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The Missing Clock: Why Intelligence Needs Time
Season 5 Episode 22
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Every living organism on Earth keeps time. Not metaphorically. Not approximately. From single-celled cyanobacteria running a three-pr…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Will Robots Evolve into Crabs?
Season 5 Episode 21
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Nature keeps reinventing the crab. At least five times, unrelated crustacean lineages have independently converged on the same compac…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Why Bigger AI is a Trap
Season 5 Episode 20
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Your brain is shrinking. It has been for 3,000 years. And evolution doesn't care. In this episode, we explore one of biology's most u…
7 months ago
Biological Memory for Edge Devices
Season 5 Episode 19
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Your brain runs two separate memory systems and a nightly maintenance cycle to learn continuously without forgetting. The hippocampus…
7 months, 1 week ago
The Best Model Doesn't Win: Why AI is Repeating the Browser Wars, Not the Cloud Wars
Season 5 Episode 18
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Three years into the foundation model race, the scoreboard depends entirely on which metric you read. ChatGPT still dominates consume…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
LLM Coding Assistants: Scaling Limits and the AGI Thesis
Season 5 Episode 17
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In this episode, we take a hard look at one of the most debated questions in artificial intelligence: do LLM-based coding assistants …
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Why AI makes Experts Worse
Season 5 Episode 16
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Recent research points to a “leveling effect” in knowledge work. Generative AI dramatically improves the performance of novices by ac…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
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 an…
7 months, 3 weeks 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 disc…
8 months, 1 week 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 re…
8 months, 3 weeks ago