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Broken Peer Review, AI, and Worms — with Oded Rechavi
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Broken Peer Review, AI, and Worms — with Oded Rechavi

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Broken Peer Review, AI, and Worms — with Oded Rechavi
June 20, 2026

Broken Peer Review, AI, and Worms — with Oded Rechavi

Oded Rechavi is a biologist at Tel Aviv University and the co-founder of QED, a company building AI to review scientific work. He's also spent years studying worms. We start with what's wrong with peer review and grant fundin...
Will AI Take Our Jobs? With Alex Imas (Google/University of Chicago)
June 16, 2026

Will AI Take Our Jobs? With Alex Imas (Google/University of Chicago)

Will AI take our jobs? We put the question to Alex Imas, the new Director of AGI Economics at Google DeepMind and a professor at Chicago Booth, whose entire job now is studying how frontier AI reshapes the economy. His short ...
Why AI Benchmarks Are Lying to You - with Wenhu Chen (Meta/University of Waterloo)
June 13, 2026

Why AI Benchmarks Are Lying to You - with Wenhu Chen (Meta/University of Waterloo)

In this episode, we sit down with Wenhu Chen, research scientist at Meta MSL, assistant professor at the University of Waterloo, and the person behind MMLU-Pro and MMMU. If you've read a frontier model release in the last two...
Jürgen Schmidhuber - Part 2: JEPA, the Road to AGI, and Who Really Invented Modern AI
June 7, 2026

Jürgen Schmidhuber - Part 2: JEPA, the Road to AGI, and Who Really Invented Modern AI

In the second half of our conversation with Jürgen Schmidhuber, we focus on the key ideas he's pursued since the early 1990s and discuss why he believes these concepts are only now being rediscovered. We start with JEPA. Jürg...
Jürgen Schmidhuber  -  World Models, RL, and the Year that changed AI (Part 1)
June 4, 2026

Jürgen Schmidhuber - World Models, RL, and the Year that changed AI (Part 1)

In this episode, we host Jürgen Schmidhuber - the man, the legend, one of the godfathers of modern AI. His lab worked out many ideas behind today’s systems (LSTM, world models, artificial curiosity, Transformer variants, and ...
AI for Science and the Thermodynamics of Generative AI - with Max Welling (UvA, CuspAI)
May 28, 2026

AI for Science and the Thermodynamics of Generative AI - with Max Welling (UvA, CuspAI)

In this episode, we sit with Max Welling, Professor of Machine Learning at the University of Amsterdam, co-founder and CTO of CuspAI, and a foundational figure behind variational autoencoders (VAEs), equivariant networks, and...