Welcome back to The State of AI, a new collaboration between the Financial Times and MIT Technology Review. Every Monday, writers from both publications debate one aspect of the generative AI revolution reshaping global power. You can read the rest of the series here. In this final edition, MIT Tech...
Harnessing human-AI collaboration for an AI roadmap that moves beyond pilots
The past year has marked a turning point in the corporate AI conversation. After a period of eager experimentation, organizations are now confronting a more complex reality: While investment in AI has never been higher, the path from pilot to production remains elusive. Three-quarters of enterprises...
AV1 — Now Powering 30% of Netflix StreamingLiwei Guo, Zhi Li, Sheldon Radford, Jeff WattsStreaming video has become an integral part of our daily lives. At Netflix, our top priority is delivering the best possible entertainment experience to our members, regardless of their devices or network condit...
AI chatbots can sway voters better than political advertisements
In 2024, a Democratic congressional candidate in Pennsylvania, Shamaine Daniels, used an AI chatbot named Ashley to call voters and carry on conversations with them. “Hello. My name is Ashley, and I’m an artificial intelligence volunteer for Shamaine Daniels’s run for Congress,” the calls began. Dan...
Dmitry Kislyuk | Director, Machine Learning; Ryan Galgon | Director, Product Management; Chuck Rosenberg | Vice President, Engineering; Matt Madrigal | Chief Technology OfficerForeword from Bill Ready, CEOThe AI landscape is undergoing a fundamental shift, and it’s not the one you think. The competi...
NVIDIA Awards up to $60,000 Research Fellowships to PhD Students
For 25 years, the NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship Program has supported graduate students doing outstanding work relevant to NVIDIA technologies. Today, the program announced the latest awards of up to $60,000 each to 10 Ph.D. students involved in research that spans all areas of computing innovation. Se...
Most organizations feel the imperative to keep pace with continuing advances in AI capabilities, as highlighted in a recent MIT Technology Review Insights report. That clearly has security implications, particularly as organizations navigate a surge in the volume, velocity, and variety of security d...
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#486 – Michael Levin: Hidden Reality of Alien Intelligence & Biological Life
Michael Levin is a biologist at Tufts University working on novel ways to understand and control complex pattern formation in biological systems. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: https://lexfridman.com/sponsors/ep486-sc See below for timestamps, transcript, and to give feedback, sub...
Is artificial intelligence better than bacon? One crunches data, the other
crunches joy. This playful, slightly unscientific showdown pits algorithms
against cured pork and bacon still wins.
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In this post, I’ll introduce a reinforcement learning (RL) algorithm based on an “alternative” paradigm: divide and conquer. Unlike traditional methods, this algorithm is not based on temporal difference (TD) learning (which has scalability challenges), and scales well to long-horizon tasks.
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#484 – Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming
Dan Houser is co-founder of Rockstar Games and is a legendary creative mind behind Grand Theft Auto (GTA) and Red Dead Redemption series of video games. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: https://lexfridman.com/sponsors/ep484-sc See below for timestamps, transcript, and to give feedba...
Re:imagine 2025 Dallas - Where AI Velocity Meets Control
The Dallas stop of re:imagine 2025 opened with proof instead of prediction. A customer dialogue withAMD’s Kari Ramseth, HR Service Center Leader, illustrated what disciplined scale looks like in practice.
Post-Training Generative Recommenders with Advantage-Weighted Supervised Finetuning
Author: Keertana Chidambaram, Qiuling Xu, Ko-Jen Hsiao, Moumita Bhattacharya(*The work was done when Keertana interned at Netflix.)IntroductionThis blog focuses on post-training generative recommender systems. Generative recommenders (GRs) represent a new paradigm in the field of recommendation syst...