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"Descript Isn't a Slop Machine": Laura Burkhauser on the AI Tools Creators Love and Hate
Season 1
Laura Burkhauser, CEO of Descript, explains how the company is navigating the tension between powerful AI tools and creator backlash against “slop.” …
5 months, 3 weeks ago
The RL Fine-Tuning Playbook: CoreWeave's Kyle Corbitt on GRPO, Rubrics, Environments, Reward Hacking
Season 1
Kyle Corbitt, founder of OpenPipe, breaks down reinforcement learning and custom fine-tuning for modern AI models. He explains how RL differs from su…
5 months, 4 weeks ago
AI in the AM: 99% off search, GPT-5.5 is "clean", model welfare analysis, & efficient analog compute
Season 1
This edition of AI in the AM features Anna Patterson on Ceramic.ai’s pivot to low-cost enterprise search for LLMs, designed to combine public and pri…
6 months ago
Does Learning Require Feeling? Cameron Berg on the latest AI Consciousness & Welfare Research
Season 1
Cameron Berg returns to discuss the latest research on AI consciousness and model welfare. He breaks down new evidence for model introspection, inclu…
6 months, 1 week ago
Vibe-Coding an Attention Firewall, w/ Steve Newman, creator of The Curve
Season 1
Steve Newman, creator of Writely and founder of the Golden Gate Institute for AI, shares the personal AI toolkit and vibe-coding practices that have …
6 months, 1 week ago
Welcome to AI in the AM: RL for EE, Oversight w/out Nationalization, & the first AI-Run Retail Store
Season 1
This special AI in the AM episode features Sergiy Nesterenko of Quilter on using reinforcement learning for circuit board design, Andy Hall of Stanfo…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
It's Crunch Time: Ajeya Cotra on RSI & AI-Powered AI Safety Work, from the 80,000 Hours Podcast
Season 1
This cross-post from the 80,000 Hours podcast features Ajeya Cotra in conversation with Rob Wiblin about AI timelines, recursive self-improvement, an…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Calm AI for Crazy Days: Inside Granola's Design Philosophy, with co-founder Sam Stephenson
Season 1
Sam Stephenson, co-founder of Granola, explains how a deliberately minimalist design philosophy helped turn the AI note-taking app into one of the fa…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Training the AIs' Eyes: How Roboflow is Making the Real World Programmable, with CEO Joseph Nelson
Season 1
Joseph Nelson, CEO of Roboflow, breaks down the current state of computer vision and why it still lags behind language models in real-world understan…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Success without Dignity? Nathan finds Hope Amidst Chaos, from The Intelligence Horizon Podcast
Season 1
This special cross-post from The Intelligence Horizon features Nathan Labenz in a wide-ranging conversation on compressed AI timelines, expert disagr…
6 months, 4 weeks ago