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Most Neurons Do Nothing and That's the Point!
Season 5 Episode 15
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This episode explores why biological neural networks are inherently sparse, with only 1 to 5 percent of cortical neurons active at any mom…
16 hours ago
Intelligence and the Substrate Independence Debate
Season 5 Episode 14
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Is intelligence tied to biology, or can it emerge in any suitable physical medium? In this episode, we examine the Substrate Non discrimin…
2 weeks ago
Are We Training AI the Wrong Way?
Season 5 Episode 13
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This episode examines how modern artificial intelligence is trained, and why its dominant methods may diverge from what decades of researc…
3 weeks, 4 days ago
Civilization Runs on Collective Fictions
Season 5 Episode 12
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This episode looks at how artificial intelligence is eroding the shared stories that have long held civilization together, from money and …
1 month ago
The Post-Work Era: AI, Automation, and Human Flourishing or...
Season 5 Episode 11
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This episode explores the idea of the “Post-Wage Horizon,” a future in which artificial intelligence and robotics take over most productiv…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Bio-Inspired Artificial Neurons Solve the Energy Problem
Season 5 Episode 10
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This episode explores how the foundations of AI hardware are being rethought in response to the growing energy demands of large language m…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Can Mental Illness Research Improve AI Alignment?
Season 5 Episode 9
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This episode explores a research program that borrows ideas from computational psychiatry to improve the reliability of advanced AI system…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Why Rumours of intent driven advertising for ChatGPT is a Problem
Season 5 Episode 8
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This episode examines the growing evidence that ChatGPT will soon include advertising, driven by leaked internal references and OpenAI’s f…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
The Death of the Oracle and the Birth of the Core
Season 5 Episode 7
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In this episode, we explore one of the most important architectural shifts happening in AI: the move from massive cloud-based models to sm…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Quantum Neural Networks: Theoretical Heaven, Practical Hell
Season 5 Episode 6
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In this episode, we break down what Quantum Neural Networks (QNNs) actually are and why they might eventually reshape the future of AI. QN…
3 months ago