Leonard Susskind: Quantum Mechanics, String Theory, and Black Holes

Leonard Susskind is a professor of theoretical physics at Stanford
University, and founding director of the Stanford Institute for
Theoretical Physics. He is widely regarded as one of the fathers of
string theory and in general as one of the greatest physicists of
our time both as a researcher and an educator. This conversation is
part of the Artificial Intelligence podcast. If you would like
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Here's the outline with timestamps for this episode (on some
players you can click on the timestamp to jump to that point in the
episode): 00:00 - Introduction 01:02 - Richard Feynman 02:09 -
Visualization and intuition 06:45 - Ego in Science 09:27 - Academia
11:18 - Developing ideas 12:12 - Quantum computers 21:37 - Universe
as an information processing system 26:35 - Machine learning 29:47
- Predicting the future 30:48 - String theory 37:03 - Free will
39:26 - Arrow of time 46:39 - Universe as a computer 49:45 - Big
bang 50:50 - Infinity 51:35 - First image of a black hole 54:08 -
Questions within the reach of science 55:55 - Questions out of
reach of science