"The Cognitive Revolution"

"The Cognitive Revolution"

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"The Cognitive Revolution" episodes

  • AI Avatars & the Future of Video, with HeyGen CEO Joshua Xu and Benchmark's Victor Lazarte

    Nathan explores the future of AI-generated video with Joshua Xu, founder of HeyGen, and Victor Lazarte from Benchmark. In this episode of The Cognitive Revolution, we discuss HeyGen's success in practical AI video creation, serving over 40,000 businesses. Learn about the transformative potential of AI in video production, from content translation to personalized experiences, and HeyGen's industry-leading approach to trust and safety.

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    A new podcast for health-tech insiders from Christina Farr of the Second Opinion newsletter. Join Christina Farr, Luba Greenwood, and Ash Zenooz every week as they challenge industry experts with tough questions about the best bets in health-tech.

    Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1759267211

    Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0A8NwQE976s32zdBbZw6bv

    -

    🎙️ History 102 with WhatifAltHist

    Every week, creator of WhatifAltHist Rudyard Lynch and Erik Torenberg cover a major topic in history in depth -- in under an hour. This season will cover classical Greece, early America, the Vikings, medieval Islam, ancient China, the fall of the Roman Empire, and more.

    Subscribe on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/36Kqo3BMMUBGTDo1IEYihm

    Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/history-102-with-whatifalthists-rudyard-lynch-and/id1730633913

    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@History102-qg5oj


    SPONSORS:

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    The Brave search API can be used to assemble a data set to train your AI models and help with retrieval augmentation at the time of inference. All while remaining affordable with developer first pricing, integrating the Brave search API into your workflow translates to more ethical data sourcing and more human representative data sets. Try the Brave search API for free for up to 2000 queries per month at https://bit.ly/BraveTCR

    Omneky is an omnichannel creative generation platform that lets you launch hundreds of thousands of ad iterations that actually work customized across all platforms, with a click of a button. Omneky combines generative AI and real-time advertising data. Mention "Cog Rev" for 10% off https://www.omneky.com/

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    CHAPTERS:

    (00:00:00) About the Show

    (00:00:22) Sponsor: WorkOS

    (00:01:22) About the Episode

    (00:05:25) Introduction

    (00:06:15) Joshua's Background

    (00:09:47) Video Consumption Trends

    (00:10:49) Creating with HeyGen

    (00:12:46) Localization Benefits

    (00:14:02) Cost of Localization (Part 1)

    (00:16:19) Sponsors: Oracle | Brave

    (00:18:24) Content Creation

    (00:26:33) Engagement vs. Realism

    (00:31:44) Future of Content

    (00:37:43) Personalization Challenges

    (00:42:57) Future of HeyGen

    (00:49:13) Creator Experience

    (00:59:35) Celebrity Restrictions

    (01:03:03) Outro

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    SOCIAL LINKS:

    Website : https://www.cognitiverevolution.ai

    Youtube : https://www.youtube.com/@CognitiveRevolutionPodcast

    Apple : https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/the-cognitive-revolution-ai-builders-researchers-and/id1669813431

    Spotify : https://open.spotify.com/show/6yHyok3M3BjqzR0VB5MSyk

    1 hr 3 min
  • Zooming Out on AI, from the Nick Halaris Show

    Nathan Labenz joins the Nick Halaris Show to discuss the current AI landscape, balancing enthusiasm with critical analysis. This episode of The Cognitive Revolution explores AI's transformative potential in medicine, law, and automation, while addressing concerns about safety, control, and geopolitical implications. Join us for an insightful conversation on responsible AI development and its impact on society.

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    RECOMMENDED PODCAST:

    🎙️ Second Opinion - A new podcast for health-tech insiders from Christina Farr of the Second Opinion newsletter. Join Christina Farr, Luba Greenwood, and Ash Zenooz every week as they challenge industry experts with tough questions about the best bets in health-tech.

    Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1759267211

    Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0A8NwQE976s32zdBbZw6bv

    -

    🎙️ History 102 with WhatifAltHist

    Every week, creator of WhatifAltHist Rudyard Lynch and Erik Torenberg cover a major topic in history in depth -- in under an hour. This season will cover classical Greece, early America, the Vikings, medieval Islam, ancient China, the fall of the Roman Empire, and more.

    Subscribe on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/36Kqo3BMMUBGTDo1IEYihm

    Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/history-102-with-whatifalthists-rudyard-lynch-and/id1730633913

    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@History102-qg5oj


    SPONSORS:

    Building an enterprise-ready SaaS app? WorkOS has got you covered with easy-to-integrate APIs for SAML, SCIM, and more. Join top startups like Vercel, Perplexity, Jasper & Webflow in powering your app with WorkOS. Enjoy a free tier for up to 1M users! Start now at https://bit.ly/WorkOS-TCR

    Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is a single platform for your infrastructure, database, application development, and AI needs. OCI has four to eight times the bandwidth of other clouds; offers one consistent price, and nobody does data better than Oracle. If you want to do more and spend less, take a free test drive of OCI at https://oracle.com/cognitive

    The Brave search API can be used to assemble a data set to train your AI models and help with retrieval augmentation at the time of inference. All while remaining affordable with developer first pricing, integrating the Brave search API into your workflow translates to more ethical data sourcing and more human representative data sets. Try the Brave search API for free for up to 2000 queries per month at https://bit.ly/BraveTCR

    Omneky is an omnichannel creative generation platform that lets you launch hundreds of thousands of ad iterations that actually work customized across all platforms, with a click of a button. Omneky combines generative AI and real-time advertising data. Mention "Cog Rev" for 10% off https://www.omneky.com/

    Head to Squad to access global engineering without the headache and at a fraction of the cost: head to https://choosesquad.com/ and mention “Turpentine” to skip the waitlist.


    CHAPTERS:

    (00:00:00) About the Show

    (00:00:25) Sponsor: WorkOS

    (00:01:25) About the Show

    (00:03:36) Intro

    (00:05:53) How did you get into AI?

    (00:11:09) The power of the transformer

    (00:14:16) Waymark growth

    (00:19:00) Sponsors: Oracle | Brave

    (00:21:04) The potential benefits of AI

    (00:34:20) AI and mass inequality

    (00:35:26) AI could lead to Universal Basic Income

    (00:37:37) AI supply and the future of work

    (00:40:53) The AI future

    (00:43:38) The new social contract

    (00:47:06) Optimism about the future

    (00:53:19) What are people afraid of?

    (00:58:31) Reinforcement learning from human feedback

    (01:07:56) What did Ilya see?

    (01:10:23) Who controls AI?

    (01:13:23) China

    (01:16:05) Taiwan and the chip sector

    (01:20:05) The AI arms race

    (01:23:22) AI Governance

    (01:26:28) AI Safety

    (01:29:22) Custom Models

    (01:31:33) Closing

    (01:32:23) Outro

    1 hr 33 min
  • From Poetry to Programming: The Evolution of Prompt Engineering with Riley Goodside of Scale AI

    Nathan hosts Riley Goodside, the world's first staff prompt engineer at Scale AI, to discuss the evolution of prompt engineering. In this episode of The Cognitive Revolution, we explore how language models have progressed, making prompt engineering more like programming than poetry. Discover insights on enterprise AI applications, best practices for pushing LLMs to their limits, and the future of AI automation.

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    RECOMMENDED PODCAST:

    🎙️ Second Opinion - A new podcast for health-tech insiders from Christina Farr of the Second Opinion newsletter. Join Christina Farr, Luba Greenwood, and Ash Zenooz every week as they challenge industry experts with tough questions about the best bets in health-tech.

    Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1759267211

    Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0A8NwQE976s32zdBbZw6bv

    -

    🎙️ History 102 with WhatifAltHist

    Every week, creator of WhatifAltHist Rudyard Lynch and Erik Torenberg cover a major topic in history in depth -- in under an hour. This season will cover classical Greece, early America, the Vikings, medieval Islam, ancient China, the fall of the Roman Empire, and more.

    Subscribe on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/36Kqo3BMMUBGTDo1IEYihm

    Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/history-102-with-whatifalthists-rudyard-lynch-and/id1730633913

    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@History102-qg5oj


    SPONSORS:

    Building an enterprise-ready SaaS app? WorkOS has got you covered with easy-to-integrate APIs for SAML, SCIM, and more. Join top startups like Vercel, Perplexity, Jasper & Webflow in powering your app with WorkOS. Enjoy a free tier for up to 1M users! Start now at https://bit.ly/WorkOS-TCR

    Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is a single platform for your infrastructure, database, application development, and AI needs. OCI has four to eight times the bandwidth of other clouds; offers one consistent price, and nobody does data better than Oracle. If you want to do more and spend less, take a free test drive of OCI at https://oracle.com/cognitive

    The Brave search API can be used to assemble a data set to train your AI models and help with retrieval augmentation at the time of inference. All while remaining affordable with developer first pricing, integrating the Brave search API into your workflow translates to more ethical data sourcing and more human representative data sets. Try the Brave search API for free for up to 2000 queries per month at https://bit.ly/BraveTCR

    Omneky is an omnichannel creative generation platform that lets you launch hundreds of thousands of ad iterations that actually work customized across all platforms, with a click of a button. Omneky combines generative AI and real-time advertising data. Mention "Cog Rev" for 10% off https://www.omneky.com/

    Head to Squad to access global engineering without the headache and at a fraction of the cost: head to https://choosesquad.com/ and mention “Turpentine” to skip the waitlist.


    CHAPTERS:

    (00:00:00) About the Show

    (00:00:23) Sponsor: WorkOS

    (00:01:24) Introduction

    (00:06:23) LLMs using LLMs

    (00:09:38) Tool Use

    (00:11:06) How to manage the breadth of the task

    (00:14:51) Prompt engineering

    (00:26:49) Multitasking fine-tuning

    (00:31:49) Sponsors: Omneky | Squad

    (00:33:36) Best models for fine-tuning

    (00:36:41) The Platonic Representation Hypothesis

    (00:42:02) How close are we to AGI?

    (00:45:44) How do you know if youre being too ambitious?

    (00:51:18) Best practices for generating good output

    (00:54:33) Backfills and synthetic transformations

    (00:56:59) Prompt engineering

    (01:05:54) AGI, modalities, and the limits of training

    (01:20:08) Solving the ARC Challenge

    (01:23:20) How to Demonstrate Prompt Engineering Skills

    (01:25:27) Outro

    1 hr 26 min
  • Long-Term Memory for LLMs, with HippoRAG author Bernal Jiménez Gutierrez

    Nathan interviews Bernal Jimenez Gutierrez, creator of HippoRAG, a novel approach to retrieval augmented generation inspired by the human hippocampus. In this episode of The Cognitive Revolution, we explore how HippoRAG improves on traditional RAG systems, its neuroanatomical inspiration, and its potential for handling complex queries requiring multi-hop reasoning. Join us for an insightful discussion on the future of AI memory systems.

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    RECOMMENDED PODCAST:

    🎙️ Second Opinion - A new podcast for health-tech insiders from Christina Farr of the Second Opinion newsletter. Join Christina Farr, Luba Greenwood, and Ash Zenooz every week as they challenge industry experts with tough questions about the best bets in health-tech.

    Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1759267211

    Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0A8NwQE976s32zdBbZw6bv

    -

    🎙️ History 102 with WhatifAltHist

    Every week, creator of WhatifAltHist Rudyard Lynch and Erik Torenberg cover a major topic in history in depth -- in under an hour. This season will cover classical Greece, early America, the Vikings, medieval Islam, ancient China, the fall of the Roman Empire, and more.

    Subscribe on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/36Kqo3BMMUBGTDo1IEYihm

    Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/history-102-with-whatifalthists-rudyard-lynch-and/id1730633913

    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@History102-qg5oj


    SPONSORS:

    Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is a single platform for your infrastructure, database, application development, and AI needs. OCI has four to eight times the bandwidth of other clouds; offers one consistent price, and nobody does data better than Oracle. If you want to do more and spend less, take a free test drive of OCI at https://oracle.com/cognitiveThe Brave search API can be used to assemble a data set to train your AI models and help with retrieval augmentation at the time of inference. All while remaining affordable with developer first pricing, integrating the Brave search API into your workflow translates to more ethical data sourcing and more human representative data sets. Try the Brave search API for free for up to 2000 queries per month at https://bit.ly/BraveTCR

    Omneky is an omnichannel creative generation platform that lets you launch hundreds of thousands of ad iterations that actually work customized across all platforms, with a click of a button. Omneky combines generative AI and real-time advertising data. Mention "Cog Rev" for 10% off https://www.omneky.com/

    Head to Squad to access global engineering without the headache and at a fraction of the cost: head to https://choosesquad.com/ and mention “Turpentine” to skip the waitlist.


    CHAPTERS:

    (00:00:00) About the Show

    (00:02:52) Intro

    (00:05:10) RAG

    (00:09:29) Hippocampal Memory Indexing Theory

    (00:14:29) Neocortex, Parahippocampal Regions, Hippocampus

    (00:18:35) Hipporag (Part 1)

    (00:21:12) Sponsors: Oracle | Brave

    (00:23:20) Hipporag (Part 2)

    (00:23:29) Understanding the Hippocampus

    (00:29:37) RAG

    (00:31:38) Runtime (Part 1)

    (00:36:30) Sponsors: Omneky | Squad

    (00:38:17) Runtime (Part 2)

    (00:38:17) PageRank

    (00:39:29) Headline Results

    (00:43:22) Gaia Benchmark

    (00:46:33) Pathfinding vs Path Following

    (00:51:24) Future work

    (00:53:26) Starting with a query

    (00:58:30) Long context LLMs

    (01:01:50) Hybrid approach

    (01:05:03) AI Town

    (01:06:58) Flair

    (01:09:05) Getting it right, not cheap

    (01:12:33) Technologies to highlight

    (01:16:57) AI capabilities that are still unsolved

    (01:19:47) Transformers meet neural algorithmic reasoners

    (01:21:02) Closing

    (01:21:31) Outro

    1 hr 22 min
  • Guaranteed Safe AI? World Models, Safety Specs, & Verifiers, with Nora Ammann & Ben Goldhaber

    Nathan explores the Guaranteed Safe AI Framework with co-authors Ben Goldhaber and Nora Ammann. In this episode of The Cognitive Revolution, we discuss their groundbreaking position paper on ensuring robust and reliable AI systems. Join us for an in-depth conversation about the three-part system governing AI behavior and its potential impact on the future of AI safety.

    Apply to join over 400 founders and execs in the Turpentine Network: https://hmplogxqz0y.typeform.com/to/JCkphVqj


    RECOMMENDED PODCAST:

    🎙️ Second Opinion - A new podcast for health-tech insiders from Christina Farr of the Second Opinion newsletter. Join Christina Farr, Luba Greenwood, and Ash Zenooz every week as they challenge industry experts with tough questions about the best bets in health-tech.

    Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1759267211

    Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0A8NwQE976s32zdBbZw6bv

    -

    🎙️ History 102 with WhatifAltHist

    Every week, creator of WhatifAltHist Rudyard Lynch and Erik Torenberg cover a major topic in history in depth -- in under an hour. This season will cover classical Greece, early America, the Vikings, medieval Islam, ancient China, the fall of the Roman Empire, and more.

    Subscribe on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/36Kqo3BMMUBGTDo1IEYihm

    Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/history-102-with-whatifalthists-rudyard-lynch-and/id1730633913

    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@History102-qg5oj


    SPONSORS:

    Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is a single platform for your infrastructure, database, application development, and AI needs. OCI has four to eight times the bandwidth of other clouds; offers one consistent price, and nobody does data better than Oracle. If you want to do more and spend less, take a free test drive of OCI at https://oracle.com/cognitive

    The Brave search API can be used to assemble a data set to train your AI models and help with retrieval augmentation at the time of inference. All while remaining affordable with developer first pricing, integrating the Brave search API into your workflow translates to more ethical data sourcing and more human representative data sets. Try the Brave search API for free for up to 2000 queries per month at https://bit.ly/BraveTCR

    Omneky is an omnichannel creative generation platform that lets you launch hundreds of thousands of ad iterations that actually work customized across all platforms, with a click of a button. Omneky combines generative AI and real-time advertising data. Mention "Cog Rev" for 10% off https://www.omneky.com/

    Head to Squad to access global engineering without the headache and at a fraction of the cost: head to https://choosesquad.com/ and mention “Turpentine” to skip the waitlist.


    CHAPTERS:

    (00:00:00) About the Show

    (00:04:39) Introduction

    (00:07:58) Convergence

    (00:10:32) Safety guarantees

    (00:14:35) World model (Part 1)

    (00:22:22) Sponsors: Oracle | Brave

    (00:24:31) World model (Part 2)

    (00:26:55) AI boxing

    (00:30:28) Verifier

    (00:33:33) Sponsors: Omneky | Squad

    (00:35:20) Example: Self-Driving Cars

    (00:38:08) Moral Desiderata

    (00:41:09) Trolley Problems

    (00:47:24) How to approach the world model

    (00:50:50) Deriving the world model

    (00:55:13) How far should the world model extend?

    (01:00:55) Safety through narrowness

    (01:02:38) Safety specs

    (01:08:26) Experiments

    (01:11:25) How GSAI can help in the short term

    (01:27:40) What would be the basis for the world model?

    (01:31:23) Interpretability

    (01:34:24) Competitive dynamics

    (01:37:35) Regulation

    (01:42:02) GSAI authors

    (01:43:25) Outro

    1 hr 44 min
  • The ARC Prize: Efficiency, Intuition, and AGI, with Mike Knoop, co-founder of Zapier

    Nathan interviews Mike Knoop, co-founder of Zapier and co-creator of the ARC Prize, about the $1 million competition for more efficient AI architectures. They discuss the ARC AGI benchmark, its implications for general intelligence, and the potential impact on AI safety. Nathan reflects on the challenges of intuitive problem-solving in AI and considers hybrid approaches to AGI development.


    Apply to join over 400 founders and execs in the Turpentine Network: https://hmplogxqz0y.typeform.com/to/JCkphVqj


    RECOMMENDED PODCAST

    🎙️ Second Opinion - A new podcast for health-tech insiders from Christina Farr of the Second Opinion newsletter. Join Christina Farr, Luba Greenwood, and Ash Zenooz every week as they challenge industry experts with tough questions about the best bets in health-tech.

    Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1759267211

    Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0A8NwQE976s32zdBbZw6bv

    -

    🎙️ History 102 with WhatifAltHist

    Every week, creator of WhatifAltHist Rudyard Lynch and Erik Torenberg cover a major topic in history in depth -- in under an hour. This season will cover classical Greece, early America, the Vikings, medieval Islam, ancient China, the fall of the Roman Empire, and more.

    Subscribe on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/36Kqo3BMMUBGTDo1IEYihm

    Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/history-102-with-whatifalthists-rudyard-lynch-and/id1730633913

    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@History102-qg5oj


    SPONSORS:


    Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is a single platform for your infrastructure, database, application development, and AI needs. OCI has four to eight times the bandwidth of other clouds; offers one consistent price, and nobody does data better than Oracle. If you want to do more and spend less, take a free test drive of OCI at https://oracle.com/cognitive

    The Brave search API can be used to assemble a data set to train your AI models and help with retrieval augmentation at the time of inference. All while remaining affordable with developer first pricing, integrating the Brave search API into your workflow translates to more ethical data sourcing and more human representative data sets. Try the Brave search API for free for up to 2000 queries per month at https://bit.ly/BraveTCR


    Omneky is an omnichannel creative generation platform that lets you launch hundreds of thousands of ad iterations that actually work customized across all platforms, with a click of a button. Omneky combines generative AI and real-time advertising data. Mention "Cog Rev" for 10% off https://www.omneky.com/


    Head to Squad to access global engineering without the headache and at a fraction of the cost: head to https://choosesquad.com/ and mention “Turpentine” to skip the waitlist.


    CHAPTERS:


    (00:00:00) About the Show

    (00:06:06) The ARC Benchmark

    (00:09:34) Other Benchmarks

    (00:10:58) Definition of AGI

    (00:14:38) The rules of the contest

    (00:18:16) ARC test set (Part 1)

    (00:18:23) Sponsors: Oracle | Brave

    (00:20:31) ARC test set (Part 2)

    (00:22:50) Stair-stepping benchmarks

    (00:26:17) ARC Prize

    (00:28:34) The rules of the ARC Prize

    (00:31:12) Compute costs (Part 1)

    (00:34:47) Sponsors: Omneky | Squad

    (00:36:34) Compute costs (Part 2)

    (00:51:20) Intuition

    (00:54:32) Human Intelligence

    (00:56:06) Current Frontier Language Models

    (00:57:44) Program Synthesis

    (01:04:10) Is the model learning or memorizing?

    (01:15:02) Exploring Solutions

    (01:17:02) Non-backpropagation evolutionary architecture search

    (01:19:49) Expectations for an AGI world

    (01:24:11) Reliability and out of domain generalization

    (01:28:35) What a person would do

    (01:29:51) What is the right generalization

    (01:35:32) The ARC AGI Challenge

    (01:48:32) FunSearch

    (01:50:41) Kolmogorov-Arnold-Networks

    (01:54:18) Grokking

    (01:55:42) Outro

    1 hr 56 min
  • A Foundation Model for Food, with Chef Robotics CEO Rajat Bhageria

    Nathan explores the future of food production with Rajat Bhageria, founder and CEO of Chef Robotics. In this episode of The Cognitive Revolution, we delve into how AI and robotics are revolutionizing food assembly, potentially reshaping the entire food industry. Discover insights on imitation learning, data flywheel effects, and the vision of accessible, customizable meals produced by robotic kitchens.


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    History 102 with WhatifAltHist

    Every week, creator of WhatifAltHist Rudyard Lynch and Erik Torenberg cover a major topic in history in depth -- in under an hour. This season will cover classical Greece, early America, the Vikings, medieval Islam, ancient China, the fall of the Roman Empire, and more.

    Subscribe on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/36Kqo3BMMUBGTDo1IEYihm

    Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/history-102-with-whatifalthists-rudyard-lynch-and/id1730633913

    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@History102-qg5oj


    SPONSORS:

    Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is a single platform for your infrastructure, database, application development, and AI needs. OCI has four to eight times the bandwidth of other clouds; offers one consistent price, and nobody does data better than Oracle. If you want to do more and spend less, take a free test drive of OCI at https://oracle.com/cognitive

    The Brave search API can be used to assemble a data set to train your AI models and help with retrieval augmentation at the time of inference. All while remaining affordable with developer first pricing, integrating the Brave search API into your workflow translates to more ethical data sourcing and more human representative data sets. Try the Brave search API for free for up to 2000 queries per month at https://bit.ly/BraveTCR

    Omneky is an omnichannel creative generation platform that lets you launch hundreds of thousands of ad iterations that actually work customized across all platforms, with a click of a button. Omneky combines generative AI and real-time advertising data. Mention "Cog Rev" for 10% off https://www.omneky.com/

    Head to Squad to access global engineering without the headache and at a fraction of the cost: head to https://choosesquad.com/ and mention “Turpentine” to skip the waitlist.


    CHAPTERS:

    (00:00:00) About the Show

    (00:02:40) Chef Robotics

    (00:04:09) Food Manufacturing

    (00:06:52) Food assembly

    (00:11:08) Setting up a robot

    (00:14:00) Onboarding process

    (00:18:08) Sponsors: Oracle | Brave

    (00:20:16) Self fine-tuning

    (00:22:59) Variation in the human powered setting

    (00:29:53) Safety constraints

    (00:32:15) Portfolio of customers

    (00:33:43) Sponsors: Omneky | Squad

    (00:35:30) Evolution of the AI strategy

    (00:40:14) Generative AI in robotics

    (00:43:27) Eurekas and bootstrapping

    (00:45:43) Time to onboard a new ingredient

    (00:47:15) Inner loops of the system

    (00:49:17) How controlled does the environment have to be?

    (00:52:51) Compute, Energy

    (00:54:12) Reliability

    (00:59:52) Current challenges

    (01:02:47) Humanoid robots

    (01:06:42) Business model

    (01:07:58) Future vision

    (01:11:51) Ghost kitchens and kitchenless houses

    (01:14:35) Final message

    (01:15:49) Outro

    1 hr 16 min
  • Delving into The Prompt Report, with Sander Schulhoff of LearnPrompting.org

    Nathan welcomes back Sander Schulhoff, creator of LearnPrompting.org, to discuss the recently released Prompt Report. In this episode of The Cognitive Revolution, we explore the current state of prompting techniques for large language models, covering best practices, challenges, and emerging trends in AI. Join us for an in-depth conversation on the future of prompt engineering and its implications for AI development.


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    History 102 with WhatifAltHist

    Every week, creator of WhatifAltHist Rudyard Lynch and Erik Torenberg cover a major topic in history in depth -- in under an hour. This season will cover classical Greece, early America, the Vikings, medieval Islam, ancient China, the fall of the Roman Empire, and more.

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    CHAPTERS:


    (00:00:00) About the Show

    (00:02:35) Sander Schulhoff, Learn Prompting

    (00:05:22) Hack-a-Prompt updates

    (00:12:39) The team behind the report

    (00:18:40) Sponsors: Oracle | Brave

    (00:20:48) The tech side of things (Part 2)

    (00:22:24) The taxonomy

    (00:25:06) Diamonds in the rough

    (00:28:32) Few-shot prompting design decisions

    (00:34:01) Sponsors: Omneky | Squad

    (00:35:48) Example vs. Exemplar

    (00:38:24) Exemplar Format

    (00:42:04) Elaborate Instructions

    (00:44:22) Variation in Performance

    (00:46:46) Prompt Robustness

    (00:50:54) RLHF vs. Base Models

    (00:52:42) How to improve your prompts

    (00:55:22) Ensembling

    (00:58:41) Bootstrapping into fine-tuning

    (01:02:04) Multimodal

    (01:07:41) Agents

    (01:09:47) Automated prompt engineering

    (01:12:35) Productizing learn prompting

    (01:14:28) Lessons from leading a team

    (01:16:00) Outro

    1 hr 16 min
  • Building an Intelligent Business OS, with Runway CEO Siqi Chen

    Nathan interviews Siqi Chen, CEO of Runway, about revolutionizing business finance through AI. In this episode of The Cognitive Revolution, we explore how Runway is creating an intelligent business operating system that generates financial scenarios and explains complex metrics. Siqi shares insights on AI's future impact on finance, business, and society at large.


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    Patrick McKenzie (@patio11) talks to experts who understand the complicated but not unknowable systems we rely on. You might be surprised at how quickly Patrick and his guests can put you in the top 1% of understanding for stock trading, tech hiring, and more.

    Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3Mos4VE3figVXleHDqfXOH

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    SPONSORS:

    Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is a single platform for your infrastructure, database, application development, and AI needs. OCI has four to eight times the bandwidth of other clouds; offers one consistent price, and nobody does data better than Oracle. If you want to do more and spend less, take a free test drive of OCI at https://oracle.com/cognitive

    The Brave search API can be used to assemble a data set to train your AI models and help with retrieval augmentation at the time of inference. All while remaining affordable with developer first pricing, integrating the Brave search API into your workflow translates to more ethical data sourcing and more human representative data sets. Try the Brave search API for free for up to 2000 queries per month at https://bit.ly/BraveTCR

    Omneky is an omnichannel creative generation platform that lets you launch hundreds of thousands of ad iterations that actually work customized across all platforms, with a click of a button. Omneky combines generative AI and real-time advertising data. Mention "Cog Rev" for 10% off https://www.omneky.com/

    Head to Squad to access global engineering without the headache and at a fraction of the cost: head to https://choosesquad.com/ and mention “Turpentine” to skip the waitlist.


    CHAPTERS:

    (00:00:00) About the Show

    (00:02:45) Runway

    (00:06:11) AI features

    (00:12:10) Defining the syntax

    (00:14:48) How AI has been expressed since GPT-3

    (00:18:32) When did it become clear that the models were getting good enough?

    (00:24:29) Sponsors: Oracle | Brave

    (00:26:38) How the model is being asked to generate a scenario

    (00:26:38) What will drive the most improvement?

    (00:28:50) How Runway can help you make decisions

    (00:37:47) Sponsors: Omneky | Squad

    (00:39:34) Runway as a business operating system

    (00:39:51) How does the product work?

    (00:44:31) What does the future hold?

    (00:47:34) The frontier model has passed the average person

    (00:51:18) AI tools for operations

    (00:55:21) How to get the best out of AI models

    (01:00:39) How AI models can write as you

    (01:02:43) AGI, work, and the future

    (01:08:33) AI safety, regulation, and the future

    (01:11:26) Closing thoughts

    (01:12:20) Outro

    1 hr 13 min
  • The State Space Model Revolution, with Albert Gu

    Nathan hosts Albert Gu, assistant professor at CMU and co-founder of Cartesia AI, to discuss the groundbreaking Mamba architecture. In this episode of The Cognitive Revolution, we explore the state space model revolution, diving into the technical details of Mamba and Mamba 2. Join us for an insightful conversation on the future of AI architectures and their potential to transform the field.


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    RECOMMENDED PODCAST:

    Patrick McKenzie (@patio11) talks to experts who understand the complicated but not unknowable systems we rely on. You might be surprised at how quickly Patrick and his guests can put you in the top 1% of understanding for stock trading, tech hiring, and more.

    Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3Mos4VE3figVXleHDqfXOH

    Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/id1753399812https://podcasts.apple.com/id1753399812


    SPONSORS:

    Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is a single platform for your infrastructure, database, application development, and AI needs. OCI has four to eight times the bandwidth of other clouds; offers one consistent price, and nobody does data better than Oracle. If you want to do more and spend less, take a free test drive of OCI at https://oracle.com/cognitive


    The Brave search API can be used to assemble a data set to train your AI models and help with retrieval augmentation at the time of inference. All while remaining affordable with developer first pricing, integrating the Brave search API into your workflow translates to more ethical data sourcing and more human representative data sets. Try the Brave search API for free for up to 2000 queries per month at https://bit.ly/BraveTCR


    Omneky is an omnichannel creative generation platform that lets you launch hundreds of thousands of ad iterations that actually work customized across all platforms, with a click of a button. Omneky combines generative AI and real-time advertising data. Mention "Cog Rev" for 10% off https://www.omneky.com/


    Head to Squad to access global engineering without the headache and at a fraction of the cost: head to https://choosesquad.com/ and mention “Turpentine” to skip the waitlist.


    CHAPTERS:

    (00:00:00) About the Show

    (00:05:39) State Space Models

    (00:13:05) Intuition and inspiration

    (00:18:27) Surprises

    (00:22:33) Sponsors: Oracle | Brave

    (00:24:41) Biological inspiration

    (00:25:19) MAMBA breakthrough

    (00:30:59) How does the state work?

    (00:36:44) What is the size of the state?

    (00:39:05) Training vs. Inference (Part 1)

    (00:42:04) Sponsors: Omneky | Squad

    (00:43:51) Training vs. Inference (Part 2)

    (00:43:51) Sequence Models

    (00:49:20) Mamba inference

    (00:57:53) Mamba2 vs Mamba1

    (01:16:05) Overtraining and the future of SSMs

    (01:17:44) Training efficiency vs inference efficiency

    (01:20:52) Hybrid models

    (01:25:04) Scaling Attention Layers

    (01:30:23) Optimizing State

    (01:34:09) The extrapolation abilities of the SSMs

    (01:36:37) Sequence parallelism with Mamba 2

    (01:39:20) Why are you publishing all this?

    (01:40:46) Cartesia and Together

    (01:41:54) Outro

    1 hr 42 min

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