# Digital Media Concepts/Lex Fridman
## Introduction

Alexei "Lex" Fridman is a Ukrainian born computer scientist who makes podcasts about machine learning and life, he is currently a researcher/teacher about A.I at MIT. He has made many podcasts with people like Elon Musk, Joe Rogan and even Jack Dorsey.

## Early Life and Education

Lex Fridman was born on 15 August 1986 in the Ukrainian. Fridman earned a B.S, M.S and Ph.D. all in computer science at Drexel University. Lex Fridman is 35 years old as of 2/25/2022. Fridman's domain of education is machine learning , deep learning and A.I with his focus on self-driving cars.

## Career

Between 2014-2015 Lex worked at Google doing research on machine learning. Then in 2015 Lex went back into academia where he was offered a position at MIT, he then became a professor/researcher at MIT about machine learning /deep learning more specifically autonomous cars. While working at MIT Lex decided to go into podcasts. Soon after that his podcast/YouTube exploded and he started to interview many different guests that had on topics ranging from the meaning of life to MMA to the future of A.I. Lex has made quite a lot of money he has an estimated net worth of 2 million.

## YouTube/Podcast

Lex has a very prominent YouTube channel with over 1.5 million subscribers and he posts videos/podcast about many different subjects but with emphasis on guests' strengths. His claim to fame was in October 23 2018 when Joe Rogan did a podcast with him. His podcast is on various sites like Spotify ,Google and Apple podcasts some of the bigger guests he interviewed included David Fravor, Vitalik Buterin, Elon Musk, Dan carlin, Sam Harris and Mark Zuckerberg. He has recently announced that he will soon be interviewing people of Ukraine and Vladimir Putin soon. In almost every podcast Lex has always worn his signature suit and buzz cut. He likes to talk about topics that include anything, so no matter what the viewers level of education is they would be able to understand what is going on. Lex also has a smaller YouTube channel called lex clips in where he adds small clips of his podcast, this channel has around 500 thousand subscribers.

## Personal Life

Some of Lex Friedman's hobbies include playing the Playing Guitar, MMA and reading. Some of Lex's favorite musicians include Johnny Cash ,Tom waits ,Bruce Springsteen and The Rolling stones. He also owns a pet dog named Homer. Lex is a black belt in Brazilin jiu-jitsu. He also has a great interest in exercising his body at quite vigorous intensity.

## Family

Lex's father is a Plasma Physicist who moved to America after finding the difference in lifestyle. His father was Ukrainian and is Jewish. His brother Gregory Fridman is the CEO of AAPlasma LLC. A decent portion of Lex's family died during World War 2, his grandfather was a machine gunner and he was one of the ones that survived.

## Publications

| Topic | Year/Paper |
| MIT Advanced Vehicle Technology Study | 2019 |
| Active Authentication on Mobile Devices | 2015 |
| Arguing Machines: Human Supervision of Black Box AI Systems | 2018 |
| Cognitive Load Estimation in the Wild | 2018 |
| DeepTraffic | 2019 |

## External Links

MIT's website
YouTube
Twitter
Instagram
lexfridman.com