Lex Fridman Podcast
Lex Fridman
Conversations about science, technology, history, philosophy and the nature of intelligence, consciousness, love, and power. Lex is an AI researcher at MIT and beyond.
#459 – DeepSeek, China, OpenAI, NVIDIA, xAI, TSMC, Stargate, and AI Megaclusters
Dylan Patel is the founder of SemiAnalysis, a research & analysis company specializing in semiconductors, GPUs, CPUs, and AI hardware. Nathan Lambert is a research scientist at the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) and the author of a blog on AI called Interconnects.
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#458 – Marc Andreessen: Trump, Power, Tech, AI, Immigration & Future of America
Marc Andreessen is an entrepreneur, investor, co-creator of Mosaic, co-founder of Netscape, and co-founder of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.
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#457 – Jennifer Burns: Milton Friedman, Ayn Rand, Economics, Capitalism, Freedom
Jennifer Burns is a historian of ideas, focusing on the evolution of economic, political, and social ideas in the United States in the 20th century. She wrote two biographies, one on Milton Friedman, and the other on Ayn Rand.
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#456 – Volodymyr Zelenskyy: Ukraine, War, Peace, Putin, Trump, NATO, and Freedom
Volodymyr Zelenskyy is the President of Ukraine. On YouTube this episode is available in English, Ukrainian, and Russian. Captions and voice-over audio tracks are provided in English, Ukrainian, Russian, and the original mixed-language version, with subtitles available in your preferred language. To listen to the original mixed language version, please select the English (UK) audio track audio track. The default is English overdub.
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#455 – Adam Frank: Alien Civilizations and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life
Adam Frank is an astrophysicist studying star systems and the search for extraterrestrial life and alien civilizations.
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#454 – Saagar Enjeti: Trump, MAGA, DOGE, Obama, FDR, JFK, History & Politics
Saagar Enjeti is a political journalist & commentator, co-host of Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar and The Realignment Podcast. He is exceptionally well-read, and the books he recommends are always fascinating and eye-opening. You can check out all the books he mentions in this episode here: https://lexfridman.com/saagar-books
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#453 – Javier Milei: President of Argentina – Freedom, Economics, and Corruption
Javier Milei is the President of Argentina. This episode is available in both English and Spanish.
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#452 – Dario Amodei: Anthropic CEO on Claude, AGI & the Future of AI & Humanity
Dario Amodei is the CEO of Anthropic, the company that created Claude. Amanda Askell is an AI researcher working on Claude’s character and personality. Chris Olah is an AI researcher working on mechanistic interpretability.
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#451 – Rick Spence: CIA, KGB, Illuminati, Secret Societies, Cults & Conspiracies
Rick Spence is a historian specializing in the history of intelligence agencies, espionage, secret societies, conspiracies, the occult, and military history.
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#450 – Bernie Sanders Interview
Bernie Sanders is a US Senator from Vermont and a two-time presidential candidate.
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#449 – Graham Hancock: Lost Civilization of the Ice Age & Ancient Human History
Graham Hancock a journalist and author who for over 30 years has explored the controversial possibility that there existed a lost civilization during the last Ice Age, and that it was destroyed in a global cataclysm some 12,000 years ago. He is the presenter of the Netflix documentary series “Ancient Apocalypse”, the 2nd season of which has just been released.
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#448 – Jordan Peterson: Nietzsche, Hitler, God, Psychopathy, Suffering & Meaning
Jordan Peterson is a psychologist, author, lecturer, and podcast host.
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#447 – Cursor Team: Future of Programming with AI
Aman Sanger, Arvid Lunnemark, Michael Truell, and Sualeh Asif are creators of Cursor, a popular code editor that specializes in AI-assisted programming.
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#446 – Ed Barnhart: Maya, Aztec, Inca, and Lost Civilizations of South America
Ed Barnhart is an archaeologist and explorer specializing in ancient civilizations of the Americas. He is the Director of the Maya Exploration Center, host of the ArchaeoEd Podcast, and lecturer on the ancient history of North, Central, and South America. Ed is in part known for his groundbreaking work on ancient astronomy, mathematics, and calendar systems.
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#445 – Vivek Ramaswamy: Trump, Conservatism, Nationalism, Immigration, and War
Vivek Ramaswamy is a conservative politician, entrepreneur, and author of many books on politics, including his latest titled Truths: The Future of America First.
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#444 – Vejas Liulevicius: Communism, Marxism, Nazism, Stalin, Mao, and Hitler
Vejas Liulevicius is a historian specializing in Germany and Eastern Europe, who has lectured extensively on Marxism and the rise, the reign, and the fall of Communism.
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#443 – Gregory Aldrete: The Roman Empire – Rise and Fall of Ancient Rome
Gregory Aldrete is a historian specializing in ancient Rome and military history.
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#442 – Donald Trump Interview
Donald Trump is the 45th President of the United States and the Republican candidate in the 2024 US Presidential Election.
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#441 – Cenk Uygur: Trump vs Harris, Progressive Politics, Communism & Capitalism
Cenk Uygur is a progressive political commentator and host of The Young Turks.
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#440 – Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life
Pieter Levels (aka levelsio on X) is a self-taught developer and entrepreneur who has designed, programmed, launched over 40 startups, many of which are highly successful.
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#439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling
Craig Jones is a legendary jiu jitsu personality, competitor, co-founder of B-Team, and organizer of the CJI tournament that offers over $2 million in prize money.
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#438 – Elon Musk: Neuralink and the Future of Humanity
Elon Musk is CEO of Neuralink, SpaceX, Tesla, xAI, and CTO of X. DJ Seo is COO & President of Neuralink. Matthew MacDougall is Head Neurosurgeon at Neuralink. Bliss Chapman is Brain Interface Software Lead at Neuralink. Noland Arbaugh is the first human to have a Neuralink device implanted in his brain.
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#437 – Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6
Jordan Jonas is a wilderness survival expert, explorer, hunter, guide, and winner of Alone Season 6, a show in which the task is to survive alone in the arctic wilderness longer than anyone else. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest competitors in the history on that show. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#436 – Ivanka Trump: Politics, Family, Real Estate, Fashion, Music, and Life
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#435 – Andrew Huberman: Focus, Controversy, Politics, and Relationships
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#434 – Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity CEO on Future of AI, Search & the Internet
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#433 – Sara Walker: Physics of Life, Time, Complexity, and Aliens
Sara Walker is an astrobiologist and theoretical physicist. She is the author of a new book titled “Life as No One Knows It: The Physics of Life’s Emergence”. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#432 – Kevin Spacey: Power, Controversy, Betrayal, Truth & Love in Film and Life
Kevin Spacey is a two-time Oscar-winning actor, who starred in Se7en, the Usual Suspects, American Beauty, and House of Cards, creating haunting performances of characters who often embody the dark side of human nature. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#431 – Roman Yampolskiy: Dangers of Superintelligent AI
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#430 – Charan Ranganath: Human Memory, Imagination, Deja Vu, and False Memories
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#429 – Paul Rosolie: Jungle, Apex Predators, Aliens, Uncontacted Tribes, and God
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#428 – Sean Carroll: General Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Black Holes & Aliens
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#427 – Neil Adams: Judo, Olympics, Winning, Losing, and the Champion Mindset
Neil Adams is a judo world champion, 2-time Olympic silver medalist, 5-time European champion, and often referred to as the Voice of Judo. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#426 – Edward Gibson: Human Language, Psycholinguistics, Syntax, Grammar & LLMs
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#425 – Andrew Callaghan: Channel 5, Gonzo, QAnon, O-Block, Politics & Alex Jones
Andrew Callaghan is the host of Channel 5 on YouTube, where he does street interviews with fascinating humans at the edges of society, the so-called vagrants, vagabonds, runaways, outlaws, from QAnon adherents to Phish heads to O Block residents and much more. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#424 – Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame
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#423 – Tulsi Gabbard: War, Politics, and the Military Industrial Complex
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#422 – Mark Cuban: Shark Tank, DEI & Wokeism Debate, Elon Musk, Politics & Drugs
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#421 – Dana White: UFC, Fighting, Khabib, Conor, Tyson, Ali, Rogan, Elon & Zuck
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#420 – Annie Jacobsen: Nuclear War, CIA, KGB, Aliens, Area 51, Roswell & Secrecy
Annie Jacobsen is an investigative journalist and author of “Nuclear War: A Scenario” and many other books on war, weapons, government secrecy, and national security. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#419 – Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI
Sam Altman is the CEO of OpenAI, the company behind GPT-4, ChatGPT, Sora, and many other state-of-the-art AI technologies. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#418 – Israel-Palestine Debate: Finkelstein, Destiny, M. Rabbani & Benny Morris
Norman Finkelstein and Benny Morris are historians. Mouin Rabbani is a Middle East analyst. Steven Bonnell (aka Destiny) is a political livestreamer. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#417 – Kimbal Musk: The Art of Cooking, Tesla, SpaceX, Zip2, and Family
Kimbal Musk is a chef, entrepreneur, and author of The Kitchen Cookbook: Cooking for Your Community. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#416 – Yann Lecun: Meta AI, Open Source, Limits of LLMs, AGI & the Future of AI
Yann LeCun is the Chief AI Scientist at Meta, professor at NYU, Turing Award winner, and one of the most influential researchers in the history of AI. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#415 – Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis & War
Serhii Plokhy is a Ukrainian historian at Harvard University, director of the Ukrainian Research Institute, and an author of many books on history of Eastern Europe, including his latest book The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#414 – Tucker Carlson: Putin, Navalny, Trump, CIA, NSA, War, Politics & Freedom
Tucker Carlson is a highly-influential political commentator. You can watch and listen to him on the Tucker Carlson Network and the Tucker Carlson Podcast. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#413 – Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech
Bill Ackman is an investor who has led some of the biggest and controversial financial trades in history. He is founder and CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#412 – Marc Raibert: Boston Dynamics and the Future of Robotics
Marc Raibert is founder and former long-time CEO of Boston Dynamics, and recently Executive Director of the newly-created Boston Dynamics AI Institute. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#411 – Omar Suleiman: Palestine, Gaza, Oct 7, Israel, Resistance, Faith & Islam
Omar Suleiman is a Palestinian-American Muslim scholar, civil rights leader, and President of the Yaqeen Institute for Islamic Research. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#410 – Ben Shapiro vs Destiny Debate: Politics, Jan 6, Israel, Ukraine & Wokeism
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#409 – Matthew Cox: FBI Most Wanted Con Man – $55 Million in Bank Fraud
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#408 – Tal Wilkenfeld: Music, Guitar, Bass, Jeff Beck, Prince, and Leonard Cohen
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#407 – Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI
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#406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness
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#405 – Jeff Bezos: Amazon and Blue Origin
Jeff Bezos is the founder of Amazon and Blue Origin.
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#404 – Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe
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#403 – Lisa Randall: Dark Matter, Theoretical Physics, and Extinction Events
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#402 – Michael Malice: Thanksgiving Pirate Special
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#401 – John Mearsheimer: Israel-Palestine, Russia-Ukraine, China, NATO, and WW3
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#400 – Elon Musk: War, AI, Aliens, Politics, Physics, Video Games, and Humanity
Elon Musk is CEO of X, xAI, SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink, and The Boring Company.
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#399 – Jared Kushner: Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Gaza, Iran, and the Middle East
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#398 – Mark Zuckerberg: First Interview in the Metaverse
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#397 – Greg Lukianoff: Cancel Culture, Deplatforming, Censorship & Free Speech
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#396 – James Sexton: Divorce Lawyer on Marriage, Relationships, Sex, Lies & Love
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#395 – Walter Isaacson: Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Einstein, Da Vinci & Ben Franklin
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#394 – Neri Oxman: Biology, Art, and Science of Design & Engineering with Nature
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#393 – Andrew Huberman: Relationships, Drama, Betrayal, Sex, and Love
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#392 – Joscha Bach: Life, Intelligence, Consciousness, AI & the Future of Humans
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#391 – Mohammed El-Kurd: Palestine
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#390 – Yuval Noah Harari: Human Nature, Intelligence, Power, and Conspiracies
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#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
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#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning
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#387 – George Hotz: Tiny Corp, Twitter, AI Safety, Self-Driving, GPT, AGI & God
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#386 – Marc Andreessen: Future of the Internet, Technology, and AI
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#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia
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#384 – Matthew McConaughey: Freedom, Truth, Family, Hardship, and Love
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#383 – Mark Zuckerberg: Future of AI at Meta, Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp
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#382 – Bert Kreischer: Comedy, Drinking, Rogan, Segura, Churchill & Kim Jong Un
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#381 – Chris Lattner: Future of Programming and AI
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#380 – Neil Gershenfeld: Self-Replicating Robots and the Future of Fabrication
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#379 – Randall Kennedy: The N-Word – History of Race, Law, Politics, and Power
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#378 – Anna Frebel: Origin and Evolution of the Universe, Galaxies, and Stars
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#377 – Harvey Silverglate: Freedom of Speech
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#376 – Stephen Wolfram: ChatGPT and the Nature of Truth, Reality & Computation
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#375 – David Pakman: Politics of Trump, Biden, Bernie, AOC, Socialism & Wokeism
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#374 – Robert Playter: Boston Dynamics CEO on Humanoid and Legged Robotics
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#373 – Manolis Kellis: Evolution of Human Civilization and Superintelligent AI
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#372 – Simone Giertz: Queen of Sh*tty Robots, Innovative Engineering, and Design
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#371 – Max Tegmark: The Case for Halting AI Development
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#370 – Edward Frenkel: Reality is a Paradox – Mathematics, Physics, Truth & Love
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#369 – Paul Rosolie: Amazon Jungle, Uncontacted Tribes, Anacondas, and Ayahuasca
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#368 – Eliezer Yudkowsky: Dangers of AI and the End of Human Civilization
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#367 – Sam Altman: OpenAI CEO on GPT-4, ChatGPT, and the Future of AI
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#366 – Shannon Curry: Johnny Depp & Amber Heard Trial, Marriage, Dating & Love
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#365 – Sam Harris: Trump, Pandemic, Twitter, Elon, Bret, IDW, Kanye, AI & UFOs
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#364 – Chris Voss: FBI Hostage Negotiator
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#363 – B-Team Jiu Jitsu: Craig Jones, Nicky Rod, and Nicky Ryan
Craig Jones, Nicky Rod and Nicky Ryan, together with Ethan Crelinsten are founders of the B-Team, a legendary jiu jitsu team based in Austin, TX. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#362 – Ginni Rometty: IBM CEO on Leadership, Power, and Adversity
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#361 – Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology
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#360 – Tim Urban: Tribalism, Marxism, Liberalism, Social Justice, and Politics
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#359 – Andrew Strominger: Black Holes, Quantum Gravity, and Theoretical Physics
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#358 – Aella: Sex Work, OnlyFans, Porn, Escorting, Dating, and Human Sexuality
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#357 – Paul Conti: Narcissism, Sociopathy, Envy, and the Nature of Good and Evil
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#356 – Tim Dodd: SpaceX, Starship, Rocket Engines, and Future of Space Travel
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#355 – David Kipping: Alien Civilizations and Habitable Worlds
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#354 – Jeremi Suri: American Civil War
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#353 – Dennis Whyte: Nuclear Fusion and the Future of Energy
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#352 – Omar Suleiman: Islam
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#351 – MrBeast: Future of YouTube, Twitter, TikTok, and Instagram
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#350 – Betül Kaçar: Origin of Life, Ancient DNA, Panspermia, and Aliens
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#349 – Bhaskar Sunkara: The Case for Socialism
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#348 – Nathalie Cabrol: Search for Alien Life
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#347 – Michael Malice: Christmas Special
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#346 – Ed Calderon: Mexican Drug Cartels
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#345 – Coffeezilla: SBF, FTX, Fraud, Scams, Fake Gurus, Money, Fame, and Power
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#344 – Noam Brown: AI vs Humans in Poker and Games of Strategic Negotiation
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#343 – Roger Gracie: Greatest Jiu Jitsu Competitor of All Time
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#342 – Todd Howard: Skyrim, Elder Scrolls 6, Fallout, and Starfield
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#341 – Guido van Rossum: Python and the Future of Programming
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#340 – Chris Tarbell: FBI Agent Who Took Down Silk Road
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#339 – Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin
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#338 – Chamath Palihapitiya: Money, Success, Startups, Energy, Poker & Happiness
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#337 – Destiny: Politics, Free Speech, Controversy, Sex, War, and Relationships
Steven Bonnell, aka Destiny, is a progressive political commentator and a live streamer on YouTube. Melina Goransson is a live streamer on Twitch. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#336 – Ben Shapiro: Politics, Kanye, Trump, Biden, Hitler, Extremism, and War
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#335 – Fiona Hill: Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump
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#334 – Abbas Amanat: Iran Protests, Mahsa Amini, History, CIA & Nuclear Weapons
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#333 – Andrej Karpathy: Tesla AI, Self-Driving, Optimus, Aliens, and AGI
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#332 – Kanye ‘Ye’ West Interview
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#331 – Balaji Srinivasan: How to Fix Government, Twitter, Science, and the FDA
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#330 – Hikaru Nakamura: Chess, Magnus, Kasparov, and the Psychology of Greatness
Hikaru Nakamura is a chess super grandmaster and is currently the #1 ranked blitz chess player in the world. He is also one of the top chess streamers on Twitch and YouTube. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#329 – Kate Darling: Social Robots, Ethics, Privacy and the Future of MIT
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#328 – John Danaher: Submission Grappling, ADCC, Animal Combat, and Knives
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#327 – GothamChess: Hans Niemann, Magnus Carlsen, Cheating Scandal & Chess Bots
Levy Rozman, also known as GothamChess, is a professional chess player, streamer, and educator. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#326 – Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality
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#325 – Michael Levin: Biology, Life, Aliens, Evolution, Embryogenesis & Xenobots
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#324 – Daniel Negreanu: Poker
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#323 – Will Sasso: Comedy, MADtv, AI, Friendship, Madness, and Pro Wrestling
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#322 – Rana el Kaliouby: Emotion AI, Social Robots, and Self-Driving Cars
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#321 – Ray Kurzweil: Singularity, Superintelligence, and Immortality
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#320 – Christopher Capozzola: World War I, Ideology, Propaganda, and Politics
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#319 – Botez Sisters: Chess, Streaming, and Fame
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#318 – Nick Lane: Origin of Life, Evolution, Aliens, Biology, and Consciousness
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#317 – John Vervaeke: Meaning Crisis, Atheism, Religion & the Search for Wisdom
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#316 – Noam Chomsky: Putin, Ukraine, China, and Nuclear War
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#315 – Magnus Carlsen: Greatest Chess Player of All Time
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#314 – Liv Boeree: Poker, Game Theory, AI, Simulation, Aliens & Existential Risk
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#313 – Jordan Peterson: Life, Death, Power, Fame, and Meaning
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#312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man
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#311 – Magatte Wade: Africa, Capitalism, Communism, and the Future of Humanity
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#310 – Andrew Bustamante: CIA Spy
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#309 – John Carmack: Doom, Quake, VR, AGI, Programming, Video Games, and Rockets
John Carmack is a legendary programmer, co-founder of id Software, and lead programmer of many revolutionary video games including Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Quake, and the Commander Keen series. He is also the founder of Armadillo Aerospace, and for many years the CTO of Oculus VR. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#308 – Ryan Graves: UFOs, Fighter Jets, and Aliens
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#307 – Brian Armstrong: Coinbase, Cryptocurrency, and Government Regulation
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#306 – Oriol Vinyals: Deep Learning and Artificial General Intelligence
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#305 – Martin Rees: Black Holes, Alien Life, Dark Matter, and the Big Bang
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#304 – Bishop Robert Barron: Christianity and the Catholic Church
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#303 – Steve Keen: Marxism, Capitalism, and Economics
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#302 – Richard Haier: IQ Tests, Human Intelligence, and Group Differences
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#301 – Jack Barsky: KGB Spy
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#300 – Joe Rogan: Comedy, Controversy, Aliens, UFOs, Putin, CIA, and Freedom
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#299 – Demis Hassabis: DeepMind
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#298 – Susan Cain: The Power of Introverts and Loneliness
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#297 – Jonathan Reisman: The Human Body – From Sex & Sperm to Hands & Heart
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#296 – Douglas Murray: Racism, Marxism, and the War on the West
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#295 – Richard Wolff: Marxism and Communism
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#294 – Tony Fadell: iPhone, iPod, and Nest
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#293 – Donald Hoffman: Reality is an Illusion – How Evolution Hid the Truth
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#292 – Robin Hanson: Alien Civilizations, UFOs, and the Future of Humanity
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#291 – Jonathan Haidt: The Case Against Social Media
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#290 – Dan Reynolds: Imagine Dragons
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#289 – Stephen Kotkin: Putin, Zelenskyy, and War in Ukraine
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#288 – Sarma Melngailis: Bad Vegan
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#287 – Bobby Lee: Comedy, Skyrim, Sex Robots, Love, Fame, and Power
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#286 – Oliver Stone: Vladimir Putin and War in Ukraine
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#285 – Glenn Loury: Race, Racism, Identity Politics, and Cancel Culture
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#284 – Saifedean Ammous: Bitcoin, Anarchy, and Austrian Economics
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#283 – Chris Mason: Space Travel, Colonization, and Long-Term Survival in Space
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#282 – David Buss: Sex, Dating, Relationships, and Sex Differences
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#281 – Grimes: Music, AI, and the Future of Humanity
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#280 – Cristiano Amon: Qualcomm CEO
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#279 – Alien Debate: Sara Walker and Lee Cronin
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#278 – Skye Fitzgerald: Hunger, War, and Human Suffering
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#277 – Andrew Huberman: Focus, Stress, Relationships, and Friendship
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#276 – Michael Saylor: Bitcoin, Inflation, and the Future of Money
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#275 – Rick Rubin: Legendary Music Producer
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#274 – Karl Deisseroth: Depression, Schizophrenia, and Psychiatry
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#273 – Chris Blattman: War and Violence
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#272 – Brett Johnson: US Most Wanted Cybercriminal
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#271 – Ariel Ekblaw: Space Colonization and Self-Assembling Space Megastructures
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#270 – David Wolpe: Judaism
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#269 – Lee Cronin: Origin of Life, Aliens, Complexity, and Consciousness
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#268 – Robert Proctor: Nazi Science and Ideology
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#267 – Mark Zuckerberg: Meta, Facebook, Instagram, and the Metaverse
Mark Zuckerberg is CEO of Meta, formerly Facebook.
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#266 – Nicole Perlroth: Cybersecurity and the Weapons of Cyberwar
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#265 – Devon Larratt: Arm Wrestling
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#264 – Tim Urban: Elon Musk, Neuralink, AI, Aliens, and the Future of Humanity
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#263 – John Abramson: Big Pharma
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#262 – Garry Nolan: UFOs and Aliens
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#261 – Philip Goff: Consciousness, Panpsychism, and the Philosophy of Mind
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#260 – Georges St-Pierre, John Danaher & Gordon Ryan: The Greatest of All Time
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#258 – Yann LeCun: Dark Matter of Intelligence and Self-Supervised Learning
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#256 – Nationalism Debate: Yaron Brook and Yoram Hazony
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#254 – Jay Bhattacharya: The Case Against Lockdowns
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#252 – Elon Musk: SpaceX, Mars, Tesla Autopilot, Self-Driving, Robotics, and AI
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#251 – Ray Dalio: Money, Power, and the Collapse of Empires
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#250 – Peter Wang: Python and the Source Code of Humans, Computers, and Reality
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#249 – Albert Bourla: Pfizer CEO
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#248 – Norman Naimark: Genocide, Stalin, Hitler, Mao, and Absolute Power
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#247 – Jamie Metzl: Lab Leak Theory
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#246 – Peter Woit: Theories of Everything and Why String Theory is Not Even Wrong
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#245 – Tom Brands: Iowa Wrestling
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#244 – Robert Crews: Afghanistan, Taliban, Bin Laden, and War in the Middle East
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#242 – Ben Askren: Wrestling and MMA
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#241 – Boris Sofman: Waymo, Cozmo, Self-Driving Cars, and the Future of Robotics
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#240 – Neal Stephenson: Sci-Fi, Space, Aliens, AI, VR & the Future of Humanity
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#239 – Niall Ferguson: History of Money, Power, War, and Truth
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#238 – Francis Collins: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
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#237 – Steve Viscelli: Trucking and the Decline of the American Dream
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#236 – Jimmy Pedro: Judo and the Forging of Champions
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#235 – Michael Mina: Rapid COVID Testing
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#234 – Stephen Wolfram: Complexity and the Fabric of Reality
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#233 – Carl Hart: Heroin, Cocaine, MDMA, Alcohol & the Role of Drugs in Society
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#232 – Brian Greene: Quantum Gravity, Big Bang, Aliens, Life, Death, and Meaning
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#231 – Alex Gladstein: Bitcoin, Authoritarianism, and Human Rights
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#230 – Kelsi Sheren: War, Artillery, PTSD, and Love
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#229 – Richard Wrangham: Role of Violence, Sex, and Fire in Human Evolution
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#228 – RZA: Wu-Tang Clan, Kung Fu, Chess, God, Life, and Death
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#227 – Sean Kelly: Existentialism, Nihilism, and the Search for Meaning
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#225 – Jeffrey Shainline: Neuromorphic Computing and Optoelectronic Intelligence
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#224 – Travis Oliphant: NumPy, SciPy, Anaconda, Python & Scientific Programming
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#223 – Travis Stevens: Judo, Olympics, and Mental Toughness
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#222 – Jay McClelland: Neural Networks and the Emergence of Cognition
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#221 – Douglas Lenat: Cyc and the Quest to Solve Common Sense Reasoning in AI
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#220 – Niels Jorgensen: New York Firefighters and the Heroes of 9/11
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#219 – Donald Knuth: Programming, Algorithms, Hard Problems & the Game of Life
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#217 – Rodney Brooks: Robotics
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#216 – Vincent Racaniello: Viruses and Vaccines
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#215 – Wojciech Zaremba: OpenAI Codex, GPT-3, Robotics, and the Future of AI
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#214 – Jed Buchwald: Isaac Newton and the Philosophy of Science
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#213 – Barry Barish: Gravitational Waves and the Most Precise Device Ever Built
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#212 – Joscha Bach: Nature of Reality, Dreams, and Consciousness
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#211 – Brian Muraresku: The Secret History of Psychedelics
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#210 – Matt Walker: Sleep
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#209 – Luís and João Batalha: Fermat’s Library and the Art of Studying Papers
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#208 – Jeff Hawkins: The Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence
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#206 – Ishan Misra: Self-Supervised Deep Learning in Computer Vision
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#205 – Zach Bitter: Ultramarathon Running
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#204 – Cumrun Vafa: String Theory
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#202 – Rick Doblin: Psychedelics
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#201 – Konstantin Batygin: Planet 9 and the Edge of Our Solar System
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#200 – Michael Malice: Totalitarianism and Anarchy
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#199 – Roger Reaves: Smuggling Drugs for Pablo Escobar and the Medellin Cartel
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#198 – Sara Walker: The Origin of Life on Earth and Alien Worlds
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#197 – Jocko Willink: War, Leadership, and Discipline
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#196 – Yeonmi Park: North Korea
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#195 – Clara Sousa-Silva: Searching for Signs of Life on Venus and Other Planets
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#194 – Bret Weinstein: Truth, Science, and Censorship in the Time of a Pandemic
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#193 – Rob Reid: The Existential Threat of Engineered Viruses and Lab Leaks
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#192 – Charles Hoskinson: Cardano
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#191 – Daniel Schmachtenberger: Steering Civilization Away from Self-Destruction
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#190 – Jordan Ellenberg: Mathematics of High-Dimensional Shapes and Geometries
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#189 – David Sinclair: Extending the Human Lifespan Beyond 100 Years
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#188 – Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum 2.0
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#187 – Frank Wilczek: Physics of Quarks, Dark Matter, Complexity, Life & Aliens
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#186 – Bryan Johnson: Kernel Brain-Computer Interfaces
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#185 – Sam Harris: Consciousness, Free Will, Psychedelics, AI, UFOs, and Meaning
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#184 – Katherine de Kleer: Planets, Moons, and Asteroids in Our Solar System
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#183 – Po-Shen Loh: Mathematics, Math Olympiad, Combinatorics & Contact Tracing
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#182 – John Danaher: The Path to Mastery in Jiu Jitsu, Grappling, Judo, and MMA
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#181 – Sergey Nazarov: Chainlink, Smart Contracts, and Oracle Networks
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#180 – Jeremi Suri: History of American Power
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#179 – Georges St-Pierre: The Science of Fighting
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#178 – Michael Malice and Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand, Human Nature, and Anarchy
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#177 – Risto Miikkulainen: Neuroevolution and Evolutionary Computation
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#176 – Robert Breedlove: Philosophy of Bitcoin from First Principles
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#175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy
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#174 – Tyler Cowen: Economic Growth and the Fight Against Conformity and Mediocrity
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#173 – Nic Carter: Bitcoin Core Values, Layered Scaling, and Blocksize Debates
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#172 – Ryan Schiller: Librex and the Free Exchange of Ideas on College Campuses
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#171 – Anthony Pompliano: Bitcoin
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#170 – Ronald Sullivan: The Ideal of Justice in the Face of Controversy and Evil
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#169 – Ryan Hall: Solving Martial Arts from First Principles
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#168 – Silvio Micali: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Algorand, Bitcoin, and Ethereum
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#166 – Cal Newport: Deep Work, Focus, Productivity, Email, and Social Media
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#165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts
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#164 – Andrew Huberman: Sleep, Dreams, Creativity & the Limits of the Human Mind
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#163 – Eric Weinstein: Difficult Conversations, Freedom of Speech, and Physics
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#162 – Jim Keller: The Future of Computing, AI, Life, and Consciousness
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#161 – Jason Calacanis: Startups, Angel Investing, Capitalism, and Friendship
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#160 – Brendan Eich: JavaScript, Firefox, Mozilla, and Brave
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#159 – Richard Craib: WallStreetBets, Numerai, and the Future of Stock Trading
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#158 – Zev Weinstein: The Next Generation of Big Ideas and Brave Minds
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#157 – Natalya Bailey: Rocket Engines and Electric Spacecraft Propulsion
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#156 – Tim Dillon: Comedy, Power, Conspiracy Theories, and Freedom
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Lex Fridman: Ask Me Anything – AMA January 2021
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#155 – Max Tegmark: AI and Physics
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#154 – Avi Loeb: Aliens, Black Holes, and the Mystery of the Oumuamua
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#153 – Dmitry Korkin: Evolution of Proteins, Viruses, Life, and AI
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#152 – Dan Gable: Olympic Wrestling, Mental Toughness & the Making of Champions
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#151 – Dan Kokotov: Speech Recognition with AI and Humans
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#150 – Michael Malice: The White Pill, Freedom, Hope, and Happiness Amidst Chaos
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#149 – Diana Walsh Pasulka: Aliens, Technology, Religion, and the Nature of Belief
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#148 – Charles Isbell and Michael Littman: Machine Learning and Education
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#147 – Dmitri Dolgov: Waymo and the Future of Self-Driving Cars
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#146 – Michael Mina: Rapid Testing, Viruses, and the Engineering Mindset
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#145 – Matthew Johnson: Psychedelics
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#144 – Michael Littman: Reinforcement Learning and the Future of AI
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#143 – John Clarke: The Art of Fighting and the Pursuit of Excellence
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#142 – Manolis Kellis: Meaning of Life, the Universe, and Everything
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#141 – Erik Brynjolfsson: Economics of AI, Social Networks, and Technology
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#140 – Lisa Feldman Barrett: Love, Evolution, and the Human Brain
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#139 – Andrew Huberman: Neuroscience of Optimal Performance
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#138 – Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand and the Philosophy of Objectivism
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#137 – Alex Filippenko: Supernovae, Dark Energy, Aliens & the Expanding Universe
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#136 – Dan Carlin: Hardcore History
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#135 – Charles Isbell: Computing, Interactive AI, and Race in America
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#134 – Eric Weinstein: On the Nature of Good and Evil, Genius and Madness
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#133 – Manolis Kellis: Biology of Disease
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#132 – George Hotz: Hacking the Simulation & Learning to Drive with Neural Nets
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#131 – Chris Lattner: The Future of Computing and Programming Languages
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#130 – Scott Aaronson: Computational Complexity and Consciousness
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#129 – Lisa Feldman Barrett: Counterintuitive Ideas About How the Brain Works
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#128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling
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#127 – Joe Rogan: Conversations, Ideas, Love, Freedom & The Joe Rogan Experience
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#126 – James Gosling: Java, JVM, Emacs, and the Early Days of Computing
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#125 – Ryan Hall: Martial Arts and the Philosophy of Violence, Power, and Grace
Ryan Hall is a jiu jitsu black belt, UFC fighter, and a philosopher of the martial arts.
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#124 – Stephen Wolfram: Fundamental Theory of Physics, Life, and the Universe
Stephen Wolfram is a computer scientist, mathematician, and theoretical physicist. This is our second conversation on the podcast.
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#123 – Manolis Kellis: Origin of Life, Humans, Ideas, Suffering, and Happiness
Manolis Kellis is a professor at MIT and head of the MIT Computational Biology Group.
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#122 – David Fravor: UFOs, Aliens, Fighter Jets, and Aerospace Engineering
David Fravor is a navy pilot of 18 years and a primary witness in one of the most credible UFO sightings in history, video of which has been released by the Pentagon and reported on by the NY Times.
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Lex Solo #3 – In Memory of My Grandmother
My attempt to find the words to honor my grandmother, an amazing woman who is responsible for much of who I am, who taught me how to be a man, taught me about strength, about wisdom, about compassion, about love.
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#121 – Eugenia Kuyda: Friendship with an AI Companion
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Lex Solo #2 – The Future of Neuralink
My thoughts on 8 possible long-term futures of Neuralink after attending the August 2020 progress update. This is a solo episode #2 of the podcast. Hopefully it’s interesting to some folks. The aim is for these episodes to be focused on a particular topic, at times challenging, at times personal, at times exciting to me on a technical and philosophical level like the episode today.
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#120 – François Chollet: Measures of Intelligence
François Chollet is an AI researcher at Google and creator of Keras.
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#119 – David Eagleman: Neuroplasticity and the Livewired Brain
David Eagleman is a neuroscientist at Stanford.
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New Name: Lex Fridman Podcast
New podcast name. New Russian hitman thumbnail. Everything else stays the same. AI is still my passion, but this gives me a bit more freedom to talk to interesting folks from all over. Thanks for the support & the love.
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#118 – Grant Sanderson: Math, Manim, Neural Networks & Teaching with 3Blue1Brown
Grant Sanderson is a math educator and creator of 3Blue1Brown.
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#117 – Sheldon Solomon: Death and Meaning
Sheldon Solomon is a social psychologist, a philosopher, co-developer of Terror Management Theory, co-author of The Worm at the Core.
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#116 – Sara Seager: Search for Planets and Life Outside Our Solar System
Sara Seager is a planetary scientist at MIT, known for her work on the search for exoplanets.
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#115 – Dileep George: Brain-Inspired AI
Dileep George is a researcher at the intersection of neuroscience and artificial intelligence, co-founder of Vicarious, formerly co-founder of Numenta. From the early work on Hierarchical temporal memory to Recursive Cortical Networks to today, Dileep’s always sought to engineer intelligence that is closely inspired by the human brain.
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#114 – Russ Tedrake: Underactuated Robotics, Control, Dynamics and Touch
Russ Tedrake is a roboticist and professor at MIT and vice president of robotics research at TRI. He works on control of robots in interesting, complicated, underactuated, stochastic, difficult to model situations.
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#113 – Manolis Kellis: Human Genome and Evolutionary Dynamics
Manolis Kellis is a professor at MIT and head of the MIT Computational Biology Group. He is interested in understanding the human genome from a computational, evolutionary, biological, and other cross-disciplinary perspectives.
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#112 – Ian Hutchinson: Nuclear Fusion, Plasma Physics, and Religion
Ian Hutchinson is a nuclear engineer and plasma physicist at MIT. He has made a number of important contributions in plasma physics including the magnetic confinement of plasmas seeking to enable fusion reactions, which is the energy source of the stars, to be used for practical energy production. Current nuclear reactors are based on fission as we discuss. Ian has also written on the philosophy of science and the relationship between science and religion.
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#111 – Richard Karp: Algorithms and Computational Complexity
Richard Karp is a professor at Berkeley and one of the most important figures in the history of theoretical computer science. In 1985, he received the Turing Award for his research in the theory of algorithms, including the development of the Edmonds–Karp algorithm for solving the maximum flow problem on networks, Hopcroft–Karp algorithm for finding maximum cardinality matchings in bipartite graphs, and his landmark paper in complexity theory called “Reducibility Among Combinatorial Proble
#110 – Jitendra Malik: Computer Vision
Jitendra Malik is a professor at Berkeley and one of the seminal figures in the field of computer vision, the kind before the deep learning revolution, and the kind after. He has been cited over 180,000 times and has mentored many world-class researchers in computer science.
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#109 – Brian Kernighan: UNIX, C, AWK, AMPL, and Go Programming
Brian Kernighan is a professor of computer science at Princeton University. He co-authored the C Programming Language with Dennis Ritchie (creator of C) and has written a lot of books on programming, computers, and life including the Practice of Programming, the Go Programming Language, his latest UNIX: A History and a Memoir. He co-created AWK, the text processing language used by Linux folks like myself. He co-designed AMPL, an algebraic modeling language for large-scale optimization.
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#108 – Sergey Levine: Robotics and Machine Learning
Sergey Levine is a professor at Berkeley and a world-class researcher in deep learning, reinforcement learning, robotics, and computer vision, including the development of algorithms for end-to-end training of neural network policies that combine perception and control, scalable algorithms for inverse reinforcement learning, and deep RL algorithms.
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#107 – Peter Singer: Suffering in Humans, Animals, and AI
Peter Singer is a professor of bioethics at Princeton, best known for his 1975 book Animal Liberation, that makes an ethical case against eating meat. He has written brilliantly from an ethical perspective on extreme poverty, euthanasia, human genetic selection, sports doping, the sale of kidneys, and happiness including in his books Ethics in the Real World and The Life You Can Save. He was a key popularizer of the effective altruism movement and is generally considered one of the most influent
#106 – Matt Botvinick: Neuroscience, Psychology, and AI at DeepMind
Matt Botvinick is the Director of Neuroscience Research at DeepMind. He is a brilliant cross-disciplinary mind navigating effortlessly between cognitive psychology, computational neuroscience, and artificial intelligence.
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#105 – Robert Langer: Edison of Medicine
Robert Langer is a professor at MIT and one of the most cited researchers in history, specializing in biotechnology fields of drug delivery systems and tissue engineering. He has bridged theory and practice by being a key member and driving force in launching many successful biotech companies out of MIT.
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#104 – David Patterson: Computer Architecture and Data Storage
David Patterson is a Turing award winner and professor of computer science at Berkeley. He is known for pioneering contributions to RISC processor architecture used by 99% of new chips today and for co-creating RAID storage. The impact that these two lines of research and development have had on our world is immeasurable. He is also one of the great educators of computer science in the world. His book with John Hennessy “Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach” is how I first
#103 – Ben Goertzel: Artificial General Intelligence
Ben Goertzel is one of the most interesting minds in the artificial intelligence community. He is the founder of SingularityNET, designer of OpenCog AI framework, formerly a director of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, Chief Scientist of Hanson Robotics, the company that created the Sophia Robot. He has been a central figure in the AGI community for many years, including in the Conference on Artificial General Intelligence.
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#102 – Steven Pressfield: The War of Art
Steven Pressfield is a historian and author of War of Art, a book that had a big impact on my life and the life of millions of whose passion is to create in art, science, business, sport, and everywhere else. I highly recommend it and others of his books on this topic, including Turning Pro, Do the Work, Nobody Wants to Read Your Shit, and the Warrior Ethos. Also his books Gates of Fire about the Spartans and the battle at Thermopylae, The Lion’s Gate, Tides of War, and others are some of
#101 – Joscha Bach: Artificial Consciousness and the Nature of Reality
Joscha Bach is the VP of Research at the AI Foundation, previously doing research at MIT and Harvard. Joscha work explores the workings of the human mind, intelligence, consciousness, life on Earth, and the possibly-simulated fabric of our universe.
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#99 – Karl Friston: Neuroscience and the Free Energy Principle
Karl Friston is one of the greatest neuroscientists in history, cited over 245,000 times, known for many influential ideas in brain imaging, neuroscience, and theoretical neurobiology, including the fascinating idea of the free-energy principle for action and perception.
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#97 – Sertac Karaman: Robots That Fly and Robots That Drive
Sertac Karaman is a professor at MIT, co-founder of the autonomous vehicle company Optimus Ride, and is one of top roboticists in the world, including robots that drive and robots that fly.
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#96 – Stephen Schwarzman: Going Big in Business, Investing, and AI
Stephen Schwarzman is the CEO and Co-Founder of Blackstone, one of the world’s leading investment firms with over 530 billion dollars of assets under management. He is one of the most successful business leaders in history, all from humble beginnings back in Philly. I recommend his recent book called What It Takes that tells stories and lessons from this personal journey.
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#95 – Dawn Song: Adversarial Machine Learning and Computer Security
Dawn Song is a professor of computer science at UC Berkeley with research interests in security, most recently with a focus on the intersection between computer security and machine learning.
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#94 – Ilya Sutskever: Deep Learning
Ilya Sutskever is the co-founder of OpenAI, is one of the most cited computer scientist in history with over 165,000 citations, and to me, is one of the most brilliant and insightful minds ever in the field of deep learning. There are very few people in this world who I would rather talk to and brainstorm with about deep learning, intelligence, and life than Ilya, on and off the mic.
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#93 – Daphne Koller: Biomedicine and Machine Learning
Daphne Koller is a professor of computer science at Stanford University, a co-founder of Coursera with Andrew Ng and Founder and CEO of insitro, a company at the intersection of machine learning and biomedicine.
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#92 – Harry Cliff: Particle Physics and the Large Hadron Collider
Harry Cliff is a particle physicist at the University of Cambridge working on the Large Hadron Collider beauty experiment that specializes in searching for hints of new particles and forces by studying a type of particle called the “beauty quark”, or “b quark”. In this way, he is part of the group of physicists who are searching answers to some of the biggest questions in modern physics. He is also an exceptional communicator of science with some of the clearest and most
#91 – Jack Dorsey: Square, Cryptocurrency, and Artificial Intelligence
Jack Dorsey is the co-founder and CEO of Twitter and the founder and CEO of Square.
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#90 – Dmitry Korkin: Computational Biology of Coronavirus
Dmitry Korkin is a professor of bioinformatics and computational biology at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, where he specializes in bioinformatics of complex disease, computational genomics, systems biology, and biomedical data analytics. I came across Dmitry’s work when in February his group used the viral genome of the COVID-19 to reconstruct the 3D structure of its major viral proteins and their interactions with human proteins, in effect creating a structural genomics map of the coron
#89 – Stephen Wolfram: Cellular Automata, Computation, and Physics
Stephen Wolfram is a computer scientist, mathematician, and theoretical physicist who is the founder and CEO of Wolfram Research, a company behind Mathematica, Wolfram Alpha, Wolfram Language, and the new Wolfram Physics project. He is the author of several books including A New Kind of Science, which on a personal note was one of the most influential books in my journey in computer science and artificial intelligence.
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#88 – Eric Weinstein: Geometric Unity and the Call for New Ideas, Leaders & Institutions
Eric Weinstein is a mathematician with a bold and piercing intelligence, unafraid to explore the biggest questions in the universe and shine a light on the darkest corners of our society. He is the host of The Portal podcast, a part of which, he recently released his 2013 Oxford lecture on his theory of Geometric Unity that is at the center of his lifelong efforts in arriving at a theory of everything that unifies the fundamental laws of physics.
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#87 – Richard Dawkins: Evolution, Intelligence, Simulation, and Memes
Richard Dawkins is an evolutionary biologist, and author of The Selfish Gene, The Blind Watchmaker, The God Delusion, The Magic of Reality, The Greatest Show on Earth, and his latest Outgrowing God. He is the originator and popularizer of a lot of fascinating ideas in evolutionary biology and science in general, including funny enough the introduction of the word meme in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, which in the context of a gene-centered view of evolution is an exceptionally powerful idea. H
#86 – David Silver: AlphaGo, AlphaZero, and Deep Reinforcement Learning
David Silver leads the reinforcement learning research group at DeepMind and was lead researcher on AlphaGo, AlphaZero and co-lead on AlphaStar, and MuZero and lot of important work in reinforcement learning.
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#85 – Roger Penrose: Physics of Consciousness and the Infinite Universe
Roger Penrose is physicist, mathematician, and philosopher at University of Oxford. He has made fundamental contributions in many disciplines from the mathematical physics of general relativity and cosmology to the limitations of a computational view of consciousness.
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#83 – Nick Bostrom: Simulation and Superintelligence
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 ideas in existential risks, simulation hypothesis, human enhancement ethics, and the risks of superintelligent AI systems, including in his book Superintelligence. I can see talking to Nick multiple times on this podcast, many hours each time, but we have to start somewhere.
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#82 – Simon Sinek: Leadership, Hard Work, Optimism and the Infinite Game
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 communicators of what it takes to be a good leader, to inspire, and to build businesses that solve big difficult challenges.
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#81 – Anca Dragan: Human-Robot Interaction and Reward Engineering
Anca Dragan is a professor at Berkeley, working on human-robot interaction — algorithms that look beyond the robot’s function in isolation, and generate robot behavior that accounts for interaction and coordination with human beings.
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#80 – Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum, Cryptocurrency, and the Future of Money
Vitalik Buterin is co-creator of Ethereum and ether, which is a cryptocurrency that is currently the second-largest digital currency after bitcoin. Ethereum has a lot of interesting technical ideas that are defining the future of blockchain technology, and Vitalik is one of the most brilliant people innovating this space today.
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#79 – Lee Smolin: Quantum Gravity and Einstein’s Unfinished Revolution
Lee Smolin is a theoretical physicist, co-inventor of loop quantum gravity, and a contributor of many interesting ideas to cosmology, quantum field theory, the foundations of quantum mechanics, theoretical biology, and the philosophy of science. He is the author of several books including one that critiques the state of physics and string theory called The Trouble with Physics, and his latest book, Einstein’s Unfinished Revolution: The Search for What Lies Beyond the Quantum.
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#78 – Ann Druyan: Cosmos, Carl Sagan, Voyager, and the Beauty of Science
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 science documentary series Cosmos hosted by Carl Sagan, whom she married in 1981, and her love for whom, with the help of NASA, was recorded as brain waves on a golden record along with other things our civilization has to offer and launched into space on the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft that are now, 42 years later, still active, reaching ou
#77 – Alex Garland: Ex Machina, Devs, Annihilation, and the Poetry of Science
Alex Garland is a writer and director of many imaginative and philosophical films from the dreamlike exploration of human self-destruction in the movie Annihilation to the deep questions of consciousness and intelligence raised in the movie Ex Machina, which to me is one of the greatest movies on artificial intelligence ever made. I’m releasing this podcast to coincide with the release of his new series called Devs that will premiere this Thursday, March 5, on Hulu.
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#76 – John Hopfield: Physics View of the Mind and Neurobiology
John Hopfield is professor at Princeton, whose life’s work weaved beautifully through biology, chemistry, neuroscience, and physics. Most crucially, he saw the messy world of biology through the piercing eyes of a physicist. He is perhaps best known for his work on associate neural networks, now known as Hopfield networks that were one of the early ideas that catalyzed the development of the modern field of deep learning.
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#75 – Marcus Hutter: Universal Artificial Intelligence, AIXI, and AGI
Marcus Hutter is a senior research scientist at DeepMind and professor at Australian National University. Throughout his career of research, including with Jürgen Schmidhuber and Shane Legg, he has proposed a lot of interesting ideas in and around the field of artificial general intelligence, including the development of the AIXI model which is a mathematical approach to AGI that incorporates ideas of Kolmogorov complexity, Solomonoff induction, and reinforcement learning.
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#74 – Michael I. Jordan: Machine Learning, Recommender Systems, and the Future of AI
Michael I. Jordan is a professor at Berkeley, and one of the most influential people in the history of machine learning, statistics, and artificial intelligence. He has been cited over 170,000 times and has mentored many of the world-class researchers defining the field of AI today, including Andrew Ng, Zoubin Ghahramani, Ben Taskar, and Yoshua Bengio.
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#73 – Andrew Ng: Deep Learning, Education, and Real-World AI
Andrew Ng is one of the most impactful educators, researchers, innovators, and leaders in artificial intelligence and technology space in general. He co-founded Coursera and Google Brain, launched deeplearning.ai, Landing.ai, and the AI fund, and was the Chief Scientist at Baidu. As a Stanford professor, and with Coursera and deeplearning.ai, he has helped educate and inspire millions of students including me.
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#72 – Scott Aaronson: Quantum Computing
Scott Aaronson is a professor at UT Austin, director of its Quantum Information Center, and previously a professor at MIT. His research interests center around the capabilities and limits of quantum computers and computational complexity theory more generally.
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Vladimir Vapnik: Predicates, Invariants, and the Essence of Intelligence
Vladimir Vapnik is the co-inventor of support vector machines, support vector clustering, VC theory, and many foundational ideas in statistical learning. He was born in the Soviet Union, worked at the Institute of Control Sciences in Moscow, then in the US, worked at AT&T, NEC Labs, Facebook AI Research, and now is a professor at Columbia University. His work has been cited over 200,000 times.
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Jim Keller: Moore’s Law, Microprocessors, Abstractions, and First Principles
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 and Zen microarchitectures, Apple A4, A5 processors, and co-author of the specifications for the x86-64 instruction set and HyperTransport interconnect.
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David Chalmers: The Hard Problem of Consciousness
David Chalmers is a philosopher and cognitive scientist specializing in philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and consciousness. He is perhaps best known for formulating the hard problem of consciousness which could be stated as “why does the feeling which accompanies awareness of sensory information exist at all?”
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Cristos Goodrow: YouTube Algorithm
Cristos Goodrow is VP of Engineering at Google and head of Search and Discovery at YouTube (aka YouTube Algorithm).
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Paul Krugman: Economics of Innovation, Automation, Safety Nets & Universal Basic Income
Paul Krugman is a Nobel Prize winner in economics, professor at CUNY, and columnist at the New York Times. His academic work centers around international economics, economic geography, liquidity traps, and currency crises.
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Ayanna Howard: Human-Robot Interaction and Ethics of Safety-Critical Systems
Ayanna Howard is a roboticist and professor at Georgia Tech, director of Human-Automation Systems lab, with research interests in human-robot interaction, assistive robots in the home, therapy gaming apps, and remote robotic exploration of extreme environments.
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Daniel Kahneman: Thinking Fast and Slow, Deep Learning, and AI
Daniel Kahneman is winner of the Nobel Prize in economics for his integration of economic science with the psychology of human behavior, judgment and decision-making. He is the author of the popular book “Thinking, Fast and Slow” that summarizes in an accessible way his research of several decades, often in collaboration with Amos Tversky, on cognitive biases, prospect theory, and happiness. The central thesis of this work is a dichotomy between two modes of thought: “System 1&
Grant Sanderson: 3Blue1Brown and the Beauty of Mathematics
Grant Sanderson is a math educator and creator of 3Blue1Brown, a popular YouTube channel that uses programmatically-animated visualizations to explain concepts in linear algebra, calculus, and other fields of mathematics.
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Stephen Kotkin: Stalin, Putin, and the Nature of Power
Stephen Kotkin is a professor of history at Princeton university and one of the great historians of our time, specializing in Russian and Soviet history. He has written many books on Stalin and the Soviet Union including the first 2 of a 3 volume work on Stalin, and he is currently working on volume 3.
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Donald Knuth: Algorithms, TeX, Life, and The Art of Computer Programming
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, considered the Nobel Prize of computing. He is the author of the multi-volume work, the magnum opus, The Art of Computer Programming. He made several key contributions to the rigorous analysis of the computational complexity of algorithms. He popularized asymptotic notation, that we all affectionately know as the big-O notation. He also created the
Melanie Mitchell: Concepts, Analogies, Common Sense & Future of AI
Melanie Mitchell is a professor of computer science at Portland State University and an external professor at Santa Fe Institute. She has worked on and written about artificial intelligence from fascinating perspectives including adaptive complex systems, genetic algorithms, and the Copycat cognitive architecture which places the process of analogy making at the core of human cognition. From her doctoral work with her advisors Douglas Hofstadter and John Holland to today, she has contributed a l
Jim Gates: Supersymmetry, String Theory and Proving Einstein Right
Jim Gates (S James Gates Jr.) is a theoretical physicist and professor at Brown University working on supersymmetry, supergravity, and superstring theory. He served on former President Obama’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. He is the co-author of a new book titled Proving Einstein Right about the scientists who set out to prove Einstein’s theory of relativity.
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Sebastian Thrun: Flying Cars, Autonomous Vehicles, and Education
Sebastian Thrun is one of the greatest roboticists, computer scientists, and educators of our time. He led development of the autonomous vehicles at Stanford that won the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge and placed second in the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge. He then led the Google self-driving car program which launched the self-driving revolution. He taught the popular Stanford course on Artificial Intelligence in 2011 which was one of the first MOOCs. That experience led him to co-found Udacity, an on
Michael Stevens: Vsauce
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 1.7 billion views. His videos often ask and answer questions that are both profound and entertaining, spanning topics from physics to psychology. As part of his channel he created 3 seasons of Mind Field, a series that explored human behavior.
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Rohit Prasad: Amazon Alexa and Conversational AI
Rohit Prasad is the vice president and head scientist of Amazon Alexa and one of its original creators.
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Judea Pearl: Causal Reasoning, Counterfactuals, Bayesian Networks, and the Path to AGI
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 seminal figures in the field of artificial intelligence, computer science, and statistics. He has developed and championed probabilistic approaches to AI, including Bayesian Networks and profound ideas in causality in general. These ideas are important not just for AI, but to our understanding and practice of science. But in the field of AI, the
Whitney Cummings: Comedy, Robotics, Neurology, and Love
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 special called “Can I Touch It?” features in part a robot, she affectionately named Bearclaw, that is designed to be visually a replica of Whitney. It’s exciting for me to see one of my favorite comedians explore the social aspects of robotics and AI in our society. She also has some fascinating ideas about human behavior, psycho
Ray Dalio: Principles, the Economic Machine, Artificial Intelligence & the Arc of Life
Ray Dalio is the founder, Co-Chairman and Co-Chief Investment Officer of Bridgewater Associates, one of the world’s largest and most successful investment firms that is famous for the principles of radical truth and transparency that underlie its culture. Ray is one of the wealthiest people in the world, with ideas that extend far beyond the specifics of how he made that wealth. His ideas, applicable to everyone, are brilliantly summarized in his book Principles.
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Noam Chomsky: Language, Cognition, and Deep Learning
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 scientist, historian, social critic, and political activist. He has spent over 60 years at MIT and recently also joined the University of Arizona.
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Gilbert Strang: Linear Algebra, Deep Learning, Teaching, and MIT OpenCourseWare
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 OpenCourseWare lectures on linear algebra have been viewed millions of times.
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Dava Newman: Space Exploration, Space Suits, and Life on Mars
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 four spaceflight missions. Her research interests are in aerospace biomedical engineering, investigating human performance in varying gravity environments. She has developed a space activity suit, namely the BioSuit, which would provide pressure through compression directly on the skin via the suit’s textile weave, patterning, and materials ra
Michael Kearns: Algorithmic Fairness, Bias, Privacy, and Ethics in Machine Learning
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 conversation, including algorithmic fairness, bias, privacy, and ethics in general. But, that is just one of many fields that Michael is a world-class researcher in, some of which we touch on quickly including learning theory or theoretical foundations of machine learning, game theory, algorithmic trading, quantitative finance, computational social scienc
Elon Musk: Neuralink, AI, Autopilot, and the Pale Blue Dot
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. You can watch the first time on YouTube or listen to the first time on its episode page. You can read the transcript (PDF) here. This conversation is part of the Artificial Intelligence podcast. If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to https://lexfridman.com/ai or connect with @lexfridman on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook
Bjarne Stroustrup: C++
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 world. Its focus on fast, stable, robust code underlies many of the biggest systems in the world that we have come to rely on as a society. If you’re watching this on YouTube, many of the critical back-end component of YouTube are written in C++. Same goes for Google, Facebook, Amazon, Twitter, most Microsoft applications, Adobe applications, mo
Sean Carroll: Quantum Mechanics and the Many-Worlds Interpretation
Sean Carroll is a theoretical physicist at Caltech and Santa Fe Institute specializing in quantum mechanics, arrow of time, cosmology, and gravitation. He is the author of Something Deeply Hidden and several popular books and he is the host of a great podcast called Mindscape. This is the second time Sean has been on the podcast. You can watch the first time on YouTube or listen to the first time on its episode page. This conversation is part of the Artificial Intelligence podcast. If you w
Garry Kasparov: Chess, Deep Blue, AI, and Putin
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, ranking world number 1 for most of those 19 years. While he has many historic matches against human chess players, in the long arc of history he may be remembered for his match again a machine, IBM’s Deep Blue. His initial victories and eventual loss to Deep Blue captivated the imagination of the world of what role Artificial Intelligence s
Michio Kaku: Future of Humans, Aliens, Space Travel & Physics
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 nature of our reality and the future of our civilization. This conversation is part of the Artificial Intelligence podcast. If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to https://lexfridman.com/ai or connect with @lexfridman on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Medium, or YouTube where you can watch the video versions of these conv
David Ferrucci: IBM Watson, Jeopardy & Deep Conversations with AI
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 also the Founder, CEO, and Chief Scientist of Elemental Cognition, a company working engineer AI systems that understand the world the way people do. This conversation is part of the Artificial Intelligence podcast. If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to https://lexfridman.com/ai or connect with @lexfridman on Twitt
Gary Marcus: Toward a Hybrid of Deep Learning and Symbolic AI
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 in 2016. He is the author of several books on natural and artificial intelligence, including his new book Rebooting AI: Building Machines We Can Trust. Gary has been a critical voice highlighting the limits of deep learning and discussing the challenges before the AI community that must be solved in order to achieve artificial general intelligence
Peter Norvig: Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
Peter Norvig is a research director at Google and the co-author with Stuart Russell of the book Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach that educated and inspired a whole generation of researchers including myself to get into the field. This conversation is part of the Artificial Intelligence podcast. If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to https://lexfridman.com/ai or connect with @lexfridman on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Medium, or YouTube where you can wat
Leonard Susskind: Quantum Mechanics, String Theory, and Black Holes
Leonard Susskind is a professor of theoretical physics at Stanford University, and founding director of the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics. He is widely regarded as one of the fathers of string theory and in general as one of the greatest physicists of our time both as a researcher and an educator. This conversation is part of the Artificial Intelligence podcast. If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to https://lexfridman.com/ai or connect with @lexfrid
Regina Barzilay: Deep Learning for Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment
Regina Barzilay is a professor at MIT and a world-class researcher in natural language processing and applications of deep learning to chemistry and oncology, or the use of deep learning for early diagnosis, prevention and treatment of cancer. She has also been recognized for her teaching of several successful AI-related courses at MIT, including the popular Introduction to Machine Learning course. This conversation is part of the Artificial Intelligence podcast. If you would like to get mo
Colin Angle: iRobot
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 world, not as a demo or on a scale of dozens, but on a scale of thousands and millions. As of this year, iRobot has sold more than 25 million robots to consumers, including the Roomba vacuum cleaning robot, the Braava floor mopping robot, and soon the Terra lawn mowing robot. 25 million robots successfully operating autonomously in people’s ho
François Chollet: Keras, Deep Learning, and the Progress of AI
François Chollet is the creator of Keras, which is an open source deep learning library that is designed to enable fast, user-friendly experimentation with deep neural networks. It serves as an interface to several deep learning libraries, most popular of which is TensorFlow, and it was integrated into TensorFlow main codebase a while back. Aside from creating an exceptionally useful and popular library, François is also a world-class AI researcher and software engineer at Google, and is definit
Vijay Kumar: Flying Robots
Vijay Kumar is one of the top roboticists in the world, professor at the University of Pennsylvania, Dean of Penn Engineering, former director of GRASP lab, or the General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception Laboratory at Penn that was established back in 1979, 40 years ago. Vijay is perhaps best known for his work in multi-robot systems (or robot swarms) and micro aerial vehicles, robots that elegantly cooperate in flight under all the uncertainty and challenges that real-world conditi
Yann LeCun: Deep Learning, Convolutional Neural Networks, and Self-Supervised Learning
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 learn from data. He is a professor at New York University, a Vice President & Chief AI Scientist at Facebook, co-recipient of the Turing Award for his work on deep learning. He is probably best known as the founder of convolutional neural networks, in particular their early application to optical character recognition. This conversation is par
Jeremy Howard: fast.ai Deep Learning Courses and Research
Jeremy Howard is the founder of fast.ai, a research institute dedicated to make deep learning more accessible. He is also a Distinguished Research Scientist at the University of San Francisco, a former president of Kaggle as well a top-ranking competitor there, and in general, he’s a successful entrepreneur, educator, research, and an inspiring personality in the AI community. This conversation is part of the Artificial Intelligence podcast. If you would like to get more information a
Pamela McCorduck: Machines Who Think and the Early Days of AI
Pamela McCorduck is an author who has written on the history and philosophical significance of artificial intelligence, the future of engineering, and the role of women and technology. Her books include Machines Who Think in 1979, The Fifth Generation in 1983 with Ed Feigenbaum who is considered to be the father of expert systems, the Edge of Chaos, The Futures of Women, and more. Through her literary work, she has spent a lot of time with the seminal figures of artificial intelligence, includes
Keoki Jackson: Lockheed Martin
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 human beings have ever built, including planes that fly fast and undetected, defense systems that intersect threats that could take the lives of millions in the case of nuclear weapons, and spacecraft systems that venture out into space, the moon, Mars, and beyond with and without humans on-board. This conversation is part of the Artificial Intelli
Paola Arlotta: Brain Development from Stem Cell to Organoid
Paola Arlotta is a professor of stem cell and regenerative biology at Harvard University. She is interested in understanding the molecular laws that govern the birth, differentiation and assembly of the human brain’s cerebral cortex. She explores the complexity of the brain by studying and engineering elements of how the brain develops. This conversation is part of the Artificial Intelligence podcast. If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to https://lexfridman.com/
George Hotz: Comma.ai, OpenPilot, and Autonomous Vehicles
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 technology in general. He first gained recognition for being the first person to carrier-unlock an iPhone, and since then has done quite a few interesting things at the intersection of hardware and software. This conversation is part of the Artificial Intelligence podcast. If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to https:/
Kevin Scott: Microsoft CTO
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 oversaw mobile ads engineering at Google. This conversation is part of the Artificial Intelligence podcast. If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to https://lexfridman.com/ai or connect with @lexfridman on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Medium, or YouTube where you can watch the video versions of these conversations. If you
Gustav Soderstrom: Spotify
Gustav Soderstrom is the Chief Research & Development Officer at Spotify, leading Product, Design, Data, Technology & Engineering teams. This conversation is part of the Artificial Intelligence podcast. If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to https://lexfridman.com/ai or connect with @lexfridman on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Medium, or YouTube where you can watch the video versions of these conversations. If you enjoy the podcast, please rate it 5 stars
Chris Urmson: Self-Driving Cars at Aurora, Google, CMU, and DARPA
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 DARPA grand challenges and the winner of the DARPA urban challenge. Today he is the CEO of Aurora Innovation, an autonomous vehicle software company he started with Sterling Anderson, who was the former director of Tesla Autopilot, and Drew Bagnell, Uber’s former autonomy and perception lead. This conversation is part of the Artificial Intelli
Kai-Fu Lee: AI Superpowers – China and Silicon Valley
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 next generation of Chinese high-tech companies. He is the former President of Google China and the founder of what is now called Microsoft Research Asia, an institute that trained many of the AI leaders in China, including CTOs or AI execs at Baidu, Tencent, Alibaba, Lenovo, and Huawei. He was named one of the 100 most influential people in the wo
Sean Carroll: The Nature of the Universe, Life, and Intelligence
Sean Carroll is a theoretical physicist at Caltech, specializing in quantum mechanics, gravity, and cosmology. He is the author of several popular books: one on the arrow of time called From Eternity to Here, one on the Higgs boson called The Particle at the End of the Universe, and one on science and philosophy called The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself. He has an upcoming book on Quantum Mechanics that you can preorder now called Something Deeply Hidden. F
Jeff Hawkins: Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence
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 in his research before and after, he and his team have worked to reverse-engineer the neocortex and propose artificial intelligence architectures, approaches, and ideas that are inspired by the human brain. These ideas include Hierarchical Temporal Memory (HTM) from 2004 and The Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence from 2017. If you would like to
Rosalind Picard: Affective Computing, Emotion, Privacy, and Health
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, Affectiva and Empatica. Over two decades ago she launched the field of affective computing with her book of the same name. This book described the importance of emotion in artificial and natural intelligence, the vital role emotion communication has to relationships between people in general and in human-robot interaction. If you would like to get more
Gavin Miller: Adobe Research
Gavin Miller is the Head of Adobe Research. Adobe have empowered artists, designers, and creative minds from all professions working in the digital medium for over 30 years with software such as Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, After Effects, InDesign, Audition that work with images, video, and audio. Adobe Research is working to define the future evolution of these products in a way that makes the life of creatives easier, automates the tedious tasks, and gives more & more time to operate
Rajat Monga: TensorFlow
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 https://lexfridman.com/ai or connect with @lexfridman on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Medium, or YouTube where you can watch the video versions of these conversations.
Chris Lattner: Compilers, LLVM, Swift, TPU, and ML Accelerators
Chris Lattner is a senior director at Google working on several projects including CPU, GPU, TPU accelerators for TensorFlow, Swift for TensorFlow, and all kinds of machine learning compiler magic going on behind the scenes. He is one of the top experts in the world on compiler technologies, which means he deeply understands the intricacies of how hardware and software come together to create efficient code. He created the LLVM compiler infrastructure project and the CLang compiler. He led major
Oriol Vinyals: DeepMind AlphaStar, StarCraft, Language, and Sequences
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 39,000 times. He is one of the most brilliant and impactful minds in the field of deep learning. He is behind some of the biggest papers and ideas in AI, including sequence to sequence learning, audio generation, image captioning, neural machine translation, and reinforcement learning. He is a co-lead (with David Silver) of the AlphaStar project, crea
Ian Goodfellow: Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs)
Ian Goodfellow is the author of the popular textbook on deep learning (simply titled “Deep Learning”). He coined the term Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and with his 2014 paper is responsible for launching the incredible growth of research on GANs. Video version is available on YouTube. If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to https://lexfridman.com/ai or connect with @lexfridman on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Medium, or YouTube where you can watch
Elon Musk: Tesla Autopilot
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 like to get more information about this podcast go to https://lexfridman.com/ai or connect with @lexfridman on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Medium, or YouTube where you can watch the video versions of these conversations.
Greg Brockman: OpenAI and AGI
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 general intelligence that benefits and empowers humanity. Video version is available on YouTube. If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to https://lexfridman.com/ai or connect with @lexfridman on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Medium, or YouTube where you can watch the video versions of these conversations.
Eric Weinstein: Revolutionary Ideas in Science, Math, and Society
Eric Weinstein is a mathematician, economist, physicist, and managing director of Thiel Capital. He formed the “intellectual dark web” which is a loosely assembled group of public intellectuals including Sam Harris, Jordan Peterson, Steven Pinker, Joe Rogan, Michael Shermer, and a few others. Video version is available on YouTube. If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to https://lexfridman.com/ai or connect with @lexfridman on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Me
Leslie Kaelbling: Reinforcement Learning, Planning, and Robotics
Leslie Kaelbling is a roboticist and professor at MIT. She is recognized for her work in reinforcement learning, planning, robot navigation, and several other topics in AI. She won the IJCAI Computers and Thought Award and was the editor-in-chief of the prestigious Journal of Machine Learning Research. Video version is available on YouTube. If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to https://lexfridman.com/ai or connect with @lexfridman on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Medi
Kyle Vogt: Cruise Automation
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: vehicle autonomy. He is the co-founder of 2 successful companies (Cruise and Twitch) that were each acquired for 1 billion dollars. Video version is available on YouTube. If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to https://lexfridman.com/ai or connect with @lexfridman on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, or YouTube where you can watch
Tomaso Poggio: Brains, Minds, and Machines
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 profound impact on our understanding of the nature of intelligence, in both biological neural networks and artificial ones. He has been an advisor to many highly-impactful researchers and entrepreneurs in AI, including Demis Hassabis of DeepMind, Amnon Shashua of MobileEye, and Christof Koch of the Allen Institute for Brain Science. Video versio
Tuomas Sandholm: Poker and Game Theory
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-Limit Texas Hold’em. He has published over 450 papers on game theory and machine learning, including a best paper in 2017 at NIPS / NeurIPS. His research and companies have had wide-reaching impact in the real world, especially because he and his group not only propose new ideas, but also build systems to prove these ideas work in the real worl
Juergen Schmidhuber: Godel Machines, Meta-Learning, and LSTMs
Juergen Schmidhuber is the co-creator of long short-term memory networks (LSTMs) which are used in billions of devices today for speech recognition, translation, and much more. Over 30 years, he has proposed a lot of interesting, out-of-the-box ideas in artificial intelligence including a formal theory of creativity. Video version is available on YouTube. If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to https://lexfridman.com/ai or connect with @lexfridman on Twitter, LinkedIn,
Pieter Abbeel: Deep Reinforcement Learning
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 how to make robots understand and interact with the world around them, especially through imitation and deep reinforcement learning. Video version is available on YouTube. If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to https://lexfridman.com/ai or connect with @lexfridman on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, or YouTube where you c
Stuart Russell: Long-Term Future of AI
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, called Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach. Video version is available on YouTube. If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to https://lexfridman.com/ai or connect with @lexfridman on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, or YouTube where you can watch the video versions of these conversations.
Eric Schmidt: Google
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 growth and a series of world-changing innovations. Video version is available on YouTube. If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to https://lexfridman.com/ai or connect with @lexfridman on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, or YouTube where you can watch the video versions of these conversations.
Jeff Atwood: Stack Overflow and Coding Horror
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, it is difficult to understate the impact on global knowledge and productivity that these network of sites have created. Jeff is also the author of the famed Coding Horror blog, and the founder of Discourse, and open-source software project that seeks to improve the quality of our online community discussions. Video version is available on YouTube.
Guido van Rossum: Python
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 YouTube. If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to https://lexfridman.com/ai or connect with @lexfridman on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, or YouTube where you can watch the video versions of these conversations.
Vladimir Vapnik: Statistical Learning
Vladimir Vapnik is the co-inventor of support vector machines, support vector clustering, VC theory, and many foundational ideas in statistical learning. His work has been cited over 170,000 times. He has some very interesting ideas about artificial intelligence and the nature of learning, especially on the limits of our current approaches and the open problems in the field. Video version is available on YouTube. If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to https://lex
Yoshua Bengio: Deep Learning
Yoshua Bengio, along with Geoffrey Hinton and Yann Lecun, is considered one of the three people most responsible for the advancement of deep learning during the 1990s, 2000s, and now. Cited 139,000 times, he has been integral to some of the biggest breakthroughs in AI over the past 3 decades. Video version is available on YouTube. If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to https://lexfridman.com/ai or connect with @lexfridman on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, or YouTub
Steven Pinker: AI in the Age of Reason
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 on the way I see the world for the better. In particular, The Better Angels of Our Nature and Enlightenment Now have instilled in me a sense of optimism grounded in data, science, and reason. Video version is available on YouTube. If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to https://lexfridman.com/ai or connect with @lex
Christof Koch: Consciousness
A conversation with Christof Koch as part of MIT course on Artificial General Intelligence. Video version is available on YouTube. He is the President and Chief Scientific Officer of the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle. From 1986 until 2013, he was a professor at CalTech. Cited more than 105,000 times. Author of several books including “Consciousness: Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist.” If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to https://
Max Tegmark: Life 3.0
A conversation with Max Tegmark as part of MIT course on Artificial General Intelligence. Video version is available on YouTube. He is a Physics Professor at MIT, co-founder of the Future of Life Institute, and author of “Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.” If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to https://lexfridman.com/ai or connect with @lexfridman on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, or YouTube where you can watch the video versions o