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AI & Technology

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The Path from The Soviet Union to Building Multi-Billion Dollar Companies — Max Levchin

Tim Ferriss · Affirm and PayPal cofounder Max Levchin on marriage, cycling, fighting socialism, buildi

No.1 Christianity Expert: If You DON'T Believe In a God You NEED to Hear This!

Diary of a CEO · Mathematician and Christian apologist John Lennox argues that AI's rise exposes hum

Ex-Google Officer: You Only Have 3 Years Left Before It Hits! - Mo Gawdat

Diary of a CEO · Ex-Google AI exec Mo Gawdat warns of a coming decade of dystopia from AI-driven job loss

Joe Rogan Experience #2507 - Harland Williams

Joe Rogan · Harland Williams turns up with rubber muscle legs and a gourd, then he and Joe riff on s

EMERGENCY DEBATE: They Are Lying To Us About AI (Cenk Uygur BANNED from the UK!)

Diary of a CEO · Kevin O'Leary and Cenk Uygur clash on whether AI brings boundless opportunity or a

Joe Rogan Experience #2506 - Michelle Thaller

Joe Rogan · Astrophysicist Michelle Thaller takes Joe Rogan on a mind-bending tour of black holes, q

World-Renowned Physicist: They Are Lying To You About UFOs & Reality - Michio Kaku

Diary of a CEO · Physicist Michio Kaku on UFOs, string theory, quantum computers, the simulation question

Joe Rogan Experience #2484 - David Cross

Joe Rogan · Comedian David Cross trades Boston stand-up war stories with Joe Rogan before spiraling

Joe Rogan Experience #2481 - Duncan Trussell

Joe Rogan · Joe Rogan and Duncan Trussell free-associate through AI doom, war propaganda, UFO disclo

Joe Rogan Experience #2479 - Bob Lazar & Luigi Vendittelli

Joe Rogan · Bob Lazar and filmmaker Luigi Vendittelli revisit the Area S4 alien-craft story as a new

Q&A with Tim — The Upcoming AI Tsunami and Building Offline Advantage

Tim Ferriss · Tim Ferriss answers listener questions on the AI tsunami, arguing offline, relational, a

Joe Rogan Experience #2467 - Michael Pollan

Joe Rogan · Michael Pollan joins Joe Rogan to explore consciousness, plant intelligence, psychedelic

Joe Rogan Experience #2466 - Francis Foster & Konstantin Kisin

Joe Rogan · TRIGGERnometry's Konstantin Kisin and Francis Foster join Joe Rogan to dissect Midd

Joe Rogan Experience #2464 - Priyanka Chopra Jonas

Joe Rogan · Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Joe Rogan range from her pirate film to lost civilizations, an

Joe Rogan Experience #2459 - Jim Breuer

Joe Rogan · Joe Rogan and Jim Breuer riff on Epstein conspiracies, decades of comedy war stories, an

Brain Rot Emergency: These Internal Documents Prove They’re Controlling You!

Diary of a CEO · A social psychologist and a Harvard physician argue short-form video and AI chatbots are

Joe Rogan Experience #2454 - Robert Malone, MD

Joe Rogan · mRNA pioneer Robert Malone returns to JRE to relitigate COVID, censorship, and the comin

OpenClaw: The Viral AI Agent that Broke the Internet - Peter Steinberger | Lex Fridman Podcast #491

Lex Fridman · Peter Steinberger on building OpenClaw, the open-source AI agent that took over tech, pl

Joe Rogan Experience #2453 - Evan Hafer

Joe Rogan · Black Rifle Coffee founder and ex-CIA paramilitary officer Evan Hafer talks coffee, arch

How Dopamine & Serotonin Shape Decisions, Motivation & Learning | Dr. Read Montague

Andrew Huberman · Neuroscientist Read Montague rewrites the dopamine story, showing it as a moment-to-mome

State of AI in 2026: LLMs, Coding, Scaling Laws, China, Agents, GPUs, AGI | Lex Fridman Podcast #490

Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman, Sebastian Raschka, and Nathan Lambert survey the 2026 state of AI: LLMs, sc

Joe Rogan Experience #2435 - Bradley Cooper

Joe Rogan · Bradley Cooper talks craft, becoming Chris Kyle, raising kids, AI's coming wave, an

Dr. Fei-Fei Li, The Godmother of AI — Asking Audacious Questions & Finding Your North Star

Tim Ferriss · AI godmother Fei-Fei Li on ImageNet's origins, spatial intelligence, World Labs, an

An AI Expert Warning: 6 People Are (Quietly) Deciding Humanity’s Future!

Diary of a CEO · AI pioneer Stuart Russell warns that the race to build superintelligence is a reckless g

The Future of AI, Bioelectric Medicine, Surviving Modern Dating, and More — The Random Show

Tim Ferriss · Tim Ferriss and Kevin Rose riff on accelerated brain stimulation, the AI race, Alzheimer

Joe Rogan Experience #2409 - Brian Redban

Joe Rogan · Joe Rogan and Brian Redban riff on quantum computers, China's drone dominance, AI p

Joe Rogan Experience #2401 - Avi Loeb

Joe Rogan · Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb argues interstellar object 3I/Atlas shows anomalies that

Joe Rogan Experience #2394 - Palmer Luckey

Joe Rogan · Anduril founder Palmer Luckey takes Joe Rogan from VR origins to defense tech, China war

Neil deGrasse Tyson: The Harsh Truth About Horoscopes (sorry but it’s true)

Diary of a CEO · Neil deGrasse Tyson dismantles astrology and offers a cosmic perspective on death, meani

Ray Dalio: We’re Heading Into Very, Very Dark Times! America & The UK’s Decline Is Coming!

Diary of a CEO · Ray Dalio explains the five forces driving the decline of the US and UK, and how individ

Dave Plummer: Programming, Autism, and Old-School Microsoft Stories | Lex Fridman Podcast #479

Lex Fridman · Old-school Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer recounts building Windows Task Manager, ZIP s

Joe Rogan Experience #2371 - Fedor Gorst

Joe Rogan · World No. 1 pool player Fedor Gorst and Joe Rogan geek out for three hours on the art, g

Joe Rogan Experience #2361 - Graham Linehan

Joe Rogan · Comedy writer Graham Linehan tells Joe how the gender-ideology backlash destroyed his ca

Top Psychologist, Donald Hoffman: Seeing True Reality Would Kill Us! I Can Prove It To You!

Diary of a CEO · Cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman argues spacetime is a 'headset' and that tr

Joe Rogan Experience #2356 - Mike Vecchione

Joe Rogan · Comedian Mike Vecchione joins Joe Rogan for a freewheeling talk on back pain, elite comb

Joe Rogan Experience #2354 - Joe DeRosa

Joe Rogan · Comedian Joe DeRosa joins Joe Rogan for a freewheeling one-on-one on the comedy scene, h

You’re Watching the End of the World in Real Time - Eric Weinstein

Diary of a CEO · Eric Weinstein argues the post-WWII world order is collapsing in real time, while physic

DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Ruby on Rails, Productivity & Parenting | Lex Fridman Podcast #474

Lex Fridman · Ruby on Rails creator DHH on programming aesthetics, AI, leaving the cloud, fighting App

Joe Rogan Experience #2347 - Paul Stamets

Joe Rogan · Mycologist Paul Stamets makes the case that psilocybin and mushroom mycelium can heal mi

Kevin O'Leary: Every Time You Get Paid, Do This! It 10xs Your Income Without Having To Work Harder!

Diary of a CEO · Kevin O'Leary lays out his rules for building and keeping wealth, hiring, leadershi

Sundar Pichai: CEO of Google and Alphabet | Lex Fridman Podcast #471

Lex Fridman · Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai talks AI's future, Gemini, the AI race comeba

Invest in This – It’ll Be Worth $1.5 Million by 2030 | World Leading Investing Expert - Cathie Wood

Diary of a CEO · Cathie Wood lays out ARK's case that AI, robotaxis, robots, gene editing and Bitcoi

Essentials: Machines, Creativity & Love | Dr. Lex Fridman

Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman and Andrew Huberman explore AI, machine learning, robot companionship, and g

Simon Sinek: You're Being Lied To About AI's Real Purpose! We're Teaching Our Kids To Not Be Human!

Diary of a CEO · Simon Sinek argues AI's threat isn't job loss but the erosion of human skills,

Joe Rogan Experience #2326 - Jimmy Carr

Joe Rogan · Jimmy Carr and Joe Rogan riff on play, comedy as craft, AI as an emerging god, work ethi

Oliver Anthony: Country Music, Blue-Collar America, Fame, Money, and Pain | Lex Fridman Podcast #469

Lex Fridman · Oliver Anthony talks fame, walking away from $8M record deals, blue-collar America, depr

Joe Rogan Experience #2322 - Rebecca Lemov

Joe Rogan · A Harvard historian of brainwashing walks Rogan through cults, MK Ultra, and why social

Tim Sweeney: Fortnite, Unreal Engine, and the Future of Gaming | Lex Fridman Podcast #467

Lex Fridman · Epic Games founder Tim Sweeney on Fortnite, Unreal Engine, the metaverse, the Verse lang

Joe Rogan Experience #2307 - Tim Dillon

Joe Rogan · Joe Rogan and Tim Dillon riff for over two hours on space tourism, the deep state, immig

Young Men Are (Quietly) Giving Up...Here’s Why!

Diary of a CEO · Two experts unpack why young men are falling behind in school, work and dating, and what

The Real Japan — Craig Mod

Tim Ferriss · Craig Mod tells Tim Ferriss how a working-class kid from Connecticut became a Japan-base

ThePrimeagen: Programming, AI, ADHD, Productivity, Addiction, and God | Lex Fridman Podcast #461

Lex Fridman · Legendary programmer ThePrimeagen talks coding craft, AI's limits, beating addictio

Narendra Modi: Prime Minister of India - Power, Democracy, War & Peace | Lex Fridman Podcast #460

Lex Fridman · Narendra Modi reflects on poverty, spirituality, fasting, peacemaking, democracy, AI, an

Joe Rogan Experience #2284 - Ian Carroll

Joe Rogan · Independent researcher Ian Carroll walks Joe Rogan through his sprawling theory connecti

Seth Godin — This is Strategy

Tim Ferriss · Seth Godin reframes strategy as a philosophy of becoming built on systems, time, games,

Joe Rogan Experience #2263 - Gad Saad

Joe Rogan · Evolutionary psychologist Gad Saad and Joe Rogan roam from decision science and carnivor

Chris Sacca — How to Succeed by Living on Your Own Terms

Tim Ferriss · Chris Sacca on raising resilient kids, saying no, the analog-craving backlash to AI, and

Overcoming Guilt & Building Tenacity in Kids & Adults | Dr. Becky Kennedy

Andrew Huberman · Dr. Becky Kennedy reframes guilt, builds frustration tolerance, and teaches sturdy, sham

Joe Rogan Experience #2249 - Yannis Pappas & Chris Distefano

Joe Rogan · Comedians Yannis Pappas and Chris Distefano riff with Joe Rogan on history, conspiracies

Joe Rogan Experience #2247 - Duncan Trussell

Joe Rogan · Joe Rogan and Duncan Trussell riff for hours on telepathy, consciousness, AI, drones, th

Joe Rogan Experience #2244 - Ryan Graves

Joe Rogan · Navy pilot Ryan Graves breaks down the New Jersey drone wave and what UAP could mean for

How to Use Curiosity & Focus to Create a Joyful & Meaningful Life | Dr. Bernardo Huberman

Andrew Huberman · Andrew Huberman interviews his father, physicist Bernardo Huberman, on a life of curiosi

Joe Rogan Experience #2243 - Julian Lennon

Joe Rogan · Julian Lennon talks photography, motorcycle travel, quitting smoking, his white-feather

Legendary Inventor Danny Hillis — Solving the Impossible (Plus Kevin Kelly)

Tim Ferriss · Inventor Danny Hillis and Kevin Kelly join Tim Ferriss to explore invention, AI, the 10,

Joe Rogan Experience #2241 - Rick Strassman

Joe Rogan · DMT researcher Rick Strassman joins Joe Rogan for a sprawling talk on psychedelics, the

Joe Rogan Experience #2234 - Marc Andreessen

Joe Rogan · Marc Andreessen and Joe Rogan dissect the post-2024-election landscape, government censo

How to Improve at Learning Using Neuroscience & AI | Dr. Terry Sejnowski

Andrew Huberman · Computational neuroscientist Terry Sejnowski explains how a single learning algorithm dr

Joe Rogan Experience #2224 - Tim Dillon

Joe Rogan · Joe Rogan and Tim Dillon riff on election day, media manipulation, the Deep State, and a

Joe Rogan Experience #2223 - Elon Musk

Joe Rogan · Elon Musk and Joe Rogan discuss the 2024 election, free speech, censorship, immigration,

Joe Rogan Experience #2220 - Francis Foster & Konstantin Kisin

Joe Rogan · Joe Rogan, Francis Foster and Konstantin Kisin dissect tribal politics, free speech, imm

Joe Rogan Experience #2217 - Brian Cox

Joe Rogan · Physicist Brian Cox and Joe Rogan explore black holes, the Fermi Paradox, what AI superi

Joe Rogan Experience #2214 - Shane Smith

Joe Rogan · Vice founder Shane Smith on quitting big media, keeping it small, the Deep State, AI/qua

Cursor Team: Future of Programming with AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #447

Lex Fridman · The Cursor founders break down how AI is reshaping programming, from tab-completion and

Joe Rogan Experience #2207 - Shawn Ryan

Joe Rogan · Shawn Ryan and Joe Rogan range across media distrust, the southern border, China, AI, UF

Joe Rogan Experience #2206 - Chamath Palihapitiya

Joe Rogan · Chamath Palihapitiya and Joe Rogan range across AI, energy, education, drugs, food healt

Joe Rogan Experience #2201 - Robert Epstein

Joe Rogan · Researcher Robert Epstein details how Google manipulates elections via search results, h

Joe Rogan Experience #2190 - Peter Thiel

Joe Rogan · Peter Thiel and Joe Rogan range over tech stagnation, AI passing the Turing test, nuclea

Elon Musk: Neuralink and the Future of Humanity | Lex Fridman Podcast #438

Lex Fridman · Elon Musk and the Neuralink team, plus first human implant patient Noland Arbaugh, on br

Joe Rogan Experience #2180 - Jordan Peterson

Joe Rogan · Jordan Peterson and Joe Rogan explore Biblical psychology, psychedelics, sacrifice, the

Joe Rogan Experience #2174 - Annie Jacobsen

Joe Rogan · Journalist Annie Jacobsen explains how a nuclear war would kill 5 billion people in 72 m

Joe Rogan Experience #1919 - Bret Weinstein

Joe Rogan · Bret Weinstein and Joe Rogan dissect COVID vaccine harms, the lab-leak case, institution

Joe Rogan Experience #2037 - Alex Berenson

Joe Rogan · Alex Berenson argues mRNA COVID vaccines failed and the government censored him, in a sp

Joe Rogan Experience #1898 - Neal Brennan

Joe Rogan · Joe Rogan and comedian Neal Brennan range across cults, comedy, COVID, free speech, misi

Joe Rogan Experience #1934 - Lex Fridman

Joe Rogan · Lex Fridman and Joe Rogan riff on ChatGPT, AI's future, aliens, chess cheating, cry

Joe Rogan Experience #1971 - Howie Mandel

Joe Rogan · Howie Mandel and Joe Rogan riff on comedy's Austin shift, his OCD and depression, A

Joe Rogan Experience #2044 - Sam Altman

Joe Rogan · Sam Altman and Joe Rogan explore AGI's future, job loss, neural interfaces, human-m

Joe Rogan Experience #1928 - Jimmy Corsetti & Ben van Kerkwyk

Joe Rogan · Alternative-history YouTubers argue Atlantis lies in the Sahara and dynastic Egypt inher

Joe Rogan Experience #1897 - Graham Hancock & Randall Carlson

Joe Rogan · Hancock and Carlson argue a lost Ice Age civilization was destroyed by a comet 12,800 ye

Joe Rogan Experience #2091 - Diana Walsh Pasulka

Joe Rogan · Religious studies professor Diana Walsh Pasulka on UFOs as interdimensional phenomena, g

Joe Rogan Experience #1970 - Bill Ottman

Joe Rogan · Minds founder Bill Ottman and Joe Rogan dig into decentralized social media, censorship,

Joe Rogan Experience #2047 - Brian Muraresku

Joe Rogan · Brian Muraresku and Joe Rogan trace psychedelics through ancient religion, archaic homin

Joe Rogan Experience #1944 - Ryan Long

Joe Rogan · Joe Rogan and comedian Ryan Long riff on COVID lockdowns, gender culture wars, comedy cr

Joe Rogan Experience #1887 - Maynard James Keenan

Joe Rogan · Tool and Puscifer frontman Maynard James Keenan on jiu-jitsu, winemaking, creativity, fa

Joe Rogan Experience #2077 - Tim Dillon

Joe Rogan · Joe Rogan and Tim Dillon roam from fur coats and ancient Egypt to war profiteering, mone

Joe Rogan Experience #1962 - Eddie Huang

Joe Rogan · Eddie Huang and Joe Rogan riff on AI taking over, Vice's chaos, weed, fighting, cur

Joe Rogan Experience #2038 - Trae Tha Truth

Joe Rogan · Houston rapper Trae Tha Truth talks lifelong sobriety, philanthropy, his Bump Box speake

Joe Rogan Experience #2076 - Tristan Harris & Aza Razkin

Joe Rogan · Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin warn that the race to scale AI is a dangerous 'second

Joe Rogan Experience #1965 - David Choe

Joe Rogan · Artist David Choe riffs with Joe Rogan on money, sex, psychedelics, the Hadza tribe, AI,

Joe Rogan Experience #1980 - Michio Kaku

Joe Rogan · Physicist Michio Kaku explains how quantum computers could cure disease, crack every cod

Joe Rogan Experience #2078 - Duncan Trussell

Joe Rogan · Joe Rogan and Duncan Trussell riff on AI as a hatching god, depression, diabetes, conspi

Joe Rogan Experience #2086 - Jim Norton

Joe Rogan · Jim Norton and Joe Rogan riff on comedy legends, AI, UFOs, prostitution, MMA training, d

Joe Rogan Experience #2010 - Marc Andreessen

Joe Rogan · Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen argues AI's real danger is censorship and regula

Joe Rogan Experience #2034 - Jeremy Jones

Joe Rogan · Pool legend Jeremy Jones tells Joe Rogan wild road-gambling stories and breaks down the

Joe Rogan Experience #2015 - Zach Bryan

Joe Rogan · Country star Zach Bryan talks his Navy years, viral rise, fame's pressures, alcohol

Joe Rogan Experience #2088 - Yannis Pappas

Joe Rogan · Joe Rogan and comedian Yannis Pappas riff on trauma therapy, conspiracies, AI, media man

Joe Rogan Experience #2031 - Luis J. Gomez

Joe Rogan · Comedian Luis J. Gomez and Joe Rogan ramble about weed legalization, social media, jiu-j

Joe Rogan Experience #2039 - Michael Easter

Joe Rogan · Michael Easter unpacks the scarcity loop behind gambling, addiction, overeating, and why

Joe Rogan Experience #2065 - David Grusch

Joe Rogan · UAP whistleblower David Grusch tells Joe Rogan the US has recovered non-human craft and

Joe Rogan Experience #1960 - Andrew Schulz

Joe Rogan · Joe Rogan and Andrew Schulz riff on comedy craft, building the Austin club, cobalt-mine

Joe Rogan Experience #2167 - Noland Arbaugh

Joe Rogan · Noland Arbaugh, the first human Neuralink patient, tells Joe Rogan what it's like t

Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity CEO on Future of AI, Search & the Internet | Lex Fridman Podcast #434

Lex Fridman · Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas on building an answer engine, how search and LLMs combin

Joe Rogan Experience #2165 - Jack Carr

Joe Rogan · Author and former Navy SEAL Jack Carr talks writing, AI's threat to creativity, war

Sara Walker: Physics of Life, Time, Complexity, and Aliens | Lex Fridman Podcast #433

Lex Fridman · Astrobiologist Sara Walker reframes life as information structuring matter over time, ex

Joe Rogan Experience #2159 - Sal Vulcano

Joe Rogan · Comedian Sal Vulcano and Joe Rogan riff on dangerous animals, ancestry, fighter jets, ra

Joe Rogan Experience #2158 - Harland Williams

Joe Rogan · Comedian Harland Williams trades absurd tall tales and animal-attack bits with Joe Rogan

Joe Rogan Experience #2155 - Brian Redban

Joe Rogan · Joe Rogan and Brian Redban riff on AI taking over, plastics shrinking testicles, kangaro

Joe Rogan Experience #2151 - Rizwan Virk

Joe Rogan · Video-game developer turned author Rizwan Virk argues we likely live in a simulation, we

Joe Rogan Experience #2148 - Gad Saad

Joe Rogan · Evolutionary psychologist Gad Saad returns for his 10th JRE to discuss antisemitism, par

Joe Rogan Experience #2142 - Christopher Dunn

Joe Rogan · Engineer Christopher Dunn argues the Great Pyramid was a machine, an electron-harvesting

Joe Rogan Experience #2140 - Francis Foster & Konstantin Kisin

Joe Rogan · Joe Rogan and Trigonometry's Francis Foster and Konstantin Kisin riff on AI, sex ro

Joe Rogan Experience #2139 - Akaash Singh

Joe Rogan · Comedian Akaash Singh joins Joe Rogan for a sprawling talk on fame, comedy, immigration,

Joe Rogan Experience #2138 - Tucker Carlson

Joe Rogan · Tucker Carlson tells Joe Rogan that UFOs are spiritual entities and that a compromised,

Joe Rogan Experience #2131 - Brian Simpson

Joe Rogan · Joe Rogan and comedian Brian Simpson riff on comedy, fighting, fame, AI taking over, and

Joe Rogan Experience #2129 - David Holthouse

Joe Rogan · Documentary filmmaker David Holthouse on his Hari Krishna cult exposé, reporting from wa

Joe Rogan Experience #2126 - Donnell Rawlings

Joe Rogan · Donnell Rawlings and Joe Rogan riff on comedy, acting, AI swallowing Hollywood, COVID, m

Joe Rogan Experience #2124 - Dave Attell & Ian Fidance

Joe Rogan · Comedians Dave Attell and Ian Fidance riff with Joe Rogan on opioids, drones, squatters,

Joe Rogan Experience #2117 - Ray Kurzweil

Joe Rogan · Ray Kurzweil tells Joe Rogan why AI will match humans by 2029, reach longevity escape ve

Yann Lecun: Meta AI, Open Source, Limits of LLMs, AGI & the Future of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #416

Lex Fridman · Yann LeCun argues autoregressive LLMs can't reach human-level AI, defends open-sour

Tucker Carlson: Putin, Navalny, Trump, CIA, NSA, War, Politics & Freedom | Lex Fridman Podcast #414

Lex Fridman · Tucker Carlson unpacks his Putin interview, the Ukraine war, Navalny, US surveillance, m

Marc Raibert: Boston Dynamics and the Future of Robotics | Lex Fridman Podcast #412

Lex Fridman · Legendary roboticist Marc Raibert traces 40+ years of legged robots, from pogo-stick hop

Performance Coach Andy Galpin — Rebooting Tim’s Sleep, Nutrition, Supplements, and Training for 2024

Tim Ferriss · Andy Galpin coaches Tim Ferriss through a personalized, science-driven plan for sleep, h

Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI | Lex Fridman Podcast #407

Lex Fridman · Physicist Guillaume Verdon, secretly the e/acc meme account Beff Jezos, defends accelera

Jeff Bezos: Amazon and Blue Origin | Lex Fridman Podcast #405

Lex Fridman · Jeff Bezos on building Blue Origin, the future of humanity in space, Amazon's decis

Elon Musk: War, AI, Aliens, Politics, Physics, Video Games, and Humanity | Lex Fridman Podcast #400

Lex Fridman · Elon Musk's fourth Lex Fridman appearance ranges across war, peace, AI, aliens, sim

How Risk Taking, Innovation & Artificial Intelligence Transform Human Experience | Marc Andreessen

Andrew Huberman · Marc Andreessen and Andrew Huberman dissect what makes innovators tick, why elites drive

Yuval Noah Harari: Human Nature, Intelligence, Power, and Conspiracies | Lex Fridman Podcast #390

Lex Fridman · Historian Yuval Noah Harari on how stories rule humanity, why AI is an alien intelligenc

Doom Legend John Romero — The Path to Prolific Innovation and Making 130+ Games | Tim Ferriss Show

Tim Ferriss · DOOM co-creator John Romero on a brutal childhood, teaching himself code at 11, and inve

Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace | Lex Fridman Podcast #389

Lex Fridman · Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu defends his judicial reform, lays out his vision for Middl

George Hotz: Tiny Corp, Twitter, AI Safety, Self-Driving, GPT, AGI & God | Lex Fridman Podcast #387

Lex Fridman · George Hotz returns for a wide-ranging, contrarian talk on AI doom, open-source as the o

Matthew McConaughey: Freedom, Truth, Family, Hardship, and Love | Lex Fridman Podcast #384

Lex Fridman · Matthew McConaughey and Lex Fridman roam across love, death, fatherhood, denial, acting,

Chris Lattner: Future of Programming and AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #381

Lex Fridman · Chris Lattner explains Mojo, a Python superset built for AI that he claims can run up to

Ex-Google Officer Speaks Out On The Dangers Of AI! - Mo Gawdat | E252

Diary of a CEO · Former Google X exec Mo Gawdat warns AI's existential dangers are imminent and argu

Neil Gershenfeld: Self-Replicating Robots and the Future of Fabrication | Lex Fridman Podcast #380

Lex Fridman · MIT's Neil Gershenfeld explains how self-replicating robots and digital fabrication

Robert Playter: Boston Dynamics CEO on Humanoid and Legged Robotics | Lex Fridman Podcast #374

Lex Fridman · Boston Dynamics CEO Robert Playter on how legged robots learn to walk, jump, and work —

Kevin Kelly — Excellent Advice for Living | The Tim Ferriss Show

Tim Ferriss · Kevin Kelly on optimism, AI as universal personal interns, sabbaticals, raising kids thr

Simone Giertz: Queen of Sh*tty Robots, Innovative Engineering, and Design | Lex Fridman Podcast #372

Lex Fridman · Simone Giertz traces her path from 'shitty robots' to a real product company,

Edward Frenkel: Reality is a Paradox - Mathematics, Physics, Truth & Love | Lex Fridman Podcast #370

Lex Fridman · Mathematician Edward Frenkel argues reality is fundamentally paradoxical, weaving togeth

Sam Altman: OpenAI CEO on GPT-4, ChatGPT, and the Future of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #367

Lex Fridman · OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on GPT-4, AGI safety, the iterative-deployment philosophy, bias, j

David Deutsch and Naval Ravikant — The Fabric of Reality

Tim Ferriss · David Deutsch and Naval Ravikant unpack epistemology, the four strands of reality, AGI,

Chris Voss: FBI Hostage Negotiator | Lex Fridman Podcast #364

Lex Fridman · Former FBI hostage negotiator Chris Voss breaks down tactical empathy, the science of li

Dr. Andy Galpin: Optimize Your Training Program for Fitness & Longevity | Huberman Lab Guest Series

Andrew Huberman · Andy Galpin teaches a 10-step system for designing fitness programs and a year-long quar

Rick Rubin — Timeless Methods for Unlocking Creativity, The Future with AI, and More

Tim Ferriss · Legendary producer Rick Rubin unpacks creativity as a way of being, sharing the philosop

1984 by George Orwell | Lex Fridman

Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman summarizes George Orwell's 1984 and shares personal takeaways on love,

Navigating Conflict, Finding Purpose & Maintaining Drive | Dr Lex Fridman

Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman reflects on his Ukraine war trip, the generational hate of war, a startup ca

Guido van Rossum: Python and the Future of Programming | Lex Fridman Podcast #341

Lex Fridman · Python's creator Guido van Rossum on why Python 3.11 got faster, static typing, the

Whoop Founder: How I Built A $3.6 BILLION Company & BEAT Apple! Will Ahmed | E189

Diary of a CEO · Whoop founder Will Ahmed on building a $3.6B wearable company by obsessing over health m

Kate Darling: Social Robots, Ethics, Privacy and the Future of MIT | Lex Fridman Podcast #329

Lex Fridman · MIT roboticist Kate Darling argues we should think of robots like animals, not humans, a

Rana el Kaliouby: Emotion AI, Social Robots, and Self-Driving Cars | Lex Fridman Podcast #322

Lex Fridman · Emotion-AI pioneer Rana el Kaliouby on reading human feeling from faces, social robots,

Ray Kurzweil: Singularity, Superintelligence, and Immortality | Lex Fridman Podcast #321

Lex Fridman · Ray Kurzweil defends his 2029 Turing test and 2045 singularity predictions, and explains

Nick Lane: Origin of Life, Evolution, Aliens, Biology, and Consciousness | Lex Fridman Podcast #318

Lex Fridman · Biochemist Nick Lane explains why life on Earth began in hydrothermal vents, why complex

John Carmack: Doom, Quake, VR, AGI, Programming, Video Games, and Rockets | Lex Fridman Podcast #309

Lex Fridman · Legendary programmer John Carmack spends over five hours with Lex Fridman on Doom, Quake

Will MacAskill of Effective Altruism Fame — The Value of Longtermism, AI, and How to Save the World

Tim Ferriss · Philosopher Will MacAskill explains longtermism, existential risks from AI, pandemics an

Oriol Vinyals: Deep Learning and Artificial General Intelligence | Lex Fridman Podcast #306

Lex Fridman · DeepMind's Oriol Vinyals on Gato, the generalist agent, and what it'll take to

Cal Newport and Tim Ferriss Revisit “The 4-Hour Workweek” Plus Much More! | The Tim Ferriss Show

Tim Ferriss · Cal Newport interviews Tim Ferriss about how The 4-Hour Workweek warned of unsustainable

Cristiano Amon: Qualcomm CEO | Lex Fridman Podcast #280

Lex Fridman · Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon explains how 5G, Snapdragon chips, and edge computing are wi

Alien Debate: Sara Walker and Lee Cronin | Lex Fridman Podcast #279

Lex Fridman · Astrobiologist Sara Walker and chemist Lee Cronin debate what alien life is, how to dete

Ariel Ekblaw: Space Colonization and Self-Assembling Space Megastructures | Lex Fridman Podcast #271

Lex Fridman · MIT's Ariel Ekblaw on self-assembling space megastructures, floating space cities,

Devon Larratt: Arm Wrestling | Lex Fridman Podcast #265

Lex Fridman · Arm wrestling legend Devon Larratt breaks down strength, technique, trash talk, his spec

Yann LeCun: Dark Matter of Intelligence and Self-Supervised Learning | Lex Fridman Podcast #258

Lex Fridman · Yann LeCun argues self-supervised learning is the missing dark matter of intelligence an

Dr. Michio Kaku — Exploring Time Travel, the Beauty of Physics, and More | The Tim Ferriss Show

Tim Ferriss · Physicist Michio Kaku on string theory, time travel, parallel universes, consciousness,

Mark Normand: Comedy! | Lex Fridman Podcast #255

Lex Fridman · Comedian Mark Normand and Lex Fridman riff on love, bombing on stage, New York grit, Aus

Elon Musk: SpaceX, Mars, Tesla Autopilot, Self-Driving, Robotics, and AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #252

Lex Fridman · Elon Musk walks Lex Fridman through Raptor engines, the Mars timeline, how Tesla's

Peter Wang: Python and the Source Code of Humans, Computers, and Reality | Lex Fridman Podcast #250

Lex Fridman · Python pioneer Peter Wang takes Lex Fridman from package management to the meaning of li

Kevin Systrom: Instagram | Lex Fridman Podcast #243

Lex Fridman · Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom on building a billion-dollar app, the future of socia

Ben Askren: Wrestling and MMA | Lex Fridman Podcast #242

Lex Fridman · Ben Askren breaks down wrestling mastery, his MMA dominance, the Jake Paul loss, and why

Boris Sofman: Waymo, Cozmo, Self-Driving Cars, and the Future of Robotics | Lex Fridman Podcast #241

Lex Fridman · Anki founder turned Waymo trucking lead Boris Sofman on why character beats humanoid for

Neal Stephenson: Sci-Fi, Space, Aliens, AI, VR & the Future of Humanity | Lex Fridman Podcast #240

Lex Fridman · Sci-fi legend Neal Stephenson on space, aliens, AI, VR, crypto, climate geoengineering,

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Lex Fridman · Harvard philosopher Sean Kelly traces existentialism and nihilism and argues meaning com

Jeffrey Shainline: Neuromorphic Computing and Optoelectronic Intelligence | Lex Fridman Podcast #225

Lex Fridman · A NIST physicist explains how light plus superconducting electronics could build brain-s

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Lex Fridman · Travis Oliphant, creator of NumPy and SciPy, traces how he built the foundations of scie

Douglas Lenat: Cyc and the Quest to Solve Common Sense Reasoning in AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #221

Lex Fridman · Cyc creator Doug Lenat on his 37-year quest to give computers common sense through milli

Donald Knuth: Programming, Algorithms, Hard Problems & the Game of Life | Lex Fridman Podcast #219

Lex Fridman · Donald Knuth reflects on a lifetime of programming, beauty in algorithms, free will in t

Jaron Lanier: Virtual Reality, Social Media & the Future of Humans and AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #218

Lex Fridman · VR pioneer Jaron Lanier argues there's no real AI, social media's incentives m

Rodney Brooks: Robotics | Lex Fridman Podcast #217

Lex Fridman · Legendary roboticist Rodney Brooks pushes back on AI hype while tracing the deep history

Wojciech Zaremba: OpenAI Codex, GPT-3, Robotics, and the Future of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #215

Lex Fridman · OpenAI's Wojciech Zaremba explains GPT-3, Codex and Copilot while weaving in consci

Joscha Bach: Nature of Reality, Dreams, and Consciousness | Lex Fridman Podcast #212

Lex Fridman · Joscha Bach argues we are software running on an ape brain, living inside a dream world

Jeff Hawkins: The Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence | Lex Fridman Podcast #208

Lex Fridman · Neuroscientist Jeff Hawkins explains his Thousand Brains Theory and why super-intelligen

Zach Bitter: Ultramarathon Running | Lex Fridman Podcast #205

Lex Fridman · Ultramarathon world-record holder Zach Bitter on running 100 miles, fasting and meat-bas

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Lex Fridman · AI researcher Lex Fridman tells Andrew Huberman about his dream of robots that share mom

Sara Walker: The Origin of Life on Earth and Alien Worlds | Lex Fridman Podcast #198

Lex Fridman · Astrobiologist Sara Walker reframes life as the physics of existence, arguing assembly t

Daniel Schmachtenberger: Steering Civilization Away from Self-Destruction | Lex Fridman Podcast #191

Lex Fridman · Daniel Schmachtenberger maps why every powerful civilization self-terminates and how lov

Jordan Ellenberg: Mathematics of High-Dimensional Shapes and Geometries | Lex Fridman Podcast #190

Lex Fridman · Mathematician Jordan Ellenberg takes Lex Fridman on a joyful tour of geometry, symmetry,

John Danaher: The Path to Mastery in Jiu Jitsu, Grappling, Judo, and MMA | Lex Fridman Podcast #182

Lex Fridman · Legendary grappling coach John Danaher dissects mastery, fear, escapes, leg locks, and w

Ryan Hall: Solving Martial Arts from First Principles | Lex Fridman Podcast #169

Lex Fridman · Ryan Hall dissects martial arts, systems thinking, free will, and AI from first principl

Brendan Eich: JavaScript, Firefox, Mozilla, and Brave | Lex Fridman Podcast #160

Lex Fridman · JavaScript creator Brendan Eich on the language's frantic 10-day birth, the browser

Richard Craib: WallStreetBets, Numerai, and the Future of Stock Trading | Lex Fridman Podcast #159

Lex Fridman · Numerai founder Richard Craib explains his crowdsourced AI hedge fund and why WallStreet

Lex Fridman: Ask Me Anything - AMA January 2021 | Lex Fridman Podcast

Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman answers listener questions on AI suffering, the immigrant experience, aliens

Dmitry Korkin: Evolution of Proteins, Viruses, Life, and AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #153

Lex Fridman · A computational biologist breaks down how proteins fold, how viruses evolve, and why Alp

Dan Kokotov: Speech Recognition with AI and Humans | Lex Fridman Podcast #151

Lex Fridman · Rev's VP of engineering explains how AI and human transcribers combine to build the

Diana Walsh Pasulka: Aliens, Technology, Religion & the Nature of Belief | Lex Fridman Podcast #149

Lex Fridman · A religion scholar argues UFOs are becoming a new religion, and that belief itself, in t

Charles Isbell and Michael Littman: Machine Learning and Education | Lex Fridman Podcast #148

Lex Fridman · Two longtime friends and machine learning professors riff on what ML really is, the mean

Dmitri Dolgov: Waymo and the Future of Self-Driving Cars | Lex Fridman Podcast #147

Lex Fridman · Waymo CTO Dmitri Dolgov on building a truly driverless car, scaling beyond Phoenix, and

Manolis Kellis: Meaning of Life, the Universe, and Everything | Lex Fridman Podcast #142

Lex Fridman · MIT computational biologist Manolis Kellis riffs on music, evolution, AI, and the meanin

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Tim Ferriss · Yuval Noah Harari on meditation, the fictional stories that bind humanity, suffering as

George Hotz: Hacking the Simulation & Learning to Drive with Neural Nets | Lex Fridman Podcast #132

Lex Fridman · George Hotz riffs on hacking the simulation, crypto, immortality, and why end-to-end neu

Chris Lattner: The Future of Computing and Programming Languages | Lex Fridman Podcast #131

Lex Fridman · Compiler legend Chris Lattner on programming language design, RISC-V chips, the end of M

Scott Aaronson: Computational Complexity and Consciousness | Lex Fridman Podcast #130

Lex Fridman · Scott Aaronson takes Lex through computational complexity, why consciousness may not be

James Gosling: Java, JVM, Emacs, and the Early Days of Computing | Lex Fridman Podcast #126

Lex Fridman · Java creator James Gosling on the JVM, his C-emacs, Lisp, taming pointer bugs, leadershi

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Tim Ferriss · Surfing legend Kelly Slater on morning routines, painful setbacks, favorite books, longe

David Fravor: UFOs, Aliens, Fighter Jets, and Aerospace Engineering | Lex Fridman Podcast #122

Lex Fridman · Navy commander David Fravor recounts chasing the 2004 Tic Tac UFO and argues it should i

Eugenia Kuyda: Friendship with an AI Companion | Lex Fridman Podcast #121

Lex Fridman · Replika founder Eugenia Kuyda on loneliness, losing her best friend, and building an AI

François Chollet: Measures of Intelligence | Lex Fridman Podcast #120

Lex Fridman · Francois Chollet argues intelligence is the efficiency of acquiring new skills, not skil

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Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman walks through his disciplined daily routine: mantras, two four-hour deep-wor

David Eagleman: Neuroplasticity and the Livewired Brain | Lex Fridman Podcast #119

Lex Fridman · Neuroscientist David Eagleman explains why the brain is not hardware plus software but a

Sheldon Solomon: Death and Meaning | Lex Fridman Podcast #117

Lex Fridman · Social psychologist Sheldon Solomon argues the fear of death secretly drives nearly ever

Russ Tedrake: Underactuated Robotics, Control, Dynamics and Touch | Lex Fridman Podcast #114

Lex Fridman · MIT roboticist Russ Tedrake on why robots should embrace contact, softness, and physics

Richard Karp: Algorithms and Computational Complexity | Lex Fridman Podcast #111

Lex Fridman · Turing Award laureate Richard Karp walks Lex Fridman through the beauty of algorithms, N

Jitendra Malik: Computer Vision | Lex Fridman Podcast #110

Lex Fridman · Computer vision pioneer Jitendra Malik on why machines still underestimate vision and mu

Brian Kernighan: UNIX, C, AWK, AMPL, and Go Programming | Lex Fridman Podcast #109

Lex Fridman · UNIX pioneer Brian Kernighan recounts Bell Labs' golden era and reflects on C, AWK,

Sergey Levine: Robotics and Machine Learning | Lex Fridman Podcast #108

Lex Fridman · Berkeley roboticist Sergey Levine argues robotics is the best way to understand intellig

Matt Botvinick: Neuroscience, Psychology, and AI at DeepMind | Lex Fridman Podcast #106

Lex Fridman · DeepMind's Matt Botvinick on how neuroscience and AI feed each other, from meta-lea

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Lex Fridman · Karl Friston explains the free energy principle: anything that exists is an inference ma

David Patterson: Computer Architecture and Data Storage | Lex Fridman Podcast #104

Lex Fridman · Turing Award winner David Patterson explains how RISC and RAID reshaped computing, and w

Ben Goertzel: Artificial General Intelligence | Lex Fridman Podcast #103

Lex Fridman · AGI pioneer Ben Goertzel lays out his decentralized, compassion-first path to beneficial

Joscha Bach: Artificial Consciousness and the Nature of Reality | Lex Fridman Podcast #101

Lex Fridman · Cognitive scientist Joscha Bach argues consciousness is a simulation the brain runs on i

Karl Friston: Neuroscience and the Free Energy Principle | Lex Fridman Podcast #99

Lex Fridman · Neuroscientist Karl Friston unpacks the free energy principle, arguing existence itself

Kate Darling: Social Robotics | Lex Fridman Podcast #98

Lex Fridman · MIT researcher Kate Darling explains why we treat robots like living things and what tha

Sertac Karaman: Robots That Fly and Robots That Drive | Lex Fridman Podcast #97

Lex Fridman · MIT roboticist Sertac Karaman on why scaling autonomous cars and drones into human space

Stephen Schwarzman: Going Big in Business, Investing, and AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #96

Lex Fridman · Blackstone's Stephen Schwarzman on going big, reading people, philanthropy, China,

Dawn Song: Adversarial Machine Learning and Computer Security | Lex Fridman Podcast #95

Lex Fridman · Berkeley security expert Dawn Song explains how attackers fool AI systems, steal trainin

Ilya Sutskever: Deep Learning | Lex Fridman Podcast #94

Lex Fridman · OpenAI's Ilya Sutskever explains why deep learning works, what's missing for r

Daphne Koller: Biomedicine and Machine Learning | Lex Fridman Podcast #93

Lex Fridman · Daphne Koller explains how machine learning plus stem-cell 'disease in a dish'

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Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman dissects Turing's 1950 paper, its nine objections, and rival benchmarks

Jack Dorsey: Square, Cryptocurrency, and Artificial Intelligence | Lex Fridman Podcast #91

Lex Fridman · Jack Dorsey on building Square at scale, why Bitcoin should be the internet's nativ

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Tim Ferriss · Emotion AI pioneer Rana el Kaliouby on teaching machines emotional intelligence, her jou

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Lex Fridman · Stephen Wolfram explains how Wolfram Language tries to encode the world's knowledge

Stephen Wolfram: Cellular Automata, Computation, and Physics | Lex Fridman Podcast #89

Lex Fridman · Stephen Wolfram explains why simple computational rules generate the universe's com

Richard Dawkins: Evolution, Intelligence, Simulation, and Memes | Lex Fridman Podcast #87

Lex Fridman · Richard Dawkins explores evolution, intelligence, memes, simulation theory, and why we a

David Silver: AlphaGo, AlphaZero, and Deep Reinforcement Learning | Lex Fridman Podcast #86

Lex Fridman · DeepMind's David Silver explains how AlphaGo, AlphaZero, and MuZero used self-play

Roger Penrose: Physics of Consciousness and the Infinite Universe | Lex Fridman Podcast #85

Lex Fridman · Roger Penrose argues consciousness is non-computational, rooted in quantum gravity in br

Anca Dragan: Human-Robot Interaction and Reward Engineering | Lex Fridman Podcast #81

Lex Fridman · Berkeley roboticist Anca Dragan on why robots must model messy humans, learn hidden rewa

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Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman attempts a David Goggins 48-mile challenge solo, running four miles every fo

Alex Garland: Ex Machina, Devs, Annihilation, and the Poetry of Science | Lex Fridman Podcast #77

Lex Fridman · Filmmaker Alex Garland and Lex Fridman explore AI, consciousness, free will, and the poe

John Hopfield: Physics View of the Mind and Neurobiology | Lex Fridman Podcast #76

Lex Fridman · Physicist John Hopfield on how biology's messy complexity outpaces artificial neura

Michael I. Jordan: Machine Learning, Recommender Systems, and Future of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #74

Lex Fridman · Michael I. Jordan argues modern AI isn't intelligence at all, but the birth of a ne

Andrew Ng: Deep Learning, Education, and Real-World AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #73

Lex Fridman · Andrew Ng on how he democratized AI education, why scale beats clever architecture, and

Scott Aaronson: Quantum Computing | Lex Fridman Podcast #72

Lex Fridman · Scott Aaronson demystifies quantum computing, separating its genuine revolutionary core

Complete Statistical Theory of Learning (Vladimir Vapnik) | MIT Deep Learning Series

Lex Fridman · Vladimir Vapnik unveils his complete statistical theory of learning, arguing intelligenc

Vladimir Vapnik: Predicates, Invariants, and the Essence of Intelligence | Lex Fridman Podcast #71

Lex Fridman · Vladimir Vapnik argues true intelligence is finding a few universal 'predicates

Jim Keller: Moore's Law, Microprocessors, and First Principles | Lex Fridman Podcast #70

Lex Fridman · Legendary chip architect Jim Keller explains why Moore's Law isn't dead, how c

David Chalmers: The Hard Problem of Consciousness | Lex Fridman Podcast #69

Lex Fridman · Philosopher David Chalmers explores the hard problem of consciousness, panpsychism, simu

YouTube Algorithm Basics (Cristos Goodrow, VP Engineering at Google) | AI Podcast Clips

Lex Fridman · YouTube's VP of Engineering explains how recommendations, search, and quality signa

Cristos Goodrow: YouTube Algorithm | Lex Fridman Podcast #68

Lex Fridman · YouTube's head of search and discovery explains how the recommendation algorithm ac

Efficient Computing for Deep Learning, Robotics, and AI (Vivienne Sze) | MIT Deep Learning Series

Lex Fridman · MIT's Vivienne Sze explains why data movement, not computation, is the real energy

Privacy Preserving AI (Andrew Trask) | MIT Deep Learning Series

Lex Fridman · Andrew Trask explains how privacy-preserving AI lets us answer questions using data we a

Ayanna Howard: Human-Robot Interaction & Ethics of Safety-Critical Systems | Lex Fridman Podcast #66

Lex Fridman · Roboticist Ayanna Howard on why we don't want perfect robots, the ethics of safety-

Daniel Kahneman: Thinking Fast and Slow, Deep Learning, and AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #65

Lex Fridman · Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman explores his two-systems theory of mind, the limits of de

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Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman's whirlwind 2020 tour of deep learning's biggest breakthroughs, de

Donald Knuth: Algorithms, Complexity, and The Art of Computer Programming | Lex Fridman Podcast #62

Lex Fridman · Donald Knuth reflects on a life of algorithms, beauty in code and typography, mortality,

Melanie Mitchell: Concepts, Analogies, Common Sense & Future of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #61

Lex Fridman · AI researcher Melanie Mitchell argues true intelligence rests on concepts and analogy-ma

Sebastian Thrun: Flying Cars, Autonomous Vehicles, and Education | Lex Fridman Podcast #59

Lex Fridman · Sebastian Thrun on building self-driving cars, flying cars, and democratizing education,

Michael Stevens: Vsauce | Lex Fridman Podcast #58

Lex Fridman · Vsauce's Michael Stevens and Lex Fridman explore consciousness, simulation, flat-ea

Rohit Prasad: Amazon Alexa and Conversational AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #57

Lex Fridman · Amazon's Alexa head scientist Rohit Prasad breaks down how voice assistants are bui

Judea Pearl: Causal Reasoning, Counterfactuals, and the Path to AGI | Lex Fridman Podcast #56

Lex Fridman · Turing Award winner Judea Pearl argues that causal reasoning, not deep learning's c

Whitney Cummings: Comedy, Robotics, Neurology, and Love | Lex Fridman Podcast #55

Lex Fridman · Comedian Whitney Cummings argues robots may be humanity's salvation, while unpackin

Ray Dalio: Principles, the Economic Machine, AI & the Arc of Life | Lex Fridman Podcast #54

Lex Fridman · Ray Dalio breaks down truth-seeking, idea meritocracy, how the economic machine works, m

Noam Chomsky: Language, Cognition, and Deep Learning | Lex Fridman Podcast #53

Lex Fridman · Noam Chomsky argues language is an internal system for thought, science has limits, and

Gilbert Strang: Linear Algebra, Teaching, and MIT OpenCourseWare | Lex Fridman Podcast #52

Lex Fridman · Legendary MIT professor Gilbert Strang on why linear algebra deserves more love than cal

Michael Kearns: Algorithmic Fairness, Privacy & Ethics | Lex Fridman Podcast #50

Lex Fridman · Michael Kearns explains how fairness, privacy, and ethics can be encoded into algorithms

Bjarne Stroustrup: C++ | Lex Fridman Podcast #48

Lex Fridman · C++ creator Bjarne Stroustrup explains how abstraction, types, and zero-overhead design

Garry Kasparov: Chess, Deep Blue, AI, and Putin | Lex Fridman Podcast #46

Lex Fridman · Garry Kasparov reflects on chess, his Deep Blue loss, the limits of AI in open systems,

David Ferrucci: The Story of IBM Watson Winning in Jeopardy | AI Podcast Clips

Lex Fridman · IBM Watson's lead engineer David Ferrucci explains how a self-contained machine bea

David Ferrucci: IBM Watson, Jeopardy & Deep Conversations with AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #44

Lex Fridman · The mind behind IBM Watson explains why true intelligence isn't prediction but the

Peter Norvig: Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach | Lex Fridman Podcast #42

Lex Fridman · Peter Norvig on writing the field-defining AI textbook, why utility functions are the ha

Leonard Susskind: Quantum Mechanics, String Theory and Black Holes | Lex Fridman Podcast #41

Lex Fridman · String theory pioneer Leonard Susskind explores quantum mechanics, black holes, intuitio

Regina Barzilay: Deep Learning for Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment | Lex Fridman Podcast #40

Lex Fridman · MIT's Regina Barzilay on surviving cancer and using deep learning to detect disease

Colin Angle: iRobot CEO | Lex Fridman Podcast #39

Lex Fridman · iRobot CEO Colin Angle on why the Roomba won, why most robotics companies die, and the f

François Chollet: Keras, Deep Learning, and the Progress of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #38

Lex Fridman · Keras creator Francois Chollet on why intelligence explosion is a myth, the limits of de

Vijay Kumar: Flying Robots | Lex Fridman Podcast #37

Lex Fridman · Roboticist Vijay Kumar on agile flying robots, swarms, autonomy without GPS, and why bat

Yann LeCun: Deep Learning, ConvNets, and Self-Supervised Learning | Lex Fridman Podcast #36

Lex Fridman · Deep learning pioneer Yann LeCun on self-supervised learning, why neural nets need world

Jeremy Howard: fast.ai Deep Learning Courses and Research | Lex Fridman Podcast #35

Lex Fridman · fast.ai founder Jeremy Howard on making deep learning accessible, training fast on a sin

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Lex Fridman · Lockheed Martin CTO Keoki Jackson on space exploration, autonomy and AI in defense syste

Paola Arlotta: Brain Development from Stem Cell to Organoid | Lex Fridman Podcast #32

Lex Fridman · Harvard stem-cell biologist Paola Arlotta explains how the human brain self-assembles an

George Hotz: Comma.ai, OpenPilot, and Autonomous Vehicles | Lex Fridman Podcast #31

Lex Fridman · George Hotz on comma.ai, openpilot, why lidar is a crutch, level-2 driving, driver monit

Kevin Scott: Microsoft CTO | Lex Fridman Podcast #30

Lex Fridman · Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott on AI as a democratizing platform, data dignity, deepfakes, co

Gustav Soderstrom: Spotify | Lex Fridman Podcast #29

Lex Fridman · Spotify's Gustav Soderstrom on how streaming reshaped music, the playlist machine-l

Chris Urmson: Self-Driving Cars at Aurora, Google, CMU, and DARPA | Lex Fridman Podcast #28

Lex Fridman · Self-driving pioneer Chris Urmson on autonomy's evolution from DARPA races to Auror

Kai-Fu Lee: AI Superpowers - China and Silicon Valley | Lex Fridman Podcast #27

Lex Fridman · AI pioneer Kai-Fu Lee on China vs Silicon Valley, the future of jobs, and what facing de

Sean Carroll: The Nature of the Universe, Life, and Intelligence | Lex Fridman Podcast #26

Lex Fridman · Physicist Sean Carroll on emergence, the universe as computation, simulation theory, ali

Jeff Hawkins: Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence | Lex Fridman Podcast #25

Lex Fridman · Neuroscientist Jeff Hawkins explains his Thousand Brains Theory of intelligence and why

Rosalind Picard: Affective Computing, Emotion, Privacy, and Health | Lex Fridman Podcast #24

Lex Fridman · MIT's Rosalind Picard on affective computing, the ethics of emotion-reading AI, wea

Rajat Monga: TensorFlow | Lex Fridman Podcast #22

Lex Fridman · TensorFlow lead Rajat Monga on open-sourcing the library, building its ecosystem, and th

Chris Lattner: Compilers, LLVM, Swift, TPU, and ML Accelerators | Lex Fridman Podcast #21

Lex Fridman · Compiler legend Chris Lattner on LLVM, Swift, TPUs, machine learning compilers, and his

Oriol Vinyals: DeepMind AlphaStar, StarCraft, and Language | Lex Fridman Podcast #20

Lex Fridman · DeepMind's Oriol Vinyals on how AlphaStar beat top StarCraft pros and what it revea

MIT 6.S093: Introduction to Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (AI)

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Ian Goodfellow: Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) | Lex Fridman Podcast #19

Lex Fridman · Ian Goodfellow, inventor of GANs, explains how generative adversarial networks work and

Eric Weinstein: Revolutionary Ideas in Science, Math, and Society | Lex Fridman Podcast #16

Lex Fridman · Eric Weinstein on artificial life, the dangers of self-replicating software, the collaps

Leslie Kaelbling: Reinforcement Learning, Planning, and Robotics | Lex Fridman Podcast #15

Lex Fridman · MIT roboticist Leslie Kaelbling on reinforcement learning, planning under uncertainty, a

Karl Iagnemma & Oscar Beijbom (Aptiv Autonomous Mobility) - MIT Self-Driving Cars

Lex Fridman · Aptiv leaders Karl Iagnemma and Oscar Beijbom explain why neural networks must be '

Oliver Cameron (CEO, Voyage) - MIT Self-Driving Cars

Lex Fridman · Voyage CEO Oliver Cameron explains how he built a self-driving car startup targeting ret

Drago Anguelov (Waymo) - MIT Self-Driving Cars

Lex Fridman · Waymo's Drago Anguelov explains how machine learning, simulation, and hybrid system

Kyle Vogt: Cruise Automation | Lex Fridman Podcast #14

Lex Fridman · Cruise co-founder Kyle Vogt on his path from BattleBots and Twitch to building fully dri

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Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman's 2019 MIT lecture surveying the state of self-driving cars, key player

Tomaso Poggio: Brains, Minds, and Machines | Lex Fridman Podcast #13

Lex Fridman · MIT's Tomaso Poggio explores the nature of intelligence, how brains and deep networ

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Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman surveys the 2017-2018 breakthroughs in deep learning, from NLP transformers

Deep Learning Basics: Introduction and Overview

Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman's MIT lecture surveys deep learning fundamentals: neural networks, trai

Tuomas Sandholm: Poker and Game Theory | Lex Fridman Podcast #12

Lex Fridman · CMU's Tuomas Sandholm explains how his AI Libratus beat top human poker pros and wh

Pieter Abbeel: Deep Reinforcement Learning | Lex Fridman Podcast #10

Lex Fridman · Berkeley professor Pieter Abbeel on deep reinforcement learning, robot manipulation, sel

Stuart Russell: Long-Term Future of Artificial Intelligence | Lex Fridman Podcast #9

Lex Fridman · AI pioneer Stuart Russell on why we must build machines that are uncertain about human o

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Lex Fridman · Eric Schmidt on the history of computing, scaling platforms, five-year planning, the nea

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Lex Fridman · Stack Overflow co-founder Jeff Atwood on community-building, the joy of programming, str

Guido van Rossum: Python | Lex Fridman Podcast #6

Lex Fridman · Python creator Guido van Rossum on language design, consciousness, the limits of AI, and

Vladimir Vapnik: Statistical Learning | Lex Fridman Podcast #5

Lex Fridman · Statistical learning pioneer Vladimir Vapnik argues true learning needs invariants and p

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Lex Fridman · Deep learning pioneer Yoshua Bengio on the limits of neural nets, causal reasoning, AI s

Steven Pinker: AI in the Age of Reason | Lex Fridman Podcast #3

Lex Fridman · Steven Pinker argues AI existential-threat fears are magical thinking, and that reason a

Christof Koch: Consciousness | Lex Fridman Podcast #2

Lex Fridman · Neuroscientist Christof Koch explains why intelligence and consciousness are different,

Ilya Sutskever: OpenAI Meta-Learning and Self-Play | MIT Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)

Lex Fridman · Ilya Sutskever explains why deep learning works and walks through OpenAI's research

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Lex Fridman · MIT physicist Max Tegmark explores intelligence, consciousness, AGI safety, and the valu

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Lex Fridman · Aurora co-founder Sterling Anderson on a decade of self-driving cars, from MIT shared-co

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Lex Fridman · nuTonomy CTO Emilio Frazzoli argues self-driving's real value is shared mobility, a

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Lex Fridman · Waymo's perception lead explains how deep learning, sensors, and massive simulation

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Lex Fridman · Ray Kurzweil traces the neocortex, deep learning's rise, and his case for merging w

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Lex Fridman · MIT's Josh Tenenbaum argues true AI requires reverse-engineering how human babies b

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Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman's MIT lecture on how machines see: convolutional neural networks, seman

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Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman's MIT lecture argues human-centered semi-autonomy beats full self-drivi

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Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman's MIT 6.S094 lecture introduces deep learning fundamentals and why it m

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Lex Fridman · Stanford's Chris Gerdes on building autonomous race cars and shaping the first US f

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Foundations of Unsupervised Deep Learning (Ruslan Salakhutdinov, CMU)

Lex Fridman · CMU's Ruslan Salakhutdinov gives a foundational lecture on unsupervised deep learni

Deep Learning for Computer Vision (Andrej Karpathy, OpenAI)

Lex Fridman · Andrej Karpathy delivers a deep-dive lecture on how convolutional neural networks revolu

Sequence to Sequence Deep Learning (Quoc Le, Google)

Lex Fridman · Quoc Le explains sequence-to-sequence deep learning, from email auto-reply to translatio

Deep Learning for Speech Recognition (Adam Coates, Baidu)

Lex Fridman · Adam Coates of Baidu explains how end-to-end deep learning replaced traditional pipeline

Theano Tutorial (Pascal Lamblin, MILA)

Lex Fridman · A hands-on tutorial on Theano, the symbolic math compiler for deep learning, taught by P

Foundations of Deep Learning (Hugo Larochelle, Twitter)

Lex Fridman · Hugo Larochelle delivers a one-hour foundations lecture on feedforward neural networks,

Deep Reinforcement Learning (John Schulman, OpenAI)

Lex Fridman · John Schulman gives a foundational lecture on deep reinforcement learning, covering poli

Nuts and Bolts of Applying Deep Learning (Andrew Ng)

Lex Fridman · Andrew Ng shares practical lessons for organizing deep learning projects, from bias-vari

Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing (Richard Socher, Salesforce)

Lex Fridman · Richard Socher explains deep learning for NLP: word vectors, recurrent networks, and dyn

TensorFlow Tutorial (Sherry Moore, Google Brain)

Lex Fridman · Google Brain's Sherry Moore gives a hands-on TensorFlow tutorial, building linear r