Dreaming Against the Machine
Hosted by Adam Becker · Multitude
4.2from 66 ratings
- 27
- Episodes
- 18
- Transcribed
- 66
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2026
- First episode
About Dreaming Against the Machine
What might a good future look like? Explore ideas about how to envision better, realistic, equitable futures with astrophysicist and journalist Dr. Adam Becker. Each week, Adam and a new guest will try to find hope in the darkness of the current political moment through earnest (and entertaining!) conversations about what such a future might look like. In a world where tech oligarchs and their power fantasies are driving visions of the future, Dreaming Against the Machine aims to take back the public conversation about what our world can and should be.
- Publisher
- Multitude
- Category
- science · society & culture · technology
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 4 Apr 2026
- Latest episode
- 22 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
18 of 27 episodes have a transcript.
22 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Episode 24: The Myth of AI Doom, with Cal Newport
15 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Episode 23: Language Models, with Emily Bender
8 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Episode 22: Balancing on the Abyss, with Dave Karpf
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Episode 24: The Myth of AI Doom, with Cal Newport
Published 22 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And then if agents are asking what to do, it'll be like an actuated, really smart human. But I don't understand how that happens. Yeah, neither do I. Because if you want a better LLM, I think the only way that we know how to do that is increase the size of the model and increase the training data. Yeah, and that stopped working a while ago, actually. Yeah, exactly. So I don't know how you recursively create more training data. So that doesn't make sense to me. Yeah. And this is one of the real disconnects, again, between close monitors of this field and everyone else. Actually, LLMs, in some sense, have been struggling. […]
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- Dave Karpf
- Matt Scherer
- Alli Finn
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