Lex Fridman interviews Nic Carter, a financial researcher, investor, writer, and podcaster on topics of decentralized finance.
Lex Fridman interviews Natalya Bailey, a rocket propulsion engineer from MIT and now CTO of Accion Systems.
Lex Fridman speaks to Max Tegmark about what AI can do in the fields of scientific research.
Max Tegmark tells Lex Fridman what scares him the most about the direction of AI.
Lex Fridman interviews Dmitri Dolgov, CTO of Waymo, an autonomous vehicle company, for a fascinating discussion on the future of the automobile.
Lex Fridman interviews Andrew Huberman, a neuroscientist at Stanford, about optimal performance.
Lex Fridman interviews Alex Filippenko, an astrophysicist and professor of astronomy at Berkeley.
Lex Fridman interviews Chris Lattner, a world-class software & hardware engineer, leading projects at Apple, Tesla, Google, and SiFive.
OUTLINE:
- 0:00 – Introduction
- 2:25 – Working with Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Jeff Dean
- 7:55 – Why do programming languages matter?
- 13:55 – Python vs Swift
- 24:48 – Design decisions
- 30:06 – Types
- 33:54 – Programming languages are a bicycle for the mind
- 36:26 – Picking what language to learn
- 42:25 – Most beautiful feature of a programming language
- 51:50 – Walrus operator
- 1:01:16 – LLVM
- 1:06:28 – MLIR compiler framework
- 1:10:35 – SiFive semiconductor design
- 1:23:09 – Moore’s Law
- 1:26:22 – Parallelization
- 1:30:50 – Swift concurrency manifesto
- 1:41:39 – Running a neural network fast
- 1:47:16 – Is the universe a quantum computer?
- 1:52:57 – Effects of the pandemic on society
- 2:10:09 – GPT-3
- 2:14:28 – Software 2.0
- 2:27:54 – Advice for young people
- 2:32:37 – Meaning of life
Lex Fridman interviews Scott Aaronson, a quantum computer scientist.
Time index:
- 0:00 – Introduction
- 3:31 – Simulation
- 8:22 – Theories of everything
- 14:02 – Consciousness
- 36:16 – Roger Penrose on consciousness
- 46:28 – Turing test
- 50:16 – GPT-3
- 58:46 – Universality of computation
- 1:05:17 – Complexity
- 1:11:23 – P vs NP
- 1:23:41 – Complexity of quantum computation
- 1:35:48 – Pandemic
- 1:49:33 – Love
Here’s a selection from Lex Fridman’s conversation with Stepham Wolfram.