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Season 1

June 13, 2023

E35: Stability AI’s Emad Mostaque and Slow Ventures’ Sam Lessin Discu…

In this episode, Nathan Labenz hosts a discussion between Emad Mostaque, founder of Stability AI, and Sam Lessin, GP of Slow Ventures and former VP Product at Facebook.

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June 9, 2023

E34: The Consumer Rights Revolution with Joshua Browder of DoNotPay

In this episode, Nathan sits down with Joshua Browder of DoNotPay, the world’s first robot lawyer. They chat about the current state of AI use in law, what policymakers should consider in regulating AI, and the ethics of robo-lawyers for …

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June 6, 2023

E33: The Tiny Model Revolution with Ronen Eldan and Yuanzhi Li of Mic…

Nathan Labenz sits down with Ronen Eldan and Yuanzhi Li of Microsoft Research to discuss the small natural language dataset they created called TinyStories.

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June 1, 2023

E31: Where are the Moats in AI? With Nathan Labenz and Erik Torenberg

Nathan and Erik analyze the moats of the most powerful companies in AI.

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May 30, 2023

E30: The AI Revolution in Hollywood? With WGA writers Trey Kollmer, S…

Today’s episode is a deep dive into the collision of AI and the future of entertainment, against the backdrop of the still raging Writers Guild of America (WGA) strike. Nathan Labenz sits down with Trey Kollmer, Sophia Lear, and Garrett …

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May 25, 2023

E29: The AI Chip Revolution with Andrew Feldman of Cerebras

Nathan Labenz sits down with Andrew Feldman, CEO and Co-founder of Cerebras Systems, a company building a new class of computer system for accelerating AI and changing the future of work.

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May 23, 2023

E28: Keeping the AI Revolution on the Rails with Shreya Rajpal of Gua…

Nathan Labenz sits down with engineer Shreya Rajpal, the creator of Guardrails AI, a new Python library that allows developers to add a layer of output, validation and correction to their code.

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May 21, 2023

E27: “Google’s Med-PaLM and Med-PaLM2 with Vivek Natarajan”

Nathan sits down with Vivek Natarajan, research scientist at Google Health. Vivek leads the Google Brain moonshot behind Med-PaLM, Google’s flagship medical large language model, featured in The Economist, The Scientific American, CNBC, and Forbes.

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May 19, 2023

E26: [Bonus Episode] Connor Leahy on AGI, GPT-4, and Cognitive Emulat…

[Bonus Episode] Future of Life Institute Podcast host Gus Docker interviews Conjecture CEO Connor Leahy to discuss GPT-4, magic, cognitive emulation, demand for human-like AI, and aligning superintelligence. You can read more about Connor's work at https://conjecture.dev

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May 16, 2023

E25: Revolutionizing Patient Care with Neal Khosla of Curai Health

Nathan and Erik sit down with Neal Khosla, founder of Curai Health, a venture-backed virtual care startup using AI to provide low-cost primary healthcare.

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May 11, 2023

E24: The AI Revolution in Medicine with Dr. Isaac Kohane of Harvard M…

Nathan sits down with Professor Zak Kohane, the Chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School, and co-author of the new book, The AI Revolution in Medicine, for which Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO wrote the foreword to …

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May 9, 2023

E23: Scouting the AI Revolution with Robert Scoble and "Ben's Bites" …

Nathan Labenz sits down with prominent – and notably prescient – AI media figures Robert Scoble and Ben Tossell. They discuss what the work of being an AI scout looks like, how to bring the mainstream along with emerging AI …

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May 4, 2023

E22: Helping Businesses Use AI with Rachel Woods of The AI Exchange

Nathan Labenz sits down with Rachel Woods, founder of The AI Exchange, an AI education platform with over 130,000 subscribers on TikTok.

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May 2, 2023

E21: VC Insights on Investing in Artificial Intelligence with Sarah G…

Nathan Labenz and Erik Torenberg sit down with Sarah Guo and Elad Gil, notable investors and co-hosts of the AI-focused No Priors podcast.

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April 27, 2023

E20: The Great Implementation with Raza Habib, CEO of Humanloop

Nathan Labenz sits down with Raza Habib, the CEO of Humanloop, a Y Combinator backed startup helping companies bridge the gap from API access to successful LLM deployment

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April 25, 2023

E19: The AI Agent Revolution with Matt Welsh of Fixie.ai

Nathan Labenz sits down with Matt Welsh, the CEO and co-founder of Fixie.AI which just raised $17M in seed funding. The technology world's attention has turned en masse to AI agents over the last month, but Matt, a former Harvard …

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April 20, 2023

E18: Why Jailbreaking ChatGPT Is A Public Good with Alex Albert of Th…

Nathan dives in with Alex Albert, a 22-year-old computer science student at the University of Washington, who has become a prolific creator of Jailbreakchat.com and writes over at The Prompt Report.com.

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April 18, 2023

E17: The Prompt Engineering Revolution with Riley Goodside

Riley Goodside is the world's first Staff Prompt Engineer at Scale AI, and is an expert in prompting large language models and integrating them into AI-powered applications. Few have spent as much time on the language model frontier, so I …

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April 13, 2023

E16: Pausing the AI Revolution? With Technologist Jaan Tallinn

athan Labenz dives in with Jaan Tallinn, a technologist, entrepreneur (Kazaa, Skype), investor, and one of the founders of the Future of Life Institute which recently published the open letter calling for a six-month pause on training new AI systems.

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April 11, 2023

E15: Will GPT-4 Cause Economic Transformation?

Nathan Labenz and Erik Torenberg delve into the upcoming economic transformation and the future of work in light of the threshold crossed by GPT-4. RECOMMENDED PODCAST: Founding a business is just the tip of the iceberg; the ...

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April 6, 2023

E14: The Reasoning Revolution with Ought's Jungwon Byun and Andreas S…

We've looked forward to today's episode since we launched the show! Andreas Stuhlmuller and Jungwon Byun are the co-founders of Ought, a product-driven research lab that develops mechanisms for delegating open-ended thinking to advanced machine learning systems. Their flagship product, …

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April 4, 2023

E13: AI open letter debate, "pausers", and what we're all scared of w…

Anton Troynikov of Chroma and Flo Crivello of Lindy AI join The Cognitive Revolution cohosts Nathan Labenz and Erik Torenberg to debate the issues raised in the AI open letter, which advocates for a 6-month pause on AI system trainings.

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March 30, 2023

E12: The Robot Revolution with Keerthana Gopalakrishnan of Google Rob…

Nathan Labenz talks to Google Robotics researcher Keerthana Gopalakrishnan (@keerthanpg) about how they train robots at Google, and how robots contextualize their environment and complete tasks through supervised learning. They go deep on integrating language models for commands and how …

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March 28, 2023

E11: OpenAI's GPT-4 Discussion with Nathan Labenz and Erik Torenberg

In this episode, hosts Nathan Labenz and Erik Torenberg delve into the exciting and concerning aspects of GPT4, the latest large multimodal model from OpenAI. Nathan, who was a Red Teamer for GPT4, shares his experience working with the model, …

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