Episodes

  • Ep. 163: AI and the coming cognitive revolution. | Nathan Labenz

    Ep. 163: AI and the coming cognitive revolution. | Nathan Labenz
    Jul 16 2024
    Nathan Labenz is a technology entrepreneur, artificial intelligence analyst, and the founder and former CEO of Waymark. With a background in philosophy and a keen eye for innovation, Nathan led Waymark from its inception to its status as a trailblazer in generative AI-powered content creation. As host of 'The Cognitive Revolution' podcast, he explores the transformative impact of artificial intelligence on work, life, society, and culture from every possible angle. Through conversations with notable builders, researchers, and investors, as well as original deep-dive analysis on topics of particular interest, Nathan helps business, policy, and academic leaders stay up to date with AI developments and implications. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • Ep. 162: Making and losing millions in crypto | Nat Eliason

    Ep. 162: Making and losing millions in crypto | Nat Eliason
    Jul 1 2024
    Nat Eliason began as a successful marketer and the founder of Growth Machine before turning to writing full-time. He recently published "Crypto Confidential," an unfiltered, insider’s account of the hyperactive, hyper-speculative, hyper-addictive, nearly unregulated, completely insane world being built on the blockchain. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 10 mins
  • Ep. 161: Bitcoin is resistance money | Andrew Bailey

    Ep. 161: Bitcoin is resistance money | Andrew Bailey
    Jun 18 2024
    Dr. Andrew M. Bailey Andrew is an interdisciplinary teacher and scholar whose work spans philosophy, politics, and economics. He is a Professor of Humanities at Yale-NUS College (Singapore), and he is the co-author of the upcoming book "Resistance Money: A Philosophical Case for Bitcoin." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 24 mins
  • Ep. 160: What makes generative AI so powerful? | Nick Frosst

    Ep. 160: What makes generative AI so powerful? | Nick Frosst
    Jun 4 2024
    Nick Frosst is a computer scientist and musician. He co-founded Cohere, which is a company focused on training large language models and making them available through a network-based API. He was also the first employee of Geoffrey Hinton Google Brain lab in Toronto, where he spent 3 years researching capsule networks, adversarial examples, and explainability. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    50 mins
  • Ep. 159: Top AI Trends for 2024 | David Shapiro

    Ep. 159: Top AI Trends for 2024 | David Shapiro
    May 21 2024
    David Shapiro. David is a former engineer who became famous through his dozens of well-received tutorials on Youtube, covering everything from fine-tuning ChatGPT to his proposed solution to the alignment problem. His work focuses on ensuring that advanced technologies are used safely, bringing about an abundant, post-scarcity, post-nihilistic future. Relevant episodes: “Ep. 156: Algorithms won't get us to AGI | Johannes Jaeger” “Ep. 153: AI, Alignment, and the Scaling Hypothesis | Dwarkesh Patel” “Ep. 147: Could heuristic imperatives solve the AI alignment problem? | David Shapiro” “Ep. 146: Will AI replace humans? | Peter St Onge” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 2 mins
  • Ep. 158: abstraction and agency | John Wentworth

    Ep. 158: abstraction and agency | John Wentworth
    May 7 2024
    After a long career as a software engineer and data scientist, John became an independent researcher in artificial intelligence. Today he focuses on a diverse array of topics, such as the nature of abstraction and what the word "agency" even means. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr
  • Ep. 157: Aristotle, AI, and what philosophy offers futurism | Gregory Salmieri

    Ep. 157: Aristotle, AI, and what philosophy offers futurism | Gregory Salmieri
    Apr 23 2024
    Dr. Gregory Salmieri is a senior scholar of philosophy at the Salem Center, where he holds the Brigham Fellowship for the Study of Objectivism. He is the co-editor of the books "A Companion to Ayn Rand" and "Foundations of a Free Society" and the author of numerous articles on philosophy, with a particular focus on Aristotle and Ayn Rand. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 16 mins
  • Ep. 156: Algorithms won't get us to AGI | Johannes Jaeger

    Ep. 156: Algorithms won't get us to AGI | Johannes Jaeger
    Apr 9 2024
    Dr. Johannes Jaeger is a systems scientist, evolutionary biologist, educator, and natural philosopher with an extremely transdisciplinary track record. His investigations, first as the head of an empirical lab, later as the director of an institute for the philosophy of biology, and then as a freelance investigator, have always focused on organisms as complex adaptive systems. He is currently leading a research project at the Dept of Philosophy of the University of Vienna called “Pushing the Boundaries,” which concerns the differences between machines and organisms, and the importance of this difference for evolution. He is associate faculty at the Complexity Science Hub (CSH) Vienna, and a scholar at the Ronin Institute. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 1 min