"The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis
A podcast by Erik Torenberg, Nathan Labenz

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240 Episodes
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Inference Scaling, Alignment Faking, Deal Making? Frontier Research with Ryan Greenblatt of Redwood Research
Published: 2/20/2025 -
An Application-Free Future? Speaking Directly to Data with illumex CEO Inna Tokarev Sela
Published: 2/15/2025 -
Claude Cooperates! Exploring Cultural Evolution in LLM Societies, with Aron Vallinder & Edward Hughes
Published: 2/12/2025 -
Software Supernova: Lovable's "Superhuman Full Stack Engineer" to Transform Idea to App in Seconds
Published: 2/9/2025 -
Software Supernova: Bolt.new - The AI Web App Developer In Your Browser
Published: 2/9/2025 -
Gemini's Next Frontier: 2.0 Flash, Flash Lite Strategy & Real-Time APIs with Logan K from Google Deepmind
Published: 2/6/2025 -
Distributed Training, Decentralized AI: Prime Intellect's Master Plan to Make AI Too Cheap to Meter
Published: 2/5/2025 -
Aaron Levie, CEO of Box, on Box AI, Enterprise Enthusiasm, and the Evolution of SaaS
Published: 1/29/2025 -
Emergency Pod: Reinforcement Learning Works! Reflecting on Chinese Reasoning Models DeepSeek-R1 and Kimi k1.5
Published: 1/25/2025 -
Material Progress: Developing AI's Scientific Intuition, with Orbital Materials' Jonathan Godwin & Tim Duignan
Published: 1/22/2025 -
Dodging Latent Space Detectors: Obfuscated Activation Attacks with Luke, Erik, and Scott.
Published: 1/18/2025 -
Gene Hunting with o1-pro: Reasoning about Rare Diseases with ChatGPT Pro Grantee Dr. Catherine Brownstein
Published: 1/15/2025 -
AI AMA – Part 2: AI Utopia, Consciousness, and the Future of Work
Published: 1/8/2025 -
AI AMA – Part 1: OpenAI’s o3, Deliberative Alignment, and AI Surprises of 2024
Published: 1/7/2025 -
Teaching AI to See: A Technical Deep-Dive on Vision Language Models with Will Hardman of Veratai
Published: 1/3/2025 -
roon's Heroic Duty: Will "the Good Guys" Build AGI First? (from Doom Debates)
Published: 12/28/2024 -
Emad Mostaque on the Intelligent Internet and Universal Basic AI
Published: 12/25/2024 -
Can AIs do AI R&D? Reviewing REBench Results with Neev Parikh of METR
Published: 12/21/2024 -
Breakthroughs in AI for Biology: AI Lab Groups & Protein Model Interpretability with Prof James Zou
Published: 12/18/2024 -
Scouting Frontiers in AI for Biology: Dynamics, Diffusion, and Design, with Amelie Schreiber
Published: 12/14/2024
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