Episodes (Page 20)
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David Fravor recounts his experience as a navy pilot and primary witness to the famous 2015 UFO incident documented by the Pentagon
Aerospace Engineering
David Fravor: UFOs
Fighter Jets
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Lex honors his grandmother's influence on his character and life philosophy through personal reflection
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Eugenia Kuyda discusses Replika, an AI companion designed to alleviate human loneliness through personalized conversational interaction
Eugenia Kuyda
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Lex analyzes eight potential long-term futures for Neuralink brain-computer interface technology after attending a progress update
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François Chollet presents his framework for measuring intelligence beyond traditional benchmarks and test performance
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David Eagleman explains neuroplasticity and how the brain continuously rewires itself in response to experience and environment
David Eagleman
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Podcast renamed from 'Artificial Intelligence' to 'Lex Fridman Podcast' to broaden scope beyond AI
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Grant Sanderson discusses his educational mission with 3Blue1Brown to teach mathematics through visual storytelling and intuitive explanation
Grant Sanderson: Math
Neural Networks
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Sheldon Solomon presents Terror Management Theory, which explains how awareness of mortality shapes human behavior, values, and worldview
Sheldon Solomon
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Sara Seager details her work searching for exoplanets and the technological methods used to detect and characterize distant planetary systems
Sara Seager
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Dileep George discusses brain-inspired AI approaches including Hierarchical Temporal Memory and Recursive Cortical Networks
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Russ Tedrake explains underactuated robotics and the control of systems that cannot directly command all degrees of freedom
Dynamics and Touch
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Manolis Kellis examines the human genome, evolutionary dynamics, and what genomic data reveals about human origins and adaptation
Manolis Kellis
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Ian Hutchinson discusses nuclear fusion, plasma physics, and the scientific challenges in harnessing the energy source of stars for power generation
Plasma Physics
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Richard Karp discusses algorithms, computational complexity theory, and his Turing Award-winning research
Richard Karp
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Jitendra Malik reflects on the evolution of computer vision from classical approaches through the deep learning revolution to modern systems
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Brian Kernighan discusses his foundational contributions to programming including the C language, UNIX, AWK, and AMPL
Brian Kernighan: UNIX
Go Programming
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Sergey Levine discusses deep reinforcement learning, robotics control, and algorithms for learning from raw sensory data
Sergey Levine
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Peter Singer addresses ethical frameworks for evaluating suffering in humans, animals, and potentially artificial systems
Peter Singer
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Matt Botvinick discusses his work at DeepMind bridging neuroscience, psychology, and artificial intelligence research
AI at DeepMind
Matt Botvinick: Neuroscience