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Guest interviews
English
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30 episodes
since Dec. 8, 2025
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The Age of the Agent Shopper: How AI Is Redefining Consumption Hosted by Nathan Rigoni In this episode, we explore the shifting landscape of consumer behavior as we transition from the era of "sensory manipulation" at the grocery store shelf to the age of the autonomous agent shopper. We …

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Physics of Language Models: Part 3 – The Truth About Knowledge, Memorization, and "The Hallucination" Hosted by Nathan Rigoni In this episode, we tackle the third installment of Meta’s "Physics of Language Models" series, focusing on a problem that plagues every user of AI: Hallucinations. We go de…
Physics of Language Models: Part 2 – Grade School Math, Depth, and the Power of Mistakes Hosted by Nathan Rigoni In this episode, we move beyond general language patterns to explore how Large Language Models (LLMs) grapple with the rigid logic of mathematics. Using the second installment of Meta’s…
Physics of Language Models: Part 1 – Hierarchical Structure, CFGs & Mechanistic Interpretability Hosted by Nathan Rigoni In this episode, we dive into the first paper of Meta’s "Physics of Language Models" series to explore how AI learns the hidden rules of grammar. We ask a fundamen…
AI in Cybersecurity: Shifting the Bottleneck from Enrichment to Judgment Hosted by Nathan Rigoni | Special Guest Brad Proctor In this episode, we sit down with Brad Proctor, Director of Operations at MAD Security, to explore the frontline reality of how artificial intelligence is transforming cyber…
The Physics of Language Models – Word2Vec, Geometry, and the Foundations of Mechanistic Interpretability Hosted by Nathan Rigoni In this episode, we lay the foundation for a deep dive into "The Physics of Language Models," a series of papers from Meta that explore how these models actua…
Wittgenstien's Lion Problem – AI, Language, Embodiment & the Quest for a “True Self” Hosted by Nathan Rigoni | Guest: Derek Koehl, Lecturer in Applied Experimental Psychology, University of Huntsville, Alabama In this episode we dive into the perplexing “lion” thought‑experiment that Wittgenst…
The Undrawn Lion: Wittgenstein, Language Limits, and the Future of AI Hosted by Nathan Rigoni In a snow‑bound cabin of 1919, Ludwig Wittgenstein sketched a lion devouring a mouse on a blackboard—yet the lion itself never appeared. What does an undrawn lion tell us about the boundaries of language,…
Agents & the Rise of Tool‑Calling AI Hosted by Nathan Rigoni In this episode we explore the new frontier of artificial intelligence: agents that can call tools, run code, and act in the real world. How does giving a language model the ability to invoke functions or interact with a command‑line…
The Socratic Mirror: From Ancient Athenian Courts to Artificial Superintelligence Hosted by Nathan Rigoni In this episode we travel from the marble steps of Greece in 399 BCE to the humming data centers of the 2020s. How did Socrates’ fearless questioning of Athenian power foreshadow today’s strugg…
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