Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)

Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)

by Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)

Welcome! We engage in fascinating discussions with pre-eminent figures in the AI field. Our flagship show covers current affairs in AI, cognitive science, neuroscience and philosophy of mind with in-depth analysis. Our approach is unrivalled in terms of scope and rigour – we believe in intellectual diversity in AI, and we touch on all of the main ideas in the field with the hype surgically removed. MLST is run by Tim Scarfe, Ph.D (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ecsquizor/) and features regular appearances from MIT Doctor of Philosophy Keith Duggar (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-keith-duggar/).
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Episodes 271 total

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#92 - SARA HOOKER - Fairness, Interpretability, Language Models

Dec 23, 2022 · 51m

Support us! https://www.patreon.com/mlst Sara Hooker is an exceptionally talented and accomplished leader and research scientist in the field of machine learnin…

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#91 - HATTIE ZHOU - Teaching Algorithmic Reasoning via In-context Learning #NeurIPS

Dec 20, 2022 · 21m

Support us! https://www.patreon.com/mlst Hattie Zhou, a PhD student at Université de Montréal and Mila, has set out to understand and explain the performance of…

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(Music Removed) #90 - Prof. DAVID CHALMERS - Consciousness in LLMs [Special Edition]

Dec 19, 2022 · 53m

Support us! https://www.patreon.com/mlst (On the main version we released; the music was a tiny bit too loud in places, and some pieces had percussion which was…

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#90 - Prof. DAVID CHALMERS - Consciousness in LLMs [Special Edition]

Dec 19, 2022 · 53m

Support us! https://www.patreon.com/mlst David Chalmers is a professor of philosophy and neural science at New York University, and an honorary professor of phi…

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#88 Dr. WALID SABA - Why machines will never rule the world [UNPLUGGED]

Dec 16, 2022 · 1h 21m

Support us! https://www.patreon.com/mlst Dr. Walid Saba recently reviewed the book Machines Will Never Rule The World, which argues that strong AI is impossible…

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#86 - Prof. YANN LECUN and Dr. RANDALL BALESTRIERO - SSL, Data Augmentation, Reward isn't enough [NEURIPS2022]

Dec 11, 2022 · 30m

Yann LeCun is a French computer scientist known for his pioneering work on convolutional neural networks, optical character recognition and computer vision. He…

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#85 Dr. Petar Veličković (Deepmind) - Categories, Graphs, Reasoning [NEURIPS22 UNPLUGGED]

Dec 8, 2022 · 36m

Dr. Petar Veličković  is a Staff Research Scientist at DeepMind, he has firmly established himself as one of the most significant up and coming researchers…

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#84 LAURA RUIS - Large language models are not zero-shot communicators [NEURIPS UNPLUGGED]

Dec 6, 2022 · 27m

In this NeurIPSs interview, we speak with Laura Ruis about her research on the ability of language models to interpret language in context. She has designed a s…

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#83 Dr. ANDREW LAMPINEN (Deepmind) - Natural Language, Symbols and Grounding [NEURIPS2022 UNPLUGGED]

Dec 4, 2022 · 20m

First in our unplugged series live from #NeurIPS2022 We discuss natural language understanding, symbol meaning and grounding and Chomsky with Dr. Andrew Lampine…

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#82 - Dr. JOSCHA BACH - Digital Physics, DL and Consciousness [UNPLUGGED]

Nov 27, 2022 · 1h 15m

AI Helps Ukraine - Charity Conference A charity conference on AI to raise funds for medical and humanitarian aid for Ukraine https://aihelpsukraine.cc/ YT versi…

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#81 JULIAN TOGELIUS, Prof. KEN STANLEY - AGI, Games, Diversity & Creativity [UNPLUGGED]

Nov 20, 2022 · 1h 9m

Support us (and please rate on podcast app) https://www.patreon.com/mlst  In this show tonight with Prof. Julian Togelius (NYU) and Prof. Ken Stanley we di…

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#80 AIDAN GOMEZ [CEO Cohere] - Language as Software

Nov 15, 2022 · 51m

We had a conversation with Aidan Gomez, the CEO of language-based AI platform Cohere. Cohere is a startup which uses artificial intelligence to help users build…

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#79 Consciousness and the Chinese Room [Special Edition] (CHOLLET, BISHOP, CHALMERS, BACH)

Nov 8, 2022 · 2h 9m

This video is demonetised on music copyright so we would appreciate support on our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/mlst  We would also appreciate it if yo…

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MLST #78 - Prof. NOAM CHOMSKY (Special Edition)

Jul 8, 2022 · 3h 37m

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mlst Discord: https://discord.gg/ESrGqhf5CB In this special edition episode, we have a conversation with Prof. Noam Chomsky, th…

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#77 - Vitaliy Chiley (Cerebras)

Jun 16, 2022 · 1h 7m

Vitaliy Chiley  is a Machine Learning Research Engineer at the next-generation computing hardware company Cerebras Systems. We spoke about how DL workloads…

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#76 - LUKAS BIEWALD (Weights and Biases CEO)

Jun 9, 2022 · 57m

Check out Weights and Biases here!  https://wandb.me/MLST Lukas Biewald is an entrepreneur living in San Francisco. He was the founder and CEO of Figure Ei…

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#75 - Emergence [Special Edition] with Dr. DANIELE GRATTAROLA

Apr 29, 2022 · 1h 55m

An emergent behavior or emergent property can appear when a number of simple entities operate in an environment, forming more complex behaviours as a colle…

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#74 Dr. ANDREW LAMPINEN - Symbolic behaviour in AI [UNPLUGGED]

Apr 14, 2022 · 1h 5m

Please note that in this interview Dr. Lampinen was expressing his personal opinions and they do not necessarily represent those of DeepMind.  Patreon: htt…

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#73 - YASAMAN RAZEGHI & Prof. SAMEER SINGH - NLP benchmarks

Apr 7, 2022 · 55m

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mlst Discord: https://discord.gg/ESrGqhf5CB YT version: https://youtu.be/RzGaI7vXrkk This week we speak with Yasaman Razeghi an…

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#72 Prof. KEN STANLEY 2.0 - On Art and Subjectivity [UNPLUGGED]

Mar 29, 2022 · 1h 24m

YT version: https://youtu.be/DxBZORM9F-8 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mlst  Discord: https://discord.gg/ESrGqhf5CB Prof. Ken Stanley argued in his book…