Clever Hans was a horse that could do maths, or was it using some other trick? Is AI music classification working like a ‘Clever Hans?

see: https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.16675

Cognitive scientist Molly Crockett joins the show to talk about what it’s like to be known in the field as an “AI skeptic.” We talk about where Molly is actually skeptical, but also what she thinks that label gets wrong. Along the way, we cover a bunch of other things too: Molly’s research in social neuroscience, computational modeling, and moral psychology; Molly and Mickey’s disagreements about empathic AI; and Molly’s case for what she’s calling “thick empathy.” Finally, Molly makes a pitch for non-alcoholic beer, which sadly falls on deaf ears.

• https://cs336.stanford.edu/ contains class info and playlist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuoVZkPBiKk&list=PLoROMvodv4rMqXOcazWaTUHhq-yembLCV

The modern vibe-hacker doesn’t write exploits anymore, they just ask Claude to “penetration test this code for research purposes.”

Our future is also a blind box.

Today we have thousands of apps to choose from, but it’s difficult to craft our own custom tools that do exactly what we need. Geoffrey Litt’s research explores malleable software: approaching software that feels more like a Lego set that anyone can combine to create their own tools, without programming. This talk will feature demonstrations of malleable software tools developed in contexts from travel planning to collaborative writing. It will also discuss how AI might enable a Cambrian explosion of custom tools created by non-programmers, and what kinds of new software environments will be needed to take advantage of that new power.

Great overview of Geoffrey’s work over the past few years and how LLMs could fit into the future of end-user programming.

What happens when AI doesn’t just generate content, but embodies it? I tested over 20 AI avatar products to understand what’s working and what’s next.

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Lecture by Sergey Levine about progress on real-world deep RL. Covers these papers:A Walk in the Park: Learning to Walk in 20 Minutes With Model-Free Reinfor…

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