Lex Fridman Podcast

  • Grant Sanderson: 3Blue1Brown and the Beauty of Mathematics

    Grant Sanderson is a math educator and creator of 3Blue1Brown, a popular YouTube channel that uses programmatically-animated visualizations to explain concepts in linear algebra, calculus, and other fields of mathematics. This conversation is part of…


  • Stephen Kotkin: Stalin, Putin, and the Nature of Power

    Stephen Kotkin is a professor of history at Princeton university and one of the great historians of our time, specializing in Russian and Soviet history. He has written many books on Stalin and the Soviet…


  • Donald Knuth: Algorithms, TeX, Life, and The Art of Computer Programming

    Donald Knuth is one of the greatest and most impactful computer scientists and mathematicians ever. He is the recipient in 1974 of the Turing Award, considered the Nobel Prize of computing. He is the author…


  • Melanie Mitchell: Concepts, Analogies, Common Sense & Future of AI

    Melanie Mitchell is a professor of computer science at Portland State University and an external professor at Santa Fe Institute. She has worked on and written about artificial intelligence from fascinating perspectives including adaptive complex…


  • Jim Gates: Supersymmetry, String Theory and Proving Einstein Right

    Jim Gates (S James Gates Jr.) is a theoretical physicist and professor at Brown University working on supersymmetry, supergravity, and superstring theory. He served on former President Obama’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.…


  • Sebastian Thrun: Flying Cars, Autonomous Vehicles, and Education

    Sebastian Thrun is one of the greatest roboticists, computer scientists, and educators of our time. He led development of the autonomous vehicles at Stanford that won the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge and placed second in…


  • Michael Stevens: Vsauce

    Michael Stevens is the creator of Vsauce, one of the most popular educational YouTube channel in the world, with over 15 million subscribers and over 1.7 billion views. His videos often ask and answer questions…


  • Rohit Prasad: Amazon Alexa and Conversational AI

    Rohit Prasad is the vice president and head scientist of Amazon Alexa and one of its original creators. This conversation is part of the Artificial Intelligence podcast. If you would like to get more information about…


  • Judea Pearl: Causal Reasoning, Counterfactuals, Bayesian Networks, and the Path to AGI

    Judea Pearl is a professor at UCLA and a winner of the Turing Award, that’s generally recognized as the Nobel Prize of computing. He is one of the seminal figures in the field of artificial…