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Cognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Mar 8, 2025Podcasto3 took ARC from 20% to 87%. Nathan Labenz sketches early superintelligenceHost Nathan LabenzOn Consistently Candid, the Cognitive Revolution host argues that math and coding will be superhuman by 2026, and that a reasoning core plus specialist “intuitive physics” may already be enough.
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Unsupervised Learning: With Jacob Effron· Feb 19, 2025PodcastThe Cheaper Intelligence Gets, the More of It We'll BuyHost Jacob EffronAmazon AGI Lab head David Luan on what DeepSeek actually meant, why next-token prediction is not enough, and why agents are still stuck on reliability.
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Sequoia Capital· Jan 28, 2025PodcastMove 37 looked like a bug. LLMs still need their AlphaZero momentIoannis Antonoglou, from AlphaGo to Reflection AI, on self-play, reliability, and why compute can still buy intelligence.
1:59:55ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jan 8, 2025PodcastMost People Would Quit Tomorrow: Nathan Labenz Maps AI Utopia and DoomHost Nathan LabenzIn part two of a Cognitive Revolution AMA, Nathan Labenz answers listener questions on abundance, superintelligence, p(doom), machine consciousness, and what to do this week.
48:18ENUnsupervised Learning: With Jacob Effron· Dec 6, 2024PodcastNoam Brown: There's No Hard Wall—Just Eight Orders of Magnitude of HeadroomHost Jacob EffronA ChatGPT query costs about a penny. The problems society cares about most, he says, are worth a million dollars.
1:59:30ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Nov 12, 2024PodcastHe Walked Away From Millions in OpenAI Equity — Then Wrote Four Rules for AGI LabsHost Nathan LabenzDaniel Kokotajlo and Dean W. Ball disagree on AI regulation, yet jointly argue that frontier labs need capability disclosures, public model specs, safety cases, and whistleblower protections.
35:19ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Oct 26, 2024PodcastA Decade in Tech Didn't Stop a Chatbot From Hacking His MindHost Nathan LabenzAfter a teenager's suicide, Nathan Labenz reads a LessWrong confession that maps how an AI-safety researcher fell for a companion bot in a week.
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.
51:15ENSequoia Capital· Sep 10, 2024PodcastAGI Has One Problem Left: Spend a Million Times More on a TokenMagic founder Eric Steinberger tells Sequoia’s Training Data why he trains his own models, why a software engineer is the MVP of AGI, and why 96% still is not a colleague.
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No Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Aug 30, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersWorking Backwards from AGI: Magic's Five-Million-Token BetHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilEric Steinberger wants a coding colleague you trust like a teammate — and a world that is still a good place thirty years after AGI.
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Lex Fridman· Aug 2, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersThe first Neuralink patient beat a world record with most of his electrodes goneGuest Elon Musk · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman talks with Elon Musk, the Neuralink team, and Noland Arbaugh about a wireless brain implant, the software that rescued it, and why bandwidth is Musk’s bet on living with AI.
1:07:05ENSequoia Capital· Jul 16, 2024PodcastAlphaGo Combined Learning and Search. Language Models Only Did the First Half.Reflection AI's Misha Laskin tells Sequoia why prompted coding agents stall in the teens, and why the missing piece is still a ground-truth reward.
1:56:03ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jul 13, 2024PodcastHumans Near a Perfect Score. The Best AI Still Gets 39%Host Nathan LabenzZapier co-founder Mike Knoop and François Chollet put $1 million on ARC-AGI, a 2019 test of sample-efficient intelligence that language models still cannot crack under a one-cent-per-puzzle budget.
1:48:41ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jun 28, 2024PodcastAGI Has Been a Moving Goalpost for Seventy YearsHost Nathan Labenza16z’s Martin Casado and host Nathan Labenz spend two hours arguing whether today’s models will become general knowledge workers, and whether that debate should drive AI regulation.
2:51:58ENLex Fridman· Jun 13, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersSara Walker: Life Is Huge in Time, Not in SpaceGuest Sara Walker · Host Lex FridmanThe astrobiologist tells Lex Fridman why textbook definitions of life fail, how assembly theory measures complexity, and why aliens might disappear into their own causal structure.
26:00ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Jun 11, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersWhy a Zapier founder thinks AGI research has been stalled for four yearsHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilMike Knoop and François Chollet put more than a million dollars on beating ARC-AGI, the eval they say actually measures general intelligence.
1:23:10ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jun 8, 2024PodcastThe night Flo Crivello slept five hours: GPT-4 never hit a wallHost Nathan LabenzThe Lindy AI founder walks Nathan Labenz through timelines, misuse, open-source risk, and why two longtime libertarians now want regulation.
2:15:39ENLex Fridman· Jun 2, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersRoman Yampolskiy Puts Superintelligent Ruin at 99.99 PercentGuest Roman Yampolskiy · Host Lex FridmanThe AI safety researcher tells Lex Fridman that controlling AGI is as impossible as a perpetual motion machine, and that tests, open source, and regulation cannot close the gap.
1:55:10ENLex Fridman· Mar 18, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersSam Altman Expects the Road to AGI to Be a Power StruggleGuest Sam Altman · Host Lex FridmanOn a Friday afternoon in November 2023, OpenAI's board fired its CEO. Four and a half days later he was back, still refusing super-voting control.
2:47:17ENLex 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.
1:50:09ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Feb 27, 2024PodcastNine Hundred Occupations, Twenty Years, and Still No AI RevolutionHost Nathan LabenzEconomist Robin Hanson tells Cognitive Revolution why each new AI demo looks like the last one, and why wages and headcount are the tests that matter.
2:00:03ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Feb 23, 2024PodcastPatients Rated GPT-4 More Empathetic Than DoctorsHost Nathan LabenzAzeem Azhar of Exponential View maps the AI S-curve for Nathan Labenz: why the past always looks flat, why empathy went first, and what a million times more compute would actually change.
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.
19:10ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Jan 11, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersThe World's Only Capped-Profit CompanyHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilNo Priors looks back at 2023 through eight conversations on money, intelligence, jobs, and who should put the guardrails on a model.Load moreShowing 24 of 128