Chris's AI Deep Dive

Our hosts discuss Thinking, Fast and Slow, a 2011 popular science book by psychologist ⁠Daniel Kahneman⁠.

Our hosts discuss Thinking, Fast and Slow, a 2011 popular science book by psychologist ⁠Daniel Kahneman⁠.

Our hosts discuss Thinking, Fast and Slow, a 2011 popular science book by psychologist ⁠Daniel Kahneman⁠.

Our hosts discuss Thinking, Fast and Slow, a 2011 popular science book by psychologist ⁠Daniel Kahneman⁠.

Our hosts discuss Thinking, Fast and Slow, a 2011 popular science book by psychologist ⁠Daniel Kahneman⁠.

Our hosts discuss Thinking, Fast and Slow, a 2011 popular science book by psychologist ⁠Daniel Kahneman⁠.

Apparently LLMs are as fragile as Samuel L Jackson wearing a purple velvet jacket in a wheelchair in that Bruce Willis movie. It's all just pattern recognition. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.05229

Our hosts discuss Thinking, Fast and Slow, a 2011 popular science book by psychologist ⁠Daniel Kahneman⁠.

Our hosts discuss Thinking, Fast and Slow, a 2011 popular science book by psychologist ⁠Daniel Kahneman⁠.

Our hosts discuss Thinking, Fast and Slow, a 2011 popular science book by psychologist ⁠Daniel Kahneman⁠.

Our hosts discuss Thinking, Fast and Slow, a 2011 popular science book by psychologist ⁠Daniel Kahneman⁠.

Our hosts discuss Thinking, Fast and Slow , a 2011 popular science book by psychologist Daniel Kahneman .

It’s kind of wild that the name “John Marston” belongs to both the gunslinging protagonist of Red Dead Redemption and a sophomore at Harvard who participated in a happiness research study. Speaking of Harvard , I should mention—it’s my alma mater, which, as we all know, is Latin for “fertile young mother.” In the final episode of the Supercommunicator Book Club, we’re tackling loneliness, high-ban...

I love how little kids are masters of radical honesty. They’ll look you dead in the eyes and tell you that your Oakley sunglasses make your head look like a marshmallow—completely unfazed by the fact that you are their camp counselor, literally holding their lives in your hands. Today’s episode dives into a cringe-worthy, not-so-Supercommunicator-level blunder from a legendary company that never q...

We all learned long ago that our social identity is not our job title. I mean, I genuinely feel for all those doctors—of medicine, philosophy, juris, chiro, etc.—whose entire ego is wrapped up in their profession. Still, everyone has an identity of some kind, and sometimes just being aware of a negative stereotype about a group we belong to can mess with how we perform.

In grad school, I took to heart a quote about how our prosperity, freedoms, and civilization depend on the quality of our leaders and the courage to face facts and find solutions—whether in energy, the environment, the economy, or national security. This truth guided my early career. One day, the truth itself gets lost. "⁠It is a tribute to the American people that our leaders perceived that they...

Flame war time! In one corner, we’ve got your classic anonymous Reddit troll, armed with downvotes and way too much time. In the other corner, an anonymous Twitter tough guy, throwing hashtags like punches. Who will win in this in-person, Nickelodeon-style jello wrestling match to the death? To state the obvious, we live in a polarized society where working with someone who has strong opinions is...

I grew up on Must-See-TV, with Seinfeld nights every Thursday on NBC. One of my life goals? Make a show about absolutely nothing. Picture this: some kid gets called to the front of the class to give a speech, but he’s got zero prep, no plan—just pure panic. Now imagine stretching that awkward moment into an entire show… about one single word. It’s basically procrastination in primetime.

Alright, you internet cyborgs, did you know that how you laugh can literally make or break a high-stakes job interview with an executive? And making friends at work? It’s no different than those late-night pow-wows freshman year when you stayed up until 5 AM bonding over questionable life choices. Honestly, I debated posting this because, as a naturally-born Supercommunicator, explaining this stuf...

As a child of the ‘90s, I was obsessed with Dream Teams. Maybe that’s why I’m now a full-blown OCD adult when it comes to working with A-players. (Seriously, if you can’t hang with the ’96 Bulls vibe, what are we even doing here?) Being a master trial lawyer isn’t just about throwing around logic and data—it’s about connecting with the jury on a human level. In this episode, we dive into how Super...

In the 2001 classic Spy Game, a grizzled CIA lifer played by Robert Redford recruits a young-ish Brad Pitt to head to Lebanon and take pictures of Hezbollah… while rocking a San Diego Padres baseball cap. Seriously? That’s his idea of “blending in”? In the 2024 book Supercommunicators, we meet an equally clueless CIA recruiter who teaches himself to become a better listener and conversationalist....

This morning, I woke up at 5:30, stared out at the blue ocean, and settled into my ice bath like a true modern-day Stoic. Breakfast? Two glasses of ice water with a dash of salt—for optimal ionic flow. As I sipped my electrolyte masterpiece, I pondered life’s great mysteries: “Google, what’s Andrew Huberman’s most famous research?” Turns out, it’s a 2011 paper in the journal, Trends in Neuroscienc...

Before Lex Fridman became the podcasting superhero, cat-rescuer, and jiu-jitsu blackbelt we know today, he earned his PhD in electrical and computer engineering at Drexel. Interestingly, his entire dissertation focused on disrupting the cookie market. No, not the kind you eat. Tune in to hear Lex’s innovative ideas around digital authentication and fingerprints. It’s almost like he’s channeling an...

Some might say this memoir reads like it was co-authored by William Faulkner and James Dickey. Just as, Faulkner’s "As I Lay Dying" gives us 15 narrators each spinning their own take on the same story, this here podcast follows two friends, Zack and Chris, on their adventure through Montana and Yellowstone. It’s a day-by-day journal, with both guys giving their unique perspectives on fis...

“Ilya!!! Et tu, Ilya?” Friends, colleagues, Youtube influencers, lend me your ears: before Ilya’s almost coup, he wrote a PhD dissertation that still gives me nightmares—reliving my first year of grad school, waking up in a cold sweat, haunted by visions of Hessian matrices. Honestly, scarier than any failed boardroom drama. #OpenAI #Shakespeare