Such a negative, ad hominem attack of a comment. The technology is breathtaking....

beepbooptheory · on Sept 28, 2023

I thought Fridman was just a podcast guy? Not that that's quite nothing, but there are a lot of podcast guys.

jazzyjackson · on Sept 28, 2023

Fridman is a rabbit hole, you'll find detractors and defenders and slanderers.

The debate has already been had so i'll just link it

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32348302

tinycombinator · on Sept 28, 2023

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lex_Fridman

Lex Fridman is a Russian-American computer scientist, podcaster, and writer. He is an artificial intelligence researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and hosts the Lex Fridman Podcast, a podcast and YouTube series.

nradov · on Sept 28, 2023

Lex Fridman has also done original research on robotics and computer vision detection of facial expressions. Here is one of his papers; there are several others on related areas.

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8751968/

kyawzazaw · on Sept 28, 2023

That's an inadequate description

PH95VuimJjqBqy · on Sept 28, 2023

it was a tongue-in-cheek joke referencing a meme.

You were meant to chuckle at it, not take it seriously.

matthewaveryusa · on Sept 28, 2023

They also made the same joke in the interview itself