The AI Fundamentalists
autor: Dr. Andrew Clark & Dr. Sid Mangalik
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Thoughtfully Setting up Agentic Flows sequence (Part 1)
Thoughtfully Setting up Agentic Flows sequence (Part 1)
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A podcast about the fundamentals of safe and resilient modeling systems behind the AI that impacts our lives and our businesses.
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- Thoughtfully Setting up Agentic Flows sequence (Part 1) · 44 minThis episode of The AI Fundamentalists explores how AI development has evolved from simple chatbots into structured, end-to-end workflows powered by agentic…
- Revisiting AI Agents: What's Changed? What's the Same? Do people want Agents? · 32 minAs multi-step agentic AI systems evolve, performance is increasingly driven by orchestration harnesses and stepwise outcome verification rather than raw model scale. While gated…
- Token Economics (Tokenomics) · 37 minAndrew and Sid break down the hidden costs of AI tokens, why current prices are artificially low, and whether AI tokens could become the next global commodity. As AI adoption…
- Exploring political bias and persuasion in LLMs with Dr. Jillian Fisher · 35 minIn this episode of The AI Fundamentalists, hosts Andrew and Sid are joined by AI alignment and safety researcher Dr. Jillian Fisher to unpack the complex realities of political…
- Metaphysics and modern AI: What is Reasoning and Thinking? · 30 minIn this episode we conclude our series about Metaphysics and modern AI, we explore the definitions of consciousness, reasoning, and thinking to understand if AI possesses these…
- Beyond Boosted Trees: Christoph Molnar on the Rise of Tabular Foundation Models · 32 minAs 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…
- AI and the lost art of reading · 46 min · Sezon 1 Odcinek 46As 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…
- Metaphysics and modern AI: What is causality? · 36 min · Sezon 1 Odcinek 41In 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…
- Why validity beats scale when building multi‑step AI systems · 40 min · Sezon 1 Odcinek 40In 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…
- 2025 AI review: Why LLMs stalled and the outlook for 2026 · 42 min · Sezon 1 Odcinek 40Here 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…
- Big data, small data, and AI oversight with David Sandberg · 50 min · Sezon 1 Odcinek 39In this episode, we look at the actuarial principles that make models safer: parallel modeling, small data with provenance, and real-time human supervision. To help us, long-time…
- Metaphysics and modern AI: What is space and time? · 38 min · Sezon 1 Odcinek 38We explore how space and time form a single fabric, testing our daily beliefs through questions about free-fall, black holes, speed, and momentum to reveal what models get right…
- Metaphysics and modern AI: What is reality? · 39 min · Sezon 1 Odcinek 37In the first episode of our series on metaphysics, Michael Herman joins us from Episode #14 on “What is consciousness?” to discuss reality. More specifically, the question of…
- Metaphysics and modern AI: What is thinking? - Series Intro · 16 min · Sezon 1 Odcinek 36This episode is the intro to a special project by The AI Fundamentalists’ hosts and friends. We hope you're ready for a metaphysics mini‑series to explore what thinking and…
- AI in practice: Guardrails and security for LLMs · 35 min · Sezon 1 Odcinek 35In this episode, we talk about practical guardrails for LLMs with data scientist Nicholas Brathwaite. We focus on how to stop PII leaks, retrieve data, and evaluate safety with…
- AI in practice: LLMs, psychology research, and mental health · 42 min · Sezon 1 Odcinek 35We’re excited to have Adi Ganesan, a PhD researcher at Stony Brook University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Vanderbilt, on the show. We’ll talk about how large language…
- LLM scaling: Is GPT-5 near the end of exponential growth? · 23 min · Sezon 1 Odcinek 34The release of OpenAI GPT-5 marks a significant turning point in AI development, but maybe not the one most enthusiasts had envisioned. The latest version seems to reveal the…
- AI governance: Building smarter AI agents from the fundamentals, part 4 · 37 min · Sezon 1 Odcinek 34Sid Mangalik and Andrew Clark explore the unique governance challenges of agentic AI systems, highlighting the compounding error rates, security risks, and hidden costs that…
- Linear programming: Building smarter AI agents from the fundamentals, part 3 · 30 min · Sezon 1 Odcinek 34We continue with our series about building agentic AI systems from the ground up and for desired accuracy. In this episode, we explore linear programming and optimization methods…
- Utility functions: Building smarter AI agents from the fundamentals, part 2 · 42 min · Sezon 1 Odcinek 33The hosts look at utility functions as the mathematical basis for making AI systems. They use the example of a travel agent that doesn’t get tired and can be increased…
