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This is the conversation between Lex Fridman (MIT) and Donald Knuth, the legendary computer scientist & mathematician. Lex Fridman's podcast is my favorite and

This is the conversation between Lex Fridman (MIT) and Donald Knuth, the legendary computer scientist & mathematician. Lex Fridman's podcast is my favorite and it's about Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). He says: "To me AI is bigger than computing, it is our civilization's journey into understanding the human mind and creating echoes of it in the machine.".

gigatexal 7y ago
Yup. Lex’s interviewing style is like how I would do it. He’s a gem and I’m so glad he is doing this podcast.
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pm90 7y ago
Link to podcast for the lazy https://lexfridman.com/ai/ https://lexfridman.com/ai/. Looks good, thanks for sharing! I've had a hard time finding podcasts that have a conversational style that I enjoy; so far I like only https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/ https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/, but this one looks really promising.
- squiggleblaz 7y ago
  Thoughts on CoRecursive? It's a conversational interview podcast that I like about topics that are relevant.
- bausano_michael 7y ago
  I recommend Mindscape by Sean Carroll. https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast
- MattRix 7y ago
  I found Lex's podcast a few months ago after hearing his George Hotz interview. It's now become my favourite podcast. I really like the mix of technical and philosophical questions, often about the future of humanity.
andreygrehov 7y ago
I don't know Lex Fridman, but with all respect, I don't like him as an interviewer at all. He has zero interviewing experience, IMHO. It looks so amateur. Regardless, kudos to him for bringing in so many amazing people. His playlist is sick!
- jeffshek 7y ago
  You need to watch three of them. He has a style and once it “clicks”, it’s rather interesting. I had a similar impression months ago, and after listening to a few - I was so happy I gave it a fair chance.
- drclau 7y ago
  Hmm, I find your observation interesting, but I don’t really understand it. Can you explain or give examples of why you think he is not experienced? I always thought of his podcast as conversations, not interviews. Maybe that’s why it always worked fine for me.
- K0SM0S 7y ago
  I think your post is valuable opinion and feeding discussion so have an upvote to balance the downvoters. (why did they..? oh well :shrug:) I actually disagree with you on interview style, I like his (it grows on you, or so I found); his playlist is indeed sick. And it keeps getting better, I suspect he'll eventually get 80% of the who's-who in AI or around it. Probably the most promising high-level podcast about it. Other podcasts are more in the weeds, actual work on ML/DL etc, production cases and frameworks (see The Changelog's master feed for instance, "Practical AI" with actual SWE's). Lex's is interesting insofar as he's an AI researcher at MIT, the highest technical acumen you can reach in the field, so you can trust him to orient/frame the conversation (actually, learn from his follow-up questions and remarks). And it's sometimes funny (when you have some background too) to see/hear his responses to non-technical interviewees. He's a great mind (and has a great heart), no question about it; thus whatever quirks you may find diverging from classic interview style are worth ignoring. Focus on the meat, when it gets good, it gets really good.
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gigatexal 7y ago

Yup. Lex’s interviewing style is like how I would do it. He’s a gem and I’m so glad he is doing this podcast.

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pm90 7y ago

Link to podcast for the lazy https://lexfridman.com/ai/ https://lexfridman.com/ai/. Looks good, thanks for sharing! I've had a hard time finding podcasts that have a conversational style that I enjoy; so far I like only https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/ https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/, but this one looks really promising.

squiggleblaz 7y ago
Thoughts on CoRecursive? It's a conversational interview podcast that I like about topics that are relevant.
bausano_michael 7y ago
I recommend Mindscape by Sean Carroll. https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast
MattRix 7y ago
I found Lex's podcast a few months ago after hearing his George Hotz interview. It's now become my favourite podcast. I really like the mix of technical and philosophical questions, often about the future of humanity.

andreygrehov 7y ago

I don't know Lex Fridman, but with all respect, I don't like him as an interviewer at all. He has zero interviewing experience, IMHO. It looks so amateur. Regardless, kudos to him for bringing in so many amazing people. His playlist is sick!

jeffshek 7y ago
You need to watch three of them. He has a style and once it “clicks”, it’s rather interesting. I had a similar impression months ago, and after listening to a few - I was so happy I gave it a fair chance.
drclau 7y ago
Hmm, I find your observation interesting, but I don’t really understand it. Can you explain or give examples of why you think he is not experienced? I always thought of his podcast as conversations, not interviews. Maybe that’s why it always worked fine for me.
K0SM0S 7y ago
I think your post is valuable opinion and feeding discussion so have an upvote to balance the downvoters. (why did they..? oh well :shrug:) I actually disagree with you on interview style, I like his (it grows on you, or so I found); his playlist is indeed sick. And it keeps getting better, I suspect he'll eventually get 80% of the who's-who in AI or around it. Probably the most promising high-level podcast about it. Other podcasts are more in the weeds, actual work on ML/DL etc, production cases and frameworks (see The Changelog's master feed for instance, "Practical AI" with actual SWE's). Lex's is interesting insofar as he's an AI researcher at MIT, the highest technical acumen you can reach in the field, so you can trust him to orient/frame the conversation (actually, learn from his follow-up questions and remarks). And it's sometimes funny (when you have some background too) to see/hear his responses to non-technical interviewees. He's a great mind (and has a great heart), no question about it; thus whatever quirks you may find diverging from classic interview style are worth ignoring. Focus on the meat, when it gets good, it gets really good.
- andreygrehov 7y ago