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.
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#355 – David Kipping: Alien Civilizations and Habitable Worlds
Sat, 28 Jan 2023 20:03:06 +0000
#354 – Jeremi Suri: American Civil War
Wed, 25 Jan 2023 17:22:29 +0000
#353 – Dennis Whyte: Nuclear Fusion and the Future of Energy
Sat, 21 Jan 2023 18:37:56 +0000
#352 – Omar Suleiman: Islam
Tue, 17 Jan 2023 17:35:28 +0000
#351 – MrBeast: Future of YouTube, Twitter, TikTok, and Instagram
Wed, 11 Jan 2023 17:36:11 +0000
#350 – Betül Kaçar: Origin of Life, Ancient DNA, Panspermia, and Aliens
Thu, 29 Dec 2022 17:35:50 +0000
#349 – Bhaskar Sunkara: The Case for Socialism
Thu, 22 Dec 2022 19:41:28 +0000
#348 – Nathalie Cabrol: Search for Alien Life
Mon, 19 Dec 2022 18:57:17 +0000
#347 – Michael Malice: Christmas Special
Thu, 15 Dec 2022 20:28:53 +0000
#346 – Ed Calderon: Mexican Drug Cartels
Mon, 12 Dec 2022 17:10:47 +0000
#345 – Coffeezilla: SBF, FTX, Fraud, Scams, Fake Gurus, Money, Fame, and Power
Fri, 09 Dec 2022 02:27:44 +0000
#344 – Noam Brown: AI vs Humans in Poker and Games of Strategic Negotiation
Tue, 06 Dec 2022 17:23:36 +0000
#343 – Roger Gracie: Greatest Jiu Jitsu Competitor of All Time
Sat, 03 Dec 2022 17:10:50 +0000
#342 – Todd Howard: Skyrim, Elder Scrolls 6, Fallout, and Starfield
Tue, 29 Nov 2022 17:04:46 +0000
#341 – Guido van Rossum: Python and the Future of Programming
Sat, 26 Nov 2022 16:25:26 +0000
#340 – Chris Tarbell: FBI Agent Who Took Down Silk Road
Tue, 22 Nov 2022 17:24:13 +0000
#339 – Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin
Fri, 18 Nov 2022 16:57:39 +0000
#338 – Chamath Palihapitiya: Money, Success, Startups, Energy, Poker & Happiness
Tue, 15 Nov 2022 16:58:05 +0000
#337 – Destiny: Politics, Free Speech, Controversy, Sex, War, and Relationships
Fri, 11 Nov 2022 17:48:28 +0000
#336 – Ben Shapiro: Politics, Kanye, Trump, Biden, Hitler, Extremism, and War
Mon, 07 Nov 2022 15:43:59 +0000
#335 – Fiona Hill: Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump
Fri, 04 Nov 2022 16:07:36 +0000
#334 – Abbas Amanat: Iran Protests, Mahsa Amini, History, CIA & Nuclear Weapons
Wed, 02 Nov 2022 17:29:54 +0000
#333 – Andrej Karpathy: Tesla AI, Self-Driving, Optimus, Aliens, and AGI
Sat, 29 Oct 2022 16:36:12 +0000
#332 – Kanye ‘Ye’ West Interview
Mon, 24 Oct 2022 21:09:11 +0000
#331 – Balaji Srinivasan: How to Fix Government, Twitter, Science, and the FDA
Thu, 20 Oct 2022 16:24:03 +0000
#330 – Hikaru Nakamura: Chess, Magnus, Kasparov, and the Psychology of Greatness
Mon, 17 Oct 2022 16:42:50 +0000
#329 – Kate Darling: Social Robots, Ethics, Privacy and the Future of MIT
Sat, 15 Oct 2022 19:33:53 +0000
#328 – John Danaher: Submission Grappling, ADCC, Animal Combat, and Knives
Mon, 10 Oct 2022 17:53:32 +0000
#327 – GothamChess: Hans Niemann, Magnus Carlsen, Cheating Scandal & Chess Bots
Fri, 07 Oct 2022 16:34:07 +0000
#326 – Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality
Wed, 05 Oct 2022 17:24:25 +0000
#325 – Michael Levin: Biology, Life, Aliens, Evolution, Embryogenesis & Xenobots
Sat, 01 Oct 2022 16:56:45 +0000
#324 – Daniel Negreanu: Poker
Tue, 27 Sep 2022 18:37:49 +0000
#323 – Will Sasso: Comedy, MADtv, AI, Friendship, Madness, and Pro Wrestling
Sat, 24 Sep 2022 17:19:49 +0000
#322 – Rana el Kaliouby: Emotion AI, Social Robots, and Self-Driving Cars
Wed, 21 Sep 2022 16:35:09 +0000
#321 – Ray Kurzweil: Singularity, Superintelligence, and Immortality
Sat, 17 Sep 2022 16:54:53 +0000
#320 – Christopher Capozzola: World War I, Ideology, Propaganda, and Politics
Wed, 14 Sep 2022 18:12:58 +0000
#319 – Botez Sisters: Chess, Streaming, and Fame
Fri, 09 Sep 2022 14:04:45 +0000
#318 – Nick Lane: Origin of Life, Evolution, Aliens, Biology, and Consciousness
Wed, 07 Sep 2022 15:29:01 +0000
#317 – John Vervaeke: Meaning Crisis, Atheism, Religion & the Search for Wisdom
Sun, 04 Sep 2022 19:05:26 +0000
#316 – Noam Chomsky: Putin, Ukraine, China, and Nuclear War
Wed, 31 Aug 2022 20:41:11 +0000
#315 – Magnus Carlsen: Greatest Chess Player of All Time
Sat, 27 Aug 2022 17:50:28 +0000
#314 – Liv Boeree: Poker, Game Theory, AI, Simulation, Aliens & Existential Risk
Wed, 24 Aug 2022 16:29:52 +0000
#313 – Jordan Peterson: Life, Death, Power, Fame, and Meaning
Fri, 19 Aug 2022 15:59:42 +0000
#312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man
Tue, 16 Aug 2022 15:26:19 +0000
#311 – Magatte Wade: Africa, Capitalism, Communism, and the Future of Humanity
Sat, 13 Aug 2022 15:26:22 +0000
#310 – Andrew Bustamante: CIA Spy
Mon, 08 Aug 2022 17:16:04 +0000
#309 – John Carmack: Doom, Quake, VR, AGI, Programming, Video Games, and Rockets
Thu, 04 Aug 2022 17:04:07 +0000
#308 – Ryan Graves: UFOs, Fighter Jets, and Aliens
Mon, 01 Aug 2022 16:07:41 +0000
#307 – Brian Armstrong: Coinbase, Cryptocurrency, and Government Regulation
Fri, 29 Jul 2022 16:26:01 +0000
#306 – Oriol Vinyals: Deep Learning and Artificial General Intelligence
Tue, 26 Jul 2022 16:17:10 +0000
#305 – Martin Rees: Black Holes, Alien Life, Dark Matter, and the Big Bang
Sat, 23 Jul 2022 15:53:10 +0000
#304 – Bishop Robert Barron: Christianity and the Catholic Church
Wed, 20 Jul 2022 15:54:01 +0000
#303 – Steve Keen: Marxism, Capitalism, and Economics
Sun, 17 Jul 2022 13:57:03 +0000
#302 – Richard Haier: IQ Tests, Human Intelligence, and Group Differences
Thu, 14 Jul 2022 16:04:12 +0000
#301 – Jack Barsky: KGB Spy
Sat, 09 Jul 2022 15:59:57 +0000
#300 – Joe Rogan: Comedy, Controversy, Aliens, UFOs, Putin, CIA, and Freedom
Mon, 04 Jul 2022 13:14:02 +0000
#299 – Demis Hassabis: DeepMind
Fri, 01 Jul 2022 10:12:10 +0000
#298 – Susan Cain: The Power of Introverts and Loneliness
Tue, 28 Jun 2022 17:13:39 +0000
#297 – Jonathan Reisman: The Human Body – From Sex & Sperm to Hands & Heart
Sat, 25 Jun 2022 18:11:25 +0000
#296 – Douglas Murray: Racism, Marxism, and the War on the West
Tue, 21 Jun 2022 12:38:18 +0000
#295 – Richard Wolff: Marxism and Communism
Fri, 17 Jun 2022 16:19:37 +0000
#294 – Tony Fadell: iPhone, iPod, and Nest
Wed, 15 Jun 2022 18:53:03 +0000
#293 – Donald Hoffman: Reality is an Illusion – How Evolution Hid the Truth
Sun, 12 Jun 2022 18:50:15 +0000
#292 – Robin Hanson: Alien Civilizations, UFOs, and the Future of Humanity
Thu, 09 Jun 2022 12:38:30 +0000
#291 – Jonathan Haidt: The Case Against Social Media
Sat, 04 Jun 2022 17:18:02 +0000
#290 – Dan Reynolds: Imagine Dragons
Mon, 30 May 2022 17:13:22 +0000
#289 – Stephen Kotkin: Putin, Zelenskyy, and War in Ukraine
Wed, 25 May 2022 14:27:52 +0000
#288 – Sarma Melngailis: Bad Vegan
Mon, 23 May 2022 17:33:00 +0000
#287 – Bobby Lee: Comedy, Skyrim, Sex Robots, Love, Fame, and Power
Fri, 20 May 2022 17:10:40 +0000
#286 – Oliver Stone: Vladimir Putin and War in Ukraine
Tue, 17 May 2022 17:42:24 +0000
#285 – Glenn Loury: Race, Racism, Identity Politics, and Cancel Culture
Sat, 14 May 2022 18:44:34 +0000
#284 – Saifedean Ammous: Bitcoin, Anarchy, and Austrian Economics
Wed, 11 May 2022 17:01:27 +0000
#283 – Chris Mason: Space Travel, Colonization, and Long-Term Survival in Space
Sun, 08 May 2022 20:52:32 +0000
#282 – David Buss: Sex, Dating, Relationships, and Sex Differences
Wed, 04 May 2022 15:17:27 +0000
#281 – Grimes: Music, AI, and the Future of Humanity
Fri, 29 Apr 2022 18:19:22 +0000
#280 – Cristiano Amon: Qualcomm CEO
Wed, 27 Apr 2022 18:01:38 +0000
#279 – Alien Debate: Sara Walker and Lee Cronin
Sun, 24 Apr 2022 17:45:22 +0000
#278 – Skye Fitzgerald: Hunger, War, and Human Suffering
Wed, 20 Apr 2022 22:23:59 +0000
#277 – Andrew Huberman: Focus, Stress, Relationships, and Friendship
Sun, 17 Apr 2022 17:53:59 +0000
#276 – Michael Saylor: Bitcoin, Inflation, and the Future of Money
Thu, 14 Apr 2022 19:03:57 +0000
#275 – Rick Rubin: Legendary Music Producer
Sun, 10 Apr 2022 16:43:38 +0000
#274 – Karl Deisseroth: Depression, Schizophrenia, and Psychiatry
Thu, 07 Apr 2022 16:50:15 +0000
#273 – Chris Blattman: War and Violence
Sun, 03 Apr 2022 16:54:27 +0000
#272 – Brett Johnson: US Most Wanted Cybercriminal
Sun, 27 Mar 2022 16:31:26 +0000
#271 – Ariel Ekblaw: Space Colonization and Self-Assembling Space Megastructures
Wed, 23 Mar 2022 19:14:12 +0000
#270 – David Wolpe: Judaism
Wed, 16 Mar 2022 21:11:24 +0000
#269 – Lee Cronin: Origin of Life, Aliens, Complexity, and Consciousness
Fri, 11 Mar 2022 18:35:10 +0000
#268 – Robert Proctor: Nazi Science and Ideology
Sat, 05 Mar 2022 16:05:48 +0000
#267 – Mark Zuckerberg: Meta, Facebook, Instagram, and the Metaverse
Sat, 26 Feb 2022 17:26:05 +0000
#266 – Nicole Perlroth: Cybersecurity and the Weapons of Cyberwar
Sun, 20 Feb 2022 22:31:53 +0000
#265 – Devon Larratt: Arm Wrestling
Wed, 16 Feb 2022 21:49:00 +0000
#264 – Tim Urban: Elon Musk, Neuralink, AI, Aliens, and the Future of Humanity
Sun, 13 Feb 2022 20:35:31 +0000
#263 – John Abramson: Big Pharma
Fri, 11 Feb 2022 17:17:55 +0000
#262 – Garry Nolan: UFOs and Aliens
Sun, 06 Feb 2022 22:20:41 +0000
#261 – Philip Goff: Consciousness, Panpsychism, and the Philosophy of Mind
Thu, 03 Feb 2022 17:36:56 +0000
#260 – Georges St-Pierre, John Danaher & Gordon Ryan: The Greatest of All Time
Sun, 30 Jan 2022 20:47:31 +0000
#259 – Thomas Tull: From Batman Dark Knight Trilogy to AI and the Rolling Stones
Wed, 26 Jan 2022 20:43:15 +0000
#258 – Yann LeCun: Dark Matter of Intelligence and Self-Supervised Learning
Sat, 22 Jan 2022 20:08:32 +0000
#257 – Brian Keating: Cosmology, Astrophysics, Aliens & Losing the Nobel Prize
Tue, 18 Jan 2022 20:28:05 +0000
#256 – Nationalism Debate: Yaron Brook and Yoram Hazony
Sat, 15 Jan 2022 19:50:01 +0000
#255 – Mark Normand: Comedy!
Sat, 08 Jan 2022 21:53:16 +0000
#254 – Jay Bhattacharya: The Case Against Lockdowns
Tue, 04 Jan 2022 23:52:11 +0000
#253 – Michael Malice: New Year’s Special
Fri, 31 Dec 2021 22:40:33 +0000
#252 – Elon Musk: SpaceX, Mars, Tesla Autopilot, Self-Driving, Robotics, and AI
Tue, 28 Dec 2021 19:02:28 +0000
#251 – Ray Dalio: Money, Power, and the Collapse of Empires
Sat, 25 Dec 2021 20:04:14 +0000
#250 – Peter Wang: Python and the Source Code of Humans, Computers, and Reality
Thu, 23 Dec 2021 23:09:53 +0000
#249 – Albert Bourla: Pfizer CEO
Sat, 18 Dec 2021 15:04:38 +0000
#248 – Norman Naimark: Genocide, Stalin, Hitler, Mao, and Absolute Power
Mon, 13 Dec 2021 05:13:10 +0000
#247 – Jamie Metzl: Lab Leak Theory
Wed, 08 Dec 2021 18:28:39 +0000
#246 – Peter Woit: Theories of Everything and Why String Theory is Not Even Wrong
Fri, 03 Dec 2021 20:27:34 +0000
#245 – Tom Brands: Iowa Wrestling
Tue, 30 Nov 2021 18:23:26 +0000
#244 – Robert Crews: Afghanistan, Taliban, Bin Laden, and War in the Middle East
Sun, 28 Nov 2021 21:11:14 +0000
#243 – Kevin Systrom: Instagram
Tue, 23 Nov 2021 20:55:28 +0000
#242 – Ben Askren: Wrestling and MMA
Sat, 20 Nov 2021 18:15:18 +0000
#241 – Boris Sofman: Waymo, Cozmo, Self-Driving Cars, and the Future of Robotics
Tue, 16 Nov 2021 23:17:58 +0000
#240 – Neal Stephenson: Sci-Fi, Space, Aliens, AI, VR & the Future of Humanity
Thu, 11 Nov 2021 21:24:43 +0000
#239 – Niall Ferguson: History of Money, Power, War, and Truth
Mon, 08 Nov 2021 18:39:08 +0000
#238 – Francis Collins: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Fri, 05 Nov 2021 20:30:24 +0000
#237 – Steve Viscelli: Trucking and the Decline of the American Dream
Wed, 03 Nov 2021 23:36:02 +0000
#236 – Jimmy Pedro: Judo and the Forging of Champions
Sun, 31 Oct 2021 23:26:56 +0000
#235 – Michael Mina: Rapid COVID Testing
Fri, 29 Oct 2021 21:48:18 +0000
#234 – Stephen Wolfram: Complexity and the Fabric of Reality
Wed, 27 Oct 2021 00:16:41 +0000
#233 – Carl Hart: Heroin, Cocaine, MDMA, Alcohol & the Role of Drugs in Society
Sat, 23 Oct 2021 17:11:38 +0000
#232 – Brian Greene: Quantum Gravity, Big Bang, Aliens, Life, Death, and Meaning
Wed, 20 Oct 2021 18:05:14 +0000
#231 – Alex Gladstein: Bitcoin, Authoritarianism, and Human Rights
Sat, 16 Oct 2021 21:23:02 +0000
#230 – Kelsi Sheren: War, Artillery, PTSD, and Love
Thu, 14 Oct 2021 23:44:42 +0000
#229 – Richard Wrangham: Role of Violence, Sex, and Fire in Human Evolution
Sun, 10 Oct 2021 19:08:05 +0000
#228 – RZA: Wu-Tang Clan, Kung Fu, Chess, God, Life, and Death
Tue, 05 Oct 2021 22:06:26 +0000
#227 – Sean Kelly: Existentialism, Nihilism, and the Search for Meaning
Thu, 30 Sep 2021 23:51:37 +0000
#226 – Jo Boaler: How to Learn Math
Mon, 27 Sep 2021 21:36:02 +0000
#225 – Jeffrey Shainline: Neuromorphic Computing and Optoelectronic Intelligence
Sun, 26 Sep 2021 23:16:52 +0000
#224 – Travis Oliphant: NumPy, SciPy, Anaconda, Python & Scientific Programming
Thu, 23 Sep 2021 01:41:13 +0000
#223 – Travis Stevens: Judo, Olympics, and Mental Toughness
Tue, 21 Sep 2021 01:59:35 +0000
#222 – Jay McClelland: Neural Networks and the Emergence of Cognition
Mon, 20 Sep 2021 05:26:44 +0000
#221 – Douglas Lenat: Cyc and the Quest to Solve Common Sense Reasoning in AI
Wed, 15 Sep 2021 16:35:47 +0000
#220 – Niels Jorgensen: New York Firefighters and the Heroes of 9/11
Sat, 11 Sep 2021 21:12:40 +0000
#219 – Donald Knuth: Programming, Algorithms, Hard Problems & the Game of Life
Thu, 09 Sep 2021 17:04:19 +0000
#218 – Jaron Lanier: Virtual Reality, Social Media & the Future of Humans and AI
Mon, 06 Sep 2021 20:30:43 +0000
#217 – Rodney Brooks: Robotics
Fri, 03 Sep 2021 21:32:27 +0000
#216 – Vincent Racaniello: Viruses and Vaccines
Wed, 01 Sep 2021 17:40:53 +0000
#215 – Wojciech Zaremba: OpenAI Codex, GPT-3, Robotics, and the Future of AI
Sun, 29 Aug 2021 17:41:06 +0000
#214 – Jed Buchwald: Isaac Newton and the Philosophy of Science
Fri, 27 Aug 2021 21:11:29 +0000
#213 – Barry Barish: Gravitational Waves and the Most Precise Device Ever Built
Mon, 23 Aug 2021 19:18:41 +0000
#212 – Joscha Bach: Nature of Reality, Dreams, and Consciousness
Sat, 21 Aug 2021 23:50:34 +0000
#211 – Brian Muraresku: The Secret History of Psychedelics
Sun, 15 Aug 2021 01:55:25 +0000
#210 – Matt Walker: Sleep
Wed, 11 Aug 2021 13:55:29 +0000
#209 – Luís and João Batalha: Fermat’s Library and the Art of Studying Papers
Mon, 09 Aug 2021 03:15:55 +0000
#208 – Jeff Hawkins: The Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence
Sun, 08 Aug 2021 04:30:20 +0000
#207 – Chris Duffin: The Mad Scientist of Strength
Tue, 03 Aug 2021 18:14:17 +0000
#206 – Ishan Misra: Self-Supervised Deep Learning in Computer Vision
Sat, 31 Jul 2021 16:03:43 +0000
#205 – Zach Bitter: Ultramarathon Running
Thu, 29 Jul 2021 01:51:41 +0000
#204 – Cumrun Vafa: String Theory
Mon, 26 Jul 2021 01:07:44 +0000
#203 – Anya Fernald: Regenerative Farming and the Art of Cooking Meat
Fri, 23 Jul 2021 23:09:58 +0000
#202 – Rick Doblin: Psychedelics
Wed, 21 Jul 2021 02:24:45 +0000
#201 – Konstantin Batygin: Planet 9 and the Edge of Our Solar System
Mon, 19 Jul 2021 05:23:11 +0000
#200 – Michael Malice: Totalitarianism and Anarchy
Thu, 15 Jul 2021 15:38:27 +0000
#199 – Roger Reaves: Smuggling Drugs for Pablo Escobar and the Medellin Cartel
Sun, 11 Jul 2021 19:51:49 +0000
#198 – Sara Walker: The Origin of Life on Earth and Alien Worlds
Fri, 09 Jul 2021 22:14:56 +0000
#197 – Jocko Willink: War, Leadership, and Discipline
Mon, 05 Jul 2021 02:01:39 +0000
#196 – Yeonmi Park: North Korea
Thu, 01 Jul 2021 03:23:58 +0000
#195 – Clara Sousa-Silva: Searching for Signs of Life on Venus and Other Planets
Mon, 28 Jun 2021 01:24:27 +0000
#194 – Bret Weinstein: Truth, Science, and Censorship in the Time of a Pandemic
Fri, 25 Jun 2021 23:34:22 +0000
#193 – Rob Reid: The Existential Threat of Engineered Viruses and Lab Leaks
Mon, 21 Jun 2021 00:31:22 +0000
#192 – Charles Hoskinson: Cardano
Wed, 16 Jun 2021 15:38:35 +0000
#191 – Daniel Schmachtenberger: Steering Civilization Away from Self-Destruction
Mon, 14 Jun 2021 07:03:23 +0000
#190 – Jordan Ellenberg: Mathematics of High-Dimensional Shapes and Geometries
Sun, 13 Jun 2021 03:12:52 +0000
#189 – David Sinclair: Extending the Human Lifespan Beyond 100 Years
Mon, 07 Jun 2021 01:18:48 +0000
#188 – Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum 2.0
Thu, 03 Jun 2021 21:07:04 +0000
#187 – Frank Wilczek: Physics of Quarks, Dark Matter, Complexity, Life & Aliens
Sat, 29 May 2021 22:26:23 +0000
#186 – Bryan Johnson: Kernel Brain-Computer Interfaces
Mon, 24 May 2021 09:55:51 +0000
#185 – Sam Harris: Consciousness, Free Will, Psychedelics, AI, UFOs, and Meaning
Thu, 20 May 2021 18:55:24 +0000
#184 – Katherine de Kleer: Planets, Moons, and Asteroids in Our Solar System
Mon, 17 May 2021 09:40:46 +0000
#183 – Po-Shen Loh: Mathematics, Math Olympiad, Combinatorics & Contact Tracing
Fri, 14 May 2021 22:33:44 +0000
#182 – John Danaher: The Path to Mastery in Jiu Jitsu, Grappling, Judo, and MMA
Sun, 09 May 2021 18:51:09 +0000
#181 – Sergey Nazarov: Chainlink, Smart Contracts, and Oracle Networks
Sat, 01 May 2021 07:35:02 +0000
#180 – Jeremi Suri: History of American Power
Fri, 30 Apr 2021 01:38:44 +0000
#179 – Georges St-Pierre: The Science of Fighting
Mon, 26 Apr 2021 03:33:39 +0000
#178 – Michael Malice and Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand, Human Nature, and Anarchy
Sat, 24 Apr 2021 17:34:01 +0000
#177 – Risto Miikkulainen: Neuroevolution and Evolutionary Computation
Mon, 19 Apr 2021 05:08:44 +0000
#176 – Robert Breedlove: Philosophy of Bitcoin from First Principles
Sat, 17 Apr 2021 22:42:36 +0000
#175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy
Mon, 12 Apr 2021 20:38:54 +0000
#174 – Tyler Cowen: Economic Growth and the Fight Against Conformity and Mediocrity
Sat, 10 Apr 2021 20:10:48 +0000
#173 – Nic Carter: Bitcoin Core Values, Layered Scaling, and Blocksize Debates
Thu, 01 Apr 2021 02:12:34 +0000
#172 – Ryan Schiller: Librex and the Free Exchange of Ideas on College Campuses
Tue, 30 Mar 2021 06:47:13 +0000
#171 – Anthony Pompliano: Bitcoin
Thu, 25 Mar 2021 17:26:57 +0000
#170 – Ronald Sullivan: The Ideal of Justice in the Face of Controversy and Evil
Mon, 22 Mar 2021 04:24:16 +0000
#169 – Ryan Hall: Solving Martial Arts from First Principles
Sat, 20 Mar 2021 21:14:02 +0000
#168 – Silvio Micali: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Algorand, Bitcoin, and Ethereum
Mon, 15 Mar 2021 04:55:40 +0000
#167 – Saagar Enjeti: Politics, History, and Power
Sun, 14 Mar 2021 00:48:05 +0000
#166 – Cal Newport: Deep Work, Focus, Productivity, Email, and Social Media
Fri, 05 Mar 2021 00:27:52 +0000
#165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts
Mon, 01 Mar 2021 13:36:20 +0000
#164 – Andrew Huberman: Sleep, Dreams, Creativity & the Limits of the Human Mind
Sun, 28 Feb 2021 16:59:51 +0000
#163 – Eric Weinstein: Difficult Conversations, Freedom of Speech, and Physics
Tue, 23 Feb 2021 05:36:12 +0000
#162 – Jim Keller: The Future of Computing, AI, Life, and Consciousness
Thu, 18 Feb 2021 17:39:43 +0000
#161 – Jason Calacanis: Startups, Angel Investing, Capitalism, and Friendship
Mon, 15 Feb 2021 14:07:29 +0000
#160 – Brendan Eich: JavaScript, Firefox, Mozilla, and Brave
Fri, 12 Feb 2021 14:06:59 +0000
#159 – Richard Craib: WallStreetBets, Numerai, and the Future of Stock Trading
Sun, 07 Feb 2021 23:20:51 +0000
#158 – Zev Weinstein: The Next Generation of Big Ideas and Brave Minds
Fri, 05 Feb 2021 19:59:53 +0000
#157 – Natalya Bailey: Rocket Engines and Electric Spacecraft Propulsion
Mon, 01 Feb 2021 14:15:06 +0000
#156 – Tim Dillon: Comedy, Power, Conspiracy Theories, and Freedom
Fri, 29 Jan 2021 22:22:59 +0000
Lex Fridman: Ask Me Anything – AMA January 2021
Wed, 27 Jan 2021 18:11:23 +0000
#155 – Max Tegmark: AI and Physics
Mon, 18 Jan 2021 06:16:39 +0000
#154 – Avi Loeb: Aliens, Black Holes, and the Mystery of the Oumuamua
Thu, 14 Jan 2021 04:04:03 +0000
#153 – Dmitry Korkin: Evolution of Proteins, Viruses, Life, and AI
Mon, 11 Jan 2021 10:49:20 +0000
#152 – Dan Gable: Olympic Wrestling, Mental Toughness & the Making of Champions
Sat, 09 Jan 2021 23:07:40 +0000
#151 – Dan Kokotov: Speech Recognition with AI and Humans
Mon, 04 Jan 2021 09:25:10 +0000
#150 – Michael Malice: The White Pill, Freedom, Hope, and Happiness Amidst Chaos
Thu, 31 Dec 2020 23:08:49 +0000
#149 – Diana Walsh Pasulka: Aliens, Technology, Religion, and the Nature of Belief
Mon, 28 Dec 2020 04:33:48 +0000
#148 – Charles Isbell and Michael Littman: Machine Learning and Education
Sat, 26 Dec 2020 17:05:48 +0000
#147 – Dmitri Dolgov: Waymo and the Future of Self-Driving Cars
Sun, 20 Dec 2020 23:26:15 +0000
#146 – Michael Mina: Rapid Testing, Viruses, and the Engineering Mindset
Sat, 19 Dec 2020 02:18:32 +0000
#145 – Matthew Johnson: Psychedelics
Mon, 14 Dec 2020 07:25:34 +0000
#144 – Michael Littman: Reinforcement Learning and the Future of AI
Sun, 13 Dec 2020 04:29:13 +0000
#143 – John Clarke: The Art of Fighting and the Pursuit of Excellence
Sun, 06 Dec 2020 18:54:35 +0000
#142 – Manolis Kellis: Meaning of Life, the Universe, and Everything
Mon, 30 Nov 2020 19:17:57 +0000
#141 – Erik Brynjolfsson: Economics of AI, Social Networks, and Technology
Wed, 25 Nov 2020 17:57:38 +0000
#140 – Lisa Feldman Barrett: Love, Evolution, and the Human Brain
Fri, 20 Nov 2020 17:51:17 +0000
#139 – Andrew Huberman: Neuroscience of Optimal Performance
Mon, 16 Nov 2020 16:02:15 +0000
#138 – Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand and the Philosophy of Objectivism
Fri, 13 Nov 2020 14:36:43 +0000
#137 – Alex Filippenko: Supernovae, Dark Energy, Aliens & the Expanding Universe
Sun, 08 Nov 2020 00:02:56 +0000
#136 – Dan Carlin: Hardcore History
Tue, 03 Nov 2020 03:06:21 +0000
#135 – Charles Isbell: Computing, Interactive AI, and Race in America
Mon, 02 Nov 2020 00:51:41 +0000
#134 – Eric Weinstein: On the Nature of Good and Evil, Genius and Madness
Fri, 30 Oct 2020 03:56:27 +0000
#133 – Manolis Kellis: Biology of Disease
Sun, 25 Oct 2020 23:12:31 +0000
#132 – George Hotz: Hacking the Simulation & Learning to Drive with Neural Nets
Thu, 22 Oct 2020 01:08:41 +0000
#131 – Chris Lattner: The Future of Computing and Programming Languages
Mon, 19 Oct 2020 01:56:41 +0000
#130 – Scott Aaronson: Computational Complexity and Consciousness
Mon, 12 Oct 2020 06:19:23 +0000
#129 – Lisa Feldman Barrett: Counterintuitive Ideas About How the Brain Works
Sun, 04 Oct 2020 17:03:58 +0000
#128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling
Fri, 02 Oct 2020 15:15:51 +0000
#127 – Joe Rogan: Conversations, Ideas, Love, Freedom & The Joe Rogan Experience
Sat, 26 Sep 2020 17:00:48 +0000
#126 – James Gosling: Java, JVM, Emacs, and the Early Days of Computing
Thu, 24 Sep 2020 14:31:26 +0000
#125 – Ryan Hall: Martial Arts and the Philosophy of Violence, Power, and Grace
Sun, 20 Sep 2020 21:50:08 +0000
#124 – Stephen Wolfram: Fundamental Theory of Physics, Life, and the Universe
Tue, 15 Sep 2020 23:36:19 +0000
#123 – Manolis Kellis: Origin of Life, Humans, Ideas, Suffering, and Happiness
Sat, 12 Sep 2020 18:29:51 +0000
#122 – David Fravor: UFOs, Aliens, Fighter Jets, and Aerospace Engineering
Tue, 08 Sep 2020 16:14:41 +0000
Lex Solo #3 – In Memory of My Grandmother
Mon, 07 Sep 2020 20:59:01 +0000
#121 – Eugenia Kuyda: Friendship with an AI Companion
Sat, 05 Sep 2020 17:31:13 +0000
Lex Solo #2 – The Future of Neuralink
Tue, 01 Sep 2020 19:45:29 +0000
#120 – François Chollet: Measures of Intelligence
Mon, 31 Aug 2020 00:10:34 +0000
#119 – David Eagleman: Neuroplasticity and the Livewired Brain
Wed, 26 Aug 2020 14:02:09 +0000
New Name: Lex Fridman Podcast
Mon, 24 Aug 2020 23:40:32 +0000
#118 – Grant Sanderson: Math, Manim, Neural Networks & Teaching with 3Blue1Brown
Sun, 23 Aug 2020 22:43:27 +0000
#117 – Sheldon Solomon: Death and Meaning
Thu, 20 Aug 2020 23:13:46 +0000
#116 – Sara Seager: Search for Planets and Life Outside Our Solar System
Sun, 16 Aug 2020 20:12:23 +0000
#115 – Dileep George: Brain-Inspired AI
Fri, 14 Aug 2020 22:51:34 +0000
#114 – Russ Tedrake: Underactuated Robotics, Control, Dynamics and Touch
Sun, 09 Aug 2020 16:30:42 +0000
#113 – Manolis Kellis: Human Genome and Evolutionary Dynamics
Fri, 31 Jul 2020 13:20:37 +0000
#112 – Ian Hutchinson: Nuclear Fusion, Plasma Physics, and Religion
Wed, 29 Jul 2020 17:01:15 +0000
#111 – Richard Karp: Algorithms and Computational Complexity
Sun, 26 Jul 2020 15:49:07 +0000
#110 – Jitendra Malik: Computer Vision
Tue, 21 Jul 2020 23:16:54 +0000
#109 – Brian Kernighan: UNIX, C, AWK, AMPL, and Go Programming
Sat, 18 Jul 2020 21:28:25 +0000
#108 – Sergey Levine: Robotics and Machine Learning
Tue, 14 Jul 2020 15:59:56 +0000
#107 – Peter Singer: Suffering in Humans, Animals, and AI
Wed, 08 Jul 2020 14:40:18 +0000
#106 – Matt Botvinick: Neuroscience, Psychology, and AI at DeepMind
Fri, 03 Jul 2020 15:08:10 +0000
#105 – Robert Langer: Edison of Medicine
Tue, 30 Jun 2020 22:04:00 +0000
#104 – David Patterson: Computer Architecture and Data Storage
Sat, 27 Jun 2020 19:20:23 +0000
#103 – Ben Goertzel: Artificial General Intelligence
Mon, 22 Jun 2020 17:21:26 +0000
#102 – Steven Pressfield: The War of Art
Sat, 20 Jun 2020 17:48:10 +0000
#101 – Joscha Bach: Artificial Consciousness and the Nature of Reality
Sat, 13 Jun 2020 16:59:20 +0000
#99 – Karl Friston: Neuroscience and the Free Energy Principle
Thu, 28 May 2020 12:42:21 +0000
#97 – Sertac Karaman: Robots That Fly and Robots That Drive
Wed, 20 May 2020 01:28:48 +0000
#96 – Stephen Schwarzman: Going Big in Business, Investing, and AI
Fri, 15 May 2020 21:34:34 +0000
#95 – Dawn Song: Adversarial Machine Learning and Computer Security
Tue, 12 May 2020 23:20:29 +0000
#94 – Ilya Sutskever: Deep Learning
Fri, 08 May 2020 20:25:12 +0000
#93 – Daphne Koller: Biomedicine and Machine Learning
Tue, 05 May 2020 20:08:59 +0000
#92 – Harry Cliff: Particle Physics and the Large Hadron Collider
Wed, 29 Apr 2020 22:52:14 +0000
#91 – Jack Dorsey: Square, Cryptocurrency, and Artificial Intelligence
Fri, 24 Apr 2020 20:45:47 +0000
#90 – Dmitry Korkin: Computational Biology of Coronavirus
Wed, 22 Apr 2020 20:57:43 +0000
#89 – Stephen Wolfram: Cellular Automata, Computation, and Physics
Sat, 18 Apr 2020 18:23:57 +0000
#88 – Eric Weinstein: Geometric Unity and the Call for New Ideas, Leaders & Institutions
Mon, 13 Apr 2020 20:50:23 +0000
#87 – Richard Dawkins: Evolution, Intelligence, Simulation, and Memes
Thu, 09 Apr 2020 22:35:30 +0000
#86 – David Silver: AlphaGo, AlphaZero, and Deep Reinforcement Learning
Fri, 03 Apr 2020 21:05:03 +0000
#85 – Roger Penrose: Physics of Consciousness and the Infinite Universe
Tue, 31 Mar 2020 14:33:28 +0000
#83 – Nick Bostrom: Simulation and Superintelligence
Thu, 26 Mar 2020 00:19:25 +0000
#82 – Simon Sinek: Leadership, Hard Work, Optimism and the Infinite Game
Sat, 21 Mar 2020 18:25:44 +0000
#81 – Anca Dragan: Human-Robot Interaction and Reward Engineering
Thu, 19 Mar 2020 17:33:29 +0000
#80 – Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum, Cryptocurrency, and the Future of Money
Mon, 16 Mar 2020 17:48:32 +0000
#79 – Lee Smolin: Quantum Gravity and Einstein’s Unfinished Revolution
Sat, 07 Mar 2020 20:53:01 +0000
#78 – Ann Druyan: Cosmos, Carl Sagan, Voyager, and the Beauty of Science
Thu, 05 Mar 2020 14:37:43 +0000
#77 – Alex Garland: Ex Machina, Devs, Annihilation, and the Poetry of Science
Tue, 03 Mar 2020 16:07:30 +0000
#76 – John Hopfield: Physics View of the Mind and Neurobiology
Sat, 29 Feb 2020 16:09:54 +0000
#75 – Marcus Hutter: Universal Artificial Intelligence, AIXI, and AGI
Wed, 26 Feb 2020 17:45:10 +0000
#74 – Michael I. Jordan: Machine Learning, Recommender Systems, and the Future of AI
Mon, 24 Feb 2020 13:46:17 +0000
#73 – Andrew Ng: Deep Learning, Education, and Real-World AI
Thu, 20 Feb 2020 17:11:39 +0000
#72 – Scott Aaronson: Quantum Computing
Mon, 17 Feb 2020 21:21:56 +0000
Vladimir Vapnik: Predicates, Invariants, and the Essence of Intelligence
Fri, 14 Feb 2020 17:22:26 +0000
Jim Keller: Moore’s Law, Microprocessors, Abstractions, and First Principles
Wed, 05 Feb 2020 20:08:44 +0000
David Chalmers: The Hard Problem of Consciousness
Wed, 29 Jan 2020 21:38:14 +0000
Cristos Goodrow: YouTube Algorithm
Sat, 25 Jan 2020 19:33:36 +0000
Paul Krugman: Economics of Innovation, Automation, Safety Nets & Universal Basic Income
Tue, 21 Jan 2020 17:32:32 +0000
Ayanna Howard: Human-Robot Interaction and Ethics of Safety-Critical Systems
Fri, 17 Jan 2020 15:44:19 +0000
Daniel Kahneman: Thinking Fast and Slow, Deep Learning, and AI
Tue, 14 Jan 2020 18:04:15 +0000
Grant Sanderson: 3Blue1Brown and the Beauty of Mathematics
Tue, 07 Jan 2020 17:11:45 +0000
Stephen Kotkin: Stalin, Putin, and the Nature of Power
Fri, 03 Jan 2020 17:35:49 +0000
Donald Knuth: Algorithms, TeX, Life, and The Art of Computer Programming
Mon, 30 Dec 2019 17:57:13 +0000
Melanie Mitchell: Concepts, Analogies, Common Sense & Future of AI
Sat, 28 Dec 2019 18:42:41 +0000
Jim Gates: Supersymmetry, String Theory and Proving Einstein Right
Wed, 25 Dec 2019 16:09:18 +0000
Sebastian Thrun: Flying Cars, Autonomous Vehicles, and Education
Sat, 21 Dec 2019 17:48:06 +0000
Michael Stevens: Vsauce
Tue, 17 Dec 2019 14:11:51 +0000
Rohit Prasad: Amazon Alexa and Conversational AI
Sat, 14 Dec 2019 15:02:53 +0000
Judea Pearl: Causal Reasoning, Counterfactuals, Bayesian Networks, and the Path to AGI
Wed, 11 Dec 2019 16:33:31 +0000
Whitney Cummings: Comedy, Robotics, Neurology, and Love
Thu, 05 Dec 2019 12:41:59 +0000
Ray Dalio: Principles, the Economic Machine, Artificial Intelligence & the Arc of Life
Mon, 02 Dec 2019 17:09:54 +0000
Noam Chomsky: Language, Cognition, and Deep Learning
Fri, 29 Nov 2019 15:11:16 +0000
Gilbert Strang: Linear Algebra, Deep Learning, Teaching, and MIT OpenCourseWare
Mon, 25 Nov 2019 14:04:43 +0000
Dava Newman: Space Exploration, Space Suits, and Life on Mars
Fri, 22 Nov 2019 18:14:43 +0000
Michael Kearns: Algorithmic Fairness, Bias, Privacy, and Ethics in Machine Learning
Tue, 19 Nov 2019 17:52:43 +0000
Elon Musk: Neuralink, AI, Autopilot, and the Pale Blue Dot
Tue, 12 Nov 2019 17:31:26 +0000
Bjarne Stroustrup: C++
Thu, 07 Nov 2019 17:47:59 +0000
Sean Carroll: Quantum Mechanics and the Many-Worlds Interpretation
Fri, 01 Nov 2019 16:50:59 +0000
Garry Kasparov: Chess, Deep Blue, AI, and Putin
Sun, 27 Oct 2019 17:49:24 +0000
Michio Kaku: Future of Humans, Aliens, Space Travel & Physics
Tue, 22 Oct 2019 14:26:14 +0000
David Ferrucci: IBM Watson, Jeopardy & Deep Conversations with AI
Fri, 11 Oct 2019 16:46:13 +0000
Gary Marcus: Toward a Hybrid of Deep Learning and Symbolic AI
Thu, 03 Oct 2019 11:26:20 +0000
Peter Norvig: Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
Mon, 30 Sep 2019 17:44:35 +0000
Leonard Susskind: Quantum Mechanics, String Theory, and Black Holes
Thu, 26 Sep 2019 16:28:26 +0000
Regina Barzilay: Deep Learning for Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment
Mon, 23 Sep 2019 16:49:34 +0000
Colin Angle: iRobot
Thu, 19 Sep 2019 13:56:00 +0000
François Chollet: Keras, Deep Learning, and the Progress of AI
Sat, 14 Sep 2019 15:44:33 +0000
Vijay Kumar: Flying Robots
Sun, 08 Sep 2019 16:35:51 +0000
Yann LeCun: Deep Learning, Convolutional Neural Networks, and Self-Supervised Learning
Sat, 31 Aug 2019 15:43:51 +0000
Jeremy Howard: fast.ai Deep Learning Courses and Research
Tue, 27 Aug 2019 15:24:36 +0000
Pamela McCorduck: Machines Who Think and the Early Days of AI
Fri, 23 Aug 2019 14:27:03 +0000
Keoki Jackson: Lockheed Martin
Mon, 19 Aug 2019 14:20:03 +0000
Paola Arlotta: Brain Development from Stem Cell to Organoid
Mon, 12 Aug 2019 15:09:23 +0000
George Hotz: Comma.ai, OpenPilot, and Autonomous Vehicles
Mon, 05 Aug 2019 14:18:20 +0000
Kevin Scott: Microsoft CTO
Thu, 01 Aug 2019 18:58:07 +0000
Gustav Soderstrom: Spotify
Mon, 29 Jul 2019 14:06:39 +0000
Chris Urmson: Self-Driving Cars at Aurora, Google, CMU, and DARPA
Mon, 22 Jul 2019 14:17:34 +0000
Kai-Fu Lee: AI Superpowers – China and Silicon Valley
Mon, 15 Jul 2019 14:53:32 +0000
Sean Carroll: The Nature of the Universe, Life, and Intelligence
Wed, 10 Jul 2019 15:39:19 +0000
Jeff Hawkins: Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence
Mon, 01 Jul 2019 15:25:44 +0000
Rosalind Picard: Affective Computing, Emotion, Privacy, and Health
Mon, 17 Jun 2019 15:56:22 +0000
Gavin Miller: Adobe Research
Mon, 10 Jun 2019 19:12:42 +0000
Rajat Monga: TensorFlow
Mon, 03 Jun 2019 16:10:16 +0000
Chris Lattner: Compilers, LLVM, Swift, TPU, and ML Accelerators
Mon, 13 May 2019 15:47:58 +0000
Oriol Vinyals: DeepMind AlphaStar, StarCraft, Language, and Sequences
Mon, 29 Apr 2019 15:31:56 +0000
Ian Goodfellow: Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs)
Thu, 18 Apr 2019 16:33:48 +0000
Elon Musk: Tesla Autopilot
Fri, 12 Apr 2019 15:15:06 +0000
Greg Brockman: OpenAI and AGI
Wed, 03 Apr 2019 15:39:36 +0000
Eric Weinstein: Revolutionary Ideas in Science, Math, and Society
Wed, 20 Mar 2019 16:12:26 +0000
Leslie Kaelbling: Reinforcement Learning, Planning, and Robotics
Tue, 12 Mar 2019 16:06:45 +0000
Kyle Vogt: Cruise Automation
Thu, 07 Feb 2019 15:30:42 +0000
Tomaso Poggio: Brains, Minds, and Machines
Sat, 19 Jan 2019 15:03:04 +0000
Tuomas Sandholm: Poker and Game Theory
Fri, 28 Dec 2018 21:40:12 +0000
Juergen Schmidhuber: Godel Machines, Meta-Learning, and LSTMs
Sun, 23 Dec 2018 17:03:45 +0000
Pieter Abbeel: Deep Reinforcement Learning
Sun, 16 Dec 2018 19:48:50 +0000
Stuart Russell: Long-Term Future of AI
Sun, 09 Dec 2018 16:45:15 +0000
Eric Schmidt: Google
Tue, 04 Dec 2018 16:13:24 +0000
Jeff Atwood: Stack Overflow and Coding Horror
Thu, 29 Nov 2018 15:41:18 +0000
Guido van Rossum: Python
Thu, 22 Nov 2018 17:00:28 +0000
Vladimir Vapnik: Statistical Learning
Fri, 16 Nov 2018 15:30:48 +0000
Yoshua Bengio: Deep Learning
Sat, 20 Oct 2018 17:02:02 +0000
Steven Pinker: AI in the Age of Reason
Wed, 17 Oct 2018 11:55:50 +0000
Christof Koch: Consciousness
Sun, 02 Sep 2018 01:57:49 +0000
Max Tegmark: Life 3.0
Sun, 26 Aug 2018 22:37:16 +0000
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