Intellectually Curious
Intellectually Curious is a podcast by Mike Breault featuring 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
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Intellectually Curious
Latest Episodes
Bar-by-Bar Feedback: How Dense Rewards Teach AI to Reason
In this episode, we unpack why sparse, final-only rewards hobble reinforcement learning in large language models and how dense rewards via a process reward model act like a patient teacher, giving praise for micro-steps along the way. We explor...
WikiSkill: Compiling Agent Experience into Persistent Knowledge for Skill Evolution
Explore WikiSkill, an AI framework where agents permanently log every action, a wiki maintainer extracts root causes from failures, and a skill proposer updates actionable instructions. Through a three-layer mind—raw, wiki, and skill—the system...
KinMarq: A Permanent Digital Identity for Every Pet
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