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The Impact of AI on Podcasting (Harvard Data Science Review Cross-Post)

Originally aired on the Harvard Data Science Review podcast. What can podcasting teach us about AI — and what can AI teach us about the future of podcasting? Katie Malone (that's our host) joins Jon Krohn of SuperDataScience for a conversation with Harvard Data Science Review editor-in-chief Xiao-L

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The Impact of AI on Podcasting (Harvard Data Science Review Cross-Post) 1d ago Originally aired on the Harvard Data Science Review podcast. What can podcasting teach us about AI — and what can AI teach us about the future of podcasting? Katie Malone (that's… Better Know A Benchmark: ExploitGym 8d ago When OpenAI's frontier models were caught hacking Hugging Face's servers, most people assumed they were hunting for answer keys. The real story is stranger and more unsettling. Ka… Constitutional AI 15d ago How do you teach a model the difference between helpful and harmful when it has no inherent sense of either? This episode dives into Constitutional AI, Anthropic's framework for t… A Data-Driven Reality Check on AI in Business (Interview with Tom Davenport, Babson College) 22d ago Tom Davenport — the man who called data science "the sexiest job of the 21st century" — is back with a reality check on AI. As one of the most seasoned observers of how businesses… Understanding AI Text Watermarking 28d ago Anthropic just announced they're baking invisible watermarks directly into Claude's generated text — and while everyone else was busy having opinions about it, we were busy asking… Better Know a Benchmark: Humanity's Last Exam 35d ago Humanity's Last Exam was designed with a bold premise: questions that human experts can answer, but AI models can't. Originally dubbed "Humanity's Last Stand," this benchmark is a… A Scientific Deep Dive into Overconfident LLMs: Interview with Kaitlyn Zhou (Cornell) 43d ago When a language model tells you it's absolutely certain, is it actually more likely to be right? Kaitlyn Zhou's research says: not necessarily — sometimes confident phrasing corre… Reasoning Models: When LLMs Went Beyond Fancy Autocomplete 50d ago Reasoning models don't just answer your question — they *think out loud* first. In this episode we dig into the class of AI models that generate intermediate chains of thought bef… Distillation, or, How to Steal a Model 57d ago This week we’re covering model distillation: the technique of using a large "teacher" model's outputs to train a smaller, cheaper "student" model that mimics it. They cover the tw… Invisible LLM Failures and AI Fluency with Chris Potts (Stanford) 63d ago What happens when a Stanford linguistics professor turns his attention to AI chatbots — and the surprisingly invisible ways humans misunderstand them? Chris Potts joins the show t… Interviewing the Linear Digressions Agents (The Agents Season, Episode 11) 85d ago After a five-year hiatus, the podcast that burned out partly over the tedium of writing episode descriptions is back — and using AI agents to handle exactly that task. The season-… Agent Economics (The Agents Season, Episode 10) 92d ago What if building more highways made your commute *slower*? That's the paradox at the heart of AI agent economics: even as per-token inference costs have plummeted dramatically ove… Agent Trust, Oversight and Control (The Agents Season, Episode 9) 99d ago Capabilities get all the attention when it comes to AI agents — but what happens when a highly capable agent makes a bad decision in the real world? Trust, oversight, and control… Many Agents, Many Problems (The Agents Season, Episode 8) 106d ago Whether you work best solo or thrive in a team, you know collaboration is complicated — and it turns out AI agents face the same tensions. This episode dives into multi-agent syst… How Do You Evaluate An AI Agent? (The Agents Season, Episode 7) 113d ago Knowing when an AI agent has failed sounds straightforward — until it isn't. Agents have a frustrating habit of finishing confidently while quietly doing the wrong thing, or loopi… AI Agent Failure Modes (The Agents Season, Episode 6) 119d ago Despite what the marketing hype might suggest, AI agents are far from infallible — and if you've ever actually used one, you already know this. Today's episode dives deep into the… Agentic Planning (The Agents Season, Episode 5) 127d ago When tackling a complex, multi-step task, even the smartest AI agent can fail without a solid game plan. This episode dives into the research around agentic planning — how agents… Memory Management for AI Agents (The Agents Season, Episode 4) 133d ago Context windows are powerful — but finite, and surprisingly easy to overwhelm. When an AI agent is tackling a long, complex task, the information it needs has to fit inside that l… Lost in the Middle (The Agents Season, Episode 3) 141d ago Just like a memorable talk lives or dies by its opening and closing, LLMs have a surprisingly similar quirk: they pay close attention to what's at the beginning and end of their c… ReAct and Tool Usage (The Agents Season, Episode 2) 148d ago Before 2022, there was a wall between AI and the real world — models could reason impressively, but couldn't look anything up, run code, or check whether anything they said was ac…
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#502 – Psychiatry, Insane Asylums, Mental Illness, ECT, Lobotomies, Freud & Jung 5d ago Andrew Scull is a historian of psychiatry. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: https://lexfridman.com/sponsors/ep502-sc See below for timestamps, transcript, and to… #501 – DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Agentic Engineering, Vibe Coding & Linux 26d ago DHH is the creator of Ruby on Rails, Omarchy Linux, CTO of 37signals, and a racecar driver. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: https://lexfridman.com/sponsors/ep501… #500 – Khabib Nurmagomedov: Dagestan, MMA, UFC, Islam, Conor, Fedor & Football 40d ago Khabib Nurmagomedov is one of the greatest fighters of all time, who retired from the UFC undefeated with a perfect 29-0 record. We did this conversation entirely in Russian. It’s… #499 – Gary Gallagher: American Civil War, Slavery, Lincoln, Grant & Lee 55d ago Gary Gallagher is a historian of the American Civil War. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: https://lexfridman.com/sponsors/ep499-sc See below for timestamps, trans… #498 – Anthony Kaldellis: Roman Empire, Byzantine Empire, Rise & Fall of Empires 83d ago Anthony Kaldellis is a historian of the Roman Empire and author of “The New Roman Empire”, a comprehensive history of the Byzantine Empire (Eastern Roman Empire). Thank you for li… #497 – Biggest Mysteries in Physics: Antimatter, Dark Energy & ToE – Don Lincoln 115d ago Don Lincoln is a particle physicist at Fermilab who has spent decades working at the frontiers of high energy physics. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: https://le… #496 – FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet 138d ago Jean-Baptiste Kempf is lead developer of VLC and president of VideoLAN. Kieran Kunhya is a longtime FFmpeg contributor, codec engineer, and the person behind the now-infamous FFmp… #495 – Vikings, Ragnar, Berserkers, Valhalla & the Warriors of the Viking Age 165d ago Lars Brownworth is a historian, teacher, podcaster, and author specializing in Viking history, medieval Europe, and the Byzantine Empire. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our s… #494 – Jensen Huang: NVIDIA – The $4 Trillion Company & the AI Revolution 182d ago Jensen Huang is the co-founder and CEO of NVIDIA, the world’s most valuable company and the engine powering the AI computing revolution. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sp… #493 – Jeff Kaplan: World of Warcraft, Overwatch, Blizzard, and Future of Gaming 194d ago Jeff Kaplan is a legendary Blizzard game designer of World of Warcraft and Overwatch, now preparing to launch a new game, The Legend of California, from his new studio Kintsugiyam… #492 – Rick Beato: Greatest Guitarists of All Time, History & Future of Music 205d ago Rick Beato is a music educator, interviewer, producer, songwriter, and a true multi-instrument musician, playing guitar, bass, cello & piano. His incredible YouTube channel celebr… #491 – OpenClaw: The Viral AI Agent that Broke the Internet – Peter Steinberger 222d ago Peter Steinberger is the creator of OpenClaw, an open-source AI agent framework that’s the fastest-growing project in GitHub history. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our spons… #490 – State of AI in 2026: LLMs, Coding, Scaling Laws, China, Agents, GPUs, AGI 233d ago Nathan Lambert and Sebastian Raschka are machine learning researchers, engineers, and educators. Nathan is the post-training lead at the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) and the autho… #489 – Paul Rosolie: Uncontacted Tribes in the Amazon Jungle 251d ago Paul Rosolie is a naturalist, explorer, author of a new book titled Junglekeeper, and is someone who has dedicated his life to protecting the Amazon rainforest. Thank you for list… #488 – Infinity, Paradoxes that Broke Mathematics, Gödel Incompleteness & the Multiverse – Joel David Hamkins 264d ago Joel David Hamkins is a mathematician and philosopher specializing in set theory, the foundations of mathematics, and the nature of infinity, and he’s the #1 highest-rated user on… #487 – Irving Finkel: Deciphering Secrets of Ancient Civilizations & Flood Myths 283d ago Irving Finkel is a scholar of ancient languages and a longtime curator at the British Museum, renowned for his expertise in Mesopotamian history and cuneiform writing. He speciali… #486 – Michael Levin: Hidden Reality of Alien Intelligence & Biological Life 295d ago Michael Levin is a biologist at Tufts University working on novel ways to understand and control complex pattern formation in biological systems. Thank you for listening ❤ Check o… #485 – David Kirtley: Nuclear Fusion, Plasma Physics, and the Future of Energy 308d ago David Kirtley is a nuclear fusion engineer and CEO of Helion Energy, a company working on building the world’s first commercial fusion power plant by 2028. Thank you for listening… #484 – Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming 325d ago Dan Houser is co-founder of Rockstar Games and is a legendary creative mind behind Grand Theft Auto (GTA) and Red Dead Redemption series of video games. Thank you for listening ❤… #483 – Julia Shaw: Criminal Psychology of Murder, Serial Killers, Memory & Sex 342d ago Julia Shaw is a criminal psychologist and author who in her books explores human nature, including psychopathy, violent crime, the psychology of evil, police interrogation, false…

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