Lex Fridman Podcast
Conversations about science, technology, history, philosophy and the nature of intelligence, consciousness, love, and power. Lex is an AI researcher at MIT and beyond.
#453 – Javier Milei: President of Argentina – Freedom, Economics, and Corruption
#452 – Dario Amodei: Anthropic CEO on Claude, AGI & the Future of AI & Humanity
#451 – Rick Spence: CIA, KGB, Illuminati, Secret Societies, Cults & Conspiracies
#450 – Bernie Sanders Interview
#449 – Graham Hancock: Lost Civilization of the Ice Age & Ancient Human History
#448 – Jordan Peterson: Nietzsche, Hitler, God, Psychopathy, Suffering & Meaning
#447 – Cursor Team: Future of Programming with AI
#446 – Ed Barnhart: Maya, Aztec, Inca, and Lost Civilizations of South America
#445 – Vivek Ramaswamy: Trump, Conservatism, Nationalism, Immigration, and War
#444 – Vejas Liulevicius: Communism, Marxism, Nazism, Stalin, Mao, and Hitler
#443 – Gregory Aldrete: The Roman Empire – Rise and Fall of Ancient Rome
#442 – Donald Trump Interview
#441 – Cenk Uygur: Trump vs Harris, Progressive Politics, Communism & Capitalism
#440 – Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life
#439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling
#438 – Elon Musk: Neuralink and the Future of Humanity
#437 – Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6
#436 – Ivanka Trump: Politics, Family, Real Estate, Fashion, Music, and Life
#435 – Andrew Huberman: Focus, Controversy, Politics, and Relationships
#434 – Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity CEO on Future of AI, Search & the Internet
#433 – Sara Walker: Physics of Life, Time, Complexity, and Aliens
#432 – Kevin Spacey: Power, Controversy, Betrayal, Truth & Love in Film and Life
#431 – Roman Yampolskiy: Dangers of Superintelligent AI
#430 – Charan Ranganath: Human Memory, Imagination, Deja Vu, and False Memories
#429 – Paul Rosolie: Jungle, Apex Predators, Aliens, Uncontacted Tribes, and God
#428 – Sean Carroll: General Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Black Holes & Aliens
#427 – Neil Adams: Judo, Olympics, Winning, Losing, and the Champion Mindset
#426 – Edward Gibson: Human Language, Psycholinguistics, Syntax, Grammar & LLMs
#425 – Andrew Callaghan: Channel 5, Gonzo, QAnon, O-Block, Politics & Alex Jones
#424 – Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame
#423 – Tulsi Gabbard: War, Politics, and the Military Industrial Complex
#422 – Mark Cuban: Shark Tank, DEI & Wokeism Debate, Elon Musk, Politics & Drugs
#421 – Dana White: UFC, Fighting, Khabib, Conor, Tyson, Ali, Rogan, Elon & Zuck
#420 – Annie Jacobsen: Nuclear War, CIA, KGB, Aliens, Area 51, Roswell & Secrecy
#419 – Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI
#418 – Israel-Palestine Debate: Finkelstein, Destiny, M. Rabbani & Benny Morris
#417 – Kimbal Musk: The Art of Cooking, Tesla, SpaceX, Zip2, and Family
#416 – Yann Lecun: Meta AI, Open Source, Limits of LLMs, AGI & the Future of AI
#415 – Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis & War
#414 – Tucker Carlson: Putin, Navalny, Trump, CIA, NSA, War, Politics & Freedom
#413 – Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech
#412 – Marc Raibert: Boston Dynamics and the Future of Robotics
#411 – Omar Suleiman: Palestine, Gaza, Oct 7, Israel, Resistance, Faith & Islam
#410 – Ben Shapiro vs Destiny Debate: Politics, Jan 6, Israel, Ukraine & Wokeism
#409 – Matthew Cox: FBI Most Wanted Con Man – $55 Million in Bank Fraud
#408 – Tal Wilkenfeld: Music, Guitar, Bass, Jeff Beck, Prince, and Leonard Cohen
#407 – Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI
#406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness
#405 – Jeff Bezos: Amazon and Blue Origin
#404 – Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe
#403 – Lisa Randall: Dark Matter, Theoretical Physics, and Extinction Events
#402 – Michael Malice: Thanksgiving Pirate Special
#401 – John Mearsheimer: Israel-Palestine, Russia-Ukraine, China, NATO, and WW3
#400 – Elon Musk: War, AI, Aliens, Politics, Physics, Video Games, and Humanity
#399 – Jared Kushner: Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Gaza, Iran, and the Middle East
#398 – Mark Zuckerberg: First Interview in the Metaverse
#397 – Greg Lukianoff: Cancel Culture, Deplatforming, Censorship & Free Speech
#396 – James Sexton: Divorce Lawyer on Marriage, Relationships, Sex, Lies & Love
#395 – Walter Isaacson: Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Einstein, Da Vinci & Ben Franklin
#394 – Neri Oxman: Biology, Art, and Science of Design & Engineering with Nature
#393 – Andrew Huberman: Relationships, Drama, Betrayal, Sex, and Love
#392 – Joscha Bach: Life, Intelligence, Consciousness, AI & the Future of Humans
#391 – Mohammed El-Kurd: Palestine
#390 – Yuval Noah Harari: Human Nature, Intelligence, Power, and Conspiracies
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning
#387 – George Hotz: Tiny Corp, Twitter, AI Safety, Self-Driving, GPT, AGI & God
#386 – Marc Andreessen: Future of the Internet, Technology, and AI
#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia
#384 – Matthew McConaughey: Freedom, Truth, Family, Hardship, and Love
#383 – Mark Zuckerberg: Future of AI at Meta, Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp
#382 – Bert Kreischer: Comedy, Drinking, Rogan, Segura, Churchill & Kim Jong Un
#381 – Chris Lattner: Future of Programming and AI
#380 – Neil Gershenfeld: Self-Replicating Robots and the Future of Fabrication
#379 – Randall Kennedy: The N-Word – History of Race, Law, Politics, and Power
#378 – Anna Frebel: Origin and Evolution of the Universe, Galaxies, and Stars
#377 – Harvey Silverglate: Freedom of Speech
#376 – Stephen Wolfram: ChatGPT and the Nature of Truth, Reality & Computation
#375 – David Pakman: Politics of Trump, Biden, Bernie, AOC, Socialism & Wokeism
#374 – Robert Playter: Boston Dynamics CEO on Humanoid and Legged Robotics
#373 – Manolis Kellis: Evolution of Human Civilization and Superintelligent AI
#372 – Simone Giertz: Queen of Sh*tty Robots, Innovative Engineering, and Design
#371 – Max Tegmark: The Case for Halting AI Development
#370 – Edward Frenkel: Reality is a Paradox – Mathematics, Physics, Truth & Love
#369 – Paul Rosolie: Amazon Jungle, Uncontacted Tribes, Anacondas, and Ayahuasca
#368 – Eliezer Yudkowsky: Dangers of AI and the End of Human Civilization
#367 – Sam Altman: OpenAI CEO on GPT-4, ChatGPT, and the Future of AI
#366 – Shannon Curry: Johnny Depp & Amber Heard Trial, Marriage, Dating & Love
#365 – Sam Harris: Trump, Pandemic, Twitter, Elon, Bret, IDW, Kanye, AI & UFOs
#364 – Chris Voss: FBI Hostage Negotiator
#363 – B-Team Jiu Jitsu: Craig Jones, Nicky Rod, and Nicky Ryan
#362 – Ginni Rometty: IBM CEO on Leadership, Power, and Adversity
#361 – Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology
#360 – Tim Urban: Tribalism, Marxism, Liberalism, Social Justice, and Politics
#359 – Andrew Strominger: Black Holes, Quantum Gravity, and Theoretical Physics
#358 – Aella: Sex Work, OnlyFans, Porn, Escorting, Dating, and Human Sexuality
#357 – Paul Conti: Narcissism, Sociopathy, Envy, and the Nature of Good and Evil
#356 – Tim Dodd: SpaceX, Starship, Rocket Engines, and Future of Space Travel
#355 – David Kipping: Alien Civilizations and Habitable Worlds
#354 – Jeremi Suri: American Civil War
#353 – Dennis Whyte: Nuclear Fusion and the Future of Energy
#352 – Omar Suleiman: Islam
#351 – MrBeast: Future of YouTube, Twitter, TikTok, and Instagram
#350 – Betül Kaçar: Origin of Life, Ancient DNA, Panspermia, and Aliens
#349 – Bhaskar Sunkara: The Case for Socialism
#348 – Nathalie Cabrol: Search for Alien Life
#347 – Michael Malice: Christmas Special
#346 – Ed Calderon: Mexican Drug Cartels
#345 – Coffeezilla: SBF, FTX, Fraud, Scams, Fake Gurus, Money, Fame, and Power
#344 – Noam Brown: AI vs Humans in Poker and Games of Strategic Negotiation
#343 – Roger Gracie: Greatest Jiu Jitsu Competitor of All Time
#342 – Todd Howard: Skyrim, Elder Scrolls 6, Fallout, and Starfield
#341 – Guido van Rossum: Python and the Future of Programming
#340 – Chris Tarbell: FBI Agent Who Took Down Silk Road
#339 – Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin
#338 – Chamath Palihapitiya: Money, Success, Startups, Energy, Poker & Happiness
#337 – Destiny: Politics, Free Speech, Controversy, Sex, War, and Relationships
#336 – Ben Shapiro: Politics, Kanye, Trump, Biden, Hitler, Extremism, and War
#335 – Fiona Hill: Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump
#334 – Abbas Amanat: Iran Protests, Mahsa Amini, History, CIA & Nuclear Weapons
#333 – Andrej Karpathy: Tesla AI, Self-Driving, Optimus, Aliens, and AGI
#332 – Kanye ‘Ye’ West Interview
#331 – Balaji Srinivasan: How to Fix Government, Twitter, Science, and the FDA
#330 – Hikaru Nakamura: Chess, Magnus, Kasparov, and the Psychology of Greatness
#329 – Kate Darling: Social Robots, Ethics, Privacy and the Future of MIT
#328 – John Danaher: Submission Grappling, ADCC, Animal Combat, and Knives
#327 – GothamChess: Hans Niemann, Magnus Carlsen, Cheating Scandal & Chess Bots
#326 – Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality
#325 – Michael Levin: Biology, Life, Aliens, Evolution, Embryogenesis & Xenobots
#324 – Daniel Negreanu: Poker
#323 – Will Sasso: Comedy, MADtv, AI, Friendship, Madness, and Pro Wrestling
#322 – Rana el Kaliouby: Emotion AI, Social Robots, and Self-Driving Cars
#321 – Ray Kurzweil: Singularity, Superintelligence, and Immortality
#320 – Christopher Capozzola: World War I, Ideology, Propaganda, and Politics
#319 – Botez Sisters: Chess, Streaming, and Fame
#318 – Nick Lane: Origin of Life, Evolution, Aliens, Biology, and Consciousness
#317 – John Vervaeke: Meaning Crisis, Atheism, Religion & the Search for Wisdom
#316 – Noam Chomsky: Putin, Ukraine, China, and Nuclear War
#315 – Magnus Carlsen: Greatest Chess Player of All Time
#314 – Liv Boeree: Poker, Game Theory, AI, Simulation, Aliens & Existential Risk
#313 – Jordan Peterson: Life, Death, Power, Fame, and Meaning
#312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man
#311 – Magatte Wade: Africa, Capitalism, Communism, and the Future of Humanity
#310 – Andrew Bustamante: CIA Spy
#309 – John Carmack: Doom, Quake, VR, AGI, Programming, Video Games, and Rockets
#308 – Ryan Graves: UFOs, Fighter Jets, and Aliens
#307 – Brian Armstrong: Coinbase, Cryptocurrency, and Government Regulation
#306 – Oriol Vinyals: Deep Learning and Artificial General Intelligence
#305 – Martin Rees: Black Holes, Alien Life, Dark Matter, and the Big Bang
#304 – Bishop Robert Barron: Christianity and the Catholic Church
#303 – Steve Keen: Marxism, Capitalism, and Economics
#302 – Richard Haier: IQ Tests, Human Intelligence, and Group Differences
#301 – Jack Barsky: KGB Spy
#300 – Joe Rogan: Comedy, Controversy, Aliens, UFOs, Putin, CIA, and Freedom
#299 – Demis Hassabis: DeepMind
#298 – Susan Cain: The Power of Introverts and Loneliness
#297 – Jonathan Reisman: The Human Body – From Sex & Sperm to Hands & Heart
#296 – Douglas Murray: Racism, Marxism, and the War on the West
#295 – Richard Wolff: Marxism and Communism
#294 – Tony Fadell: iPhone, iPod, and Nest
#293 – Donald Hoffman: Reality is an Illusion – How Evolution Hid the Truth
#292 – Robin Hanson: Alien Civilizations, UFOs, and the Future of Humanity
#291 – Jonathan Haidt: The Case Against Social Media
#290 – Dan Reynolds: Imagine Dragons
#289 – Stephen Kotkin: Putin, Zelenskyy, and War in Ukraine
#288 – Sarma Melngailis: Bad Vegan
#287 – Bobby Lee: Comedy, Skyrim, Sex Robots, Love, Fame, and Power
#286 – Oliver Stone: Vladimir Putin and War in Ukraine
#285 – Glenn Loury: Race, Racism, Identity Politics, and Cancel Culture
#284 – Saifedean Ammous: Bitcoin, Anarchy, and Austrian Economics
#283 – Chris Mason: Space Travel, Colonization, and Long-Term Survival in Space
#282 – David Buss: Sex, Dating, Relationships, and Sex Differences
#281 – Grimes: Music, AI, and the Future of Humanity
#280 – Cristiano Amon: Qualcomm CEO
#279 – Alien Debate: Sara Walker and Lee Cronin
#278 – Skye Fitzgerald: Hunger, War, and Human Suffering
#277 – Andrew Huberman: Focus, Stress, Relationships, and Friendship
#276 – Michael Saylor: Bitcoin, Inflation, and the Future of Money
#275 – Rick Rubin: Legendary Music Producer
#274 – Karl Deisseroth: Depression, Schizophrenia, and Psychiatry
#273 – Chris Blattman: War and Violence
#272 – Brett Johnson: US Most Wanted Cybercriminal
#271 – Ariel Ekblaw: Space Colonization and Self-Assembling Space Megastructures
#270 – David Wolpe: Judaism
#269 – Lee Cronin: Origin of Life, Aliens, Complexity, and Consciousness
#268 – Robert Proctor: Nazi Science and Ideology
#267 – Mark Zuckerberg: Meta, Facebook, Instagram, and the Metaverse
#266 – Nicole Perlroth: Cybersecurity and the Weapons of Cyberwar
#265 – Devon Larratt: Arm Wrestling
#264 – Tim Urban: Elon Musk, Neuralink, AI, Aliens, and the Future of Humanity
#263 – John Abramson: Big Pharma
#262 – Garry Nolan: UFOs and Aliens
#261 – Philip Goff: Consciousness, Panpsychism, and the Philosophy of Mind
#260 – Georges St-Pierre, John Danaher & Gordon Ryan: The Greatest of All Time
#259 – Thomas Tull: From Batman Dark Knight Trilogy to AI and the Rolling Stones
#258 – Yann LeCun: Dark Matter of Intelligence and Self-Supervised Learning
#257 – Brian Keating: Cosmology, Astrophysics, Aliens & Losing the Nobel Prize
#256 – Nationalism Debate: Yaron Brook and Yoram Hazony
#255 – Mark Normand: Comedy!
#254 – Jay Bhattacharya: The Case Against Lockdowns
#253 – Michael Malice: New Year’s Special
#252 – Elon Musk: SpaceX, Mars, Tesla Autopilot, Self-Driving, Robotics, and AI
#251 – Ray Dalio: Money, Power, and the Collapse of Empires
#250 – Peter Wang: Python and the Source Code of Humans, Computers, and Reality
#249 – Albert Bourla: Pfizer CEO
#248 – Norman Naimark: Genocide, Stalin, Hitler, Mao, and Absolute Power
#247 – Jamie Metzl: Lab Leak Theory
#246 – Peter Woit: Theories of Everything and Why String Theory is Not Even Wrong
#245 – Tom Brands: Iowa Wrestling
#244 – Robert Crews: Afghanistan, Taliban, Bin Laden, and War in the Middle East
#243 – Kevin Systrom: Instagram
#242 – Ben Askren: Wrestling and MMA
#241 – Boris Sofman: Waymo, Cozmo, Self-Driving Cars, and the Future of Robotics
#240 – Neal Stephenson: Sci-Fi, Space, Aliens, AI, VR & the Future of Humanity
#239 – Niall Ferguson: History of Money, Power, War, and Truth
#238 – Francis Collins: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
#237 – Steve Viscelli: Trucking and the Decline of the American Dream
#236 – Jimmy Pedro: Judo and the Forging of Champions
#235 – Michael Mina: Rapid COVID Testing
#234 – Stephen Wolfram: Complexity and the Fabric of Reality
#233 – Carl Hart: Heroin, Cocaine, MDMA, Alcohol & the Role of Drugs in Society
#232 – Brian Greene: Quantum Gravity, Big Bang, Aliens, Life, Death, and Meaning
#231 – Alex Gladstein: Bitcoin, Authoritarianism, and Human Rights
#230 – Kelsi Sheren: War, Artillery, PTSD, and Love
#229 – Richard Wrangham: Role of Violence, Sex, and Fire in Human Evolution
#228 – RZA: Wu-Tang Clan, Kung Fu, Chess, God, Life, and Death
#227 – Sean Kelly: Existentialism, Nihilism, and the Search for Meaning
#226 – Jo Boaler: How to Learn Math
#225 – Jeffrey Shainline: Neuromorphic Computing and Optoelectronic Intelligence
#224 – Travis Oliphant: NumPy, SciPy, Anaconda, Python & Scientific Programming
#223 – Travis Stevens: Judo, Olympics, and Mental Toughness
#222 – Jay McClelland: Neural Networks and the Emergence of Cognition
#221 – Douglas Lenat: Cyc and the Quest to Solve Common Sense Reasoning in AI
#220 – Niels Jorgensen: New York Firefighters and the Heroes of 9/11
#219 – Donald Knuth: Programming, Algorithms, Hard Problems & the Game of Life
#218 – Jaron Lanier: Virtual Reality, Social Media & the Future of Humans and AI
#217 – Rodney Brooks: Robotics
#216 – Vincent Racaniello: Viruses and Vaccines
#215 – Wojciech Zaremba: OpenAI Codex, GPT-3, Robotics, and the Future of AI
#214 – Jed Buchwald: Isaac Newton and the Philosophy of Science
#213 – Barry Barish: Gravitational Waves and the Most Precise Device Ever Built
#212 – Joscha Bach: Nature of Reality, Dreams, and Consciousness
#211 – Brian Muraresku: The Secret History of Psychedelics
#210 – Matt Walker: Sleep
#209 – Luís and João Batalha: Fermat’s Library and the Art of Studying Papers
#208 – Jeff Hawkins: The Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence
#207 – Chris Duffin: The Mad Scientist of Strength
#206 – Ishan Misra: Self-Supervised Deep Learning in Computer Vision
#205 – Zach Bitter: Ultramarathon Running
#204 – Cumrun Vafa: String Theory
#203 – Anya Fernald: Regenerative Farming and the Art of Cooking Meat
#202 – Rick Doblin: Psychedelics
#201 – Konstantin Batygin: Planet 9 and the Edge of Our Solar System
#200 – Michael Malice: Totalitarianism and Anarchy
#199 – Roger Reaves: Smuggling Drugs for Pablo Escobar and the Medellin Cartel
#198 – Sara Walker: The Origin of Life on Earth and Alien Worlds
#197 – Jocko Willink: War, Leadership, and Discipline
#196 – Yeonmi Park: North Korea
#195 – Clara Sousa-Silva: Searching for Signs of Life on Venus and Other Planets
#194 – Bret Weinstein: Truth, Science, and Censorship in the Time of a Pandemic
#193 – Rob Reid: The Existential Threat of Engineered Viruses and Lab Leaks
#192 – Charles Hoskinson: Cardano
#191 – Daniel Schmachtenberger: Steering Civilization Away from Self-Destruction
#190 – Jordan Ellenberg: Mathematics of High-Dimensional Shapes and Geometries
#189 – David Sinclair: Extending the Human Lifespan Beyond 100 Years
#188 – Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum 2.0
#187 – Frank Wilczek: Physics of Quarks, Dark Matter, Complexity, Life & Aliens
#186 – Bryan Johnson: Kernel Brain-Computer Interfaces
#185 – Sam Harris: Consciousness, Free Will, Psychedelics, AI, UFOs, and Meaning
#184 – Katherine de Kleer: Planets, Moons, and Asteroids in Our Solar System
#183 – Po-Shen Loh: Mathematics, Math Olympiad, Combinatorics & Contact Tracing
#182 – John Danaher: The Path to Mastery in Jiu Jitsu, Grappling, Judo, and MMA
#181 – Sergey Nazarov: Chainlink, Smart Contracts, and Oracle Networks
#180 – Jeremi Suri: History of American Power
#179 – Georges St-Pierre: The Science of Fighting
#178 – Michael Malice and Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand, Human Nature, and Anarchy
#177 – Risto Miikkulainen: Neuroevolution and Evolutionary Computation
#176 – Robert Breedlove: Philosophy of Bitcoin from First Principles
#175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy
#174 – Tyler Cowen: Economic Growth and the Fight Against Conformity and Mediocrity
#173 – Nic Carter: Bitcoin Core Values, Layered Scaling, and Blocksize Debates
#172 – Ryan Schiller: Librex and the Free Exchange of Ideas on College Campuses
#171 – Anthony Pompliano: Bitcoin
#170 – Ronald Sullivan: The Ideal of Justice in the Face of Controversy and Evil
#169 – Ryan Hall: Solving Martial Arts from First Principles
#168 – Silvio Micali: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Algorand, Bitcoin, and Ethereum
#167 – Saagar Enjeti: Politics, History, and Power
#166 – Cal Newport: Deep Work, Focus, Productivity, Email, and Social Media
#165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts
#164 – Andrew Huberman: Sleep, Dreams, Creativity & the Limits of the Human Mind
#163 – Eric Weinstein: Difficult Conversations, Freedom of Speech, and Physics
#162 – Jim Keller: The Future of Computing, AI, Life, and Consciousness
#161 – Jason Calacanis: Startups, Angel Investing, Capitalism, and Friendship
#160 – Brendan Eich: JavaScript, Firefox, Mozilla, and Brave
#159 – Richard Craib: WallStreetBets, Numerai, and the Future of Stock Trading
#158 – Zev Weinstein: The Next Generation of Big Ideas and Brave Minds
#157 – Natalya Bailey: Rocket Engines and Electric Spacecraft Propulsion
#156 – Tim Dillon: Comedy, Power, Conspiracy Theories, and Freedom
Lex Fridman: Ask Me Anything – AMA January 2021
#155 – Max Tegmark: AI and Physics
#154 – Avi Loeb: Aliens, Black Holes, and the Mystery of the Oumuamua
#153 – Dmitry Korkin: Evolution of Proteins, Viruses, Life, and AI
#152 – Dan Gable: Olympic Wrestling, Mental Toughness & the Making of Champions
#151 – Dan Kokotov: Speech Recognition with AI and Humans
#150 – Michael Malice: The White Pill, Freedom, Hope, and Happiness Amidst Chaos
#149 – Diana Walsh Pasulka: Aliens, Technology, Religion, and the Nature of Belief
#148 – Charles Isbell and Michael Littman: Machine Learning and Education
#147 – Dmitri Dolgov: Waymo and the Future of Self-Driving Cars
#146 – Michael Mina: Rapid Testing, Viruses, and the Engineering Mindset
#145 – Matthew Johnson: Psychedelics
#144 – Michael Littman: Reinforcement Learning and the Future of AI
#143 – John Clarke: The Art of Fighting and the Pursuit of Excellence
#142 – Manolis Kellis: Meaning of Life, the Universe, and Everything
#141 – Erik Brynjolfsson: Economics of AI, Social Networks, and Technology
#140 – Lisa Feldman Barrett: Love, Evolution, and the Human Brain
#139 – Andrew Huberman: Neuroscience of Optimal Performance
#138 – Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand and the Philosophy of Objectivism
#137 – Alex Filippenko: Supernovae, Dark Energy, Aliens & the Expanding Universe
#136 – Dan Carlin: Hardcore History
#135 – Charles Isbell: Computing, Interactive AI, and Race in America
#134 – Eric Weinstein: On the Nature of Good and Evil, Genius and Madness
#133 – Manolis Kellis: Biology of Disease
#132 – George Hotz: Hacking the Simulation & Learning to Drive with Neural Nets
#131 – Chris Lattner: The Future of Computing and Programming Languages
#130 – Scott Aaronson: Computational Complexity and Consciousness
#129 – Lisa Feldman Barrett: Counterintuitive Ideas About How the Brain Works
#128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling
#127 – Joe Rogan: Conversations, Ideas, Love, Freedom & The Joe Rogan Experience
#126 – James Gosling: Java, JVM, Emacs, and the Early Days of Computing
#125 – Ryan Hall: Martial Arts and the Philosophy of Violence, Power, and Grace
#124 – Stephen Wolfram: Fundamental Theory of Physics, Life, and the Universe
#123 – Manolis Kellis: Origin of Life, Humans, Ideas, Suffering, and Happiness
#122 – David Fravor: UFOs, Aliens, Fighter Jets, and Aerospace Engineering
Lex Solo #3 – In Memory of My Grandmother
#121 – Eugenia Kuyda: Friendship with an AI Companion
Lex Solo #2 – The Future of Neuralink
#120 – François Chollet: Measures of Intelligence
#119 – David Eagleman: Neuroplasticity and the Livewired Brain
New Name: Lex Fridman Podcast
#118 – Grant Sanderson: Math, Manim, Neural Networks & Teaching with 3Blue1Brown
#117 – Sheldon Solomon: Death and Meaning
#116 – Sara Seager: Search for Planets and Life Outside Our Solar System
#115 – Dileep George: Brain-Inspired AI
#114 – Russ Tedrake: Underactuated Robotics, Control, Dynamics and Touch
#113 – Manolis Kellis: Human Genome and Evolutionary Dynamics
#112 – Ian Hutchinson: Nuclear Fusion, Plasma Physics, and Religion
#111 – Richard Karp: Algorithms and Computational Complexity
#110 – Jitendra Malik: Computer Vision
#109 – Brian Kernighan: UNIX, C, AWK, AMPL, and Go Programming
#108 – Sergey Levine: Robotics and Machine Learning
#107 – Peter Singer: Suffering in Humans, Animals, and AI
#106 – Matt Botvinick: Neuroscience, Psychology, and AI at DeepMind
#105 – Robert Langer: Edison of Medicine
#104 – David Patterson: Computer Architecture and Data Storage
#103 – Ben Goertzel: Artificial General Intelligence
#102 – Steven Pressfield: The War of Art
#101 – Joscha Bach: Artificial Consciousness and the Nature of Reality
#99 – Karl Friston: Neuroscience and the Free Energy Principle
#97 – Sertac Karaman: Robots That Fly and Robots That Drive
#96 – Stephen Schwarzman: Going Big in Business, Investing, and AI
#95 – Dawn Song: Adversarial Machine Learning and Computer Security
#94 – Ilya Sutskever: Deep Learning
#93 – Daphne Koller: Biomedicine and Machine Learning
#92 – Harry Cliff: Particle Physics and the Large Hadron Collider
#91 – Jack Dorsey: Square, Cryptocurrency, and Artificial Intelligence
#90 – Dmitry Korkin: Computational Biology of Coronavirus
#89 – Stephen Wolfram: Cellular Automata, Computation, and Physics
#88 – Eric Weinstein: Geometric Unity and the Call for New Ideas, Leaders & Institutions
#87 – Richard Dawkins: Evolution, Intelligence, Simulation, and Memes
#86 – David Silver: AlphaGo, AlphaZero, and Deep Reinforcement Learning
#85 – Roger Penrose: Physics of Consciousness and the Infinite Universe
#83 – Nick Bostrom: Simulation and Superintelligence
#82 – Simon Sinek: Leadership, Hard Work, Optimism and the Infinite Game
#81 – Anca Dragan: Human-Robot Interaction and Reward Engineering
#80 – Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum, Cryptocurrency, and the Future of Money
#79 – Lee Smolin: Quantum Gravity and Einstein’s Unfinished Revolution
#78 – Ann Druyan: Cosmos, Carl Sagan, Voyager, and the Beauty of Science
#77 – Alex Garland: Ex Machina, Devs, Annihilation, and the Poetry of Science
#76 – John Hopfield: Physics View of the Mind and Neurobiology
#75 – Marcus Hutter: Universal Artificial Intelligence, AIXI, and AGI
#74 – Michael I. Jordan: Machine Learning, Recommender Systems, and the Future of AI
#73 – Andrew Ng: Deep Learning, Education, and Real-World AI
#72 – Scott Aaronson: Quantum Computing
Vladimir Vapnik: Predicates, Invariants, and the Essence of Intelligence
Jim Keller: Moore’s Law, Microprocessors, Abstractions, and First Principles
David Chalmers: The Hard Problem of Consciousness
Cristos Goodrow: YouTube Algorithm
Paul Krugman: Economics of Innovation, Automation, Safety Nets & Universal Basic Income
Ayanna Howard: Human-Robot Interaction and Ethics of Safety-Critical Systems
Daniel Kahneman: Thinking Fast and Slow, Deep Learning, and AI
Grant Sanderson: 3Blue1Brown and the Beauty of Mathematics
Stephen Kotkin: Stalin, Putin, and the Nature of Power
Donald Knuth: Algorithms, TeX, Life, and The Art of Computer Programming
Melanie Mitchell: Concepts, Analogies, Common Sense & Future of AI
Jim Gates: Supersymmetry, String Theory and Proving Einstein Right
Sebastian Thrun: Flying Cars, Autonomous Vehicles, and Education
Michael Stevens: Vsauce
Rohit Prasad: Amazon Alexa and Conversational AI
Judea Pearl: Causal Reasoning, Counterfactuals, Bayesian Networks, and the Path to AGI
Whitney Cummings: Comedy, Robotics, Neurology, and Love
Ray Dalio: Principles, the Economic Machine, Artificial Intelligence & the Arc of Life
Noam Chomsky: Language, Cognition, and Deep Learning
Gilbert Strang: Linear Algebra, Deep Learning, Teaching, and MIT OpenCourseWare
Dava Newman: Space Exploration, Space Suits, and Life on Mars
Michael Kearns: Algorithmic Fairness, Bias, Privacy, and Ethics in Machine Learning
Elon Musk: Neuralink, AI, Autopilot, and the Pale Blue Dot
Bjarne Stroustrup: C++
Sean Carroll: Quantum Mechanics and the Many-Worlds Interpretation
Garry Kasparov: Chess, Deep Blue, AI, and Putin
Michio Kaku: Future of Humans, Aliens, Space Travel & Physics
David Ferrucci: IBM Watson, Jeopardy & Deep Conversations with AI
Gary Marcus: Toward a Hybrid of Deep Learning and Symbolic AI
Peter Norvig: Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
Leonard Susskind: Quantum Mechanics, String Theory, and Black Holes
Regina Barzilay: Deep Learning for Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment
Colin Angle: iRobot
François Chollet: Keras, Deep Learning, and the Progress of AI
Vijay Kumar: Flying Robots
Yann LeCun: Deep Learning, Convolutional Neural Networks, and Self-Supervised Learning
Jeremy Howard: fast.ai Deep Learning Courses and Research
Pamela McCorduck: Machines Who Think and the Early Days of AI
Keoki Jackson: Lockheed Martin
Paola Arlotta: Brain Development from Stem Cell to Organoid
George Hotz: Comma.ai, OpenPilot, and Autonomous Vehicles
Kevin Scott: Microsoft CTO
Gustav Soderstrom: Spotify
Chris Urmson: Self-Driving Cars at Aurora, Google, CMU, and DARPA
Kai-Fu Lee: AI Superpowers – China and Silicon Valley
Sean Carroll: The Nature of the Universe, Life, and Intelligence
Jeff Hawkins: Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence
Rosalind Picard: Affective Computing, Emotion, Privacy, and Health
Gavin Miller: Adobe Research
Rajat Monga: TensorFlow
Chris Lattner: Compilers, LLVM, Swift, TPU, and ML Accelerators
Oriol Vinyals: DeepMind AlphaStar, StarCraft, Language, and Sequences
Ian Goodfellow: Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs)
Elon Musk: Tesla Autopilot
Greg Brockman: OpenAI and AGI
Eric Weinstein: Revolutionary Ideas in Science, Math, and Society
Leslie Kaelbling: Reinforcement Learning, Planning, and Robotics
Kyle Vogt: Cruise Automation
Tomaso Poggio: Brains, Minds, and Machines
Tuomas Sandholm: Poker and Game Theory
Juergen Schmidhuber: Godel Machines, Meta-Learning, and LSTMs
Pieter Abbeel: Deep Reinforcement Learning
Stuart Russell: Long-Term Future of AI
Eric Schmidt: Google
Jeff Atwood: Stack Overflow and Coding Horror
Guido van Rossum: Python
Vladimir Vapnik: Statistical Learning
Yoshua Bengio: Deep Learning
Steven Pinker: AI in the Age of Reason
Christof Koch: Consciousness