Eliezer Yatkowski, a researcher and philosopher, expressed concern about the increasing intelligence of GPT-4 and the fact that we do not have any guard rails or tests to determine if there is a mind ...

Sam Harris, influential author and host of the Making Sense podcast, discusses the nature of thoughts with Lex Friedman in a recent podcast episode. Harris explains that subjectively, thoughts appear ...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman reflects on the early days of the company when they faced mockery and disbelief for announcing their intention to work on AGI. He discusses the current moment in the history of h...

Ben Goertzel is one of the most interesting minds in the artificial intelligence community. He is the founder of SingularityNET, designer of OpenCog AI framework, formerly a director of research at th...

Stephen Wolfram is a computer scientist, mathematician, and theoretical physicist. Please check out our sponsors to get a discount and to support this podcast: - SimpliSafe: https://simplisafe.com/lex...

Ray Kurzweil, a futurist and inventor, predicts that by 2045, technology will have advanced so much that artificial intelligence will have transformed the world in ways we can hardly imagine. Kurzweil...

Nick Lane, a renowned biochemist at University College London, suggests that the origin of life on Earth involved the reaction between carbon dioxide and hydrogen, as this creates energy. Although thi...

The Artificial Intelligence Podcast features a conversation with Roger Penrose, a physicist, mathematician, and philosopher at the University of Oxford. Penrose has made significant contributions to m...

Evolutionary biologist and author Richard Dawkins believes that the probability of intelligent life existing in the universe is high, given the sheer number of planets estimated to exist. While the or...

Charles Hoskinson is the founder of Cardano, co-founder of Ethereum, a mathematician, and a farmer. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Gala Games: https://gala.games/lex - All...

Elon Musks third appearance on the Lex Friedman podcast begins with some light-hearted banter before turning to the importance of the SpaceX launch on May 30th, 2020. Musk discusses his love for human...

In a conversation with Lex Friedman, Neil Stephenson, a legendary science fiction writer, discussed various topics, including history, technology, human nature, and the lessons he draws from World War...

Silvio McCauley, a computer scientist at MIT and founder of the cryptocurrency company Algorand, explains blockchain as a decentralized common database, which allows anyone to write an entry in a page...

Stephen Wolfram, computer scientist, mathematician and founder of Wolfram Research, discusses the concept of complexity in nature and how it inspired him to seek a scientific basis for complicated str...