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The Peterman Pod
The Peterman Pod is an interview show with the people building AI, hosted by Ryan Peterman, with a new episode every week.
3 moments cut from one episode, mostly on science & math and evals & benchmarks.
Also No. 16 of 18 tech podcasts.
- New episodes
- Weekly
- Latest
- Oct 19, 2026
- Moments cut
- 3
- Episodes cut
- 1
What its moments are about
- Science & math3
- Evals & benchmarks1
- Frontier models1
- Scaling laws1
Best moments from The Peterman Pod
From its most-watched episodes, best first. Each plays right here.
Why AI is best at finding counterexamples to conjectures
Aaronson explains that AI excels at disproving long-held conjectures because it has no preconceptions and the search parallelizes. He then shows how critics keep moving the goalposts.
Why AI disclosure matters: the path to a proof is the value
“You care not just about the destination, but about the journey, right? How did you get there okay”
The Peterman Pod29:32 OpenAI's $15M Navier-Stokes proof and how credit will work
“They put like 15 million dollars of compute into solving this one million dollar problem.”
The Peterman Pod16:17
The guest we’ve cut
- Scott AaronsonProfessor of computer science, UT Austin3 moments
Recent episodes
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