Podcast Episodes

Your Brain is Running a Simulation Right Now [Max Bennett]

Tim sits down with Max Bennett to explore how our brains evolved over 600 million years—and what that means for understanding both human intelligence…

5 months, 1 week ago

The 3 Laws of Knowledge [César Hidalgo]

César Hidalgo has spent years trying to answer a deceptively simple question: What is knowledge, and why is it so hard to move around?

We all have thi…

5 months, 2 weeks ago

"I Desperately Want To Live In The Matrix" - Dr. Mike Israetel

This is a lively, no-holds-barred debate about whether AI can truly be intelligent, conscious, or understand anything at all — and what happens when …

5 months, 2 weeks ago

Making deep learning perform real algorithms with Category Theory (Andrew Dudzik, Petar Velichkovich, Taco Cohen, Bruno Gavranović, Paul Lessard)

We often think of Large Language Models (LLMs) as all-knowing, but as the team reveals, they still struggle with the logic of a second-grader. Why ca…

5 months, 3 weeks ago

Are AI Benchmarks Telling The Full Story? [SPONSORED] (Andrew Gordon and Nora Petrova - Prolific)

Is a car that wins a Formula 1 race the best choice for your morning commute? Probably not. In this sponsored deep dive with Prolific, we explore why…

5 months, 3 weeks ago

The Mathematical Foundations of Intelligence [Professor Yi Ma]

What if everything we think we know about AI understanding is wrong? Is compression the key to intelligence? Or is there something more—a leap from m…

5 months, 4 weeks ago

Pedro Domingos: Tensor Logic Unifies AI Paradigms

Pedro Domingos, author of the bestselling book "The Master Algorithm," introduces his latest work: Tensor Logic - a new programming language he belie…

6 months ago

He Co-Invented the Transformer. Now: Continuous Thought Machines - Llion Jones and Luke Darlow [Sakana AI]

The Transformer architecture (which powers ChatGPT and nearly all modern AI) might be trapping the industry in a localized rut, preventing us from fi…

6 months, 2 weeks ago

Why Humans Are Still Powering AI [Sponsored]

Ever wonder where AI models actually get their "intelligence"? We reveal the dirty secret of Silicon Valley: behind every impressive AI system are th…

7 months, 1 week ago

The Universal Hierarchy of Life - Prof. Chris Kempes [SFI]

"What is life?" - asks Chris Kempes, a professor at the Santa Fe Institute.

Chris explains that scientists are moving beyond a purely Earth-based, bio…

7 months, 2 weeks ago