Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)
Episodes 271 total
Patrick Lewis (Cohere) - Retrieval Augmented Generation
Dr. Patrick Lewis, who coined the term RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) and now works at Cohere, discusses the evolution of language models, RAG systems, an…
Ashley Edwards - Genie Paper (DeepMind/Runway)
Ashley Edwards, who was working at DeepMind when she co-authored the Genie paper and is now at Runway, covered several key aspects of the Genie AI system and it…
Cohere's SVP Technology - Saurabh Baji
Saurabh Baji discusses Cohere's approach to developing and deploying large language models (LLMs) for enterprise use. * Cohere focuses on pragmatic, efficie…
David Hanson's Vision for Sentient Robots
David Hanson, CEO of Hanson Robotics and creator of the humanoid robot Sofia, explores the intersection of artificial intelligence, ethics, and human potential…
The Fabric of Knowledge - David Spivak
David Spivak, a mathematician known for his work in category theory, discusses a wide range of topics related to intelligence, creativity, and the nature of kno…
Jürgen Schmidhuber - Neural and Non-Neural AI, Reasoning, Transformers, and LSTMs
Jürgen Schmidhuber, the father of generative AI shares his groundbreaking work in deep learning and artificial intelligence. In this exclusive interview, he dis…
"AI should NOT be regulated at all!" - Prof. Pedro Domingos
Professor Pedro Domingos, is an AI researcher and professor of computer science. He expresses skepticism about current AI regulation efforts and argues for fast…
Adversarial Examples and Data Modelling - Andrew Ilyas (MIT)
Andrew Ilyas, a PhD student at MIT who is about to start as a professor at CMU. We discuss Data modeling and understanding how datasets influence model predicti…
Joscha Bach - AGI24 Keynote (Cyberanimism)
Dr. Joscha Bach introduces a surprising idea called "cyber animism" in his AGI-24 talk - the notion that nature might be full of self-organizing softw…
Gary Marcus' keynote at AGI-24
Prof Gary Marcus revisited his keynote from AGI-21, noting that many of the issues he highlighted then are still relevant today despite significant advances in…
Is ChatGPT an N-gram model on steroids?
DeepMind Research Scientist / MIT scholar Dr. Timothy Nguyen discusses his recent paper on understanding transformers through n-gram statistics. Nguyen explains…
Jay Alammar on LLMs, RAG, and AI Engineering
Jay Alammar, renowned AI educator and researcher at Cohere, discusses the latest developments in large language models (LLMs) and their applications in industry…
Can AI therapy be more effective than drugs?
Daniel Cahn, co-founder of Slingshot AI, on the potential of AI in therapy. Why is anxiety and depression affecting a large population? To what extent are these…
Prof. Subbarao Kambhampati - LLMs don't reason, they memorize (ICML2024 2/13)
Prof. Subbarao Kambhampati argues that while LLMs are impressive and useful tools, especially for creative tasks, they have fundamental limitations in logical r…
Sayash Kapoor - How seriously should we take AI X-risk? (ICML 1/13)
How seriously should governments take the threat of existential risk from AI, given the lack of consensus among researchers? On the one hand, existential risks…
Sara Hooker - Why US AI Act Compute Thresholds Are Misguided
Sara Hooker is VP of Research at Cohere and leader of Cohere for AI. We discuss her recent paper critiquing the use of compute thresholds, measured in FLOPs (fl…
Prof. Murray Shanahan - Machines Don't Think Like Us
Murray Shanahan is a professor of Cognitive Robotics at Imperial College London and a senior research scientist at DeepMind. He challenges our assumptions about…
David Chalmers - Reality+
In the coming decades, the technology that enables virtual and augmented reality will improve beyond recognition. Within a century, world-renowned philosopher D…
Ryan Greenblatt - Solving ARC with GPT4o
Ryan Greenblatt from Redwood Research recently published "Getting 50% on ARC-AGI with GPT-4.0," where he used GPT4o to reach a state-of-the-art accura…
Aiden Gomez - CEO of Cohere (AI's 'Inner Monologue' – Crucial for Reasoning)
Aidan Gomez, CEO of Cohere, reveals how they're tackling AI hallucinations and improving reasoning abilities. He also explains why Cohere doesn't use an…