Podcast Episodes

When AI Decides You're a Threat — Brad Carson

Brad Carson was the Army's General Counsel, served two terms in Congress and was Acting Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness. He no…

12 hours ago

Intelligence is collective, not artificial — Prof. Michael I. Jordan (UC Berkeley / Inria)

Michael I. Jordan, described by Science magazine as the most influential computer scientist alive, has never thought of himself as an AI researcher. …

1 week, 3 days ago

The AI Models Smart Enough to Know They're Cheating — Beth Barnes & David Rein [METR]

Beth Barnes and David Rein on the one graph that ate the AI timelines discourse, and why the two people who built it are the most careful about how y…

3 weeks, 6 days ago

When AI Discovers The Next Transformer - Robert Lange (Sakana)

Robert Lange, founding researcher at Sakana AI, joins Tim to discuss *Shinka Evolve* — a framework that combines LLMs with evolutionary algorithms to…

2 months, 2 weeks ago

"Vibe Coding is a Slot Machine" - Jeremy Howard

Dive into the realities of AI-assisted coding, the origins of modern fine-tuning, and the cognitive science behind machine learning with fast.ai foun…

2 months, 4 weeks ago

Evolution "Doesn't Need" Mutation - Blaise Agüera y Arcas

What if life itself is just a really sophisticated computer program that wrote itself into existence?

Blaise Agüera y Arcas presenting at ALife 2025 —…

3 months, 2 weeks ago

VAEs Are Energy-Based Models? [Dr. Jeff Beck]

What makes something truly *intelligent?* Is a rock an agent? Could a perfect simulation of your brain actually *be* you? In this fascinating convers…

4 months ago

Abstraction & Idealization: AI's Plato Problem [Mazviita Chirimuuta]

Professor Mazviita Chirimuuta joins us for a fascinating deep dive into the philosophy of neuroscience and what it really means to understand the min…

4 months, 1 week ago

Why Every Brain Metaphor in History Has Been Wrong [SPECIAL EDITION]

What if everything we think we know about the brain is just a really good metaphor that we forgot was a metaphor?This episode takes you on a journey …

4 months, 1 week ago

Bayesian Brain, Scientific Method, and Models [Dr. Jeff Beck]

Dr. Jeff Beck, mathematician turned computational neuroscientist, joins us for a fascinating deep dive into why the future of AI might look less like…

4 months, 4 weeks ago