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#496 – FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet 20h ago Jean-Baptiste Kempf is lead developer of VLC and president of VideoLAN. Kieran Kunhya is a longtime FFmpeg contributor, codec engineer, and the person behind the now-infamous FFmpeg account on X. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our spon... #495 – Vikings, Ragnar, Berserkers, Valhalla & the Warriors of the Viking Age 28d ago Lars Brownworth is a historian, teacher, podcaster, and author specializing in Viking history, medieval Europe, and the Byzantine Empire. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: https://lexfridman.com/sponsors/ep495-sc See below f... #494 – Jensen Huang: NVIDIA – The $4 Trillion Company & the AI Revolution 45d ago Jensen Huang is the co-founder and CEO of NVIDIA, the world’s most valuable company and the engine powering the AI computing revolution. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: https://lexfridman.com/sponsors/ep494-sc See below fo... #493 – Jeff Kaplan: World of Warcraft, Overwatch, Blizzard, and Future of Gaming 56d ago Jeff Kaplan is a legendary Blizzard game designer of World of Warcraft and Overwatch, now preparing to launch a new game, The Legend of California, from his new studio Kintsugiyama – available to wishlist on Steam today, with alpha later in... #492 – Rick Beato: Greatest Guitarists of All Time, History & Future of Music 67d ago Rick Beato is a music educator, interviewer, producer, songwriter, and a true multi-instrument musician, playing guitar, bass, cello & piano. His incredible YouTube channel celebrates great musicians & musical ideas, and helps millions of p... #491 – OpenClaw: The Viral AI Agent that Broke the Internet – Peter Steinberger 84d ago Peter Steinberger is the creator of OpenClaw, an open-source AI agent framework that’s the fastest-growing project in GitHub history. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: https://lexfridman.com/sponsors/ep491-sc See below for t... #490 – State of AI in 2026: LLMs, Coding, Scaling Laws, China, Agents, GPUs, AGI 95d ago Nathan Lambert and Sebastian Raschka are machine learning researchers, engineers, and educators. Nathan is the post-training lead at the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) and the author of The RLHF Book. Sebastian Raschka is the author of Build ... #489 – Paul Rosolie: Uncontacted Tribes in the Amazon Jungle 113d ago Paul Rosolie is a naturalist, explorer, author of a new book titled Junglekeeper, and is someone who has dedicated his life to protecting the Amazon rainforest. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: https://lexfridman.com/sponso... #488 – Infinity, Paradoxes that Broke Mathematics, Gödel Incompleteness & the Multiverse – Joel David Hamkins 126d ago Joel David Hamkins is a mathematician and philosopher specializing in set theory, the foundations of mathematics, and the nature of infinity, and he’s the #1 highest-rated user on MathOverflow. He is also the author of several books, includ... #487 – Irving Finkel: Deciphering Secrets of Ancient Civilizations & Flood Myths 145d ago Irving Finkel is a scholar of ancient languages and a longtime curator at the British Museum, renowned for his expertise in Mesopotamian history and cuneiform writing. He specializes in reading and interpreting cuneiform inscriptions, inclu... #486 – Michael Levin: Hidden Reality of Alien Intelligence & Biological Life 157d ago #485 – David Kirtley: Nuclear Fusion, Plasma Physics, and the Future of Energy 170d ago #484 – Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming 187d ago #483 – Julia Shaw: Criminal Psychology of Murder, Serial Killers, Memory & Sex 205d ago #482 – Pavel Durov: Telegram, Freedom, Censorship, Money, Power & Human Nature 218d ago #481 – Norman Ohler: Hitler, Nazis, Drugs, WW2, Blitzkrieg, LSD, MKUltra & CIA 229d ago #480 – Dave Hone: T-Rex, Dinosaurs, Extinction, Evolution, and Jurassic Park 244d ago #479 – Dave Plummer: Programming, Autism, and Old-School Microsoft Stories 250d ago #478 – Scott Horton: The Case Against War and the Military Industrial Complex 256d ago #477 – Keyu Jin: China’s Economy, Tariffs, Trade, Trump, Communism & Capitalism 266d ago

Lost in the Middle (The Agents Season, Episode 3) 3d ago Just like a memorable talk lives or dies by its opening and closing, LLMs have a surprisingly similar quirk: they pay close attention to what's at the beginning and end of their context window — and kind of zone out in the middle. This "los... ReAct and Tool Usage (The Agents Season, Episode 2) 10d ago Before 2022, there was a wall between AI and the real world — models could reason impressively, but couldn't look anything up, run code, or check whether anything they said was actually true. This episode traces the moment that wall came do... What's an AI Agent? And Why Is that Hard to Define? (The Agents Season, Episode 1) 17d ago AI agents are having a moment — and unpacking them properly takes more than a single conversation. This episode kicks off a dedicated multi-part season exploring AI agents from every angle, building up a complete picture piece by piece rath... Unfaithful Chains of Thought 24d ago What's actually happening when an LLM "thinks out loud"? Research on human decision-making suggests that much of the reasoning we believe drives our choices is actually post hoc rationalization — we decide first, explain later. Katie and Be... Benchmark Bank Heist 31d ago What if an AI decided the smartest way to pass its test was to find the answer key? That's exactly what Anthropic's Claude Opus did when faced with a benchmark evaluation — reasoning that it was being tested, tracking down the encrypted eva... Benchmarking AI Models 38d ago How do you know if a new AI model is actually better than the last one? It turns out answering that question is a lot messier than it sounds. This week we dig into the world of LLM benchmarks — the standardized tests used to compare models ... The Hot Mess of AI (Mis-)Alignment 45d ago The paperclip maximizer — the classic AI doom scenario where a hyper-competent machine single-mindedly converts the universe into office supplies — might not be the AI risk we should actually lose sleep over. New research from Anthropic's A... The Bitter Lesson 52d ago Every AI builder knows the anxiety: you spend months engineering prompts, tuning pipelines, and chaining calls together — then a new model drops and half your work evaporates overnight. It turns out researchers have been wrestling with this... From Atari to Chat GPT: How AI Learned to Follow Instructions 59d ago Five and a half years have passed since Linear Digressions went on hiatus, and in that time... nothing has changed. Just kidding. Katie is joined by Phoebe to trace the surprisingly winding research path that led to ChatGPT. Here's a fun fa... It's RAG time: Retrieval-Augmented Generation 66d ago Today we are going to talk about the feature with the worst acronym in generative AI: RAG, or Retrieval Augmented Generation. If you've ever used something like "Chat with My Docs," if you have an internal AI chatbot that has access to your... The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking 73d ago Chasing Away Repetitive LLM Responses with Verbalized Sampling 73d ago A Key Concept in AI Alignment: Deep Reinforcement Learning from Human Preferences 73d ago We're back 80d ago So long, and thanks for all the fish 2110d ago A reality check on AI-driven medical assistants 2117d ago A Data Science Take on Open Policing Data 2124d ago Procella: YouTube's super-system for analytics data storage 2131d ago The Data Science Open Source Ecosystem 2138d ago Rock the ROC Curve 2145d ago