Lex Fridman Podcast

404 Lee Cronin 3rd round

403 Lisa Randall

• short; physics
• 4/5

402 Michael Malice

• a short chat between two friends
• 3/5

401 John Mearscheimer

• interesting theory of international relations
• the relations between states is anarchic
• I agree with his view of Russia-Ukraine conflict but not with Palestine-Israel conflict
• 3/5

400 Elon Musk 4th round

• chatting about games, otherwise quite boring
• 3/5

399 Jared Kuschner

• interesting chat about international relationships but very biased
• 2/5

398 Zuck

• skipped

397 Lukanoff

First amendment lawyer, author of Coddling of the American Mind (together with Jonathan Haidt).

Great speaker.

Within Fire, he is working on the database of universities and their policies on free speech.

4/5

396 Sexton

Divorce lawyer.

All divorces start slowly. A cheating is never sudden.

3/5

395 Walter Isaacson

• biographer of Steve Jobs, Einstein, Ben Franklin, Leonardo da Vinci
• 3/5

394 Neri Oxman

• skipped

393 Andrew Huberman

• skipped

392 Joscha Bach

• skipped

391 Mohammed El-Kurd

• skipped

390 Yuval Noah Harari

• don’t remember

389 Benjamin Netanyahu

• very biased; politician
• very good speaker but I don’t believe him
• 2/5

388 Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

• skipped, US president candidate

387 George Hotz

• TinyCorp, Twitter
• very good episode
• 5/5

386 Marc Andreessen

• future of internet
• 3/5

385 Jimmy Wales

• Wikimedia Foundation
• 4/5

384 Matthew McConaughey

• skipped

383 Mark Zuckerberg 2nd round

• skipped

382 Bert Kreischer

• skipped

381 Chris Lattner

• Mojo, Modular, programming, ML
• very technical episode, which I appreciate
• 5/5

380 Neil Gerschenfeld

• MIT, interesting topics
• 5/5

379 Randall Kennedy

• skipped

378 Anna Frebel

• Origin and Evolution of the Universe

377 Harvey Silverglate

• Freedom of Speech

376 Stephen Wolfram

• ChatGPT and the Nature of Truth, Reality & Computation
• this guy has some troubles expressing himself but has always something interesting to say
• this episode evolves around his recent article about ChatGPT
• 5/5

375 David Pakman

• skipped
• Politics of Trump, Biden, Bernie, AOC, Socialism & Wokeism

374 Robert Playter

• Boston Dynamics CEO on Humanoid and Legged Robotics

373 Manolis Kellis 4th round

• Evolution of Human Civilization and Superintelligent AI
• the previous rounds were better
• 4/5

372 Simone Giertz

• Queen of Sh*tty Robots, Engineering, and Design
• very funny episode, she is georgeous
• 5/5

371 Max Tegmark

• The Case for Halting AI Development
• he is very pleasing to listen to
• 5/5

370 Edward Frenkel

• Reality is a Paradox - Mathematics, Physics, Truth & Love

369 Paul Rosolie

• Amazon Jungle, Uncontacted Tribes, and Anacondas
• this might be interesting but I skipped it as the matter of filtering out unnecessary information

368 Eliezer Yudkowsky

• Dangers of AI and the End of Human Civilization

367 Sam Altman

• OpenAI CEO on GPT-4, ChatGPT, and the Future of AI
• he talks like a businessman but is not very knowledgeable about the matter
• 3/5

366 Shannon Curry

• Johnny Depp & Amber Heard Trial, Marriage, Dating & Love
• skipped

365 Sam Harris

• Trump, Pandemic, Twitter, AI, and UFOs

364 Chris Voss

• FBI Hostage Negotiator

363 Craig Jones, Nicky Rod, Nicky Ryan

• B-Team Jiu Jitsu
• skipped

362 Ginni Rometty

• IBM CEO on Leadership, Power, and Adversity

361 Aaron Smith-Levin

• Scientology
• skipped

360 Tim Urban 2nd round

• Tribalism, Marxism, Liberalism, Social Justice, and Politics
• his writing is much better than his speaking
• 3/5

359 Andrew Strominger

• Black Holes, Quantum Gravity, and Theoretical Physics
• skipped

358 Aella

• Sex Work, OnlyFans, Porn, Dating, and Human Sexuality
• interesting person
• 4/5

357 Paul Conti

• Narcissism, Sociopathy, Envy, and the Nature of Good and Evil
• skipped

356 Tim Dodd

• SpaceX, Rocket Engines, and Future of Space Travel

355 David Kipping

• Alien Civilizations and Habitable Worlds
• skipped

354 Jeremi Suri

• American Civil War
• skipped

353 Dennis Whyte

• Nuclear Fusion and the Future of Energy

352 Omar Suleiman

• Islam
• skipped

351 MrBeast

• Future of YouTube, Twitter, TikTok, and Instagram
• not very interesting
• 2/5

350 Betül Kaçar

• Origin of Life, Ancient DNA, Panspermia, and Aliens

349 Bhaskar Sunkara

• The Case for Socialism
• skipped

348 Nathalie Cabrol

• Search for Alien Life

347 Michael Malice

• Christmas Special
• nice chat; I think they mentioned Kofola
• 4/5

346 Ed Calderon

• Mexican Drug Cartels
• skipped

345 Coffeezilla

• SBF, FTX, Fraud, Scams, and Fake Gurus
• skipped

344 Noam Brown

• AI vs Humans in Poker and Games of Strategic Negotiation
• skipped

343 Roger Gracie

• Jiu Jitsu
• skipped

342 Todd Howard

• Skyrim, Elder Scrolls 6, Fallout, and Starfield
• skipped

341 Guido van Rossum

• Python and the Future of Programming
• as Python programmer I enjoyed this episode
• 4/5

340 Chris Tarbell

• FBI Agent Who Took Down Silk Road

339 Climate Change Debate

• Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin

338 Chamath Palihapitiya

• Money, Success, Startups, Energy, and War
• skipped

337 Destiny

• Politics, Free Speech, Controversy, Sex, and War
• skipped

336 Ben Shapiro

• Politics, Kanye, Trump, Biden, Hitler & Extremism

335 Fiona Hill

• Putin and Trump

334 Abbas Amanat

• Iran Protests, Mahsa Amini, and Middle East History

333 Andrej Karpathy

• Tesla AI, Self-Driving, Optimus, Aliens, and AGI

332 Kanye ‘Ye’ West

• Kanye ‘Ye’ West Interview

331 Balaji Srinivasan

• How to Fix Government, Twitter, Science & the FDA

330 Hikaru Nakamura

• Chess and the Psychology of Greatness

329 Kate Darling

• Social Robots, Ethics, and the Future of MIT

328 John Danaher

• Submission Grappling, ADCC, Animal Combat, and Knives

327 GothamChess

• Chess

326 Annaka Harris

• Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality

325 Michael Levin

• Biology, Life, Aliens, Evolution, and Xenobots

324 Daniel Negreanu

• Poker

323 Will Sasso

• Comedy, MADtv, AI, Madness & Pro Wrestling

322 Rana el Kaliouby

• Emotion AI, Social Robots, and Self-Driving Cars

321 Ray Kurzweil

• Singularity, Superintelligence, and Immortality

320 Christopher Capozzola

• World War I, Ideology, Propaganda, and Politics

319 Botez Sisters

• Chess, Streaming, and Fame

318 Nick Lane

• Origin of Life, Evolution, Aliens, and Biology

317 John Vervaeke

• Meaning Crisis and the Search for Wisdom

316 Noam Chomsky

• Putin, Ukraine, China, and Nuclear War

315 Magnus Carlsen

• Greatest Chess Player of All Time

314 Liv Boeree

• Poker, Game Theory, Aliens & Existential Risk

313 Jordan Peterson

• Life, Death, Power, Fame, and Meaning

312 Duncan Trussell

• Comedy, Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man

311 Magatte Wade

• Africa

310 Andrew Bustamante

• CIA Spy

309 John Carmack

• Doom, Quake, VR, AGI, and Programming

308 Ryan Graves

• UFOs and Fighter Jets

307 Brian Armstrong

• Coinbase CEO

306 Oriol Vinyals

• Deep Learning and AGI

305 Martin Rees

• Black Holes, Alien Life, and the Big Bang

304 Robert Barron

• Christianity and the Catholic Church

303 Steve Keen

• Marxism, Capitalism, and Economics

302 Richard Haier

• IQ Tests, Human Intelligence, and Group Differences

301 Jack Barsky

• KGB Spy

300 Joe Rogan

• Comedy, Controversy, Aliens, and Freedom

299 Demis Hassabis

• DeepMind

298 Susan Cain

• The Power of Introverts and Loneliness

297 Jonathan Reisman

• Anatomy of the Human Body

296 Douglas Murray

• Racism, Marxism, and the War on the West

295 Richard Wolff

• Marxism and Communism

294 Tony Fadell

• iPhone, iPod, and Nest

293 Donald Hoffman

• Reality is an Illusion

292 Robin Hanson

• Alien Civilizations, UFOs, and the Future of Humanity

291 Jonathan Haidt

• The Case Against Social Media

290 Dan Reynolds

• Imagine Dragons

289 Stephen Kotkin

• Putin, Zelenskyy, and War in Ukraine

288 Sarma Melngailis

• Bad Vegan

287 Bobby Lee

• Comedy, Skyrim, Sex Robots, Love, Fame, and Power

286 Oliver Stone

• Vladimir Putin and War in Ukraine

285 Glenn Loury

• Race, Racism, Identity Politics, and Cancel Culture

284 Saifedean Ammous

• Bitcoin, Anarchy, and Austrian Economics

283 Chris Mason

• Space Travel, Colonization & Long-Term Survival

282 David Buss

• Sex, Dating, Relationships, and Sex Differences

281 Grimes

• Music, AI, and the Future of Humanity

280 Cristiano Amon

• Qualcomm CEO

279 Sara Walker and Lee Cronin

• Alien Debate

278 Skye Fitzgerald

• Hunger, War, and Human Suffering

277 Andrew Huberman

• Focus, Stress, Relationships, and Friendship

276 Michael Saylor

• Bitcoin, Inflation, and the Future of Money

275 Rick Rubin

• Music

274 Karl Deisseroth

• Depression, Schizophrenia, and Psychiatry

273 Chris Blattman

• War and Violence

272 Brett Johnson

• Cybercrime

271 Ariel Ekblaw

• Space Colonization and Exploration

270 David Wolpe

• Judaism

269 Lee Cronin

• Origin of Life, Aliens, and Complexity

268 Robert Proctor

• Nazi Science and Ideology

267 Mark Zuckerberg

• Meta, Facebook, Instagram, and the Metaverse

266 Nicole Perlroth

• Cybersecurity and the Weapons of Cyberwar

265 Devon Larratt

• Arm Wrestling

264 Tim Urban

• Elon Musk, AI, Aliens, and the Future of Humanity

263 John Abramson

• Big Pharma

262 Garry Nolan

• UFOs and Aliens

261 Philip Goff

• Consciousness, Panpsychism, and the Philosophy of Mind

260 Georges St-Pierre, John Danaher, and Gordon Ryan

• The Greatest of All Time
• skipped

259 Thomas Tull

• From Batman to AI and the Rolling Stones
• skipped

258 Yann LeCun

• Dark Matter of Intelligence

257 Brian Keating

• Cosmology, Astrophysics, Aliens & the Nobel Prize

256 Yaron Brook and Yoram Hazony

• Nationalism Debate

255 Mark Normand

• Comedy!

254 Jay Bhattacharya

• The Case Against Lockdowns

253 Michael Malice

• New Year’s Special

252 Elon Musk

• SpaceX and Tesla Autopilot, Robotics, and AI

251 Ray Dalio

• Money, Power, and the Collapse of Empires

250 Peter Wang

• Python and the Search for Meaning

249 Albert Bourla

• Pfizer CEO

248 Norman Naimark

• Genocide and Absolute Power

247 Jamie Metzl

• Lab Leak Theory

246 Peter Woit

• Why String Theory is Not Even Wrong

245 Tom Brands

• Iowa Wrestling

244 Robert Crews

• Afghanistan

243 Kevin Systrom

• Instagram

242 Ben Askren

• Wrestling and MMA

241 Boris Sofman

• Waymo, Cozmo, Self-Driving Cars & Future of Robotics

240 Neal Stephenson

• Sci-Fi, Space, AI, VR & the Future of Humanity

239 Niall Ferguson

• History of Money, Power, War, and Truth

238 Francis Collins

• National Institutes of Health

237 Steve Viscelli

• Trucking and the Decline of the American Dream

236 Jimmy Pedro

• Judo and the Forging of Champions

235 Michael Mina

• Rapid COVID Testing

234 Stephen Wolfram

• Complexity and the Fabric of Reality

233 Carl Hart

• Drugs, Addiction, and Society

232 Brian Greene

• Quantum Gravity, Big Bang, Aliens, Death & Meaning

231 Alex Gladstein

• Bitcoin and the Fight for Human Rights

230 Kelsi Sheren

• War, Artillery, PTSD, and Love

229 Richard Wrangham

• Violence, Sex, and Fire in Human Evolution

228 RZA

• Wu-Tang Clan, Kung Fu, Chess, God, Life, and Death

227 Sean Kelly

• Existentialism, Nihilism, and the Search for Meaning

226 Jo Boaler

• Innovating Mathematics Education

225 Jeffrey Shainline

• Optoelectronic Intelligence

224 Travis Oliphant

• NumPy, SciPy, and Anaconda

223 Travis Stevens

• Judo, Olympics, and Mental Toughness

222 Jay McClelland

• Neural Networks and the Emergence of Cognition

221 Douglas Lenat

• Cyc and Common-Sense Reasoning for AI

220 Niels Jorgensen

• New York Firefighters and the Heroes of 9/11

219 Donald Knuth

• Programming, Algorithms, and the Game of Life

218 Jaron Lanier

• Virtual Reality and Social Media

217 Rodney Brooks

• Robotics

216 Vincent Racaniello

• Viruses and Vaccines

215 Wojciech Zaremba

• OpenAI Codex, GPT-3, and the Future of AI

214 Jed Buchwald

• Isaac Newton and the Philosophy of Science

213 Barry Barish

• Gravitational Waves

212 Joscha Bach

• Nature of Reality, Dreams, and Consciousness

211 Brian Muraresku

• The Secret History of Psychedelics

210 Matt Walker

• Sleep

209 Luís and João Batalha

• Fermat’s Library and the Art of Studying Papers

208 Jeff Hawkins

• The Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence

207 Chris Duffin

• Powerlifting and the Engineering of Strength

206 Ishan Misra

• Self-Supervised Deep Learning in Computer Vision

205 Zach Bitter

• Ultramarathon Running

204 Cumrun Vafa

• String Theory

203 Anya Fernald

• Regenerative Farming and the Art of Cooking Meat

202 Rick Doblin

• Psychedelics

201 Konstantin Batygin

• Planet 9 and the Edge of Our Solar System

200 Michael Malice

• Totalitarianism and Anarchy
• very educative
• 5/5

199 Roger Reaves

• Smuggling Drugs for Pablo Escobar

198 Sara Walker

• Origin of Life

197 Jocko Willink

• War, Leadership, and Discipline
• skipped

196 Yeonmi Park

• North Korea
• 5/5

195 Clara Sousa-Silva

• Search for Life on Venus & Other Planets
• skipped

194 Bret Weinstein

• Science and Censorship in the Time of a Pandemic

193 Rob Reid

• The Existential Threat of Engineered Viruses

192 Charles Hoskinson

• Cardano

191 Daniel Schmachtenberger

• Philosophy
• this guy is so deep I can’t see to his bottom
• also very calming voice
• interesting that he is home-schooled and struggles with hand-writing
• 5/5

190 Jordan Ellenberg

• Mathematics of High-Dimensional Shapes

189 David Sinclair

• Extending the Human Lifespan
• listening after reading his book was not so interesting
• 3/5

188 Vitalik Buterin

• Ethereum 2.0
• this guy is so smart it hurts
• 4/5

187 Frank Wilczek

• Physics of Quarks, Dark Matter, Life & Aliens

186 Bryan Johnson

• Kernel Brain-Computer Interfaces

185 Sam Harris

• Consciousness, Free Will, AI, UFOs, and Meaning

184 Katherine de Kleer

• Planets, Moons, and Asteroids in Our Solar System

183 Po-Shen Loh

• Math Olympiad, Combinatorics, and Contact Tracing

182 John Danaher

• The Path to Mastery in Jiu Jitsu

181 Sergey Nazarov

• Chainlink and Hybrid Smart Contracts

180 Jeremi Suri

• History of American Power

179 Georges St-Pierre

• The Science of Fighting

178 Michael Malice and Yaron Brook

• Ayn Rand, Human Nature, and Anarchy

177 Risto Miikkulainen

• Neuroevolution and Evolutionary Computatio

176 Robert Breedlove

• Bitcoin from First Principles

175 Yannis Pappas

• History and Comedy

174 Tyler Cowen

• Economic Growth & the Fight Against Conformity

173 Nic Carter

• Bitcoin, Layered Scaling & Blocksize Debates

172 Ryan Schiller

• Free Exchange of Ideas on College Campuses

171 Anthony Pompliano

• Bitcoin

170 Ronald Sullivan

• The Ideal of Justice

169 Ryan Hall

• Martial Arts from First Principles

168 Silvio Micali

• Cryptocurrency, Algorand, Bitcoin, and Ethereum

167 Saagar Enjeti

• Politics, History, and Power

166 Cal Newport

• Deep Work

165 Josh Barnett

• Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts

164 Andrew Huberman

• Sleep, Dreams, Psychedelics, and Neuroplasticity

163 Eric Weinstein

• Difficult Conversations, Freedom, and Physics

162 Jim Keller

• The Future of Computing

161 Jason Calacanis

• Startups, Angel Investing, Capitalism, and Friendship

160 Brendan Eich

• JavaScript, Firefox, Mozilla, and Brave

159 Richard Craib

• WallStreetBets, Numerai & Future of Stock Trading

158 Zev Weinstein

• The Next Generation of Big Ideas

157 Natalya Bailey

• Rocket Engines and Electric Spacecraft Propulsion

156 Tim Dillon

• Comedy, Power & Conspiracy Theories

155 Max Tegmark

• AI and Physics

154 Avi Loeb

• Aliens, Black Holes, and the Mystery of the Oumuamua

153 Dmitry Korkin

• Evolution of Proteins, Viruses & Life

152 Dan Gable

• Olympic Wrestling

151 Dan Kokotov

• Speech Recognition with AI and Humans

150 Michael Malice

• The White Pill

149 Diana Walsh Pasulka

• Aliens, Technology, Religion & Belief

148 Charles Isbell and Michael Littman

• Machine Learning and Education

147 Dmitri Dolgov

• Waymo

146 Michael Mina

• Rapid Testing, Viruses, and the Engineering Mindset

145 Matthew Johnson

• Psychedelics
• Fighting and the Pursuit of Excellence

142 Manolis Kellis

• Meaning of Life, the Universe, and Everything

141 Erik Brynjolfsson

• Economics of AI, Social Networks & Technology

140 Lisa Feldman Barrett

• Love, Evolution, and the Human Brain

139 Andrew Huberman

• Neuroscience of Optimal Performance

138 Yaron Brook

• Ayn Rand and the Philosophy of Objectivism

137 Alex Filippenko

• Supernovae & the Expanding Universe

136 Dan Carlin

• Hardcore History

135 Charles Isbell

• Computing, AI & Race in America

134 Eric Weinstein

• On the Nature of Good and Evil

133 Manolis Kellis

• Biology of Disease

132 George Hotz

• Learning to Drive with Neural Nets

131 Chris Lattner

• The Future of Computing and Programming

130 Scott Aaronson

• Computational Complexity and Consciousness

129 Lisa Feldman Barrett

• How the Brain Works

128 Michael Malice

• Anarchy, Democracy, Love, and Trolling

127 Joe Rogan

• The Joe Rogan Experience

126 James Gosling

• Java, JVM, Emacs, and the Early Day of Computing

125 Ryan Hall

• Philosophy of Martial Arts

124 Stephen Wolfram

• Fundamental Theory of Physics

123 Manolis Kellis

• Origin of Life, Humans, and Ideas

122 David Fravor

• UFOs, Aliens, Fighter Jets & Aerospace

121 Eugenia Kuyda

• Forming a Friendship with an AI Companion

120 François Chollet

• Measures of Intelligence

119 David Eagleman

• Neuroplasticity and the Livewired Brain

118 Grant Sanderson

• Math, Manim, Neural Networks & Teaching

117 Sheldon Solomon

• Death and Meaning

116 Sara Seager

• Planets and Life Outside Our Solar System

115 Dileep George

• Brain-Inspired AI

114 Russ Tedrake

• Underactuated Robotics

113 Manolis Kellis

• Human Genome and Evolutionary Dynamics

112 Ian Hutchinson

• Nuclear Fusion, Plasma Physics, and Religion

111 Richard Karp

• Algorithms and Computational Complexity

110 Jitendra Malik

• Computer Vision

109 Brian Kernighan

• UNIX, C, AWK, AMPL, and Go

108 Sergey Levine

• Robotics and Machine Learning

107 Peter Singer

• Suffering in Humans, Animals, and AI

106 Matt Botvinick

• Neuroscience, Psychology, and AI at DeepMind

105 Robert Langer

• Biotechnology

104 David Patterson

• Computer Architecture and Data Storage

103 Ben Goertzel

• Artificial General Intelligence

102 Steven Pressfield

• The War of Art

101 Joscha Bach

• Artificial Consciousness

99 Karl Friston

• Neuroscience and the Free Energy Principle

98 Kate Darling

• Social Robotics

97 Sertac Karaman

• Robots That Fly & Robots That Drive

96 Stephen Schwarzman

• Going Big in Business

95 Dawn Song

• Adversarial ML & Computer Security

94 Ilya Sutskever

• Deep Learning

93 Daphne Koller

• Biomedicine and Machine Learning

92 Harry Cliff

• Particle Physics and the Large Hadron Collider

91 Jack Dorsey

• Square, Cryptocurrency, and AI

90 Dmitry Korkin

• Computational Biology of Coronavirus

89 Stephen Wolfram

• Cellular Automata, Computation, and Physics

88 Eric Weinstein

• Geometric Unity and the Call for New Ideas

87 Richard Dawkins

• Evolution, Intelligence, Simulation, and Memes

86 David Silver

• AlphaGo, AlphaZero, and Deep RL

85 Roger Penrose

• Physics of Consciousness and the Infinite Universe

84 William MacAskill

• Effective Altruism

83 Nick Bostrom

• Simulation and Superintelligence

82 Simon Sinek

• Leadership, Hard Work & the Infinite Game

81 Anca Dragan

• Human-Robot Interaction and Reward Engineering

80 Vitalik Buterin

• Ethereum, Cryptocurrency, and the Future of Money
• a lot of interesting ideas
• 5/5

79 Lee Smolin

• Einstein’s Unfinished Revolution

78 Ann Druyan

• Cosmos, Carl Sagan, and the Beauty of Science
• 5/5

77 Alex Garland

• Ex Machina, Devs, Annihilation

76 John Hopfield

• Physics View of the Mind and Neurobiology

75 Marcus Hutter

• Universal Artificial Intelligence, AIXI, and AGI

74 Michael I. Jordan

• Machine Learning

73 Andrew Ng

• Deep Learning, Education, and Real-World AI

72 Scott Aaronson

• Quantum Computing

71 Vladimir Vapnik

• Predicates, Invariants, and the Essence of Intelligence
• very dry
• 3/5

70 Jim Keller

• Moore’s Law
• 4/5

69 David Chalmers

• Consciousness

68 Cristos Goodrow

• YouTube Algorithm

67 Paul Krugman

• Economics of Innovation, Automation, and UBI

66 Ayanna Howard

• Human-Robot Interaction

65 Daniel Kahneman

• Thinking Fast and Slow, Deep Learning, and AI

64 Grant Sanderson

• 3Blue1Brown and the Beauty of Mathematics
• this guy has so pleasant voice…
• 5/5

63 Stephen Kotkin

• Stalin, Putin, and the Nature of Power
• skipped

62 Donald Knuth

• The Art of Computer Programming
• it’s hard to listen to his voice
• 3/5

61 Melanie Mitchell

• Concepts, Analogies and Common Sense

60 Jim Gates

• Supersymmetry and String Theory

59 Sebastian Thrun

• Flying Cars, Autonomous Vehicles, and Education
• skipped

58 Michael Stevens

• Vsauce

57 Rohit Prasad

• Amazon Alexa and Conversational AI

56 Judea Pearl

• Causal Reasoning

55 Whitney Cummings

• Comedy, Robotics, Neurology, and Love

54 Ray Dalio

• Principles

53 Noam Chomsky

• Language, Cognition, and Deep Learning

52 Gilbert Strang

• Linear Algebra, Math, Teaching & MIT OCW

51 Dava Newman

• Space Exploration, Space Suits, NASA, and Mars

50 Michael Kearns

• Algorithmic Ethics in Machine Learning

49 Elon Musk

• Neuralink, AI, Autopilot, and the Pale Blue Dot

48 Bjarne Stroustrup

• C++

47 Sean Carroll

• Quantum Mechanics and Many-Worlds

46 Garry Kasparov

• Chess, Deep Blue, AI, and Putin
• he is a great speaker
• 4/5

45 Michio Kaku

• Future of Humans, Aliens, Space Travel & Physics

44 David Ferrucci

• IBM Watson, Jeopardy & Deep Conversations with AI

43 Gary Marcus

• Hybrid of Deep Learning and Symbolic AI

42 Peter Norvig

• Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach

41 Leonard Susskind

• String Theory, Quantum Mechanics and Black Holes

40 Regina Barzilay

• Deep Learning for Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment

39 Colin Angle

• iRobot

38 Francois Chollet

• Keras, Deep Learning, and the Progress of AI

37 Vijay Kumar

• Flying Robots

36 Yann LeCun

• Deep Learning, CNNs, and Self-Supervised Learning

35 Jeremy Howard

• fast.ai Deep Learning Courses and Research

34 Pamela McCorduck

• Machines Who Think and the Early Days of AI

33 Keoki Jackson

• Lockheed Martin

32 Paola Arlotta

• Brain Development from Stem Cell to Organoid

31 George Hotz

• Comma.ai, OpenPilot, Autonomous Vehicles

30 Kevin Scott

• Microsoft

29 Gustav Soderstrom

• Spotify

28 Chris Urmson

• Self-Driving Cars at Aurora, Google, CMU, and DARPA

27 Kai-Fu Lee

• AI Superpowers: China and Silicon Valley

26 Sean Carroll

• The Nature of the Universe, Life, and Intelligence

25 Jeff Hawkins

• On Intelligence

24 Rosalind Picard

• Affective Computing

23 Gavin Miller

• Adobe Research

22 Rajat Monga

• TensorFlow

21 Chris Lattner

• Compilers, LLVM, Swift, TPU, and ML Accelerators

20 Oriol Vinyals

• DeepMind AlphaStar, Language, and Sequences

19 Ian Goodfellow

• Generative Adversarial Networks

18 Elon Musk

• Tesla Autopilot

17 Greg Brockman

• OpenAI and AGI

16 Eric Weinstein

• Revolutionary Ideas in Science, Math, and Society

15 Leslie Kaelbling

• Reinforcement Learning, Planning, and Robotics

14 Kyle Vogt

• Cruise Automation

13 Tomaso Poggio

• Brains, Minds, and Machines

12 Tuomas Sandholm

• Poker and Game Theory

11 Juergen Schmidhuber

• Godel Machines, Meta-Learning, and LSTMs

10 Pieter Abbeel

• Deep Reinforcement Learning

9 Stuart Russell

• Long-Term Future of AI

8 Eric Schmidt

• Google

7 Guido van Rossum

• Python

6 Jeff Atwood

• Stack Overflow

5 Vladimir Vapnik

• Statistical Learning

4 Yoshua Bengio

• Deep Learning

3 Steven Pinker

• AI in the Age of Reason

2 Christof Koch

• Consciousness

1 Max Tegmark

• Life 3.0