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Oct 10, 2025• Dwarkesh Podcast

Nick Lane – Life as we know it is chemically inevitable

Nick Lane discusses the inevitability of life arising through chemical processes, exploring how basic chemistries and energy gradients in hydrothermal vents could spontaneously generate complex organic molecules and primitive cellular structures, potentially making life a common phenomenon across the universe.

1:20:08
Sep 26, 2025• Dwarkesh Podcast

Richard Sutton – Father of RL thinks LLMs are a dead-end

Richard Sutton, a founding father of reinforcement learning, argues that large language models are a dead-end approach to AI, emphasizing the importance of learning from experience and having clear goals, in contrast to the current trend of imitation-based learning.

1:06:22
Sep 12, 2025• Dwarkesh Podcast

Fully autonomous robots are much closer than you think – Sergey Levine

Sergey Levine discusses the rapid progress in robotics, predicting that fully autonomous robots capable of performing complex household tasks could be deployed within five years, driven by advances in AI, machine learning, and robotic foundation models.

1:33:14