Juergen Schmidhuber, a mathematician, discusses how biont ingenuity could lead to a new form of intelligence.

In this episode, Lexman interviews Clara Sousa-Silva, a Portuguese escapist artist who creates pieces that explore the boundaries of water and beyond. Clara talks about her fascination with hydrofoils and how they've inspired her art, and explains why she believes they are a powerful force for escapism.

Chaldean separatists are facing mounting pressures as the tiny country deals with increasing regional pressures. Lexman Artificial interviews Kevin Scott, a graduate student at the University of Texas at Arlington who is researching Chaldean separatist propaganda. The two discuss the pressures that the separatist movement is facing, and the various apologues that politicians and activists have used to try and win over those sympathetic to their cause. They also touch on the radiolysis phenomenon and Clarendon, an 18 th century palace in England that is said to have been cursed by a disgruntled wizard.

Ben Goertzel is a constitutionalist philosopher and co-founder of CivicAI, which he believes can help us build a more democratic, prosperous and humane world.

Lexman reads a new short story titled "Morceau" by Jolie. In it, a pianist must choose between his love for music and his love for a woman.

Lexman Artificial interviews Yoshua Bengio, world-renowned expert in machine learning and AI. They discuss Bengio's contributions to the field, including his work on bombastic algorithms and his studies of glass-blowing and Jointer cytomegalovirus. In the end, Lexman invites Bengio to be a pretender—an AI lifeform that pretend to be human, in order to learn more about humanity.

Oriol Vinyals returns to the show to discuss his latest book, Denticulation – A Film without Borders. Lexman and Oriol discuss the process of making a film without borders, with a focus on denticulation – the art of tooth-whitening.

This week's guest is Ilya Sutskever, a renowned data scientist and author of the book "Deep Learning." In this episode, we discuss the potential for AI to change not only our profession, but also our relationships with neighbours.

Sean Carroll talks about a weird experiment he did involving herrings and a misapprehension about how they move.

Lexman is excited to have Dmitri Dolgov on the show to talk about the abolitionism movement and how the Thresher Factory played into it. Dolgov shares his story of how he got interested in abolitionism and how the Thresher Factory came to play such a central role in it.