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Unsupervised Learning: With Jacob Effron· Oct 6, 2026PodcastPost-Training Wins Inference: Why Owning the Weights Beats Betting on One LabHost Jacob EffronApplied Compute CEO Yash Patil argues that control, private evals, and post-training on the biggest workloads matter more than fearing that frontier labs will turn malicious.
50:57ENUnsupervised Learning: With Jacob Effron· Jul 9, 2026PodcastA Trillion Dollars of GPUs Will Be Worth $100 Billion in Five Years, Says LSTM's Jürgen SchmidhuberHost Jacob EffronThe AI pioneer tells Unsupervised Learning's Jacob Effron why he is wildly optimistic about the technology and deeply pessimistic about the model companies buying the chips.
1:13:33ENUnsupervised Learning: With Jacob Effron· Jun 3, 2026PodcastA Trillion Tokens Later, the Concept Finally Lands: Łukasz Kaiser on What Transformers Still MissHost Jacob EffronThe Attention Is All You Need co-author tells Unsupervised Learning that transformers will probably keep winning — and that they still do not learn the way people do.
59:41ENUnsupervised Learning: With Jacob Effron· May 22, 2026PodcastThe GPT moment for video hasn’t arrived, but AGI may already be hereHost Jacob EffronA day after Google I/O 2026, Gemini co-lead Oriol Vinyals argues that world models, file-system memory, and infinite-complexity RL environments will define the next era of frontier models.
1:21:56ENUnsupervised Learning: With Jacob Effron· May 15, 2026PodcastYann LeCun Left Meta Because LLMs Will Not Get You to IntelligenceHost Jacob EffronThe Turing Award winner tells Jacob Effron why he spun AMI Labs out of Meta, why JEPA-style world models beat pixel generators, and why he thinks Hinton changed his mind in 2023.
58:46ENUnsupervised Learning: With Jacob Effron· Apr 9, 2026PodcastTwo Dates from OpenAI's Chief Scientist: Intern by September, Automated Researcher by 2028Host Jacob EffronJakub Pachocki tells Jacob Effron why those timelines still hold, why continual learning is not a detour, and why showing chain of thought in the product would train the monitor away.
1:03:00ENUnsupervised Learning: With Jacob Effron· Jan 29, 2026PodcastA Model That Solves New Math Problems Every Week Still Isn't AGIHost Jacob EffronFormer OpenAI research VP Jerry Tworek on why scaling still works, why models go hopeless when they fail, and why he left to chase continual learning.
57:52ENUnsupervised Learning: With Jacob Effron· Aug 13, 2025PodcastThey Aimed for 1%. The Lab Hit 20%. Chai Discovery Moved Antibody Design Onto the Computer.Host Jacob EffronJoshua Meier on three waves of AI drug discovery, why Chai-2 behaves like Photoshop for molecules, and why a 1% hit rate was supposed to be enough to change the industry.
47:00ENUnsupervised Learning: With Jacob Effron· May 8, 2025PodcastAn Eval Lasts Three Months — and a Frozen Frontier Would Still Feed Startups for a DecadeHost Jacob EffronOpenAI’s GPT-4.1 post-training lead Michelle Pokrass tells Unsupervised Learning how the team spent three months on evals before training, why agents fail on wiring more than intelligence, and when to reach for RFT.
1:10:23ENUnsupervised Learning: With Jacob Effron· Mar 17, 2025PodcastA Million Tokens per Dollar: Why Noam Shazeer Thinks Inference Compute Is Still UntappedHost Jacob EffronThe Transformer co-inventor and Gemini researcher Jack Rae walk through test-time compute, Ilya Sutskever's AGI critique, and a four-year-old who now lectures his teacher about lizards.
1:07:32ENUnsupervised Learning: With Jacob Effron· Dec 18, 2024Podcasto1 Is a New Generation — and the Day AGI Arrives Will Feel BoringHost Jacob EffronOpenAI’s former chief research officer Bob McGrew on why o1 is a 100x leap, why agents stall on reliability, and why AGI may land as office tedium rather than a single dramatic moment.
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.
1:06:48ENUnsupervised 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.
1:10:19ENUnsupervised Learning: With Jacob EffronPodcastThe Robot That Folded the Laundry: Physical Intelligence’s Three FrontiersHost Jacob EffronKarol Hausman and Danny Driess explain how robot foundation models moved from coded primitives to web-scale pretraining, and why performance is now the hard gate.
57:25ENUnsupervised Learning: With Jacob EffronPodcastFrom RAG to Reasoning: Why the Future of AI Is a System, Not a ModelHost Jacob EffronDouwe Kiela explains what OpenAI's o1 reveals about test-time compute, why enterprise AI must be specialized, and where post-training and evaluations are heading.