Welcome to the Artificial Intelligence Podcast.

My name is Lex Friedman, I'm a research scientist at MIT.

This podcast is an extension of the courses on deep learning, autonomous vehicles, and

artificial general intelligence that I've taught and organized.

It is not only about machine learning, robotics, neuroscience, or philosophy, or any one

technical field.

It considers all of these avenues of thought in a way that is hopefully accessible to

everyone.

The aim here is to explore the nature of human and machine intelligence, the big picture

of understanding the human mind and creating echoes of it in the machine.

To me, that is one of our civilizations most challenging and exciting scientific journeys

into the unknown.

I will first repost parts of previous YouTube conversations and lecture Q&As that can

be listened to without video.

If you want to see the video version, please go to my YouTube channel.

My username is Lex Friedman there and on Twitter, so reach out and connect if you find these

conversations interesting.

Moving forward, this podcast will be long-form conversations with some of the most fascinating

people in the world who are thinking about the nature of intelligence.

But first, like I said, I will be posting old content but now in audio form.

For a little while, I'll probably repeat this intro for reposting YouTube content like

this episode and we'll try to keep it to what looks to be just over two minutes, maybe

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