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Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast

The AI Engineer newsletter + Top technical AI podcast. How leading labs build Agents, Models, Infra, & AI for Science. See https://latent.space/about for highlights from Greg Brockman, Andrej Karpathy, George Hotz, Simon Willison, Soumith Chintala et al!

Latent.Space Show homepage 3 episodes
22 September 20262 h 1 min

Give Gemini a score and it searches for the code

With John Platt, RJ

John Platt says many scientific problems can be recast as scorable tasks, where you want a piece of code that maximizes a score, and ERA works because the thing mutating that code is an AI with broad prior knowledge.

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21 September 20262 h 21 min

Build AI for code to call, not people

With Diogo Almeida, Speaker 2, Speaker 3 (computer-use demo clip)

Diogo Almeida argues that the field collapsed onto one model shape — autoregressive, chat-tuned, human-facing — and that Jev is a different class of model whose intended consumer is code rather than a person.

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14 September 20261 h 32 min

Richard Socher's bet: let AI do the AI research

With Richard Socher, Vibhu

Richard Socher describes the Eureka Machine as the last invention humanity needs: a superintelligence that takes any goal, environment and reward and invents toward it, especially in science.

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