Slow Takes: One week in AI

About Slow Takes: One week in AI

Twenty-five episodes of the weekly Slow AI conversation, in which Sam Illingworth and Leor Gayr talked through the week in AI, slowly and without the hype. The series has finished. The writing continues at theslowai.substack.com. theslowai.substack.com (https://theslowai.substack.com/s/slow-takes?utm_medium=podcast)

Publisher

Sam Illingworth & Leor Gayr

Category

education · technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

23 Feb 2026

Latest episode

14 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

10 of 27 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   14 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Slow Takes Ep. 27: Marking Their Own Homework

   Host Leor from Exploring ChatGPT and an unnamed co-host critically examine AI industry claims about a Navier-Stokes proof, safety reports, job figures, and new technology, offering listeners a less hyped perspective.

2. 

   7 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Slow Takes Ep. 26: Who Asked?

   Host [Host Name] and guest [Guest Name] discuss AI's impact on education, tech acquisitions, surveillance, and labor, offering insights into the evolving AI landscape.

3. 

   31 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Slow Takes Ep. 25: Four Numbers That Shrank When Somebody Checked

   Host Leor and guest [Host Name] discuss four AI-related news items, revealing how initial claims shrink under scrutiny and offering insights into AI's real-world impact.

Inside a recent episode

Slow Takes Ep. 27: Marking Their Own Homework

Published 14 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Now, the reason why the Euler equations are important is that they basically are simplified versions of the Navier-Stokes equation. So if you can prove the Euler equations always hold or if they ever reach infinity, then that's the first step towards solving that Navier-Stokes equations. Now, if you're still with me, Basically, NYU's Tristan Buckmaster, who is an independent mathematician, he and a researcher who happened to work at Anthropic but was doing this in their own spare time, posted a few weeks ago that they thought they'd solved the Euler's equations. And by which I mean, they'd proven that in certain circumstances, they did go towards infinity, which meant that they needed to be adopted. […]

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