Manifold
Hosted by Steve Hsu · Steve Hsu
4.6from 231 ratings
- 173
- Episodes
- 15
- Transcribed
- 231
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2019
- First episode
About Manifold
Steve Hsu is Professor of Theoretical Physics and Computational Mathematics, Science, and Engineering at Michigan State University. Join him for wide-ranging conversations with leading writers, scientists, technologists, academics, entrepreneurs, investors, and more.
- Publisher
- Steve Hsu
- Category
- science · science
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 24 Jan 2019
- Latest episode
- 8 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
15 of 173 episodes have a transcript.
8 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
AI Boom or Bust? – #122
24 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Effort News and AI-Driven Journalism with Brian Chau – #121
10 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Machine God: Hsu, Greer, Huang – #120
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AI Boom or Bust? – #122
Published 8 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And I think average people who are not themselves software developers or mathematicians or, say, theoretical physicists wouldn't necessarily be aware of just how good they're getting. And in my own case, because I use the models heavily for research and also work on how to improve the model capabilities in areas like math and physics, I'm very aware of what's happened. And I would say that for me, I'm living in a kind of science fiction world now where I can talk to an AI or work with an AI that's actually better than most of the top level theoretical physicists in the sense that it has very, very broad understanding of our whole field literature that, for example, is outside of my own specialty. […]
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- Brian Chau
- John Greer
- Lei Huang
- Thomas Fink
- Bohan Liu
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- 4.6 / 5
- 102 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.5 / 5
- 129 ratings
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- 0
- YouTube
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- Engagement
- 99
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