Podcast Episodes
Back to Search#76 – John Hopfield: Physics View of the Mind and Neurobiology
John Hopfield is professor at Princeton, whose life’s work weaved beautifully through biology, chemistry, neuroscience, and physics. Most crucially, …
6 years, 1 month ago
#75 – Marcus Hutter: Universal Artificial Intelligence, AIXI, and AGI
Marcus Hutter is a senior research scientist at DeepMind and professor at Australian National University. Throughout his career of research, includin…
6 years, 1 month ago
#74 – Michael I. Jordan: Machine Learning, Recommender Systems, and the Future of AI
Michael I. Jordan is a professor at Berkeley, and one of the most influential people in the history of machine learning, statistics, and artificial i…
6 years, 1 month ago
#73 – Andrew Ng: Deep Learning, Education, and Real-World AI
Andrew Ng is one of the most impactful educators, researchers, innovators, and leaders in artificial intelligence and technology space in general. He…
6 years, 1 month ago
#72 – Scott Aaronson: Quantum Computing
Scott Aaronson is a professor at UT Austin, director of its Quantum Information Center, and previously a professor at MIT. His research interests cen…
6 years, 1 month ago
Vladimir Vapnik: Predicates, Invariants, and the Essence of Intelligence
Vladimir Vapnik is the co-inventor of support vector machines, support vector clustering, VC theory, and many foundational ideas in statistical learn…
6 years, 1 month ago
Jim Keller: Moore’s Law, Microprocessors, Abstractions, and First Principles
Jim Keller is a legendary microprocessor engineer, having worked at AMD, Apple, Tesla, and now Intel. He’s known for his work on the AMD K7, K8, K12 …
6 years, 2 months ago
David Chalmers: The Hard Problem of Consciousness
David Chalmers is a philosopher and cognitive scientist specializing in philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and consciousness. He is perhaps …
6 years, 2 months ago
Cristos Goodrow: YouTube Algorithm
Cristos Goodrow is VP of Engineering at Google and head of Search and Discovery at YouTube (aka YouTube Algorithm).
This conversation is part of the …
6 years, 2 months ago
Paul Krugman: Economics of Innovation, Automation, Safety Nets & Universal Basic Income
Paul Krugman is a Nobel Prize winner in economics, professor at CUNY, and columnist at the New York Times. His academic work centers around internati…
6 years, 2 months ago