Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)
Episodes 271 total
Jeff Clune - Agent AI Needs Darwin
AI professor Jeff Clune ruminates on open-ended evolutionary algorithms—systems designed to generate novel and interesting outcomes forever. Drawing inspiration…
Neel Nanda - Mechanistic Interpretability (Sparse Autoencoders)
Neel Nanda, a senior research scientist at Google DeepMind, leads their mechanistic interpretability team. In this extensive interview, he discusses his work tr…
Jonas Hübotter (ETH) - Test Time Inference
Jonas Hübotter, PhD student at ETH Zurich's Institute for Machine Learning, discusses his groundbreaking research on test-time computation and local learning. H…
How AI Could Be A Mathematician's Co-Pilot by 2026 (Prof. Swarat Chaudhuri)
Professor Swarat Chaudhuri from the University of Texas at Austin and visiting researcher at Google DeepMind discusses breakthroughs in AI reasoning, theorem pr…
Nora Belrose - AI Development, Safety, and Meaning
Nora Belrose, Head of Interpretability Research at EleutherAI, discusses critical challenges in AI safety and development. The conversation begins with her tech…
Why Your GPUs are underutilised for AI - CentML CEO Explains
Prof. Gennady Pekhimenko (CEO of CentML, UofT) joins us in this *sponsored episode* to dive deep into AI system optimization and enterprise implementation. From…
Eliezer Yudkowsky and Stephen Wolfram on AI X-risk
Eliezer Yudkowsky and Stephen Wolfram discuss artificial intelligence and its potential existen‑ tial risks. They traversed fundamental questions about AI safet…
Pattern Recognition vs True Intelligence - Francois Chollet
Francois Chollet, a prominent AI expert and creator of ARC-AGI, discusses intelligence, consciousness, and artificial intelligence. Chollet explains that real i…
The Elegant Math Behind Machine Learning - Anil Ananthaswamy
Anil Ananthaswamy is an award-winning science writer and former staff writer and deputy news editor for the London-based New Scientist magazine. Machine learnin…
Michael Levin - Why Intelligence Isn't Limited To Brains.
Professor Michael Levin explores the revolutionary concept of diverse intelligence, demonstrating how cognitive capabilities extend far beyond traditional brain…
Speechmatics CTO - Next-Generation Speech Recognition
Will Williams is CTO of Speechmatics in Cambridge. In this sponsored episode - he shares deep technical insights into modern speech recognition technology and s…
Dr. Sanjeev Namjoshi - Active Inference
Dr. Sanjeev Namjoshi, a machine learning engineer who recently submitted a book on Active Inference to MIT Press, discusses the theoretical foundations and prac…
Joscha Bach - Why Your Thoughts Aren't Yours.
Dr. Joscha Bach discusses advanced AI, consciousness, and cognitive modeling. He presents consciousness as a virtual property emerging from self-organizing soft…
Decompiling Dreams: A New Approach to ARC? - Alessandro Palmarini
Alessandro Palmarini is a post-baccalaureate researcher at the Santa Fe Institute working under the supervision of Melanie Mitchell. He completed his undergradu…
It's Not About Scale, It's About Abstraction - Francois Chollet
François Chollet discusses the limitations of Large Language Models (LLMs) and proposes a new approach to advancing artificial intelligence. He argues that curr…
Bold AI Predictions From Cohere Co-founder
Ivan Zhang, co-founder of Cohere, discusses the company's enterprise-focused AI solutions. He explains Cohere's early emphasis on embedding technology and train…
Open-Ended AI: The Key to Superhuman Intelligence? - Prof. Tim Rocktäschel
Prof. Tim Rocktäschel, AI researcher at UCL and Google DeepMind, talks about open-ended AI systems. These systems aim to keep learning and improving on their ow…
Ben Goertzel on "Superintelligence"
Ben Goertzel discusses AGI development, transhumanism, and the potential societal impacts of superintelligent AI. He predicts human-level AGI by 2029 and argues…
Taming Silicon Valley - Prof. Gary Marcus
AI expert Prof. Gary Marcus doesn't mince words about today's artificial intelligence. He argues that despite the buzz, chatbots like ChatGPT aren't…
Prof. Mark Solms - The Hidden Spring
Prof. Mark Solms, a neuroscientist and psychoanalyst, discusses his groundbreaking work on consciousness, challenging conventional cortex-centric views and emph…