Lex Fridman - Season 4 / Year 2020

Season 4 / Year 2020

Episodes

Stephen Kotkin: Stalin, Putin, and the Nature of Power

Grant Sanderson: 3Blue1Brown and the Beauty of Mathematics

Daniel Kahneman: Thinking Fast and Slow, Deep Learning, and AI

Ayanna Howard: Human-Robot Interaction and Ethics of Safety-Critical Systems

Paul Krugman: Economics of Innovation, Automation, Safety Nets & Universal Basic Income

Cristos Goodrow: YouTube Algorithm

David Chalmers: The Hard Problem of Consciousness

Jim Keller: Moore's Law, Microprocessors, Abstractions, and First Principles

Vladimir Vapnik: Predicates, Invariants, and the Essence of Intelligence

#72 – Scott Aaronson: Quantum Computing

#73 – Andrew Ng: Deep Learning, Education, and Real-World AI

#74 – Michael I. Jordan: Machine Learning, Recommender Systems, and the Future of AI

#75 – Marcus Hutter: Universal Artificial Intelligence, AIXI, and AGI

#76 – John Hopfield: Physics View of the Mind and Neurobiology

#77 – Alex Garland: Ex Machina, Devs, Annihilation, and the Poetry of Science

#78 – Ann Druyan: Cosmos, Carl Sagan, Voyager, and the Beauty of Science

#79 – Lee Smolin: Quantum Gravity and Einstein's Unfinished Revolution

#80 – Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum, Cryptocurrency, and the Future of Money

#81 – Anca Dragan: Human-Robot Interaction and Reward Engineering

#82 – Simon Sinek: Leadership, Hard Work, Optimism and the Infinite Game

Lex Solo #1 – Seven Levels of Coronavirus Impact

#83 – Nick Bostrom: Simulation and Superintelligence

#84 – William MacAskill: Effective Altruism

#85 – Roger Penrose: Physics of Consciousness and the Infinite Universe

#86 – David Silver: AlphaGo, AlphaZero, and Deep Reinforcement Learning

#87 – Richard Dawkins: Evolution, Intelligence, Simulation, and Memes

#88 – Eric Weinstein: Geometric Unity and the Call for New Ideas, Leaders & Institutions

#89 – Stephen Wolfram: Cellular Automata, Computation, and Physics

#90 – Dmitry Korkin: Computational Biology of Coronavirus

#91 – Jack Dorsey: Square, Cryptocurrency, and Artificial Intelligence

#92 – Harry Cliff: Particle Physics and the Large Hadron Collider

#93 – Daphne Koller: Biomedicine and Machine Learning

#94 – Ilya Sutskever: Deep Learning

#95 – Dawn Song: Adversarial Machine Learning and Computer Security

#96 – Stephen Schwarzman: Going Big in Business, Investing, and AI

#97 – Sertac Karaman: Robots That Fly and Robots That Drive

#98 – Kate Darling: Emotional Connection Between Humans and Robots

#99 – Karl Friston: Neuroscience and the Free Energy Principle

#100 – Alexander Fridman: My Dad, the Plasma Physicist

#101 – Joscha Bach: Artificial Consciousness and the Nature of Reality

#102 – Steven Pressfield: The War of Art

#103 – Ben Goertzel: Artificial General Intelligence

#104 – David Patterson: Computer Architecture and Data Storage

#105 – Robert Langer: Edison of Medicine

#106 – Matt Botvinick: Neuroscience, Psychology, and AI at DeepMind

#107 – Peter Singer: Suffering in Humans, Animals, and AI

#108 – Sergey Levine: Robotics and Machine Learning

#109 – Brian Kernighan: UNIX, C, AWK, AMPL, and Go Programming

#110 – Jitendra Malik: Computer Vision

#111 – Richard Karp: Algorithms and Computational Complexity

#112 – Ian Hutchinson: Nuclear Fusion, Plasma Physics, and Religion

#113 – Manolis Kellis: Human Genome and Evolutionary Dynamics

#114 – Russ Tedrake: Underactuated Robotics, Control, Dynamics and Touch

#115 – Dileep George: Brain-Inspired AI

#116 – Sara Seager: Search for Planets and Life Outside Our Solar System

#117 – Sheldon Solomon: Death and Meaning

#118 – Grant Sanderson: Math, Manim, Neural Networks & Teaching with 3Blue1Brown

New Name: Lex Fridman Podcast

#119 – David Eagleman: Neuroplasticity and the Livewired Brain

#120 – François Chollet: Measures of Intelligence

Lex Solo #2 – The Future of Neuralink

#121 – Eugenia Kuyda: Friendship with an AI Companion

Lex Solo #3 – In Memory of My Grandmother

#122 – David Fravor: UFOs, Aliens, Fighter Jets, and Aerospace Engineering

#123 – Manolis Kellis: Origin of Life, Humans, Ideas, Suffering, and Happiness

#124 – Stephen Wolfram: Fundamental Theory of Physics, Life, and the Universe

#125 – Ryan Hall: Martial Arts and the Philosophy of Violence, Power, and Grace

#126 – James Gosling: Java, JVM, Emacs, and the Early Days of Computing

#127 – Joe Rogan: Conversations, Ideas, Love, Freedom & The Joe Rogan Experience

#128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling

#129 – Lisa Feldman Barrett: Counterintuitive Ideas About How the Brain Works

#130 – Scott Aaronson: Computational Complexity and Consciousness

#131 – Chris Lattner: The Future of Computing and Programming Languages

#132 – George Hotz: Hacking the Simulation & Learning to Drive with Neural Nets

#133 – Manolis Kellis: Biology of Disease

#134 – Eric Weinstein: On the Nature of Good and Evil, Genius and Madness

#135 – Charles Isbell: Computing, Interactive AI, and Race in America

#136 – Dan Carlin: Hardcore History

#137 – Alex Filippenko: Supernovae, Dark Energy, Aliens & the Expanding Universe

#138 – Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand and the Philosophy of Objectivism

#139 – Andrew Huberman: Neuroscience of Optimal Performance

#140 – Lisa Feldman Barrett: Love, Evolution, and the Human Brain

#141 – Erik Brynjolfsson: Economics of AI, Social Networks, and Technology

#142 – Manolis Kellis: Meaning of Life, the Universe, and Everything

#143 – John Clarke: The Art of Fighting and the Pursuit of Excellence

#144 – Michael Littman: Reinforcement Learning and the Future of AI

#145 – Matthew Johnson: Psychedelics

#146 – Michael Mina: Rapid Testing, Viruses, and the Engineering Mindset

#147 – Dmitri Dolgov: Waymo and the Future of Self-Driving Cars

#148 – Charles Isbell and Michael Littman: Machine Learning and Education

#149 – Diana Walsh Pasulka: Aliens, Technology, Religion, and the Nature of Belief

#150 – Michael Malice: The White Pill, Freedom, Hope, and Happiness Amidst Chaos
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