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#262 – Garry Nolan: UFOs and Aliens
Garry Nolan is a professor at Stanford University School of Medicine. His research is in microbiology, immunology, bio-computation, and analysis of UFO artifact…
OpenAI’s InstructGPT, Meta’s New AI Supercomputer, China Regulates DeepFakes, AI Playes Tetris
Our 84rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Note: apologies for issues with sound quality in this episode! Outline: Applications…
February 5, 2022
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#261 – Philip Goff: Consciousness, Panpsychism, and the Philosophy of Mind
Philip Goff is a philosopher of mind and consciousness at Durham University and author of Galileo’s Error. Please support this podcast by checking out our…
#062 - Dr. Guy Emerson - Linguistics, Distributional Semantics
Dr. Guy Emerson is a computational linguist and obtained his Ph.D from Cambridge university where he is now a research fellow and lecturer. On panel we also hav…
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WuDao 2.0 with its lead creator, Tang Jie
Currently the largest AI system in the world is China's WuDao 2.0, a sparse, multimodal, large language model with 1.75 trillion parameters. Tang Jie, a profess…
#259 – Thomas Tull: From Batman Dark Knight Trilogy to AI and the Rolling Stones
Thomas Tull is founder of Legendary Entertainment, Tulco, part-owner of Pittsburgh Steelers, and guitarist for the band Ghost Hounds. Please support this podcas…
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#258 – Yann LeCun: Dark Matter of Intelligence and Self-Supervised Learning
Yann LeCun is the Chief AI Scientist at Meta, professor at NYU, Turing Award winner, and one of the seminal researchers in the history of machine learning. Plea…
AI for Omicron, Self-Farming Farms, AI-designed beer, Cuddly AI
Our 83rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Outline: (00:00) Intro (01:10) This AI Software Nearly Predicted Omicron’s Tricky Str…
E64: Antitrust standards & enforcement, tech repricing, lab leak obfuscation, E63 reactions & more
00:00 Cold Open 00:25 Besties react to last week's All-In E63 21:50 Implications of FTC Chair Lina Khan's approach to enforcing antitrust 42:21 "Superbubble," M…
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#257 – Brian Keating: Cosmology, Astrophysics, Aliens & Losing the Nobel Prize
Brian Keating is an experimental physicist at the UCSD, author of Losing the Nobel Prize, and host of the Into the Impossible podcast. Please support this podca…
The Practical Business Case for AI Governance - with IBM's Chief AI Officer Seth Dobrin
Our guest this week is Dr. Seth Dobrin, the Global Chief AI Officer at IBM, one of the biggest names in artificial intelligence. In this episode, Seth returns t…
January 15, 2022
#256 – Nationalism Debate: Yaron Brook and Yoram Hazony
Yaron Brook is an objectivist. Yoram Hazony is a national conservative. This is a conversation and debate about national conservatism vs individualism. Please s…
E63: Insurrection indictments, human rights in the US and abroad, groundbreaking MS study and more
0:00 Bestie Intro: Friedberg prepares for the insurrection discussion 0:39 Breaking down the Oath Keeper indictments and the riots at the capitol, Biden's plumm…
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#255 – Mark Normand: Comedy!
Mark Normand is a stand-up comedian. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: – Calm: https://calm.com/lex to get 40% off – InsideT…
E62: Elizabeth Holmes verdict, fraud origins & takeaways, navigating "The Great Markdown" & more
0:00 Bestie intro and poker recap 3:14 Elizabeth Holmes verdict, origins of the fraud, breakdown of the Theranos promise 17:51 Lessons for founders and investor…