The Retort AI Podcast
38 episodes
Tom leaves stealth: Hortus AI
Feb 18, 202553 min
We ask again: Is AI a science?
Jan 10, 202553 min
The Retort's biggest AI stories of 2024
Dec 6, 202447 min
The Nobel Albatross
Oct 11, 202444 min
Claude Needs a Constitutional Convention
Sep 13, 202442 min
Avoiding the AI burnout
Aug 26, 202436 min
What we are getting wrong about AI regulation
Jul 19, 202434 min
AI, feedback, and population public health
Jun 28, 202441 min
Apple sends a memo to the AGI faithful
Jun 21, 202452 min
Murky waters in AI policy
May 31, 202443 min
ChatGPT talks: diamond of the season or quite the scandal?
May 17, 202451 min
Three pillars of AI power
May 10, 202456 min
Llama 3: Can't Compete with a Capuchin
Apr 26, 202446 min
Into the AI Trough of Disillusionment
Apr 12, 202451 min
AI's Eras Tour: Performance, Trust, and Legitimacy
Mar 22, 202446 min
Claude 3: Is Nathan too bought into the hype?
Mar 8, 202443 min
Model release therapy session #1
Feb 23, 202452 min
Waymo vs. the time honored human experiences, vandalism and defacement
Feb 16, 202437 min
We believe in the metaverse
Feb 9, 202437 min
How to OLMost find a Waifu
Feb 2, 202446 min
Tom's Story: to get through grad school, become a sperm whale
Jan 26, 202457 min
Non-profits need to be businesses too
Jan 19, 202437 min
How the US could lose (and win!) against China in AI, with Jordan Schneider of ChinaTalk
Jan 12, 202456 min
AI is literally the culture war, figuratively speaking
Jan 5, 202446 min
What I wish someone had told me
Dec 22, 202350 min
Everyone wants fair benchmarks, but do you even lift?
Dec 15, 202349 min
Cybernetics, Feedback, and Reinventionism in CS
Dec 8, 202341 min
Q* and OpenAI's Strange Loop: We Pecan't Even
Nov 24, 202343 min
OpenAI: Developers, Hegemons, and Origins
Nov 10, 202347 min
Executive Orders, Safety Summits, and Open Letters, Oh My!
Nov 3, 202353 min
Transparency (Tom and Nate's Version)
Oct 27, 202345 min
Techno-optimism: Safety, Ethics, or Fascism?
Oct 20, 202341 min
Methods of Rationality in the Time of Hype
Oct 13, 202353 min
Developing LLMs: Open, closed, or democratic?
Oct 6, 202357 min
As Above, So Below: Alchemy, AI Safety, and RLHF
Sep 29, 202357 min
AI in public: education, roads, and institutions
Sep 22, 202350 min
Alchemy, Oppenheimer, and the quest for AGI
Sep 15, 20231h 4m
Teaser: Welcome to The Retort
Sep 6, 20235 min