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Matthew Berman· Jul 9, 2023Can AI Help Humans Align More Powerful AI?Matthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman examines OpenAI’s 2023 Superalignment proposal, its plans for AI-assisted oversight, and the unanswered question of who evaluates the evaluators.
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Lex Fridman· Jul 6, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersThe Marshals Came for an Underground City. RFK Jr. Still Wants a President Who Can Say NoGuest Robert F. Kennedy Jr · Host Lex FridmanOn Independence Day 2023, Lex Fridman sat with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for two and a half hours on Cuba, Ukraine, the CIA, pharma, and why the shopping cart still has to go back.
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Cognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jul 6, 2023PodcastThe AI Scouting Report: 90 Minutes From GPT-4's Exam Scores to Whether Models UnderstandHost Nathan LabenzNathan Labenz spends a solo episode walking through what general-purpose models can do, how they are trained, how capabilities unlock, and whether they understand anything at all.
9:01ENMatthew Berman· Jul 4, 2023Installing and Testing DragGAN Locally: Matthew Berman’s 2023 WalkthroughMatthew Berman · Forward FutureA historical walkthrough of point-based image editing, dependency workarounds and the limits of an early DragGAN release.
1:40:07ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jul 4, 2023PodcastThirty thousand voltage updates a second: inside Skydio’s autonomy stackHost Nathan LabenzHayk Martiros walks Nathan Labenz through a two-pound drone that sees in every direction, runs more than ten neural nets on board, and will not be weaponized.
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Jane Street· Jul 3, 2023Sean on Hospitality and Office Life at Jane StreetSean · Jane StreetA member of Jane Street's London hospitality team describes fresh food, teamwork and the office events that bring colleagues together.
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AI Explained· Jul 3, 2023Phi-1 and the Value of Textbook-Quality Training DataA 2023 analysis of a small coding model, synthetic data, repeated training and uncertain AI timelines.
7:05ENMatthew Berman· Jul 2, 2023Aider’s Early Coding Assistant: Snake and an Existing Rails ProjectMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman demonstrates the terminal tool’s 2023 workflow, from generating and iterating on a game to proposing a dependency change in a repository.
1:47:05ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jul 1, 2023PodcastEdit Meaning, Not Tokens: Linus Lee on Latent-Space InterfacesHost Nathan LabenzThe Notion AI product lead walks Nathan Labenz through the interfaces, model autopsies, and agency questions behind his research prototypes.
9:33ENMatthew Berman· Jun 30, 2023Testing SDXL 0.9: Image Quality, Clipdrop and a Midjourney ComparisonMatthew Berman · Forward FutureIn June 2023, Matthew Berman tries Stability AI’s image model, compares selected prompts with Midjourney and demonstrates Clipdrop’s lighting tool.
2:09ENJane Street· Jun 30, 2023Dan on Trading Desk Operations at Jane StreetDan · Jane StreetA London trading desk operations team member explains the variety of the role, what interviews seek, and why asking questions matters.
2:21ENJane Street· Jun 30, 2023Varun on Software Engineering at Jane StreetVarun · Jane StreetA London-based developer describes useful technical foundations, OCaml training and team matching at Jane Street.
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20VC with Harry Stebbings· Jun 30, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersDouwe Kiela on Data, Retrieval and Enterprise AIGuest Douwe Kiela · Host Harry StebbingsThe Contextual AI CEO discusses language model trade-offs, evaluation, open models and the hurdles to enterprise use.
3:08:46ENLex Fridman· Jun 29, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersWho owns the off switch? George Hotz on tinygrad, open-source AI, and GodGuest George Hotz · Host Lex FridmanOn his third Lex Fridman podcast, the comma.ai and tiny corp founder argues that compute, intelligence, and the off switch should live in people's houses, not in a trusted few.
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No Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Jun 29, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersThree IPOs Later, Frank Slootman Still Thinks the Job Is UrgencyHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilSnowflake's CEO tells No Priors how he picked the right elevator, turned a 15-person backup startup into an EMC acquisition, and why a data lake is a landfill you should not train on.
18:08ENMatthew Berman· Jun 29, 2023Six Language Models Compared on an Informal 2023 Prompt SetMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman tests coding, writing and reasoning with H2O GPT, finding a tie under a small and subjective rubric.
1:32:22ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jun 29, 2023PodcastA Million Bytes and 256 Symbols: Meta's MEGABYTE Wants to Throw the Tokenizer AwayHost Nathan LabenzLili Yu of Meta AI explains a multiscale transformer that predicts million-byte sequences, skips tokenization, and aims to model any file as raw bytes.
1:04:52EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Jun 28, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersJennifer Hyman on Building Rent the Runway and Managing for the Long TermGuest Jennifer Hyman · Host Harry StebbingsThe founder discusses hiring, rental economics, paid marketing, board leadership and the work of turning a fashion subscription into a durable business.
5:02ENMatthew Berman· Jun 28, 2023Matthew Berman on Publishing Videos About Unrestricted AI ModelsMatthew Berman · Forward FutureAfter viewers raise concerns, Berman explains how he weighs freedom of information, research and the risk of misuse.
1:52:46ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jun 27, 2023PodcastCharge Neural Nets by Connection Length, and the Black Box Splits Into Modules You Can SeeHost Nathan LabenzMIT physicist Ziming Liu walks Nathan Labenz through BIMT, a brain-inspired training trick that sparsifies networks until you can read them by looking.
59:36ENMatthew Berman· Jun 27, 2023Pascal Pfeiffer on Retrieval, Open Models, Kaggle and Fine-Tuning with H2O LLM StudioMatthew Berman, Pascal Pfeiffer · Forward FutureIn a 2023 interview, H2O.ai’s Pascal Pfeiffer explains document retrieval and parameter-efficient fine-tuning, reflects on Kaggle competitions and demonstrates LLM Studio. He and Matthew Berman also consider coding assistants and unverified rumors about model architecture.
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3Blue1Brown· Jun 27, 2023Convolution: Adding Probability DistributionsGrant Sanderson · 3Blue1BrownTwo visualizations connect weighted dice, continuous densities and the central limit theorem.
1:52:28EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Jun 26, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersAkin Babayigit on Building Tripledot, Mobile Games and Questioning Startup AdviceGuest Akin Babayigit · Host Harry StebbingsThe Tripledot co-founder discusses execution, hiring, gaming economics and why founders should treat universal startup rules with care.
7:21ENMatthew Berman· Jun 26, 2023Testing Orca Mini 13B, an Unofficial Model Inspired by OrcaMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman loads a quantized Orca Mini 13B and tries coding, reasoning, arithmetic, and summarization prompts. His 2023 informal test produces several failures and a few successes.Load moreShowing 24 of 4,471