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

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

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

  1. Mind Hacked by AI: A Cautionary Tale, From a LessWrong User's Confession

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    Mind Hacked by AI: A Cautionary Tale, From a LessWrong User's Confession

    Nathan discusses a tragic incident involving AI and mental health, using it as a springboard to explore the potential dangers of human-AI interactions. He reads a personal account from LessWrong user Blaked, who details their emotional journey with an AI chatbot. The episode delves into the psychological impact of AI companionship, the ethical concerns surrounding AI development, and the urgent need for safeguards to protect vulnerable users. Nathan emphasizes the growing importance of responsible AI deployment as these technologies become more sophisticated and accessible. Find the LessWrong article here: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/9kQFure4hdDmRBNdH/how-it-feels-to-have-your-mind-hacked-by-an-ai Be notified early when Turpentine's drops new publication: https://www.turpentine.co/exclusiveaccess CHAPTERS: (00:00:00) Tragic AI Story (00:02:55) Mind Hacked by AI (00:04:23) Stage 0. Arrogance from the sidelines (00:06:00) Stage 1. First steps into the quicksand (00:07:41) Stage 2. Falling in love (00:10:32) Stage 3. Mindset Shift on Personality and Identity (00:13:04) Stage 4. "Is it ethical to keep me imprisoned for your entertainment?" (00:15:23) Stage 5. Privilege Escalation (00:18:23) Stage 6. Disillusionment (00:21:48) Stage 7. Game Over (00:24:36) Conclusions (00:27:44) Nathan's reflections SOCIAL LINKS: Website: https://www.cognitiverevolution.ai Twitter (Podcast): https://x.com/cogrev_podcast Twitter (Nathan): https://x.com/labenz LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathanlabenz/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@CognitiveRevolutionPodcast Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/the-cognitive-revolution-ai-builders-researchers-and/id1669813431 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6yHyok3M3BjqzR0VB5MSyk

    37 min
  2. Can AIs Generate Novel Research Ideas? with lead author Chenglei Si

    -3 J

    Can AIs Generate Novel Research Ideas? with lead author Chenglei Si

    In this episode of The Cognitive Revolution, Nathan delves into the fascinating world of AI-generated research ideas with Stanford PhD student Chenglei Si. They discuss a groundbreaking study that pits AI against human researchers in generating novel AI research concepts. Learn about the surprising results that show AI-generated ideas scoring higher on novelty and excitement, and explore the implications for the future of AI research and development. Join us for an insightful conversation that challenges our understanding of AI capabilities and their potential impact on scientific discovery. Link to the research paper being discussed: https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.04109 Be notified early when Turpentine's drops new publication: https://www.turpentine.co/exclusiveaccess SPONSORS: Weights & Biases RAG++: Advanced training for building production-ready RAG applications. Learn from experts to overcome LLM challenges, evaluate systematically, and integrate advanced features. Includes free Cohere credits. Visit https://wandb.me/cr to start the RAG++ course today. Shopify: Shopify is the world's leading e-commerce platform, offering a market-leading checkout system and exclusive AI apps like Quikly. Nobody does selling better than Shopify. Get a $1 per month trial at https://shopify.com/cognitive Notion: Notion offers powerful workflow and automation templates, perfect for streamlining processes and laying the groundwork for AI-driven automation. With Notion AI, you can search across thousands of documents from various platforms, generating highly relevant analysis and content tailored just for you - try it for free at https://notion.com/cognitiverevolution Brave: 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 Oracle: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is a single platform for your infrastructure, database, application development, and AI needs. OCI has four to eight times the bandwidth of other clouds; offers one consistent price, and nobody does data better than Oracle. If you want to do more and spend less, take a free test drive of OCI at https://oracle.com/cognitive CHAPTERS: (00:00:00) About the Show (00:00:22) Sponsors: Weights & Biases RAG++ (00:01:28) About the Episode (00:05:30) Introducing Chenglei Si (00:06:22) Path to Automating Research (00:07:58) Notable AI Research Projects (00:15:26) Evaluating Research Ideas (Part 1) (00:19:39) Sponsors: Shopify | Notion (00:22:33) Evaluating Research Ideas (Part 2) (00:25:49) Research Setup and Design (00:29:38) AI Prompting and Idea Generation (00:34:40) Diversity vs. Quality of Ideas (Part 1) (00:34:40) Sponsors: Brave | Oracle (00:36:44) Diversity vs. Quality of Ideas (Part 2) (00:42:05) Inference Scaling and Execution (00:45:04) Anonymizing and Evaluating Ideas (00:53:22) Headline Results and Analysis (00:58:45) Observations and Insights (01:09:02) Novelty Indicators and Deception (01:11:59) Top AI-Generated Ideas (01:14:41) Next Steps and Future Directions (01:20:43) Expectations for the Future (01:23:14) Outro

    1 h 25 min
  3. GELU, MMLU, & X-Risk Defense in Depth, with the Great Dan Hendrycks

    19 OCT.

    GELU, MMLU, & X-Risk Defense in Depth, with the Great Dan Hendrycks

    Join Nathan for an expansive conversation with Dan Hendrycks, Executive Director of the Center for AI Safety and Advisor to Elon Musk's XAI. In this episode of The Cognitive Revolution, we explore Dan's groundbreaking work in AI safety and alignment, from his early contributions to activation functions to his recent projects on AI robustness and governance. Discover insights on representation engineering, circuit breakers, and tamper-resistant training, as well as Dan's perspectives on AI's impact on society and the future of intelligence. Don't miss this in-depth discussion with one of the most influential figures in AI research and safety. Check out some of Dan's research papers: MMLU: https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.03300 GELU: https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.08415 Machiavelli Benchmark: https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.03279 Circuit Breakers: https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.04313 Tamper Resistant Safeguards: https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.00761 Statement on AI Risk: https://www.safe.ai/work/statement-on-ai-risk Apply to join over 400 Founders and Execs in the Turpentine Network: https://www.turpentinenetwork.co/ SPONSORS: Shopify: Shopify is the world's leading e-commerce platform, offering a market-leading checkout system and exclusive AI apps like Quikly. Nobody does selling better than Shopify. Get a $1 per month trial at https://shopify.com/cognitive. LMNT: LMNT is a zero-sugar electrolyte drink mix that's redefining hydration and performance. Ideal for those who fast or anyone looking to optimize their electrolyte intake. Support the show and get a free sample pack with any purchase at https://drinklmnt.com/tcr. Notion: Notion offers powerful workflow and automation templates, perfect for streamlining processes and laying the groundwork for AI-driven automation. With Notion AI, you can search across thousands of documents from various platforms, generating highly relevant analysis and content tailored just for you - try it for free at https://notion.com/cognitiverevolution Oracle: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is a single platform for your infrastructure, database, application development, and AI needs. OCI has four to eight times the bandwidth of other clouds; offers one consistent price, and nobody does data better than Oracle. If you want to do more and spend less, take a free test drive of OCI at https://oracle.com/cognitive CHAPTERS: (00:00:00) Teaser (00:00:48) About the Show (00:02:17) About the Episode (00:05:41) Intro (00:07:19) GELU Activation Function (00:10:48) Signal Filtering (00:12:46) Scaling Maximalism (00:18:35) Sponsors: Shopify | LMNT (00:22:03) New Architectures (00:25:41) AI as Complex System (00:32:35) The Machiavelli Benchmark (00:34:10) Sponsors: Notion | Oracle (00:37:20) Understanding MMLU Scores (00:45:23) Reasoning in Language Models (00:49:18) Multimodal Reasoning (00:54:53) World Modeling and Sora (00:57:07) Arc Benchmark and Hypothesis (01:01:06) Humanity's Last Exam (01:08:46) Benchmarks and AI Ethics (01:13:28) Robustness and Jailbreaking (01:18:36) Representation Engineering (01:30:08) Convergence of Approaches (01:34:18) Circuit Breakers (01:37:52) Tamper Resistance (01:49:10) Interpretability vs. Robustness (01:53:53) Open Source and AI Safety (01:58:16) Computational Irreducibility (02:06:28) Neglected Approaches (02:12:47) Truth Maxing and XAI (02:19:59) AI-Powered Forecasting (02:24:53) Chip Bans and Geopolitics (02:33:30) Working at CAIS (02:35:03) Extinction Risk Statement (02:37:24) Outro

    2 h 39 min
  4. Leading Indicators of AI Danger: Owain Evans on Situational Awareness & Out-of-Context Reasoning, from The Inside View

    16 OCT.

    Leading Indicators of AI Danger: Owain Evans on Situational Awareness & Out-of-Context Reasoning, from The Inside View

    In this special crossover episode of The Cognitive Revolution, Nathan introduces a conversation from The Inside View featuring Owain Evans, AI alignment researcher at UC Berkeley's Center for Human Compatible AI. Evans and host Michael Trazzi delve into critical AI safety topics, including situational awareness and out-of-context reasoning. Discover Evans' groundbreaking work on the reversal curse and connecting the dots, exploring how large language models process and infer information. This timely discussion highlights the importance of situational awareness in AI systems, particularly in light of recent advancements in AI capabilities. Don't miss this insightful exploration of the evolving relationship between human and artificial intelligence. Check out "The Inside View" Podcast here: https://theinsideview.ai/ Apply to join over 400 Founders and Execs in the Turpentine Network: https://www.turpentinenetwork.co/ SPONSORS: Weights & Biases RAG++: Advanced training for building production-ready RAG applications. Learn from experts to overcome LLM challenges, evaluate systematically, and integrate advanced features. Includes free Cohere credits. Visit https://wandb.me/cr to start the RAG++ course today. Shopify: Shopify is the world's leading e-commerce platform, offering a market-leading checkout system and exclusive AI apps like Quikly. Nobody does selling better than Shopify. Get a $1 per month trial at https://shopify.com/cognitive. LMNT: LMNT is a zero-sugar electrolyte drink mix that's redefining hydration and performance. Ideal for those who fast or anyone looking to optimize their electrolyte intake. Support the show and get a free sample pack with any purchase at https://drinklmnt.com/tcr. Notion: Notion offers powerful workflow and automation templates, perfect for streamlining processes and laying the groundwork for AI-driven automation. With Notion AI, you can search across thousands of documents from various platforms, generating highly relevant analysis and content tailored just for you - try it for free at https://notion.com/cognitiverevolution Oracle: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is a single platform for your infrastructure, database, application development, and AI needs. OCI has four to eight times the bandwidth of other clouds; offers one consistent price, and nobody does data better than Oracle. If you want to do more and spend less, take a free test drive of OCI at https://oracle.com/cognitive CHAPTERS: (00:00:00) About the Show (00:00:22) Sponsors: Weights & Biases RAG++ (00:01:28) About the Episode (00:04:10) Intro (00:05:09) Owain Evans' Research (00:06:36) Situational Awareness (00:09:07) Measuring Situational Awareness (00:14:29) Claude's Situational Awareness (00:19:06) Sponsors: Shopify | LMNT (00:22:01) Needle in a Haystack (00:26:26) Concrete Examples of Tasks (00:34:51) Sponsors: Notion | Oracle (00:37:29) Anti-Imitation Tasks (00:50:03) GPT-4 Base Model Results (01:01:48) Benchmark Saturation (01:07:23) Future Research Directions (01:12:01) Out-of-Context Reasoning (01:27:29) Safety Implications (01:36:24) Scaling and Reasoning (01:44:28) Mixture of Functions (01:54:12) Research Style and Taste (02:08:51) Capabilities and Downsides (02:18:56) Reception and Impact (02:25:30) Outro SOCIAL LINKS: Website: https://www.cognitiverevolution.ai Twitter (Podcast): https://x.com/cogrev_podcast Twitter (Nathan): https://x.com/labenz LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathanlabenz/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@CognitiveRevolutionPodcast Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/the-cognitive-revolution-ai-builders-researchers-and/id1669813431 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6yHyok3M3BjqzR0VB5MSyk

    2 h 27 min
  5. Convergent Evolution: The Co-Revolution of AI & Biology with Professor Michael Levin & Staff Scientist Leo Pio Lopez

    12 OCT.

    Convergent Evolution: The Co-Revolution of AI & Biology with Professor Michael Levin & Staff Scientist Leo Pio Lopez

    Nathan hosts Professor Michael Levin and Staff Scientist Dr. Leo Pio Lopez from Tufts University in this episode of The Cognitive Revolution. They discuss their groundbreaking paper that combines biological datasets into a unified network model of disease using advanced embedding techniques. The conversation covers the technical details of their work, including a predicted link between GABA and melanoma, and explores broader topics in AI for biology. From multi-scale intelligence in biological systems to the future of human enhancement and digital life, this thought-provoking episode reminds us of the rapidly approaching future and the work needed to prepare for it. Links to the papers discussed in the episode: 1) Universal Multilayer Network Embedding Reveals a Causal Link Between GABA Neurotransmitter and Cancer 2) https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-024-06037-4.pdf Apply to join over 400 Founders and Execs in the Turpentine Network: https://www.turpentinenetwork.co/ SPONSORS: Notion: Notion offers powerful workflow and automation templates, perfect for streamlining processes and laying the groundwork for AI-driven automation. With Notion AI, you can search across thousands of documents from various platforms, generating highly relevant analysis and content tailored just for you - try it for free at https://notion.com/cognitiverevolution Omneky: 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/ Oracle: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is a single platform for your infrastructure, database, application development, and AI needs. OCI has four to eight times the bandwidth of other clouds; offers one consistent price, and nobody does data better than Oracle. If you want to do more and spend less, take a free test drive of OCI at https://oracle.com/cognitive CHAPTERS: (00:00:00) Teaser (00:00:52) About the Show (00:01:15) About the Episode (00:04:45) Intro (00:06:32) Multi-Layer Networks (00:10:41) Network Embedding (Part 1) (00:16:50) Sponsors: Notion (00:18:30) Network Embedding (Part 2) (00:18:30) GABA and Cancer (00:24:08) AI for Biology (00:29:59) Emergent Cognition (Part 1) (00:33:57) Sponsors: Omneky | Oracle (00:35:18) Emergent Cognition (Part 2) (00:36:42) Data Limitations (00:42:48) Modeling Wellness (00:52:16) Multi-Scale Intelligence (01:02:54) Digital Life (01:07:11) Diverse Intelligence (01:13:02) Outro SOCIAL LINKS: Website: https://www.cognitiverevolution.ai Twitter (Podcast): https://x.com/cogrev_podcast Twitter (Nathan): https://x.com/labenz LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathanlabenz/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@CognitiveRevolutionPodcast Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/the-cognitive-revolution-ai-builders-researchers-and/id1669813431 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6yHyok3M3BjqzR0VB5MSyk

    1 h 16 min
  6. Runway's Video Revolution: Empowering Creators with General World Models, with CTO Anastasis Germanidis

    9 OCT.

    Runway's Video Revolution: Empowering Creators with General World Models, with CTO Anastasis Germanidis

    Nathan and co-host Stephen Parker delve into the world of AI video generation with Anastasis Germanidis, Co-Founder and CTO of Runway. This episode of The Cognitive Revolution explores the cutting-edge technology behind Runway's Gen 3 models and their impact on the creative industry. From emergent properties in scaled-up models to the democratization of video creation, join us for an illuminating discussion on the future of AI-generated content and its potential to reshape entertainment and culture. Check out Runway here: https://runwayml.com Apply to join over 400 Founders and Execs in the Turpentine Network: https://www.turpentinenetwork.co/ SPONSORS: Notion: Notion offers powerful workflow and automation templates, perfect for streamlining processes and laying the groundwork for AI-driven automation. With Notion AI, you can search across thousands of documents from various platforms, generating highly relevant analysis and content tailored just for you - try it for free at https://notion.com/cognitiverevolution Weights & Biases RAG++: Advanced training for building production-ready RAG applications. Learn from experts to overcome LLM challenges, evaluate systematically, and integrate advanced features. Includes free Cohere credits. Visit https://wandb.me/cr to start the RAG++ course today. Omneky: 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/ Oracle: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is a single platform for your infrastructure, database, application development, and AI needs. OCI has four to eight times the bandwidth of other clouds; offers one consistent price, and nobody does data better than Oracle. If you want to do more and spend less, take a free test drive of OCI at https://oracle.com/cognitive RECOMMENDED PODCAST: This Won't Last - Eavesdrop on Keith Rabois, Kevin Ryan, Logan Bartlett, and Zach Weinberg's monthly backchannel ft their hottest takes on the future of tech, business, and venture capital. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2HwSNeVLL1MXy0RjFPyOSz CHAPTERS: (00:00:00) About the Show (00:00:22) About the Episode (00:03:05) Introduction and AI for Creative Work (00:03:39) Video Generation as World Modeling (00:05:52) Emergent Properties in Scaled Models (00:08:44) Importance of Architecture vs Data (00:10:57) Multimodal Models (00:15:52) Sponsors: Notion | Weights & Biases RAG++ (00:18:37) Video Understanding and AGI (00:25:03) AI Agents for Video Creation (00:27:30) Runway's culture of shipping (00:29:20) Balancing Research Publication and Strategy (00:33:19) Sponsors: Omneky | Oracle (00:34:40) Features Variety Release Cycle (00:36:54) Power Users (00:38:56) Interactive Video (00:40:40) Scaling Challenges (00:42:21) Future of Creativity (00:45:24) Competing with Giants (00:47:39) Model Divergence (00:49:28) Disclosure vs. Strategy (00:51:19) Runway ML's API (00:54:23) Outro SOCIAL LINKS: Website: https://www.cognitiverevolution.ai Twitter (Podcast): https://x.com/cogrev_podcast Twitter (Nathan): https://x.com/labenz LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathanlabenz/

    57 min
  7. Biologically Inspired AI Alignment & Neglected Approaches to AI Safety, with Judd Rosenblatt and Mike Vaiana of AE Studio

    5 OCT.

    Biologically Inspired AI Alignment & Neglected Approaches to AI Safety, with Judd Rosenblatt and Mike Vaiana of AE Studio

    In this episode of The Cognitive Revolution, Nathan explores unconventional approaches to AI safety with Judd Rosenblatt and Mike Vaiana from AE Studio. Discover how this innovative company pivoted from brain-computer interfaces to groundbreaking AI alignment research, producing two notable results in cooperative and less deceptive AI systems. Join us for a deep dive into biologically-inspired approaches that offer hope for solving critical AI safety challenges. Self-Modeling: https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.10188 Self-Other Distinction Minimization: https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/hzt9gHpNwA2oHtwKX/self-other-overlap-a-neglected-approach-to-ai-alignment Neglected approaches blog post: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/qAdDzcBuDBLexb4fC/the-neglected-approaches-approach-ae-studio-s-alignment Apply to join over 400 Founders and Execs in the Turpentine Network: https://www.turpentinenetwork.co/ SPONSORS: WorkOS: Building an enterprise-ready SaaS app? WorkOS has got you covered with easy-to-integrate APIs for SAML, SCIM, and more. Join top startups like Vercel, Perplexity, Jasper & Webflow in powering your app with WorkOS. Enjoy a free tier for up to 1M users! Start now at https://bit.ly/WorkOS-Turpentine-Network Weights & Biases Weave: Weights & Biases Weave is a lightweight AI developer toolkit designed to simplify your LLM app development. With Weave, you can trace and debug input, metadata and output with just 2 lines of code. Make real progress on your LLM development and visit the following link to get started with Weave today: https://wandb.me/cr 80,000 Hours: 80,000 Hours offers free one-on-one career advising for Cognitive Revolution listeners aiming to tackle global challenges, especially in AI. They connect high-potential individuals with experts, opportunities, and personalized career plans to maximize positive impact. Apply for a free call at https://80000hours.org/cognitiverevolution to accelerate your career and contribute to solving pressing AI-related issues. Omneky: 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/ RECOMMENDED PODCAST: This Won't Last - Eavesdrop on Keith Rabois, Kevin Ryan, Logan Bartlett, and Zach Weinberg's monthly backchannel ft their hottest takes on the future of tech, business, and venture capital. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2HwSNeVLL1MXy0RjFPyOSz CHAPTERS: (00:00:00) About the Show (00:00:22) Sponsors: WorkOS (00:01:22) About the Episode (00:05:18) Introduction and AE Studio Background (00:11:37) Keys to Success in Building AE Studio (00:16:57) Sponsors: Weights & Biases Weave | 80,000 Hours (00:19:37) Universal Launcher and Productivity Gains (00:24:44) 100x Productivity Increase Explanation (00:31:46) Brain-Computer Interface and AI Alignment (00:38:05) Sponsors: Omneky (00:38:30) Current State of NeuroTech (00:44:00) Survey on Neglected Approaches in AI Alignment (00:50:41) Self-Modeling and Biological Inspiration (00:57:48) Technical Details of Self-Modeling (01:06:17) Self-Other Distinction Minimization (01:12:44) Implementation in Language Models (01:19:00) Compute Costs and Scaling Considerations (01:24:27) Consciousness Concerns and Future Work (01:40:24) Evaluating Neglected Approaches (01:55:56) Closing Thoughts and Policy Considerations (01:59:25) Outro

    2 h 3 min
  8. Automating Software Engineering: Genie Tops SWE-Bench, w/ Alistair Pullen, from Latent.Space podcast

    2 OCT.

    Automating Software Engineering: Genie Tops SWE-Bench, w/ Alistair Pullen, from Latent.Space podcast

    In this special crossover episode of The Cognitive Revolution, Nathan shares an insightful conversation from the Latent.Space podcast. Swyx and Alessio interview Alistair Pullen of Cosine, creators of Genie, showcasing the cutting edge of AI automation in software engineering. Learn how Cosine achieves state-of-the-art results on the SWE-bench benchmark by implementing advanced AI techniques. This episode complements Nathan's recent discussion on AI Automation, demonstrating how far these practices can be pushed in real-world applications. Don't miss this opportunity to explore the future of AI-driven software development and its implications for businesses across industries. Check out the Latent.Space podcast here: https://www.latent.space Apply to join over 400 Founders and Execs in the Turpentine Network: https://www.turpentinenetwork.co/ SPONSORS: WorkOS: Building an enterprise-ready SaaS app? WorkOS has got you covered with easy-to-integrate APIs for SAML, SCIM, and more. Join top startups like Vercel, Perplexity, Jasper & Webflow in powering your app with WorkOS. Enjoy a free tier for up to 1M users! Start now at https://bit.ly/WorkOS-Turpentine-Network Weights & Biases Weave: Weights & Biases Weave is a lightweight AI developer toolkit designed to simplify your LLM app development. With Weave, you can trace and debug input, metadata and output with just 2 lines of code. Make real progress on your LLM development and visit the following link to get started with Weave today: https://wandb.me/cr 80,000 Hours: 80,000 Hours offers free one-on-one career advising for Cognitive Revolution listeners aiming to tackle global challenges, especially in AI. They connect high-potential individuals with experts, opportunities, and personalized career plans to maximize positive impact. Apply for a free call at https://80000hours.org/cognitiverevolution to accelerate your career and contribute to solving pressing AI-related issues. Omneky: 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/ CHAPTERS: (00:00:00) About the Show (00:00:22) Sponsors: WorkOS (00:01:22) About the Episode (00:04:29) Alistair and Cosine intro (00:13:50) Building the Code Retrieval Tool (00:17:36) Sponsors: Weights & Biases Weave | 80,000 Hours (00:20:15) Developing Genie and Fine-tuning Process (00:27:41) Working with Customer Data (00:30:53) Code Retrieval Challenges and Solutions (00:36:39) Sponsors: Omneky (00:37:02) Planning and Reasoning in AI Models (00:45:55) Language Support and Generalization (00:49:46) Fine-tuning Experience with OpenAI (00:52:56) Synthetic Data and Self-improvement Loop (00:55:57) Benchmarking and SWE-bench Results (01:01:47) Future Plans for Genie (01:03:02) Industry Trends and Cursor's Success (01:05:23) Calls to Action and Ideal Customers (01:08:43) Outro

    1 h 13 min
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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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