Pedro Domingos: Tensor Logic Unifies AI Paradigms
08 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Pedro Domingos, author of the bestselling book "The Master Algorithm," introduces his late...
"I Invented the Transformer. Now I'm Replacing It." & Continuous Thought Machines - Llion Jones and Luke Darlow [Sakana AI]
23 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Transformer architecture (which powers ChatGPT and nearly all modern AI) might be trapping the i...
Why Humans Are Still Powering AI [Sponsored]
03 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ever wonder where AI models actually get their "intelligence"? We reveal the dirty secret ...
The Universal Hierarchy of Life - Prof. Chris Kempes [SFI]
25 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"What is life?" - asks Chris Kempes, a professor at the Santa Fe Institute.Chris explains ...
Google Researcher Shows Life "Emerges From Code" - Blaise Agüera y Arcas
21 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Blaise Agüera y Arcas explores some mind-bending ideas about what intelligence and life really are—...
The Secret Engine of AI - Prolific [Sponsored] (Sara Saab, Enzo Blindow)
18 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We sat down with Sara Saab (VP of Product at Prolific) and Enzo Blindow (VP of Data and AI at Prolif...
AI Agents Can Code 10,000 Lines of Hacking Tools In Seconds - Dr. Ilia Shumailov (ex-GDM)
04 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Ilia Shumailov - Former DeepMind AI Security Researcher, now building security tools for AI agen...
New top score on ARC-AGI-2-pub (29.4%) - Jeremy Berman
27 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We need AI systems to synthesise new knowledge, not just compress the data they see. Jeremy Berman, ...
Deep Learning is Not So Mysterious or Different - Prof. Andrew Gordon Wilson (NYU)
19 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Andrew Wilson from NYU explains why many common-sense ideas in artificial intelligence mig...
Karl Friston - Why Intelligence Can't Get Too Large (Goldilocks principle)
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, hosts Tim and Keith finally realize their long-held dream of sitting down with thei...
The Day AI Solves My Puzzles Is The Day I Worry (Prof. Cristopher Moore)
04 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We are joined by Cristopher Moore, a professor at the Santa Fe Institute with a diverse background i...
Michael Timothy Bennett: Defining Intelligence and AGI Approaches
28 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Michael Timothy Bennett is a computer scientist who's deeply interested in understanding art...
Superintelligence Strategy (Dan Hendrycks)
14 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Deep dive with Dan Hendrycks, a leading AI safety researcher and co-author of the "Superintelli...
DeepMind Genie 3 [World Exclusive] (Jack Parker Holder, Shlomi Fruchter)
05 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features Shlomi Fuchter and Jack Parker Holder from Google DeepMind, who are unveiling ...
Large Language Models and Emergence: A Complex Systems Perspective (Prof. David C. Krakauer)
31 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Prof. David Krakauer, President of the Santa Fe Institute argues that we are fundamentally confusing...
Pushing compute to the limits of physics
21 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Maxwell Ramstead grills Guillaume Verdon (AKA “Beff Jezos”) who's the founder of Thermod...
The Fractured Entangled Representation Hypothesis (Kenneth Stanley, Akarsh Kumar)
06 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are the AI models you use today imposters?Please watch the intro video we did before this: https://w...
The Fractured Entangled Representation Hypothesis (Intro)
05 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What if today's incredible AI is just a brilliant "impostor"? This episode features ho...
Three Red Lines We're About to Cross Toward AGI (Daniel Kokotajlo, Gary Marcus, Dan Hendrycks)
24 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What if the most powerful technology in human history is being built by people who openly admit they...
How AI Learned to Talk and What It Means - Prof. Christopher Summerfield
17 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We interview Professor Christopher Summerfield from Oxford University about his new book "These...
"Blurring Reality" - Chai's Social AI Platform (SPONSORED)
26 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"Blurring Reality" - Chai's Social AI Platform - sponsoredThis episode of MLST explore...
Google AlphaEvolve - Discovering new science (exclusive interview)
14 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today GoogleDeepMind released AlphaEvolve: a Gemini coding agent for algorithm discovery. It beat th...
Prof. Randall Balestriero - LLMs without pretraining and SSL
23 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Randall Balestriero joins the show to discuss some counterintuitive findings in AI. He shares resear...
How Machines Learn to Ignore the Noise (Kevin Ellis + Zenna Tavares)
08 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Prof. Kevin Ellis and Dr. Zenna Tavares talk about making AI smarter, like humans. They want AI to l...
Eiso Kant (CTO poolside) - Superhuman Coding Is Coming!
02 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Eiso Kant, CTO of poolside AI, discusses the company's approach to building frontier AI foundati...
The Compendium - Connor Leahy and Gabriel Alfour
30 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Connor Leahy and Gabriel Alfour, AI researchers from Conjecture and authors of "The Compendium,...
ARC Prize v2 Launch! (Francois Chollet and Mike Knoop)
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We are joined by Francois Chollet and Mike Knoop, to launch the new version of the ARC prize! In ve...
Test-Time Adaptation: the key to reasoning with DL (Mohamed Osman)
22 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mohamed Osman joins to discuss MindsAI's highest scoring entry to the ARC challenge 2024 and the...
GSMSymbolic paper - Iman Mirzadeh (Apple)
19 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Iman Mirzadeh from Apple, who recently published the GSM-Symbolic paper discusses the crucial distin...
Reasoning, Robustness, and Human Feedback in AI - Max Bartolo (Cohere)
18 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Max Bartolo from Cohere discusses machine learning model development, evaluation, and robustness...
Tau Language: The Software Synthesis Future (sponsored)
12 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This sponsored episode features mathematician Ohad Asor discussing logical approaches to AI, focusin...
John Palazza - Vice President of Global Sales @ CentML ( sponsored)
10 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
John Palazza from CentML joins us in this sponsored interview to discuss the critical importance of ...
Transformers Need Glasses! - Federico Barbero
08 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Federico Barbero (DeepMind/Oxford) is the lead author of "Transformers Need Glasses!". Hav...
Sakana AI - Chris Lu, Robert Tjarko Lange, Cong Lu
01 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We speak with Sakana AI, who are building nature-inspired methods that could fundamentally transform...
Clement Bonnet - Can Latent Program Networks Solve Abstract Reasoning?
19 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Clement Bonnet discusses his novel approach to the ARC (Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus) challenge....
Prof. Jakob Foerster - ImageNet Moment for Reinforcement Learning?
18 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Prof. Jakob Foerster, a leading AI researcher at Oxford University and Meta, and Chris Lu, a researc...
Daniel Franzen & Jan Disselhoff - ARC Prize 2024 winners
12 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Daniel Franzen and Jan Disselhoff, the "ARChitects" are the official winners of the ARC Pr...
Sepp Hochreiter - LSTM: The Comeback Story?
12 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sepp Hochreiter, the inventor of LSTM (Long Short-Term Memory) networks – a foundational technolog...
Want to Understand Neural Networks? Think Elastic Origami! - Prof. Randall Balestriero
08 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Randall Balestriero joins us to discuss neural network geometry, spline theory, and emergi...
Nicholas Carlini (Google DeepMind)
25 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nicholas Carlini from Google DeepMind offers his view of AI security, emergent LLM capabilities, and...
Subbarao Kambhampati - Do o1 models search?
23 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join Prof. Subbarao Kambhampati and host Tim Scarfe for a deep dive into OpenAI's O1 model and t...
How Do AI Models Actually Think? - Laura Ruis
20 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Laura Ruis, a PhD student at University College London and researcher at Cohere, explains her ground...
Jurgen Schmidhuber on Humans co-existing with AIs
16 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jürgen Schmidhuber, the father of generative AI, challenges current AI narratives, revealing that e...
Yoshua Bengio - Designing out Agency for Safe AI
15 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Yoshua Bengio is a pioneer in deep learning and Turing Award winner. Bengio talks about AI...
Francois Chollet - ARC reflections - NeurIPS 2024
09 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
François Chollet discusses the outcomes of the ARC-AGI (Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus) Prize com...
Jeff Clune - Agent AI Needs Darwin
04 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
AI professor Jeff Clune ruminates on open-ended evolutionary algorithms—systems designed to genera...
Neel Nanda - Mechanistic Interpretability (Sparse Autoencoders)
07 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Neel Nanda, a senior research scientist at Google DeepMind, leads their mechanistic interpretability...
Jonas Hübotter (ETH) - Test Time Inference
01 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jonas Hübotter, PhD student at ETH Zurich's Institute for Machine Learning, discusses his groundbre...
How AI Could Be A Mathematician's Co-Pilot by 2026 (Prof. Swarat Chaudhuri)
25 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Swarat Chaudhuri from the University of Texas at Austin and visiting researcher at Google ...
Nora Belrose - AI Development, Safety, and Meaning
17 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Nora Belrose, Head of Interpretability Research at EleutherAI, discusses critical challenges in AI s...
Why Your GPUs are underutilised for AI - CentML CEO Explains
13 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Prof. Gennady Pekhimenko (CEO of CentML, UofT) joins us in this *sponsored episode* to dive deep int...
Eliezer Yudkowsky and Stephen Wolfram on AI X-risk
11 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Eliezer Yudkowsky and Stephen Wolfram discuss artificial intelligence and its potential existen‑ t...
Pattern Recognition vs True Intelligence - Francois Chollet
06 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Francois Chollet, a prominent AI expert and creator of ARC-AGI, discusses intelligence, consciousnes...
The Elegant Math Behind Machine Learning - Anil Ananthaswamy
04 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Anil Ananthaswamy is an award-winning science writer and former staff writer and deputy news editor ...
Michael Levin - Why Intelligence Isn't Limited To Brains.
24 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Michael Levin explores the revolutionary concept of diverse intelligence, demonstrating ho...
Speechmatics CTO - Next-Generation Speech Recognition
23 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Will Williams is CTO of Speechmatics in Cambridge. In this sponsored episode - he shares deep techni...
Dr. Sanjeev Namjoshi - Active Inference
22 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Sanjeev Namjoshi, a machine learning engineer who recently submitted a book on Active Inference ...
Joscha Bach - Why Your Thoughts Aren't Yours.
20 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Joscha Bach discusses advanced AI, consciousness, and cognitive modeling. He presents consciousn...
Decompiling Dreams: A New Approach to ARC? - Alessandro Palmarini
19 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Alessandro Palmarini is a post-baccalaureate researcher at the Santa Fe Institute working under the ...
It's Not About Scale, It's About Abstraction - Francois Chollet
12 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
François Chollet discusses the limitations of Large Language Models (LLMs) and proposes a new appro...
Bold AI Predictions From Cohere Co-founder
10 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ivan Zhang, co-founder of Cohere, discusses the company's enterprise-focused AI solutions. He explai...
Open-Ended AI: The Key to Superhuman Intelligence? - Prof. Tim Rocktäschel
04 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Prof. Tim Rocktäschel, AI researcher at UCL and Google DeepMind, talks about open-ended AI systems....
Ben Goertzel on "Superintelligence"
01 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ben Goertzel discusses AGI development, transhumanism, and the potential societal impacts of superin...
Taming Silicon Valley - Prof. Gary Marcus
24 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
AI expert Prof. Gary Marcus doesn't mince words about today's artificial intelligence. He ar...
Prof. Mark Solms - The Hidden Spring
18 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Prof. Mark Solms, a neuroscientist and psychoanalyst, discusses his groundbreaking work on conscious...
Patrick Lewis (Cohere) - Retrieval Augmented Generation
16 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Patrick Lewis, who coined the term RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) and now works at Cohere,...
Ashley Edwards - Genie Paper (DeepMind/Runway)
13 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ashley Edwards, who was working at DeepMind when she co-authored the Genie paper and is now at Runwa...
Cohere's SVP Technology - Saurabh Baji
12 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Saurabh Baji discusses Cohere's approach to developing and deploying large language models (LLMs...
David Hanson's Vision for Sentient Robots
10 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
David Hanson, CEO of Hanson Robotics and creator of the humanoid robot Sofia, explores the intersect...
The Fabric of Knowledge - David Spivak
05 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
David Spivak, a mathematician known for his work in category theory, discusses a wide range of topic...
Jürgen Schmidhuber - Neural and Non-Neural AI, Reasoning, Transformers, and LSTMs
28 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jürgen Schmidhuber, the father of generative AI shares his groundbreaking work in deep learning and...
"AI should NOT be regulated at all!" - Prof. Pedro Domingos
25 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Pedro Domingos, is an AI researcher and professor of computer science. He expresses skepti...
Adversarial Examples and Data Modelling - Andrew Ilyas (MIT)
22 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew Ilyas, a PhD student at MIT who is about to start as a professor at CMU. We discuss Data mode...
Joscha Bach - AGI24 Keynote (Cyberanimism)
21 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Joscha Bach introduces a surprising idea called "cyber animism" in his AGI-24 talk - t...
Gary Marcus' keynote at AGI-24
17 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Prof Gary Marcus revisited his keynote from AGI-21, noting that many of the issues he highlighted th...
Is ChatGPT an N-gram model on steroids?
15 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
DeepMind Research Scientist / MIT scholar Dr. Timothy Nguyen discusses his recent paper on understan...
Jay Alammar on LLMs, RAG, and AI Engineering
11 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jay Alammar, renowned AI educator and researcher at Cohere, discusses the latest developments in lar...
Can AI therapy be more effective than drugs?
08 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Daniel Cahn, co-founder of Slingshot AI, on the potential of AI in therapy. Why is anxiety and depre...
Prof. Subbarao Kambhampati - LLMs don't reason, they memorize (ICML2024 2/13)
29 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Prof. Subbarao Kambhampati argues that while LLMs are impressive and useful tools, especially for cr...
Sayash Kapoor - How seriously should we take AI X-risk? (ICML 1/13)
28 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How seriously should governments take the threat of existential risk from AI, given the lack of cons...
Sara Hooker - Why US AI Act Compute Thresholds Are Misguided
18 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sara Hooker is VP of Research at Cohere and leader of Cohere for AI. We discuss her recent paper cri...
Prof. Murray Shanahan - Machines Don't Think Like Us
14 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Murray Shanahan is a professor of Cognitive Robotics at Imperial College London and a senior researc...
David Chalmers - Reality+
08 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the coming decades, the technology that enables virtual and augmented reality will improve beyond...
Ryan Greenblatt - Solving ARC with GPT4o
06 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ryan Greenblatt from Redwood Research recently published "Getting 50% on ARC-AGI with GPT-4.0,&...
Aiden Gomez - CEO of Cohere (AI's 'Inner Monologue' – Crucial for Reasoning)
29 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Aidan Gomez, CEO of Cohere, reveals how they're tackling AI hallucinations and improving reasoni...
New "50%" ARC result and current winners interviewed
18 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The ARC Challenge, created by Francois Chollet, tests how well AI systems can generalize from a few ...
Cohere co-founder Nick Frosst on building LLM apps for business
16 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Frosst, co-founder of Cohere, on the future of LLMs, and AGI. Learn how Cohere is solving real ...
What’s the Magic Word? A Control Theory of LLM Prompting.
05 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
These two scientists have mapped out the insides or “reachable space” of a language model using ...
CAN MACHINES REPLACE US? (AI vs Humanity) - Maria Santacaterina
06 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Maria Santacaterina, with her background in the humanities, brings a critical perspective on the cur...
Dr. Thomas Parr - Active Inference Book
01 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Thomas Parr and his collaborators wrote a book titled "Active Inference: The Free Energy Princi...
Connor Leahy - e/acc, AGI and the future.
21 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Connor is the CEO of Conjecture and one of the most famous names in the AI alignment movement. This ...
Prof. Chris Bishop's NEW Deep Learning Textbook!
10 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Chris Bishop is a Technical Fellow and Director at Microsoft Research AI4Science, in Cambr...
Philip Ball - How Life Works
07 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Philip Ball is a freelance science writer. He just wrote a book called "How Life Works"...
Dr. Paul Lessard - Categorical/Structured Deep Learning
01 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Paul Lessard and his collaborators have written a paper on "Categorical Deep Learning and A...
Can we build a generalist agent? Dr. Minqi Jiang and Dr. Marc Rigter
20 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Minqi Jiang and Dr. Marc Rigter explain an innovative new method to make the intelligence of age...
Prof. Nick Chater - The Language Game (Part 1)
01 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Chater is Professor of Behavioural Science at Warwick Business School, who works on rationality...
Kenneth Stanley created a new social network based on serendipity and divergence
28 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
See what Sam Altman advised Kenneth when he left OpenAI! Professor Kenneth Stanley has just launched...
Dr. Brandon Rohrer - Robotics, Creativity and Intelligence
13 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Brandon Rohrer who obtained his Ph.D from MIT is driven by understanding algorithms ALL the way down...
Showdown Between e/acc Leader And Doomer - Connor Leahy + Beff Jezos
03 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The world's second-most famous AI doomer Connor Leahy sits down with Beff Jezos, the founder of ...
Mahault Albarracin - Cognitive Science
14 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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