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Cognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jun 22, 2024PodcastA Text-Only AI Outdiagnosed GPs. Google Still Won't Ship It.Host Nathan LabenzGoogle researchers Vivek Natarajan and Khaled Saab walk Nathan Labenz through five medical-AI papers, from radiology reports to an AI doctor that still has to earn trust.
1:59:15ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· May 25, 2024PodcastA Protein Backbone in a Minute: The Real Progress, Bottlenecks, and Risks of AI BiologyHost Nathan LabenzThe White House set a thousand-fold lower reporting bar for biological models than for language models—and this conversation shows why that gap already looks prescient.
58:28ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· May 22, 2024PodcastFrom Jailbreaking ChatGPT to Anthropic’s First Prompt Engineer: How Alex Albert Ships Claude 3Host Nathan LabenzA year after building jailbreakchat.com, Alex Albert walks Nathan Labenz through Claude 3’s writing, orchestration, character work, and the guardrails app developers still skip.
12:50ENTesting Smaug: Hosted 70B Versus a Smaller Local ModelMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman compares two Smaug configurations on Snake, math and reasoning puzzles.
27:07ENGPT-4o's Launch: Voice, Vision and a More Conversational InterfaceMatthew Berman, Mira Murati · Forward FutureMatthew Berman reviews OpenAI's May 2024 demonstrations of GPT-4o and considers what a faster multimodal assistant could enable.
17:12ENTesting the Mystery 'gpt2-chatbot' Model in April 2024Matthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman tries an anonymous model on coding, arithmetic and reasoning tasks while its identity remains uncertain.
16:28ENTesting Reka Core: Multimodal Benchmarks, Coding and ReasoningMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman reviews Reka’s reported model comparisons and tests Core on code, logic and image understanding.
15:01ENTesting Llama 3 at Launch: Code, Reasoning and Image GenerationMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman tries Meta AI’s new interface on a snake game, logic puzzles and rapid image generation.
1:01:39ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Apr 13, 2024PodcastGPT-5 Wants 100 Trillion Tokens. Does Earth Have Enough?Host Nathan LabenzTraining GPT-3 took about a trillion tokens; GPT-4 took about ten trillion. The next jump is a data question as much as a compute one.
1:19:24ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Apr 5, 2024PodcastA Gibberish Prompt Unlocks What GPT-J Plans Three Tokens AheadHost Nathan LabenzNortheastern’s Bau Lab shows that a 40,000-parameter soft prompt can read a model’s future words, and that about ten attention heads carry the task itself.
14:23ENTesting DBRX: Coding Strengths and Reasoning GapsMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman examines Databricks’ open-weight model and puts it through coding, arithmetic and reasoning prompts.
1:20:44ENCognitive 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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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.
23:00ENTesting 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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
55:08ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Aug 29, 2023PodcastOne Model Inside 38 Products: Paige Bailey on How Google Trains and Ships PaLM 2Host Nathan LabenzAt Google I/O in May 2023, PaLM 2 arrived already running in more than two dozen products — and its lead product manager walks through what that actually took.
6:28ENA Historical GPT-3.5 Fine-Tuning WalkthroughMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman demonstrates generating synthetic examples in Colab and training a model to use a distinctive tone.
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