Lex Fridman Podcast

#155 – Max Tegmark: AI and Physics

Jan 18, 2021

03:08:20

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Machine Learning Is Changing the Way We Calculate Things

02:34

Using Machine Learning to Find the Right Equation

03:51

Is There a Better Approach to Artificial General Intelligence?

01:50

Introduction

2min

The Future of Humanity Is at Stake - Artificial Intelligence

2min

Forse-Ignatitic Podcast - Slash Lex

3min

The Biggest Breakthroughs in Artificial Intelligence

2min

The AI Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions

4min

Humility Is at the Core of Being a Scientist

5min

The Real Power of Neural Networks Comes From Differentiability

3min

The Mystery of Neural Networks

4min

How Did Galileo Get Newton's Laws?

3min

10.

Do You Think the Whole Thing Could Be Differentiable Learning?

4min

11.

Are You Worried About AI?

2min

12.

Is There a Better Approach to Artificial General Intelligence?

2min

13.

How to Prove a Neural Network

2min

14.

I Love the Optimism

1min

15.

Is There a Risk of Unintentional Failures?

5min

16.

How to Create Incentives That Are Aligned With Yours

5min

17.

The Evolution of Artificial Intelligence

5min

18.

Is There a Fundamental Law of Human Nature?

3min

19.

What Can We Learn From the Pandemic?

4min

20.

What Do You Think About the Internet?

3min

21.

Machine Learning Meets Propaganda

5min

22.

Is There a Fake News Problem?

2min

23.

Is Propaganda to Democracies Better Than in the West?

2min

24.

The Big Tech Has the Stomach

5min

25.

Is Machine Learning Taking Over the World?

4min

26.

Robotics - The Best Marketing Year Ever for Autonomous Weapons

2min

27.

The Future Life Award - Why We Ban Bio Weapons

2min

28.

Bioweapons - It's So Hard to Prevent Cheating

2min

29.

Do You Think Drones Are the Future?

3min

30.

Predator Drones

5min

31.

The Stigma of AI

5min

32.

Science Is Awesome When You Use It for Good

2min

33.

The Best Is When They Work Together

4min

34.

We Shouldn't Keep Playing Russian or Left and Have an Accidental Nukor Every Year

2min

35.

Elon Lamask and the Future of Artificial Intelligence

2min

36.

Is There a Value Alignment?

2min

37.

The Cosmic Scale

3min

38.

Is Elon a Luddite?

3min

39.

Is There a Symbiosis With Artificial Intelligence?

4min

40.

How Do You Plan to Destroy Yourself in the Century?

3min

41.

AI Safety Research - The Biggest Risk?

2min

42.

Is There Something Fundamental About Consciousness?

4min

43.

Is There a Science of Consciousness?

3min

44.

I Love Pistachio Ice Cream

5min

45.

Isn't That Beautiful?

2min

46.

Is There a Future for Artificial Intelligence?

2min

47.

Are There Some Nails That Machine Learning Can Help With?

3min

48.

Machine Learning Is Changing the Way We Calculate Things

3min

49.

Using Machine Learning to Find the Right Equation

4min

50.

Is There a Human Intuition in Chess?

4min

51.

Is There a Day When AI Is the Primary Contributor?

2min

52.

Is There a Magic Moment When Machine Learning Surprises Us?

5min

53.

The Link Between AGI and SETI

2min

54.

I Could Be Wrong About That

4min

55.

The Number One Principle Being Scientists

3min

56.

The Fermi Paradox - We've Learned a Lot

4min

57.

The Drake Equation Is Enlightening

4min

58.

The End, the Death of Human Civilization

2min

59.

Is It Possible That the Pistachio Ice Cream Is Delicious Is Because We Are Finite

6min

60.

The Choice Is Wisdom, Caffeine, Sanity or Privacy

3min

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OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(08:15) – AI and physics
(21:32) – Can AI discover new laws of physics?
(30:22) – AI safety
(47:59) – Extinction of human species
(58:57) – How to fix fake news and misinformation
(1:20:30) – Autonomous weapons
(1:35:54) – The man who prevented nuclear war
(1:46:02) – Elon Musk and AI
(1:59:39) – AI alignment
(2:05:42) – Consciousness
(2:14:45) – Richard Feynman
(2:18:56) – Machine learning and computational physics
(2:29:53) – AI and creativity
(2:41:08) – Aliens
(2:56:51) – Mortality