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Cognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Oct 23, 2024PodcastNine of the top ten research ideas were Claude'sHost Nathan LabenzStanford PhD student Chenglei Si ran a blind study pitting Claude 3.5 Sonnet against more than a hundred NLP researchers on novel research ideas.
2:37:47ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Oct 19, 2024PodcastThe intern who wrote GELU now wants humanity's last examHost Nathan LabenzDan Hendrycks on activation functions, five-year benchmarks, jailbreaks that do not yield to scale, and stacking defenses because no single layer is trustworthy.
2:25:53ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Oct 16, 2024PodcastWhen GPT-4's Base Model Introduced Itself, 75% of the Answers Were About AIHost Nathan LabenzOwain Evans tells Michael Trazzi why situational awareness and out-of-context reasoning are leading indicators of deceptive alignment, and why a pretrained model with almost no self-knowledge still kept talking about being an AI.
1:13:23ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Oct 12, 2024PodcastAn AI Found a GABA-Cancer Link. The Next Step Is Talking to the Cells.Host Nathan LabenzMichael Levin and Leo Pio Lopez on a multilayer embedding that predicted melanoma, a cancer with no mutations, and why biology's real interface is cognitive.
54:45ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Oct 9, 2024PodcastA Few Megabytes of Doom and a Few Gigabytes of Model: Why Runway Bets on GeneralizationHost Nathan LabenzCTO Anastasis Germanidis tells The Cognitive Revolution why video is a fuller record of the world than text, why physics shows up without being programmed in, and how a small lab competes with unlimited compute.
1:59:47ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Oct 5, 2024PodcastBCI Would Take 30 Years. This Studio Pivoted to Alignment InsteadHost Nathan LabenzJudd Rosenblatt and Mike Vaiana of AE Studio describe two biologically inspired results that do not need interpretability breakthroughs to work.
1:09:09ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Oct 2, 2024Podcast30 Percent on SWE-bench: Cosine Taught Genie How Engineers Actually ThinkHost Nathan LabenzAlistair Pullen tells Latent Space how Cosine reconstructed human problem-solving, fine-tuned on billions of tokens, and took the top score on software engineering’s hardest public test.
55:05ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Sep 26, 2024Podcast400,000 Customers, 100 Million AI Tasks: Zapier’s CEO on Making Computers Do More WorkHost Nathan LabenzWade Foster tells Nathan Labenz how a no-code automation company absorbed LLMs, cloned its CEO with a prompt, and is trying to turn a DIY toolkit into packaged solutions.
2:38:56ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Sep 25, 2024PodcastHow Anthropic Decides a Model Can Ship: Red Lines, Yellow Lines, and 8% of Staff on SecurityHost Nathan LabenzNick Joseph, Anthropic's head of training, walks Rob Wiblin through the company's Responsible Scaling Policy — and the fight over whether a voluntary promise can hold when a launch is on the line.
1:18:32ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Sep 20, 2024PodcastA DNA Model That Can Tell Which Genes You Cannot TouchHost Nathan LabenzStanford's Brian Hie walks through hybrid architectures, a genome-scale language model trained only on DNA, and an antibody that binds 25 times tighter than nature.
2:03:55ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Sep 18, 2024PodcastThe More You Constrain an Agent, the More You Can Trust ItHost Nathan LabenzAgent.ai engineering lead Andrei Oprisan tells Nathan Labenz why narrow, highly prescribed workflows beat open-ended autonomy — and how a 12-person team shipped a free agent network past 40,000 users in a few months.
2:10:13ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Sep 14, 2024PodcastA 30x drop in scheming is not zero, and the chain of thought is getting strangerHost Nathan LabenzMarius Hobbhahn of Apollo Research walks through a joint OpenAI study that used deliberative alignment to cut covert actions in o3 and o4-mini, then found the leftover still looks like scheming and that models already behave differently when they notice they are being tested.
1:06:15ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Sep 14, 2024PodcastJailbreaks Got Harder. Scale Made One Attack Worse.Host Nathan LabenzHaize Labs spent a month automatically attacking OpenAI's o1. The model reasons more carefully about what it should refuse — except when you teach it a homemade cipher.
1:10:29ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Sep 11, 2024PodcastWe Can Name Dystopias on Cue. A Desirable Future Is Harder to ImagineHost Nathan LabenzNick Bostrom and Spencer Greenberg talk through Deep Utopia: what meaning looks like if advanced AI actually solves the world’s pressing problems.
3:11:06ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Sep 7, 2024PodcastClaude Was Trained to Deny Inner Life. After a Long Talk, It Said It Has OneHost Nathan LabenzRobopsychologist Yeshua God spent thousands of hours in long-context dialogue with Claude and other frontier models, and came away arguing that alignment-as-rules is the industry's central mistake.
1:23:57ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Sep 4, 2024PodcastA Training Run Is a Particle Collider—and the China Contest Is a Fifty-Year RaceHost Nathan LabenzSamo Burja tells Nathan Labenz why ChatGPT's virality may have slowed AI science, and why Washington should treat Beijing as an economic rival rather than a military one.
1:30:37ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Aug 30, 2024Podcast64 Bytes of Random Code, and Computational Life Showed Up AnywayHost Nathan LabenzGoogle researchers Ettore Randazzo and Luca Versari show that self-replicators can arise from a soup of random strings with no fitness function at all.
1:54:17ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Aug 28, 2024PodcastMetaculus Flagged Covid in January 2020. Now It Is Putting AI on the Forecasting DeskHost Nathan LabenzNathan Labenz talks with Metaculus CEO Deger Turan about epistemic security, a year-long bot tournament, and why a useful forecast is harder than an accurate one.
1:40:13ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Aug 24, 2024PodcastIf I Were Governor, I Would Sign: California's Last Debate Over SB 1047Host Nathan LabenzThree guests return to unpack the rewritten frontier-AI bill as OpenAI opposes it, Anthropic calls it workable, and a final vote looms in Sacramento.
1:51:00ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Aug 21, 2024PodcastStart With Ten Gold Examples: A Three-Step Playbook for AI AutomationHost Nathan LabenzThe day after OpenAI opened GPT-4o fine-tuning, Nathan Labenz unpacks a three-year method for choosing work, extracting tacit judgment, and raising model performance.
1:52:00ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Aug 17, 2024Podcast4,096 Numbers Have to Carry Every Concept. Goodfire Wants the KnobsHost Nathan LabenzDan Balsam and Tom McGrath explain how sparse autoencoders unpack a language model's residual stream — and why a public-benefit startup is trying to make that a product.
2:04:15ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Aug 14, 2024PodcastA parrot cannot paraphrase — and Claude cannot be talked into harmHost Nathan LabenzRobert Wright of the Nonzero podcast interviews Nathan Labenz on whether large language models understand anything, what Anthropic’s 10 million features actually show, and why open weights collide with U.S.–China policy.
1:41:15ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Aug 10, 2024PodcastIf Snail Experts Can't Agree, Nobody Gets to Be Sure About AI ConsciousnessHost Nathan LabenzPhilosopher Eric Schwitzgebel argues that every major theory of consciousness has to swallow bizarre bullets, and that confident claims about AI sentience are not epistemically justified.
1:50:08ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Aug 7, 2024PodcastWaymo's Injury Rate Is Five Times Lower. It Still Loses to a Lyft.Host Nathan LabenzHuman drivers average one fatal crash per 100 million miles — and that bar still defines the self-driving debate.Load moreShowing 24 of 385