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

This is one of the most informative podcasts on AI. The deep dives with industry leaders like Tokarev Sela are so insightful!

The guests this podcast gets are great. Unfortunately, the host of this show wants so desperately to show the guests (who have real AI credits) how much he knows about AI that he ends up talking for 2/3rds of the podcast, leaving his poor guests with not much to do but stammer out a polite “yea” every now and then. A typical show will go off the rails with the host pontificating at length about some topic he thinks he can sound smart about or trying tp relate everything back to his own experience of (surprise) not being an AI developer and then asking the guest “what do you think about that?” I find myself screaming (internally) “shut up and listen”. This host should learn from those that do this well, like Dwarkesh. Or really any other podcast host.

The IQ level is high on this pod, and I always learn something.

I’m not in the industry, simply curious to understand our future. The technical stuff goes over my head sometimes but there’s so much else here for anyone contemplating these seismic shifts we’re entering. Audio for Nathan was great but it was awful for the guy asking questions. I was stunned when the interviewer mentioned that his business was podcasting production.