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Unsupervised Learning: With Jacob Effron· Oct 29, 2024PodcastDeepL Beat Google at Translation by Refusing to Be a General ModelHost Jacob EffronOnly 18 percent of the world speaks English—and a Cologne startup turned that fact into a $2 billion language-AI company.
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Matthew Berman· Oct 25, 2024Testing the Updated Claude 3.5 Sonnet: Coding, Reasoning and VisionMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman tries the October 2024 model on Python games, logic puzzles and images, with mixed results and some ambiguous grading.
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No Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Oct 24, 2024Podcast · 2 speakers100,000 Rides a Week, Six Times Fewer Airbag Crashes: Waymo’s Co-CEO on Eighteen Years of Full AutonomyHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilDmitri Dolgov tells No Priors how a dozen Googlers, ten 100-mile routes, and a 2013 refusal to settle for driver assist became a rider-only service with an insurer-audited safety record.
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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.
9:38ENMatthew Berman· Oct 15, 2024Liquid Foundation Models: Company Benchmarks and a Hands-On TestMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman reviews Liquid AI’s 2024 model and memory claims, then tries the 40B preview on coding, logic, and instruction-following prompts.
1:02:04ENMatthew Berman· Oct 11, 2024João Moura and Matthew Berman on Tesla’s Robotaxi Vision and Building AI AgentsMatthew Berman, João Moura, Elon Musk · Forward FutureA 2024 livestream examines Tesla’s Cybercab and Optimus announcements, then turns to CrewAI, enterprise agent workflows and a small model comparison.
26:43ENMatthew Berman· Oct 10, 2024Testing OpenAI o1 on Planning, Rules and Spatial ReasoningMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman reviews a 2024 pilot study comparing o1-preview, o1-mini and GPT-4 on six planning domains.
38:28ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Oct 8, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersHalf of Production AI Is RAG. Fine-Tuning Almost Disappeared.Host Sarah Guo, Elad GilBraintrust CEO Ankur Goyal tells No Priors what Notion, Zapier, and Vercel actually ship — and which hyped techniques they quietly dropped.
1:06:48ENUnsupervised Learning: With Jacob Effron· Oct 3, 2024Podcasto1 Is Slow and Hard to Use. Percy Liang Still Calls It a Turning PointHost Jacob EffronStanford’s Percy Liang splits OpenAI’s o1 into a disappointing product and the most important research signal in years.
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Sequoia Capital· Oct 2, 2024PodcastAlphaGo Thought 30 Seconds a Move. o1 Made “Think Longer” GeneralOpenAI researchers Noam Brown, Ilge Akkaya, and Hunter Lightman on teaching language models to reason, the generator-verifier gap, and a second scaling curve at inference time.
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.
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.
10:57ENMatthew Berman· Sep 13, 2024Testing OpenAI o1-preview: Tetris, Physical Reasoning and a North Pole ErrorMatthew Berman · Forward FutureIn September 2024, Matthew Berman runs the new reasoning-model preview through a personal rubric and examines where its answers succeed or fail.
1:31:56ENMatthew Berman· Sep 12, 2024Testing OpenAI o1 on Puzzles, Code and Reasoning: A Launch-Day LivestreamMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman tries o1-preview and o1-mini on word counts, Tetris, physical reasoning and a word puzzle, with viewers checking the results.
19:38ENMatthew Berman· Sep 9, 2024Reflection 70B: Conflicting Results and Unanswered QuestionsMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman reviews his early coverage, independent evaluations and competing claims about the September 2024 release.
12:03ENMatthew Berman· Sep 6, 2024Reflection 70B: Self-Correction Claims and the Limits of a 2024 DemoMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman reviews a model trained to generate reflection steps. Its initial benchmark claims later proved difficult for independent evaluators to reproduce.
35:30ENMatthew Berman· Sep 6, 2024Reflection 70B: Its Creators Explain the Proposed Self-Correction MethodMatthew Berman, Matt Shumer, Sahil Chaudhary · Forward FutureA launch-day discussion with Matt Shumer and Sahil Chaudhary covers synthetic data, selective reflection and evaluation limits.
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.
1:12:31ENSequoia Capital· Aug 27, 2024PodcastA Bare Model Closes 35% of Airline Changes. Sierra's Agents Clear 70% of Real Tickets.Clay Bavor on why putting a raw LLM in front of customers does not math, and how AgentOS, supervisor agents, and outcome pricing change the arithmetic.
9:43ENMatthew Berman· Aug 26, 2024Matthew Berman Tests Jamba 1.5 on Coding and Reasoning PromptsMatthew Berman · Forward FutureA 2024 hands-on test of AI21’s hybrid model finds slow output in one hosted session and mixed answers to a small set of prompts.Load moreShowing 24 of 269