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AI News Crossover: A Candid Chat with Liron Shapira of Doom Debates
Season 1
In this crossover episode of The Cognitive Revolution, Nathan Labenz joins Liron Shapira of Doom Debates, for a wide-ranging news and analysis discussion about recent AI developments. The conversatio…
Published on 8 months ago
Helen Toner: OpenAI Reflections, Adaptation Buffers, and AI in Warfare
Season 1
In this thought-provoking conversation, Helen Toner, Director of Strategy at the Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET), discusses her perspectives on AI development, regulation, and inte…
Published on 8 months ago
Is a US-China Thucydides Trap Unavoidable? With David C. Kang from the ChinaTalk Podcast
Season 1
In this crossover episode from the China Talk podcast, Nathan Labenz shares a thought-provoking conversation between Jordan Schneider, Ilari Michaela, and Professor David C. Kang that challenges conv…
Published on 8 months, 1 week ago
Google Agents Beat Human Doctors, Make Scientific Discoveries – with Vivek Natarajan & Anil Palepu
Season 1
In this episode, Nathan Labenz speaks with Vivek Natarajan and Anil Palepu from Google DeepMind about their groundbreaking work on AMIE (Articulate Medical Intelligence Explorer) and Co-Scientist. Th…
Published on 8 months, 1 week ago
Scaling "Thinking": Gemini 2.5 Tech Lead Jack Rae on Reasoning, Long Context, & the Path to AGI
Season 1
In this illuminating episode of The Cognitive Revolution, host Nathan Labenz speaks with Jack Rae, principal research scientist at Google DeepMind and technical lead on Google's thinking and inferenc…
Published on 8 months, 2 weeks ago
Reward Hacking by Reasoning Models & Loss of Control Scenarios w/ Jeffrey Ladish, from FLI Podcast
Season 1
On this cross-post episode, Jeffrey Ladish discusses the rapid pace of AI progress and the risks of losing control over powerful systems. We explore why AIs can be both smart and dumb, the challenges…
Published on 8 months, 2 weeks ago
Shortwave Rides the Tidal Wave: Inbox Agents, Hyper-Growth & Hiring AI Managers, with CEO Andrew Lee
Season 1
In this episode of the Cognitive Revolution podcast, Andrew Lee, founder and CEO of Shortwave, returns to discuss the rapid advancements in AI over the past year and how they have significantly impro…
Published on 8 months, 3 weeks ago
Code Context is King: Augment’s AI Assistant for Professional Software Engineers, with Guy Gur-Ari
Season 1
In this episode of the Cognitive Revolution, Guy Gur-Ari, Co-Founder and Chief Scientist at Augment, explores the transformative impact of AI on the software industry. Highlighting Augment's unique a…
Published on 8 months, 3 weeks ago
Unlocking Cells' Secrets: Diffusion, Deconvolution, & Discovery with Siyu He, author of Squidiff & CORAL
Season 1
In this episode of the Cognitive Revolution, we hear from Siyu He, a postdoc at Stanford specializing in biomedical data science. Siyu discusses the implications and methods behind their recent AI-dr…
Published on 8 months, 3 weeks ago
a16z on AI Voices: Call Centers, Coaches, and Companions with Olivia Moore & Anish Acharya
Season 1
In this episode of The Cognitive Revolution, host Nathan Labenz speaks with Andreessen Horowitz partners Olivia Moore and Anish Acharya about the rapid evolution of voice AI technology and its real-w…
Published on 9 months ago