Podcast : No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups Episode : Will Everyone Have a Personal AI? With Mustafa Suleyman, Founder of DeepMind and Inflection Release date : 2023-05-11 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder of DeepMind and now co-founder and CEO of Inflection AI, joins Sarah and Elad to discuss how his interests in counseling, conflict resolution, and intelligence led him to start an AI lab th...
Jul 07, 2023•52 min
Podcast : Dwarkesh Podcast Episode : Carl Shulman (Pt 2) - AI Takeover, Bio & Cyber Attacks, Detecting Deception, & Humanity's Far Future Release date : 2023-06-26 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization The second half of my 7 hour conversation with Carl Shulman is out! My favorite part! And the one that had the biggest impact on my worldview. Here, Carl lays out how an AI takeover might happen: * AI can threaten mutually assured destruction ...
Jun 27, 2023•3 hr 7 min
Podcast : Joe Carlsmith Audio Episode : Predictable updating about AI risk Release date : 2023-05-08 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization How worried about AI risk will we feel in the future, when we can see advanced machine intelligence up close? We should worry accordingly now. Text version here: https://joecarlsmith.com/2023/05/08/predictable-updating-about-ai-risk...
Jun 16, 2023•1 hr 3 min
Podcast : Dwarkesh Podcast Episode : Carl Shulman (Pt 1) - Intelligence Explosion, Primate Evolution, Robot Doublings, & Alignment Release date : 2023-06-14 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In terms of the depth and range of topics, this episode is the best I’ve done. No part of my worldview is the same after talking with Carl Shulman. He's the most interesting intellectual you've never heard of. We ended up talking for 8 hours, so I'm spli...
Jun 14, 2023•2 hr 44 min
Podcast : Conversations with Tyler Episode : Peter Singer on Utilitarianism, Influence, and Controversial Ideas Release date : 2023-06-07 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Peter Singer is one of the world’s most influential living philosophers, whose ideas have motivated millions of people to change how they eat, how they give, and how they interact with each other and the natural world. Peter joined Tyler to discuss whether utilitarianism is on...
Jun 08, 2023•52 min
Podcast : 80,000 Hours Podcast Episode : #152 – Joe Carlsmith on navigating serious philosophical confusion Release date : 2023-05-19 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization What is the nature of the universe? How do we make decisions correctly? What differentiates right actions from wrong ones? Such fundamental questions have been the subject of philosophical and theological debates for millennia. But, as we all know, and surveys of expert opinion ma...
Jun 08, 2023•3 hr 27 min
Podcast : Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST) Episode : #59 - Jeff Hawkins (Thousand Brains Theory) Release date : 2021-09-03 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mlst The ultimate goal of neuroscience is to learn how the human brain gives rise to human intelligence and what it means to be intelligent. Understanding how the brain works is considered one of humanity’s greatest challenges. Jeff Hawkins thinks that the...
Jun 07, 2023•2 hr 35 min
Podcast : Hear This Idea Episode : #63 – Ben Garfinkel on AI Governance Release date : 2023-05-13 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Ben Garfinkel is a Research Fellow at the University of Oxford and Acting Director of the Centre for the Governance of AI . In this episode we talk about: An overview of AI governance space, and disentangling concrete research questions that Ben would like to see more work on Seeing how existing arguments for the ri...
May 14, 2023•2 hr 58 min
Podcast : Lex Fridman Podcast Episode : #299 – Demis Hassabis: DeepMind Release date : 2022-07-01 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Demis Hassabis is the CEO and co-founder of DeepMind. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: – Mailgun : https://lexfridman.com/mailgun – InsideTracker : https://insidetracker.com/lex to get 20% off – Onnit : https://lexfridman.com/onnit to get up to 10% off – Indeed : https://indeed.com/lex to ge...
May 11, 2023•2 hr 17 min
Podcast : 80,000 Hours Podcast Episode : #150 – Tom Davidson on how quickly AI could transform the world Release date : 2023-05-05 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization It’s easy to dismiss alarming AI-related predictions when you don’t know where the numbers came from. For example: what if we told you that within 15 years, it’s likely that we’ll see a 1,000x improvement in AI capabilities in a single year? And what if we then told you that those im...
May 07, 2023•3 hr 2 min
Podcast : Bankless Episode : 168 - How to Solve AI Alignment with Paul Christiano Release date : 2023-04-24 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Paul Christiano runs the Alignment Research Center, a non-profit research organization whose mission is to align future machine learning systems with human interests. Paul previously ran the language model alignment team at OpenAI, the creators of ChatGPT. Today, we’re hoping to explore the solution-landsc...
May 02, 2023•1 hr 50 min
Podcast : Dwarkesh Podcast Episode : Ilya Sutskever (OpenAI Chief Scientist) - Building AGI, Alignment, Future Models, Spies, Microsoft, Taiwan, & Enlightenment Release date : 2023-03-27 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization I went over to the OpenAI offices in San Fransisco to ask the Chief Scientist and cofounder of OpenAI, Ilya Sutskever , about: * time to AGI * leaks and spies * what's after generative models * post AGI futures * working wit...
Mar 28, 2023•48 min
Podcast : Conversations with Tyler Episode : Tom Holland on History, Christianity, and the Value of the Countryside Release date : 2023-03-22 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Historian Tom Holland joined Tyler to discuss in what ways his Christianity is influenced by Lord Byron, how the Book of Revelation precipitated a revolutionary tradition, which book of the Bible is most foundational for Western liberalism, the political differences betwee...
Mar 24, 2023•53 min
Podcast : Philosophy For Our Times Episode : Is our search for an objective morality misguided? | Slavoj Žižek, Joanna Kavenna, Simon Blackburn Release date : 2023-03-14 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Should we think of morality in terms of objective truth or social consensus? Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimes Once the fashion of a postmodern age, moral relativism has always had its detractors...
Mar 15, 2023•49 min
Podcast : Conversations with Tyler Episode : Yasheng Huang on the Development of the Chinese State Release date : 2023-03-08 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Yasheng Huang has written two of Tyler’s favorite books on China: Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics , which contrasts an entrepreneurial rural China and a state-controlled urban China, and The Rise and Fall of the EAST , which argues that Keju —China’s civil service exam system—playe...
Mar 15, 2023•54 min
Podcast : "Moment of Zen" Episode : Effective Accelerationism and the AI Safety Debate with Bayeslord, Beff Jezoz, and Nathan Labenz Release date : 2023-03-11 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Anonymous founders of the Effective Accelerationist (e/acc) movement @Bayeslord and Beff Jezoz (@BasedBeff) join Erik Torenberg, Dan Romero, and Nathan Labenz to debate views on AI safety. We're hiring across the board at Turpentine and for Erik's personal...
Mar 13, 2023•2 hr 11 min
Podcast : Foresight Institute Radio Episode : Robin Hanson, George Mason University | Deflecting The Sacred Release date : 2023-03-02 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Robin Dale Hanson is an associate professor of economics at George Mason University and a research associate at the Future of Humanity Institute of Oxford University. He is known as an expert on idea futures and markets, and he was involved in the creation of the Foresight Exchang...
Mar 05, 2023•12 min
Podcast : Hear This Idea Episode : #59 – Chris Miller on the History of Semiconductors, TSMC, and the CHIPS Act Release date : 2023-03-02 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Chris Miller is an Associate Professor of International History at Tufts University and author of the book “ Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology ” (the Financial Times Business Book of the Year). He is also a Visiting Fellow at the American En...
Mar 03, 2023•32 min
Podcast : a16z Podcast Episode : The 1000x Developer Release date : 2023-02-16 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization A small minority – likely less than 1% – of the world can code. Yet also widely known that the skillset tends to yield outsized returns, with developers generating some of the highest paying salaries out there. But the field is quickly shifting, especially with the advent of wide-scale AI. In this podcast, we get to chat with Amjad Ma...
Feb 18, 2023•1 hr
Podcast : ROCKING OUR PRIORS Episode : Why Are Most Humans Religious? Professor Robin Dunbar Release date : 2023-01-17 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Why are most humans religious? How much can be explained by evolutionary psychology? Why do we cooperate? Is it religious injunctions or more emotional? Is religiosity really about cooperation? What about legitimising hierarchy, control, and female self-sacrifice. Muslim women are less likely to...
Feb 05, 2023•1 hr 46 min
Podcast : Future of Life Institute Podcast Episode : Connor Leahy on AI Safety and Why the World is Fragile Release date : 2023-01-26 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Connor Leahy from Conjecture joins the podcast to discuss AI safety, the fragility of the world, slowing down AI development, regulating AI, and the optimal funding model for AI safety research. Learn more about Connor's work at https://conjecture.dev Timestamps: 00:00 Introductio...
Feb 03, 2023•1 hr 5 min
Podcast : Future of Life Institute Podcast Episode : Connor Leahy on Aliens, Ethics, Economics, Memetics, and Education Release date : 2023-02-02 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Connor Leahy from Conjecture joins the podcast for a lightning round on a variety of topics ranging from aliens to education. Learn more about Connor's work at https://conjecture.dev Social Media Links: ➡️ WEBSITE: https://futureoflife.org ➡️ TWITTER: https://twitter.c...
Feb 03, 2023•1 hr 6 min
Podcast : Uncommon Knowledge Episode : “Bibi: My Story,” Benjamin Netanyahu On His Life And Times | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution Release date : 2022-12-09 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Benjamin Netanyahu is the past and soon to be again prime minister of Israel. In his new book, Bibi: My Story , Netanyahu describes how he went from an Israeli American high school student in Philadelphia to a member of the Israeli Defense Force, detour...
Jan 28, 2023•1 hr 14 min
Podcast : The Gray Area with Sean Illing Episode : Can effective altruism be redeemed? Release date : 2023-01-23 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Guest host Sigal Samuel talks with Holden Karnofsky about effective altruism, a movement flung into public scrutiny with the collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried and his crypto exchange, FTX. They discuss EA’s approach to charitable giving, the relationship between effective altruism and the moral philosophy...
Jan 26, 2023•1 hr 4 min
Podcast : 80,000 Hours Podcast Episode : #143 – Jeffrey Lewis on the most common misconceptions about nuclear weapons Release date : 2022-12-29 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization America aims to avoid nuclear war by relying on the principle of 'mutually assured destruction,' right? Wrong. Or at least... not officially. As today's guest — Jeffrey Lewis, founder of Arms Control Wonk and professor at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies...
Jan 26, 2023•2 hr 40 min
Podcast : Odd Lots Episode : Ex-Logger Aims to Beat Elon Musk in Electric Trucks Release date : 2023-01-16 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization While electric vehicle use is growing rapidly, the internal combustion engine remains completely dominant in the world of heavy trucks. At some point in the future, Tesla has a plan to commercialize an electric semi, but nobody really knows when. Meanwhile, other entities are looking to compete in the world...
Jan 17, 2023•52 min
Release date : 2023-01-13 Notes from The Valmy : Source: YouTube https://youtu.be/ZzV7ty1DW_c Release date: 2022-12-15 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization...
Jan 13, 2023•1 hr 19 min
Podcast : 80,000 Hours Podcast Episode : #141 – Richard Ngo on large language models, OpenAI, and striving to make the future go well Release date : 2022-12-13 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Large language models like GPT-3, and now ChatGPT, are neural networks trained on a large fraction of all text available on the internet to do one thing: predict the next word in a passage. This simple technique has led to something extraordinary — black ...
Jan 13, 2023•2 hr 44 min
Podcast : Dwarkesh Podcast Episode : Nadia Asparouhova - Tech Elites, Democracy, Open Source, & Philanthropy Release date : 2022-12-15 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Nadia Asparouhova is currently researching what the new tech elite will look like at nadia.xyz . She is also the author of Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software . We talk about how: * American philanthropy has changed from Rockefeller to Effect...
Jan 03, 2023•1 hr 22 min
Podcast : Future of Life Institute Podcast Episode : Anders Sandberg on the Value of the Future Release date : 2022-12-29 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Anders Sandberg joins the podcast to discuss various philosophical questions about the value of the future. Learn more about Anders' work: https://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 00:54 Humanity as an immature teenager 04:24 How should we respond to our values changing over tim...
Jan 02, 2023•50 min
