Nathan Labenz interviews Div Garg, founder of MULTI·ON, the world's first personal AI agent and life copilot. Div talks about the product strategy and roadmap for the MULTI·ON browser, their natural language approach to skills, and the steps they are taking to ensure user safety. Div explains how the platform uses a critic model to detect the success or failure of tasks, and how it can be used to book flights, order food, and more. Div also talks about the future of memory systems, such as the user profile feature, and how it can be used to improve the user experience.We're hiring across the board at Turpentine and for Erik's personal team on other projects he's incubating. He's hiring a Chief of Staff, EA, Head of Special Projects, Investment Associate, and more. For a list of JDs, check out: eriktorenberg.com.RECOMMENDED PODCAST:The HR industry is at a crossroads. What will it take to construct the next generation of incredible businesses – and where can people leaders have the most business impact? Hosts Nolan Church and Kelli Dragovich have been through it all, the highs and the lows – IPOs, layoffs, executive turnover, board meetings, culture changes, and more. With a lineup of industry vets and experts, Nolan and Kelli break down the nitty-gritty details, trade offs, and dynamics of constructing high performing companies. Through unfiltered conversations that can only happen between seasoned practitioners, Kelli and Nolan dive deep into the kind of leadership-level strategy that often happens behind closed doors. Check out the first episode with the architect of Netflix’s culture deck Patty McCord.https://link.chtbl.com/hrhereticsThe Cognitive Revolution is part of the Turpentine podcast network. Learn more at turpentine.coHave your AI questions answered on an episode by emailing TCR@turpentine.coSend your friends our 90 min AI Scouting Report with visual aides! The AI Scouting Report Part 1: The Fundamentals is on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hvtiVQ_LqQ . Part II is coming next week.TIMESTAMPS:(00:00) Episode preview(06:42) AI agents applied to everyday life.(12:03) AI-driven automation with browser extension.(15:02) Sponsor: Omneky(18:17) AI-driven automation of web tasks.(23:57) Task automation and planning.(29:43) Automate task completion with user validation.(34:45) Lifelong learning agent with high-level skills(40:19) Guiding users to create skills safely.(46:53) AI assistant to simplify lives.(53:14) Unlock parallelism with AI agents.LINKS:MULTI·ON: https://www.multion.ai/Div Garg; https://divyanshgarg.com/TWITTER: @labenz (Nathan) @DivGarg9@eriktorenberg (Erik) @cogrev_podcastSPONSORS:Shopify is the global commerce platform that helps you sell at every stage of your business. Shopify powers 10% of ALL eCommerce in the US. And Shopify's the global force behind Allbirds, Rothy's, and Brooklinen, and 1,000,000s of other entrepreneurs across 175 countries.From their all-in-one e-commerce platform, to their in-person POS system – wherever and whatever you're selling, Shopify's got you covered. With free Shopify Magic, sell more with less effort by whipping up captivating content that converts – from blog posts to product descriptions using AI. Sign up for $1/month trial period: https://shopify.com/cognitiveThank you Omneky (www.omneky.com) for sponsoring The Cognitive Revolution. Omneky is an omnichannel creative generation platform that lets you launch hundreds of thousands of ad iterations that actually work, customized across all platforms, with a click of a button. Omneky combines generative AI and real-time advertising data. Mention "Cog Rev" for 10% off.Music: GoogleLM

Nathan Labenz sits down with Zvi Mowshowitz, the writer behind Don't Worry About the Vase.Zvi is an information hyperprocessor who synthesizes vast amounts of new and ever-evolving information into extremely clear summaries that help educated people keep up with the latest news. In this episode, we cover his AI safety worldview, an overview of the AI discourse, and who really matters in the AI debates.We're hiring across the board at Turpentine and for Erik's personal team on other projects he's incubating. He's hiring a Chief of Staff, EA, Head of Special Projects, Investment Associate, and more. For a list of JDs, check out: eriktorenberg.com.RECOMMENDED PODCAST:The HR industry is at a crossroads. What will it take to construct the next generation of incredible businesses – and where can people leaders have the most business impact? Hosts Nolan Church and Kelli Dragovich have been through it all, the highs and the lows – IPOs, layoffs, executive turnover, board meetings, culture changes, and more. With a lineup of industry vets and experts, Nolan and Kelli break down the nitty-gritty details, trade offs, and dynamics of constructing high performing companies. Through unfiltered conversations that can only happen between seasoned practitioners, Kelli and Nolan dive deep into the kind of leadership-level strategy that often happens behind closed doors. Check out the first episode with the architect of Netflix’s culture deck Patty McCord.https://link.chtbl.com/hrhereticsDo you have questions you want us to answer, topic requests, or guest suggestions for upcoming episodes? Email us at TCR@turpentine.coAlso, be sure to check out our recent release on YouTube: The AI Scouting Report Part 1: The FundamentalsTIMESTAMPS:(00:00) Episode Preview(05:00) Zvi’s Introduction to AI(07:04) Weekly 10,000+ words / Weekly newsletter(12:34) Language models(18:25) AI Worldview(27:30) Probably of Due(33:10) Inspirations for Content(39:00) Audience for Writings(45:25) Impactful figures’ impact(48:55) Path of the river(55:39) Different camps in AI discourse(01:13:55) Acceleration Front Argument(01:20:08) Large Language Models Today(01:27:00) Spendings in AI(01:36:03) Principles / Virtue Ethicism(01:43:30) Human vs Non-human Universe(01:47:32) AI Safety & “Doomers”(02:02:10) Expectations of Human/AI Relationship(02:10:30) Future of Online Laws and Ethics(02:19:10) What do we do next?(02:34:50) Sources for learning(02:42:08) ConclusionLINKS:Don't Worry About the Vase: https://thezvi.substack.com/TWITTER:@labenz (Nathan)@theZvi (Zvi)@eriktorenberg (Erik)@cogrev_podcastSPONSORS:Shopify is the global commerce platform that helps you sell at every stage of your business. Shopify powers 10% of ALL eCommerce in the US. And Shopify's the global force behind Allbirds, Rothy's, and Brooklinen, and 1,000,000s of other entrepreneurs across 175 countries.From their all-in-one e-commerce platform, to their in-person POS system – wherever and whatever you're selling, Shopify's got you covered. With free Shopify Magic, sell more with less effort by whipping up captivating content that converts – from blog posts to product descriptions using AI. Sign up for $1/month trial period: https://shopify.com/cognitiveThank you Omneky (www.omneky.com) for sponsoring The Cognitive Revolution. Omneky is an omnichannel creative generation platform that lets you launch hundreds of thousands of ad iterations that actually work, customized across all platforms, with a click of a button. Omneky combines generative AI and real-time advertising data. Mention "Cog Rev" for 10% off.MUSIC CREDIT:MusicLM

Head to a special YouTube presentation with visual aides (https://youtu.be/0hvtiVQ_LqQ), where 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.We're hiring across the board at Turpentine and for Erik's personal team on other projects he's incubating. He's hiring a Chief of Staff, EA, Head of Special Projects, Investment Associate, and more. For a list of JDs, check out: eriktorenberg.com.RECOMMENDED PODCAST:The HR industry is at a crossroads. What will it take to construct the next generation of incredible businesses – and where can people leaders have the most business impact? Hosts Nolan Church and Kelli Dragovich have been through it all, the highs and the lows – IPOs, layoffs, executive turnover, board meetings, culture changes, and more. With a lineup of industry vets and experts, Nolan and Kelli break down the nitty-gritty details, trade offs, and dynamics of constructing high performing companies. Through unfiltered conversations that can only happen between seasoned practitioners, Kelli and Nolan dive deep into the kind of leadership-level strategy that often happens behind closed doors. Check out the first episode with the architect of Netflix’s culture deck Patty McCord.https://link.chtbl.com/hrhereticsQuestions or topics you want us to review for Part 2? Email TCR@turpentine.coThe Cognitive Revolution is a part of the Turpentine podcast network. Learn more: Turpentine.coTWITTER:@CogRev_Podcast@labenz (Nathan)@eriktorenberg (Erik)SPONSOR:Shopify is the global commerce platform that helps you sell at every stage of your business. Shopify powers 10% of ALL eCommerce in the US. And Shopify's the global force behind Allbirds, Rothy's, and Brooklinen, and 1,000,000s of other entrepreneurs across 175 countries.From their all-in-one e-commerce platform, to their in-person POS system – wherever and whatever you're selling, Shopify's got you covered. With free Shopify Magic, sell more with less effort by whipping up captivating content that converts – from blog posts to product descriptions using AI. Sign up for $1/month trial period: https://shopify.com/cognitiveThis show is produced by Turpentine: a network of podcasts, newsletters, and more, covering technology, business, and culture — all from the perspective of industry insiders and experts. We’re launching new shows every week, and we’re looking for industry-leading sponsors — if you think that might be you and your company, email us at erik@turpentine.co.

In this episode, Nathan Labenz sits down with Hayk Martiros, VP of Autonomy at Skydio. Martiros leads the autonomy team, which holds the state of the art in complex autonomous flight. Skydio is the largest drone developer in the US, and recently raised $230M to expand its US manufacturing 10-fold, bringing its valuation to $2.2 billion. In this discussion, Hayk and Nathan discuss why Skydio will not weaponize its drones, Skydio’s systems and AI approach, and the considerations of choosing an autonomous system over a human agent. We're hiring across the board at Turpentine and for Erik's personal team on other projects he's incubating. He's hiring a Chief of Staff, EA, Head of Special Projects, Investment Associate, and more. For a list of JDs, check out: eriktorenberg.com.LINKS:SymForce: https://github.com/symforce-org/symforceEnd-to-End Learning of Geometry and Context for Deep Stereo Regression (Skydio’s 2017 paper): https://arxiv.org/pdf/1703.04309TIMESTAMPS:(00:00) Episode Preview(01:12) Nathan’s episode intro(07:44) Hayk’s story(11:21) What is Skydio?(14:59) Sponsor: Omneky(16:56) The core driver of Skydio’s business(20:21) Skydio’s AI approach(23:56) Updating the voltage 30,000 times per second(24:52) How is the Skydio system built?(34:07) The loops in the Skydio system(36:00) SymForce, Skydio’s open source library and Hayk’s creation(41:06) Writing symbolic expressions as a roboticist (42:14) Writing an expression for a toy race car(47:58) Skydio neural networks(51:29) Going from designed systems to end-to-end systems(58:17) How much does a Skydio drone and dock cost to install?(01:00:19) The cost savings of using a Skydio drone(01:02:59) Are $1 drone missions in the consumer’s future?(01:06:22) Vertical integration vs platform(01:09:29) The advantages and disadvantages of drones(01:11:17) Running LLMs on a drone(01:14:36) Power consumption going to compute vs mechanics(01:18:26) Hayk’s predictions for consumer autonomous systems(01:21:51) Standards for choosing autonomous systems over humans(01:25:23) Skydio’s societal impact(01:28:34) Universal basic income(01:30:27) Skydio drone usage in defense(01:34:34) The Ukraine-Russia conflict(01:38:02) Hayk’s experience with the Nagorno-Karabakh conflictTWITTER:@SkydioHQ (Skydio)@CogRev_Podcast@labenz (Nathan)@eriktorenberg (Erik)SPONSORS:Shopify is the global commerce platform that helps you sell at every stage of your business. Shopify powers 10% of ALL eCommerce in the US. And Shopify's the global force behind Allbirds, Rothy's, and Brooklinen, and 1,000,000s of other entrepreneurs across 175 countries.From their all-in-one e-commerce platform, to their in-person POS system – wherever and whatever you're selling, Shopify's got you covered. With free Shopify Magic, sell more with less effort by whipping up captivating content that converts – from blog posts to product descriptions using AI. Sign up for $1/month trial period: https://shopify.com/cognitiveThank you Omneky for sponsoring The Cognitive Revolution. Omneky is an omnichannel creative generation platform that lets you launch hundreds of thousands of ad iterations that actually work, customized across all platforms, with a click of a button. Omneky combines generative AI and real-time advertising data. Mention "Cog Rev" for 10% off.This show is produced by Turpentine: a network of podcasts, newsletters, and more, covering technology, business, and culture — all from the perspective of industry insiders and experts. We’re launching new shows every week, and we’re looking for industry-leading sponsors — if you think that might be you and your company, email us at erik@turpentine.co.MUSIC CREDIT:MusicLM

[Bonus Episode] Latent.space hosts, Alessio and Swyx, sit down with Linus Lee of Notion AI to discuss Linus’ experience starting the AI/UX community, prompt engineering at Notion, and designing AI interfaces and agents. The latent.space podcast aims to be the first place where AI engineers hear about the latest AI news and technology trends. We’ve had several guests in common – including Shreya Rajpal of Guardrails, Jonathan & Abhi from the recently acquired for $1.3B MosaicML, and also Riley Goodside from Scale AI – and also explored similar themes, including the question of which AI companies have durable business moats, and the flurry of experimentation going into AI agents right now. We recommend checking them out! Keep up to date with Latent.space here:  Website: https://www.latent.space/ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2p7zZVwVF6Yk0Zsb4QmT7t?si=95fb033e3c014975 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/latent-space-the-ai-engineer-podcast-codegen-agents/id1674008350 Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@LatentSpace-podcast We're hiring across the board at Turpentine and for Erik's personal team on other projects he's incubating. He's hiring a Chief of Staff, EA, Head of Special Projects, Investment Associate, and more. For a list of JDs, check out: eriktorenberg.com.RECOMMENDED PODCAST:The HR industry is at a crossroads. What will it take to construct the next generation of incredible businesses – and where can people leaders have the most business impact? Hosts Nolan Church and Kelli Dragovich have been through it all, the highs and the lows – IPOs, layoffs, executive turnover, board meetings, culture changes, and more. With a lineup of industry vets and experts, Nolan and Kelli break down the nitty-gritty details, trade offs, and dynamics of constructing high performing companies. Through unfiltered conversations that can only happen between seasoned practitioners, Kelli and Nolan dive deep into the kind of leadership-level strategy that often happens behind closed doors. Check out the first episode with the architect of Netflix’s culture deck Patty McCord.https://link.chtbl.com/hrhereticsTIMESTAMPS(05:52) Starting the AI / UX community(12:23) Most knowledge work is not text generation(18:43) Finding the right constraints and interface for AI(21:27) Linus' journey to working at Notion(25:51) The importance of notations and interfaces(28:29) Setting interface defaults and standards(34:58) The challenges of designing AI agents(42:00) Notion deep dive: “Blocks”, AI, and more(53:22) Prompt engineering at Notion(01:04:22) Lightning RoundSPONSOR:Shopify is the global commerce platform that helps you sell at every stage of your business. Shopify powers 10% of ALL eCommerce in the US. And Shopify's the global force behind Allbirds, Rothy's, and Brooklinen, and 1,000,000s of other entrepreneurs across 175 countries.From their all-in-one e-commerce platform, to their in-person POS system – wherever and whatever you're selling, Shopify's got you covered. With free Shopify Magic, sell more with less effort by whipping up captivating content that converts – from blog posts to product descriptions using AI. Sign up for $1/month trial period: https://shopify.com/cognitiveThis show is produced by Turpentine: a network of podcasts, newsletters, and more, covering technology, business, and culture — all from the perspective of industry insiders and experts. We’re launching new shows every week, and we’re looking for industry-leading sponsors — if you think that might be you and your company, email us at erik@turpentine.co.

Nathan Labenz sits down with Lili Yu, a researcher of Meta AI to discuss the paper she authored: MEGABYTE: Predicting Million-byte Sequences with Multiscale Transformers. In this conversation, they discuss the architecture and breakthroughs of their research, and the opportunity to eliminate the need for tokenization.We're hiring across the board at Turpentine and for Erik's personal team on other projects he's incubating. He's hiring a Chief of Staff, EA, Head of Special Projects, Investment Associate, and more. For a list of JDs, check out: eriktorenberg.com.RECOMMENDED PODCAST:The HR industry is at a crossroads. What will it take to construct the next generation of incredible businesses – and where can people leaders have the most business impact? Hosts Nolan Church and Kelli Dragovich have been through it all, the highs and the lows – IPOs, layoffs, executive turnover, board meetings, culture changes, and more. With a lineup of industry vets and experts, Nolan and Kelli break down the nitty-gritty details, trade offs, and dynamics of constructing high performing companies. Through unfiltered conversations that can only happen between seasoned practitioners, Kelli and Nolan dive deep into the kind of leadership-level strategy that often happens behind closed doors. Check out the first episode with the architect of Netflix’s culture deck Patty McCord.https://link.chtbl.com/hrhereticsThe Cognitive Revolution is a part of the Turpentine podcast network. Learn more: www.turpentine.coLINK:MEGABYTE Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.07185.pdfTIMESTAMPS:(00:00) Episode preview(07:41) Takeaways from Lili Yu's paper: MEGABYTE: Predicting Million-byte Sequences with Multiscale Transformers(17:00) Architecture(24:59) Embeddings(27:43) Different local models(34:23) Encoder model(36:35) Transformer Architecture(48:10) Choosing patch size(01:08) What happens when you scale up?(01:19:20) Big picture for Meta AI(01:22:57) Responsible AI(01:27:02) China and AITWITTER:@labenz (Nathan)@liliyu_lili (Lili)@eriktorenberg (Erik)@cogrev_podcastSPONSORS:Shopify is the global commerce platform that helps you sell at every stage of your business. Shopify powers 10% of ALL eCommerce in the US. And Shopify's the global force behind Allbirds, Rothy's, and Brooklinen, and 1,000,000s of other entrepreneurs across 175 countries.From their all-in-one e-commerce platform, to their in-person POS system – wherever and whatever you're selling, Shopify's got you covered. With free Shopify Magic, sell more with less effort by whipping up captivating content that converts – from blog posts to product descriptions using AI. Sign up for $1/month trial period: https://shopify.com/cognitiveThank you Omneky (www.omneky.com) for sponsoring The Cognitive Revolution. Omneky is an omnichannel creative generation platform that lets you launch hundreds of thousands of ad iterations that actually work, customized across all platforms, with a click of a button. Omneky combines generative AI and real-time advertising data. Mention "Cog Rev" for 10% off.This show is produced by Turpentine: a network of podcasts, newsletters, and more, covering technology, business, and culture — all from the perspective of industry insiders and experts. We’re launching new shows every week, and we’re looking for industry-leading sponsors — if you think that might be you and your company, email us at erik@turpentine.co.MUSIC CREDIT:MusicLM:

Ziming Liu is a Physics PhD student at MIT and IAIFI, advised by Prof. Max Tegmark. Ziming’s research is at the intersection of AI and physics. Today’s discussion goes in-depth on Liu’s paper “Seeing is Believing” where he presents Brain-Inspired Modular Training (BIMT), a method for making neural networks more modular and interpretable. The ability to see modules visually can complement current mechanistic interpretability strategies.We're hiring across the board at Turpentine and for Erik's personal team on other projects he's incubating. He's hiring a Chief of Staff, EA, Head of Special Projects, Investment Associate, and more. For a list of JDs, check out: eriktorenberg.com.RECOMMENDED PODCAST:The HR industry is at a crossroads. What will it take to construct the next generation of incredible businesses – and where can people leaders have the most business impact? Hosts Nolan Church and Kelli Dragovich have been through it all, the highs and the lows – IPOs, layoffs, executive turnover, board meetings, culture changes, and more. With a lineup of industry vets and experts, Nolan and Kelli break down the nitty-gritty details, trade offs, and dynamics of constructing high performing companies. Through unfiltered conversations that can only happen between seasoned practitioners, Kelli and Nolan dive deep into the kind of leadership-level strategy that often happens behind closed doors. Check out the first episode with the architect of Netflix’s culture deck Patty McCord.https://link.chtbl.com/hrhereticsThe Cognitive Revolution is a part of the Turpentine podcast network. To learn more: Turpentine.coWatch this episode on YouTube to see research figures and graphics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKxwlxb2XWwLinks:Seeing is Believing, authors: Ziming Liu, Eric Gan, and Max Tegmark https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.08746.pdfZiming Liu: https://kindxiaoming.github.io/TIMESTAMPS:(00:00) Episode preview(01:16) Nathan introduces Ziming Liu and his research(04:50) What motivated Ziming's research into neural networks and modularity(08:06) Key Visuals of "Seeing is Believing"(08:44) Biology analogy & paper overview(15:07) Sponsor: Omneky(26:08) Research precedents(30:00) Locality vs modularity(37:40) Shoutout Tiny Stories : Episode 33(39:00) Quantization Model of Neuro Scaling.(1:00:00) How can this work impact mechanistic interpretability strategies(1:27:00) Training(1:46:30) Downscaling large-scale modelsTWITTER:@labenz (Nathan)@ZimingLiu11 (Ziming)@cogrev_podcastSPONSORS:Shopify is the global commerce platform that helps you sell at every stage of your business. Shopify powers 10% of ALL eCommerce in the US. And Shopify's the global force behind Allbirds, Rothy's, and Brooklinen, and 1,000,000s of other entrepreneurs across 175 countries.From their all-in-one e-commerce platform, to their in-person POS system – wherever and whatever you're selling, Shopify's got you covered. With free Shopify Magic, sell more with less effort by whipping up captivating content that converts – from blog posts to product descriptions using AI. Sign up for $1/month trial period: https://shopify.com/cognitiveThank you Omneky (www.omneky.com) for sponsoring The Cognitive Revolution. Omneky is an omnichannel creative generation platform that lets you launch hundreds of thousands of ad iterations that actually work, customized across all platforms, with a click of a button. Omneky combines generative AI and real-time advertising data. Mention "Cog Rev" for 10% off.This show is produced by Turpentine: a network of podcasts, newsletters, and more, covering technology, business, and culture — all from the perspective of industry insiders and experts. We’re launching new shows every week, and we’re looking for industry-leading sponsors — if you think that might be you and your company, email us at erik@turpentine.co.MUSIC CREDIT:MusicLM

Part 2 of Nathan's conversation with Tanishq Mathew Abraham focuses on Tanishq's work with virtual biopsy technology enabled by deep learning. This unique technology has the potential to address a number of important biomedical challenges; in particular, qOBM could help during live tumor and cancer removal surgeries.Tanishq, a 19-year-old UC Davis grad and one of the youngest people in the world to receive a Ph.D, with a degree in biomedical engineering, is the founder of the Medical AI Research Center (MedARC). In case you haven’t yet listened to part 1, check it out! That episode goes deep on Tanishq’s first published paper: Reconstructions of the Mind’s Eye, which encompasses breakthrough research on reconstructing visual perceptions from fMRI scans into images.We're hiring across the board at Turpentine and for Erik's personal team on other projects he's incubating. He's hiring a Chief of Staff, EA, Head of Special Projects, Investment Associate, and more. For a list of JDs, check out: eriktorenberg.com.RECOMMENDED PODCAST:The HR industry is at a crossroads. What will it take to construct the next generation of incredible businesses – and where can people leaders have the most business impact? Hosts Nolan Church and Kelli Dragovich have been through it all, the highs and the lows – IPOs, layoffs, executive turnover, board meetings, culture changes, and more. With a lineup of industry vets and experts, Nolan and Kelli break down the nitty-gritty details, trade offs, and dynamics of constructing high performing companies. Through unfiltered conversations that can only happen between seasoned practitioners, Kelli and Nolan dive deep into the kind of leadership-level strategy that often happens behind closed doors. Check out the first episode with the architect of Netflix’s culture deck Patty McCord.https://link.chtbl.com/hrhereticsThe Cognitive Revolution is a part of the Turpentine podcast network. To learn more: Turpentine.coTIMESTAMPS:(00:00) Episode Preview(03:26) Introducing Tanishq’s second paper presenting an AI-enabled biopsy (06:39) Diagnostic applications of this unique slide-free and label-free technology (qOBM)(13:06) Leveraging deep learning, specifically generative adversarial networks (GANs)(14:55) Sponsor: Omneky(15:42) Framework for model(16:22) Challenges of medical data sets(20:11) Challenges of unpaired image to image translation, addressed with a CycleGAN architecture (22:19) What didn’t work(25:44) Breaking down GAN frameworks(34:30) Simplifying data to better with the CycleGAN(36:02) Factors for errors and confusing the model(39:00) Compute and training requirements(41:35) How this technology can scale in the near term and improve patient care(45:53) Tanishq’s relationships with EleutherAI and Stability AI(47:08) The future-looking focus of MedArc and unexplored opportunities(49:00) Developments in Medical AI field and interesting applications(55:11) Early education and AI(58:00) Would Tanishq get a neuralink?(1:00:00) Tanishq’s hopes and fears for AILINKS:Paper: Label- and slide-free tissue histology using 3D epi-mode quantitative phase imaging and virtual H&E staining https://arxiv.org/pdf/2306.00548.pdf Authors: Tanishq Mathew Abraham, Paloma Casteleiro Costa, Caroline Filan, Zhe Guang, Zhaobin Zhang, Stewart Neill, Jeffrey J. Olson, Richard Levenson, Francisco E. RoblesTWITTER:@iScienceLuvr (Tanishq)@MedARC_AI (MedARC)@CogRev_Podcast@labenz (Nathan)@eriktorenberg (Erik)SPONSOR:Thank you Omneky (www.omneky.com) for sponsoring The Cognitive Revolution. Omneky is an omnichannel creative generation platform that lets you launch hundreds of thousands of ad iterations that actually work, customized across all platforms, with a click of a button. Omneky combines generative AI and real-time advertising data. Mention "Cog Rev" for 10% off.MUSIC CREDIT:MusicLM

In this episode, Nathan sits down with Tanishq Mathew Abraham, 19-year-old UC Davis grad and one of the youngest people in the world to receive a Ph.D, with a degree in biomedical engineering. Tanishq is the founder of the Medical AI Research Center (MedARC), and with his teammates, recently published a paper: Reconstructions of the Mind's Eye, which encompasses their breakthrough research on reconstructing visual perceptions from fMRI scans into images. In this episode, Nathan and Tanishq talk about the technology behind the fMRI-to-image project, developing the model, and future applications for this research.Part 2 with Tanishq will be released as the next episode.We're hiring across the board at Turpentine and for Erik's personal team on other projects he's incubating. He's hiring a Chief of Staff, EA, Head of Special Projects, Investment Associate, and more. For a list of JDs, check out: eriktorenberg.com.RECOMMENDED PODCAST:The HR industry is at a crossroads. What will it take to construct the next generation of incredible businesses – and where can people leaders have the most business impact? Hosts Nolan Church and Kelli Dragovich have been through it all, the highs and the lows – IPOs, layoffs, executive turnover, board meetings, culture changes, and more. With a lineup of industry vets and experts, Nolan and Kelli break down the nitty-gritty details, trade offs, and dynamics of constructing high performing companies. Through unfiltered conversations that can only happen between seasoned practitioners, Kelli and Nolan dive deep into the kind of leadership-level strategy that often happens behind closed doors. Check out the first episode with the architect of Netflix’s culture deck Patty McCord.https://link.chtbl.com/hrhereticsThe Cognitive Revolution is a part of the Turpentine podcast network. To learn more: Turpentine.coTIMESTAMPS:(00:00) Episode Preview(05:43) The MindEye Project(09:06) Resemblance between AI reconstruction of mind's eye and visual presented(10:00) What is a voxel and which regions of the brain were studied?(10:23) What would the raw data of a voxel be?(11:44) Is there a time dimension to voxels?(15:00) Sponsor: Omneky(17:50) Goals for the MindEye project(25:57) What is the starting point of the model?(31:15) Aligning the model: reconstruction vs retrieval(40:34) Would doing a full end-to-end training be fine for the reconstruction?(42:15) The role of a limited data set(43:09) Training separate models per subject(45:07) Generalizability with a limited dataset(47:20) Mapping from one high-dimensional space to another(50:47) Stable Diffusion VAE encoding(1:00:50) How long does it take to train the model?(1:03:14) How similar or different are the subjects and their individual models?(1:05:59) The future of this research: custom models for your brain?(1:07:34) How much does this research contribute to brain research and wearables?(1:11:15) Fuzzing data and future research applicationsLINKS:MedARC: medarc.aiMindEye Paper: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/371136623_Reconstructing_the_Mind's_Eye_fMRI-to-Image_with_Contrastive_Learning_and_Diffusion_PriorsMP3 of this episode: https://chrt.fm/track/993DGA/traffic.megaphone.fm/RINTP1584997572.mp3?updated=1687271014TWITTER:@iScienceLuvr (Tanishq)@MedARC_AI (MedARC)@CogRev_Podcast@labenz (Nathan)@eriktorenberg (Erik)SPONSOR:Thank you Omneky (www.omneky.com) for sponsoring The Cognitive Revolution. Omneky is an omnichannel creative generation platform that lets you launch hundreds of thousands of ad iterations that actually work, customized across all platforms, with a click of a button. Omneky combines generative AI and real-time advertising data. Mention "Cog Rev" for 10% off.MUSIC CREDIT:MusicLM

In this episode, Nathan sits down with Jonathan Frankle, Chief Scientist, and Abhi Venigalla, Research Scientist of MosaicML. They chat about Mosaic’s custom LLMs, the customers seeking Mosaic out and what their journeys and use cases look like, and exciting developments in Mosaic’s research: including their new inference platform, as well as Mosaic’s MPT-7B-65k+ storywriter model.RECOMMENDED PODCAST:The HR industry is at a crossroads. What will it take to construct the next generation of incredible businesses – and where can people leaders have the most business impact? Hosts Nolan Church and Kelli Dragovich have been through it all, the highs and the lows – IPOs, layoffs, executive turnover, board meetings, culture changes, and more. With a lineup of industry vets and experts, Nolan and Kelli break down the nitty-gritty details, trade offs, and dynamics of constructing high performing companies. Through unfiltered conversations that can only happen between seasoned practitioners, Kelli and Nolan dive deep into the kind of leadership-level strategy that often happens behind closed doors. Check out the first episode with the architect of Netflix’s culture deck Patty McCord.https://link.chtbl.com/hrhereticsThe Cognitive Revolution is a part of the Turpentine podcast network. To learn more: www.turpentine.coTIMESTAMPS:(00:00) Episode Preview(06:04) Mosaic’s business model(07:28) Who uses Mosaic’s custom LLMs? What does their data look like?(09:55)Mosaic’s use cases for custom LLMs(12:47) How much extraction and summarization was done by humans pre-LLMs?(15:28) Sponsor: Omneky(21:50) The journeys of Mosaic’s customers and would a Wendy’s LLM know about a Big Mac?(25:46) The curriculum model and fine-tuning(29:10) Language models in the life sciences(33:20) How raw can data be before it becomes a problem?(35:44) Using the output of bulk pre-training process vs additional after training(38:30) Redteaming as a service(39:40) Mosaic’s inference platform(41:53) Spending one cent on 20,000 tokens, how is that cent distributed?(46:00)) Selling compute on a dedicated capacity basis(47:30) Oracle and AWS(49:50) The storywriter model and 65,000 token window(54:35) The transition from finite parameters into infinite attention matrixLINKS:MosaicML: https://www.mosaicml.com/MPT-7B Storywriter Model: https://huggingface.co/mosaicml/mpt-7b-storywriterTWITTER:@jefrankle (Jonathan)@abhi_venigalla (Abhi)@MosaicML (Mosaic)@CogRev_Podcast@labenz (Nathan)@eriktorenberg (Erik)SPONSORS:Shopify is the global commerce platform that helps you sell at every stage of your business. Shopify powers 10% of ALL eCommerce in the US. And Shopify's the global force behind Allbirds, Rothy's, and Brooklinen, and 1,000,000s of other entrepreneurs across 175 countries.From their all-in-one e-commerce platform, to their in-person POS system – wherever and whatever you're selling, Shopify's got you covered. With free Shopify Magic, sell more with less effort by whipping up captivating content that converts – from blog posts to product descriptions using AI. Sign up for $1/month trial period: https://shopify.com/cognitiveThank you Omneky for sponsoring The Cognitive Revolution. Omneky is an omnichannel creative generation platform that lets you launch hundreds of thousands of ad iterations that actually work, customized across all platforms, with a click of a button. Omneky combines generative AI and real-time advertising data. Mention "Cog Rev" for 10% off.This show is produced by Turpentine: a network of podcasts, newsletters, and more, covering technology, business, and culture — all from the perspective of industry insiders and experts. We’re launching new shows every week, and we’re looking for industry-leading sponsors — if you think that might be you and your company, email us at erik@turpentine.co.Music Credit: MusicLM