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Hosted by Mike Breault · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 1,000 episodes
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Intellectually Curious is a podcast by Mike Breault featuring over 1,800 AI-powered explorations across science, mathematics, philosophy, and personal growth. Each short-form episode is generated, refined, and published with the help of large language models—turning curiosity into an ongoing audio encyclopedia. Designed for anyone who loves learning, it offers quick dives into everything from combinatorics and cryptography to systems thinking and psychology. Inspiration for this podcast: "Muad'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It's shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult. Muad'Dib knew that every experience carries its lesson." ― Frank Herbert, Dune Note: These podcasts were made with NotebookLM. AI can make mistakes. Please double-check any critical informatio
Mike Breault hosts Intellectually Curious, a science show with 1,000 episodes published.
We explore Google's SymptomAI built on Gemini models, turning AI from a passive chatbot into an active medical interviewer. Using data from 13,000 Fitbit users, the system proactively asks targeted follow-ups and, in bli
We dive into Andrej Karpathy’s counterintuitive technique: stop typing perfect prompts and instead record a long, stream-of-consciousness brain dump. Learn how it primes the AI to absorb raw thinking, how the model’s att
Cursor utilized agent swarms to autonomously rebuild the SQLite database from its technical manual using the Rust programming language. This research highlights a specialized hierarchical structure where high-intelligenc
We explore Replit's embedding AI agents into daily tools to become a self-driving company. From AI co-reviewing code to a semantic layer enabling live BI in chat, their approach boosted engineering output while keeping r
Dive into Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion-parameter open model with a 1‑million-token context and Delta attention that turns massive data into actionable insight. From building a complete GPU compiler stack to live-vision–driven
From chaotic boxy robots to a coherent play-by-play, this episode unpacks how neurosymbolic AI turns raw RoboCup data into engaging narration. We explore the vision front-end (YOLOv12) that maps players to a clean 2D map
Recent scientific breakthroughs have successfully synchronized a massive network of 105,000 magnetic nano-oscillators within a mere 45 nanoseconds , representing a major leap for the field of spintronics . Unlike traditi
The false discovery rate (FDR) is a statistical framework designed to manage the proportion of incorrect "discoveries" when conducting multiple hypothesis tests simultaneously. Historically, researchers relied on the Ben
We explore how AI agents like Google's Co-Scientist move beyond scraping papers to actively reasoning, planning, and validating ideas. From extended-step reasoning to scaffolding that gives AI short-term memory and tool
We unpack the Cornell–Google idea that AI can consolidate memories through wake–sleep cycles—seeding stable knowledge, rehearsing with synthetic data, and self-improving without catastrophic forgetting. This episode expl
We unpack how to evaluate AI that writes and creates, not just predicts. Why perplexity captures surprise, why a low perplexity score isn’t a guarantee of correctness, and how precision, recall, and the harmonic F1 balan
We dive into the WallGo breakthrough where an AI called WallZero uses a reachability mindset to plan future moves on a shifting 7x7 board, defeating top players and revealing new depths of strategic game design. From end
We dissect the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture, the stubborn snark class of graphs, and a sensational July 2026 preprint in which GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra orchestrates 64 AI agents to produce a universal mathematical proof in eig
We dive into MetaAI's July 10, 2026 paper Remember When It Matters: proactive memory agent for long-horizon agents. Learn how separating memory from the main action system combats behavioral state decay, using a two-phas
A Google Quantum AI team demonstrates a reinforcement-learning agent that continuously tunes thousands of control parameters on a quantum processor, using error-detection events as a live learning signal. With a sparse-f
A deep dive into OpenAI's July 2026 GPT Live release, exploring how continuous real-time voice interaction replaces turn-based chat with a true full-duplex architecture. We unpack how GPT Live listens and speaks in real
We unpack Anthropic's new view of Claude J-Lens, a mathematical projection of hidden layers into the model's own vocabulary that reveals a functional J-space acting as a working memory. We walk through the evidence (a ma
A friendly tour of Joseph C. Kulecki's NASA memo that turns tensors from abstract symbols into a physical language. We trace how rank-0, rank-1, and rank-2 objects map to scalars, vectors, and deformations, explore magne
A fresh look at Richard Hamming’s "You and Your Research": breakthroughs arise from courageous questions, not raw brainpower. We explore how open doors (interruptions) guide you to real problems, how Great Thoughts Time
We dive into the April 2026 study where frontier AI agents were given a minimal prompt and a strict three-hour budget to autonomously design an end‑to‑end AlphaZero‑style self-play pipeline for Connect Four. The system g
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Intellectually Curious is hosted by Mike Breault. The show is categorised under science (technology) and has published 1,000 episodes.
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