If you want to understand the multifaceted AI landscape in 2025 and see where the field is heading β start with (or revisit) these legendary talks. They can help you capture whatβs happening in AI from multiple angles:
1. Andrej Karpathy: Software Is Changing (Again) β https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCEmiRjPEtQ Unveils Software 3.0 β a paradigm where LLMs are the new computers, programmed with prompts instead of code. The key: developers must now master coding, training, and prompting as AI becomes the heart of software building
2. Richard Sutton, The OaK Architecture: A Vision of SuperIntelligence from Experience β https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEbbGyNkR2U Unveils the OaK (Options and Knowledge) architecture β a model-based RL framework for continual intelligence, where every component learns, meta-learns & builds hierarchical abstractions
3. GTC March 2025 Keynote with NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang β https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_waPvOwL9Z8 Dives into the accelerated computing and the importance of Physical AI. From the Blackwell GPU architecture & AI factories to breakthroughs in agentic AI & robotics, Jensen Huang explains how NVIDIA aims to power every layer of the AI ecosystem
4. Yann LeCun "Mathematical Obstacles on the Way to Human-Level AI" β https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETZfkkv6V7 Yann LeCun always argues we need a new path to machines that reason about the world β not LLMs or RL. So this lecture is about self-supervised systems with world models, planning, memory and energy-based learning
5. Andrew Ng: State of AI Agents β https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pYzYmSdSH4 Highlights one of the most pressing topics of 2025 β agents, explaining why most effective AI agents rely on simple, linear workflows built from modular βLego-brickβ tasks + what predicts AI startup success in the new agent era