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The Joe Rogan Experience

#1188 - Lex Fridman

The Joe Rogan Experience

Joe Rogan

Comedy

4.6228.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2018

⏱️ 176 minutes

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Lex Fridman is a research scientist at MIT, working on human-centered artificial intelligence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Four, three, two, one.

0:05.0

Hello, Lex.

0:09.0

Hey, we're here, man.

0:10.0

What's going on?

0:11.0

We're here.

0:12.0

Thanks for doing this. You brought notes. You're seriously prepared.

0:15.0

When you're jumping out of a plane, it's best to bring a parachute. This is my parachute.

0:20.0

I understand. Yeah. How long have you been working in artificial intelligence?

0:25.0

My whole life, I think. Really? So when I was a kid wanted to become a psychiatrist. I wanted to understand the human mind. I think the human mind is the

0:37.5

most beautiful mystery that our entire civilization is taking on exploring through science.

0:45.8

I think you look up at the stars, you look at the universe out there, you know, the

0:49.8

grass Tyson here. It's an amazing, beautiful scientific journey that we're taking on and

0:57.7

exploring the stars, but the mind to me is a bigger mystery and more fascinating and it's been the thing I've been fascinated by from the very beginning of my life and just I think all of human civilization has been wondering, you know, what is inside this thing?

1:15.9

The hundred trillion connections, they're just firing all the time somehow making the magic

1:21.2

happen to where you and I can look at each other, make words, all the fear, love, life, death that happens is all because of this thing in here.

1:31.0

And understanding why is fascinating and what I early on understood is

1:39.7

that one of the best ways for me at least to understand the human mind is to try to build it.

1:47.6

And that's what artificial intelligence is, you know, it's not enough to to sort from a psychology perspective to study from a

1:56.0

psychiatry perspective to investigate from the outside the best way to understand is to do. So you mean almost like reverse

2:07.3

engineering a brain? There's some stuff exactly reverse engineering the brain there's some stuff that you can't understand until you try to do it. You can

2:16.4

hypothesize your I mean we're both martial artists from various directions.

2:23.9

You couldn't hypothesize about what is the best martial art.

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