About this Concept
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AI systems that can plan, use tools, and carry out multi-step tasks.
Trend this week
1 of 1 week tracked had mentions across multiple podcasts.
A closer read
- What changed
- This was its first published appearance at 7.9% of the conversation, with evidence across 12 podcasts.
- Where it showed up
- It appeared in episodes including “The Thermodynamic AI Computing Chip - Thomas Ahle” and “The Capability Overhang Playbook”.
- How to read it
- 6 cited episodes from 6 podcasts are shown below. The topic appeared across 12 podcasts in the full analysis.
Podcast moments from the week
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Machine Learning Street Talk
The Thermodynamic AI Computing Chip - Thomas Ahle
“So engineers design the whole circuit in a language called Verilog, almost written like software, and only much later does any of it become physical silicon. But first, that code has to be simulated and formally verified. it has to be proven correct. Because once a chip is fab...”
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Report this moment“having some 20 GPT agents running for around 6 months now, still making progress”
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Report this moment“there is this tendency with agentic coding to build a spaghetti monster”
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The AI Daily Brief
The Capability Overhang Playbook
“you have the world's most infinitely patient and knowledgeable tutor in the actual tools themselves”
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Report this moment“even when some of them are derivative, they're almost all valuable.”
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Report this moment“it will actually make these assets that you've spent time developing for yourself much, much more useful.”
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The Cognitive Revolution
AI:AM #4: Cameron on Model Consciousness, Duvenaud's Gradual Disempowerment, swyx's AI-Eng Alpha
“Another harness idea getting attention is the advisor or router model, a cheaper model that notices when it's stuck and calls up a smarter one. We asked Swyx what he makes of it.”
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Report this moment“You're effectively just doing model routing. You're just giving it a different name.”
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Report this moment“when you are asked a question that is more complex than you have the intelligence to answer, you don't even know, like, you're just going to straightforward answer it without knowing that, like, oh, I'm supposed to call out the smart model. And that's just the theoretical limi...”
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AI Inside
Liz Reid on What Publishers Get Wrong About AI
“the agentic side of things is starting to also come over to search, which is interesting and exciting”
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No Priors
Really Big Test-Time Compute in AI Changes Benchmarks, Safety and Research with OpenAI Research Scientist Noam Brown
“with the most recent models that you can actually scaffold, for example, 5.5 into doing a series of experiments that can run for weeks, for months.”
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Report this moment“we're going to pretty soon be at that point where I probably could just tell it like, yeah, go work on this for a month and then come back to me with a full, complete poker solver that's state-of-the-art”
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Report this moment“What do you think is on the frontier that is less explored now? Like, we've talked about multi-agent before.”
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The AI Native Dev
Why Agents Are Forcing Enterprises to Finally Fix Their Dev Process
“Now that it's agents doing the work and tokens and the cost of those, everyone's gonna be really keen on making sure the software development lifecycle was as effective and as efficient as it possibly could be. But when it was humans, it was like, oh well, Timmy's just lazy an...”
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Report this moment“There is no excuse not to do everything you ever thought you'd want somebody to do and then automate it so it happens by CI automatically.”
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Report this moment“Brilliant. So, around this table, we're going to be chatting about all things AI enablement. Let's kick off with an interesting question about when we want to scale AI agentic development across our organization in a way where we can control it, It is something we can govern. ...”
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