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
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...
AI and the lost art of reading
As information sources have become abundant and attention spans have shortened in the age of AI, we take on the lost art of reading. Join us to explore why reading rates are falling, how that shift affects judgment and opportunity, and how inte...
Metaphysics and modern AI: What is causality?
In this episode of our series about Metaphysics and modern AI, we break causality down to first principles and explain how to tell factual mechanisms from convincing correlations. From gold-standard Randomized Control Trials (RCT) to natural ex...
Why validity beats scale when building multi‑step AI systems
In this episode, Dr. Sebastian (Seb) Benthall joins us to discuss research from his and Andrew's paper entitled “Validity Is What You Need” for agentic AI that actually works in the real world.&nbs...
2025 AI review: Why LLMs stalled and the outlook for 2026
Here it is! We review the year where scaling large AI models hit its ceiling, Google reclaimed momentum with efficient vertical integration, and the market shifted from hype to viability. Join us as we talk about why human-in-the-lo...
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