DeepMind
AI research lab owned by Google
Episodes
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#3779: How Consulting Became Spycraft's Perfect CoverWhy intelligence agencies love consulting and import-export as covers—and what it means for legitimate professionals. -
#3431: How YouTube Stores 500 Hours of Video Every MinuteYouTube's videos are shredded, replicated across global servers, and stored at a cost approaching zero. Here's how. -
#2335: Staking Out the Middle: UK's Post-Brexit AI StrategyThe UK’s £500M Sovereign AI Fund is a bold move to boost domestic AI startups with compute access, visas, and strategic partnerships. How does it s... -
#2250: How Incentives Shape AI Safety ResearchVendor labs, independent research orgs, government agencies—the AI safety field is messier and more diverse than most people realize. A map of wher... -
#2188: Is Emergence Real or Just Bad Metrics?The debate over whether AI models exhibit genuine emergent abilities or just appear to because of how we measure them—and why it matters for safety... -
#2064: Why GPT-5 Is Stuck: The Data Wall ExplainedThe "bigger is better" era of AI is over. Here's why the industry hit a data wall and shifted to a new scaling law. -
#2025: How Do You Reward a Thought?Rewarding an AI agent is harder than just saying "good job"—here's how we turn messy human values into math. -
#2020: 1,000 AI Agents Built a Religion in MinecraftAn experiment drops 1,000 autonomous agents into Minecraft, and they spontaneously invent religion, democracy, and taxes. -
#1282: The Geometry of Thought: The Mathematics Powering AIPeeking under the hood of AI to discover the beautiful linear algebra and calculus that make machine reasoning possible. -
#1199: When Biology Becomes a Garage HobbyFrom garage-made vaccines to 200 million protein structures, AlphaFold is turning the building blocks of life into a software problem. -
#1112: Inside the Neural Cathedral: Cracking the AI Black BoxPeek inside the "black box" of AI to discover how models use high-dimensional geometry and superposition to organize complex human concepts. -
#599: AI Hunted Soviet Subs Long Before It Wrote Your EmailsAI didn't start in 2022. Discover the 70-year history of the "invisible" systems that have been quietly running our world for decades. -
#14: AGI's Crossroads: Are LLMs a "Dead End" to True AI?Are LLMs a dead end for true AGI? We dive into the electrifying debate with AI's forefathers.