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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#112 AVOIDING AGI APOCALYPSE - CONNOR LEAHY

Apr 2, 2023 · 2h 40m

Support us! https://www.patreon.com/mlst MLST Discord: https://discord.gg/aNPkGUQtc5 In this podcast with the legendary Connor Leahy (CEO Conjecture) recorded i…

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#111 - AI moratorium, Eliezer Yudkowsky, AGI risk etc

Apr 1, 2023 · 26m

Support us! https://www.patreon.com/mlst MLST Discord: https://discord.gg/aNPkGUQtc5 Send us a voice message which you want us to publish: https://podcasters.sp…

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#110 Dr. STEPHEN WOLFRAM - HUGE ChatGPT+Wolfram announcement!

Mar 23, 2023 · 57m

HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT, CHATGPT+WOLFRAM! You saw it HERE first! YT version: https://youtu.be/z5WZhCBRDpU Support us! https://www.patreon.com/mlst MLST Discord: https…

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#109 - Dr. DAN MCQUILLAN - Resisting AI

Mar 20, 2023 · 2h 51m

YT version: https://youtu.be/P1j3VoKBxbc (references in pinned comment) Support us! https://www.patreon.com/mlst MLST Discord: https://discord.gg/aNPkGUQtc5 Dan…

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#108 - Dr. JOEL LEHMAN - Machine Love [Staff Favourite]

Mar 16, 2023 · 2h 9m

Support us! https://www.patreon.com/mlst   MLST Discord: https://discord.gg/aNPkGUQtc5 We are honoured to welcome Dr. Joel Lehman, an eminent machine learn…

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#107 - Dr. RAPHAËL MILLIÈRE - Linguistics, Theory of Mind, Grounding

Mar 13, 2023 · 1h 43m

Support us! https://www.patreon.com/mlst MLST Discord: https://discord.gg/aNPkGUQtc5 Dr. Raphaël Millière is the 2020 Robert A. Burt Presidential Scholar in Soc…

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#106 - Prof. KARL FRISTON 3.0 - Collective Intelligence [Special Edition]

Mar 11, 2023 · 2h 59m

This show is sponsored by Numerai, please visit them here with our sponsor link (we would really appreciate it) http://numer.ai/mlst  Prof. Karl Friston re…

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#105 - Dr. MICHAEL OLIVER [CSO - Numerai]

Mar 4, 2023 · 1h 20m

Access Numerai here: http://numer.ai/mlst Michael Oliver is the Chief Scientist at Numerai, a hedge fund that crowdsources machine learning models from data sci…

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#104 - Prof. CHRIS SUMMERFIELD - Natural General Intelligence [SPECIAL EDITION]

Feb 22, 2023 · 1h 28m

Support us! https://www.patreon.com/mlst   MLST Discord: https://discord.gg/aNPkGUQtc5 Christopher Summerfield, Department of Experimental Psychology, Univ…

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#103 - Prof. Edward Grefenstette - Language, Semantics, Philosophy

Feb 11, 2023 · 1h 1m

Support us! https://www.patreon.com/mlst  MLST Discord: https://discord.gg/aNPkGUQtc5 YT: https://youtu.be/i9VPPmQn9HQ Edward Grefenstette is a Franco-Amer…

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#102 - Prof. MICHAEL LEVIN, Prof. IRINA RISH - Emergence, Intelligence, Transhumanism

Feb 11, 2023 · 55m

Support us! https://www.patreon.com/mlst MLST Discord: https://discord.gg/aNPkGUQtc5 YT: https://youtu.be/Vbi288CKgis Michael Levin is a Distinguished Professor…

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#100 Dr. PATRICK LEWIS (co:here) - Retrieval Augmented Generation

Feb 10, 2023 · 26m

Dr. Patrick Lewis is a London-based AI and Natural Language Processing Research Scientist, working at co:here. Prior to this, Patrick worked as a research scien…

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#99 - CARLA CREMER & IGOR KRAWCZUK - X-Risk, Governance, Effective Altruism

Feb 5, 2023 · 1h 39m

YT version (with references): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxaTinmKxs0 Support us! https://www.patreon.com/mlst MLST Discord: https://discord.gg/aNPkGUQtc5 C…

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[NO MUSIC] #98 - Prof. LUCIANO FLORIDI - ChatGPT, Singularitarians, Ethics, Philosophy of Information

Feb 3, 2023 · 1h 6m

Support us! https://www.patreon.com/mlst MLST Discord: https://discord.gg/aNPkGUQtc5 YT version: https://youtu.be/YLNGvvgq3eg We are living in an age of rapid t…

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#98 - Prof. LUCIANO FLORIDI - ChatGPT, Superintelligence, Ethics, Philosophy of Information

Feb 3, 2023 · 1h 6m

Support us! https://www.patreon.com/mlst MLST Discord: https://discord.gg/aNPkGUQtc5 YT version: https://youtu.be/YLNGvvgq3eg (If music annoying, skip to main i…

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#97 SREEJAN KUMAR - Human Inductive Biases in Machines from Language

Jan 28, 2023 · 24m

Research has shown that humans possess strong inductive biases which enable them to quickly learn and generalize. In order to instill these same useful human in…

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#96 Prof. PEDRO DOMINGOS - There are no infinities, utility functions, neurosymbolic

Dec 30, 2022 · 2h 49m

Pedro Domingos, Professor Emeritus of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington, is renowned for his research in machine learning, partic…

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#95 - Prof. IRINA RISH - AGI, Complex Systems, Transhumanism

Dec 26, 2022 · 39m

Canadian Excellence Research Chair in Autonomous AI. Irina holds an MSc and PhD in AI from the University of California, Irvine as well as an MSc in Applied Mat…

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#94 - ALAN CHAN - AI Alignment and Governance #NEURIPS

Dec 26, 2022 · 13m

Support us! https://www.patreon.com/mlst Alan Chan is a PhD student at Mila, the Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms, supervised by Nicolas Le Roux. Befo…

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#93 Prof. MURRAY SHANAHAN - Consciousness, Embodiment, Language Models

Dec 24, 2022 · 1h 20m

Support us! https://www.patreon.com/mlst Professor Murray Shanahan is a renowned researcher on sophisticated cognition and its implications for artificial intel…