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Cognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Mar 21, 2024Podcast2,700 AI Authors, No Consensus: Even Odds of HLMI in 2047, 5% ExtinctionHost Nathan LabenzKatja Grace of AI Impacts walks Nathan Labenz through a survey of researchers who published in top venues in 2022—and why the field’s only real consensus is uncertainty plus more safety work.
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Matthew Berman· Mar 21, 2024Q* Rumors, Energy-Based Models, and Research on ReasoningMatthew Berman, Yann Lecun · Forward FutureMatthew Berman examines an anonymous, unverified account of Q* and compares its ideas with published research on teaching language models to reason.
18:42ENMatthew Berman· Mar 20, 2024Robot Demonstrations in 2024: 1X, NVIDIA, Spot and BeyondMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman surveys humanoid, quadruped, drone and defense robotics, distinguishing company demonstrations from general-purpose autonomy.
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20VC with Harry Stebbings· Mar 20, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersJean-Michel Lemieux on Shipping, Hiring and Product AlignmentGuest Jean-Michel Lemieux · Host Harry StebbingsThe former Shopify CTO and Atlassian engineering leader explains how he balances speed and quality, aligns decisions and builds teams.
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Lex Fridman· Mar 18, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersSam Altman Expects the Road to AGI to Be a Power StruggleGuest Sam Altman · Host Lex FridmanOn a Friday afternoon in November 2023, OpenAI's board fired its CEO. Four and a half days later he was back, still refusing super-voting control.
1:09:17EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Mar 18, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersGili Raanan on Seed Investing, Founder Selection and Cyberstarts’ Sunrise ProcessGuest Gili Raanan · Host Harry StebbingsThe Cyberstarts founder explains his focus on teams, structured customer discovery and building cybersecurity companies.
0:27ENMatthew Berman· Mar 18, 2024Apple and Google’s AI Talks: A 2024 Rumor and the Later Siri PartnershipMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman questions a reported Gemini deal for iPhone. Apple and Google announced a foundation-model collaboration nearly two years later.
0:54ENMatthew Berman· Mar 18, 2024xAI Releases Grok-1 Weights and ArchitectureMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman discusses the 2024 release of Grok-1's mixture-of-experts base model and its Apache 2.0 license.
8:26ENMatthew Berman· Mar 18, 2024Testing Grok on X After the 2024 Grok-1 Weight ReleaseMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman tries coding and reasoning prompts in the hosted Grok interface, with mixed results.
4:49ENMatthew Berman· Mar 17, 2024xAI Releases Grok-1 Base Weights Under Apache 2.0Matthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman discusses the March 2024 release of a 314-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model and the context of Elon Musk’s dispute with OpenAI.
52:06ENMatthew Berman· Mar 16, 2024Yann LeCun on World Models, Open AI and the Path to Advanced IntelligenceMatthew Berman, Yann Lecun, Lex Fridman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman reacts to excerpts from LeCun’s 2024 conversation with Lex Fridman, covering language models, JEPA, robotics, AI safety and economic incentives.
1:44:23ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Mar 16, 2024PodcastYou Can Split Your Vote by Issue — and Hand It to an AIHost Nathan LabenzTim Reutemann’s 2018 novel Liquid Reign sketches a 2051 democracy built on Swiss citizen initiatives, liquid delegation, and personal AIs you can mute.
1:02:30EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Mar 15, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersLuca Ferrari on Bending Spoons, Acquisitions and Learning From RiskGuest Luca Ferrari · Host Harry StebbingsThe co-founder explains how his company buys and improves established products, allocates capital and evaluates talent.
19:51ENMatthew Berman· Mar 15, 2024Devin’s 2024 Launch: Coding-Agent Demos and Benchmark ClaimsMatthew Berman, Scott Wu, Neal, Walden · Forward FutureMatthew Berman examines Cognition’s software-agent demonstrations, interface and SWE-bench comparison alongside earlier coding projects.
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Hard Fork· Mar 15, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersA 2024 Hard Fork View on Restricting TikTokA host weighs access, media ownership, speech and competition.
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.
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No Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Mar 14, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersFigma's One-Way Door Swung Open — With a Billion-Dollar ConsolationHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilAfter regulators killed the Adobe deal, Dylan Field tells No Priors how Figma kept building, where AI belongs in design, and why the company was never meant to be only a design tool.
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AI Explained· Mar 14, 2024Devin, SIMA and Figure: What Three 2024 Agent Demos ShowedAI Explained puts coding, game and robot demonstrations in context.
12:34ENMatthew Berman· Mar 14, 2024Figure 01 and the Path Toward More Capable RobotsMatthew Berman, Lex Fridman, Yann Lecun · Forward FutureMatthew Berman surveys humanoid and other robotics demonstrations, then shares Yann LeCun’s view on the work still needed for general-purpose robots.
4:57:15ENLex Fridman· Mar 14, 2024PodcastThe Same Archive, Four Meanings: Finkelstein, Morris, Rabbani and Destiny Debate Israel and PalestineHost Lex FridmanA nearly five-hour Lex Fridman debate in which four opposed voices argue over 1948, October 7, Gaza, and whether any peace is still possible.
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Jane Street· Mar 13, 2024Richard Eisenberg on Jane Street's OCaml ExperimentsRichard Eisenberg · Jane StreetJane Street's compiler team is exploring unboxed types, locality modes, and data-race-free parallelism to make OCaml's performance and memory management better suited to its needs.
1:22:56EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Mar 13, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersChandra Narayanan on Growth Metrics, Analytics and Building TeamsGuest Chandra Narayanan · Host Harry StebbingsThe former Facebook analytics leader explains how to turn data into decisions, choose growth goals and hire for the company’s needs.
19:59ENMatthew Berman· Mar 12, 2024Testing Model Responses to Masked Harmful RequestsMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman compares refusals, decoding errors and inconsistent responses in informal 2024 experiments across several language models.
1:25:10ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Mar 12, 2024PodcastWriting Code Is Only 30% of the Job. CodiumAI Wants the Other 70%Host Nathan LabenzItamar Friedman argues that completion is already a commodity, that code integrity is where AI still lags, and that flow engineering—not fancier prompts—is how GPT-4 doubled its score on coding contests.Load moreShowing 24 of 4,463