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Cognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jun 3, 2026PodcastTwo Endangered Languages Broke Transformers. Nested Learning Gave Models a Sleep Button.Host Nathan LabenzGoogle researcher Ali Behrouz tells Nathan Labenz how stacking update frequencies — not just layers — and an offline sleep phase could give language models genuine continual learning.
1:13:23ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Oct 12, 2024PodcastAn AI Found a GABA-Cancer Link. The Next Step Is Talking to the Cells.Host Nathan LabenzMichael Levin and Leo Pio Lopez on a multilayer embedding that predicted melanoma, a cancer with no mutations, and why biology's real interface is cognitive.
1:59:47ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Oct 5, 2024PodcastBCI Would Take 30 Years. This Studio Pivoted to Alignment InsteadHost Nathan LabenzJudd Rosenblatt and Mike Vaiana of AE Studio describe two biologically inspired results that do not need interpretability breakthroughs to work.
1:29:14ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Apr 29, 2024Podcast55% of People Have Had a Lucid Dream. Prophetic AI Wants the Rest to Have One Every NightHost Nathan LabenzProphetic AI co-founders Eric Wollberg and Wesley Berry tell Ate-a-Pi how a headband of EEG and focused ultrasound, steered by a neural transformer, is meant to light up the prefrontal cortex during REM.
2:09:50ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Apr 26, 2024PodcastHe stayed up all night playing Civilization 6 with his mindHost Nathan LabenzDean W. Ball surveys EEG, ultrasound stimulation, and Neuralink with Nathan Labenz, and argues that merging with machines started decades ago.
1:34:11ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Apr 17, 2024PodcastFrom forty hours in a scanner to one: reconstructing what you see from a shared brain spaceHost Nathan LabenzPaul Scotti explains how MindEye2 maps a new person's fMRI into CLIP with an hour of data, and why a linear layer plus better image generators changed the cost of reading minds.
1:25:09ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Feb 9, 2024PodcastTwo-Headed Worms, Regenerated Legs, and a Sort That Learned to WaitHost Nathan LabenzTufts biologist Michael Levin tells Cognitive Revolution why anatomy is rewritable software, and why he stopped a paper that might have made AI more alive.
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.
1:18:18ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jun 20, 2023PodcastFifteen Thousand Brain Numbers Were Enough to Reconstruct What Someone SawHost Nathan LabenzTanishq Mathew Abraham walks through MindEye, the fMRI-to-image system that maps a handful of voxel values onto CLIP and diffusion models.
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Lex 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.
25:06ENLex FridmanPodcastLiving Inside the Brain's Story: Joscha Bach on Simulation, Self and ConsciousnessHost Lex FridmanIn a clip from his conversation with Lex Fridman, Joscha Bach argues that consciousness, identity and even God are software-like patterns, and that we exist inside a narrative our brain generates.
11:51ENLex FridmanPodcastBuilding a Brain: Paola Arlotta on the Choreography of Human Brain DevelopmentHost Lex FridmanA Harvard stem cell biologist walks through how the embryo builds the cerebral cortex, why order and environment matter, and why development continues into our twenties.
15:41ENLex FridmanPodcastAbolishing Involuntary Death: Ben Goertzel on Immortality, Pain and the Meaning of LifeHost Lex FridmanIn a clip from Lex Fridman's podcast, AI researcher Ben Goertzel argues that death and pain should be optional, and sketches what it would take to fund a serious attack on aging.
11:26ENLex FridmanPodcastThe Cookie Your Brain Bakes: Joscha Bach on Happiness, Cells and the Meaning of GodHost Lex FridmanIn a short clip, Joscha Bach moves from why happiness is not the point to the cell as a cosmic probe and a naturalistic reading of God as civilization.
20:50ENLex FridmanPodcastGlitches as Features: What John Hopfield Says Artificial Neural Networks Are MissingHost Lex FridmanIn a short conversation with Lex Fridman, physicist and neural-network pioneer John Hopfield compares evolved brains with today's artificial networks and explains why he expects AI to borrow from biology generation after generation.