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Cognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Mar 30, 2024PodcastSeeing Like a Mamba: Vision, Rotting States, and a Cell Model in 90 DaysHost Nathan LabenzNathan Labenz and Jason Meaux survey the vision papers, long-context experiments, and biology work that followed the original Mamba release.
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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.
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.
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.
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Lex Fridman· Mar 7, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersIf You Want Human-Level AI, Abandon Generative ModelsGuest Yann Lecun · Host Lex FridmanYann LeCun tells Lex Fridman why autoregressive LLMs cannot plan, remember, or understand the physical world — and why open source is the only democratic answer.
13:57ENMatthew Berman· Feb 27, 2024Mistral Large: A 2024 Review of Coding, Reasoning and Safety ResponsesMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman reviews Mistral’s launch claims and tests the model with a small set of prompts.
23:00ENMatthew Berman· Feb 22, 2024Testing Google Gemma 7B at Launch: Setup MattersMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman compares local and hosted tests of Google’s early open-weight model.
1:58:43ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Feb 7, 2024PodcastA Worm With 302 Neurons Already Makes Trade-offs. AI Is Still on the Same Ladder.Host Nathan LabenzMax Bennett maps 600 million years of brain evolution onto five breakthroughs — and asks which rungs today's models have actually reached.
0:42ENMatthew Berman· Jan 31, 2024LLaVA 1.6 Adds Higher-Resolution Image UnderstandingMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman reviews the January 2024 release of LLaVA 1.6 and its local availability through Ollama.
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No Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Jan 25, 2024Podcast · 2 speakers99% of Factory Robots Are Dumb. Covariant Wants the Smart Ones Working in Warehouses FirstHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilFormer OpenAI researcher Peter Chen explains why robot foundation models have to be trained on production floors, not in labs.
35:28ENMatthew Berman· Jan 23, 2024Sam 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.
2:30:06ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Dec 22, 2023PodcastTrained on a Thirtieth of GPT-4's Tokens, Mamba Beat Transformers on Home TurfHost Nathan LabenzIn a solo emergency episode, Nathan Labenz argues that Albert Gu and Tri Dao's selective state space model is the first architecture since 2017 that deserves to share the Transformer’s throne.
14:04ENMatthew Berman· Dec 15, 2023Mistral Medium in 2023: API Pricing and Informal Model TestsMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman compares the original Mistral Medium prototype with Mixtral and GPT-4, then tests coding, writing and reasoning through the API.
20:49ENMatthew Berman· Dec 12, 2023Mixtral 8x7B: Mixture-of-Experts Architecture, Setup and Early TestsMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman reviews Mistral AI’s December 2023 open-weight model, demonstrates a cloud setup and tests its coding and reasoning responses.
1:19:24ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Nov 17, 2023PodcastA Toy Paper Did Not Prove LLMs Cannot Generalize. The Discourse Still Ran With It.Host Nathan LabenzNathan Labenz and Erik Torenberg unpack a viral DeepMind result, a weekend reproduction, and a premature war over voluntary AI commitments.
1:21:50ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Nov 14, 2023PodcastA 16K Context Window Holds About 350 Rows. That's Why Tables Need an Agent.Host Nathan LabenzGretel AI founder Alex Watson tells Nathan Labenz why most company data is still a spreadsheet, why GPT-4 is the wrong tool for generating it, and how differential privacy lets a model learn a disease without learning a patient.
11:05ENMatthew Berman· Nov 7, 2023Testing Dolphin 2.2, a Mistral 7B Fine-TuneMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman tries a small open-weight model on coding, formatting and reasoning prompts, with mixed results.
41:58ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Nov 2, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersReliability is the bottleneck. Autonomy is what would make AI feel alive.Host Sarah Guo, Elad GilIlya Sutskever talks with Sarah Guo and Elad Gil about AlexNet, OpenAI’s capped-profit bet, why smaller models mainly lose reliability, and the line he draws for digital life.
1:19:52ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Oct 18, 2023Podcast1,000 H100s Take 115 Days; 22,000 Take FiveHost Nathan LabenzNathan Labenz and Trey Kollmer walk through cluster math that turns GPT-4-scale training into a weekly experiment, then four papers on search-augmented models, recursive code improvers, spatial maps inside Llama 2, and what networks do when they have no idea.
13:11ENMatthew Berman· Oct 5, 2023Testing Mistral 7B OpenOrca: A 2023 Cloud Setup and Prompt TrialMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman runs a quantized OpenOrca variant on a rented GPU and reviews coding, writing and reasoning examples.
37:01ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Sep 28, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersDNA Is Code, but You Compile It with a PipetteHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilGinkgo Bioworks CEO Jason Kelly tells No Priors why cells are worth the magic, why biology has no AWS, and why a pandemic should look like cybersecurity.
12:49ENMatthew Berman· Sep 14, 2023Falcon 180B: A 2023 Review of TII’s Open-Weight ModelMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman tests coding, reasoning and writing prompts while examining the model’s training scale and license.
4:35ENMatthew Berman· Sep 5, 2023Running WizardCoder on a Cloud GPU: A 2023 RunPod WalkthroughMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman demonstrates downloading a quantized 13B coding model into a hosted text-generation interface, then explains how to stop the pod and avoid ongoing charges.Load moreShowing 24 of 354