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Nathan Lambert

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ChatGPT app

“This is why I like the ChatGPT app, because it gives the AI a home in your computer where you can focus on it, rather than just being another tab in my mess of internet options.”

Lex Fridman Podcast · 1 Feb 2026

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ChatGPT

“This is why I like the ChatGPT app, because it gives the AI a home in your computer where you can focus on it, rather than just being another tab in my mess of internet options.”

Lex Fridman Podcast · 1 Feb 2026

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Season of the Witch

“It’s a great book, Season of the Witch; I recommend it. A bunch of my SF friends who do get out recommended it to me.”

Lex Fridman Podcast · 1 Feb 2026

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What Nathan said.

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01 / prediction

I think that open models will struggle to replicate some of the things that I like to do with closed models, where you can reference a mix of public and private information.

“I think that open models will struggle to replicate some of the things that I like to do with closed models, where you can reference a mix of public and private information.”
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Nathan Lambert
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Lex Fridman Podcast

02 / prediction

I think we should summarize what The Bitter Lesson actually is about, is that The Bitter Lesson essentially, if you paraphrase it, is that the types of training that will win out in deep learning as we go are those methods that which are scalable in learning and search, is what it calls out.

“I think we should summarize what The Bitter Lesson actually is about, is that The Bitter Lesson essentially, if you paraphrase it, is that the types of training that will win out in deep learning as we go are those methods that which are scalable in learning and search, is what it calls out.”
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Nathan Lambert
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

03 / prediction

I think mostly if you’re going to say that I’m feeling the AGI is that I expect continued, rapid, surprising progress over the next few years. So, something like R1 is less surprising to me from DeepSeek because I expect there to be new paradigms versus … … surprising to me from DeepSeek because I expect there to be new paradigms where substantial progress can be made.

“I think mostly if you’re going to say that I’m feeling the AGI is that I expect continued, rapid, surprising progress over the next few years. So, something like R1 is less surprising to me from DeepSeek because I expect there to be new paradigms versus … … surprising to me from DeepSeek because I expect there to be new paradigms where substantial progress can be made.”
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Nathan Lambert
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

04 / prediction

I think in the long run, it will still settle out, or RL will still be a field that people work on just because of these kind of fundamental things that I talked about.

“I think in the long run, it will still settle out, or RL will still be a field that people work on just because of these kind of fundamental things that I talked about.”
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Nathan Lambert
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Latent Space

05 / prediction

I like, that's what everyone in my circles is saying is the trend and given machine learning in the last few years, I think trends tend to be stickier than most people expect them to be.

“I like, that's what everyone in my circles is saying is the trend and given machine learning in the last few years, I think trends tend to be stickier than most people expect them to be.”
Speaker
Nathan Lambert
Publisher
Latent Space
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