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

S1 E31

#031 WE GOT ACCESS TO GPT-3! (With Gary Marcus, Walid Saba and Connor Leahy)

Nov 28, 2020 · 2h 44m

In this special edition, Dr. Tim Scarfe, Yannic Kilcher and Keith Duggar speak with Gary Marcus and Connor Leahy about GPT-3. We have all had a significant amou…

S1 E30

#030 Multi-Armed Bandits and Pure-Exploration (Wouter M. Koolen)

Nov 20, 2020 · 1h 48m

This week Dr. Tim Scarfe, Dr. Keith Duggar and Yannic Kilcher discuss multi-arm bandits and pure exploration with Dr. Wouter M. Koolen, Senior Researcher, Machi…

S1 E29

#029 GPT-3, Prompt Engineering, Trading, AI Alignment, Intelligence

Nov 8, 2020 · 1h 50m

This week Dr. Tim Scarfe, Dr. Keith Duggar, Yannic Kilcher and Connor Leahy cover a broad range of topics, ranging from academia, GPT-3 and whether prompt engin…

S1 E28

NLP is not NLU and GPT-3 - Walid Saba

Nov 4, 2020 · 2h 20m

#machinelearning This week Dr. Tim Scarfe, Dr. Keith Duggar and Yannic Kilcher speak with veteran NLU expert Dr. Walid Saba.  Walid is an old-school AI exp…

S1 E27

AI Alignment & AGI Fire Alarm - Connor Leahy

Nov 1, 2020 · 2h 4m

This week Dr. Tim Scarfe, Alex Stenlake and Yannic Kilcher speak with AGI and AI alignment specialist Connor Leahy a machine learning engineer from Aleph Alpha…

S1 E26

Kaggle, ML Community / Engineering (Sanyam Bhutani)

Oct 28, 2020 · 1h 26m

Join Dr Tim Scarfe, Sayak Paul, Yannic Kilcher, and Alex Stenlake have a conversation with Mr. Chai Time Data Science; Sanyam Bhutani! 00:00:00 Introduction&nbs…

S1 E25

Sara Hooker - The Hardware Lottery, Sparsity and Fairness

Oct 20, 2020 · 1h 30m

Dr. Tim Scarfe, Yannic Kilcher and Sayak Paul chat with Sara Hooker from the Google Brain team! We discuss her recent hardware lottery paper, pruning / sparsity…

S1 E23

The Social Dilemma Part 3 - Dr. Rebecca Roache

Oct 11, 2020 · 1h 16m

This week join Dr. Tim Scarfe, Yannic Kilcher, and Keith Duggar have a conversation with Dr. Rebecca Roache in the last of our 3-part series on the social dilem…

S1 E21

The Social Dilemma - Part 1

Oct 3, 2020 · 1h 7m

In this first part of our three part series on the Social Dilemma Netflix film, Dr. Tim Scarfe, Yannic "Lightspeed" Kilcher and Zak Jost gang up with Cybersecur…

S1 E20

Capsule Networks and Education Targets

Sep 29, 2020 · 1h 24m

In today's episode, Dr. Keith Duggar, Alex Stenlake and Dr. Tim Scarfe chat about the education chapter in Kenneth Stanley's "Greatness cannot be planned" book…

S1 E20

Programming Languages, Software Engineering and Machine Learning

Sep 25, 2020 · 1h 23m

This week Dr. Tim Scarfe, Dr. Keith Duggar, Yannic "Lightspeed" Kilcher have a conversation with Microsoft Senior Software Engineer Sachin Kundu. We speak about…

S1 E19

Computation, Bayesian Model Selection, Interactive Articles

Sep 22, 2020 · 1h 13m

This week Dr. Keith Duggar, Alex Stenlake and Dr. Tim Scarfe discuss the theory of computation, intelligence, Bayesian model selection, the intelligence explosi…

S1 E18

Kernels!

Sep 18, 2020 · 1h 37m

Today Yannic Lightspeed Kilcher and I spoke with Alex Stenlake about Kernel Methods. What is a kernel? Do you remember those weird kernel things which everyone…

S1 E18

Explainability, Reasoning, Priors and GPT-3

Sep 16, 2020 · 1h 25m

This week Dr. Tim Scarfe and Dr. Keith Duggar discuss Explainability, Reasoning, Priors and GPT-3. We check out Christoph Molnar's book on intepretability, talk…

S1 E17

SWaV: Unsupervised Learning of Visual Features by Contrasting Cluster Assignments (Mathilde Caron)

Sep 14, 2020 · 1h 27m

This week Dr. Tim Scarfe, Yannic Lightspeed Kicher, Sayak Paul and Ayush Takur interview Mathilde Caron from Facebook Research (FAIR). We discuss Mathilde's pap…

S1 E16

UK Algoshambles, Neuralink, GPT-3 and Intelligence

Sep 7, 2020 · 1h 34m

This week Dr. Tim Scarfe, Dr. Keith Duggar and Yannic "Lightspeed" Kilcher respond to the "Algoshambles" exam fiasco in the UK where the government were forced…

S1 E15

Sayak Paul

Jul 17, 2020 · 1h 36m

This week we spoke with Sayak Paul, who is extremely active in the machine learning community. We discussed the AI landscape in India, unsupervised representati…

S1 E14

Robert Lange on NN Pruning and Collective Intelligence

Jul 8, 2020 · 1h 45m

We speak with Robert Lange! Robert is a PhD student at the Technical University Berlin. His research combines Deep Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning and Cognit…

S1 E14

WelcomeAIOverlords (Zak Jost)

Jun 30, 2020 · 1h 58m

We welcome Zak Jost from the WelcomeAIOverlords channel. Zak is an ML research scientist at Amazon. He has a great blog at http://blog.zakjost.com and also a Di…

S1 E12

Facebook Research - Unsupervised Translation of Programming Languages

Jun 24, 2020 · 1h 2m

In this episode of Machine Learning Street Talk Dr. Tim Scarfe, Yannic Kilcher and Connor Shorten spoke with Marie-Anne Lachaux, Baptiste Roziere and Dr. Guilla…