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October 25, 2024
Neural Nets and Nobel Prizes: AI's 40-Year Journey from the Lab to Ubiquity
In this episode of AI + a16z, General Partner Anjney Midha shares his perspective on the recent collection of Nobel Prizes awarded to AI researchers in both Phy…
How NotebookLM Was Made
If you’ve listened to the podcast for a while, you might have heard our ElevenLabs-powered AI co-host Charlie a few times. Text-to-speech has made amazing progr…
xAI Releases AI API
xAI has officially launched an API, allowing developers to build on top of Grok models. With access to Grok 2 and Grok 2 Mini, this move places xAI in direct co…
October 24, 2024
Michael Levin - Why Intelligence Isn't Limited To Brains.
Professor Michael Levin explores the revolutionary concept of diverse intelligence, demonstrating how cognitive capabilities extend far beyond traditional brain…
Anthropic's New AI Agent, OpenAI Plays Catch-up, Runway's Act-One & More AI News
AI NEWS: Agents are here from Anthropic with Computer Use in Claude Sonnet 3.5 (new) and likely coming from OpenAI, O1 keeps getting better and might get upgrad…
Waymo’s Journey to Full Autonomy: AI Breakthroughs, Safety, and Scaling
In this episode of No Priors, Dmitri Dolgov, Co-CEO of Waymo, joins Sarah and Elad to explore the evolution and advancements of Waymo's self-driving technology…
The Next Step in Our Journey to AI Agents: Anthropic's Computer Use
Anthropic unveils a new feature enabling AI to use computers like humans, marking a significant advancement in AI autonomy. Explore how this capability allows f…
Zoom CTO Xuedong "XD" Huang on How AI Revolutionizes Productivity - Ep. 235
Zoom, a company that helped change the way people work during the COVID-19 pandemic, is continuing to reimagine the future of work by transforming itself into a…
October 23, 2024
Speechmatics CTO - Next-Generation Speech Recognition
Will Williams is CTO of Speechmatics in Cambridge. In this sponsored episode - he shares deep technical insights into modern speech recognition technology and s…
#450 – Bernie Sanders Interview
Bernie Sanders is a US Senator from Vermont and a two-time presidential candidate. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: https://lexfridman.com/spon…
How GPU Access Helps AI Startups Be Agile
In this episode of AI + a16z, General Partner Anjney Midha explains the forces that lead to GPU shortages and price spikes, and how the firm mitigates these con…
#215 Manuel Haug: How Celonis Uses AI to Optimize Business Processes
This episode of Eye on AI is sponsored by Citrusx. Navigating the complexities of AI risk management? Citrusx has you covered. Their innovative platform helps y…
The AGI-Sized Hole in the Microsoft-OpenAI Partnership
Tensions rise between Microsoft and OpenAI as financial pressure and disagreements strain their partnership. Reports reveal that Microsoft could lose access to…
October 22, 2024
Dr. Sanjeev Namjoshi - Active Inference
Dr. Sanjeev Namjoshi, a machine learning engineer who recently submitted a book on Active Inference to MIT Press, discusses the theoretical foundations and prac…
Winning Executive Buy-In For Scaling AI in Insurance - with Ermir Qeli of Swiss Re
Today's guest is Ermir Qeli, Head of Data Science in AI at Swiss Re. Ermir returns to the program to discuss strategies for gaining executive buy-in and scaling…
October 21, 2024
October 20, 2024
#186 - Adobe AI Tools, Tesla's Cybercab, Nobel Prizes
Our 186th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! With hosts Andrey Kurenkov and guest host Jon Krohn from the SuperDataScience Podcas…
Joscha Bach - Why Your Thoughts Aren't Yours.
Dr. Joscha Bach discusses advanced AI, consciousness, and cognitive modeling. He presents consciousness as a virtual property emerging from self-organizing soft…
October 19, 2024
Building the AI Engineer Nation — with Josephine Teo, Minister of Digital Development and Information, Singapore
Singapore's GovTech is hosting an AI CTF challenge with ~$15,000 in prizes, starting October 26th, open to both local and virtual hackers. It will be hosted on…
Decompiling Dreams: A New Approach to ARC? - Alessandro Palmarini
Alessandro Palmarini is a post-baccalaureate researcher at the Santa Fe Institute working under the supervision of Melanie Mitchell. He completed his undergradu…
5 Business Uses for NotebookLM
NotebookLM gets a major upgrade with customizable audio overviews, unlocking a range of business use cases from customer service insights to sales pitches. Plus…
October 18, 2024
Dueling Presidential interviews, SpaceX's big catch, Robotaxis, Uber buying Expedia?, Nuclear NIMBY
(0:00) Bestie intros (2:01) Polls vs Prediction markets, dueling interviews, election update (16:06) Tesla's Robotaxi event and SpaceX's Starship catch (27:36)…
Building the Silicon Brain - with Drew Houston of Dropbox
CEOs of publicly traded companies are often in the news talking about their new AI initiatives, but few of them have built anything with it. Drew Houston from D…
Amazon Joins Google and Microsoft in AI Nuclear Buildout
Amazon joins Google and Microsoft in a major push toward nuclear energy to meet AI’s growing power needs, committing to 600 megawatts in nuclear projects. The a…
October 17, 2024
#214 Ece Kamar: Why AI Agents Are the Next Big Thing in Tech (Microsoft Research)
This episode is sponsored by RapidSOS. Close the safety gap and transform your emergency response with RapidSOS. Visit https://rapidsos.com/eyeonai/ today to le…
Massive AI Update From Adobe, Tech Companies Go Nuclear & ChatGPT Knows Too Much
Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/AIForHumansShow AI News: Adobe's Max 2024 showed off a ton of new AI tools like Generative Extend and Project Clean Ma…
Gaming, Nobel Prizes and At-Risk Businesses in the AI Era
In this episode of No Priors, Sarah and Elad explore how AI is transforming consumer apps and entertainment, with a focus on potential integrations in gaming an…
How AI Is Fundamentally Reshaping the Web
The New York Times issues a cease and desist to Perplexity AI, spotlighting how AI is fundamentally changing the web and its traditional business models. Explor…
October 16, 2024
#449 – Graham Hancock: Lost Civilization of the Ice Age & Ancient Human History
Graham Hancock a journalist and author who for over 30 years has explored the controversial possibility that there existed a lost civilization during the last I…
Is AI Optimism In the Air?
Today's episode explores the growing shift toward AI optimism, highlighted by Anthropics CEO Dario Amodei’s essay on the potential positive impacts of AI. Topic…