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AI History (in chronological order, newest first)

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Language: English

Super interesting episodes about AI. In chronological order, newest first. A sort of history of AI pods, if you will. Smoke 'em up

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AI Reality Check: Are LLMs a Dead End?
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
AI Reality Check: Are LLMs a Dead End? 31 min Mar 26, 2026 English 0
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Very good analyis of LeCun's thesis that the recent LLM performance increase is largely due to compound reasoning (ie. LLMs asking themself successing, iterative questions) and not an increase in "int... Very good analyis of LeCun's thesis that the recent LLM performance increase is largely due to compound reasoning (ie. LLMs asking themself successing, iterative questions) and not an increase in "intelligence." Newport also discusses LeCun's plan for a new, more modular AI architecture (which has been funded with a billiion+ by Jezz Bezos and his buddies). Very clear, easy to understand, in delpth episode.
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When they make an AI Clone of you without your permission - Confronting the CEO of Superhuman
Decoder with Nilay Patel
Confronting the CEO of the AI company that impersonated me 1 h 16 min Mar 23, 2026 English 0
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Props to Shishir Mehrotra for actually showing up to answer questions about Superhuman - the parent company of Grammarly - cloning known figures as "AI Experts" without their permission - by one of th... Props to Shishir Mehrotra for actually showing up to answer questions about Superhuman - the parent company of Grammarly - cloning known figures as "AI Experts" without their permission - by one of those cloned experts!
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