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Back to SearchArtificial Intelligence & Large Language Models: Oxford Lecture — #35
Season 2
This week's episode is based on a lecture Steve gave to an audience of theoretical physicists at Oxford University. The topic is artificial intellige…
3 years, 1 month ago
Simone Collins: IVF, Embryo Selection, Dating on the Spectrum, and Pronatalism — #34
Season 2
In collaboration with her husband Malcolm Collins, Simone is an author (The Pragmatist's Guide to Life, Relationships, Sexuality, Governance, and Cra…
3 years, 2 months ago
Katherine Dee: Culture, Identity, and Isolation in the Digital Age — #33
Season 2
Katherine Dee is a writer, journalist, and internet historian.
Steve and Katherine discuss:
0:00 Introduction
1:15 Katherine’s early life and background…
3 years, 2 months ago
Marc Martinez: "Dream Big" and the Golden Age of Bodybuilding — #32
Season 2
Marc Martinez is the director of Dream Big, a documentary about Gold's Gym and the golden age of bodybuilding in Venice and Santa Monica in the 1970s…
3 years, 3 months ago
Gilles Saint-Paul: The Yellow Vests, French Politics, and Hypergamy — #31
Season 2
Gilles Saint-Paul is Professeur à l'Ecole Normale Supérieure. He is a graduate of Ecole Polytechnique in Engineering and received his PhD from MIT in…
3 years, 4 months ago
Bing vs. Bard, US-China STEM Competition, and Embryo Screening — #30
Season 2
Steve discusses the competition between Microsoft and Google, the competition between the U.S. and China in STEM, China’s new IVF policy, and a Scien…
3 years, 4 months ago
ChatGPT, LLMs, and AI — #29
Season 2
Steve discusses Large Language Model AIs such as ChatGPT.
0:00 How do LLMs work?
10:22 Impact of ChatGPT
15:21 AI landscape
24:13 Hallucination and Focu…
3 years, 5 months ago
Dominic Cummings: Vote Leave, Brexit, COVID, and No. 10 with Boris — #28
Season 2
Dominic Cummings is a major historical figure in UK politics. He helped save the Pound Sterling, led the Vote Leave campaign, Got Brexit Done, and gu…
3 years, 5 months ago
Sahil Lavingia: Founding Gumroad, The Minimalist Entrepreneur, and our AI LLM future — #27
Season 2
Sahil Lavingia founded Gumroad at the age of 19 and built it into a leading digital commerce platform. He is the author of The Minimalist Entrepreneu…
3 years, 5 months ago
Geoffrey Miller: Evolutionary Psychology, Polyamorous Relationships, and Effective Altruism — #26
Season 2
Geoffrey Miller is an American evolutionary psychologist, author, and a professor of psychology at the University of New Mexico. He is known for his …
3 years, 6 months ago