#214 – Jed Buchwald: Isaac Newton and the Philosophy of Science

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#215 – Wojciech Zaremba: OpenAI Codex, GPT-3, Robotics, and the Future of AI

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#216 – Vincent Racaniello: Viruses and Vaccines

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#217 – Rodney Brooks: Robotics

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#218 – Jaron Lanier: Virtual Reality, Social Media & the Future of Humans and AI

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#219 – Donald Knuth: Programming, Algorithms, Hard Problems & the Game of Life

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#220 – Niels Jorgensen: New York Firefighters and the Heroes of 9/11

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#221 – Douglas Lenat: Cyc and the Quest to Solve Common Sense Reasoning in AI

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#222 – Jay McClelland: Neural Networks and the Emergence of Cognition

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#223 – Travis Stevens: Judo, Olympics, and Mental Toughness

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