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Conversations about science, technology, history, philosophy and the nature of intelligence, consciousness, love, and power. Lex is an AI researcher at MIT and beyond.

 

Episodes

Date Title Status
10/11/23 #399 – Jared Kushner: Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Gaza, Iran, and the Middle East Transcribed Summarized
9/28/23 #398 – Mark Zuckerberg: First Interview in the Metaverse Transcribed Summarized
9/25/23 #397 – Greg Lukianoff: Cancel Culture, Deplatforming, Censorship & Free Speech Transcribed Summarized
9/18/23 #396 – James Sexton: Divorce Lawyer on Marriage, Relationships, Sex, Lies & Love Transcribed Summarized
9/10/23 #395 – Walter Isaacson: Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Einstein, Da Vinci & Ben Franklin Transcribed Summarized
9/1/23 #394 – Neri Oxman: Biology, Art, and Science of Design & Engineering with Nature Transcribed Summarized
8/17/23 #393 – Andrew Huberman: Relationships, Drama, Betrayal, Sex, and Love Transcribed
8/1/23 #392 – Joscha Bach: Life, Intelligence, Consciousness, AI & the Future of Humans Transcribed
7/24/23 #391 – Mohammed El-Kurd: Palestine Transcribed
7/17/23 #390 – Yuval Noah Harari: Human Nature, Intelligence, Power, and Conspiracies Transcribed
7/12/23 #389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace Transcribed
7/6/23 #388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning Transcribed
6/30/23 #387 – George Hotz: Tiny Corp, Twitter, AI Safety, Self-Driving, GPT, AGI & God Transcribed
6/22/23 #386 – Marc Andreessen: Future of the Internet, Technology, and AI Transcribed
6/18/23 #385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia Transcribed
6/13/23 #384 – Matthew McConaughey: Freedom, Truth, Family, Hardship, and Love Transcribed
6/8/23 #383 – Mark Zuckerberg: Future of AI at Meta, Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp Transcribed
6/5/23 #382 – Bert Kreischer: Comedy, Drinking, Rogan, Segura, Churchill & Kim Jong Un Transcribed
6/2/23 #381 – Chris Lattner: Future of Programming and AI Transcribed
5/28/23 #380 – Neil Gershenfeld: Self-Replicating Robots and the Future of Fabrication Transcribed
5/24/23 #379 – Randall Kennedy: The N-Word – History of Race, Law, Politics, and Power Transcribed
5/18/23 #378 – Anna Frebel: Origin and Evolution of the Universe, Galaxies, and Stars Transcribed
5/16/23 #377 – Harvey Silverglate: Freedom of Speech Transcribed
5/9/23 #376 – Stephen Wolfram: ChatGPT and the Nature of Truth, Reality & Computation Transcribed
5/6/23 #375 – David Pakman: Politics of Trump, Biden, Bernie, AOC, Socialism & Wokeism Transcribed
4/28/23 #374 – Robert Playter: Boston Dynamics CEO on Humanoid and Legged Robotics Transcribed
4/21/23 #373 – Manolis Kellis: Evolution of Human Civilization and Superintelligent AI Transcribed
4/16/23 #372 – Simone Giertz: Queen of Sh*tty Robots, Innovative Engineering, and Design Transcribed
4/13/23 #371 – Max Tegmark: The Case for Halting AI Development Transcribed
4/10/23 #370 – Edward Frenkel: Reality is a Paradox – Mathematics, Physics, Truth & Love Transcribed
4/4/23 #369 – Paul Rosolie: Amazon Jungle, Uncontacted Tribes, Anacondas, and Ayahuasca Transcribed
3/30/23 #368 – Eliezer Yudkowsky: Dangers of AI and the End of Human Civilization Transcribed
3/25/23 #367 – Sam Altman: OpenAI CEO on GPT-4, ChatGPT, and the Future of AI Transcribed
3/21/23 #366 – Shannon Curry: Johnny Depp & Amber Heard Trial, Marriage, Dating & Love Transcribed
3/14/23 #365 – Sam Harris: Trump, Pandemic, Twitter, Elon, Bret, IDW, Kanye, AI & UFOs Transcribed
3/10/23 #364 – Chris Voss: FBI Hostage Negotiator Transcribed
3/6/23 #363 – B-Team Jiu Jitsu: Craig Jones, Nicky Rod, and Nicky Ryan Transcribed
3/2/23 #362 – Ginni Rometty: IBM CEO on Leadership, Power, and Adversity Transcribed
2/25/23 #361 – Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology Transcribed
2/20/23 #360 – Tim Urban: Wokeism, Cancel Culture, Social Justice, Marxism & Liberalism Transcribed
2/15/23 #359 – Andrew Strominger: Black Holes, Quantum Gravity, and Theoretical Physics Transcribed
2/10/23 #358 – Aella: Sex Work, OnlyFans, Porn, Escorting, Dating, and Human Sexuality Transcribed
2/7/23 #357 – Paul Conti: Narcissism, Sociopathy, Envy, and the Nature of Good and Evil Transcribed
2/2/23 #356 – Tim Dodd: SpaceX, Starship, Rocket Engines, and Future of Space Travel Transcribed Summarized
1/28/23 #355 – David Kipping: Alien Civilizations and Habitable Worlds Transcribed
1/25/23 #354 – Jeremi Suri: American Civil War Transcribed
1/21/23 #353 – Dennis Whyte: Nuclear Fusion and the Future of Energy Transcribed
1/17/23 #352 – Omar Suleiman: Islam Transcribed
1/11/23 #351 – MrBeast: Future of YouTube, Twitter, TikTok, and Instagram Transcribed
12/29/22 #350 – Betül Kaçar: Origin of Life, Ancient DNA, Panspermia, and Aliens Transcribed
12/22/22 #349 – Bhaskar Sunkara: The Case for Socialism Transcribed
12/19/22 #348 – Nathalie Cabrol: Search for Alien Life Transcribed
12/15/22 #347 – Michael Malice: Christmas Special Transcribed
12/12/22 #346 – Ed Calderon: Mexican Drug Cartels Transcribed
12/9/22 #345 – Coffeezilla: SBF, FTX, Fraud, Scams, Fake Gurus, Money, Fame, and Power
12/6/22 #344 – Noam Brown: AI vs Humans in Poker and Games of Strategic Negotiation
12/3/22 #343 – Roger Gracie: Greatest Jiu Jitsu Competitor of All Time
11/29/22 #342 – Todd Howard: Skyrim, Elder Scrolls 6, Fallout, and Starfield
11/26/22 #341 – Guido van Rossum: Python and the Future of Programming
11/22/22 #340 – Chris Tarbell: FBI Agent Who Took Down Silk Road
11/18/22 #339 – Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin
11/15/22 #338 – Chamath Palihapitiya: Money, Success, Startups, Energy, Poker & Happiness
11/11/22 #337 – Destiny: Politics, Free Speech, Controversy, Sex, War, and Relationships
11/7/22 #336 – Ben Shapiro: Politics, Kanye, Trump, Biden, Hitler, Extremism, and War
11/4/22 #335 – Fiona Hill: Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump
11/2/22 #334 – Abbas Amanat: Iran Protests, Mahsa Amini, History, CIA & Nuclear Weapons
10/29/22 #333 – Andrej Karpathy: Tesla AI, Self-Driving, Optimus, Aliens, and AGI
10/24/22 #332 – Kanye ‘Ye’ West Interview
10/20/22 #331 – Balaji Srinivasan: How to Fix Government, Twitter, Science, and the FDA
10/17/22 #330 – Hikaru Nakamura: Chess, Magnus, Kasparov, and the Psychology of Greatness
10/15/22 #329 – Kate Darling: Social Robots, Ethics, Privacy and the Future of MIT
10/10/22 #328 – John Danaher: Submission Grappling, ADCC, Animal Combat, and Knives
10/7/22 #327 – GothamChess: Hans Niemann, Magnus Carlsen, Cheating Scandal & Chess Bots
10/5/22 #326 – Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality
10/1/22 #325 – Michael Levin: Biology, Life, Aliens, Evolution, Embryogenesis & Xenobots
9/27/22 #324 – Daniel Negreanu: Poker
9/24/22 #323 – Will Sasso: Comedy, MADtv, AI, Friendship, Madness, and Pro Wrestling
9/21/22 #322 – Rana el Kaliouby: Emotion AI, Social Robots, and Self-Driving Cars
9/17/22 #321 – Ray Kurzweil: Singularity, Superintelligence, and Immortality
9/14/22 #320 – Christopher Capozzola: World War I, Ideology, Propaganda, and Politics
9/9/22 #319 – Botez Sisters: Chess, Streaming, and Fame
9/7/22 #318 – Nick Lane: Origin of Life, Evolution, Aliens, Biology, and Consciousness
9/4/22 #317 – John Vervaeke: Meaning Crisis, Atheism, Religion & the Search for Wisdom
8/31/22 #316 – Noam Chomsky: Putin, Ukraine, China, and Nuclear War
8/27/22 #315 – Magnus Carlsen: Greatest Chess Player of All Time
8/24/22 #314 – Liv Boeree: Poker, Game Theory, AI, Simulation, Aliens & Existential Risk
8/19/22 #313 – Jordan Peterson: Life, Death, Power, Fame, and Meaning
8/16/22 #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man
8/13/22 #311 – Magatte Wade: Africa, Capitalism, Communism, and the Future of Humanity
8/8/22 #310 – Andrew Bustamante: CIA Spy
8/4/22 #309 – John Carmack: Doom, Quake, VR, AGI, Programming, Video Games, and Rockets
8/1/22 #308 – Ryan Graves: UFOs, Fighter Jets, and Aliens
7/29/22 #307 – Brian Armstrong: Coinbase, Cryptocurrency, and Government Regulation
7/26/22 #306 – Oriol Vinyals: Deep Learning and Artificial General Intelligence
7/23/22 #305 – Martin Rees: Black Holes, Alien Life, Dark Matter, and the Big Bang
7/20/22 #304 – Bishop Robert Barron: Christianity and the Catholic Church
7/17/22 #303 – Steve Keen: Marxism, Capitalism, and Economics
7/14/22 #302 – Richard Haier: IQ Tests, Human Intelligence, and Group Differences
7/9/22 #301 – Jack Barsky: KGB Spy
7/4/22 #300 – Joe Rogan: Comedy, Controversy, Aliens, UFOs, Putin, CIA, and Freedom
7/1/22 #299 – Demis Hassabis: DeepMind
6/28/22 #298 – Susan Cain: The Power of Introverts and Loneliness
6/25/22 #297 – Jonathan Reisman: The Human Body – From Sex & Sperm to Hands & Heart
6/21/22 #296 – Douglas Murray: Racism, Marxism, and the War on the West
6/17/22 #295 – Richard Wolff: Marxism and Communism
6/15/22 #294 – Tony Fadell: iPhone, iPod, and Nest
6/12/22 #293 – Donald Hoffman: Reality is an Illusion – How Evolution Hid the Truth
6/9/22 #292 – Robin Hanson: Alien Civilizations, UFOs, and the Future of Humanity
6/4/22 #291 – Jonathan Haidt: The Case Against Social Media
5/30/22 #290 – Dan Reynolds: Imagine Dragons
5/25/22 #289 – Stephen Kotkin: Putin, Zelenskyy, and War in Ukraine
5/23/22 #288 – Sarma Melngailis: Bad Vegan
5/20/22 #287 – Bobby Lee: Comedy, Skyrim, Sex Robots, Love, Fame, and Power
5/17/22 #286 – Oliver Stone: Vladimir Putin and War in Ukraine
5/14/22 #285 – Glenn Loury: Race, Racism, Identity Politics, and Cancel Culture
5/11/22 #284 – Saifedean Ammous: Bitcoin, Anarchy, and Austrian Economics
5/8/22 #283 – Chris Mason: Space Travel, Colonization, and Long-Term Survival in Space
5/4/22 #282 – David Buss: Sex, Dating, Relationships, and Sex Differences
4/29/22 #281 – Grimes: Music, AI, and the Future of Humanity
4/27/22 #280 – Cristiano Amon: Qualcomm CEO
4/24/22 #279 – Alien Debate: Sara Walker and Lee Cronin
4/20/22 #278 – Skye Fitzgerald: Hunger, War, and Human Suffering
4/17/22 #277 – Andrew Huberman: Focus, Stress, Relationships, and Friendship
4/14/22 #276 – Michael Saylor: Bitcoin, Inflation, and the Future of Money
4/10/22 #275 – Rick Rubin: Legendary Music Producer
4/7/22 #274 – Karl Deisseroth: Depression, Schizophrenia, and Psychiatry
4/3/22 #273 – Chris Blattman: War and Violence
3/27/22 #272 – Brett Johnson: US Most Wanted Cybercriminal
3/23/22 #271 – Ariel Ekblaw: Space Colonization and Self-Assembling Space Megastructures
3/16/22 #270 – David Wolpe: Judaism
3/11/22 #269 – Lee Cronin: Origin of Life, Aliens, Complexity, and Consciousness
3/5/22 #268 – Robert Proctor: Nazi Science and Ideology
2/26/22 #267 – Mark Zuckerberg: Meta, Facebook, Instagram, and the Metaverse
2/20/22 #266 – Nicole Perlroth: Cybersecurity and the Weapons of Cyberwar
2/16/22 #265 – Devon Larratt: Arm Wrestling
2/13/22 #264 – Tim Urban: Elon Musk, Neuralink, AI, Aliens, and the Future of Humanity
2/11/22 #263 – John Abramson: Big Pharma
2/6/22 #262 – Garry Nolan: UFOs and Aliens
2/3/22 #261 – Philip Goff: Consciousness, Panpsychism, and the Philosophy of Mind
1/30/22 #260 – Georges St-Pierre, John Danaher & Gordon Ryan: The Greatest of All Time
1/26/22 #259 – Thomas Tull: From Batman Dark Knight Trilogy to AI and the Rolling Stones
1/22/22 #258 – Yann LeCun: Dark Matter of Intelligence and Self-Supervised Learning
1/18/22 #257 – Brian Keating: Cosmology, Astrophysics, Aliens & Losing the Nobel Prize
1/15/22 #256 – Nationalism Debate: Yaron Brook and Yoram Hazony
1/8/22 #255 – Mark Normand: Comedy!
1/4/22 #254 – Jay Bhattacharya: The Case Against Lockdowns
12/31/21 #253 – Michael Malice: New Year’s Special
12/28/21 #252 – Elon Musk: SpaceX, Mars, Tesla Autopilot, Self-Driving, Robotics, and AI
12/25/21 #251 – Ray Dalio: Money, Power, and the Collapse of Empires
12/23/21 #250 – Peter Wang: Python and the Source Code of Humans, Computers, and Reality
12/18/21 #249 – Albert Bourla: Pfizer CEO
12/13/21 #248 – Norman Naimark: Genocide, Stalin, Hitler, Mao, and Absolute Power
12/8/21 #247 – Jamie Metzl: Lab Leak Theory
12/3/21 #246 – Peter Woit: Theories of Everything and Why String Theory is Not Even Wrong
11/30/21 #245 – Tom Brands: Iowa Wrestling
11/28/21 #244 – Robert Crews: Afghanistan, Taliban, Bin Laden, and War in the Middle East
11/23/21 #243 – Kevin Systrom: Instagram
11/20/21 #242 – Ben Askren: Wrestling and MMA
11/16/21 #241 – Boris Sofman: Waymo, Cozmo, Self-Driving Cars, and the Future of Robotics
11/11/21 #240 – Neal Stephenson: Sci-Fi, Space, Aliens, AI, VR & the Future of Humanity
11/8/21 #239 – Niall Ferguson: History of Money, Power, War, and Truth
11/5/21 #238 – Francis Collins: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
11/3/21 #237 – Steve Viscelli: Trucking and the Decline of the American Dream
10/31/21 #236 – Jimmy Pedro: Judo and the Forging of Champions
10/29/21 #235 – Michael Mina: Rapid COVID Testing
10/27/21 #234 – Stephen Wolfram: Complexity and the Fabric of Reality
10/23/21 #233 – Carl Hart: Heroin, Cocaine, MDMA, Alcohol & the Role of Drugs in Society
10/20/21 #232 – Brian Greene: Quantum Gravity, Big Bang, Aliens, Life, Death, and Meaning
10/16/21 #231 – Alex Gladstein: Bitcoin, Authoritarianism, and Human Rights
10/14/21 #230 – Kelsi Sheren: War, Artillery, PTSD, and Love
10/10/21 #229 – Richard Wrangham: Role of Violence, Sex, and Fire in Human Evolution
10/5/21 #228 – RZA: Wu-Tang Clan, Kung Fu, Chess, God, Life, and Death
9/30/21 #227 – Sean Kelly: Existentialism, Nihilism, and the Search for Meaning
9/27/21 #226 – Jo Boaler: How to Learn Math
9/26/21 #225 – Jeffrey Shainline: Neuromorphic Computing and Optoelectronic Intelligence
9/23/21 #224 – Travis Oliphant: NumPy, SciPy, Anaconda, Python & Scientific Programming
9/21/21 #223 – Travis Stevens: Judo, Olympics, and Mental Toughness
9/20/21 #222 – Jay McClelland: Neural Networks and the Emergence of Cognition
9/15/21 #221 – Douglas Lenat: Cyc and the Quest to Solve Common Sense Reasoning in AI
9/11/21 #220 – Niels Jorgensen: New York Firefighters and the Heroes of 9/11
9/9/21 #219 – Donald Knuth: Programming, Algorithms, Hard Problems & the Game of Life
9/6/21 #218 – Jaron Lanier: Virtual Reality, Social Media & the Future of Humans and AI
9/3/21 #217 – Rodney Brooks: Robotics
9/1/21 #216 – Vincent Racaniello: Viruses and Vaccines
8/29/21 #215 – Wojciech Zaremba: OpenAI Codex, GPT-3, Robotics, and the Future of AI
8/27/21 #214 – Jed Buchwald: Isaac Newton and the Philosophy of Science
8/23/21 #213 – Barry Barish: Gravitational Waves and the Most Precise Device Ever Built
8/21/21 #212 – Joscha Bach: Nature of Reality, Dreams, and Consciousness
8/15/21 #211 – Brian Muraresku: The Secret History of Psychedelics
8/11/21 #210 – Matt Walker: Sleep
8/9/21 #209 – Luís and João Batalha: Fermat’s Library and the Art of Studying Papers
8/8/21 #208 – Jeff Hawkins: The Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence
8/3/21 #207 – Chris Duffin: The Mad Scientist of Strength
7/31/21 #206 – Ishan Misra: Self-Supervised Deep Learning in Computer Vision
7/29/21 #205 – Zach Bitter: Ultramarathon Running
7/26/21 #204 – Cumrun Vafa: String Theory
7/23/21 #203 – Anya Fernald: Regenerative Farming and the Art of Cooking Meat
7/21/21 #202 – Rick Doblin: Psychedelics
7/19/21 #201 – Konstantin Batygin: Planet 9 and the Edge of Our Solar System
7/15/21 #200 – Michael Malice: Totalitarianism and Anarchy
7/11/21 #199 – Roger Reaves: Smuggling Drugs for Pablo Escobar and the Medellin Cartel
7/9/21 #198 – Sara Walker: The Origin of Life on Earth and Alien Worlds
7/5/21 #197 – Jocko Willink: War, Leadership, and Discipline
7/1/21 #196 – Yeonmi Park: North Korea
6/28/21 #195 – Clara Sousa-Silva: Searching for Signs of Life on Venus and Other Planets
6/25/21 #194 – Bret Weinstein: Truth, Science, and Censorship in the Time of a Pandemic
6/21/21 #193 – Rob Reid: The Existential Threat of Engineered Viruses and Lab Leaks
6/16/21 #192 – Charles Hoskinson: Cardano
6/14/21 #191 – Daniel Schmachtenberger: Steering Civilization Away from Self-Destruction
6/13/21 #190 – Jordan Ellenberg: Mathematics of High-Dimensional Shapes and Geometries
6/7/21 #189 – David Sinclair: Extending the Human Lifespan Beyond 100 Years
6/3/21 #188 – Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum 2.0
5/29/21 #187 – Frank Wilczek: Physics of Quarks, Dark Matter, Complexity, Life & Aliens
5/24/21 #186 – Bryan Johnson: Kernel Brain-Computer Interfaces
5/20/21 #185 – Sam Harris: Consciousness, Free Will, Psychedelics, AI, UFOs, and Meaning
5/17/21 #184 – Katherine de Kleer: Planets, Moons, and Asteroids in Our Solar System
5/14/21 #183 – Po-Shen Loh: Mathematics, Math Olympiad, Combinatorics & Contact Tracing
5/9/21 #182 – John Danaher: The Path to Mastery in Jiu Jitsu, Grappling, Judo, and MMA
5/1/21 #181 – Sergey Nazarov: Chainlink, Smart Contracts, and Oracle Networks
4/30/21 #180 – Jeremi Suri: History of American Power
4/26/21 #179 – Georges St-Pierre: The Science of Fighting
4/24/21 #178 – Michael Malice and Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand, Human Nature, and Anarchy
4/19/21 #177 – Risto Miikkulainen: Neuroevolution and Evolutionary Computation
4/17/21 #176 – Robert Breedlove: Philosophy of Bitcoin from First Principles
4/12/21 #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy
4/10/21 #174 – Tyler Cowen: Economic Growth and the Fight Against Conformity and Mediocrity
4/1/21 #173 – Nic Carter: Bitcoin Core Values, Layered Scaling, and Blocksize Debates
3/30/21 #172 – Ryan Schiller: Librex and the Free Exchange of Ideas on College Campuses
3/25/21 #171 – Anthony Pompliano: Bitcoin
3/22/21 #170 – Ronald Sullivan: The Ideal of Justice in the Face of Controversy and Evil
3/20/21 #169 – Ryan Hall: Solving Martial Arts from First Principles
3/15/21 #168 – Silvio Micali: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Algorand, Bitcoin, and Ethereum
3/14/21 #167 – Saagar Enjeti: Politics, History, and Power
3/5/21 #166 – Cal Newport: Deep Work, Focus, Productivity, Email, and Social Media
3/1/21 #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts
2/28/21 #164 – Andrew Huberman: Sleep, Dreams, Creativity & the Limits of the Human Mind
2/23/21 #163 – Eric Weinstein: Difficult Conversations, Freedom of Speech, and Physics
2/18/21 #162 – Jim Keller: The Future of Computing, AI, Life, and Consciousness
2/15/21 #161 – Jason Calacanis: Startups, Angel Investing, Capitalism, and Friendship
2/12/21 #160 – Brendan Eich: JavaScript, Firefox, Mozilla, and Brave
2/7/21 #159 – Richard Craib: WallStreetBets, Numerai, and the Future of Stock Trading
2/5/21 #158 – Zev Weinstein: The Next Generation of Big Ideas and Brave Minds
2/1/21 #157 – Natalya Bailey: Rocket Engines and Electric Spacecraft Propulsion
1/29/21 #156 – Tim Dillon: Comedy, Power, Conspiracy Theories, and Freedom
1/27/21 Lex Fridman: Ask Me Anything – AMA January 2021
1/18/21 #155 – Max Tegmark: AI and Physics
1/14/21 #154 – Avi Loeb: Aliens, Black Holes, and the Mystery of the Oumuamua
1/11/21 #153 – Dmitry Korkin: Evolution of Proteins, Viruses, Life, and AI
1/9/21 #152 – Dan Gable: Olympic Wrestling, Mental Toughness & the Making of Champions
1/4/21 #151 – Dan Kokotov: Speech Recognition with AI and Humans
12/31/20 #150 – Michael Malice: The White Pill, Freedom, Hope, and Happiness Amidst Chaos
12/28/20 #149 – Diana Walsh Pasulka: Aliens, Technology, Religion, and the Nature of Belief
12/26/20 #148 – Charles Isbell and Michael Littman: Machine Learning and Education
12/20/20 #147 – Dmitri Dolgov: Waymo and the Future of Self-Driving Cars
12/19/20 #146 – Michael Mina: Rapid Testing, Viruses, and the Engineering Mindset
12/14/20 #145 – Matthew Johnson: Psychedelics
12/13/20 #144 – Michael Littman: Reinforcement Learning and the Future of AI
12/6/20 #143 – John Clarke: The Art of Fighting and the Pursuit of Excellence
11/30/20 #142 – Manolis Kellis: Meaning of Life, the Universe, and Everything
11/25/20 #141 – Erik Brynjolfsson: Economics of AI, Social Networks, and Technology
11/20/20 #140 – Lisa Feldman Barrett: Love, Evolution, and the Human Brain
11/16/20 #139 – Andrew Huberman: Neuroscience of Optimal Performance
11/13/20 #138 – Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand and the Philosophy of Objectivism
11/8/20 #137 – Alex Filippenko: Supernovae, Dark Energy, Aliens & the Expanding Universe
11/3/20 #136 – Dan Carlin: Hardcore History
11/2/20 #135 – Charles Isbell: Computing, Interactive AI, and Race in America
10/30/20 #134 – Eric Weinstein: On the Nature of Good and Evil, Genius and Madness
10/25/20 #133 – Manolis Kellis: Biology of Disease
10/22/20 #132 – George Hotz: Hacking the Simulation & Learning to Drive with Neural Nets
10/19/20 #131 – Chris Lattner: The Future of Computing and Programming Languages
10/12/20 #130 – Scott Aaronson: Computational Complexity and Consciousness
10/4/20 #129 – Lisa Feldman Barrett: Counterintuitive Ideas About How the Brain Works
10/2/20 #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling
9/26/20 #127 – Joe Rogan: Conversations, Ideas, Love, Freedom & The Joe Rogan Experience
9/24/20 #126 – James Gosling: Java, JVM, Emacs, and the Early Days of Computing
9/20/20 #125 – Ryan Hall: Martial Arts and the Philosophy of Violence, Power, and Grace
9/15/20 #124 – Stephen Wolfram: Fundamental Theory of Physics, Life, and the Universe
9/12/20 #123 – Manolis Kellis: Origin of Life, Humans, Ideas, Suffering, and Happiness
9/8/20 #122 – David Fravor: UFOs, Aliens, Fighter Jets, and Aerospace Engineering
9/7/20 Lex Solo #3 – In Memory of My Grandmother
9/5/20 #121 – Eugenia Kuyda: Friendship with an AI Companion
9/1/20 Lex Solo #2 – The Future of Neuralink
8/31/20 #120 – François Chollet: Measures of Intelligence
8/26/20 #119 – David Eagleman: Neuroplasticity and the Livewired Brain
8/24/20 New Name: Lex Fridman Podcast
8/23/20 #118 – Grant Sanderson: Math, Manim, Neural Networks & Teaching with 3Blue1Brown
8/20/20 #117 – Sheldon Solomon: Death and Meaning
8/16/20 #116 – Sara Seager: Search for Planets and Life Outside Our Solar System
8/14/20 #115 – Dileep George: Brain-Inspired AI
8/9/20 #114 – Russ Tedrake: Underactuated Robotics, Control, Dynamics and Touch
7/31/20 #113 – Manolis Kellis: Human Genome and Evolutionary Dynamics
7/29/20 #112 – Ian Hutchinson: Nuclear Fusion, Plasma Physics, and Religion
7/26/20 #111 – Richard Karp: Algorithms and Computational Complexity
7/21/20 #110 – Jitendra Malik: Computer Vision
7/18/20 #109 – Brian Kernighan: UNIX, C, AWK, AMPL, and Go Programming
7/14/20 #108 – Sergey Levine: Robotics and Machine Learning
7/8/20 #107 – Peter Singer: Suffering in Humans, Animals, and AI
7/3/20 #106 – Matt Botvinick: Neuroscience, Psychology, and AI at DeepMind
6/30/20 #105 – Robert Langer: Edison of Medicine
6/27/20 #104 – David Patterson: Computer Architecture and Data Storage
6/22/20 #103 – Ben Goertzel: Artificial General Intelligence
6/20/20 #102 – Steven Pressfield: The War of Art
6/13/20 #101 – Joscha Bach: Artificial Consciousness and the Nature of Reality
5/28/20 #99 – Karl Friston: Neuroscience and the Free Energy Principle
5/20/20 #97 – Sertac Karaman: Robots That Fly and Robots That Drive
5/15/20 #96 – Stephen Schwarzman: Going Big in Business, Investing, and AI
5/12/20 #95 – Dawn Song: Adversarial Machine Learning and Computer Security
5/8/20 #94 – Ilya Sutskever: Deep Learning
5/5/20 #93 – Daphne Koller: Biomedicine and Machine Learning
4/29/20 #92 – Harry Cliff: Particle Physics and the Large Hadron Collider
4/24/20 #91 – Jack Dorsey: Square, Cryptocurrency, and Artificial Intelligence
4/22/20 #90 – Dmitry Korkin: Computational Biology of Coronavirus
4/18/20 #89 – Stephen Wolfram: Cellular Automata, Computation, and Physics
4/13/20 #88 – Eric Weinstein: Geometric Unity and the Call for New Ideas, Leaders & Institutions
4/9/20 #87 – Richard Dawkins: Evolution, Intelligence, Simulation, and Memes
4/3/20 #86 – David Silver: AlphaGo, AlphaZero, and Deep Reinforcement Learning
3/31/20 #85 – Roger Penrose: Physics of Consciousness and the Infinite Universe
3/26/20 #83 – Nick Bostrom: Simulation and Superintelligence
3/21/20 #82 – Simon Sinek: Leadership, Hard Work, Optimism and the Infinite Game
3/19/20 #81 – Anca Dragan: Human-Robot Interaction and Reward Engineering
3/16/20 #80 – Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum, Cryptocurrency, and the Future of Money
3/7/20 #79 – Lee Smolin: Quantum Gravity and Einstein’s Unfinished Revolution
3/5/20 #78 – Ann Druyan: Cosmos, Carl Sagan, Voyager, and the Beauty of Science
3/3/20 #77 – Alex Garland: Ex Machina, Devs, Annihilation, and the Poetry of Science
2/29/20 #76 – John Hopfield: Physics View of the Mind and Neurobiology
2/26/20 #75 – Marcus Hutter: Universal Artificial Intelligence, AIXI, and AGI
2/24/20 #74 – Michael I. Jordan: Machine Learning, Recommender Systems, and the Future of AI
2/20/20 #73 – Andrew Ng: Deep Learning, Education, and Real-World AI
2/17/20 #72 – Scott Aaronson: Quantum Computing
2/14/20 Vladimir Vapnik: Predicates, Invariants, and the Essence of Intelligence
2/5/20 Jim Keller: Moore’s Law, Microprocessors, Abstractions, and First Principles
1/29/20 David Chalmers: The Hard Problem of Consciousness
1/25/20 Cristos Goodrow: YouTube Algorithm
1/21/20 Paul Krugman: Economics of Innovation, Automation, Safety Nets & Universal Basic Income
1/17/20 Ayanna Howard: Human-Robot Interaction and Ethics of Safety-Critical Systems
1/14/20 Daniel Kahneman: Thinking Fast and Slow, Deep Learning, and AI
1/7/20 Grant Sanderson: 3Blue1Brown and the Beauty of Mathematics
1/3/20 Stephen Kotkin: Stalin, Putin, and the Nature of Power
12/30/19 Donald Knuth: Algorithms, TeX, Life, and The Art of Computer Programming
12/28/19 Melanie Mitchell: Concepts, Analogies, Common Sense & Future of AI
12/25/19 Jim Gates: Supersymmetry, String Theory and Proving Einstein Right
12/21/19 Sebastian Thrun: Flying Cars, Autonomous Vehicles, and Education
12/17/19 Michael Stevens: Vsauce
12/14/19 Rohit Prasad: Amazon Alexa and Conversational AI
12/11/19 Judea Pearl: Causal Reasoning, Counterfactuals, Bayesian Networks, and the Path to AGI
12/5/19 Whitney Cummings: Comedy, Robotics, Neurology, and Love
12/2/19 Ray Dalio: Principles, the Economic Machine, Artificial Intelligence & the Arc of Life
11/29/19 Noam Chomsky: Language, Cognition, and Deep Learning
11/25/19 Gilbert Strang: Linear Algebra, Deep Learning, Teaching, and MIT OpenCourseWare
11/22/19 Dava Newman: Space Exploration, Space Suits, and Life on Mars
11/19/19 Michael Kearns: Algorithmic Fairness, Bias, Privacy, and Ethics in Machine Learning
11/12/19 Elon Musk: Neuralink, AI, Autopilot, and the Pale Blue Dot
11/7/19 Bjarne Stroustrup: C++
11/1/19 Sean Carroll: Quantum Mechanics and the Many-Worlds Interpretation
10/27/19 Garry Kasparov: Chess, Deep Blue, AI, and Putin
10/22/19 Michio Kaku: Future of Humans, Aliens, Space Travel & Physics
10/11/19 David Ferrucci: IBM Watson, Jeopardy & Deep Conversations with AI
10/3/19 Gary Marcus: Toward a Hybrid of Deep Learning and Symbolic AI
9/30/19 Peter Norvig: Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
9/26/19 Leonard Susskind: Quantum Mechanics, String Theory, and Black Holes
9/23/19 Regina Barzilay: Deep Learning for Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment
9/19/19 Colin Angle: iRobot
9/14/19 François Chollet: Keras, Deep Learning, and the Progress of AI
9/8/19 Vijay Kumar: Flying Robots
8/31/19 Yann LeCun: Deep Learning, Convolutional Neural Networks, and Self-Supervised Learning
8/27/19 Jeremy Howard: fast.ai Deep Learning Courses and Research
8/23/19 Pamela McCorduck: Machines Who Think and the Early Days of AI
8/19/19 Keoki Jackson: Lockheed Martin
8/12/19 Paola Arlotta: Brain Development from Stem Cell to Organoid
8/5/19 George Hotz: Comma.ai, OpenPilot, and Autonomous Vehicles
8/1/19 Kevin Scott: Microsoft CTO
7/29/19 Gustav Soderstrom: Spotify
7/22/19 Chris Urmson: Self-Driving Cars at Aurora, Google, CMU, and DARPA
7/15/19 Kai-Fu Lee: AI Superpowers – China and Silicon Valley
7/10/19 Sean Carroll: The Nature of the Universe, Life, and Intelligence
7/1/19 Jeff Hawkins: Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence
6/17/19 Rosalind Picard: Affective Computing, Emotion, Privacy, and Health
6/10/19 Gavin Miller: Adobe Research
6/3/19 Rajat Monga: TensorFlow
5/13/19 Chris Lattner: Compilers, LLVM, Swift, TPU, and ML Accelerators
4/29/19 Oriol Vinyals: DeepMind AlphaStar, StarCraft, Language, and Sequences
4/18/19 Ian Goodfellow: Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs)
4/12/19 Elon Musk: Tesla Autopilot
4/3/19 Greg Brockman: OpenAI and AGI
3/20/19 Eric Weinstein: Revolutionary Ideas in Science, Math, and Society
3/12/19 Leslie Kaelbling: Reinforcement Learning, Planning, and Robotics
2/7/19 Kyle Vogt: Cruise Automation
1/19/19 Tomaso Poggio: Brains, Minds, and Machines
12/28/18 Tuomas Sandholm: Poker and Game Theory
12/23/18 Juergen Schmidhuber: Godel Machines, Meta-Learning, and LSTMs
12/16/18 Pieter Abbeel: Deep Reinforcement Learning
12/9/18 Stuart Russell: Long-Term Future of AI
12/4/18 Eric Schmidt: Google
11/29/18 Jeff Atwood: Stack Overflow and Coding Horror
11/22/18 Guido van Rossum: Python
11/16/18 Vladimir Vapnik: Statistical Learning
10/20/18 Yoshua Bengio: Deep Learning
10/17/18 Steven Pinker: AI in the Age of Reason
9/2/18 Christof Koch: Consciousness
8/26/18 Max Tegmark: Life 3.0