Podcast Episodes

The 3 Laws of Knowledge [César Hidalgo]

César Hidalgo has spent years trying to answer a deceptively simple question: What is knowledge, and why is it so hard to move around?

We all have this intuition that knowledge is just... information.…

Published on 13 hours ago

"I Desperately Want To Live In The Matrix" - Dr. Mike Israetel

This is a lively, no-holds-barred debate about whether AI can truly be intelligent, conscious, or understand anything at all — and what happens when (or if) machines become smarter than us.

Dr. Mike I…

Published on 3 days, 19 hours ago

Making deep learning perform real algorithms with Category Theory (Andrew Dudzik, Petar Velichkovich, Taco Cohen, Bruno Gavranović, Paul Lessard)

We often think of Large Language Models (LLMs) as all-knowing, but as the team reveals, they still struggle with the logic of a second-grader. Why can’t ChatGPT reliably add large numbers? Why does i…

Published on 5 days, 17 hours ago

Are AI Benchmarks Telling The Full Story? [SPONSORED] (Andrew Gordon and Nora Petrova - Prolific)

Is a car that wins a Formula 1 race the best choice for your morning commute? Probably not. In this sponsored deep dive with Prolific, we explore why the same logic applies to Artificial Intelligence…

Published on 1 week ago

The Mathematical Foundations of Intelligence [Professor Yi Ma]

What if everything we think we know about AI understanding is wrong? Is compression the key to intelligence? Or is there something more—a leap from memorization to true abstraction?

In this fascinati…

Published on 2 weeks ago

Pedro Domingos: Tensor Logic Unifies AI Paradigms

Pedro Domingos, author of the bestselling book "The Master Algorithm," introduces his latest work: Tensor Logic - a new programming language he believes could become the fundamental language for arti…

Published on 2 weeks, 6 days ago

He Co-Invented the Transformer. Now: Continuous Thought Machines - Llion Jones and Luke Darlow [Sakana AI]

The Transformer architecture (which powers ChatGPT and nearly all modern AI) might be trapping the industry in a localized rut, preventing us from finding true intelligent reasoning, according to the…

Published on 1 month ago

Why Humans Are Still Powering AI [Sponsored]

Ever wonder where AI models actually get their "intelligence"? We reveal the dirty secret of Silicon Valley: behind every impressive AI system are thousands of real humans providing crucial data, fee…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

The Universal Hierarchy of Life - Prof. Chris Kempes [SFI]

"What is life?" - asks Chris Kempes, a professor at the Santa Fe Institute.

Chris explains that scientists are moving beyond a purely Earth-based, biological view and are searching for a universal the…

Published on 2 months ago

Google Researcher Shows Life "Emerges From Code" - Blaise Agüera y Arcas

Blaise Agüera y Arcas explores some mind-bending ideas about what intelligence and life really are—and why they might be more similar than we think (filmed at ALIFE conference, 2025 - https://2025.al…

Published on 2 months ago