Robots in Your Home, AI in Your Job, and Inside AI's Mind

ROBOTICS

00:21 Intro: Robotics, the job/math/physics apocalypses, and understanding AI's mind

01:00 Why robots thrive in factories but struggle in our homes

03:53 Forty years of Boston Dynamics progress

05:28 Are today's humanoid robots secretly human-operated?

06:14 Laundry-folding robots: From painfully slow to real time

08:42 Why human hands and sensors are so hard to replicate

11:38 AI-powered drones and the future of autonomous warfare

12:39 RuneBench: What RuneScape teaches us about LLM-powered robots

14:46 Can general-purpose LLMs replace specialized robot AI?

17:49 Why a useful household robot needs to master thousands of tasks

19:58 Self-assembling robots, OpenAI humanoids, and robot cage fights

21:53 Tiny walking robots, robotic pets, and AI personalities

THE APOCALYPSES: JOBS, MATH & PHYSICS

23:46 What does "apocalypse" actually mean?

25:55 Anthropic's junior hiring falls as AI agents take on more work

27:58 Anthropic employees vs. the public: How soon can AI do everything?

33:39 How much of our jobs could AI perform by 2030?

34:47 AI-powered GDP growth: 5.4% or 17.1%?

38:46 AI's 200-page math proof gets simplified to just three pages

41:09 Terence Tao and Richard Borcherds on the end of mathematics as we know it

43:17 AI solves 49 out of 50 unpublished theoretical physics problems

43:49 Claude reportedly discovers 104 binary stars; Gemini tackles plasma physics and fusion

45:09 Claude audits a decade of quantum gravity research

47:02 Character.AI's collapse and the risk to AI wrapper businesses

48:43 Kroger layoffs and a sudden reversal in call-center employment

49:29 Does the actual labor market show an AI job apocalypse?

INSIDE THE AI'S MIND

51:01 Goodfire research suggests individual AI neurons may be understandable

54:58 Are larger neural networks actually easier to interpret?

56:47 Could reading AI's mind help solve alignment?

59:01 What AI interpretability could teach us about human brains

AI NEWS LIGHTNING ROUND

1:00:55 Rumors of Fable 5.5

1:01:06 406 scientists urge cutting AI off from the internet

1:01:23 Anthropic experiments with self-replicating LLMs on Android phones

1:01:56 Russian bot activity reportedly plunges after Ukraine hits a data center

1:02:29 DHS tells personnel to uninstall DeepSeek

1:03:10 AI decompilation brings classic games to modern hardware

1:05:40 AI-made Star Wars fan films are winning over audiences

1:07:27 Two AI job interviewers are tricked into interviewing each other

1:08:21 Mark Zuckerberg's very human Guinness-drinking technique

Each week, join Chris Slowe (founding engineer, former CTO, and now Senior Technical Fellow @ Reddit), Marty Weiner (founding engineer at Pinterest, former CTO at Reddit, and co-founder at VerifyYou), and Zach Weinersmith (creator of SMBC Comics and co-author of NYTimes bestsellers including A City on Mars and Soonish) as we delve into the latest in AI and Tech News.