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How Agents Decide: Goodfire’s Eric Bigelow on Critical Tokens, Phase Shifts, & In-Context Learning
Hello, and welcome back to the Cognitive Revolution! Today, my guest is Eric Bigelow, Member of Technical Staff at Unicorn Mechanistic Interpretability startup Goodfire. The story behind this episode is unique. After recently speaking with Bronson Schoen of Apollo Research, who explained that, even with access to models’ internal Chain
One Brain, Any Body: Google DeepMind’s Keerthana on Gemini Robotics 2, Cross-Embodiment & Humanoids
Google DeepMind research lead Keerthana Gopalakrishnan discusses Gemini Robotics 2, explaining the architecture behind its reasoning and action models. She also explores key challenges in physical AI, including sim-to-real transfer, cross-embodiment generalization, and whole-body control.
AI:AM: Was Trump-Xi Anything? What Counts as Utopia? + AWS GPUs Cost 3X & AI Diagnoses Rare Diseases
Hosts Nathan Labenz and Prakash Narayanan examine potential US-China AI cooperation, the economics of GPU rental pricing with Steve Hou, and AI applications in rare-disease diagnosis.
Obsolete or Irreplaceable? Garrison Lovely on Stopping the Race to Replace Human Labor
Hello, and welcome back to the Cognitive Revolution! Today, my guest is Garrison Lovely, freelance journalist based in Brooklyn, and author of the new book Obsolete: The AI Industry's Trillion-Dollar Race to Replace Us – and How to Stop It. Against the backdrop of this summer's AI developments, with AIs have crossed the threshold from possibly scary one day to actually scary now, this is a very well-timed and potentially very important book.