
AI Explained Official Podcast
Covering the biggest news of the century - the arrival of smarter-than-human AI. From the author of Simple Bench, which reveals the remaining gap between LLM and human reasoning. Hype-free, and the British accent is a freebie bonus.
Podcasting since 2024 • 24 episodes
AI Explained Official Podcast
Latest Episodes
o3 breaks (some) records, but AI becomes pay-to-win
A green card, o3 vs Gemini 2.5, 6 Benchmarks and a whole bunch of my thoughts on what on earth is happening in AI, from here to 2030. Plus, how AI is becoming pay-to-win, and why. Crazy times, 14 mins probably wasn’t enough.https://app....
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Season 2
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Episode 15
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o3 and o4-mini - they’re great, but easy to over-hype
Critical analysis of the two most powerful new models behind ChatGPT, o3 and o4-mini. Not just the system cards, benchmarks, and my own tests, but some you may not have seen before. Yes, they can whip up amazing front-end in a few seconds, but ...
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Season 2
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Episode 14
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‘Speaking Dolphin’ to AI Data Dominance, 4.1 + Kling 2: 7 Developments Critically Analysed
This pod won’t just be about the release of GPT 4.1 in the last 48 hours, o3 build-up, Kling 2.0, a sneak-peak at the next OpenAI model, or even the new Dolphin language tool. It will be about 7 such stories that contextualise where we are i...
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Season 2
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Episode 13
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AI CEO: ‘Stock Crash Could Stop AI Progress’, Llama 4 Anti-climax +‘Superintelligence in 2027’...
The latest on Llama 4, and whether it signals a slowdown in AI, or solid progress. Plus, a deep dive on that viral prediction of superintelligence by 2027, and Amodei’s cautionary words on what could stop AI progress in its tracks. o3 news, and...
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Season 2
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Episode 12
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Gemini 2.5 Pro - It’s a Smart Chatbot … (New Simple High Score)
Gemini gets a new record on Simple Bench, and several other benchmarks. I’ll go deep to explore its nuances, including how it deceptively reverse engineers answers, does better on certain coding benchmarks than others, may have a universal ‘con...
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Season 2
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Episode 11
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