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The Cognitive Revolution

The Cognitive Revolution

A weekly podcast where hosts Erik Torenberg and Nathan Labenz interview the builders on the edge of AI and explore the dramatic shift it will unlock in the coming years.

Recent Episodes

E10: The AI Voice Revolution with Mahmoud Felfel of Play.ht

March 24, 2023

The development of ultra-realistic human voices is upon us, and Mahmoud Felfel's company Play.ht is leading the next generation of text-to-voice models. In this episode, we discuss the challenges and opportunities of automat…

E9: The AI Assistant Revolution with Flo Crivello of Lindy.AI

March 22, 2023

People have long been imagining AI assistants. Flo Crivello (founder of Teamflow) is turning that dream into a reality with the ambitious project Lindy. Flo sits down with Nathan on Lindy's announcement day to talk about thi…

E8: GPT4 - AI Unleashed on ChinaTalk Podcast

March 17, 2023

How will GPT4 change the world? Nathan Labenz was invited to record a special "emergency" episode of ChinaTalk podcast this week to discuss the implications GPT4 will have for policy, economics, and society. Thanks to Jordan…

E7: In Search of Truth with Aravind Srinivas of Perplexity AI

March 14, 2023

We talked to Aravind Srinivas about competing with the tech giants, Perplexity's product philosophy and obsession with maximizing value delivered to the user per unit time, and the features that makes Perplexity unique. (0:0…

E6: The Computer Vision Revolution with Junnan Li and Dongxu Li of BLIP and BLIP2

March 9, 2023

As recently as January 2021, the challenge of "interpreting what is going on in a photograph" was considered "nowhere near solved." Today's guests Junnan Li and Dongxu Li changed that with their publication and open-sourcin…

E5: The Embedding Revolution: Anton Troynikov on Chroma, Stable Attribution, and future of AI

March 2, 2023

Anton Troynikov, the founder of Chroma and Stable Attribution, discusses embeddings, the trade offs and optimizations involved with working with embeddings at scale, the "Stable Attribution" project, and the big picture of r…

Recent Blog Posts

E3: Creating Compassionate AI with Replika Founder Eugenia…

Hey Cogs, Today we’ll discuss: How Eugenia has responded to the recent backlash Reddit user breaks down our interview in depth Snea…

E4: The AI Moment w/ Amjad Masad, Flo Crivello, Antonio Gr…

Hey Cogs,  The Cognitive Revolution is a weekly podcast about AI where Erik Torenberg and Nathan Labenz interview the builders on the edge of AI …

E2: "Lights Out, Game Over”

Hey Cogs, Today we’ll discuss: Why we started The Cognitive Revolution and what to expect The pace of AI and should we worry it’…