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35:28ENSam Altman on Future AI Models, Copyright and the Limits of DeploymentMatthew Berman, Ina Fried, Sam Altman · Forward FutureIn a January 2024 Davos interview, OpenAI’s CEO discusses model progress, election risks, military use and customization. Matthew Berman responds to the claims and their implications.
21:00ENJim Fan's Foundation Agent Vision: Skills, Robot Bodies, and SimulationMatthew Berman, Jim Fan · Forward FutureMatthew Berman examines research on Minecraft agents, varied robot bodies, and simulation as steps toward more general embodied AI.
12:36ENA Beginner’s Face-Image Similarity Demo With OpenCV and pgvectorMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman demonstrates a 2024 Colab pipeline that detects face crops, embeds them and searches a PostgreSQL vector table.
1:17:39ENAdam Fisher on Small Markets, Founder Partnerships and Venture ExitsGuest Adam Fisher · Host Harry StebbingsThe Bessemer investor explains why he favors less crowded opportunities, how he thinks about follow-on capital and what he has learned from exits.
0:59ENA Subset-Sum Puzzle: How Many Sums Are Divisible by Five?A small example makes a daunting counting problem concrete, but the exact answer for 2,000 numbers takes a deeper idea.
1:43:07ENAn Agent Posted Five Tweets — and 5,000 People Didn't NoticeHost Nathan LabenzMultiOn founder Div Garg walks Cognitive Revolution through what web agents can actually do in early 2024, what they cost, and why guardrails have to sit outside the model.
56:40ENZaria Parvez on Duolingo’s TikTok Voice and Building Creative TeamsGuest Zaria Parvez · Host Harry StebbingsThe social media manager explains how a green owl became an ongoing character, how her team tests ideas and what viral views can—and cannot—show.
0:51ENThree Ways to Define an EllipseStretch a circle, draw with a taut string, or slice a cone: why do the constructions produce the same family of curves?
13:19ENRunning a Local Language Model as an Offline BackupMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman demonstrates a 2024 local-model setup, from selecting a quantized model and storing it on an external drive to planning backup power.
46:36ENAfter a decade of code search, Sourcegraph’s CTO says the coding-AI fight is outside the modelHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilBeyang Liu on Cody, why keyword search still does most of RAG, and why CS fundamentals get more valuable as AI compresses the middleware.
3:37ENMark Zuckerberg Announces Llama 3 Training and Meta’s AI PlansMatthew Berman, Mark Zuckerberg · Forward FutureIn January 2024, Matthew Berman reacts to Zuckerberg’s remarks on general intelligence, compute and AI devices.
1:53:08ENWhen GPT-4 Writes SQL, Four Tables Is the Breaking PointHost Nathan LabenzJuan Sequeda on why a knowledge graph is the accurate, explainable brain that foundation models do not have.
6:00:54ENThe First Crime Was a Bottle of Wite-OutGuest Matthew Cox · Host Lex FridmanMatthew Cox walks Lex Fridman through how a 29-year-old broker's tiny lie became synthetic identities, fake banks, a three-year FBI manhunt, and 13 years in federal prison.
1:06:13ENShyam Sankar on Defense Procurement, Software and Building TalentGuest Shyam Sankar · Host Harry StebbingsPalantir’s CTO argues for changing how governments buy technology and explains his approach to product, hiring and AI.
3:20ENBrian Halligan on Finding Your Own CEO StyleGuest Brian Halligan · Host Harry StebbingsThe HubSpot co-founder reflects on mentors and a peer group.
1:26:38ENBrian Halligan on Scaling HubSpot, Building Teams and Knowing When to Step AsideGuest Brian Halligan · Host Harry StebbingsThe HubSpot co-founder reflects on leadership feedback, hiring, venture financing and the accident that prompted him to hand over the CEO role.
1:15:48ENKeith Rabois on Returning to Khosla Ventures and Investing at SeedGuest Keith Rabois · Host Harry StebbingsThe investor compares partnership styles, explains his approach to price and follow-on capital, and reflects on exits and founder relationships.
1:50:57ENTwenty-Eight Days After GPT-4, an AI Designed and Ran a Chemistry ExperimentHost Nathan LabenzGabe Gomes and his Carnegie Mellon students built Coscientist, a language-model agent that plans, codes, and executes real experiments on a remote cloud lab.
19:10ENThe World's Only Capped-Profit CompanyHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilNo Priors looks back at 2023 through eight conversations on money, intelligence, jobs, and who should put the guardrails on a model.
1:00ENWhy Light Bends When It Slows DownA wavefront explanation of refraction at an angled boundary.
1:14:40ENEd Sim and Jamin Ball on Startup Exits, IPOs and the 2024 Funding ResetGuest Ed Sim, Jamin Ball · Host Harry StebbingsTwo investors discuss the consequences of high private valuations, founder and investor incentives, acquisition markets and the path to an IPO.
29:58ENRabbit R1’s 2024 Launch Demo: An AI Assistant Built Around ActionsMatthew Berman, Jesse Lyu · Forward FutureMatthew Berman reviews Rabbit’s launch presentation, from voice-controlled services and experimental teach mode to its proposed $199 device.
1:06:39ENOpenAI's First DevRel Writes 90% of His Code with ChatGPT — and Says Web Agents Still Need YearsHost Jacob EffronLogan Kilpatrick on picking GPT-3.5 versus GPT-4, why plugins stalled, and why the public internet is not ready for autonomous agents.
1:50:08ENJeff Beck gave his signature solo to a 21-year-old bassistGuest Tal Wilkenfeld · Host Lex FridmanTal Wilkenfeld talks with Lex Fridman about Crossroads, Prince, Leonard Cohen, and why she would rather stand on the edge of a cliff than play it safe.
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