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In this episode, we talk with Michael Lanham, an AI and software innovator with over two decades of experience spanning game development, fintech, oil and gas, and agricultural tech. Michael shares his journey from building neural network-based games and evolutionary algorithms to writing influential books on AI agents and deep learning. He offers insights into the evolving AI landscape, practical uses of AI agents, and the future of generative AI in gaming and beyond.

TIMECODES 00:00 Micheal Lanham’s career journey and AI agent books 05:45 Publishing journey: AR, Pokémon Go, sound design, and reinforcement learning 10:00 Evolution of AI: evolutionary algorithms, deep learning, and agents 13:33 Evolutionary algorithms in prompt engineering and LLMs 18:13 AI agent books second edition and practical applications 20:57 AI agent workflows: minimalism, task breakdown, and collaboration 26:25 Collaboration and orchestration among AI agents 31:24 Tools and reasoning servers for agent communication 35:17 AI agents in game development and generative AI impact 38:57 Future of generative AI in gaming and immersive content 41:42 Coding agents, new LLMs, and local deployment 45:40 AI model trends and data scientist career advice 53:36 Cognitive testing, evaluation, and monitoring in AI 58:50 Publishing details and closing remarks

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This week Gerard will be presenting Sleeper Agents: Training Deceptive LLMs that Persist Through Safety Training By Evan Hubinger, Carson Denison, Jesse Mu, Mike Lambert, Meg Tong, Monte MacDiarmid, Tamera Lanham, Daniel M. Ziegler, Tim Maxwell, Newton Cheng, Adam Jermyn, Amanda Askell, Ansh Radhakrishnan, Cem Anil, David Duvenaud, Deep Ganguli, Fazl Barez, Jack Clark, Kamal Ndousse, Kshitij Sachan, Michael Sellitto, Mrinank Sharma, Nova DasSarma, Roger Grosse, Shauna Kravec, Yuntao Bai, Zachary Witten, Marina Favaro, Jan Brauner, Holden Karnofsky, Paul Christiano, Samuel R. Bowman, Logan Graham, Jared Kaplan, Sören Mindermann, Ryan Greenblatt, Buck Shlegeris, Nicholas Schiefer, Ethan Perez.

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