Lex Fridman speaks to Max Tegmark about what AI can do in the fields of scientific research.
Max Tegmark tells Lex Fridman what scares him the most about the direction of AI.
Lex Fridman interviews Dmitri Dolgov, CTO of Waymo, an autonomous vehicle company, for a fascinating discussion on the future of the automobile.
Lex Fridman interviews Andrew Huberman, a neuroscientist at Stanford, about optimal performance.
Lex Fridman interviews Alex Filippenko, an astrophysicist and professor of astronomy at Berkeley.
Lex Fridman interviews Chris Lattner, a world-class software & hardware engineer, leading projects at Apple, Tesla, Google, and SiFive.
OUTLINE:
- 0:00 – Introduction
- 2:25 – Working with Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Jeff Dean
- 7:55 – Why do programming languages matter?
- 13:55 – Python vs Swift
- 24:48 – Design decisions
- 30:06 – Types
- 33:54 – Programming languages are a bicycle for the mind
- 36:26 – Picking what language to learn
- 42:25 – Most beautiful feature of a programming language
- 51:50 – Walrus operator
- 1:01:16 – LLVM
- 1:06:28 – MLIR compiler framework
- 1:10:35 – SiFive semiconductor design
- 1:23:09 – Moore’s Law
- 1:26:22 – Parallelization
- 1:30:50 – Swift concurrency manifesto
- 1:41:39 – Running a neural network fast
- 1:47:16 – Is the universe a quantum computer?
- 1:52:57 – Effects of the pandemic on society
- 2:10:09 – GPT-3
- 2:14:28 – Software 2.0
- 2:27:54 – Advice for young people
- 2:32:37 – Meaning of life
Lex Fridman interviews Scott Aaronson, a quantum computer scientist.
Time index:
- 0:00 – Introduction
- 3:31 – Simulation
- 8:22 – Theories of everything
- 14:02 – Consciousness
- 36:16 – Roger Penrose on consciousness
- 46:28 – Turing test
- 50:16 – GPT-3
- 58:46 – Universality of computation
- 1:05:17 – Complexity
- 1:11:23 – P vs NP
- 1:23:41 – Complexity of quantum computation
- 1:35:48 – Pandemic
- 1:49:33 – Love
Here’s a selection from Lex Fridman’s conversation with Stepham Wolfram.
Lex Fridman interviewed François Chollet, an AI researcher at Google and creator of Keras, for a second time on his podcast.\
OUTLINE:
- 0:00 – Introduction
- 5:04 – Early influence
- 6:23 – Language
- 12:50 – Thinking with mind maps
- 23:42 – Definition of intelligence
- 42:24 – GPT-3
- 53:07 – Semantic web
- 57:22 – Autonomous driving
- 1:09:30 – Tests of intelligence
- 1:13:59 – Tests of human intelligence
- 1:27:18 – IQ tests
- 1:35:59 – ARC Challenge
- 1:59:11 – Generalization
- 2:09:50 – Turing Test
- 2:20:44 – Hutter prize
- 2:27:44 – Meaning of life
Lex Fridman talks to Russ Tedrake in the latest episode of his AI podcast.
Russ Tedrake is a roboticist and professor at MIT and vice president of robotics research at TRI. He works on control of robots in interesting, complicated, underactuated, stochastic, difficult to model situations. This conversation is part of the Artificial Intelligence podcast.
Outline:
- 0:00 – Introduction
- 4:29 – Passive dynamic walking
- 9:40 – Animal movement
- 13:34 – Control vs Dynamics
- 15:49 – Bipedal walking
- 20:56 – Running barefoot
- 33:01 – Think rigorously with machine learning
- 44:05 – DARPA Robotics Challenge
- 1:07:14 – When will a robot become UFC champion
- 1:18:32 – Black Mirror Robot Dog
- 1:34:01 – Robot control
- 1:47:00 – Simulating robots
- 2:00:33 – Home robotics
- 2:03:40 – Soft robotics
- 2:07:25 – Underactuated robotics
- 2:20:42 – Touch
- 2:28:55 – Book recommendations
- 2:40:08 – Advice to young people
- 2:44:20 – Meaning of life