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“I dealt with you know I wrote this essay Machines of Loving Grace a and one of the key questions it asked I mean it was focused on what are all the positive applications of AI”
“Aiden is one of the co-authors of a of a paper called attention is all you need”
“And of course I I reference the bitter lesson all the time as one of the deep fundamental insights to the kind of broader effort of everything that goes on here”
“this time we talk a lot about his paper titled on the measure of intelligence that discusses how we might define and measure general intelligence in our computing machinery”
“The Adolescence of Technology _Blog post by Dario Amodei_ https://darioamodei.com/essay/the-adolescence-of-technology”
“You and a bunch of co-authors wrote um a blog post titled AI 2027, which is a very compelling read, and we're going to cover some of it, but I'm sure there's there are details there that we're not goi…”
“Jim is interested in building generally capable autonomous agents and he recently published mind Dojo a massively multiscale benchmarking seite built on Minecraft which was an outstanding paper n we'r…”
“# AI for Systems: Using LLMs to Optimize Database Query Execution”
“The Axios supply chain attack used individually targeted social engineering”
“_Blog post by LangChain_”
“Agent Evaluation Readiness Checklist”
“I started reading around whether anyone had done it there was this seminal paper in 2012 called on the naturalness of software”
“THERE'S A WHOLE BLOG POST THAT YOUR VIEWERS CAN READ IF THEY WANT MORE DETAILS.”
“download the CFO's guide to AI and machine learning at netswuite.com/cognitive.”
“We propose GMM-Anchored JEPA...Code is made available at https://github.com/gioannides/clustering-anchored-jepa.”
“We provide theoretical justification and experiments on video-based world models, where our resulting planner outperforms existing planning algorithms like the cross-entropy method (CEM) and vanilla g…”
“A closer look at the MET-PREVENT trial and what its null results reveal about aging interventions and trial design. Full article linked below.”
“We introduce Rectified Distribution Matching Regularization (RDMReg), a sliced two-sample distribution-matching loss that aligns representations to a Rectified Generalized Gaussian (RGG) distribution.…”
“This new Nature paper (using old models) illustrates the point of my latest Substack post on AI interfaces. AI did a good job diagnosing medical issues, but when users had to interact with chatbots th…”
“My post: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/claude-dispatch-and-the-power-of”
“Finally, we urge all vulnerable cryptocurrency communities to join the ongoing migration to PQC without delay.”
“If you're familiar with [neural scaling laws](https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.08361), you can consider this challenge a form of L(N) optimization, where the objective is to optimize the lowest loss given a…”
“I think the thing that captivated me I don't know if you felt this way it was the only white paper that I read end to end where I thought this is one of the most elegantly written pieces of non-techni…”
“I just would really recommend the essay that Jack mentioned earlier by Dario um Machines of loveing Grace um I think it is probably the best positive Vision out there there's really not much literatur…”
“Cohere advances sovereign AI capabilities with NVIDIA”
“_Blog post by LangChain_”
“How we built LangChain’s GTM Agent _Blog post by LangChain_”
“Good news: AI Will Eat Application Software”
“https://stratechery.com/2026/an-interview-with-nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-about-accelerated-computing/”
“Decoupled DiLoCo explores how to continuously train AI models without ever stopping due to failures. https://t.co/1H6DyKrB_k42SBaM”
“If we go all the way back to 2016 you know before I even worked at openai when I was at Google I wrote a paper called with some colleagues some of whom are now anthropic co-founders concrete problems …”
“We present Marconi, the first system that supports efficient prefix caching with Hybrid LLMs.”
“Despite strong performance on vision-language tasks, Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) struggle with mathematical problem-solving, with both open-source and state-of-the-art models falling shor…”
“I came across this blog that um one of the former YC Partners Daniel gross wrote but it was like How to Build the Next Google”
“In this work, we ask the question: "Do visual self-supervised approaches lag behind CLIP due to the lack of language supervision, or differences in the training data?" We study this question by traini…”
“The Urgency of Interpretability _Blog post by Dario Amodei_”
“This paper rethinks the key building block for conferencing infrastructures -- selective forwarding units (SFUs)... we present Scallop, an SDN-inspired SFU that decouples video-conferencing applicatio…”
“GPUs, CPUs, and. . . NICs: Rethinking the Network's Role in Serving Complex AI Pipelines”
“In this work, we systematically evaluate RL and control-based methods on a suite of navigation tasks...planning with a latent dynamics model proves to be a strong approach for handling suboptimal offl…”
“I'm eager to speak with you specifically about this recent essay you wrote on AI and uh so you obviously many people have read this and you are a voice that many people value on this topic among other…”
“Open Models have crossed a threshold - Blog post by LangChain”
“# a unified theory of revolution”
“To address this challenge, we present a new pre-training paradigm for time-series data called ADAPT, which can efficiently align the physical properties of data in the time-series domain, enabling mix…”
“folks grab it and kind of dive deeper into these trends ... link in the description to the New Zoo report”
“It is based on [LoRA](https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.09685), a training paradigm where most weights are frozen and only 1-2% of additional weights in the form of low-rank matrix perturbations are trained.”
“so there's this one work last year that I collaborated with Stanford co-authors the paper is called metamorph so it was accepted to iar and this work is about how can we learn a policy that controls n…”
“And I read the 1950 paper by Alan Turring where he talks about the Turing test. By the way, how many people know what the Turing test is?”
“And if that wasn't enough, he also co-founded Google's AI research project, Google Brain, and was one of the earliest pioneers of a new neural network architecture called Transformers. Not sure that o…”
“One story that a lot of people should know is that if you ask yourself what is the paper in all of science that has gathered the largest number of citations over the last 10 years, that paper was publ…”
“This paper explores a self-supervised approach that combines internet-scale video data with a small amount of interaction data (robot trajectories), to develop models capable of understanding, predict…”
“It's fun to describe quantum teleportation in terms of particles that move both forward and backward in time. And it's more than just fun: the intuition derived from that description can guide us to n…”
“This architecture is called joint emitting predictive architecture jpa and that's what I've been kind of focusing my efforts over the last several years.”
“# Cobordism, spin structures, and profinite completions”
“# Aragog: Just-in-Time Model Routing for Scalable Serving of Agentic Workflows”
“Encouraging news. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/science/trump-science-budget-cuts-congress.html”
“There's a paper that's not too old by David Silver, Rich Sutton is a co-author um Donap and a bunch of other people whose title is um reward is enough.”
“https://theconversation.com/us-experiencing-largest-measles-outbreak-since-2000-5-essential-reads-on-the-risks-what-to-do-and-whats-coming-next-275164”
“Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.12946”
“Measuring progress toward AGI: A cognitive framework”
“We critically examine the limitations of current AI models in achieving autonomous learning and propose a learning architecture inspired by human and animal cognition.”
“_Blog post by Google DeepMind_ https://deepmind.google/blog/protecting-people-from-harmful-manipulation”
“More on our approach to the Model Spec: https://openai.com/index/our-approach-to-the-model-spec/”
“Yes: https://simonwillison.net/guides/agentic-engineering-patterns/red-green-tdd/”
“You should read the red team report: https://red.anthropic.com/2026/mythos-preview/”
“have you see this paper? https://llm-attacks.org”
“It’s Called Silicon Sampling, and It’s Going to Ruin Public Opinion Polling https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/opinion/ai-polling.html”
“Paper below tested a variety of base LLMs (no TTA) on generalization-focus math problems and found that they can't reason and can't do math.”
“We prove that, in various tasks, quantum machines can learn from exponentially fewer experiments than those required in conventional experiments.”
“In this work, we propose a new type of architecture for quantum generative adversarial networks (entangling quantum GAN, EQ-GAN) that overcomes some limitations of previously proposed quantum GANs.”
“I was reading a paper the the Princeton swe paper um where their coding agents can now solve 12.5% of GitHub issues versus I think 3.8% um when it was just rag”
“6 Takeaways From Trump’s News Conference on Iran https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/us/politics/trump-iran-news-conference.html?smid=tw-share”
“I'm going to quickly summarize, but do read this article. It's not that long and uh it's going to be an important one.”
“We study both domain-specific expert personas and low-knowledge personas, evaluating six models on GPQA Diamond (Rein et al. 2024) and MMLU-Pro (Wang et al. 2024), graduate-level questions spanning sc…”
“In the essay AI as normal technology, we called this the false summit phenomenon.”
“And then the last one is how does all of that come together to something that a lot of people really want to use it. And that's a combination of you know the utility of all the subplatforms essentiall…”
“How Code-Switching Explains The World”
“How to Be Cultured https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/04/17/t-magazine/culture-guides-film-art-food-literature.html?smid=tw-share”
“I also have a weekly newsletter. So, even though I might be on a little break from the podcast, you can actually go to my weekly newsletter to get insights on what I think about the future of the crea…”
“Dr. Lichtenstein says the process for making these new guidelines was to dispense with politics and stick to the evidence. Well, I think there's no agenda behind these guidelines that they're evidence…”
“If, Why, and How Founders Should Hire a “Professional” CEO”
“# The Singularity Is Not Coming _Blog post by François Chollet_”
“# Productivity _Blog post by Sam Altman_”
“I encourage you to check it out. We will link it in the show notes.”
“For more insights on the survey, check that out at the information.com.”
“you mentioned later in this wired article that you stumbled upon the single algorithm Theory popularized by Jeff Hawkins”
“the prevailing opinion was that human intelligence derived from thousands of simple agents working in concert this is what mit's Marvin Minsky called The Society of mind”
“there's also a recipe Pioneer by one of my friends Eric Bron and his collaborators sanit called a task-based analysis of jobs that I found to be very useful”
“Blog post by Naval Ravikant”
“Blog post by Cohere https://cohere.com/blog/securing-ai-supply-chains-coheres-commitment-to-model-signing”
“My latest newsletter 👉 https://briansolis.substack.com/p/why-some-ceos-know-the-next-chapter”
“Blog post by Cohere”
“Full debunk by @DrTechlash here: https://www.aipanic.news/p/ai-blackmail-fact-checking-a-misleading”
“Share this episode with friends and family and don't miss out on my newsletter wledger.substad.com for the latest updates.”
“The Hatsugai-Kohmoto model thus emerges as a minimal, exactly solvable platform for interaction-mediated non-reciprocal many-body dynamics.”
“How a Community Effort is Teaching AI to See Africa's Richness”
“We recommend practitioners use these simple revised ResNets as baselines for future research.”
“Adding dynamic features to an aggressively cached website”
“# Accelerating Mathematical and Scientific Discovery with Gemini Deep Think _Blog post by Google DeepMind_”
“How to build AI product sense”
“_Blog post by Mistral AI_ https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-vibe-2-0”