Nathan Labenz synthesizes the core fundamentals of AI as simply, clearly, and literally as possible. Nathan's aim is to impart the equivalent of a high school AP course understanding to listeners in 90 minutes. This special episode is in part brought to you by Athena. You can use Nathan’s referral link (http://athenago.me/nathan-labenz) for a free first month of Athena services for qualified customers.

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TIMESTAMPS:
(00:00) Context for the AI Scouting report and Athena’s offer for The Cognitive Revolution listeners.
(06:16) Headlines
(09:03) We now have human-level AI (That does not mean human)
(23:18) Is memory the next big shift in AI?
(16:42) Sponsor: Omneky
(28:02) How did we get here? Data, Compute, Algorithms.
(46:40) Foundation model foundations
(01:02:00) Scaling, Grokking, Emergence
(01:29:46) Certain capabilities remain hard to predict

PODCAST INTERVIEWS MENTIONED IN REPORT
- Red Teaming GPT-4 https://youtu.be/oLiheMQayNE
- Vivek Natarajan from Google's Med PaLM https://youtu.be/nPBd7i5tnEE
- The Medical AI Revolution with Dr. Zak Kohane https://youtu.be/pS5Vye671Xg
- Eugenia Kuyda of Replika https://youtu.be/SFKA7T-v6WE
- Seeing is Believing with Ziming Liu of MIT https://youtu.be/VKxwlxb2XWw
- The Tiny Stories Revolution https://youtu.be/mv3SIgDP_y4

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SPONSOR:
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