The AI Fundamentalists
A podcast about the fundamentals of safe and resilient modeling systems behind the AI that impacts our lives and our businesses.
The AI Fundamentalists
Latest Episodes
Revisiting AI Agents: What's Changed? What's the Same? Do people want Agents?
As multi-step agentic AI systems evolve, performance is increasingly driven by orchestration harnesses and stepwise outcome verification rather than raw model scale. While gated sub-agent architectures help prevent error cascades, the industry ...
Token Economics (Tokenomics)
Andrew and Sid break down the hidden costs of AI tokens, why current prices are artificially low, and whether AI tokens could become the next global commodity.As AI adoption surges and agentic workflows burn through compute, the underlyi...
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Exploring political bias and persuasion in LLMs with Dr. Jillian Fisher
In this episode of The AI Fundamentalists, hosts Andrew and Sid are joined by AI alignment and safety researcher Dr. Jillian Fisher to unpack the complex realities of political bias i...
Metaphysics and modern AI: What is Reasoning and Thinking?
In this episode we conclude our series about Metaphysics and modern AI, we explore the definitions of consciousness, reasoning, and thinking to understand if AI possesses these traits. From examining legal accountability and the concept o...
Beyond Boosted Trees: Christoph Molnar on the Rise of Tabular Foundation Models
As the AI landscape evolves, the methods we use to process structured data are undergoing a silent revolution. Join us to explore how Tabular Foundation Models (TFMs) are challenging the decade-long reign of tree-based algorithms, why the tradi...
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