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Unsupervised 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.
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Cognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Aug 27, 2025PodcastSAEs Find the Nouns. Parameter Decomposition Looks for the VerbsHost Nathan LabenzGoodfire's Lee Sharkey argues that sparse autoencoders recover a network's variables, not the algorithms those variables run, and shows how stochastic parameter decomposition tries to recover the computations themselves.
1:37:05ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jun 19, 2025PodcastAn Algebraic Geometer Quit Tenure Because the Bowl-Shaped Loss Plot Is a LieHost Nathan LabenzJesse Hoogland and Daniel Murfet of Timaeus argue that singularities in the loss landscape — not the smooth valleys in every slide deck — are what actually govern how neural networks learn, generalize, and go wrong.
2:12:00ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· May 15, 2025PodcastGradient Descent at Test Time: Titans Pushes LLM Context to 10 Million TokensHost Nathan LabenzA Cornell PhD student's neural memory module holds about 70% accuracy where GPT-4's scores fall off a cliff.
2:33:39ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Feb 27, 2025PodcastThe Attacker Goes Second: Why Nicholas Carlini Keeps Breaking AI DefensesHost Nathan LabenzA Google DeepMind security researcher on simple loss functions, 70% robust accuracy, and why the fix has to live in the system, not the model.
1:40:22ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jan 22, 2025PodcastTwenty-atom crystals taught an AI the physics of a heartbeatHost Nathan LabenzOrbital Materials' Jonathan Godwin and Tim Duignan tell Nathan Labenz how a neural network trained on tiny crystals simulated a potassium ion channel on a single 2017 GPU.
1:42:16ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jul 4, 2024Podcast267 Papers in Seven Months: Albert Gu Explains the State Space Model RevolutionHost Nathan LabenzThe Mamba co-author walks through five years of recurrent-model work, why selective compression beats a growing KV cache, and what Mamba 2 trades away to train faster.
1:54:01ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jun 26, 2024PodcastA Tiny Network Grew a Salt Crystal the Training Data Never ShowedHost Nathan LabenzTim Duignan trained tens of thousands of parameters on salt water. The model invented a crystal — and a continuum solvent theory he had spent a PhD failing to write by hand.
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.
1:19:24ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Nov 17, 2023PodcastA Toy Paper Did Not Prove LLMs Cannot Generalize. The Discourse Still Ran With It.Host Nathan LabenzNathan Labenz and Erik Torenberg unpack a viral DeepMind result, a weekend reproduction, and a premature war over voluntary AI commitments.
1:33:56ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jul 6, 2023PodcastThe AI Scouting Report: 90 Minutes From GPT-4's Exam Scores to Whether Models UnderstandHost Nathan LabenzNathan Labenz spends a solo episode walking through what general-purpose models can do, how they are trained, how capabilities unlock, and whether they understand anything at all.
1:32:22ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jun 29, 2023PodcastA Million Bytes and 256 Symbols: Meta's MEGABYTE Wants to Throw the Tokenizer AwayHost Nathan LabenzLili Yu of Meta AI explains a multiscale transformer that predicts million-byte sequences, skips tokenization, and aims to model any file as raw bytes.
1:52:46ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jun 27, 2023PodcastCharge Neural Nets by Connection Length, and the Black Box Splits Into Modules You Can SeeHost Nathan LabenzMIT physicist Ziming Liu walks Nathan Labenz through BIMT, a brain-inspired training trick that sparsifies networks until you can read them by looking.
1:25:50ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Apr 18, 2023PodcastPrompt Engineering Became Programming, and Riley Goodside Is Fine With ThatHost Nathan LabenzScale AI’s first staff prompt engineer on tool use, fine-tuning without amnesia, generate-then-rank, and why the 2023 job-of-the-future story never arrived.
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Lex Fridman· Dec 26, 2020PodcastSteal the Code: You Get Zero Points for Making the Algorithm RunHost Lex FridmanCharles Isbell and Michael Littman tell Lex Fridman why machine learning is not just statistics, why struggle has to stay hopeful, and what a $6,600 online master's actually sells.
45:31ENLex Fridman· Jul 1, 2020PodcastYou Are Your Own Existence Proof: Karl Friston on Free Energy, Life, and Self-AwarenessHost Lex FridmanKarl Friston explains how the free energy principle reframes existence, life, planning, and self-awareness as inference problems.
26:02ENLex Fridman· Feb 9, 2020PodcastMoore’s Law Is Not Dead—It Is a Cascade of S-CurvesHost Lex FridmanJim Keller explains why transistor scaling keeps outrunning its obituary, and how exponential hardware changes the mathematics AI can attempt.
46:25ENLex Fridman· Jan 17, 2019PodcastDeep Learning at the Edge of 2019: BERT, Autopilot, and the Ideas That Broke ThroughHost Lex FridmanA tour of the architectural, applied, and automation breakthroughs that defined deep learning in 2018 and set up 2019.
1:29:03ENLex Fridman· Sep 27, 2016PodcastFrom Word Vectors to Memory Networks: The Building Blocks of Deep NLPHost Lex FridmanRichard Socher explains how word embeddings, recurrent models, GRUs, pointer mixtures, and dynamic memory networks turn language tasks into trainable end-to-end systems.
1:00:51ENLex FridmanPodcastDeep Learning From the Ground Up: Hugo Larochelle's One-Hour Tour of Neural Network FoundationsHost Lex FridmanA fast, equation-level walk through feed-forward networks, backpropagation, practical training tricks, dropout and batch normalization, from the 2016 Deep Learning School.
1:07:29ENLex FridmanPodcastDeep Reinforcement Learning from First Principles: Rewards, Q-Learning, Policy Gradients and AlphaZeroHost Lex FridmanLex Fridman's MIT 6.S091 opening lecture walks from the basic RL framework through DQN, actor-critic methods and AlphaZero to the unsolved problem of moving from simulation to the real world.
9:59ENLex FridmanPodcastIs Language or Vision Harder? Ilya Sutskever on the Unity of Machine LearningHost Lex FridmanIn a short clip from his 2020 conversation with Lex Fridman, Ilya Sutskever explains why vision, language and reinforcement learning share the same few principles, and why asking which problem is harder is the wrong question.
1:25:16ENLex FridmanPodcastFrom Hand-Built Features to ResNets: Andrej Karpathy's Crash Course in Convolutional NetworksHost Lex FridmanA 2016 Deep Learning School talk covering how convnets work, how the ImageNet winners evolved, and how to apply them without being a hero.
1:24:43ENLex FridmanPodcastFrom Sparse Coding to GANs: A Tour of Unsupervised Deep Learning in 2016Host Lex FridmanRuslan Salakhutdinov walks through autoencoders, Boltzmann machines, variational autoencoders and adversarial networks at the Deep Learning School, with candid notes on what did and did not work.Load moreShowing 24 of 51