The Retort AI Podcast

38 Episodes

1. Tom's Story: to get through grad school, become a sperm whale

   Published: 26/01/2024
2. Non-profits need to be businesses too

   Published: 19/01/2024
3. How the US could lose (and win!) against China in AI, with Jordan Schneider of ChinaTalk

   Published: 12/01/2024
4. AI is literally the culture war, figuratively speaking

   Published: 5/01/2024
5. What I wish someone had told me

   Published: 22/12/2023
6. Everyone wants fair benchmarks, but do you even lift?

   Published: 15/12/2023
7. Cybernetics, Feedback, and Reinventionism in CS

   Published: 8/12/2023
8. Q* and OpenAI's Strange Loop: We Pecan't Even

   Published: 24/11/2023
9. OpenAI: Developers, Hegemons, and Origins

   Published: 10/11/2023
10. Executive Orders, Safety Summits, and Open Letters, Oh My!

    Published: 3/11/2023
11. Transparency (Tom and Nate's Version)

    Published: 27/10/2023
12. Techno-optimism: Safety, Ethics, or Fascism?

    Published: 20/10/2023
13. Methods of Rationality in the Time of Hype

    Published: 13/10/2023
14. Developing LLMs: Open, closed, or democratic?

    Published: 6/10/2023
15. As Above, So Below: Alchemy, AI Safety, and RLHF

    Published: 29/09/2023
16. AI in public: education, roads, and institutions

    Published: 22/09/2023
17. Alchemy, Oppenheimer, and the quest for AGI

    Published: 15/09/2023
18. Teaser: Welcome to The Retort

    Published: 6/09/2023