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Unsupervised 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.
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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.
1:13:33ENUnsupervised 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.
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.
1:04:54ENUnsupervised Learning: With Jacob Effron· Nov 12, 2024PodcastHe bet company equity that Transformer would last — then drew an AI map for 12,000 companiesHost Jacob EffronDatabricks chief AI scientist Jonathan Frankle tells enterprises when to prompt, fine-tune, or pre-train, and why he still refuses to forecast the next architecture.
1:18:32ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Sep 20, 2024PodcastA DNA Model That Can Tell Which Genes You Cannot TouchHost Nathan LabenzStanford's Brian Hie walks through hybrid architectures, a genome-scale language model trained only on DNA, and an antibody that binds 25 times tighter than nature.
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No Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Sep 5, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersA perfect demo is ten years from a product you can pay forHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilAndrej Karpathy uses Waymo's decade-long gap, Tesla's software bet, and a new AI course to argue that autonomous intelligence will stall at product and globalization, not at the first impressive clip.
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.
34:09ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Jun 27, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersFive Independent Teams Found the Same 10-to-1 Mix That Beats TransformersHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilThe authors of S4 and Mamba argue that mostly state-space layers plus a dash of attention is the architecture that actually works—and they are shipping it first as real-time speech.
1:19:24ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Apr 5, 2024PodcastA Gibberish Prompt Unlocks What GPT-J Plans Three Tokens AheadHost Nathan LabenzNortheastern’s Bau Lab shows that a 40,000-parameter soft prompt can read a model’s future words, and that about ten attention heads carry the task itself.
1:20:44ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Mar 30, 2024PodcastSeeing Like a Mamba: Vision, Rotting States, and a Cell Model in 90 DaysHost Nathan LabenzNathan Labenz and Jason Meaux survey the vision papers, long-context experiments, and biology work that followed the original Mamba release.
2:30:06ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Dec 22, 2023PodcastTrained on a Thirtieth of GPT-4's Tokens, Mamba Beat Transformers on Home TurfHost Nathan LabenzIn a solo emergency episode, Nathan Labenz argues that Albert Gu and Tri Dao's selective state space model is the first architecture since 2017 that deserves to share the Transformer’s throne.
41:58ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Nov 2, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersReliability is the bottleneck. Autonomy is what would make AI feel alive.Host Sarah Guo, Elad GilIlya Sutskever talks with Sarah Guo and Elad Gil about AlexNet, OpenAI’s capped-profit bet, why smaller models mainly lose reliability, and the line he draws for digital life.
35:24ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Aug 24, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersThe Author of Attention Is All You Need Now Compiles mRNA Like BytecodeHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilJakob Uszkoreit on why Transformers won, why models spend compute on the wrong things, and why drug discovery has to become generation rather than screening.
39:02ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Aug 10, 2023PodcastAI’s product advantage is consistency. Its real weakness is getting conned.Host Nathan LabenzNathan Labenz updates the Cognitive Revolution scouting report: jailbreaks, resume automation, Med-PaLM’s 40% radiology win, and what might follow Transformers.
2:13:07ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jul 27, 2023PodcastHalf an Hour to a Circuit in GPT-2 Small — and a Quadratic Wall Before GPT-3Host Nathan LabenzArthur Conmy walks Nathan Labenz through ACDC, the algorithm that automates the most tedious step of mechanistic interpretability: finding which transformer components actually do a task.
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.
2:00:19ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jun 6, 2023Podcast1.5 Million GPT-4 Fairy Tales Let a 33-Million-Parameter Model Out-Reason GPT-2Host Nathan LabenzTry this fill-in: Lily likes cats and dogs. She asked her mom for a dog. Mom said no, so she asked for a…
35:36ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Apr 13, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersAGI as a side effect: Noam Shazeer on Transformers, Character.AI, and two-hour chatsHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilIn April 2023, the Transformer co-author told No Priors how a 22-person startup turned open-ended chat into a consumer product — and treated AGI as a byproduct of making the model smarter.
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Lex Fridman· Apr 29, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersThe Night AlphaStar Beat TLO, the Team Went to a BarGuest Oriol Vinyals · Host Lex FridmanOriol Vinyals on how DeepMind turned StarCraft II into a sequence problem, built a league of agents, and still refuses to call the game solved.
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.
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.
1:16:52ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"PodcastMamba After 90 Days: What 30 Papers Reveal About State Space Models, Hybrids, and Mixture of ExpertsHost Nathan LabenzNathan Labenz and AI scout Jason Meaux survey the first wave of Mamba-inspired research, from mechanistic studies and synthetic-task tradeoffs to hybrid architectures and MoE variants.
1:03:10ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"PodcastPause Tokens, Analogical Prompts and Ring Attention: A Tour of the Transformer's Next UpgradesHost Nathan LabenzNathan Labenz and Trey Kollmer walk through five recent papers on pausing, backspacing, prompting, streaming and long-context training, and sketch how they might combine into a more capable model.