Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI | Lex Fridman Podcast #419
Sam Altman is the CEO of OpenAI, the company behind GPT-4, ChatGPT, Sora, and many other state-of-the-art AI technologies. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Cloaked: https://...
Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe | Lex Fridman Podcast #404
The conversation is about the concept of assembly theory and the complexity of objects in the universe. The chemist from the University of Glasgow, Lee Cronin, explains that every star in the sky like...
Jeff Bezos: Amazon and Blue Origin | Lex Fridman Podcast #405
In a conversation with Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon and Blue Origin, he talks about his childhood experiences on his grandfathers ranch in Texas. Bezos recalls how his grandfather allowed him to ...
Ilya Sutskever: Deep Learning | Lex Fridman Podcast #94
Elias Discover, the co-founder and chief scientist of OpenAI, is widely regarded as one of the most influential computer scientists in history with over 165,000 citations. His expertise lies in the fi...
Elon Musk: War, AI, Aliens, Politics, Physics, Video Games, and Humanity | Lex Fridman Podcast #400
Elon Musk discusses war and human nature in his conversation with Lex Friedman. He notes that war and conquest have been a part of human societies throughout history, although there have been exceptio...
Mark Zuckerberg: First Interview in the Metaverse | Lex Fridman Podcast #398
In a conversation with Mark Zuckerberg inside the metaverse, two individuals are able to connect and interact as photorealistic avatars in 3D with spatial audio, despite being physically miles apart. ...
Max Tegmark: AI and Physics | Lex Fridman Podcast #155
Max Tegmark, a physicist and artificial intelligence researcher at MIT, is the guest on this podcast episode. He is known for his work on long-term existential risks of AI and its potential solutions....
Max Tegmark: Life 3.0 | Lex Fridman Podcast #1
During a conversation with Max Tegmark, a physicist and professor at MIT, the topic of intelligent life existing in the universe is discussed. Tegmark explains that while many people believe in the ex...
Neil Gershenfeld: Self-Replicating Robots and the Future of Fabrication | Lex Fridman Podcast #380
Neil Gershenfeld, the director of MITs Center for Bits and Atoms, discusses his work in bridging the gap between digital and physical worlds. He mentions how the concept of the Turing machine, a found...
Stephen Wolfram: Cellular Automata, Computation, and Physics | Lex Fridman Podcast #89
Stephen Wolfram, a computer scientist, mathematician, and theoretical physicist who is the founder and CEO of Wolfram Research, is known for his contributions to projects such as Mathematica, Wolfram ...
Yuval Noah Harari: Human Nature, Intelligence, Power, and Conspiracies | Lex Fridman Podcast #390
In a conversation with historian and philosopher Yuval Noah Harari, the topic of intelligent alien civilizations and their rarity is discussed. Harari suggests that intelligence may be overvalued and ...
Neri Oxman: Biology, Art, and Science of Design & Engineering with Nature | Lex Fridman Podcast #394
Neri Oxman, an engineer scientist, designer, architect, and artist, discusses the importance of incorporating novelty and complexity in projects that combine disciplines like synthetic biology, materi...
Walter Isaacson: Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Einstein, Da Vinci & Ben Franklin | Lex Fridman Podcast #395
In this text, the author discusses the role of difficult childhoods in the lives of successful individuals, focusing on Elon Musk. He highlights the traumatic experiences Musk faced, including growing...
Chris Lattner: Compilers, LLVM, Swift, TPU, and ML Accelerators | Lex Fridman Podcast #21
Chris Lattner, Senior Director at Google, is one of the top experts in the world on compiler technologies and deeply understands the intricacies of how hardware and software come together to create ef...
Chris Lattner: Future of Programming and AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #381
Chris Lattner, an innovative engineer in modern computing who co-created a new full-stack AI infrastructure called Modular and a programming language called Mojo developed technologies that were desig...
Chris Lattner: The Future of Computing and Programming Languages | Lex Fridman Podcast #131
Chris Lattner is a world-class software & hardware engineer, leading projects at Apple, Tesla, Google, and SiFive. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Blinkist: https://blinkis...
Mark Zuckerberg: Future of AI at Meta, Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp | Lex Fridman Podcast #383
In a recent podcast episode, Lex Friedman interviewed Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, about his vision for the future of the company and artificial intel...
Mark Zuckerberg: Meta, Facebook, Instagram, and the Metaverse | Lex Fridman Podcast #267
In a podcast conversation with Lex Friedman, CEO of Facebook-now-called-Meta, Mark Zuckerberg discusses the responsibility social media companies have in reflecting humanity in all its complexities an...
Stephen Wolfram: ChatGPT and the Nature of Truth, Reality & Computation | Lex Fridman Podcast #376
Stephen Wolfram, computer scientist, mathematician, and founder of Wolfram Research, discusses the integration of Chat GPT, Wolfram Alpha, and Wolfram Language. Chat GPT is focused on language, using ...
Andrej Karpathy: Tesla AI, Self-Driving, Optimus, Aliens, and AGI | Lex Fridman Podcast #333
Andre Capothy, the former director of AI at Tesla and OpenAI, defines neural networks as a mathematical abstraction of the brain. These networks consist of knobs that are modifiable and trainable, sim...