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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