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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.
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No Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Jun 20, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersA 40-Person Company With 40,000 Paying Customers Wants to Replace the Camera With AIHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilHeyGen CEO Joshua Xu tells Sarah Guo and Elad Gil how avatars, localization, and a component-wise video stack are meant to knock the camera out of content production.
1:10:07ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jun 6, 2024PodcastSame Intelligence, 1% of the Price: Logan Kilpatrick on Gemini FlashHost Nathan LabenzA former OpenAI developer-relations lead, now the product manager for Google AI Studio, walks through what Gemini 1.5 Flash actually changes for builders.
30:16ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· May 16, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersSuno's CEO Thinks a Billion People Will Make Music, Not Just Stream ItHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilMikey Shulman tells No Priors why Suno skipped speech, charges from day one, and wants the line between listener and creator to disappear.
3:04:52ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· May 1, 2024PodcastDoctors Chose AI on Eight of Nine Dimensions: A GPT-4 Red-Teamer's Scouting ReportHost Nathan LabenzNathan Labenz tells 80,000 Hours what late-2023 systems can already do, which thresholds still matter, and why a polarized policy fight is a gift to heavy-handed regulation.
24:32ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Apr 18, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersImage Generation Is Still a Loot Box. Suhail Doshi Wants to Scale PixelsHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilThe Playground AI founder tells No Priors why he skipped language models, how a noise-sampling trick fixed SDXL's muddy brightness, and what a large vision model would actually do.
1:34:11ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Apr 17, 2024PodcastFrom forty hours in a scanner to one: reconstructing what you see from a shared brain spaceHost Nathan LabenzPaul Scotti explains how MindEye2 maps a new person's fMRI into CLIP with an hour of data, and why a linear layer plus better image generators changed the cost of reading minds.
26:03ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Apr 11, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersGPT-4-Class Models Will Be Cheap. The Frontier Will Still Need a Patron.Host Sarah Guo, Elad GilSarah Guo and Elad Gil walk through Mosaic’s Law, Microsoft’s Inflection hire, where the real money sits, and why the first AI wave looks consumer.
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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.
1:01:53ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Feb 13, 2024PodcastCompanion Apps Open Twice as Often as TikTok. a16z Only Funds Weird but WorkingHost Nathan Labenza16z consumer partners Anish Acharya and Justine Moore walk Nathan Labenz through their Abundance Agenda for AI-native consumer apps.
1:21:28ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jan 26, 2024PodcastThe Prompt Is a Bug: Suhail Doshi’s Bet on Control Over PixelsHost Nathan LabenzThe Mixpanel founder tells Nathan Labenz how a cloud browser, a canceled tweet, and a Thursday weight drop shaped Playground AI’s bet on images.
1:17:20ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Dec 9, 2023PodcastHume wants well-being in the objective function, measured 53 emotions at a timeHost Nathan LabenzAlan Cowen tells Nathan Labenz how Hume AI reads face, voice, and language, sells custom models at $1.66 an hour, and wants long-horizon well-being to override every other AI goal.
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.
1:36:39ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Nov 9, 2023PodcastOpenAI’s $5 Million Bet: A 60-Person Team Wants GPT-4V to Give Cars Common SenseHost Nathan LabenzGhost Autonomy cofounder John Hayes tells Cognitive Revolution why a multimodal model on the driving path could reset self-driving after two decades of DARPA-era stacks.
1:14:48ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Nov 8, 2023PodcastDevDay Probably Created Thousands of Startups, Says OpenAI's Logan KilpatrickHost Nathan LabenzThe day after OpenAI's first developer conference, Dev Relations lead Logan Kilpatrick tells Nathan Labenz why thin wrappers were never companies, why agents were deliberately not shipped fully autonomous, and what $2 million custom models are for.
1:32:40ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Oct 31, 2023PodcastThe Historian Who Taught GPT-3.5 to Beat GPT-4Host Nathan LabenzMark Humphries on a kilometer of unread paper, fur-trade jargon that embeddings cannot see, and why cheap processing will force history to be rewritten.
2:17:30ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Sep 29, 2023PodcastGemini Became the Daily Driver. A GPT-5 Worthy of the Name Would Make Agents Work.Host Nathan LabenzZvi Mowshowitz returns to Cognitive Revolution to unpack Gemini 1.5, Sora, superalignment, sleeper agents, and the live-player map of frontier labs.
1:04:38ENLex Fridman· Sep 28, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersHundreds of Miles Apart, Zuckerberg and Fridman Sat Close Enough to See the WrinklesGuest Mark Zuckerberg · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman sat in a dark room in Austin wearing a Quest headset; Mark Zuckerberg sat in another conference room, also wearing one, and it did not feel like a video call.
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.
39:02ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Aug 10, 2023PodcastAI’s product advantage is consistency. Its real weakness is getting conned.Host Nathan LabenzNathan Labenz updates the Cognitive Revolution scouting report: jailbreaks, resume automation, Med-PaLM’s 40% radiology win, and what might follow Transformers.
39:50ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Jul 20, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersWhy AI Video Is Still a Four-Second CorgiHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilMeta research director Devi Parikh explains why text-to-video has stalled on short animated images, and what it will take to get past that plateau.
1:32:22ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jun 29, 2023PodcastA 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.
1:18:18ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jun 20, 2023PodcastFifteen Thousand Brain Numbers Were Enough to Reconstruct What Someone SawHost Nathan LabenzTanishq Mathew Abraham walks through MindEye, the fMRI-to-image system that maps a handful of voxel values onto CLIP and diffusion models.
1:25:35ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· May 21, 2023PodcastTwo 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.Load moreShowing 24 of 74