"The Cognitive Revolution"

AI's Energy & Water Demands: Sorting Fact from Fiction with Andy Masley

Supintelligence: To Ban or Not to Ban? Max Tegmark & Dean Ball join Liron Shapira on Doom Debates

Sovereign AI in Poland: Language Adaptation, Local Control & Cost Advantages with Marek Kozlowski

China's AI Upstarts: How Z.ai Builds, Benchmarks & Ships in Hours, from ChinaTalk

Underwriting Superintelligence: How AIUC is using Insurance, Standards, and Audits to Accelerate Adoption while Minimizing Risks

In this episode of The Cognitive Revolution, Nathan interviews Rune Kvist and Rajiv Dattani, co-founders of the AI Underwriting Company (AIUC), about their efforts to promote enterprise AI adoption through certification and insurance of AI agents. They discuss the AIUC's three-pronged approach: establishing technical s...

AI-Led Sales: How 1Mind's Superhumans Drive Exponential Growth, from the Agents of Scale Podcast

In this episode of Agents of Scale, Wade Foster interviews Amanda Calo, founder and CEO of OneMind, about building and scaling companies in the age of AI. Amanda shares her experiences from previous ventures and discusses how OneMind uses AI superhumans to redefine go-to-market strategies, improve customer experiences,...

What AI Means for Students & Teachers: My Keynote from the Michigan Virtual AI Summit

In this episode of The Cognitive Revolution, host Nathan shares a keynote presentation from the Michigan Virtual AI Summit, aimed at K-12 educators. He reflects on the rapid advancement of AI and its implications for education, drawing from his experiences in Silicon Valley and personal anecdotes, including his family'...

Escaping AI Slop: How Atlassian Gives AI Teammates Taste, Knowledge, & Workflows, w- Sherif Mansour

In this episode of The Cognitive Revolution, Nathan interviews Sherif Mansour, Head of AI at Atlassian, about the integration of AI into enterprise software and teamwork. They discuss Atlassian's approach to AI as a "virtual teammate," emphasizing the importance of taste, knowledge, and workflow in avoiding AI slop. Ma...

AI in the Cancer Journey: How I'm Using AI to Help My Son

In a deeply personal episode of The Cognitive Revolution, Nathan shares his family's recent medical crisis: his six-year-old son, Ernie, has been diagnosed with Burkitt leukemia. He details the rapid onset of the illness, the initial misdiagnoses, and the eventual start of successful chemotherapy. Nathan then transitio...

My Positive Vision for the AI Future, from the Existential Hope Podcast

In this crossover episode from the Existential Hope Podcast, Nathan Labenz discusses his positive vision for an AI-driven future with Beatrice Erkers. They explore topics such as the transformative potential of self-driving cars, AI-powered personalized education, democratized access to experiences, and AI's role in ac...

What is Catholic AI? Technology Meets Theology, with Matthew Harvey Sanders, CEO of Longbeard

In this episode of The Cognitive Revolution, Nathan interviews Matthew Harvey Sanders, founder and CEO of Long Beard, about the intersection of AI and religion, specifically Catholic AI. They discuss the Catholic Church's historical relationship with technology, the views of recent Popes on AI, and the philosophical an...

More Truthful AIs Report Conscious Experience: New Mechanistic Research w- Cameron Berg @ AE Studio

A Simulationship with AI, with *smiles and kisses you* Star Chris Stokes & Director Bryan Carberry

Is AI Stalling Out? Cutting Through Capabilities Confusion, w/ Erik Torenberg, from the a16z Podcast

A Positive Vision for the Future: Part 2 with Illia Polosukhin of NEAR

Always Bet on the Models: How Tasklet Puts the Agency in Agents, with CEO Andrew Lee

Chinese AI – They're Just Like Us? With Beijing-Based Concordia AI CEO Brian Tse

AI Discovered Antibiotics: How Small Data & Small GNNs Led to Big Results, w/ MIT Prof. Jim Collins

Education in the AI Age: a Teacher Rethinks Learning & Purpose, w/ Johan Falk of Graspable AI

The Customer Service Revolution: Building Fin, with Eoghan McCabe & Fergal Reid of Intercom

In this episode of The Cognitive Revolution, Nathan Labenz interviews Eoghan McCabe and Fergal Reid from Intercom about their AI customer service agent, Fin. They discuss how Intercom stays current with AI, the importance of testing in production, and the pressure to be quick to market with new AI capabilities. They al...