Essentials: Machines, Creativity & Love | Dr. Lex Fridman

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🗓️ 29 May 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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In this Huberman Lab Essentials episode my guest is Lex Fridman, PhD, a research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), an expert in robotics and host of the Lex Fridman Podcast. We discuss the development of artificial intelligence through machine learning, deep learning and self-supervised techniques. We also examine the growing significance of interactions between humans and robots, including their potential for companionship and emotional connection. This episode explores how AI is shifting from a technical tool into something that could reshape human relationships, emotions and society. Read the episode show notes at hubermanlab.com. Thank you to our sponsors AG1: https://drinkag1.com/huberman Maui Nui: https://mauinui.com/huberman Function: https://functionhealth.com/huberman David: https://davidprotein.com/huberman Timestamps 00:00:00 Lex Fridman; Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning, Deep Learning 00:02:23 Supervised vs Self-Supervised Learning, Self-Play Mechanism 00:09:06 Tesla Autopilot, Autonomous Driving, Robot & Human Interaction 00:14:26 Sponsors: AG1 & Maui Nui 00:17:47 Human & Robot Relationship, Loneliness, Time 00:22:38 Authenticity, Robot Companion, Emotions 00:27:55 Robot & Human Relationship, Manipulation, Rights 00:32:12 Sponsors: Function & David 00:35:14 Dogs, Homer, Companion, Cancer, Death 00:40:04 Dogs, Costello, Decline, Joy, Loss 00:47:31 Closing Disclaimer & Disclosures Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Huberman Lab Essentials, where we revisit past episodes for the most potent and actionable science-based tools for mental health, physical health, and performance.
0:11.3	And now my conversation with Dr. Lex Friedman.
0:14.9	We meet again.
0:16.1	We meet again.
0:17.3	I have a question that I think is on a lot of people's minds or ought to be on a lot of people's minds.
0:24.1	What is artificial intelligence?
0:26.9	And how is it different from things like machine learning and robotics?
0:32.8	So I think of artificial intelligence first as a big philosophical thing.
0:39.2	It's our longing to create other intelligence systems, perhaps systems more powerful than us.
0:46.3	At the more narrow level, I think it's also a set of tools that are computational, mathematical tools to automate different tasks.
0:56.3	And then also, it's our attempt to understand our own mind.
1:00.6	So build systems that exhibit some intelligent behavior in order to understand what is
1:06.7	intelligence in our own selves.
1:09.4	So all those things are true.
1:10.7	Of course, what AI really means
1:13.5	as a community as a set of researchers and engineers, it's a set of tools, a set of computational
1:19.2	techniques that allow you to solve various problems. There's a long history that approaches the
1:26.1	problem from different perspectives. What's always been throughout
1:29.7	one of the threads, one of the communities goes under the flag of machine learning, which is
1:35.4	emphasizing in the AI space the task of learning. How do you make a machine that knows very
1:43.5	little in the beginning,
1:45.0	follow some kind of process,
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