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Cognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jun 1, 2024PodcastA $9 AI nurse, an 86 on the medical boards, and a 10% extinction lineHost Nathan LabenzNathan Labenz’s solo scouting report walks from medical state of the art through how models actually learn, then to live players, scaling trends, and a control plan that still does not exist.
3:04:52ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· May 1, 2024PodcastDoctors Chose AI on Eight of Nine Dimensions: A GPT-4 Red-Teamer's Scouting ReportHost Nathan LabenzNathan Labenz tells 80,000 Hours what late-2023 systems can already do, which thresholds still matter, and why a polarized policy fight is a gift to heavy-handed regulation.
56:56ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Apr 25, 2024PodcastA Week of PCB Layout in an Hour: Quilter Trains Agents, Not ImitatorsHost Nathan LabenzSpaceX alum Sergiy Nesterenko tells Will Summerlin how Quilter uses reinforcement learning to compile schematics into manufacturable boards, and why cloning human layouts would cap the system at human skill.
1:37:52ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Apr 10, 2024PodcastChina Has 17 Million Chatbot Users and No OpenAIHost Nathan LabenzA Beijing-based watcher walks through China's LLM players, products, regulation, and the delayed bill from the U.S. chip ban.
1:28:37ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Mar 14, 2024PodcastTwelve Hours After a GPT-4 Demo, He Turned a Decade-Old Legal Startup AroundHost Nathan LabenzPablo Arredondo, co-founder of CaseText and now VP of CoCounsel at Thomson Reuters, traces legal research from 19th-century citators to a retrieval-anchored GPT-4 product that law firms treat more like a colleague than a search box.
1:50:09ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Feb 27, 2024PodcastNine Hundred Occupations, Twenty Years, and Still No AI RevolutionHost Nathan LabenzEconomist Robin Hanson tells Cognitive Revolution why each new AI demo looks like the last one, and why wages and headcount are the tests that matter.
2:00:03ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Feb 23, 2024PodcastPatients Rated GPT-4 More Empathetic Than DoctorsHost Nathan LabenzAzeem Azhar of Exponential View maps the AI S-curve for Nathan Labenz: why the past always looks flat, why empathy went first, and what a million times more compute would actually change.
1:30:41ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jan 23, 2024PodcastThe Model Is a Baked Cake. NYT v. OpenAI Will Likely Cut a Middle PathHost Nathan LabenzTech lawyer Cecilia Ziniti maps the Constitution’s IP clause onto the New York Times lawsuit — and explains why a court is unlikely to order GPT-4 destroyed.
1:22:43ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jan 9, 2024PodcastFive billion minutes of calls: why Dialpad trained its own business LLMHost Nathan LabenzDan O’Connell on real-time speech, verticalizing the stack, and why he and Nathan Labenz disagree about when AI employees show up.
2:16:27ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Dec 12, 2023PodcastSuperhuman Go Has a Blind Spot. Balaji Bets on a War of the GodsHost Nathan LabenzBalaji Srinivasan tells Nathan Labenz why adversarial inputs, missing actuators, and cryptography make a single runaway AI god less likely than a contest among many that still need priests.
1:14:48ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Nov 8, 2023PodcastDevDay Probably Created Thousands of Startups, Says OpenAI's Logan KilpatrickHost Nathan LabenzThe day after OpenAI's first developer conference, Dev Relations lead Logan Kilpatrick tells Nathan Labenz why thin wrappers were never companies, why agents were deliberately not shipped fully autonomous, and what $2 million custom models are for.
1:32:41ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Oct 5, 2023PodcastThere are maybe 5,000 people who can train frontier models. The rest need AI engineersHost Nathan LabenzSwyx of Latent Space tells Nathan Labenz how a new job is forming, why OpenAI will Sherlock its developers, and what still does not count as an agent.
58:54ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Oct 3, 2023PodcastModels Are Commodities. Perplexity's CEO Says the Index Is the MoatHost Nathan LabenzAravind Srinivas returns to Cognitive Revolution to explain how a 25-person search startup is building its own crawler, index, and models before the big platforms raise the drawbridge.
2:17:30ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Sep 29, 2023PodcastGemini Became the Daily Driver. A GPT-5 Worthy of the Name Would Make Agents Work.Host Nathan LabenzZvi Mowshowitz returns to Cognitive Revolution to unpack Gemini 1.5, Sora, superalignment, sleeper agents, and the live-player map of frontier labs.
1:17:09ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Sep 26, 2023PodcastGPT-4 as Teacher, GPT-3.5 as Student: A Nine-Tenths Cost Cut and an AI Bundle Nobody Will StartHost Nathan LabenzNathan Labenz reports that chain-of-thought traces from GPT-4 train a cheaper, faster 3.5, then argues for flooring the app accelerator, tapping the brake on GPT-5, and bundling a hundred AI tools for a hundred dollars.
2:32:49ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Sep 12, 2023PodcastGPT-4 Failed a Hollow Top Hat. Hollywood's AI Deal Closed Only Half the Loopholes.Host Nathan LabenzWriter Trey Kollmer returns with a strike update, a copyright briefing, and a riddle that still fools the best model.
39:02ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Aug 10, 2023PodcastAI’s product advantage is consistency. Its real weakness is getting conned.Host Nathan LabenzNathan Labenz updates the Cognitive Revolution scouting report: jailbreaks, resume automation, Med-PaLM’s 40% radiology win, and what might follow Transformers.
2:59:38ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Aug 2, 2023PodcastOne Company Scares Him More Than China: Zvi's Map of the AI FrontierHost Nathan LabenzThe same GPT-4 draws three different verdicts, then a live-player tour of the labs that actually move events.
1:03:40ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jun 13, 2023PodcastWho Banks the AI Wave: Startups or the Giants Already in Place?Host Nathan LabenzStability AI’s Emad Mostaque and Slow Ventures’ Sam Lessin debate whether generative AI is a reshuffler for new companies or an extender for Meta, Google, and Hollywood.
1:41:45ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· May 30, 2023PodcastThe Writers Aren't Luddites. They're Bargaining Over Who Holds the ModelsHost Nathan LabenzThree WGA members tell Nathan Labenz what ChatGPT can already do in a writers’ room — and which two studio nightmares the strike is trying to lock out.
1:28:43ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· May 16, 2023PodcastClinical Guidelines Are 11% Evidence. Curai’s Founder Still Wants GPT-4 in the Exam RoomHost Nathan LabenzNeal Khosla of Curai Health argues that large language models already match median U.S. physicians on today’s tests — and that the real work is scaffolding, supervision, and a doctor’s signature.
1:01:17ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· May 9, 2023PodcastThe $300 million Gates refused, and the $10 billion that went to OpenAIHost Nathan LabenzRobert Scoble and Ben Tossell talk with Nathan Labenz about AI scouting, Apple's still-sleeping neural engines, and whether incumbents or AI-first startups will win.
1:10:11ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· May 4, 2023PodcastTrying ChatGPT is not the same as using itHost Nathan LabenzRachel Woods of The AI Exchange tells Nathan Labenz what she learned from more than a hundred company calls: start inside the business, skip the annual tool contract, and expect to be using only a sliver of what the models can already do.
58:30ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· May 2, 2023PodcastHe Couldn't Convince Anyone to Compete with OpenAI. Two Years Later the Valley Is Full of Them.Host Nathan LabenzSarah Guo and Elad Gil walk Cognitive Revolution through Software 3.0, an 80/20 split with incumbents, and how to tell a fake waitlist from demand that cannot be faked.Load moreShowing 24 of 79