Category Archives: ai

#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is an activist, lawyer, author, and candidate for the President of the Unites States. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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OUTLINE:
Here’s the timestamps for the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.
(00:00) – Introduction
(09:05) – US history
(13:21) – Freedom
(15:16) – Camus
(18:38) – Hitler and WW2
(27:50) – War in Ukraine
(51:11) – JFK and the Cuban Missile Crisis
(1:16:19) – JFK assassination conspiracy
(1:25:53) – CIA influence
(1:34:52) – 2024 elections
(1:46:36) – Jordan Peterson
(1:48:18) – Anthony Fauci
(1:51:44) – Big Pharma
(2:11:24) – Peter Hotez
(2:17:05) – Exercise and diet
(2:19:30) – God

#387 – George Hotz: Tiny Corp, Twitter, AI Safety, Self-Driving, GPT, AGI & God

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George Hotz is a programmer, hacker, and the founder of comma-ai and tiny corp. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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Transcript: https://lexfridman.com/george-hotz-3-transcript

EPISODE LINKS:
George’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/realgeorgehotz
George’s Twitch: https://twitch.tv/georgehotz
George’s Instagram: https://instagram.com/georgehotz
Tiny Corp’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/__tinygrad__
Tiny Corp’s Website: https://tinygrad.org/
Comma-ai’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/comma_ai
Comma-ai’s Website: https://comma.ai/
Comma-ai’s YouTube (unofficial): https://youtube.com/georgehotzarchive
Mentioned:
Learning a Driving Simulator (paper): https://bit.ly/42T6lAN

OUTLINE:
Here’s the timestamps for the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.
(00:00) – Introduction
(08:04) – Time is an illusion
(17:44) – Memes
(20:20) – Eliezer Yudkowsky
(32:45) – Virtual reality
(39:04) – AI friends
(46:29) – tiny corp
(59:50) – NVIDIA vs AMD
(1:02:47) – tinybox
(1:14:56) – Self-driving
(1:29:35) – Programming
(1:37:31) – AI safety
(2:02:29) – Working at Twitter
(2:40:12) – Prompt engineering
(2:46:08) – Video games
(3:02:23) – Andrej Karpathy
(3:12:28) – Meaning of life

#386 – Marc Andreessen: Future of the Internet, Technology, and AI

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Marc Andreessen is the co-creator of Mosaic, co-founder of Netscape, and co-founder of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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Transcript: https://lexfridman.com/marc-andreessen-transcript

EPISODE LINKS:
Marc’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/pmarca
Marc’s Substack: https://pmarca.substack.com
Marc’s YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/@a16z
Andreessen Horowitz: https://a16z.com
Why AI will save the world (essay): https://a16z.com/2023/06/06/ai-will-save-the-world
Books mentioned:
1. When Reason Goes on Holiday (book): https://amzn.to/3p80b1K
2. Superintelligence (book): https://amzn.to/3N7sc1A
3. Lenin (book): https://amzn.to/43L8YWD
4. The Ancient City (book): https://amzn.to/43GzReb

OUTLINE:
Here’s the timestamps for the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.
(00:00) – Introduction
(05:01) – Google Search
(12:49) – LLM training
(25:20) – Truth
(31:32) – Journalism
(41:24) – AI startups
(46:46) – Future of browsers
(53:09) – History of browsers
(59:10) – Steve Jobs
(1:13:45) – Software engineering
(1:21:00) – JavaScript
(1:25:18) – Netscape
(1:30:22) – Why AI will save the world
(1:38:20) – Dangers of AI
(2:08:40) – Nuclear energy
(2:20:37) – Misinformation
(2:35:57) – AI and the economy
(2:42:05) – China
(2:46:17) – Evolution of technology
(2:55:35) – How to learn
(3:03:45) – Advice for young people
(3:06:35) – Balance and happiness
(3:13:11) – Meaning of life

#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia

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Jimmy Wales is the co-founder of Wikipedia. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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Transcript: https://lexfridman.com/jimmy-wales-transcript

EPISODE LINKS:
Jimmy’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/jimmy_wales
Jimmy’s Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Wales
Donate to Wikipedia: https://donate.wikimedia.org
WT.Social: https://wt.social/

OUTLINE:
Here’s the timestamps for the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.
(00:00) – Introduction
(05:10) – Origin story of Wikipedia
(11:14) – Design of Wikipedia
(18:07) – Number of articles on Wikipedia
(24:18) – Wikipedia pages for living persons
(45:11) – ChatGPT
(58:42) – Wikipedia’s political bias
(1:04:46) – Conspiracy theories
(1:17:51) – Facebook
(1:26:09) – Twitter
(1:46:45) – Building Wikipedia
(2:01:18) – Wikipedia funding
(2:12:38) – ChatGPT vs Wikipedia
(2:17:19) – Larry Sanger
(2:22:51) – Twitter files
(2:25:43) – Government and censorship
(2:40:07) – Adolf Hitler’s Wikipedia page
(2:51:49) – Future of Wikipedia
(3:03:51) – Advice for young people
(3:11:13) – Meaning of life

#384 – Matthew McConaughey: Freedom, Truth, Family, Hardship, and Love

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Matthew McConaughey is an Oscar-winning actor and author of Greenlights. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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Matthew’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/McConaughey
Matthew’s Instagram: https://instagram.com/officiallymcconaughey/
Matthew’s YouTube: https://youtube.com/@MatthewMcConaughey
Greenlights (book): https://greenlights.com/
Roadtrip (course): https://artoflivinevent.com/roadtrip

OUTLINE:
Here’s the timestamps for the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.
(00:00) – Introduction
(05:57) – Relationships
(10:44) – Dreams
(22:56) – Fear of death
(34:40) – Overcoming pain
(57:45) – Amazon rainforest
(1:04:29) – AI
(1:17:45) – Truth
(1:25:50) – Ego
(1:33:34) – Dallas Buyers Club
(1:40:03) – True Detective
(1:48:49) – Yellowstone
(1:53:51) – Texas
(1:55:43) – Politics
(2:00:29) – Interstellar
(2:03:26) – Aliens
(2:10:23) – Advice for young people
(2:18:42) – Meaning of life

#383 – Mark Zuckerberg: Future of AI at Meta, Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp

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Mark Zuckerberg is CEO of Meta. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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EPISODE LINKS:
Mark’s Facebook: https://facebook.com/zuck
Mark’s Instagram: https://instagram.com/zuck
Meta AI: https://ai.facebook.com/
Meta Quest: https://www.meta.com/quest/

OUTLINE:
Here’s the timestamps for the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.
(00:00) – Introduction
(05:38) – Jiu-jitsu competition
(23:01) – AI and open source movement
(35:32) – Next AI model release
(47:48) – Future of AI at Meta
(1:08:25) – Bots
(1:23:53) – Censorship
(1:38:34) – Meta’s new social network
(1:45:20) – Elon Musk
(1:49:25) – Layoffs and firing
(1:56:55) – Hiring
(2:02:48) – Meta Quest 3
(2:09:45) – Apple Vision Pro
(2:16:00) – AI existential risk
(2:22:23) – Power
(2:25:55) – AGI timeline
(2:33:17) – Murph challenge
(2:38:33) – Embodied AGI
(2:41:39) – Faith

#382 – Bert Kreischer: Comedy, Drinking, Rogan, Segura, Churchill & Kim Jong Un

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Bert Kreischer is a comedian, actor, and podcaster. Check him out on Bertcast, 2 Bears 1 Cave, Something is Burning, and the new movie The Machine. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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EPISODE LINKS:
Bert’s Instagram: https://instagram.com/bertkreischer/
Bert’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/bertkreischer
Bert’s YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@bertkreischer
Bert’s Website: https://bertbertbert.com/
2 Bears 1 Cave: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-i3EV1v5hLeT91DuXckUf6tsbMfLgZno
Books mentioned:
Life of the Party (book): https://amzn.to/42lHjKg

OUTLINE:
Here’s the timestamps for the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.
(00:00) – Introduction
(05:08) – Hemingway
(08:34) – Putin
(11:53) – Churchill
(14:15) – Kim Jong Un
(16:15) – Drinking with Joe Rogan and Tom Segura
(24:42) – Father
(28:33) – Shirtless
(30:38) – Tom Segura
(41:27) – Joe Rogan
(44:16) – Dating advice
(52:24) – Key to success
(1:02:36) – Sleep and working out
(1:11:51) – History podcasts
(1:17:15) – Road trips
(1:23:46) – Beer
(1:33:14) – Exercise
(1:38:56) – Life of the Party
(1:46:39) – Drinking
(2:05:11) – Greatest comedian of all time
(2:07:59) – Advice for young people

#381 – Chris Lattner: Future of Programming and AI

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Chris Lattner is a legendary software and hardware engineer, leading projects at Apple, Tesla, Google, SiFive, and Modular AI, including the development of Swift, LLVM, Clang, MLIR, CIRCT, TPUs, and Mojo. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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EPISODE LINKS:
Chris’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/clattner_llvm
Chris’s Website: http://nondot.org/sabre/
Mojo programming language: https://www.modular.com/mojo
Modular AI: https://modular.com/

OUTLINE:
Here’s the timestamps for the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.
(00:00) – Introduction
(06:38) – Mojo programming language
(16:55) – Code indentation
(25:22) – The power of autotuning
(35:12) – Typed programming languages
(51:56) – Immutability
(1:04:14) – Distributed deployment
(1:38:41) – Mojo vs CPython
(1:54:30) – Guido van Rossum
(2:01:31) – Mojo vs PyTorch vs TensorFlow
(2:04:55) – Swift programming language
(2:10:27) – Julia programming language
(2:15:32) – Switching programming languages
(2:24:58) – Mojo playground
(2:29:48) – Jeremy Howard
(2:40:34) – Function overloading
(2:48:59) – Error vs Exception
(2:56:39) – Mojo roadmap
(3:09:41) – Building a company
(3:21:27) – ChatGPT
(3:27:50) – Danger of AI
(3:31:44) – Future of programming
(3:35:01) – Advice for young people

#380 – Neil Gershenfeld: Self-Replicating Robots and the Future of Fabrication

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Neil Gershenfeld is the director of the MIT Center for Bits and Atoms. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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EPISODE LINKS:
Neil’s Website: http://ng.cba.mit.edu/
MIT Center for Bits and Atoms: https://cba.mit.edu/
Fab Foundation: https://fabfoundation.org/
Fab Lab community: https://fablabs.io/
Fab Academy: https://fabacademy.org/
Fab City: https://fab.city/

OUTLINE:
Here’s the timestamps for the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.
(00:00) – Introduction
(05:37) – What Turing got wrong
(11:02) – MIT Center for Bits and Atoms
(24:08) – Digital logic
(30:44) – Self-assembling robots
(41:12) – Digital fabrication
(52:07) – Self-reproducing machine
(59:53) – Trash and fabrication
(1:04:49) – Lab-made bioweapons
(1:09:04) – Genome
(1:20:56) – Quantum computing
(1:25:28) – Microfluidic bubble computation
(1:30:49) – Maxwell’s demon
(1:39:35) – Consciousness
(1:46:35) – Cellular automata
(1:51:07) – Universe is a computer
(1:55:53) – Advice for young people
(2:05:10) – Meaning of life

#379 – Randall Kennedy: The N-Word – History of Race, Law, Politics, and Power

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Randall Kennedy is a law professor at Harvard and author of many seminal books on race, law, history, culture, and politics. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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EPISODE LINKS:
Randall’s Website: https://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/randall-l-kennedy
N*****: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word: https://amzn.to/3MbrXSC
Say It Loud!: On Race, Law, History, and Culture: https://amzn.to/3MfQWUT
For Discrimination: Race, Affirmative Action, and the Law: https://amzn.to/3BASZxZ
Race, Crime, and the Law: https://amzn.to/3pVtVyU

OUTLINE:
Here’s the timestamps for the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.
(00:00) – Introduction
(06:11) – The N-word
(41:55) – The three N-words
(1:08:28) – Education
(1:21:31) – Critical race theory
(1:32:05) – Racism and policing
(1:39:25) – Racial profiling
(2:08:57) – Racism in US history
(2:26:55) – Affirmative action
(3:10:22) – Martin Luther King Jr.

Lex Fridman

Research Scientist at MIT. Host of Lex Fridman Podcast.

Category Archives: ai

#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

#387 – George Hotz: Tiny Corp, Twitter, AI Safety, Self-Driving, GPT, AGI & God

#386 – Marc Andreessen: Future of the Internet, Technology, and AI

#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia

#384 – Matthew McConaughey: Freedom, Truth, Family, Hardship, and Love

#383 – Mark Zuckerberg: Future of AI at Meta, Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp

#382 – Bert Kreischer: Comedy, Drinking, Rogan, Segura, Churchill & Kim Jong Un

#381 – Chris Lattner: Future of Programming and AI

#380 – Neil Gershenfeld: Self-Replicating Robots and the Future of Fabrication

#379 – Randall Kennedy: The N-Word – History of Race, Law, Politics, and Power