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Season 1

Sept. 13, 2023

Hollywood Strike Update and AI Roundup with Trey Kollmer

In this episode, Trey Kollmer, WGA Writer and Co-Executive of the show Ghosts, returns to the show to discuss updates to the Hollywood Strikes, including news on SAG-AFTRA and WGA.

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Sept. 7, 2023

Why a16z Built a Town for AI People

In this episode, Nathan sits down with three members of the a16z x Convex AI Town project: Yoko Li, Martin Casado, and James Cowling

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Sept. 5, 2023

Cryptography Will Revolutionize AI Data Privacy with Daniel Kang

In this episode, Nathan sits down with Daniel Kang, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois.

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Aug. 31, 2023

How Hugging Face raised $235M

In this episode, Nathan and Erik sit down to analyze Hugging Face in light of its recent $235M Series D round.

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Aug. 29, 2023

E57: Google's PaLM 2 with Paige Bailey

In this episode, Nathan sits down with Paige Bailey, Lead Product Manager of Generative Models at Google Deepmind.

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Aug. 25, 2023

E56: OpenAI’s GPT3.5 Turbo and the State of AI in Coding, Healthcare,…

Join Nathan Labenz and Erik Torenberg as they analyze the latest developments from OpenAI on GPT 3.5, compare GPT to other live player models like Llama2, and discuss the state of AI in coding, education, and healthcare.

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Aug. 23, 2023

E55: Google’s Multimodal Med-PaLM with Vivek Natarajan and Tao Tu

In this episode, Nathan sits down with Vivek Natarajan and Tao Tu of Google’s Med-PaLM.

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Aug. 15, 2023

E53: The AI Revolution in Education with Shawn Jansepar, Director of …

In this episode, Nathan sits down with Shawn Jansepar, Director of Engineering at Khan Academy, to discuss their GPT-4 powered Socratic tutor, Khanmigo.

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Aug. 10, 2023

E52: Advancements in AI: Updating the Scouting Report, Task Automatio…

Join Nathan Labenz and Erik Torenberg as they analyze the last month in AI advancements. Nathan takes us through the meaningful updates to his Scouting Report (released last month, linked below), discusses highlights from recent episodes of The Cognitive Revolution, …

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Aug. 9, 2023

E51: Replit's VP of AI, Michele Catasta, on Artificial Developer Inte…

In this episode, Nathan sits down with Replit’s VP of AI, Michele Catasta.

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Aug. 4, 2023

E50: The Future of Software Development with Tyler Angert of Replit

In this episode, Nathan sits down with Tyler Angert, Product Designer at Replit, to discuss the future of software development.

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Aug. 2, 2023

E49: Open AI, Anthropic, and Meta | Analyzing the AI Frontier with Zvi

Nathan Labenz sits down with Zvi Mowshowitz, the writer behind Don't Worry About the Vase. In this episode, we cover if AI has attained the intelligence of a well-read college graduate (per OpenAI's Jan Leike), live players, and the role …

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July 27, 2023

E48: Mechanizing Mechanistic Interpretability with Arthur Conmy

Arthur Conmy sits down with Nathan Labenz for an accessible deep dive into the state of interpretability research online today.

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July 25, 2023

E47: GPUMaxing with Dr. Ronen Dar of Run:ai

Nathan Labenz sits down with Dr. Ronen Dar, CTO and co-founder of Run:ai, an Israel-based company that helps enterprises train and deploy AI models by optimizing GPU usage.

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July 19, 2023

E46: AI Scouting Report - Part 2 of 3: Implementation Trends [Bonus Y…

Head over to YouTube to watch Part 2 of The AI Scouting Report (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovm4MbQ4G9E).

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July 13, 2023

E45: The AI Copilot Revolution with Div Garg of MULTI·ON

Nathan Labenz interviews Div Garg, founder of MULTI·ON, the world's first personal AI agent and life copilot. Div talks about the product strategy and roadmap for the MULTI·ON browser, their natural language approach to skills, and the steps they are …

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July 11, 2023

E44: The AI Safety Debates with Zvi Mowshowitz

Nathan Labenz sits down with Zvi Mowshowitz, the writer behind Don't Worry About the Vase to discuss AI safety, discourse, and who really matters in the debates.

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July 6, 2023

E43: AI Scouting Report – Part 1 of 3: Fundamentals [Bonus YouTube Ep…

Head to a special YouTube presentation with visual aides (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hvtiVQ_LqQ), where Nathan Labenz synthesizes the core fundamentals of AI as simply, clearly, and literally as possible

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July 4, 2023

E42: The Autonomy Revolution with Hayk Martiros of Skydio

In this episode, Nathan Labenz sits down with Hayk Martiros, VP of Autonomy at Skydio.

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July 1, 2023

E41: [Bonus Episode - Latent.space] Building the AI x UX Scenius with…

In this episode, Latent.space hosts, Alessio and Swyx, sit down with Linus Lee of Notion AI to discuss Linus’ experience starting the AI/UX community, prompt engineering at Notion, and designing AI interfaces and agents.

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June 27, 2023

E39: Seeing is Believing with MIT’s Ziming Liu

Ziming Liu is a Physics PhD student at MIT and IAIFI, advised by Prof. Max Tegmark. Ziming’s research is at the intersection of AI and physics.

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June 22, 2023

E38: The Virtual Biopsy Revolution with Dr. Tanishq Mathew Abraham (P…

Part 2 of Nathan's conversation with Tanishq Mathew Abraham, 19-year-old UC Davis grad and one of the youngest people in the world to receive a Ph.D, with a degree in biomedical engineering.

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June 20, 2023

E37: The Mind-Reading Revolution with Dr. Tanishq Mathew Abraham (Par…

Nathan sits down with Tanishq Matthew Abraham, 19-year-old UC Davis grad and one of the youngest people in the world to receive a Ph.D, with a degree in biomedical engineering.

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June 16, 2023

E36: Your Model, Your Weights with MosaicML's Abhi Venigalla and Jona…

In this episode, Nathan sits down with Jonathan Frankle, Chief Scientist, and Abhi Venigalla, Research Scientist of MosaicML.

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