural Networks, and Self-Supervised Learning
31 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Yann LeCun is one of the fathers of deep learning, the recent revolution in AI that has captivated the world with the possibility of what machines can...
Jeremy Howard: fast.ai Deep Learning Courses and Research
27 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jeremy Howard is the founder of fast.ai, a research institute dedicated to make deep learning more accessible. He is also a Distinguished Research Sci...
Pamela McCorduck: Machines Who Think and the Early Days of AI
23 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Pamela McCorduck is an author who has written on the history and philosophical significance of artificial intelligence, the future of engineering, and...
Keoki Jackson: Lockheed Martin
19 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Keoki Jackson is the CTO of Lockheed Martin, a company that through its long history has created some of the most incredible engineering marvels that ...
Paola Arlotta: Brain Development from Stem Cell to Organoid
12 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Paola Arlotta is a professor of stem cell and regenerative biology at Harvard University. She is interested in understanding the molecular laws that g...
George Hotz: Comma.ai, OpenPilot, and Autonomous Vehicles
05 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
George Hotz is the founder of Comma.ai, a machine learning based vehicle automation company. He is an outspoken personality in the field of AI and tec...
Kevin Scott: Microsoft CTO
01 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Kevin Scott is the CTO of Microsoft. Before that, he was the Senior Vice President of Engineering and Operations at LinkedIn. And before that, he over...
Gustav Soderstrom: Spotify
29 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Gustav Soderstrom is the Chief Research & Development Officer at Spotify, leading Product, Design, Data, Technology & Engineering teams. This conversa...
Chris Urmson: Self-Driving Cars at Aurora, Google, CMU, and DARPA
22 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Urmson was the CTO of the Google Self-Driving Car team, a key engineer and leader behind the Carnegie Mellon autonomous vehicle entries in the D...
Kai-Fu Lee: AI Superpowers – China and Silicon Valley
15 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Kai-Fu Lee is the Chairman and CEO of Sinovation Ventures that manages a 2 billion dollar dual currency investment fund with a focus on developing the...
Sean Carroll: The Nature of the Universe, Life, and Intelligence
10 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Sean Carroll is a theoretical physicist at Caltech, specializing in quantum mechanics, gravity, and cosmology. He is the author of several popular boo...
Jeff Hawkins: Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence
01 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jeff Hawkins is the founder of Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience in 2002 and Numenta in 2005. In his 2004 book titled On Intelligence, and i...
Rosalind Picard: Affective Computing, Emotion, Privacy, and Health
17 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Rosalind Picard is a professor at MIT, director of the Affective Computing Research Group at the MIT Media Lab, and co-founder of two companies, Affec...
Gavin Miller: Adobe Research
10 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Gavin Miller is the Head of Adobe Research. Adobe have empowered artists, designers, and creative minds from all professions working in the digital me...
Rajat Monga: TensorFlow
03 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Rajat Monga is an Engineering Director at Google, leading the TensorFlow team. If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to htt...
Chris Lattner: Compilers, LLVM, Swift, TPU, and ML Accelerators
13 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Lattner is a senior director at Google working on several projects including CPU, GPU, TPU accelerators for TensorFlow, Swift for TensorFlow, an...
Oriol Vinyals: DeepMind AlphaStar, StarCraft, Language, and Sequences
29 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Oriol Vinyals is a senior research scientist at Google DeepMind. Before that he was at Google Brain and Berkeley. His research has been cited over 39,...
Ian Goodfellow: Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs)
18 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Ian Goodfellow is the author of the popular textbook on deep learning (simply titled "Deep Learning"). He coined the term Generative Adversarial Netwo...
Elon Musk: Tesla Autopilot
12 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Elon Musk is the CEO of Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink, and a co-founder of several other companies. Video version is available on YouTube. If you would lik...
Greg Brockman: OpenAI and AGI
03 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Greg Brockman is the Co-Founder and CTO of OpenAI, a research organization developing ideas in AI that lead eventually to a safe & friendly artificial...
Eric Weinstein: Revolutionary Ideas in Science, Math, and Society
20 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Weinstein is a mathematician, economist, physicist, and managing director of Thiel Capital. He formed the "intellectual dark web" which is a loos...
Leslie Kaelbling: Reinforcement Learning, Planning, and Robotics
12 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Leslie Kaelbling is a roboticist and professor at MIT. She is recognized for her work in reinforcement learning, planning, robot navigation, and sever...
Kyle Vogt: Cruise Automation
07 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Kyle Vogt is the President and CTO of Cruise Automation, leading an effort in trying to solve one of the biggest robotics challenges of our time: vehi...
Tomaso Poggio: Brains, Minds, and Machines
19 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Tomaso Poggio is a professor at MIT and is the director of the Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines. Cited over 100,000 times, his work has had a pr...
Tuomas Sandholm: Poker and Game Theory
28 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Tuomas Sandholm is a professor at CMU and co-creator of Libratus, which is the first AI system to beat top human players at the game of Heads-Up No-Li...
Juergen Schmidhuber: Godel Machines, Meta-Learning, and LSTMs
23 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Juergen Schmidhuber is the co-creator of long short-term memory networks (LSTMs) which are used in billions of devices today for speech recognition, t...
Pieter Abbeel: Deep Reinforcement Learning
16 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Pieter Abbeel is a professor at UC Berkeley, director of the Berkeley Robot Learning Lab, and is one of the top researchers in the world working on ho...
Stuart Russell: Long-Term Future of AI
09 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Stuart Russell is a professor of computer science at UC Berkeley and a co-author of the book that introduced me and millions of other people to AI, ca...
Eric Schmidt: Google
04 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Schmidt was the CEO of Google from 2001 to 2011, and its executive chairman from 2011 to 2017, guiding the company through a period of incredible...
Jeff Atwood: Stack Overflow and Coding Horror
29 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Jeff Atwood is a co-founder of Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange, websites that are visited by millions of people every day. Much like with Wikipedia,...
Guido van Rossum: Python
22 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Guido van Rossum is the creator of Python, one of the most popular and impactful programming languages in the world. Video version is available on Yo...
Vladimir Vapnik: Statistical Learning
16 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Vladimir Vapnik is the co-inventor of support vector machines, support vector clustering, VC theory, and many foundational ideas in statistical learni...
Yoshua Bengio: Deep Learning
20 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Yoshua Bengio, along with Geoffrey Hinton and Yann Lecun, is considered one of the three people most responsible for the advancement of deep learning ...
Steven Pinker: AI in the Age of Reason
17 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Steven Pinker is a professor at Harvard and before that was a professor at MIT. He is the author of many books, several of which have had a big impact...
Christof Koch: Consciousness
02 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
A conversation with Christof Koch as part of MIT course on Artificial General Intelligence. Video version is available on YouTube. He is the Presiden...
Max Tegmark: Life 3.0
26 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
A conversation with Max Tegmark as part of MIT course on Artificial General Intelligence. Video version is available on YouTube. He is a Physics Profe...