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20VC with Harry Stebbings· Apr 17, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersScooter Braun on Success, Vulnerability and Finding Time for FamilyGuest Scooter Braun · Host Harry StebbingsThe music executive and investor reflects on achievement, public identity and the personal work he began after a difficult period in his life.
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Lex Fridman· Apr 16, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersSimone Giertz Spent Two and a Half Years on a Coat HangerGuest Simone Giertz · Host Lex FridmanThe inventor formerly known as the Queen of Shitty Robots talks with Lex Fridman about everyday objects, spectacular failure, a brain tumor, and why enthusiasm beats duty.
0:48EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Apr 16, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersMike Salguero’s Hypothetical Celebrity Pick for ButcherBoxGuest Mike Salguero · Host Harry StebbingsThe founder explains why he would choose Arnold Schwarzenegger and jokes with Harry Stebbings about Mike Tyson.
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Matthew Berman· Apr 15, 2023Andriy Mulyar on GPT4All, Data Quality and Open Local ModelsMatthew Berman, Andriy Mulyar · Forward FutureThe Nomic AI co-founder explains how GPT4All emerged, why training data matters, and the tradeoffs between local and centralized AI.
43:43EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Apr 14, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersDavid Marcus on PayPal, Libra and Building Open PaymentsGuest David Marcus · Host Harry StebbingsThe Lightspark co-founder reflects on entrepreneurship, payment infrastructure and his 2023 views on regulation and AI.
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No Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Apr 13, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersAGI as a side effect: Noam Shazeer on Transformers, Character.AI, and two-hour chatsHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilIn April 2023, the Transformer co-author told No Priors how a 22-person startup turned open-ended chat into a consumer product — and treated AGI as a byproduct of making the model smarter.
2:48:12ENLex Fridman· Apr 13, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersThe Asteroid We Are Building OurselvesGuest Max Tegmark · Host Lex FridmanPhysicist Max Tegmark tells Lex Fridman why a six-month pause on models larger than GPT-4 is not a ban on AI, but a chance to stop a suicide race.
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Cognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Apr 13, 2023PodcastThe Skype Co-Founder Who Wants a Six-Month Pause on Frontier AIHost Nathan LabenzJaan Tallinn argues that each 10× jump in training compute carries a 1 to 50 percent chance of ending everything, and that the labs still will not say when they will stop.
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AI Explained· Apr 13, 2023A 2023 Discussion of Incremental AI Releases and SafetyIlya Sutskever, Sebastien Bubeck · OpenAIAI Explained examines Greg Brockman’s proposal for gradual model improvements, the uncertainty of forecasts and the challenge of reliability.
13:22EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Apr 13, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersTobi Lütke on Progress, Contentment and WealthGuest Tobi Lütke · Host Harry StebbingsA 2023 conversation contrasts concerns about the world with a founder’s optimistic perspective.
1:02:01EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Apr 12, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersJoost de Valk on Building Yoast, SEO Fundamentals and the AI Content ShiftGuest Joost de Valk · Host Harry StebbingsThe Yoast founder explains how a free WordPress plugin became a business, what founders get wrong about search, and how AI may change content and software.
8:02ENMatthew Berman· Apr 12, 2023Meta’s Segment Anything: Promptable Image Masks and the SA-1B DatasetMatthew Berman · Forward FutureIn April 2023, Matthew Berman reviews Meta’s Segment Anything project and demonstrates selecting image regions with clicks, boxes and automatic mask generation. The model segments pixels; it does not by itself name every object or guarantee accurate results on every image.
11:38ENMatthew Berman· Apr 11, 2023How Generative Agents Populate a Simulated TownMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman explores a Stanford and Google research prototype in which language-model agents remember, plan and interact in a small virtual town.
1:09:54ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Apr 11, 2023PodcastA $100 Doctor Visit and a $1 AI: GPT-4 Was Already Unbundling WorkHost Nathan LabenzBefore GPT-4 launched, Nathan Labenz spent two months making the model play a dozen paid professions, then argued with Erik Torenberg about what that does to jobs, regulation, and white-collar status.
3:46:39ENLex Fridman· Apr 9, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersHe Hated School Math Until a Professor Opened the Book to QuarksGuest Edward Frenkel · Host Lex FridmanEdward Frenkel talks with Lex Fridman about Soviet childhood, the Langlands program, Gödel, AI, and why every hard objective theory still ends with an observer.
12:59ENAI Explained· Apr 9, 2023Auto-GPT, Memory and Model Orchestration: Early Agent ExperimentsA 2023 snapshot of iterative prompts, tool use, persistent context and AI safety questions.
1:10:16EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Apr 7, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersRob Lacher on Building a Venture Firm and Europe’s Entrepreneur NetworksGuest Rob Lacher · Host Harry StebbingsThe Visionaries Club founder discusses hiring, fund concentration, follow-on reserves and the role of family businesses in European technology.
40:25ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Apr 6, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersA 6-Billion-Parameter Clone of ChatGPT’s Core TrickHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilDatabricks CTO Matei Zaharia tells Sarah Guo and Elad Gil how Dolly learned instruction-following on fifty times less data than GPT-3 — and why he would rather look facts up than bake them into a trillion-parameter network.
6:24ENMatthew Berman· Apr 6, 2023BloombergGPT: Mixing Financial and General Data for a Language ModelMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman examines the 2023 finance-focused research model, its training corpus, evaluation and decision not to release weights.
1:56:16ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Apr 6, 2023PodcastThey Used Humans as Stand-In AIs. Now 250,000 People Run Elicit.Host Nathan LabenzOught's founders tell Nathan Labenz why open-ended reasoning has to be decomposed, supervised, and grounded—not scaled until it merely looks persuasive.
0:29EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Apr 6, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersBill Ackman Proposes Taxing Some Borrowing Against AssetsGuest Bill Ackman · Host Harry StebbingsA 2023 policy argument about stock and real-estate borrowing.
7:16ENMatthew Berman· Apr 5, 2023Setting Up Alpaca Turbo for Local Language Models: A 2023 TutorialMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman demonstrates an early ChatGPT-style interface for local Alpaca models, from the Conda setup to a short test on a Mac.
1:33:36EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Apr 5, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersMike Salguero on Bootstrapping ButcherBox and Subscription EconomicsGuest Mike Salguero · Host Harry StebbingsThe ButcherBox founder explains customer acquisition, per-box margins and the trade-offs behind building without venture capital.
1:33:49ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Apr 4, 2023PodcastSafe Only Because It's Weak: A GPT-4 Red-Teamer and Two Founders Debate the PauseHost Nathan LabenzNathan Labenz, who spent six months trying to make GPT-4 misbehave, wants labs to stop training anything bigger; Chroma's Anton Troynikov and Lindy's Flo Crivello argue a six-month freeze buys little and may select for the least careful labs.Load moreShowing 24 of 4,475