Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)
Episodes 271 total
The Secret Engine of AI - Prolific [Sponsored] (Sara Saab, Enzo Blindow)
We sat down with Sara Saab (VP of Product at Prolific) and Enzo Blindow (VP of Data and AI at Prolific) to explore the critical role of human evaluation in AI d…
AI Agents Can Code 10,000 Lines of Hacking Tools In Seconds - Dr. Ilia Shumailov (ex-GDM)
Dr. Ilia Shumailov - Former DeepMind AI Security Researcher, now building security tools for AI agentsEver wondered what happens when AI agents start talking to…
New top score on ARC-AGI-2-pub (29.4%) - Jeremy Berman
We need AI systems to synthesise new knowledge, not just compress the data they see. Jeremy Berman, is a research scientist at Reflection AI and recent winner o…
Deep Learning is Not So Mysterious or Different - Prof. Andrew Gordon Wilson (NYU)
Professor Andrew Wilson from NYU explains why many common-sense ideas in artificial intelligence might be wrong. For decades, the rule of thumb in machine learn…
Karl Friston - Why Intelligence Can't Get Too Large (Goldilocks principle)
In this episode, hosts Tim and Keith finally realize their long-held dream of sitting down with their hero, the brilliant neuroscientist Professor Karl Friston…
The Day AI Solves My Puzzles Is The Day I Worry (Prof. Cristopher Moore)
We are joined by Cristopher Moore, a professor at the Santa Fe Institute with a diverse background in physics, computer science, and machine learning.The conver…
Michael Timothy Bennett: Defining Intelligence and AGI Approaches
Dr. Michael Timothy Bennett is a computer scientist who's deeply interested in understanding artificial intelligence, consciousness, and what it means to be…
Superintelligence Strategy (Dan Hendrycks)
Deep dive with Dan Hendrycks, a leading AI safety researcher and co-author of the "Superintelligence Strategy" paper with former Google CEO Eric Schmi…
DeepMind Genie 3 [World Exclusive] (Jack Parker Holder, Shlomi Fruchter)
This episode features Shlomi Fuchter and Jack Parker Holder from Google DeepMind, who are unveiling a new AI called Genie 3. The host, Tim Scarfe, describes it…
Large Language Models and Emergence: A Complex Systems Perspective (Prof. David C. Krakauer)
Prof. David Krakauer, President of the Santa Fe Institute argues that we are fundamentally confusing knowledge with intelligence, especially when it comes to AI…
Pushing compute to the limits of physics
Dr. Maxwell Ramstead grills Guillaume Verdon (AKA “Beff Jezos”) who's the founder of Thermodynamic computing startup Extropic.Guillaume shares his unique pa…
The Fractured Entangled Representation Hypothesis (Kenneth Stanley, Akarsh Kumar)
Are the AI models you use today imposters?Please watch the intro video we did before this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1q6Hhz0MAgIn this episode, hosts Dr…
The Fractured Entangled Representation Hypothesis (Intro)
What if today's incredible AI is just a brilliant "impostor"? This episode features host Dr. Tim Scarfe in conversation with guests Prof. Kenneth…
Three Red Lines We're About to Cross Toward AGI (Daniel Kokotajlo, Gary Marcus, Dan Hendrycks)
What if the most powerful technology in human history is being built by people who openly admit they don't trust each other? In this explosive 2-hour debate…
How AI Learned to Talk and What It Means - Prof. Christopher Summerfield
We interview Professor Christopher Summerfield from Oxford University about his new book "These Strange New Minds: How AI Learned to Talk and What It"…
"Blurring Reality" - Chai's Social AI Platform (SPONSORED)
"Blurring Reality" - Chai's Social AI Platform - sponsoredThis episode of MLST explores the groundbreaking work of Chai, a social AI platform that…
Google AlphaEvolve - Discovering new science (exclusive interview)
Today GoogleDeepMind released AlphaEvolve: a Gemini coding agent for algorithm discovery. It beat the famous Strassen algorithm for matrix multiplication set 56…
Prof. Randall Balestriero - LLMs without pretraining and SSL
Randall Balestriero joins the show to discuss some counterintuitive findings in AI. He shares research showing that huge language models, even when started from…
How Machines Learn to Ignore the Noise (Kevin Ellis + Zenna Tavares)
Prof. Kevin Ellis and Dr. Zenna Tavares talk about making AI smarter, like humans. They want AI to learn from just a little bit of information by actively tryin…
Eiso Kant (CTO poolside) - Superhuman Coding Is Coming!
Eiso Kant, CTO of poolside AI, discusses the company's approach to building frontier AI foundation models, particularly focused on software development. The…