Lex Fridman Podcast

Oriol Vinyals: DeepMind AlphaStar, StarCraft, Language, and Sequences

<p>Oriol Vinyals is a senior research scientist at Google DeepMind. Before that he was at Google Brain and Berkeley. His research has been cited over 39,000 times. He is one of the most brilliant and impactful minds in the field of deep learning. He is behind some of the biggest papers and ideas in AI, including sequence to sequence learning, audio generation, image captioning, neural machine translation, and reinforcement learning. He is a co-lead (with David Silver) of the AlphaStar project, creating an agent that defeated a top professional at the game of StarCraft. If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to <a href="https://lexfridman.com/ai">https://lexfridman.com/ai</a> or connect with @lexfridman on <a href="https://twitter.com/lexfridman">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/lexfridman/">LinkedIn</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/lexfridman">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://medium.com/@lexfridman">Medium</a>, or <a href="https://www.youtube.com/lexfridman">YouTube</a> where you can watch the video versions of these conversations.</p>

Ian Goodfellow: Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs)

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ian Goodfellow is the author of the popular textbook on deep learning (simply titled &#8220;Deep Learning&#8221;). He coined the term Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and with his 2014 paper is responsible for launching the incredible growth of research on GANs. </span>Video version is available on YouTube. If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to <a href="https://lexfridman.com/ai">https://lexfridman.com/ai</a> or connect with @lexfridman on <a href="https://twitter.com/lexfridman">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/lexfridman/">LinkedIn</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/lexfridman">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://medium.com/@lexfridman">Medium</a>, or <a href="https://www.youtube.com/lexfridman">YouTube</a> where you can watch the video versions of these conversations.</p>

Elon Musk: Tesla Autopilot

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Elon Musk is the CEO of Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink, and a co-founder of several other companies. </span>Video version is available on YouTube. If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to <a href="https://lexfridman.com/ai">https://lexfridman.com/ai</a> or connect with @lexfridman on <a href="https://twitter.com/lexfridman">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/lexfridman/">LinkedIn</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/lexfridman">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://medium.com/@lexfridman">Medium</a>, or <a href="https://www.youtube.com/lexfridman">YouTube</a> where you can watch the video versions of these conversations.</p>

Greg Brockman: OpenAI and AGI

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Greg Brockman is the Co-Founder and CTO of OpenAI, a research organization developing ideas in AI that lead eventually to a safe &#38; friendly artificial general intelligence that benefits and empowers humanity.</span> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIrEM2FbOLU">Video version is available on YouTube</a>. If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to <a href="https://lexfridman.com/ai">https://lexfridman.com/ai</a> or connect with @lexfridman on <a href="https://twitter.com/lexfridman">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/lexfridman/">LinkedIn</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/lexfridman">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://medium.com/@lexfridman">Medium</a>, or <a href="https://www.youtube.com/lexfridman">YouTube</a> where you can watch the video versions of these conversations.</p>

Eric Weinstein: Revolutionary Ideas in Science, Math, and Society

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Eric Weinstein is a mathematician, economist, physicist, and managing director of Thiel Capital. He formed the &#8220;intellectual dark web&#8221; which is a loosely assembled group of public intellectuals including Sam Harris, Jordan Peterson, Steven Pinker, Joe Rogan, Michael Shermer, and a few others</span>. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wq9x2QcZN0">Video version is available on YouTube</a>. If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to <a href="https://lexfridman.com/ai">https://lexfridman.com/ai</a> or connect with @lexfridman on <a href="https://twitter.com/lexfridman">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/lexfridman/">LinkedIn</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/lexfridman">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://medium.com/@lexfridman">Medium</a>, or <a href="https://www.youtube.com/lexfridman">YouTube</a> where you can watch the video versions of these conversations.</p>

Leslie Kaelbling: Reinforcement Learning, Planning, and Robotics

<p>Leslie Kaelbling is a roboticist and professor at MIT. She is recognized for her work in reinforcement learning, planning, robot navigation, and several other topics in AI. She won the IJCAI Computers and Thought Award and was the editor-in-chief of the prestigious Journal of Machine Learning Research. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Er7Dy8rvqOc">Video version is available on YouTube</a>. If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to <a href="https://lexfridman.com/ai">https://lexfridman.com/ai</a> or connect with @lexfridman on <a href="https://twitter.com/lexfridman">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/lexfridman/">LinkedIn</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/lexfridman">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://medium.com/@lexfridman">Medium</a>, or <a href="https://www.youtube.com/lexfridman">YouTube</a> where you can watch the video versions of these conversations.</p>

Kyle Vogt: Cruise Automation

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kyle Vogt is the President and CTO of Cruise Automation, leading an effort in trying to solve one of the biggest robotics challenges of our time: vehicle autonomy. He is the co-founder of 2 successful companies (Cruise and Twitch) that were each acquired for 1 billion dollars.</span> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUYagvESisE">Video version is available on YouTube</a>. If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to <a href="https://lexfridman.com/ai">https://lexfridman.com/ai</a> or connect with @lexfridman on <a href="https://twitter.com/lexfridman">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/lexfridman/">LinkedIn</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/lexfridman">Facebook</a>, or <a href="https://www.youtube.com/lexfridman">YouTube</a> where you can watch the video versions of these conversations.</p>

Tomaso Poggio: Brains, Minds, and Machines

<p>Tomaso Poggio is a professor at MIT and is the director of the Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines. Cited over 100,000 times, his work has had a profound impact on our understanding of the nature of intelligence, in both biological neural networks and artificial ones. He has been an advisor to many highly-impactful researchers and entrepreneurs in AI, including Demis Hassabis of DeepMind, Amnon Shashua of MobileEye, and Christof Koch of the Allen Institute for Brain Science.&#160;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSyZvBrPAyk">Video version is available on YouTube</a>. If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to <a href="https://lexfridman.com/ai">https://lexfridman.com/ai</a> or connect with @lexfridman on <a href="https://twitter.com/lexfridman">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/lexfridman/">LinkedIn</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/lexfridman">Facebook</a>, or <a href="https://www.youtube.com/lexfridman">YouTube</a> where you can watch the video versions of these conversations.</p>

Tuomas Sandholm: Poker and Game Theory

<p>Tuomas Sandholm is a professor at CMU and co-creator of Libratus, which is the first AI system to beat top human players at the game of Heads-Up No-Limit Texas Hold&#8217;em. He has published over 450 papers on game theory and machine learning, including a best paper in 2017 at NIPS / NeurIPS. His research and companies have had wide-reaching impact in the real world, especially because he and his group not only propose new ideas, but also build systems to prove these ideas work in the real world.&#160;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7bStIQovcY">Video version is available on YouTube</a>. If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to <a href="https://lexfridman.com/ai">https://lexfridman.com/ai</a> or connect with @lexfridman on <a href="https://twitter.com/lexfridman">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/lexfridman/">LinkedIn</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/lexfridman">Facebook</a>, or <a href="https://www.youtube.com/lexfridman">YouTube</a> where you can watch the video versions of these conversations.</p>

Juergen Schmidhuber: Godel Machines, Meta-Learning, and LSTMs

<p>Juergen Schmidhuber is the co-creator of long short-term memory networks (LSTMs) which are used in billions of devices today for speech recognition, translation, and much more. Over 30 years, he has proposed a lot of interesting, out-of-the-box ideas in artificial intelligence including a formal theory of creativity. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FIo6evmweo">Video version is available on YouTube</a>. If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to <a href="https://lexfridman.com/ai">https://lexfridman.com/ai</a> or connect with @lexfridman on <a href="https://twitter.com/lexfridman">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/lexfridman/">LinkedIn</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/lexfridman">Facebook</a>, or <a href="https://www.youtube.com/lexfridman">YouTube</a> where you can watch the video versions of these conversations.</p>

Pieter Abbeel: Deep Reinforcement Learning

<p>Pieter Abbeel is a professor at UC Berkeley, director of the Berkeley Robot Learning Lab, and is one of the top researchers in the world working on how to make robots understand and interact with the world around them, especially through imitation and deep reinforcement learning.&#160;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-mYLq6eZPY">Video version is available on YouTube</a>. If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to <a href="https://lexfridman.com/ai">https://lexfridman.com/ai</a> or connect with @lexfridman on <a href="https://twitter.com/lexfridman">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/lexfridman/">LinkedIn</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/lexfridman">Facebook</a>, or <a href="https://www.youtube.com/lexfridman">YouTube</a> where you can watch the video versions of these conversations.</p>

Stuart Russell: Long-Term Future of AI

<p>Stuart Russell is a professor of computer science at UC Berkeley and a co-author of the book that introduced me and millions of other people to AI, called Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach.&#160;&#160;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsZI5oXBC0k">Video version is available on YouTube</a>. If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to <a href="https://lexfridman.com/ai">https://lexfridman.com/ai</a> or connect with @lexfridman on <a href="https://twitter.com/lexfridman">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/lexfridman/">LinkedIn</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/lexfridman">Facebook</a>, or <a href="https://www.youtube.com/lexfridman">YouTube</a> where you can watch the video versions of these conversations.</p>

Eric Schmidt: Google

<p>Eric Schmidt was the CEO of Google from 2001 to 2011, and its executive chairman from 2011 to 2017, guiding the company through a period of incredible growth and a series of world-changing innovations.&#160; <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIC9FQpxVwQ">Video version is available on YouTube</a>. If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to <a href="https://lexfridman.com/ai">https://lexfridman.com/ai</a> or connect with @lexfridman on <a href="https://twitter.com/lexfridman">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/lexfridman/">LinkedIn</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/lexfridman">Facebook</a>, or <a href="https://www.youtube.com/lexfridman">YouTube</a> where you can watch the video versions of these conversations.</p>

Jeff Atwood: Stack Overflow and Coding Horror

<p>Jeff Atwood is a co-founder of Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange, websites that are visited by millions of people every day. Much like with Wikipedia, it is difficult to understate the impact on global knowledge and productivity that these network of sites have created. Jeff is also the author of the famed <a href="https://blog.codinghorror.com/">Coding Horror</a> blog, and the founder of Discourse, and open-source software project that seeks to improve the quality of our online community discussions. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZkYSSE8HHI">Video version is available on YouTube</a>. If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to <a href="https://lexfridman.com/ai">https://lexfridman.com/ai</a> or connect with @lexfridman on <a href="https://twitter.com/lexfridman">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/lexfridman/">LinkedIn</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/lexfridman">Facebook</a>, or <a href="https://www.youtube.com/lexfridman">YouTube</a> where you can watch the video versions of these conversations.</p>

Guido van Rossum: Python

<p>Guido van Rossum is the creator of Python, one of the most popular and impactful programming languages in the world.&#160;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghwaIiE3Nd8">Video version is available on YouTube</a>. If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to <a href="https://lexfridman.com/ai">https://lexfridman.com/ai</a> or connect with @lexfridman on <a href="https://twitter.com/lexfridman">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/lexfridman/">LinkedIn</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/lexfridman">Facebook</a>, or <a href="https://www.youtube.com/lexfridman">YouTube</a> where you can watch the video versions of these conversations.</p>

Vladimir Vapnik: Statistical Learning

<p>Vladimir Vapnik is the co-inventor of support vector machines, support vector clustering, VC theory, and many foundational ideas in statistical learning. His work has been cited over 170,000 times. He has some very interesting ideas about artificial intelligence and the nature of learning, especially on the limits of our current approaches and the open problems in the field.&#160;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STFcvzoxVw4">Video version is available on YouTube</a>. If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to <a href="https://lexfridman.com/ai">https://lexfridman.com/ai</a> or connect with @lexfridman on <a href="https://twitter.com/lexfridman">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/lexfridman/">LinkedIn</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/lexfridman">Facebook</a>, or <a href="https://www.youtube.com/lexfridman">YouTube</a> where you can watch the video versions of these conversations.&#160;</p>

Yoshua Bengio: Deep Learning

<p>Yoshua Bengio, along with Geoffrey Hinton and Yann Lecun, is considered one of the three people most responsible for the advancement of deep learning during the 1990s, 2000s, and now. Cited 139,000 times, he has been integral to some of the biggest breakthroughs in AI over the past 3 decades.&#160;<a style="font-size: 1rem;" href="https://youtu.be/azOmzumh0vQ">Video version is available on YouTube</a><span style="font-size: 1rem;">. If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to </span><a style="font-size: 1rem;" href="https://lexfridman.com/ai">https://lexfridman.com/ai</a><span style="font-size: 1rem;"> or connect with @lexfridman on </span><a style="font-size: 1rem;" href="https://twitter.com/lexfridman">Twitter</a><span style="font-size: 1rem;">, </span><a style="font-size: 1rem;" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/lexfridman/">LinkedIn</a><span style="font-size: 1rem;">, </span><a style="font-size: 1rem;" href="https://www.facebook.com/lexfridman">Facebook</a><span style="font-size: 1rem;">, or </span><a style="font-size: 1rem;" href="https://www.youtube.com/lexfridman">YouTube</a><span style="font-size: 1rem;"> where you can watch the video versions of these conversations.&#160;</span></p>

Steven Pinker: AI in the Age of Reason

<p>Steven Pinker is a professor at Harvard and before that was a professor at MIT. He is the author of many books, several of which have had a big impact on the way I see the world for the better. In particular, The Better Angels of Our Nature and Enlightenment Now have instilled in me a sense of optimism grounded in data, science, and reason.&#160;<a href="https://youtu.be/epQxfSp-rdU">Video version is available on YouTube</a>. If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to <a href="https://lexfridman.com/ai">https://lexfridman.com/ai</a> or connect with @lexfridman on <a href="https://twitter.com/lexfridman">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/lexfridman/">LinkedIn</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/lexfridman">Facebook</a>, or <a href="https://www.youtube.com/lexfridman">YouTube</a> where you can watch the video versions of these conversations.&#160;</p>

Christof Koch: Consciousness

<p>A conversation with Christof Koch as part of MIT course on Artificial General Intelligence. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piHkfmeU7Wo&#38;list=PLrAXtmErZgOdP_8GztsuKi9nrraNbKKp4">Video version is available on YouTube</a>. He is the&#160;<span style="font-weight: 400;">President and Chief Scientific Officer of the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle.</span> From 1986 until 2013, he was a professor at CalTech. Cited more than 105,000 times. Author of several books including &#8220;Consciousness: Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist.&#8221; If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to <a href="https://lexfridman.com/ai">https://lexfridman.com/ai</a> or connect with @lexfridman on <a href="https://twitter.com/lexfridman">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/lexfridman/">LinkedIn</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/lexfridman">Facebook</a>, or <a href="https://www.youtube.com/lexfridman">YouTube</a> where you can watch the video versions of these conversations.</p>

Max Tegmark: Life 3.0

<p>A conversation with Max Tegmark as part of MIT course on Artificial General Intelligence. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gi8LUnhP5yU&#38;list=PLrAXtmErZgOdP_8GztsuKi9nrraNbKKp4">Video version is available on YouTube.</a> He is a Physics Professor at MIT, co-founder of the Future of Life Institute, and author of &#8220;Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.&#8221; If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to <a href="https://lexfridman.com/ai">https://lexfridman.com/ai</a> or connect with @lexfridman on <a href="https://twitter.com/lexfridman">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/lexfridman/">LinkedIn</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/lexfridman">Facebook</a>, or <a href="https://www.youtube.com/lexfridman">YouTube</a> where you can watch the video versions of these conversations.</p>