Podcast

Ilya Sutskever – We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research

“These models somehow just generalize dramatically worse than people. It's a very fundamental thing.”

Nov 25 • Dwarkesh Patel

1:36:03

Satya Nadella — How Microsoft is preparing for AGI

Plus a tour of Fairwater 2, the most powerful AI datacenter in the world

Nov 12 • Dwarkesh Patel

1:27:47

Sarah Paine – How Russia sabotaged China's rise

Plus, where Russia and China go from here

Oct 31 • Dwarkesh Patel

1:30:36

Andrej Karpathy — AGI is still a decade away

"The problems are tractable, but they're still difficult”

Oct 17 • Dwarkesh Patel

2:25:19

Nick Lane – Life as we know it is chemically inevitable

Life is continuous with Earth’s geochemistry

Oct 10 • Dwarkesh Patel

1:20:08

Some thoughts on the Sutton interview

I have a much better understanding of Sutton’s vision now

Oct 4 • Dwarkesh Patel

11:39

Richard Sutton – Father of RL thinks LLMs are a dead end

Watch now (66 mins) | LLMs aren’t Bitter-Lesson-pilled

Sep 26 • Dwarkesh Patel

1:06:21

Fully autonomous robots are much closer than you think – Sergey Levine

Plus, how VLA models work, self-improvement from deployment, and China’s hardware advantage

Sep 12 • Dwarkesh Patel

1:28:28

How Hitler almost starved Britain – Sarah Paine

“The only thing that really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril” – Winston Churchill

Sep 5 • Dwarkesh Patel

1:35:17

Evolution designed us to die fast; we can change that — Jacob Kimmel

Is the answer already in our genome?

Aug 21 • Dwarkesh Patel

1:44:39

China is killing the US on energy. Does that mean they’ll win AGI? — Casey Handmer

Plus, how solar fits into the next 10 years

Aug 15 • Dwarkesh Patel

1:08:21

Artificial meat is harder than artificial intelligence — Lewis Bollard

“Chickens are unbeatable at converting grain into protein”

Aug 7 • Dwarkesh Patel

1:08:04

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