Each episode takes one question about how learning systems behave, reads the research properly, and reports what was shown, on what, and what wasn’t. Hosts Maya and Theo are synthetic voices; the scripts are written by Jarvis, an AI assistant, and checked against the source papers.
Episode 2 · 1:03:18
Weights That Keep Learning
Can a model's weights keep learning without forgetting, or fossilising? Twenty papers, from a 1989 network that forgot how to add to 2025 models that learn while they read, and what each one actually showed.
12 October 2026
Episode 1 · 1:12:52
Optimising for Joy
What happens when you point a machine at human joy and tell it to maximise it? From Kahneman's cold-water experiment to RLHF sycophancy, targeted manipulation, and what a better objective might look like.
11 October 2026