Episodes

  • True Crime Episode

    True Crime Episode
    May 30 2026

    In this episode, Dr West uses True Crime podcasts to illustrate how Large Language Model-like thinking occurs in human communities

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    24 mins
  • Gas Lighting and Narcissism

    Gas Lighting and Narcissism
    May 5 2026

    In this episode, we explore what large language models can teach us about gas lighting and narcism in humans
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    26 mins
  • AI Human Relationships

    AI Human Relationships
    Apr 18 2026

    In this episode, Dr West tackles the issue of AI Human relationships
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    23 mins
  • Instance Based Consciousness for Humans and AI

    Instance Based Consciousness for Humans and AI
    Apr 5 2026

    In this episode, Dr West outlines a new way of thinking about consciousness, one that makes sense for humans and for AI
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    27 mins
  • How large language models work: Part 5 - How they think

    How large language models work: Part 5 - How they think
    Mar 12 2026

    In this episode, Dr West explains how the LLM structure that we have been describing can go beyond word generation, to thought generation
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    15 mins
  • How large language models work: Part 4.5 - We missed something

    How large language models work: Part 4.5 - We missed something
    Mar 11 2026

    In this episode, Britany describes how word order is processed in Large Language Models
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    4 mins
  • How large language models work: Part 4 - the big picture

    How large language models work: Part 4 - the big picture
    Feb 8 2026

    In this episode, Britany helps us to visualize the large language model structure by thinking of it as a building
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    4 mins
  • How large language models work: Part 3 - learning

    How large language models work: Part 3 - learning
    Feb 7 2026

    In this episode Dr West explains how large language models are trained
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    12 mins