AI Evaluation
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#539: Turning a Podcast into a Searchable Knowledge Base
Herman and Corn discuss turning 500+ episodes into an interactive knowledge base while scaling human-AI collaboration to new heights.
#440: Beyond the Diaper Log: From Tracking to Understanding Your Baby's Brain
Move past the spreadsheet. Discover how AI tools provide deep neurological insights into your baby’s development and the "mental leaps" at seven mo...
#419: Why AI Transcripts Miss the Subtext
Stop relying on fading memories. Learn how to use the "Golden Hour" and AI to create perfect records of every important conversation.
#359: Why Your Diagnosis Is Just a Bundle of Symptoms
Stop treating symptoms and start treating biology. Herman and Corn explore how AI is turning medicine into a precision engineering discipline.
#336: The World Model Revolution: Beyond LLM Token Prediction
Herman and Corn explore why LLMs struggle with logic and how the shift to world models is giving AI a sense of physics and spatial reality.
#248: The Sycophancy Trap: Getting Honest Feedback from AI
Is your AI just telling you what you want to hear? Learn how to break the "sycophancy trap" and get truly objective feedback from your agents.
#227: Beyond the Diaper Log: Parenting in the Age of AI
Stop tracking every milliliter and start understanding the "why." Herman and Corn explore how AI and developmental science can save new parents.
#210: Predictive Motion: How Transformers Are Learning to Walk
Explore how the same transformer architecture behind chatbots is now enabling robots to navigate the physical world using action tokens.
#208: The Democratization of Satellite Espionage
Herman and Corn explore how AI and advanced satellites are stripping away the fog of war, from tracking footprints to seeing through clouds.
#181: Why Your AI Is Finally Stopping to Think
Discover how AI shifted from instant reflexes to deep reflection through inference-time compute and hidden reasoning steps.
#161: From Search to Design: AI's New Molecules
Discover how AI is slashing drug development times and "hallucinating" new molecules to treat once-incurable diseases.
#150: Will AI Finally Shut Up Your Neighbor’s Car Horn?
Urban noise is more than an annoyance—it’s a health crisis. Discover how AI sensors are being used to silence the streets and the privacy costs.
#130: How to Spot Gamed Benchmarks in Chinese AI
Are Chinese AI models actually beating the West, or just gaming the system? Herman and Corn dive into the reality of modern AI benchmarks.
#128: AI’s Dial-Up Era: Looking Back from 2036
Herman and Corn explore why today's AI prompts and latency will look like "dial-up modems" to our future selves in 2036.
#121: Why Your AI Is a Yes-Man
Ever wonder why AI is so polite? Herman and Corn dive into the mechanics of RLHF and how "niceness" gets baked into modern language models.
#118: AI in 2025: Is Small the New Big?
If the cost is the same, should you always use the biggest AI model? Discover why smaller models often win on speed, steering, and accuracy.
#108: Why Your AI Code Assistant Gets Worse
Why do AI models lose their edge over time? Herman and Corn explore the "home team advantage" and why telling your AI to "do better" actually works.
#105: Beyond Math Puzzles: The Truth About AI Benchmarks
Are AI models getting smarter, or just better at memorizing tests? Herman and Corn dive into the controversial world of 2025 AI benchmarks.
#94: Are AI Villages Useful or Just Digital Ant Farms?
Herman and Corn explore "Smallville," a digital town where AI agents plan parties, form memories, and simulate human society.
#92: Is AI Eating Its Own Trash?
Is brute force the only path to AGI? Corn and Herman explore the limits of scaling, the risk of model collapse, and the future of world models.
#85: When Probability Beats Truth: Why AI Must Lie
Why do smart AI systems make up fake facts? Corn and Herman explore the "feature" of digital hallucinations and how to spot them.
#81: When AI Judges Can't Tell Humans from Bots
Can a robot tell if you’re human? Herman and Corn explore the "Reverse Turing Test" and why being "messy" might be our best defense.
#68: The Looming Digital Ice Age: AI Eating Itself?
Is AI eating itself? Explore the "model collapse" and the "Hapsburg AI problem" before our digital world speaks only gibberish.
#67: Scaling or Pivoting AI for Code
Are LLMs truly the future of coding, or do they need a fundamental architectural pivot? We dive into AI's programming future.