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. They discuss how Sarah and Elad are approaching AI investment opportunities right now, how that differs from how they've thought about investing in the past, where in…
Raza Habib is on the front lines of LLM implementation as CEO of Humanloop, a Y Combinator backed startup that helps companies of all kinds, small and large bridge the gap from API access to successful LLM deployment. Nathan sat down with Raza to hear what he has learned in…
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 has been focused on AI agents for longer over at Fixie. The platform…
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. This is Alex's first podcast appearance! Please enjoy this thought-provoking conversation with Alex Albert as part of 'Prompt Engineering…
For anyone who discovered this show on Twitter, Riley (@goodside) likely needs no introduction – after all, he spent most of 2022 posting his explorations of OpenAI's text-davinci-002, and quickly became one of the must-follow accounts in AI. Riley Goodside is the world's first Staff Prompt Engineer at Scale AI,…
Nathan Labenz dives in with Jaan Tallinn, a technologist, entrepreneur (Kazaa, Skype), and investor (DeepMind and more) whose unique life journey has intersected with some of the most important social and technological events of our collective lifetime. Jaan has since invested in nearly 180 startups, including dozens of AI application…
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. Also, check out the debut of Erik's new long-form interview podcast @UpstreamwithErikTorenberg whose guests in the first three episodes were Ezra Klein, Balaji Srinivasan, and Marc…
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…
