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

In this podcast, we dive into the fascinating world of brain-computer interfaces with Dean W. Ball. We learn about the latest technologies, from non-invasive EEG and ultrasound stimulation to invasive Neuralink implants. We also discover the state-of-art tools, technical challenges, and the big questions around thought dimensionality, ethical considerations, and the societal impact of brain reading and writing.

SPONSORS:
The Brave search API can be used to assemble a data set to train your AI models and help with retrieval augmentation at the time of inference. All while remaining affordable with developer first pricing, integrating the Brave search API into your workflow translates to more ethical data sourcing and more human representative data sets. Try the Brave search API for free for up to 2000 queries per month at https://bit.ly/BraveTCR

Omneky is an omnichannel creative generation platform that lets you launch hundreds of thousands of ad iterations that actually work customized across all platforms, with a click of a button. Omneky combines generative AI and real-time advertising data. Mention "Cog Rev" for 10% off https://www.omneky.com/

Plumb is a no-code AI app builder designed for product teams who care about quality and speed. What is taking you weeks to hand-code today can be done confidently in hours. Check out https://bit.ly/PlumbTCR for early access.

Head to Squad to access global engineering without the headache and at a fraction of the cost: head to https://choosesquad.com/ and mention “Turpentine” to skip the waitlist.

CHAPTERS:
(00:00:00) Introduction
(00:04:00) Background
(00:06:50) Journey to Neurotech Interest
(00:07:56) Concept of Human-Machine Merge
(00:12:01) Impact of Language Models
(00:15:53) Sponsors: Brave / Omneky
(00:17:20) Adoption of AI Tools like ChatGPT
(00:22:33) Neural Technologies as Sensor Fusion
(00:26:03) Brain Signals and EEG Devices
(00:29:09) Electrodes and Electrical Field Measurement
(00:37:04) Sponsors: Plumb / Squad
(00:39:01) Neurofeedback and Brain Training
(00:48:44) The Rise of Neural Networks
(00:57:29) Shared Latent Space for Brain Signals
(01:09:18) Trajectory of Brain-Computer Interface
(01:14:44) Near-Term Possibilities
(01:26:25) Limitations of Brain-Computer Interfaces
(01:38:31) Stimulating Brain Activity
(01:46:08) Policy Considerations
(01:52:02) Solved World and Artificial Constraints
(02:04:27) Acclimating to Merge Technology
(02:08:33) Advice for Understanding Neural Interfaces

In this episode from the Autopilot podcast, Sergiy Nesterenko, founder of Quilter (backed by Benchmark), discusses designing PCB circuitboards end-to-end using reinforcement learning. "Autopilot" host Will Summerlin and Nesterenko cover how current PCB boards are designed and how Quilter’s tech stack enables faster board design, what better circuit boards enable in the future, their GTM and where they are seeing most market pull right now, and much more.

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Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/autopilot-with-will-summerlin/id1738163836
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@AutopilotwithWillSummerlin

Check out Nathan's new chatbot on www.cognitiverevolution.ai

SPONSORS:
The Brave search API can be used to assemble a data set to train your AI models and help with retrieval augmentation at the time of inference. All while remaining affordable with developer first pricing, integrating the Brave search API into your workflow translates to more ethical data sourcing and more human representative data sets. Try the Brave search API for free for up to 2000 queries per month at https://bit.ly/BraveTCR

Omneky is an omnichannel creative generation platform that lets you launch hundreds of thousands of ad iterations that actually work customized across all platforms, with a click of a button. Omneky combines generative AI and real-time advertising data. Mention "Cog Rev" for 10% off https://www.omneky.com/

Plumb is a no-code AI app builder designed for product teams who care about quality and speed. What is taking you weeks to hand-code today can be done confidently in hours. Check out https://bit.ly/PlumbTCR for early access.

Head to Squad to access global engineering without the headache and at a fraction of the cost: head to https://choosesquad.com/ and mention “Turpentine” to skip the waitlist.


LINKS:
Quilter: https://www.quilter.ai/
Autopilot Ventures: https://www.apv.vc/


X/SOCIAL:
@labenz (Nathan)
@WSummerlinAI (Will)
@sergiynest (Sergiy)
@quilterai (Quilter)

TIMESTAMPS:
(00:00) Intro & Sergiy’s Background
(04:31) What Sergiy learned from SpaceX
(05:53) Founding thesis of Quilter and Quilter’s journey
(06:57) Where would one find circuit boards?
(08:11) What is the process of designing a circuit board?
(09:39) Design process today with Quilter
(14:34) Sponsor: Omneky
(16:01) Quilter’s thesis and designing more complex circuits
(18:25) How much are humans currently paid for board design
(19:41) Labor dynamics in board design
(20:30) Do most companies have board designers in-house?
(21:14) Incentive structure
(22:44) What does a high-performance circuit board look like vs low-performance?
(26:37) Quilter’s technology stack
(29:15) Sponsor: Plumb | Squad
(31:15) How Quilter can grow with scale?
(33:50) Where is circuit manufacturing happening
(37:17) What other parts of knowledge work can be solved with reinforcement learning
(41:03) GTM and who Quilter is selling to
(42:48) Pricing
(44:04) Where Quilter is seeing the most market pull right now
(45:21) What makes Quilter an exciting company to work at or invest
(47:14) The effects of closed research in private companies for the industry
(49:25) Open source vs closed source
(51:14) What Sergiy would advise to himself in his early founder
(53:59) What drew Sergiy to working with Benchmark
(56:19) Wrap

Google DeepMind researchers Keerthana Gopalakrishnan and Ted Xiao discuss their latest breakthroughs in AI robotics. Including models that enable robots to understand novel objects, learn from human demonstrations, and operate under ethical constraints. The conversation covers six groundbreaking papers that showcase rapid progress towards general-purpose robotics.

SPONSORS:
The Brave search API can be used to assemble a data set to train your AI models and help with retrieval augmentation at the time of inference. All while remaining affordable with developer first pricing, integrating the Brave search API into your workflow translates to more ethical data sourcing and more human representative data sets. Try the Brave search API for free for up to 2000 queries per month at https://bit.ly/BraveTCR

Omneky is an omnichannel creative generation platform that lets you launch hundreds of thousands of ad iterations that actually work customized across all platforms, with a click of a button. Omneky combines generative AI and real-time advertising data. Mention "Cog Rev" for 10% off https://www.omneky.com/

Plumb is a no-code AI app builder designed for product teams who care about quality and speed. What is taking you weeks to hand-code today can be done confidently in hours. Check out https://bit.ly/PlumbTCR for early access.

Head to Squad to access global engineering without the headache and at a fraction of the cost: head to https://choosesquad.com/ and mention “Turpentine” to skip the waitlist.

CHAPTERS :
(00:00) Introduction
(04:44) The Future of Robotics
(14:40) Sponsors : Brave / Omneky
(16:04) Inputs and Outputs
(24:03) A Leap Towards Generalist Robots
(32:08) Sponsors : Plumb / Squad
(33:52) Learning in Robotics
(41:12) Learning from On-the-Fly Examples
(41:57) Annotating Robot Actions
(50:17) Scaling and Safety
(01:03:05) Learning to Learn Faster
(01:08:43) Zero-Shot Learning
(01:15:15) Future Directions

In this episode, we delve into the intricate world of AI inference with cofounders of Firework AI. Discover the strategies behind optimizing AI performance, the importance of balancing latency and throughput, and the nuances of different AI architectures from GPT-3 to Stable Diffusion. Learn about their partnership with Stability AI, their unique focus on reducing total cost of ownership, and their vision for a seamless developer experience.

RECOMMENDED PODCAST:
How Do You Use ChatGPT with Dan Shipper.
Dan Shipper talks to programmers, writers, founders, academics, tech executives, and others to walk through all of their ChatGPT use cases (including Nathan!). They even use ChatGPT together, live on the show. Listen to How Do You Use ChatGPT? from Dan Shipper and the team at Every, wherever you get your podcasts: https://link.chtbl.com/hdyuchatgpt

SPONSORS:
Omneky is an omnichannel creative generation platform that lets you launch hundreds of thousands of ad iterations that actually work customized across all platforms, with a click of a button. Omneky combines generative AI and real-time advertising data. Mention "Cog Rev" for 10% off https://www.omneky.com/

The Brave search API can be used to assemble a data set to train your AI models and help with retrieval augmentation at the time of inference. All while remaining affordable with developer first pricing, integrating the Brave search API into your workflow translates to more ethical data sourcing and more human representative data sets. Try the Brave search API for free for up to 2000 queries per month at https://bit.ly/BraveTCR

Plumb is a no-code AI app builder designed for product teams who care about quality and speed. What is taking you weeks to hand-code today can be done confidently in hours. Check out https://bit.ly/PlumbTCR for early access.

Head to Squad to access global engineering without the headache and at a fraction of the cost: head to https://choosesquad.com/ and mention “Turpentine” to skip the waitlist.

CHAPTERS :
(00:00:00) Introduction
(00:08:34) Compute Stack
(00:19:23) Fireworks Product Philosophy
(00:24:11) Sponsors : Brave / Omneky
(00:25:40) Fine-tuning Strategy
(00:38:40) Sponsors : Plumb / Squad
(00:40:33) NVIDIA Stack Overview
(00:47:14) TensorFlow Triton Service
(00:55:25) Reduced Precision Advantages
(01:03:57) Different Deployment Scenarios
(01:08:27) Seeking Intuition on Sharding
(01:19:28) Announcing Stability AI Partnership
(01:32:00) Closing Remarks

In this episode, we explore the cutting-edge world of AI-powered brain imaging with the MindEye2 Project. Discover how researchers are reconstructing images from fMRI data, offering unprecedented insights into the human mind. We discuss the implications for neuroscience, clinical diagnosis, and the future of AI-assisted brain decoding.

RECOMMENDED PODCAST:
How Do You Use ChatGPT with Dan Shipper.
Dan Shipper talks to programmers, writers, founders, academics, tech executives, and others to walk through all of their ChatGPT use cases (including Nathan!). They even use ChatGPT together, live on the show. Listen to How Do You Use ChatGPT? from Dan Shipper and the team at Every, wherever you get your podcasts : https://link.chtbl.com/hdyuchatgpt

SPONSORS:
Omneky is an omnichannel creative generation platform that lets you launch hundreds of thousands of ad iterations that actually work customized across all platforms, with a click of a button. Omneky combines generative AI and real-time advertising data. Mention "Cog Rev" for 10% off https://www.omneky.com/

The Brave search API can be used to assemble a data set to train your AI models and help with retrieval augmentation at the time of inference. All while remaining affordable with developer first pricing, integrating the Brave search API into your workflow translates to more ethical data sourcing and more human representative data sets. Try the Brave search API for free for up to 2000 queries per month at https://bit.ly/BraveTCR

Plumb is a no-code AI app builder designed for product teams who care about quality and speed. What is taking you weeks to hand-code today can be done confidently in hours. Check out https://bit.ly/PlumbTCR for early access.

Head to Squad to access global engineering without the headache and at a fraction of the cost: head to https://choosesquad.com/ and mention “Turpentine” to skip the waitlist.

CHAPTERS:
(00:00) Introduction
(07:24) Evolution of Brain Decoding Tech
(10:33) From MindEye1 to MindEye2
(14:12) Sponsor: Omneky
(14:43) Foundation Models for Enhanced AI
(26:49) Future of Image Reconstruction from Brain Data
(34:10) Sponsors: Brave / Plumb / Squad
(44:23) Evaluating AI-Generated Reconstructions
(48:10) Understanding Semantic Info in the Brain
(51:47) Potential and Ethics of Brain Data Usage
(57:13) Foundation Models in Neuroscience
(01:02:46) Future of Brain-Computer Interfaces

In this episode, Linus Lee, AI product leader at Notion, joins us to discuss his groundbreaking projects and unique approach to exploring AI systems. He shares his toolkit and insights on language model capabilities, along with his vision for the future of AI, which is centered on amplifying human intelligence. Linus inspires listeners to engage deeply with AI and to steer its development in ways that enhance human creativity and agency.

RECOMMENDED PODCAST:
How Do You Use ChatGPT Dan Shipper talks to programmers, writers, founders, academics, tech executives, and others to walk through all of their ChatGPT use cases (including Nathan!). They even use ChatGPT together, live on the show. Listen to How Do You Use ChatGPT? from Dan Shipper and the team at Every, wherever you get your podcasts. https://link.chtbl.com/hdyuchatgpt

SPONSORS:
Omneky is an omnichannel creative generation platform that lets you launch hundreds of thousands of ad iterations that actually work customized across all platforms, with a click of a button. Omneky combines generative AI and real-time advertising data. Mention "Cog Rev" for 10% off https://www.omneky.com/

The Brave search API can be used to assemble a data set to train your AI models and help with retrieval augmentation at the time of inference. All while remaining affordable with developer first pricing, integrating the Brave search API into your workflow translates to more ethical data sourcing and more human representative data sets. Try the Brave search API for free for up to 2000 queries per month at https://bit.ly/BraveTCR

Plumb is a no-code AI app builder designed for product teams who care about quality and speed. What is taking you weeks to hand-code today can be done confidently in hours. Check out https://bit.ly/PlumbTCR for early access.

Head to Squad to access global engineering without the headache and at a fraction of the cost: head to https://choosesquad.com/ and mention “Turpentine” to skip the waitlist.

CHAPTERS :
(00:00) Introduction
(10:16) AI and Creativity
(14:37) Sponsor: Omneky
(14:57) AI Research Development
(20:05) Bridging Modalities
(32:38) Sponsor: Brave / Plumb / Squad
(35:36) Transformer Models and Techniques
(52:32) Personal AI Research Setup
(58:55) Leveraging Language Models for Coding
(01:02:05) AI Model Development and Notion AI
(01:22:05) Future of AI Models and App Development
(01:32:51) Emerging Trends in AI