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Back to SearchEp 91: Top AI Analyst Unpacks Today's AI Hype Cycle
Episode 91
Benedict Evans, one of tech's most widely-read analysts, joins Jacob Effron. The conversation centers on Benedict's core thesis that comparing AI's s…
4 hours ago
Ep 90: AI Pioneer Jürgen Schmidhuber on the State of AI Today
Episode 90
Dr. Jürgen Schmidhuber, a renowned scientist and AI researcher widely regarded as one of the pioneers in the field, originated key ideas behind today…
1 week ago
AI Vibe Check: Lab Wars, Why APIs Might Vanish & Future Predictions
Six months after their last roundup, Jacob sits down with Ari Morcos (Datology AI CEO, former Meta AI researcher) and Rob Toews (Radical Ventures par…
1 month ago
Ep 89: AI Research Legend’s Honest Assessment of Where We Are
Episode 89
This episode with Lukasz Kaiser, co-author of the seminal "Attention Is All You Need" transformer paper and former researcher at both Google Brain an…
1 month, 1 week ago
Ep 88: Unpacking DeepMind's Quest for SuperIntelligence with Demis Hassabis' Biographer
Episode 88
Sebastian Mallaby spent three years and 30+ hours interviewing Demis Hassabis in the back of a British pub to write The Infinity Machine, and the con…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Ep 87: Gemini Co-Lead on World Models, RL's Next Domains & Continual Learning
Episode 87
Oriol Vinyals, VP of Research at Google DeepMind and co-lead of the Gemini program, joins Jacob the day after Google I/O to unpack the research under…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Ep 86: Yann LeCun on Leaving Meta, Breaking The LLM Paradigm, & Why Hinton is Wrong
Episode 86
Yann LeCun, Turing Award winner and former Chief AI Scientist at Meta, joins Jacob Effron. The conversation centers on Yann's contrarian thesis that …
2 months ago
Ep 85: Has AI Infra Stabilized, FM Vibe Shift, & What's Next for Coding Agents
Episode 85
This episode is a wide-ranging conversation between Jacob and Swyx (Shawn Wang), an AI engineer, podcaster, and now operator at Cognition, who sits a…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Ep 84: OpenAI’s Chief Scientist on Continual Learning Hype, RL Beyond Code, & Future Alignment Directions
Episode 84
Jakub Pachocki, OpenAI's Chief Scientist, sits down with Jacob to cover the full arc of where AI research stands today and where it's headed. The con…
3 months, 1 week ago
Ep 83: Owning the System of Record, AI-Native Org Charts, & Why ITSM is The Most Vulnerable Legacy Category
Episode 83
Serval is one of the fastest-growing AI-native enterprise software companies right now, and this episode is a rare inside look at the deliberate arch…
3 months, 2 weeks ago