
Intelligence is collective, not artificial — Prof. Michael I. Jordan (UC Berkeley / Inria)
Michael I. Jordan, described by Science magazine as the most influential computer scientist alive, has never thought of himself as an AI researcher. In this conversation he explains why that distincti...
21 Mai 1h 17min
![The AI Models Smart Enough to Know They're Cheating — Beth Barnes & David Rein [METR]](https://cdn.podme.com/podcast-images/26AA8B9CB27BAAE1B25C9469A23E0A54_small.jpg)
The AI Models Smart Enough to Know They're Cheating — Beth Barnes & David Rein [METR]
Beth Barnes and David Rein on the one graph that ate the AI timelines discourse, and why the two people who built it are the most careful about how you read it.**SPONSOR**Prolific - Quality data. From...
4 Mai 1h 53min

When AI Discovers The Next Transformer - Robert Lange (Sakana)
Robert Lange, founding researcher at Sakana AI, joins Tim to discuss *Shinka Evolve* — a framework that combines LLMs with evolutionary algorithms to do open-ended program search. The core claim: syst...
13 Mar 1h 18min

"Vibe Coding is a Slot Machine" - Jeremy Howard
Dive into the realities of AI-assisted coding, the origins of modern fine-tuning, and the cognitive science behind machine learning with fast.ai founder Jeremy Howard. In this episode, we unpack why A...
3 Mar 1h 26min

Evolution "Doesn't Need" Mutation - Blaise Agüera y Arcas
What if life itself is just a really sophisticated computer program that wrote itself into existence?Blaise Agüera y Arcas presenting at ALife 2025 — the most technically detailed public walkthrough o...
16 Feb 55min
![VAEs Are Energy-Based Models? [Dr. Jeff Beck]](https://cdn.podme.com/podcast-images/3DD79A93B288057B95E52A41D585C38E_small.jpg)
VAEs Are Energy-Based Models? [Dr. Jeff Beck]
What makes something truly *intelligent?* Is a rock an agent? Could a perfect simulation of your brain actually *be* you? In this fascinating conversation, Dr. Jeff Beck takes us on a journey through ...
25 Jan 46min
![Abstraction & Idealization: AI's Plato Problem [Mazviita Chirimuuta]](https://cdn.podme.com/podcast-images/AA201EAA41F0E9FA1AD4FF3B61F166D4_small.jpg)
Abstraction & Idealization: AI's Plato Problem [Mazviita Chirimuuta]
Professor Mazviita Chirimuuta joins us for a fascinating deep dive into the philosophy of neuroscience and what it really means to understand the mind.*What can neuroscience actually tell us about how...
23 Jan 53min
![Why Every Brain Metaphor in History Has Been Wrong [SPECIAL EDITION]](https://cdn.podme.com/podcast-images/FEED17594704E494886E4C8531633EF0_small.jpg)
Why Every Brain Metaphor in History Has Been Wrong [SPECIAL EDITION]
What if everything we think we know about the brain is just a really good metaphor that we forgot was a metaphor?This episode takes you on a journey through the history of scientific simplification, f...
23 Jan 42min




















