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Trend this week
7 of 7 weeks tracked had mentions across multiple podcasts.
A closer read
- What changed
- Its share fell from 19.3% to 14.8%, with evidence across 12 podcasts.
- Where it showed up
- It appeared in episodes including “Thinking in Silico: Goodfire CTO Dan Balsam on Concept Manifolds & a $100...” and “Why People Are Paying 10x More for AI | Sid Sheth, d-Matrix”.
- How to read it
- 6 cited episodes from 5 podcasts are shown below. The topic appeared across 12 podcasts in the full analysis.
Podcast moments from the week
Moments are grouped by episode so repeated excerpts from one conversation do not look like separate sources.
The Cognitive Revolution
Thinking in Silico: Goodfire CTO Dan Balsam on Concept Manifolds & a $1000/Month ML Research Agent
“I'm just always amazed when I think back to the kind of toy models of superposition is only like 3 years, right, ago now. And we have come so far.”
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Report this moment“where the geometry components come in is that the features aren't like, sort of like naive, maybe like SAE build take on things is like, you could imagine that the model is encoding like a bunch of totally orthogonal concepts to each other”
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Report this moment“I'm guessing it's like most, like the, the different days of the week, I would guess have a very high inner product in the sense, which would to me suggest that they all, the model kind of knows like this is a day of the week sort of thing.”
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Eye on AI
Why People Are Paying 10x More for AI | Sid Sheth, d-Matrix
“The models have now understood that they have better capability. It's almost like a human being, right? Once you realize that you have acquired a new capability, you become more confident. And same thing with these models. They tend to have become more confident with disagreei...”
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No Priors
Chasing Trillion-Dollar Companies, Founder Ambition, Token Budgets, and Regulatory Capture with Sarah & Elad
“I think the idea that the models can improve their own training if the leading scientists working on this believe it, and it's an extension of what we are already seeing in code and math, of course you should believe it, right?”
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The Cognitive Revolution
Pick Your Poison: Zvi Mowshowitz on the Unipolar/Multipolar AGI Dilemma, OpenFace & Pacing the ...
“it obviously also reflects a major weakness in the models where they have this knowledge cutoff and they don't really know What's going on?”
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Report this moment“The new paper is on some pretty small open models, so it needs replication.”
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Report this moment“if you create GPT-3 or even GPT-4 or even GPT-5 via a different method, it's not going to be competitive”
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AI Inside
What Happens When AI Outsmarts Mathematicians
“This is not about language alone. Yes, you can recognize popcorn. But everything else is about understanding how the world operates. And if it had to go over obstacles or found logic in how things operate, then world models matter.”
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Report this moment“There's so many of them. But, you know, that, you know, potentially using some of that information for training, I imagine systems like this, you know, on different environments and stuff. So, I mean, it should— the video showed the, the, the humanoid had a Ziploc and was dext...”
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Training Data
Chai Discovery's Bitter Lesson: Drug Design Is Another Scaling Problem
“The first time anyone was able to generate reasonable-looking proteins was the advent of diffusion models. So it was pretty crazy. There were a bunch of generative modeling approaches that would kind of work if you had a bunch of data. So people got these working for images. T...”
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Report this moment“the whole research process and identifying these types of scaling directions becomes a lot simpler”
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Report this moment“the whole research process and identifying these types of scaling directions becomes a lot simpler”
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