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Episodes
E46: AI Scouting Report - Part 2 of 3: Implementation Trends [Bonus YouTube Episode]
19 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Head over to YouTube to watch Part 2 of The AI Scouting Report (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovm4MbQ4G9E), supported by slides and visual aides. In...
E45: The AI Copilot Revolution with Div Garg of MULTI·ON
13 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Nathan Labenz interviews Div Garg, founder of MULTI·ON, the world's first personal AI agent and life copilot. Div talks about the product strategy an...
E44: The AI Safety Debates with Zvi Mowshowitz
11 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Nathan Labenz sits down with Zvi Mowshowitz, the writer behind Don't Worry About the Vase. Zvi is an information hyperprocessor who synthesizes vast a...
E43: AI Scouting Report – Part 1 of 3: Fundamentals [Bonus YouTube Episode]
06 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Head to a special YouTube presentation with visual aides (https://youtu.be/0hvtiVQ_LqQ), where Nathan Labenz synthesizes the core fundamentals of AI a...
E42: The Autonomy Revolution with Hayk Martiros of Skydio
04 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Nathan Labenz sits down with Hayk Martiros, VP of Autonomy at Skydio. Martiros leads the autonomy team, which holds the state of the ...
E41: [Bonus Episode - Latent.space] Building the AI x UX Scenius with Linus Lee of Notion AI
01 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
[Bonus Episode] Latent.space hosts, Alessio and Swyx, sit down with Linus Lee of Notion AI to discuss Linus’ experience starting the AI/UX community...
E40: Meta's MEGABYTE Revolution with Lili Yu of Meta AI
29 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Nathan Labenz sits down with Lili Yu, a researcher of Meta AI to discuss the paper she authored: MEGABYTE: Predicting Million-byte Sequences with Mult...
E39: Seeing is Believing with MIT’s Ziming Liu
27 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ziming Liu is a Physics PhD student at MIT and IAIFI, advised by Prof. Max Tegmark. Ziming’s research is at the intersection of AI and physics. Toda...
E38: The Virtual Biopsy Revolution with Dr. Tanishq Mathew Abraham (Part 2 of 2)
22 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Part 2 of Nathan's conversation with Tanishq Mathew Abraham focuses on Tanishq's work with virtual biopsy technology enabled by deep learning. This un...
E37: The Mind-Reading Revolution with Dr. Tanishq Mathew Abraham (Part 1 of 2)
20 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Nathan sits down with Tanishq Mathew Abraham, 19-year-old UC Davis grad and one of the youngest people in the world to receive a Ph.D...
E36: Your Model, Your Weights with MosaicML's Abhi Venigalla and Jonathan Frankle
16 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Nathan sits down with Jonathan Frankle, Chief Scientist, and Abhi Venigalla, Research Scientist of MosaicML. They chat about Mosaic’...
E35: Stability AI’s Emad Mostaque and Slow Ventures’ Sam Lessin Discuss Investing in AI
13 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Nathan Labenz and Erik Torenberg host a discussion between Emad Mostaque, founder of Stability AI, and Sam Lessin, GP of Slow Venture...
E34: The Consumer Rights Revolution with Joshua Browder of DoNotPay
09 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Nathan sits down with Joshua Browder of DoNotPay, the world’s first robot lawyer. They chat about the current state of AI use in la...
E33: The Tiny Model Revolution with Ronen Eldan and Yuanzhi Li of Microsoft Research
06 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Nathan Labenz sits down with Ronen Eldan and Yuanzhi Li of Microsoft Research to discuss the small natural language dataset they created called TinySt...
E32: [Bonus Episode - The AI Breakdown] Can OpenAI's New GPT Training Model Solve Math and AI Alignment At the Same Time?
03 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This 20-min episode comes from our friend Nathaniel Whittemore's excellent daily podcast The AI Breakdown Podcast. This episode aired on June 1, 2023,...
E31: Where are the Moats in AI? With Nathan Labenz and Erik Torenberg
01 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Nathan and Erik analyze the moats of the most powerful companies in AI. The paradigm-shifting technology has led to a flourishing open-source communit...
E30: The AI Revolution in Hollywood? With WGA writers Trey Kollmer, Sophia Lear, and Garrett Schabb
30 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s episode is a deep dive into the collision of AI and the future of entertainment, against the backdrop of the still-raging Writers Guild of A...
E29: The AI Chip Revolution with Andrew Feldman of Cerebras
25 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Nathan Labenz sits down with Andrew Feldman, CEO and Co-Founder of Cerebras Systems, a company building a new class of computer system for acceleratin...
E28: Keeping the AI Revolution on the Rails with Shreya Rajpal of Guardrails AI
23 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Nathan Labenz sits down with engineer Shreya Rajpal, the creator of Guardrails AI, a new Python library that allows developers to add a layer of outpu...
E27: “Google’s Med-PaLM and Med-PaLM2 with Vivek Natarajan”
21 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Nathan sits down with Vivek Natarajan, research scientist at Google Health. Vivek leads the Google Brain moonshot behind Med-PaLM, Google’s flagship...
E26: [Bonus Episode] Connor Leahy on AGI, GPT-4, and Cognitive Emulation w/ FLI Podcast
19 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
[Bonus Episode] Future of Life Institute Podcast host Gus Docker interviews Conjecture CEO Connor Leahy to discuss GPT-4, magic, cognitive emulation, ...
E25: Revolutionizing Patient Care with Neal Khosla of Curai Health
16 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Nathan and Erik sit down with Neal Khosla, founder of Curai Health, a venture-backed virtual care startup using AI to provide low-cost primary healthc...
E24: The AI Revolution in Medicine with Dr. Isaac Kohane of Harvard Medical School
11 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Nathan sits down with Professor Zak Kohane, the Chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School, and co-author of the new ...
E23: Scouting the AI Revolution with Robert Scoble and "Ben's Bites" creator Ben Tossell
09 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Nathan Labenz sits down with prominent – and notably prescient – AI media figures Robert Scoble and Ben Tossell. They discuss what the work of bei...
E22: Helping Businesses Use AI with Rachel Woods of The AI Exchange
04 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Nathan Labenz sits down with Rachel Woods, founder of The AI Exchange, an AI education platform with over 130,000 subscribers on TikTok. They discuss ...
E21: VC Insights on Investing in Artificial Intelligence with Sarah Guo and Elad Gil of No Priors Podcast
02 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Nathan Labenz and Erik Torenberg sit down with Sarah Guo and Elad Gil, notable investors and co-hosts of the AI-focused No Priors podcast. They discus...
E20: The Great Implementation with Raza Habib, CEO of Humanloop
27 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Raza Habib is on the front lines of LLM implementation as CEO of Humanloop, a Y Combinator backed startup that helps companies of all kinds, small and...
E19: The AI Agent Revolution with Matt Welsh of Fixie.ai
25 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Nathan Labenz sits down with Matt Welsh, the CEO and co-founder of Fixie.AI which just raised $17M in seed funding. The technology world's attention h...
E18: Why Jailbreaking ChatGPT Is A Public Good with Alex Albert of The Prompt Report
20 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Nathan dives in with Alex Albert, a 22-year-old computer science student at the University of Washington, who has become a prolific creator of Jailbre...
E17: The Prompt Engineering Revolution with Riley Goodside
18 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For anyone who discovered this show on Twitter, Riley (@goodside) likely needs no introduction – after all, he spent most of 2022 posting his explor...
E16: Pausing the AI Revolution? With Technologist Jaan Tallinn
13 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Nathan Labenz dives in with Jaan Tallinn, a technologist, entrepreneur (Kazaa, Skype), and investor (DeepMind and more) whose unique life journey has ...
E15: Will GPT-4 Cause Economic Transformation?
11 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Nathan Labenz and Erik Torenberg delve into the upcoming economic transformation and the future of work in light of the threshold crossed by GPT-4. W...
E14: The Reasoning Revolution with Ought's Jungwon Byun and Andreas Stuhlmüller
06 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We've looked forward to today's episode since we launched the show! Andreas Stuhlmuller and Jungwon Byun are the co-founders of Ought, a product-drive...
E13: AI open letter debate, "pausers", and what we're all scared of with AI with Anton Troynikov and Flo Crivello [Moment of Zen]
04 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Anton Troynikov of Chroma and Flo Crivello of Lindy AI join The Cognitive Revolution cohosts Nathan Labenz and Erik Torenberg to debate the issues rai...
E12: The Robot Revolution with Keerthana Gopalakrishnan of Google Robotics
30 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Nathan Labenz talks to Google Robotics researcher Keerthana Gopalakrishnan (@keerthanpg) about how they train robots at Google, and how robots context...
E11: OpenAI's GPT-4 Discussion with Nathan Labenz and Erik Torenberg
28 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, hosts Nathan Labenz and Erik Torenberg delve into the exciting and concerning aspects of GPT4, the latest large multimodal model from...
E10: The AI Voice Revolution with Mahmoud Felfel of Play.ht
24 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The development of ultra-realistic human voices is upon us, and Mahmoud Felfel's company Play.ht is leading the next generation of text-to-voice model...
E9: The AI Assistant Revolution with Flo Crivello of Lindy.AI
22 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
People have long been imagining AI assistants. Flo Crivello (founder of Teamflow) is turning that dream into a reality with the ambitious project Lind...
E8: GPT4 - AI Unleashed on ChinaTalk Podcast
17 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How will GPT4 change the world? How will US-China 'racing dynamics' play out and what are the implications for AI safety? Nathan Labenz was invited to...
E7: In Search of Truth with Aravind Srinivas of Perplexity AI
14 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We talked to Aravind Srinivas about competing with the tech giants, Perplexity's product philosophy and obsession with maximizing value delivered to t...
E6: The Computer Vision Revolution with Junnan Li and Dongxu Li of BLIP and BLIP2
09 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As recently as January 2021, the challenge of "interpreting what is going on in a photograph" was considered "nowhere near solved." Today's guests Ju...
E5: The Embedding Revolution: Anton Troynikov on Chroma, Stable Attribution, and future of AI
02 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We're hiring across the board at Turpentine and for Erik's personal team on other projects he's incubating. He's hiring a Chief of Staff, EA, Head of ...
E4: The AI Moment with Amjad Masad, Flo Crivello, Dan Romero, and Antonio Garcia Martinez
23 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We're hiring across the board at Turpentine and for Erik's personal team on other projects he's incubating. He's hiring a Chief of Staff, EA, Head of ...
E3: The Empathy Revolution with Eugenia Kuyda of Replika
17 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We're hiring across the board at Turpentine and for Erik's personal team on other projects he's incubating. He's hiring a Chief of Staff, EA, Head of ...
E2: Why AI Will Cause a Cognitive Revolution with Nathan Labenz and Erik Torenberg
10 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We're hiring across the board at Turpentine and for Erik's personal team on other projects he's incubating. He's hiring a Chief of Staff, EA, Head of ...
E1: The Pixel Revolution with Playground AI 's Suhail Doshi
03 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We're hiring across the board at Turpentine and for Erik's personal team on other projects he's incubating. He's hiring a Chief of Staff, EA, Head of ...