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Here's my conversation all about FFmpeg, the legendary open-source software powering most video on the Internet. In the episode, I talk with Jean-Baptiste Kempf and Kieran Kunhya. JB is lead developer of VLC and Kieran is FFmpeg contributor, codec engineer, and the person behind the now-infamous FFmpeg account on...

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Lex Fridman

6,174,757 views • 2 years ago

Here's my conversation with Dan Houser, co-founder of Rockstar Games and legendary creative mind behind Grand Theft Auto (GTA) and Red Dead Redemption series of video games. I have spent hundreds of hours in worlds that Dan helped create. So, this was an incredible honor and pleasure for me. It's here on X in full and is up everywhere else (see comment). Timestamps: 0:00 - Episode highlight 1:17 - Introduction 3:03 - Greatest films of all time 15:16 - Making video games 18:07 - GTA 3 21:26 - Open world video games 24:13 - Character creation 27:40 - Superintelligent AI in A Better Paradise 36:52 - Can LLMs write video games? 41:12 - Creating GTA 4 and GTA 5 52:47 - Hard work and Rockstar's culture of excellence 56:27 - GTA 6 1:13:17 - Red Dead Redemption 2 1:53:10 - DLCs for GTA and Red Dead Redemption 1:59:29 - Leaving Rockstar Games 2:08:53 - Greatest game of all time 2:13:41 - Life lessons from father 2:15:59 - Mortality 2:33:18 - Advice for young people 2:39:20 - Future of video games
2:45:25

Here's my conversation with Dan Houser, co-founder of Rockstar Games and legendary creative mind behind Grand Theft Auto (GTA) and Red Dead Redemption series of video games. I have spent hundreds of hours in worlds that Dan helped create. So, this was an incredible honor and pleasure for me. It's here on X in full and is up everywhere else (see comment). Timestamps: 0:00 - Episode highlight 1:17 - Introduction 3:03 - Greatest films of all time 15:16 - Making video games 18:07 - GTA 3 21:26 - Open world video games 24:13 - Character creation 27:40 - Superintelligent AI in A Better Paradise 36:52 - Can LLMs write video games? 41:12 - Creating GTA 4 and GTA 5 52:47 - Hard work and Rockstar's culture of excellence 56:27 - GTA 6 1:13:17 - Red Dead Redemption 2 1:53:10 - DLCs for GTA and Red Dead Redemption 1:59:29 - Leaving Rockstar Games 2:08:53 - Greatest game of all time 2:13:41 - Life lessons from father 2:15:59 - Mortality 2:33:18 - Advice for young people 2:39:20 - Future of video games

Lex Fridman

874,365 views • 8 months ago

Here's my conversation with Terence Tao, one of the greatest mathematicians in history. We talk about the hardest problems in mathematics & physics, and how AI might help us humans to solve them. This conversation was a huge honor for me. I can't quite put it into words, but once again I'm grateful for whatever simulation code resulted in me having the life I do 🙏 To further confirm simulation, podcast length accidentally turned out to be 3:14 (pi=3.141592). But it's not 3:14:15, because the simulation code has some bugs 🤣 Podcast is here on X in full, and is up everywhere else (see comment). Timestamps: 0:00 - Introduction 0:49 - First hard problem 6:16 - Navier–Stokes singularity 26:26 - Game of life 33:01 - Infinity 38:07 - Math vs Physics 44:26 - Nature of reality 1:07:09 - Theory of everything 1:13:10 - General relativity 1:16:37 - Solving difficult problems 1:20:01 - AI-assisted theorem proving 1:32:51 - Lean programming language 1:42:51 - DeepMind's AlphaProof 1:47:45 - Human mathematicians vs AI 1:57:37 - AI winning the Fields Medal 2:04:47 - Grigori Perelman 2:17:30 - Twin Prime Conjecture 2:34:04 - Collatz conjecture 2:40:50 - P = NP 2:43:43 - Fields Medal 2:51:18 - Andrew Wiles and Fermat's Last Theorem 2:55:16 - Productivity 2:57:55 - Advice for young people 3:06:17 - The greatest mathematician of all time
3:14:33

Here's my conversation with Terence Tao, one of the greatest mathematicians in history. We talk about the hardest problems in mathematics & physics, and how AI might help us humans to solve them. This conversation was a huge honor for me. I can't quite put it into words, but once again I'm grateful for whatever simulation code resulted in me having the life I do 🙏 To further confirm simulation, podcast length accidentally turned out to be 3:14 (pi=3.141592). But it's not 3:14:15, because the simulation code has some bugs 🤣 Podcast is here on X in full, and is up everywhere else (see comment). Timestamps: 0:00 - Introduction 0:49 - First hard problem 6:16 - Navier–Stokes singularity 26:26 - Game of life 33:01 - Infinity 38:07 - Math vs Physics 44:26 - Nature of reality 1:07:09 - Theory of everything 1:13:10 - General relativity 1:16:37 - Solving difficult problems 1:20:01 - AI-assisted theorem proving 1:32:51 - Lean programming language 1:42:51 - DeepMind's AlphaProof 1:47:45 - Human mathematicians vs AI 1:57:37 - AI winning the Fields Medal 2:04:47 - Grigori Perelman 2:17:30 - Twin Prime Conjecture 2:34:04 - Collatz conjecture 2:40:50 - P = NP 2:43:43 - Fields Medal 2:51:18 - Andrew Wiles and Fermat's Last Theorem 2:55:16 - Productivity 2:57:55 - Advice for young people 3:06:17 - The greatest mathematician of all time

Lex Fridman

1,229,298 views • 1 year ago

Here's my 4+ hour conversation with Pavel Durov (Pavel Durov), founder and CEO of Telegram. This was one of the most fascinating and powerful conversations I've ever had in my life. We discuss everything from his philosophy on freedom to government bureaucracies, intelligence agencies, human nature, mathematics, encryption, great engineering & design, education, family, and his philosophy on life. It's here on X in full and is up everywhere else (see comment). It is translated and dubbed into Russian, Ukrainian, French, and Hindi. Timestamps: 0:00 - Introduction 3:07 - Philosophy of freedom 6:15 - No alcohol 14:20 - No phone 20:16 - Discipline 41:28 - Telegram: Lean philosophy, privacy, and geopolitics 56:50 - Arrest in France 1:13:01 - Romanian elections 1:23:56 - Power and corruption 1:33:29 - Intense education 1:45:29 - Nikolai Durov 1:49:58 - Programming and video games 1:54:11 - VK origins & engineering 2:11:24 - Hiring a great team 2:20:40 - Telegram engineering & design 2:39:42 - Encryption 2:44:39 - Open source 2:49:26 - Edward Snowden 2:51:58 - Intelligence agencies 2:53:10 - Iran and Russia government pressure 2:56:19 - Apple 3:03:16 - Poisoning 3:29:28 - Elon Musk 3:35:31 - Money 3:44:23 - TON 3:54:13 - Bitcoin 3:57:12 - Two chairs dilemma 4:03:52 - Children 4:15:02 - Father 4:19:33 - Quantum immortality 4:26:05 - Kafka
4:34:09

Here's my 4+ hour conversation with Pavel Durov (Pavel Durov), founder and CEO of Telegram. This was one of the most fascinating and powerful conversations I've ever had in my life. We discuss everything from his philosophy on freedom to government bureaucracies, intelligence agencies, human nature, mathematics, encryption, great engineering & design, education, family, and his philosophy on life. It's here on X in full and is up everywhere else (see comment). It is translated and dubbed into Russian, Ukrainian, French, and Hindi. Timestamps: 0:00 - Introduction 3:07 - Philosophy of freedom 6:15 - No alcohol 14:20 - No phone 20:16 - Discipline 41:28 - Telegram: Lean philosophy, privacy, and geopolitics 56:50 - Arrest in France 1:13:01 - Romanian elections 1:23:56 - Power and corruption 1:33:29 - Intense education 1:45:29 - Nikolai Durov 1:49:58 - Programming and video games 1:54:11 - VK origins & engineering 2:11:24 - Hiring a great team 2:20:40 - Telegram engineering & design 2:39:42 - Encryption 2:44:39 - Open source 2:49:26 - Edward Snowden 2:51:58 - Intelligence agencies 2:53:10 - Iran and Russia government pressure 2:56:19 - Apple 3:03:16 - Poisoning 3:29:28 - Elon Musk 3:35:31 - Money 3:44:23 - TON 3:54:13 - Bitcoin 3:57:12 - Two chairs dilemma 4:03:52 - Children 4:15:02 - Father 4:19:33 - Quantum immortality 4:26:05 - Kafka

Lex Fridman

2,564,916 views • 9 months ago

Here's my conversation with Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India. It was one of the most moving & powerful conversations and experiences of my life. This episode is fully dubbed into multiple languages including English and Hindi. It's also available in the original (mix of Hindi & English). On X, I post the full English-dub version. See comment for more. So the options are: - Audio: English, Hindi, Original (Mixed), and more - Subtitles: English, Hindi, and more Timestamps: 0:00 - In this episode... 3:07 - Introduction 9:19 - Fasting 21:38 - Early life 33:33 - Advice to Young People 39:16 - Journey in the Himalayas 50:45 - Becoming a monk 52:33 - RSS and Hindu nationalism 1:00:17 - Explaining India 1:04:27 - Mahatma Gandhi 1:16:23 - Path to peace in Ukraine 1:19:37 - India and Pakistan 1:25:16 - Cricket and Football 1:29:41 - Donald Trump 1:40:51 - China and Xi Jinping 1:47:56 - Gujarat riots in 2002 2:03:33 - Biggest democracy in the world 2:13:48 - Power 2:18:34 - Hard work 2:21:42 - Srinivasa Ramanujan 2:23:48 - Decision-making process 2:31:35 - AI 2:41:50 - Education 2:52:06 - Learning and focus 2:57:56 - Mantra 2:59:41 - Meditation 3:05:38 - Lex visiting India 3:10:04 - Siddhartha
3:17:33

Here's my conversation with Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India. It was one of the most moving & powerful conversations and experiences of my life. This episode is fully dubbed into multiple languages including English and Hindi. It's also available in the original (mix of Hindi & English). On X, I post the full English-dub version. See comment for more. So the options are: - Audio: English, Hindi, Original (Mixed), and more - Subtitles: English, Hindi, and more Timestamps: 0:00 - In this episode... 3:07 - Introduction 9:19 - Fasting 21:38 - Early life 33:33 - Advice to Young People 39:16 - Journey in the Himalayas 50:45 - Becoming a monk 52:33 - RSS and Hindu nationalism 1:00:17 - Explaining India 1:04:27 - Mahatma Gandhi 1:16:23 - Path to peace in Ukraine 1:19:37 - India and Pakistan 1:25:16 - Cricket and Football 1:29:41 - Donald Trump 1:40:51 - China and Xi Jinping 1:47:56 - Gujarat riots in 2002 2:03:33 - Biggest democracy in the world 2:13:48 - Power 2:18:34 - Hard work 2:21:42 - Srinivasa Ramanujan 2:23:48 - Decision-making process 2:31:35 - AI 2:41:50 - Education 2:52:06 - Learning and focus 2:57:56 - Mantra 2:59:41 - Meditation 3:05:38 - Lex visiting India 3:10:04 - Siddhartha

Lex Fridman

3,785,598 views • 1 year ago

Here's my conversation with Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet. I've gotten to know Sundar over the past 2 years. His life story and approach to leadership are truly inspiring. So this conversation was a pleasure and honor for me 🙏 We're living through the most exciting period of technological innovation in human history. And Google & Alphabet are at the center of it. This chat made me even more excited for the future! Oh, and they just now released a new model (gemini-2.5-pro-preview-06-05) that's the new state of the art at #1 on lmarena 🤯 Full conversation is here on X and is up everywhere else (see comment). Timestamps: 0:00 - Episode highlight 2:08 - Introduction 2:18 - Growing up in India 8:27 - Advice for young people 10:09 - Styles of leadership 14:29 - Impact of AI in human history 26:39 - Veo 3 and future of video 34:24 - Scaling laws 38:09 - AGI and ASI 44:33 - P(doom) 51:24 - Toughest leadership decisions 1:02:32 - AI mode vs Google Search 1:15:22 - Google Chrome 1:30:52 - Programming 1:37:37 - Android 1:42:49 - Questions for AGI 1:48:05 - Future of humanity 1:51:26 - Demo: Google Beam 1:59:09 - Demo: Google XR Glasses 2:01:54 - Biggest invention in human history
2:12:04

Here's my conversation with Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet. I've gotten to know Sundar over the past 2 years. His life story and approach to leadership are truly inspiring. So this conversation was a pleasure and honor for me 🙏 We're living through the most exciting period of technological innovation in human history. And Google & Alphabet are at the center of it. This chat made me even more excited for the future! Oh, and they just now released a new model (gemini-2.5-pro-preview-06-05) that's the new state of the art at #1 on lmarena 🤯 Full conversation is here on X and is up everywhere else (see comment). Timestamps: 0:00 - Episode highlight 2:08 - Introduction 2:18 - Growing up in India 8:27 - Advice for young people 10:09 - Styles of leadership 14:29 - Impact of AI in human history 26:39 - Veo 3 and future of video 34:24 - Scaling laws 38:09 - AGI and ASI 44:33 - P(doom) 51:24 - Toughest leadership decisions 1:02:32 - AI mode vs Google Search 1:15:22 - Google Chrome 1:30:52 - Programming 1:37:37 - Android 1:42:49 - Questions for AGI 1:48:05 - Future of humanity 1:51:26 - Demo: Google Beam 1:59:09 - Demo: Google XR Glasses 2:01:54 - Biggest invention in human history

Lex Fridman

938,431 views • 1 year ago

Here's my conversation with the founding team of Cursor, a popular code editor (based on VSCode) that specializes in AI-assisted programming. This is a super technical conversation that is bigger than just about one code editor. It's about the future of programming and, in general, the future of human-AI collaboration. It's here on X in full, and is up on everywhere else. Timestamps: 0:00 - Introduction 0:59 - Code editor basics 3:09 - GitHub Copilot 10:27 - Cursor 16:54 - Cursor Tab 23:08 - Code diff 31:20 - ML details 36:54 - GPT vs Claude 43:28 - Prompt engineering 50:54 - AI agents 1:04:51 - Running code in background 1:09:31 - Debugging 1:14:58 - Dangerous code 1:26:09 - Branching file systems 1:29:20 - Scaling challenges 1:43:32 - Context 1:48:39 - OpenAI o1 2:00:01 - Synthetic data 2:03:48 - RLHF vs RLAIF 2:05:34 - Fields Medal for AI 2:08:17 - Scaling laws 2:17:06 - The future of programming
2:28:55

Here's my conversation with the founding team of Cursor, a popular code editor (based on VSCode) that specializes in AI-assisted programming. This is a super technical conversation that is bigger than just about one code editor. It's about the future of programming and, in general, the future of human-AI collaboration. It's here on X in full, and is up on everywhere else. Timestamps: 0:00 - Introduction 0:59 - Code editor basics 3:09 - GitHub Copilot 10:27 - Cursor 16:54 - Cursor Tab 23:08 - Code diff 31:20 - ML details 36:54 - GPT vs Claude 43:28 - Prompt engineering 50:54 - AI agents 1:04:51 - Running code in background 1:09:31 - Debugging 1:14:58 - Dangerous code 1:26:09 - Branching file systems 1:29:20 - Scaling challenges 1:43:32 - Context 1:48:39 - OpenAI o1 2:00:01 - Synthetic data 2:03:48 - RLHF vs RLAIF 2:05:34 - Fields Medal for AI 2:08:17 - Scaling laws 2:17:06 - The future of programming

Lex Fridman

1,261,171 views • 1 year ago

Here's my 5-hour conversation with Dylan Patel and Nathan Lambert on DeepSeek, China, OpenAI, NVIDIA, xAI, Google, Anthropic, Meta, Microsoft, TSMC, Stargate, megacluster buildouts, RL, reasoning, and a lot of other topics at the cutting edge of AI. This is was a mind-blowing, super-technical, and fun conversation. Yes, we discuss r1 and o3-mini, but more importantly we look into the future of technology, geopolitics, and humanity in a world that stands on the precipice of a global AI revolution. The first 4 hours are here on X (4 hours is current limit), and the full 5 hours are up everywhere else. Links in comment. Timestamps: 0:00 - Introduction 3:33 - DeepSeek-R1 and DeepSeek-V3 25:07 - Low cost of training 51:25 - DeepSeek compute cluster 58:57 - Export controls on GPUs to China 1:09:16 - AGI timeline 1:18:41 - China's manufacturing capacity 1:26:36 - Cold war with China 1:31:05 - TSMC and Taiwan 1:54:44 - Best GPUs for AI 2:09:36 - Why DeepSeek is so cheap 2:22:55 - Espionage 2:31:57 - Censorship 2:44:52 - Andrej Karpathy and magic of RL 2:55:23 - OpenAI o3-mini vs DeepSeek r1 3:14:31 - NVIDIA 3:18:58 - GPU smuggling 3:25:36 - DeepSeek training on OpenAI data 3:36:04 - AI megaclusters 4:11:26 - Who wins the race to AGI? 4:21:39 - AI agents 4:30:21 - Programming and AI 4:37:49 - Open source 4:47:01 - Stargate 4:54:30 - Future of AI
3:59:56

Here's my 5-hour conversation with Dylan Patel and Nathan Lambert on DeepSeek, China, OpenAI, NVIDIA, xAI, Google, Anthropic, Meta, Microsoft, TSMC, Stargate, megacluster buildouts, RL, reasoning, and a lot of other topics at the cutting edge of AI. This is was a mind-blowing, super-technical, and fun conversation. Yes, we discuss r1 and o3-mini, but more importantly we look into the future of technology, geopolitics, and humanity in a world that stands on the precipice of a global AI revolution. The first 4 hours are here on X (4 hours is current limit), and the full 5 hours are up everywhere else. Links in comment. Timestamps: 0:00 - Introduction 3:33 - DeepSeek-R1 and DeepSeek-V3 25:07 - Low cost of training 51:25 - DeepSeek compute cluster 58:57 - Export controls on GPUs to China 1:09:16 - AGI timeline 1:18:41 - China's manufacturing capacity 1:26:36 - Cold war with China 1:31:05 - TSMC and Taiwan 1:54:44 - Best GPUs for AI 2:09:36 - Why DeepSeek is so cheap 2:22:55 - Espionage 2:31:57 - Censorship 2:44:52 - Andrej Karpathy and magic of RL 2:55:23 - OpenAI o3-mini vs DeepSeek r1 3:14:31 - NVIDIA 3:18:58 - GPU smuggling 3:25:36 - DeepSeek training on OpenAI data 3:36:04 - AI megaclusters 4:11:26 - Who wins the race to AGI? 4:21:39 - AI agents 4:30:21 - Programming and AI 4:37:49 - Open source 4:47:01 - Stargate 4:54:30 - Future of AI

Lex Fridman

1,153,653 views • 1 year ago

Here's my conversation with Aravind Srinivas (Aravind Srinivas), CEO of Perplexity. We talk about the history & future of AI, web search, and the Internet. Plus, lots of great advice on how to start and run a company. I met Aravind many years ago at Berkeley, and it was a bit surreal to sit down now and talk about the amazing progress in AI that happened since then. This was a fun and fascinating conversation. It's here on X in full, and is up on YouTube, Spotify, and everywhere else. Links in comment. Timestamps: 0:00 - Introduction 1:53 - How Perplexity works 9:50 - How Google works 32:17 - Larry Page and Sergey Brin 46:52 - Jeff Bezos 50:20 - Elon Musk 52:38 - Jensen Huang 55:55 - Mark Zuckerberg 57:23 - Yann LeCun 1:04:09 - Breakthroughs in AI 1:20:07 - Curiosity 1:26:24 - $1 trillion dollar question 1:41:14 - Perplexity origin story 1:56:27 - RAG 2:18:45 - 1 million H100 GPUs 2:21:17 - Advice for startups 2:33:54 - Future of search
3:02:06

Here's my conversation with Aravind Srinivas (Aravind Srinivas), CEO of Perplexity. We talk about the history & future of AI, web search, and the Internet. Plus, lots of great advice on how to start and run a company. I met Aravind many years ago at Berkeley, and it was a bit surreal to sit down now and talk about the amazing progress in AI that happened since then. This was a fun and fascinating conversation. It's here on X in full, and is up on YouTube, Spotify, and everywhere else. Links in comment. Timestamps: 0:00 - Introduction 1:53 - How Perplexity works 9:50 - How Google works 32:17 - Larry Page and Sergey Brin 46:52 - Jeff Bezos 50:20 - Elon Musk 52:38 - Jensen Huang 55:55 - Mark Zuckerberg 57:23 - Yann LeCun 1:04:09 - Breakthroughs in AI 1:20:07 - Curiosity 1:26:24 - $1 trillion dollar question 1:41:14 - Perplexity origin story 1:56:27 - RAG 2:18:45 - 1 million H100 GPUs 2:21:17 - Advice for startups 2:33:54 - Future of search

Lex Fridman

703,701 views • 2 years ago

Here's my conversation with Michael Levin (Michael Levin) about the nature of intelligence in biological systems, including unconventional & alien intelligence, agency, memory, consciousness, and life in all its forms here on Earth and beyond. It's here on X in full and is up everywhere else (see comment). Timestamps: 0:00 - Introduction 0:44 - Biological intelligence 9:17 - Living vs non-living organisms 14:30 - Origin of life 18:15 - The search for alien life (on Earth) 51:19 - Creating life in the lab - Xenobots and Anthrobots 1:04:21 - Memories and ideas are living organisms 1:18:02 - Reality is an illusion: The brain is an interface to a hidden reality 2:03:48 - Unexpected intelligence of sorting algorithms 2:29:26 - Can aging be reversed? 2:33:17 - Mind uploading 2:51:57 - Alien intelligence 3:06:52 - Advice for young people 3:13:21 - Questions for AGI
3:18:08

Here's my conversation with Michael Levin (Michael Levin) about the nature of intelligence in biological systems, including unconventional & alien intelligence, agency, memory, consciousness, and life in all its forms here on Earth and beyond. It's here on X in full and is up everywhere else (see comment). Timestamps: 0:00 - Introduction 0:44 - Biological intelligence 9:17 - Living vs non-living organisms 14:30 - Origin of life 18:15 - The search for alien life (on Earth) 51:19 - Creating life in the lab - Xenobots and Anthrobots 1:04:21 - Memories and ideas are living organisms 1:18:02 - Reality is an illusion: The brain is an interface to a hidden reality 2:03:48 - Unexpected intelligence of sorting algorithms 2:29:26 - Can aging be reversed? 2:33:17 - Mind uploading 2:51:57 - Alien intelligence 3:06:52 - Advice for young people 3:13:21 - Questions for AGI

Lex Fridman

991,051 views • 7 months ago