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"The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

Erik Torenberg, Nathan Labenz

A biweekly podcast where hosts Nathan Labenz and Erik Torenberg interview the builders on the edge of AI and explore the dramatic shift it will unlock in the coming years. The Cognitive Revolution is part of the Turpentine podcast network. To learn more: turpentine.co

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80:47

Mamba-Palooza: 90 Days of Mamba-Inspired Research...

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2024/03/30

In this second part of a two episode series, Nathan and AI scout Jason Meaux provide a sweeping overview of the first 90 days of Mamba-inspired research. They discusstMamba's application to computer vision, experiments in extending effective context length, the potential problem of internal rotting states, and the use of hybrid SSMs in biology.Try the Brave search API for free for up to 2000 queries per month at https://brave.com/apiLINKS: Show Notes and Paper Links:

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76:56

Mamba-Palooza: 90 Days of Mamba-Inspired Research...

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2024/03/30

In this first part of a two episode series, Nathan and AI scout Jason Meaux provide a sweeping overview of the first 90 days of Mamba-inspired research. They discuss the mechanistic underpinnings of Mamba architecture, Mamba's context capabilities, multi-modal applications in image segmentation and computer vision tasks, and much more. Try the Brave search API for free for up to 2000 queries per month at https://brave.com/api RECOMMENDED PODCAST: Autopilot explores the adoption and rollout of AI in

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103:57

Exploitable by Default: Vulnerabilities in GPT-4 APIs...

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2024/03/27

In this episode, Nathan sits down with Adam Gleave, founder of Far AI, for a masterclass on AI exploitability. They dissect Adam's findings on vulnerabilities in GPT-4's fine-tuning and Assistant PIs, Far AI's work exposing exploitable flaws in "superhuman" Go AIs through innovative adversarial strategies, accidental jailbreaking by naive developers during fine-tuning, and more. Try the Brave search API for free for up to 2000 queries per month at https://brave.com/api RECOMMENDED PODCAST:

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89:25

Surveying 2,700+ AI Researchers on the Industry's...

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2024/03/21

In this episode, Nathan sits down with Katja Grace, Cofounder and Lead Researcher at AI Impacts. They discuss the survey Katja and team conducted including over 2,700+ AI researchers, the methodology for the research, and the results’ implications for policymakers, the public, and the industry as a whole. Try the Brave search API for free for up to 2000 queries per month at https://brave.com/apiLINKS: - Thousands of AI Authors on the Future of AI:

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36:21

The AI Email Assistant I've Been Waiting for, with...

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2024/03/18

In this episode, Nathan sits down with Andrew Lee, founder of Shortwave, an AI-powered email app that describes itself as “the smartest email app on planet earth.” They discuss Shortwave’s RAG stack, how the AI assistant works, the models Shortwave is using (including Mistral, fine-tuned GPT-3.5, and GPT-4-turbo), and much more. Try the Brave search API for free for up to 2000 queries per month at https://brave.com/api LINKS: Shortwave: https://www.shortwave.com/ Listen to the full conversation

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104:27

Envisioning a Positive AI Future, with Tim Reutemann,...

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2024/03/16

In this episode, Nathan sits down with Tim Reutemann, author of “Liquid Reign”. They discuss liquid democracy, reshaping political participation using AI and biometrics, and practical advances in technology and their impacts on identity verification, rehabilitation, and gaming. Try the Brave search API for free for up to 2000 queries per month at https://brave.com/apiLINKS: Liquid Reign Book: https://www.amazon.ca/Liquid-Reign-Tim-Reutemann/dp/1981029176 Tim Reutemann's Medium:

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88:59

AI and the Practice of Law: from CaseText to...

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2024/03/14

In this episode, Nathan sits down with Pablo Arredondo, VP of CoCounsel for Thomson Reuters. They discuss the evolution of legal research, how GPT-4 has changed legal practices, security and privacy in AI driven legal services, and more. Try the Brave search API for free for up to 2000 queries per month at https://brave.com/api X/SOCIAL: @labenz (Nathan) @tweetatpablo (Pablo) @casetext LINKS: Casetext: https://casetext.com/ Cognitive Revolution (new feed):

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85:17

Flow Engineering and Code Integrity at Scale with...

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2024/03/12

In this episode, Nathan sits down with Itamar Friedman, CEO of Codium AI, the company on the mission to create the code integrity paradigm. They discuss harnessing LLMs for code integrity, task decomposition, workflow engineering, and much more. Try the Brave search API for free for up to 2000 queries per month at https://brave.com/api X/SOCIAL: @labenz (Nathan) @itamar_mar (Itamar) @CodiumAI (Sodium) LINKS: Codium: https://www.codium.ai/ Cognitive Revolution Feed:

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66:55

The Example Engine: How Exa Is Creating the AI...

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2024/03/05

In this episode, Nathan sits down with Will Bryk, CEO of Exa.ai. They discuss how Exa enables complex, research-based searches that differ from traditional keyword-based search, how their AI uses neural and non-neural methods, why they are using their own vector database, and more. Try the Brave search API for free for up to 2000 queries per month at https://brave.com/apiLINKS: - Exa.ai: https://exa.ai/ X/SOCIAL: @WilliamBryk (William) @labenz (Nathan) @ExaAILabs (Exa) SPONSORS: Oracle Cloud

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92:52

Amazing Answers: Richard Socher on how You.com is...

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2024/02/29

In this episode, Nathan sits down with Richard Socher, CEO and Founder of You.com, a personalized AI search assistant. They discuss the rise of the AI chatbot paradigm and how that's changed the game for search, You.com's various modes, with particular emphasis on Genius mode and above all Research mode, and much more. Try the Brave search API for free for up to 2000 queries per month at https://brave.com/apiLINKS: - You.com: https://you.com/ -Richard Socher's site:

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110:43

Is AGI Far? With Robin Hanson, Economist at George...

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2024/02/27

In this episode, Nathan sits down with Robin Hanson, associate professor of economics at George Mason University and researcher at Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute. They discuss the comparison of human brains to LLMs and legacy software systems, what it would take for AI and automation to significantly impact the economy, our relationships with AI and the moral weight it has, and much more. Try the Brave search API for free for up to 2000 queries per month at

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120:36

Looking Up the AI Exponential with Azeem Azhar of the...

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2024/02/23

In this conversation, Nathan is joined by Azeem Azhar, founder and writer of the Exponential View. They discuss why startups are likely to drive the true disruption in the industry, what forward thinking leaders are doing today to retrain their teams for AI, why Azeem agrees with Sam Altman’s comments that AGI will likely arrive soon, new governance mechanisms for the AI age, and more. Try the Brave search API for free for up to 2000 queries per month at https://brave.com/apiLINKS: Exponential

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138:04

OpenAI Sora, Google Gemini, and Meta with Zvi Mowshowitz

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2024/02/21

In this episode, Zvi Mowshowitz returns to the show to discuss OpenAI’s Sora model, Google’s Gemini announcement, Anthropic’s Sleeper Agents, and other live player analysis. Try the Brave search API for free for up to 2000 queries per month at https://brave.com/api Definitely also take a moment to subscribe to Zvi's blog Don't Worry About the Vase (https://thezvi.wordpress.com/) - Zvi is an information hyperprocessor who synthesizes vast amounts of new and ever-evolving information into extremely

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73:13

AI Friends, Real Relationships with Eugenia Kuyda,...

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2024/02/16

Note: This conversation contains themes of suicidal ideation, in the context of academic research. Please watch from (21:41) onwards if you would like to skip past this content. In this conversation, Nathan sits down with Eugenia Kuyda, Replika's Founder and CEO. They discuss recent research published in Nature conducted by Stanford on Replika user interactions, how Replika is providing their users with a relationship they can trust and confide in, what Eugenia has found surprising about the

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62:27

AI Abundance: a16z Partners Justine Moore and Anish...

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2024/02/13

In this episode, a16z partners Justine Moore and Anish Acharya join Nathan to discuss the AI Abundance Agenda, their latest thesis for consumer AI. They discuss the intersection of weird and working, and their investment pillars in AI for creativity and productivity, companionship, and wellness and growth. Looking for a search API? Try the Brave search API for free for up to 2000 queries per month at https://brave.com/api LINKS: Read a16z’s AI Abundance Agenda here:

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85:43

Dr. Michael Levin on Embodied Minds and Cognitive Agents

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2024/02/09

In this episode, Dr Michael Levin, Distinguished Professor of Biology at Tufts University, joins Nathan to discuss embodied minds, his research into limb regeneration and collective intelligence, cognitive light cones, and much more. Michael and the Levin Lab work at the intersection of biology, artificial life, bioengineering, synthetic morphology, and cognitive science. LINKS: The Levin Lab and Dr. Michael Levin’s research: https://drmichaellevin.org/resources/ Dr Michael Levin’s blog:

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117:45

A Brief History of Biological and Artificial...

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2024/02/07

In this episode, Nathan sits down with Max Bennett, author of the book: A Brief History of Intelligence. They discuss the five major breakthroughs in evolution that resulted in human brains and cognition. They delve deeper into the workings of each breakthrough, the evolution of intelligence, and how AI can benefit from understanding these principles. If you need an ecommerce platform, check out our sponsor Shopify: https://shopify.com/cognitive for a $1/month trial period. We're hiring across the

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62:06

AI & Identity, from East & West, with Yohei Nakajima...

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2024/02/01

In today's episode Yohei Nakajima, GP at Untapped Capital and Creator of BabyAGI, returns to the show. Together with Nathan, they watch Yohei’s TEDAI Talk, unpacking themes on collective intelligence, identity, and how AI can help us better understand one another. If you need an ecommerce platform, check out our sponsor Shopify: https://shopify.com/cognitive for a $1/month trial period. We're hiring across the board at Turpentine and for Erik's personal team on other projects he's incubating. He's

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104:24

Ignore Previous Instructions and Listen To This...

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2024/01/30

In this episode, Nathan sits down with Sander Schulhoff, Cofounder and CEO of Learnprompting.org. They discuss the business model, the keys to prompting that every user of language models should know, negative prompting, prompt hacking, and more. If you need an ecommerce platform, check out our sponsor Shopify: https://shopify.com/cognitive for a $1/month trial period. We're hiring across the board at Turpentine and for Erik's personal team on other projects he's incubating. He's hiring a Chief of

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76:33

The Pixel Revolution Part 2 with Suhail Doshi,...

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2024/01/26

In this episode, Nathan sits down with Suhail Doshi, founder of Playground AI. They discuss the current state of AI image generation, how Suhail is building Playground while the technology for vision and image generation is still maturing, thought to image reconstruction, and more. If you need an ecommerce platform, check out our sponsor Shopify: https://shopify.com/cognitive for a $1/month trial period. We're hiring across the board at Turpentine and for Erik's personal team on other projects he's

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