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Check out this special crossover episode with the AI Today podcast, the hosts of which Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer discuss pressing topics around artificia…

Following a long string of victories for computers in other games — chess in 1997, go in 2016 and Texas hold’em poker in 2019 — a GPU-powered AI has beaten some…

Today's guest is Emmanuel Walckenaer, CEO of YSEOP. A firm based in Paris, YSEOP focuses on natural language generation across financial services and life scien…

Our 65th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! This week: The future of self-driving? Maybe less like Elon Musk and more like Domino…

Cumrun Vafa is a theoretical physicist at Harvard. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: – Headspace: https://headspace.com/lex to get…

Since its beginning in the 1950s, the field of artificial intelligence has vacillated between periods of optimistic predictions and massive investment and perio…

Today's guest is Dr. Joanna Bryson, Professor of Ethics and Technology at the Hertie School in Berlin. Previously a faculty member of the Computer Science depar…

Anya Fernald is the co-founder of Belcampo farms, chef, and regenerative agriculture expert. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: – G…

Show Notes: 0:00 Intro & Dog update 5:48 COVID, Vaccine mandates, public vs. private policy 26:26 Collectivism, comparison to cigarettes, Sacks' latest podcast…

NSCAI staff Christie Lawrence and Rama Elleru talk about how intellectual property protections play an unexpected role in guiding US innovation and contribute t…

NSCAI staff Tess Deblanc-Knowles and Mike Garris talk about the steps the US government needs to take to foster AI innovation in the years ahead.

2021 has been a bit less crazy than 2020 so far, but plenty of notable stuff has already happened. So, we decided to partner with our friends over at the Toward…

Rick Doblin is a psychedelics researcher and the founder and executive director of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS). Please supp…

This week's guest is Ricardo Panaggio, Data Scientist at Daitan. Daitan is ranked by the Financial Times as one of the fastest-growing U.S. companies and now ha…

Konstantin Batygin is a planetary astrophysicist at Caltech. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: – Squarespace: https://lexfridman.c…

Today's guest is John Havens, Director for Emerging Technologies and Strategic Development at the IEEE Standards Association, and Executive Director for the Cou…

Our 64th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news This week: This AI publicly shames politicians, but don’t laugh just yet AI-Generated…

Show Notes: 0:00 Bestie game show: Who got COVID? How was the experience? 9:30 Delta breakthrough causing concern, potential new approaches, vaccine mandates 24…

Michael Malice is a political thinker, podcaster, and author. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: – Gala Games: https://gala.games/l…

This week's guest is Sudhanshu Sawlani, Head of Robotics and Intelligent Automation for ING Wholesale Banking, a large financial services organization with over…

Our guest this week is Cory Janssen, Co-CEO and Co-Founder of AltaML, an AI services firm based in Canada with over 100 employees just four years after its laun…

Robots are not just limited to the assembly line. At NVIDIA, Liila Torabi works on making the next generation of robotics possible. Torabi is the senior product…

Roger Reaves is one of the most prolific drug smugglers in history. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: – Noom – Allform &#821…

Today's guest is Dr. Julian Togelius, professor of Computer Science and Engineering at New York University. Julian has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Univ…

Sara Walker is an astrobiologist and theoretical physicist interested in the origin of life. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: – A…

Our 63rd Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube This week: Voice AI is sc…

Show Notes: 0:00 Super drought & climate crisis on the west coast 25:53 Nuclear energy, virtue signaling, cognitive laziness, positive signals of optimism 36:50…

It has been over three decades since the statistical revolution overtook AI by a storm and over two  decades since deep learning (DL) helped usher the late…

An interview with Sean McGregor, the ML architect at the neural accelerator startup Syntiant who also works with the XPRIZE Foundation and is the creator and ma…

Today's guest is Jared Dunnmon, Technical Director of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning at the US Defense Innovation Unit (DIU). Jared began working…