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Conversations about science, technology, history, philosophy and the nature of intelligence, consciousness, love, and power. Lex is an AI researcher at MIT and beyond.

Lex Fridman Podcast Lex Fridman

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Conversations about science, technology, history, philosophy and the nature of intelligence, consciousness, love, and power. Lex is an AI researcher at MIT and beyond.

    #421 – Dana White: UFC, Fighting, Khabib, Conor, Tyson, Ali, Rogan, Elon & Zuck

    #421 – Dana White: UFC, Fighting, Khabib, Conor, Tyson, Ali, Rogan, Elon & Zuck

    Dana White is the CEO and president of the UFC. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:

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    Transcript: https://lexfridman.com/dana-white-transcript



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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

    (06:31) - Mike Tyson and early days of fighting

    (17:10) - Jiu jitsu

    (23:14) - Origin of UFC

    (37:25) - Joe Rogan

    (43:31) - Lorenzo Fertitta

    (45:58) - Great fighters

    (49:55) - Khabib vs Conor

    (53:01) - Jon Jones

    (56:03) - Conor McGregor

    (1:01:05) - Trump

    (1:06:44) - Elon vs Zuck

    (1:08:04) - Mike Tyson vs Jake Paul

    (1:10:52) - Forrest Griffin vs Stephan Bonnar

    (1:18:06) - Gambling

    (1:33:08) - Mortality

    • 1 hr 36 min
    #420 – Annie Jacobsen: Nuclear War, CIA, KGB, Aliens, Area 51, Roswell & Secrecy

    #420 – Annie Jacobsen: Nuclear War, CIA, KGB, Aliens, Area 51, Roswell & Secrecy

    Annie Jacobsen is an investigative journalist and author of "Nuclear War: A Scenario" and many other books on war, weapons, government secrecy, and national security. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:

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    Transcript: https://lexfridman.com/annie-jacobsen-transcript



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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

    (07:37) - Nuclear war

    (12:21) - Launch procedure

    (18:00) - Deterrence

    (21:34) - Tactical nukes

    (30:59) - Nuclear submarines

    (33:59) - Nuclear missiles

    (41:10) - Nuclear football

    (50:17) - Missile interceptor system

    (54:34) - North Korea

    (1:01:10) - Nuclear war scenarios

    (1:10:02) - Warmongers

    (1:14:31) - President's cognitive ability

    (1:20:43) - Refusing orders

    (1:28:41) - Russia and Putin

    (1:33:48) - Cyberattack

    (1:35:09) - Ground zero of nuclear war

    (1:39:48) - Surviving nuclear war

    (1:44:06) - Nuclear winter

    (1:54:29) - Alien civilizations

    (2:00:04) - Extrasensory perception

    (2:13:50) - Area 51

    (2:17:48) - UFOs and aliens

    (2:28:15) - Roswell incident

    (2:34:55) - CIA assassinations

    (2:53:47) - Navalny

    (2:56:12) - KGB

    (3:02:48) - Hitler and the atomic bomb

    (3:06:52) - War and human nature

    (3:10:17) - Hope

    • 3 hr 12 min
    #419 – Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI

    #419 – Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI

    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:

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    Transcript: https://lexfridman.com/sam-altman-2-transcript



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    Sora Website: https://openai.com/sora

    GPT-4 Website: https://openai.com/research/gpt-4



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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

    (07:51) - OpenAI board saga

    (25:17) - Ilya Sutskever

    (31:26) - Elon Musk lawsuit

    (41:18) - Sora

    (51:09) - GPT-4

    (1:02:18) - Memory & privacy

    (1:09:22) - Q*

    (1:12:58) - GPT-5

    (1:16:13) - $7 trillion of compute

    (1:24:22) - Google and Gemini

    (1:35:26) - Leap to GPT-5

    (1:39:10) - AGI

    (1:57:44) - Aliens

    • 2 hr 2 min
    #418 – Israel-Palestine Debate: Finkelstein, Destiny, M. Rabbani & Benny Morris

    #418 – Israel-Palestine Debate: Finkelstein, Destiny, M. Rabbani & Benny Morris

    Norman Finkelstein and Benny Morris are historians. Mouin Rabbani is a Middle East analyst. Steven Bonnell (aka Destiny) is a political livestreamer. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:

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    Transcript: https://lexfridman.com/israel-palestine-debate-transcript



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    OUTLINE:

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    (00:00) - Introduction

    (12:11) - 1948

    (1:10:43) - Partition

    (2:15:16) - October 7

    (3:09:27) - Gaza

    (3:36:02) - Peace

    (4:40:47) - Hope for the future

    • 5 hr 4 min
    #417 – Kimbal Musk: The Art of Cooking, Tesla, SpaceX, Zip2, and Family

    #417 – Kimbal Musk: The Art of Cooking, Tesla, SpaceX, Zip2, and Family

    Kimbal Musk is a chef, entrepreneur, and author of The Kitchen Cookbook: Cooking for Your Community. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:

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    Transcript: https://lexfridman.com/kimbal-musk-transcript



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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

    (06:50) - Growing up in South Africa

    (19:21) - Cooking

    (42:06) - Ingredients

    (49:11) - Anthony Bourdain

    (51:26) - Cooking school

    (1:07:46) - Life-threatening accident

    (1:21:50) - Road trip across US

    (1:33:33) - Zip2

    (1:38:16) - Tesla

    (1:45:41) - SpaceX

    (1:49:24) - Hope for the future

    • 1 hr 53 min
    #416 – Yann Lecun: Meta AI, Open Source, Limits of LLMs, AGI & the Future of AI

    #416 – Yann Lecun: Meta AI, Open Source, Limits of LLMs, AGI & the Future of AI

    Yann LeCun is the Chief AI Scientist at Meta, professor at NYU, Turing Award winner, and one of the most influential researchers in the history of AI. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:

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    Transcript: https://lexfridman.com/yann-lecun-3-transcript



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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

    (09:10) - Limits of LLMs

    (20:47) - Bilingualism and thinking

    (24:39) - Video prediction

    (31:59) - JEPA (Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture)

    (35:08) - JEPA vs LLMs

    (44:24) - DINO and I-JEPA

    (45:44) - V-JEPA

    (51:15) - Hierarchical planning

    (57:33) - Autoregressive LLMs

    (1:12:59) - AI hallucination

    (1:18:23) - Reasoning in AI

    (1:35:55) - Reinforcement learning

    (1:41:02) - Woke AI

    (1:50:41) - Open source

    (1:54:19) - AI and ideology

    (1:56:50) - Marc Andreesen

    (2:04:49) - Llama 3

    (2:11:13) - AGI

    (2:15:41) - AI doomers

    (2:31:31) - Joscha Bach

    (2:35:44) - Humanoid robots

    (2:44:52) - Hope for the future

    • 2 hr 54 min

Customer Reviews

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captjohn74 ,

Holy smoke guy

Love the podcast. This long form conversation absolutely the best way to get to know these people and their insights. I’m not through your latest episode #418 and it’s thrilling, educational and insightful. Thank you for getting these guys together in one room. Definitely has some chaotic moments but the intensity adds and sores not subtract from the insight. Man oh man, the world needs to hear more stuff like this.

Abustebus ,

Wonderful open minded show

Thank goodness there is still shows like this that allow us to think outside of our normal comfort zones and no lesson is learned from being comfortable it’s about hearing things you might not want to hear. Thank you Lex

oaheicjsisj ,

Jewish Gatekeeper

Why does another Jewish person arrive to head off any counter culture?

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