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1:33:56ENThe 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.
18:08ENSix 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.
1:32:22ENA 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.
1:52:46ENCharge 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.
4:36ENTesting WizardCoder 15B as a Local Coding AssistantMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman runs the 2023 WizardCoder model locally, testing small Python exercises and a longer Snake game.
59:28ENFrom $500,000 to $50,000: MosaicML Made Training Your Own Model a Priced ProductHost Nathan LabenzJonathan Frankle and Abhi Venigalla explain who is training custom LLMs, why extraction beats chat, and how ALiBi stretches a 65k context window.
2:00:19EN1.5 Million GPT-4 Fairy Tales Let a 33-Million-Parameter Model Out-Reason GPT-2Host Nathan LabenzTry this fill-in: Lily likes cats and dogs. She asked her mom for a dog. Mom said no, so she asked for a…
11:49ENTesting Wizard-Vicuna 30B: Responses, Reasoning, and CodeMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman examines a model marketed as uncensored, demonstrates a 2023 cloud setup, and runs an informal collection of tests.
1:25:35ENTwo and a Half Years From 33.3% to 86.5%: Google Sent Foundation Models to Medical SchoolHost Nathan LabenzVivek Natarajan walks Nathan Labenz through Med-PaLM and Med-PaLM 2: the data-light techniques, the nine-axis clinician evals, and why a high USMLE-style score is the wrong trophy.
42:18ENTen Percent of Search Is Health — and the Doctor Is Googling TooHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilGoogle researcher Karan Singhal on Med-PaLM 2, the real bar for medical language models, and why medicine is a harder alignment lab than chatbots.
5:24ENGoogle I/O 2023: Bard, PaLM 2 and AI Across Google's ProductsMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman reviews Google's 2023 AI announcements and weighs its focus on improving established products.
4:14:33ENThe Next Token Is Not a Proof: Stephen Wolfram on ChatGPT and Computational TruthGuest Stephen Wolfram · Host Lex FridmanIn his fourth conversation with Lex Fridman, Stephen Wolfram contrasts large language models with Wolfram|Alpha, then follows computational irreducibility from ChatGPT through observers, thermodynamics, and the three great theories of twentieth-century physics.
40:25ENA 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.
8:05ENA 2023 Guide to Running the Original GPT4All Model LocallyMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman demonstrates an early CPU-based GPT4All release, its terminal installation and the resources available for fine-tuning.
7:55ENHow to Train a Custom Image Model in Leonardo.aiMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman walks through Leonardo.ai’s 2023 model galleries, training-set guidance, and custom model workflow, then shares results from several experiments.
1:03:29ZH → EnglishA Multimodal Paper Review: BLIP, CoCa, and BEiT-3From cleaning image–text data to unified pretraining, a guide to the architectures, objectives, and connections behind three vision–language models.
1:07:10ZH → EnglishInstructGPT: From Human Feedback to Language Model AlignmentA guide to InstructGPT’s training process, results, and limitations, from supervised fine-tuning and reward modeling to PPO.
3:28:47ENKarpathy Calls Trained Neural Nets Complicated Alien ArtifactsGuest Andrej Karpathy · Host Lex FridmanOn Lex Fridman's podcast, Andrej Karpathy refuses the brain analogy, walks the Fermi paradox through Nick Lane's chemistry, and treats the Transformer as a general-purpose differentiable computer.
2:10:08ENGato Is Only the BeginningGuest Oriol Vinyals · Host Lex FridmanDeepMind's Oriol Vinyals talks with Lex Fridman about generalist agents, thrown-away weights, and whether human-level AGI arrives in his lifetime.
2:10:39ENDemis Hassabis: Solve Intelligence, Then Solve Everything ElseGuest Demis Hassabis · Host Lex FridmanThe DeepMind CEO tells Lex Fridman why the Turing Test is the wrong exam, how AlphaFold rewrote biology, and why the quiet radio sky suggests we are probably alone.
2:45:10ENA Teenager Learns to Drive in Twenty Hours. A Car Still Cannot.Guest Yann Lecun · Host Lex FridmanYann LeCun tells Lex Fridman why self-supervised world models are the missing dark matter of intelligence, and why machines are not even at the level of a house cat.
2:31:57ENJay McClelland on How Thought Emerges From Neural NetworksGuest Jay McClelland · Host Lex FridmanThe Stanford cognitive scientist talks with Lex Fridman about connectionism, backpropagation, David Rumelhart, and why intuition discovers what logic later proves.
2:51:33ENThe Self Is a GPT Prompt: Wojciech Zaremba on Consciousness, Codex, and Fermi's SilenceGuest Wojciech Zaremba · Host Lex FridmanOpenAI co-founder Wojciech Zaremba tells Lex Fridman he thinks we might be alone in the universe — and that GPT-3, Codex, and a one-handed robot already hint at how intelligence is built.
2:18:29ENYour Cortex Is 150,000 Brains Voting on a Coffee CupGuest Jeff Hawkins · Host Lex FridmanJeff Hawkins tells Lex Fridman that intelligence is learning a model of the world, the neocortex is tens of thousands of independent maps that vote, and the fastest path to machine intelligence is reverse-engineering that sheet.
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