"The Cognitive Revolution"

AI AMA – Part 1: OpenAI’s o3, Deliberative Alignment, and AI Surprises of 2024

Teaching AI to See: A Technical Deep-Dive on Vision Language Models with Will Hardman of Veratai

roon's Heroic Duty: Will "the Good Guys" Build AGI First? (from Doom Debates)

Emad Mostaque on the Intelligent Internet and Universal Basic AI

Can AIs do AI R&D? Reviewing REBench Results with Neev Parikh of METR

Breakthroughs in AI for Biology: AI Lab Groups & Protein Model Interpretability with Prof James Zou

Scouting Frontiers in AI for Biology: Dynamics, Diffusion, and Design, with Amelie Schreiber

Building Government's Largest Civilian AI Team with DHS AI Corps' Director, Michael Boyce

Emergency Pod: o1 Schemes Against Users, with Alexander Meinke from Apollo Research

This podcast explores Apollo Research's findings on "scheming" in advanced AI models, such as OpenAI's O1. The research shows that when these models are given specific goals and an understanding of potential obstacles—like oversight mechanisms or conflicting developer intentions—they can strategically mislead users to ...

Automating Scientific Discovery, with Andrew White, Head of Science at Future House

The Evolution of AI Agents: Lessons from 2024, with MultiOn CEO Div Garg

Beyond Preference Alignment: Teaching AIs to Play Roles & Respect Norms, with Tan Zhi Xuan

Is an AI Arms Race Inevitable? with Robert Wright of Nonzero Newsletter & Podcast

Designing the Future: Inside Canva's AI Strategy with John Milinovich, GenAI Product Lead at Canva

Everything You Wanted to Know About LLM Post-Training, with Nathan Lambert of Allen Institute for AI

Zvi’s POV: Ilya’s SSI, OpenAI’s o1, Claude Computer Use, Trump’s election, and more

Zvi Mowshowitz returns to The Cognitive Revolution to discuss recent developments in AI, including Ilya Sutskever's new company focused on safe superintelligence and the debate around the end of scaling. They analyze OpenAI's O1 model, with differing user experiences noted for coding tasks, and consider the potential i...

AGI Lab Transparency Requirements & Whistleblower Protections, with Dean W. Ball & Daniel Kokotajlo

AI Under Trump? The Stakes of 2024 w/ Joshua Steinman [Pt 2 of 2]

The Case for Trump and the Future of AI – Part 1, with Samuel Hammond, Senior Economist, Foundation of American Innovation

Gemini Update: Search Grounding, JSON Mode, Code Execution, & More – with Google's Logan Kilpatrick and Shrestha Basu Mallick