Stephen Kotkin is a professor of history at Princeton university and one of the great historians of our time, specializing in Russian and Soviet history. He has written many books on Stalin and the Soviet Union including the first 2 of a 3 volume work on Stalin, and he is currently working on volume 3. This conversation is part of the Artificial Intelligence podcast. If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to https://lexfridman.com/ai or connect with @lexfridman on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Medium, or YouTube where you can watch the video versions of these conversations. If you enjoy the podcast, please rate it 5 stars on Apple Podcasts, follow on Spotify, or support it on Patreon. This episode is presented by Cash App. Download it (App Store, Google Play), use code “LexPodcast”.  Episode Links:
Stalin (book, vol 1): https://amzn.to/2FjdLF2
Stalin (book, vol 2): https://amzn.to/2tqyjc3 Here’s the outline of the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time. 00:00 – Introduction
03:10 – Do all human beings crave power?
11:29 – Russian people and authoritarian power
15:06 – Putin and the Russian people
23:23 – Corruption in Russia
31:30 – Russia’s future
41:07 – Individuals and institutions
44:42 – Stalin’s rise to power
1:05:20 – What is the ideal political system?
1:21:10 – Questions for Putin
1:29:41 – Questions for Stalin
1:33:25 – Will there always be evil in the world?

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Donald Knuth is one of the greatest and most impactful computer scientists and mathematicians ever. He is the recipient in 1974 of the Turing Award, considered the Nobel Prize of computing. He is the author of the multi-volume work, the magnum opus, The Art of Computer Programming. He made several key contributions to the rigorous analysis of the computational complexity of algorithms. He popularized asymptotic notation, that we all affectionately know as the big-O notation. He also created the TeX typesetting which most computer scientists, physicists, mathematicians, and scientists and engineers use to write technical papers and make them look beautiful. This conversation is part of the Artificial Intelligence podcast. If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to https://lexfridman.com/ai or connect with @lexfridman on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Medium, or YouTube where you can watch the video versions of these conversations. If you enjoy the podcast, please rate it 5 stars on Apple Podcasts, follow on Spotify, or support it on Patreon. This episode is presented by Cash App. Download it (App Store, Google Play), use code “LexPodcast”.  Episode Links:
The Art of Computer Programming (book set) Here’s the outline of the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time. 00:00 – Introduction
03:45 – IBM 650
07:51 – Geeks
12:29 – Alan Turing
14:26 – My life is a convex combination of english and mathematics
24:00 – Japanese arrow puzzle example
25:42 – Neural networks and machine learning
27:59 – The Art of Computer Programming
36:49 – Combinatorics
39:16 – Writing process
42:10 – Are some days harder than others?
48:36 – What’s the “Art” in the Art of Computer Programming
50:21 – Binary (boolean) decision diagram
55:06 – Big-O notation
58:02 – P=NP
1:10:05 – Artificial intelligence
1:13:26 – Ant colonies and human cognition
1:17:11 – God and the Bible
1:24:28 – Reflection on life
1:28:25 – Facing mortality
1:33:40 – TeX and beautiful typography
1:39:23 – How much of the world do we understand?
1:44:17 – Question for God

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عندما يقرر الأدباء، والوزراء، وغيرهم من عليّة القوم، أن يجعلوا التواصل بينهم عملًا أدبيًا بحد ذاته، تحصل "الإخوانيات"! في الحلقة الأخيرة من الموسم الأول لأشياء غيرتنا، نغطّي إخوانيات شخصية بارزة في التاريخ القيادي والأدبي السعودي، الشاعر والوزير والسفير غازي القصيبي رحمه الله. نستعرض في الحلقة قصائده التي كان يمازح فيها زملائه الوزراء، مثل وزير المالية عبدالعزيز الخويطر، ووزير الإعلام محمد عبده يماني، ورئيس تعليم البنات راشد بن خنين. كما نستعرض مزاحه مع زملائه الأدباء مثل الشاعر عبدالله بن خميس، والشاعر أسامة عبدالرحمن. ونختم بالسبب خلف فصاحة كثير من الوزراء سابقًا وتمكنهم من نظم الشعر. هل هناك مواضيع ترغب منّا تغطيتها في الموسم القادم من أشياء غيرتنا؟ راسلنا على [email protected] See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Melanie Mitchell is a professor of computer science at Portland State University and an external professor at Santa Fe Institute. She has worked on and written about artificial intelligence from fascinating perspectives including adaptive complex systems, genetic algorithms, and the Copycat cognitive architecture which places the process of analogy making at the core of human cognition. From her doctoral work with her advisors Douglas Hofstadter and John Holland to today, she has contributed a lot of important ideas to the field of AI, including her recent book, simply called Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans. This conversation is part of the Artificial Intelligence podcast. If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to https://lexfridman.com/ai or connect with @lexfridman on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Medium, or YouTube where you can watch the video versions of these conversations. If you enjoy the podcast, please rate it 5 stars on Apple Podcasts, follow on Spotify, or support it on Patreon. This episode is presented by Cash App. Download it (App Store, Google Play), use code “LexPodcast”.  Episode Links:
AI: A Guide for Thinking Humans (book) Here’s the outline of the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time. 00:00 – Introduction
02:33 – The term “artificial intelligence”
06:30 – Line between weak and strong AI
12:46 – Why have people dreamed of creating AI?
15:24 – Complex systems and intelligence
18:38 – Why are we bad at predicting the future with regard to AI?
22:05 – Are fundamental breakthroughs in AI needed?
25:13 – Different AI communities
31:28 – Copycat cognitive architecture
36:51 – Concepts and analogies
55:33 – Deep learning and the formation of concepts
1:09:07 – Autonomous vehicles
1:20:21 – Embodied AI and emotion
1:25:01 – Fear of superintelligent AI
1:36:14 – Good test for intelligence
1:38:09 – What is complexity?
1:43:09 – Santa Fe Institute
1:47:34 – Douglas Hofstadter
1:49:42 – Proudest moment

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Jim Gates (S James Gates Jr.) is a theoretical physicist and professor at Brown University working on supersymmetry, supergravity, and superstring theory. He served on former President Obama’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. He is the co-author of a new book titled Proving Einstein Right about the scientists who set out to prove Einstein’s theory of relativity. This conversation is part of the Artificial Intelligence podcast. If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to https://lexfridman.com/ai or connect with @lexfridman on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Medium, or YouTube where you can watch the video versions of these conversations. If you enjoy the podcast, please rate it 5 stars on Apple Podcasts, follow on Spotify, or support it on Patreon. This episode is presented by Cash App. Download it (App Store, Google Play), use code “LexPodcast”.  Episode Links:
Proving Einstein Right (book) Here’s the outline of the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time. 00:00 – Introduction
03:13 – Will we ever venture outside our solar system?
05:16 – When will the first human step foot on Mars?
11:14 – Are we alone in the universe?
13:55 – Most beautiful idea in physics
16:29 – Can the mind be digitized?
21:15 – Does the possibility of superintelligence excite you?
22:25 – Role of dreaming in creativity and mathematical thinking
30:51 – Existential threats
31:46 – Basic particles underlying our universe
41:28 – What is supersymmetry?
52:19 – Adinkra symbols
1:00:24 – String theory
1:07:02 – Proving Einstein right and experimental validation of general relativity
1:19:07 – Richard Feynman
1:22:01 – Barack Obama’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology
1:30:20 – Exciting problems in physics that are just within our reach
1:31:26 – Mortality

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عمر شهابي، أستاذ مشارك في الاقتصاد السياسي في جامعة الخليج بالكويت، ومدير مركز الخليج لسياسات التنمية. عاش عمر في مدينة المحرق القديمة ودرس في مدرسة أهلية باحدى المناطق الجديدة، وربما تكون نشأته بين عالمين مختلفين هي ما ملأته بالأسئلة عن مدن الخليج وساكنيها وتبعات تطورها السريع، ووجد في الاقتصاد السياسي السبيل الأمثل للإجابة على تلك الأسئلة وفهم دول الخليج العربي. يعود بنا عمر لحقبة الاستعمار البريطاني للبحرين، وحقبة طفرة اللؤلؤ في الخليج ثم رسم الحدود بين دول الخليج وأخيرًا اكتشاف النفط. ويحدثنا عن تأثيراتها المستمرة إلى اليوم في دول الخليج، كنظام الكفالة مثلًا الذي لايزال موجود في عدد من الدول التي استعمرتها بريطانيا قديمًا. وعن الطفرات مرت دول الخليج في السنوات الماضية بطفرة من نوع مختلف وهي الطفرة العقارية، في بناء المدن الجديد والمشاريع العقارية. فهل يراها عمر طريقة مجدية لتنويع مصادر الدخل؟ أم أن علينا أن نعمل على جوانب أخرى؟ أحد الجوانب التي لابد أن نفكر فيها على الأقل هي البيئة وتأثير كل هذه التطورات السريعة على مواردنا، دول الخليج تعتمد كليًا على تحلية ماء البحر وتستهلك في العملية كميات كبيرة من الطاقة لكن ماذا لو لم يعد للبترول القيمة نفسها في الغد؟ الحلقة 169 من بودكاست فنجان، مع عمر الشهابي. تستطيع أن تستمع للحلقة من خلال تطبيقات البودكاست على هاتف المحمول. نرشّح الاستماع للبودكاست عبر تطبيق Apple Podcasts على iPhone، وتطبيق Google Podcasts على أندوريد. ويهمنا معرفة رأيكم عن الحلقات، وتقييمك للبودكاست على iTunes. وتستطيع أن تقترح ضيفًا لبودكاست فنجان بمراسلتنا على: [email protected]  روابط الحلقة:

• @omaralshehabi  — عمر على تويتر
• تصدير الثروة واغتراب الإنسان — كتاب لعمر شهابي
• جميع كتب عمر 
• وثائقي الثورة اللبنانية: لبنان يؤبرني 🇱🇧

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Sebastian Thrun is one of the greatest roboticists, computer scientists, and educators of our time. He led development of the autonomous vehicles at Stanford that won the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge and placed second in the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge. He then led the Google self-driving car program which launched the self-driving revolution. He taught the popular Stanford course on Artificial Intelligence in 2011 which was one of the first MOOCs. That experience led him to co-found Udacity, an online education platform. He is also the CEO of Kitty Hawk, a company working on building flying cars or more technically eVTOLS which stands for electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft. This conversation is part of the Artificial Intelligence podcast. If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to https://lexfridman.com/ai or connect with @lexfridman on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Medium, or YouTube where you can watch the video versions of these conversations. If you enjoy the podcast, please rate it 5 stars on Apple Podcasts or support it on Patreon. This episode is presented by Cash App. Download it (App Store, Google Play), use code “LexPodcast”.  Here’s the outline of the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time. 00:00 – Introduction
03:24 – The Matrix
04:39 – Predicting the future 30+ years ago
06:14 – Machine learning and expert systems
09:18 – How to pick what ideas to work on
11:27 – DARPA Grand Challenges
17:33 – What does it take to be a good leader?
23:44 – Autonomous vehicles
38:42 – Waymo and Tesla Autopilot
42:11 – Self-Driving Car Nanodegree
47:29 – Machine learning
51:10 – AI in medical applications
54:06 – AI-related job loss and education
57:51 – Teaching soft skills
1:00:13 – Kitty Hawk and flying cars
1:08:22 – Love and AI
1:13:12 – Life

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Michael Stevens is the creator of Vsauce, one of the most popular educational YouTube channel in the world, with over 15 million subscribers and over 1.7 billion views. His videos often ask and answer questions that are both profound and entertaining, spanning topics from physics to psychology. As part of his channel he created 3 seasons of Mind Field, a series that explored human behavior. This conversation is part of the Artificial Intelligence podcast. If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to https://lexfridman.com/ai or connect with @lexfridman on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Medium, or YouTube where you can watch the video versions of these conversations. If you enjoy the podcast, please rate it 5 stars on Apple Podcasts or support it on Patreon. This episode is presented by Cash App. Download it (App Store, Google Play), use code “LexPodcast”.  Episode links:
Vsauce YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/Vsauce
Vsauce Twitter: https://twitter.com/tweetsauce
Vsauce Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/electricpants/ Here’s the outline of the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time. 00:00 – Introduction
02:26 – Psychology
03:59 – Consciousness
06:55 – Free will
07:55 – Perception vs reality
09:59 – Simulation
11:32 – Science
16:24 – Flat earth
27:04 – Artificial Intelligence
30:14 – Existential threats
38:03 – Elon Musk and the responsibility of having a large following
43:05 – YouTube algorithm
52:41 – Mortality and the meaning of life

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ضي الضويان، مهندسة ومخططة حضرية، ورئيسة مركز تطوير التصميم والتخطيط الحضري للمدن السعودية، التابع لوزارة الشؤون البلدية والقروية. يحمل المركز على عاتقه مهمة إنقاذ مدننا من أساليب التخطيط المتبعة قديمًا عن طريق تطوير التخطيط الحضري وأنسنة المدن. قد يكون المشي هو أبرز تحدي يواجه من يقطن في مدننا، وليست حرارة الجو السبب بل عدم توفر مسارات مهيئة للمشي. فالمشكلة الرئيسية في المدن السعودية أنها صُممت للسيارات وليس للبشر، وعلى مدى الأربعين عامًا الماضية كان تركيز غالبية مشاريع التطوير ينصب على راحة السيارات أولًا وأخيرًا. لكن تلك الأخطاء قابلة للتدارك حسب ضي المتفائلة جدًا بالمستقبل، فبالرغم  من كل شيء نحن الآن على الطريق الصحيح وفي المستقبل سنعيش في مدن أكثر حياة وسعادة، فكما استطاعت دول ذات مناخ قاسي ودول فقيرة نسيبيًا تحقيق ذلك سنستطيع نحن. تعرفت ضي على التخطيط الحضري أول مرة بالصدفة في مادة اضطرت لدراستها، وتغيرت حياتها بعدها كليًا. فتحول  اهتمامها من العمارة للتخطيط الحضري، وشغفها بتصميم مباني جميلة لتصميم مدن حية. الحلقة 168 من بودكاست فنجان، مع ضي الضويان. تستطيع أن تستمع للحلقة من خلال تطبيقات البودكاست على هاتف المحمول. نرشّح الاستماع للبودكاست عبر تطبيق Apple Podcasts على iPhone، وتطبيق Google Podcasts على أندوريد. ويهمنا معرفة رأيكم عن الحلقات، وتقييمك للبودكاست على iTunes. وتستطيع أن تقترح ضيفًا لبودكاست فنجان بمراسلتنا على: [email protected]  روابط الحلقة: @dhayaldhawyan — ضي على تويتر مدينة تعيسة — تغريدة فؤاد عسيري التي يستشهد بها أبومالح بداية الحلقة جودة الحياة في السعودية — حلقة فنجان مع مزروع المزروع المتحدث الرسمي باسم برنامج جودة الحياة.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Rohit Prasad is the vice president and head scientist of Amazon Alexa and one of its original creators. This conversation is part of the Artificial Intelligence podcast. If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to https://lexfridman.com/ai or connect with @lexfridman on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Medium, or YouTube where you can watch the video versions of these conversations. If you enjoy the podcast, please rate it 5 stars on Apple Podcasts or support it on Patreon. This episode is presented by Cash App. Download it (App Store, Google Play), use code “LexPodcast”.  The episode is also supported by ZipRecruiter. Try it: http://ziprecruiter.com/lexpod Here’s the outline of the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time. 00:00 – Introduction
04:34 – Her
06:31 – Human-like aspects of smart assistants
08:39 – Test of intelligence
13:04 – Alexa prize
21:35 – What does it take to win the Alexa prize?
27:24 – Embodiment and the essence of Alexa
34:35 – Personality
36:23 – Personalization
38:49 – Alexa’s backstory from her perspective
40:35 – Trust in Human-AI relations
44:00 – Privacy
47:45 – Is Alexa listening?
53:51 – How Alexa started
54:51 – Solving far-field speech recognition and intent understanding
1:11:51 – Alexa main categories of skills
1:13:19 – Conversation intent modeling
1:17:47 – Alexa memory and long-term learning
1:22:50 – Making Alexa sound more natural
1:27:16 – Open problems for Alexa and conversational AI
1:29:26 – Emotion recognition from audio and video
1:30:53 – Deep learning and reasoning
1:36:26 – Future of Alexa
1:41:47 – The big picture of conversational AI

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