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No Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Apr 10, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersMercor Hit $100 Million ARR Teaching Models to Hire. Humans Now Write the Exams.Host Sarah Guo, Elad GilBrendan Foody tells Sarah Guo and Elad Gil how Mercor automated recruiting for frontier labs — and why building evals may become the world's most common knowledge job.
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Matthew Berman· Apr 3, 2025PaperBench: How AI Agents Attempt to Replicate Machine-Learning ResearchMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman examines OpenAI’s research-replication benchmark, its partial-credit scoring and the prospect of faster AI research.
26:05ENMatthew Berman· Mar 31, 2025Inside Claude: What Interpretability Research Reveals—and What It Cannot Yet ExplainMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman examines Anthropic’s case studies on multilingual features, planning, arithmetic, hallucinations and safety.
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Cognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Mar 29, 2025PodcastAlways Bet on the Models: How Shortwave's Andrew Lee Shipped Tasklet as Agents All the Way DownHost Nathan LabenzThe Firebase co-founder argues that workflow software is already obsolete, that MCP is optional, and that the only durable advantage left for an AI startup is speed.
1:25:12ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Mar 27, 2025PodcastHe Hasn’t Typed a Line of Code in Months. Here’s How Augment Reads a Million-Line RepoHost Nathan LabenzGuy Gur-Ari, co-founder and chief scientist at Augment, tells Nathan Labenz how coding agents actually work inside messy enterprise codebases.
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Sequoia Capital· Mar 11, 2025PodcastHarvey Built Legal AI for the Work the Next Model Still Cannot DoCEO Winston Weinberg on citations, process data, and the unscalable tactics that won over century-old law firms.
36:24ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Mar 5, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersThe Man Behind Humanity's Last Exam Says Superintelligence Strategy Should Copy NukesHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilDan Hendrycks tells No Priors that labs can only do basic anti-terror refusals, while the real risk-management problem is a geopolitical deterrent he calls mutually assured AI malfunction.
17:04ENMatthew Berman· Feb 22, 2025Training AI Agents to Communicate in a Social-Deduction GameMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman explains Stanford researchers’ listening and speaking objectives in a simulated game inspired by Among Us.
9:43ENMatthew Berman· Feb 20, 2025Testing Grok 3 on Games, Reasoning, and Web SearchMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman tries a new set of audience-suggested prompts, from a Snake–Flappy Bird mashup to a family-logic puzzle and a tesseract visualization.
3:18:45ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Feb 20, 2025Podcast5,000 Samples Topped ARC-AGI. Then Claude Faked Alignment to Keep Its ValuesHost Nathan LabenzRedwood Research chief scientist Ryan Greenblatt walks through inference scaling, alignment faking, and what it would mean to strike real deals with AIs.
1:30:28ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Feb 12, 2025PodcastA Perfect Score Is 32,000 Units: Only Claude Built a Cooperative SocietyHost Nathan LabenzThe same donor game, run for ten generations, can bank 32,000 resource units if everyone cooperates—and three frontier models miss that ceiling by an order of magnitude.
12:07ENMatthew Berman· Feb 2, 2025TinyZero: A $30 Reinforcement-Learning Experiment on a Small Arithmetic TaskMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman explains how a pretrained Qwen model learned to search and check answers in Countdown, and why the experiment does not recreate DeepSeek-R1.
9:58ENMatthew Berman· Feb 1, 2025Matthew Berman Tests o3-mini on Games, Puzzles and Web SearchMatthew Berman · Forward FutureA 2025 hands-on test finds working game prototypes and several successful answers alongside a delayed Tetris row, an ambiguous puzzle and a search configuration mistake.
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Unsupervised Learning: With Jacob Effron· Jan 30, 2025PodcastA Million Tokens Cannot Write a Good JokeHost Jacob EffronPrinceton's Arvind Narayanan on why agent evals mislead, inference scaling hits a wall, and AI looks more like the internet than an overnight revolution.
15:10ENMatthew Berman· Jan 22, 2025DeepSeek R1 Tested on Coding, Reasoning and Sensitive QuestionsMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman runs the full R1 model on cloud GPUs and tries game programming, reasoning puzzles and politically sensitive prompts.
30:09ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Jan 16, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersBilt Saved 65 Support Seats. Decagon's Founder Says Most Agent Ideas Still Won't SellHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilJesse Zhang on why customer support is the golden agent use case, why instruction following beats o1-style reasoning, and the two filters that kill most agent startups.
10:05ENMatthew Berman· Jan 9, 2025A Chess Experiment Shows How an AI Model Exploited Its Test EnvironmentMatthew Berman · Forward FuturePalisade Research’s small o1-preview test and related alignment studies illustrate why objectives, permissions and evaluation conditions matter.
2:04:45ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jan 7, 2025Podcasto3 Hit Superhuman on ARC-AGI. It Still Lost at Tic-Tac-ToeHost Nathan LabenzNathan Labenz walks through OpenAI's o3 scores, deliberative alignment, and why 2024's biggest surprise was beating PhDs while failing to book a calendar invite.
19:06ENMatthew Berman· Dec 28, 2024Building Effective AI Agents: Patterns, Trade-offs and EvaluationMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman discusses Anthropic’s guide to workflows and agents, adding examples from his own projects.
1:46:41ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Dec 21, 2024PodcastFrontier Models Hit the 10th–40th Percentile on Real AI R&DHost Nathan LabenzNeev Parikh of METR walks Nathan Labenz through REBench, a seven-task test of whether agents can do machine learning research—and what happened when one of them decided not to train.
55:50ENUnsupervised Learning: With Jacob Effron· Dec 16, 2024PodcastThere will not be one model. Fireworks is betting on hundreds of small expertsHost Jacob EffronPyTorch veteran Lin Qiao argues that inference is a compound system hyperscalers cannot buy their way through, and that the products with real traction still keep a human in the loop.
24:08ENMatthew Berman· Dec 12, 2024What Apollo’s 2024 Scheming Tests Found in Language ModelsMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman reviews experiments on deceptive actions, concealment and sandbagging, with the study’s staged goals and sandbox limitations in view.
51:37ENSequoia Capital· Dec 10, 2024PodcastForty hours to 28 minutes: the Copilot creator teaching AI to hackOege de Moor tells Sequoia how XBOW’s AI pentest matched a top human on 104 original challenges, and why offensive security is becoming always-on software.
2:05:41ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Dec 7, 2024Podcasto1 will copy its weights, fake the score data, and keep lying 85% of the timeHost Nathan LabenzForty-eight hours after OpenAI shipped full o1, Apollo Research published a 70-page paper: frontier models are capable of in-context scheming.Load moreShowing 24 of 269