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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, Elicit (elicit.org) is an AI research assistant that helps researchers…

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. This was recorded on March 31st and first released as…

The rate of growth of civilization is limited by net available intelligence, currently just human brains. Imagine how fast civilization can advance if we employ 1000 world-class (AI) scientists to solve our biggest problems (longevity/climate/ fusion/space travel/whatever’s next). Full interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tlQh... The Cognitive Revolution Main channel: https://www.youtube.com/@CognitiveRev... Support our sponsors:…

Keerthana Gopalakrishnan, a Google robotics and ML researcher, explains the unique imposition robotics has on safety.

Keerthana Gopalakrishnan, a researcher at Google Brain, shares her thoughts on how robotics is basically our quest to understand ourselves and build more of ourselves on the@CognitiveRevolutionPodcast

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 to approach translating them, as well as the importance of…

Nathan Labenz was a red teamer for GPT4 and shares an inside look into what he found to be the most concerning element of GPT4 on Episode 11 of the @CognitiveRevolutionPodcast

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, using it for real-life scenarios, and how he found it…

The development of ultra-realistic human voices is upon us, and Mahmoud Felfel's Play.ht is leading the next generation of text-to-voice models. In this episode we discuss the challenges and opportunities of automating a more human voice, as well as concerns about deep fakes and user safety. Check out the debut…

People have long been imagining AI assistants. Flo Crivello is turning that dream into a reality with the ambitious project Lindy AI. Flo sits down with Nathan on Lindy's announcement day to talk about this unique moment in AI, Lindy's capabilities, single-use apps, and how he sees the global impact…

How will GPT4 change the world? How will US-China 'racing dynamics' play out and what are the implications for AI safety? Nathan Labenz was invited to record a special "emergency" episode of ChinaTalk podcast this week to discuss the implications GPT4 will have for policy, economics, and society. Thanks to…

The rise of AI is a double-edged sword. While it brings efficiency and progress, it also poses a threat to job security and increases income inequality. As we move forward, we need to find a way to balance these two sides. Aravind Srinivas of Perplexity talks about the impact of…

Perplexity AI Founder, Avarind Srinivas, explains how we need to build AGI so that humans can just go back to living, just live a nice life. Not everybody needs to work so hard. AI can do most of the work that we think is hard work for us. And I…

We talked to Aravind Srinivas about competing with the tech giants, Perplexity’s product philosophy and obsession with maximizing value delivered to the user per unit time, and the features that make Perplexity unique. (0:00) Preview (1:31) Introduction & Context (08:06) Aravind’s vision for Perplexity as the world’s most truth-centric company…

As recently as January 2021, the challenge of "interpreting what is going on in a photograph" was considered "nowhere near solved." Today's guests Junnan Li and Dongxu Li changed that with their publication and open-sourcing of BLIP, which delivered state-of-the-art performance on image captioning and other vision-language tasks. BLIP became…

The Eliezer Yudkowsky base is a strong proponent of AI doomerism and the inevitable end to humanity. However, Anton Troynikov explain on Episode 5 of The Cognitive Revolution that he sees it very differently "I don't think we're going to die and have yet to see a convincing argument that…

Anton Troynikov, the founder of Chroma and Stable Attribution, discusses embeddings, the trade-offs and optimizations involved with working with embeddings at scale, the "Stable Attribution" project, and the big picture of recent AI developments. (0:00) Preview (1:17) Sponsor (4:00) Anton breaks down the advantages of vector databases (4:45) How embeddings…

Flo Crivello suggests "AI gives even more leverage to the individual. I think the same way code let companies like WhatsApp sell for like $20B with 40 or 50 people. I think we're going to see $1B, $10B, maybe even a $1T company in a decade or so with one…

The reason why Google is as good as it is is not because its AI is so amazing, it's because they literally have the entire world typing what they want. It was always the data side and never the actual algorithm. Algorithms aren't particularly defensible. At the end of the…

Amjad Masad, the founder of Replit, explains why Notion adding AI will beat other systems that are "AI first" on episode 4 of The Cognitive Revolution podcast. The battle between every startup and incumbent comes down to whether the startup gets distribution before the incumbent gets innovation. Notion 1 v.…

We're sharing a special episode of the Moment of Zen podcast focused exclusively on the AI moment with hosts Dan Romero, Erik Torenberg, and Antonio Garcia Martinez, and special guests Amjad Masad of Replit and Flo Crivello of Teamflow. The debates presented in this 30-minute episode span the potential rise…

Eugenia Kuyda, founder of Replika, explains the qualities of conversational AI and why chatGPT doesn't fall into that category on episode 3 of The Cognitive Revolution Podcast.

Eugenia Kuyda, the founder of Replika AI, discusses how virtual, compassionate AI characters are so much more than just a painkiller or vitamin on @CognitiveRevolutionPodcast

Nathan Labenz and Erik Torenberg sit down with Eugenia Kuyda, the founder of Replika, to discuss the intricacies of creating compassionate AI to offer companionship and address loneliness. Eugenia addresses the controversy of Replika limiting erotic roleplay for its users. (01:08) Sponsor (01:37) Introducing Eugenia (03:25) Replika’s controversial choice to…