Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)
Episodes
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 Principle in Mind, Brain and Behavior" which introd...
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 is the "behind the scenes footage" and b...
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 Cambridge. He is also Honorary Professor of Computer Sc...
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", discussing the how the science of Biology has a...
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 Algebraic Theory of Architectures". They aim t...
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 agents more general-purpose by training them to learn...
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 and language using a range of theoretical and exp...
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 a brand new type of social network, which he call...
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 to their nuts and bolts, so he can make them acce...
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 the e/acc movement debating technology, AI policy,...
Mahault Albarracin - Cognitive Science
14 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Watch behind the scenes, get early access and join the private Discord by supporting us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/mlst (public discord) https:/...
$450M AI Startup In 3 Years | Chai AI
09 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Chai AI is the leading platform for conversational chat artificial intelligence. Note: this is a sponsored episode of MLST. William Beauchamp is t...
DOES AI HAVE AGENCY? With Professor. Karl Friston and Riddhi J. Pitliya
07 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Watch behind the scenes, get early access and join the private Discord by supporting us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/mlst (public discord) https:/...
Understanding Deep Learning - Prof. SIMON PRINCE [STAFF FAVOURITE]
26 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Watch behind the scenes, get early access and join private Discord by supporting us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/mlst https://discord.gg/aNPkGUQtc5...
Prof. BERT DE VRIES - ON ACTIVE INFERENCE
20 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Watch behind the scenes with Bert on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/bert-de-vries-93230722 https://discord.gg/aNPkGUQtc5 https://twitter.com/M...
MULTI AGENT LEARNING - LANCELOT DA COSTA
05 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Please support us https://www.patreon.com/mlst https://discord.gg/aNPkGUQtc5 https://twitter.com/MLStreetTalk Lance Da Costa aims to advance our und...
THE HARD PROBLEM OF OBSERVERS - WOLFRAM & FRISTON [SPECIAL EDITION]
29 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Please support us! https://www.patreon.com/mlst https://discord.gg/aNPkGUQtc5 https://twitter.com/MLStreetTalk YT version (with intro not found here...
DR. JEFF BECK - THE BAYESIAN BRAIN
16 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Support us! https://www.patreon.com/mlst MLST Discord: https://discord.gg/aNPkGUQtc5 YT version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4praCiy9qU Dr. Jef...
Prof. Melanie Mitchell 2.0 - AI Benchmarks are Broken!
10 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mlst Discord: https://discord.gg/ESrGqhf5CB Prof. Melanie Mitchell argues that the concept of "understanding&qu...
Autopoitic Enactivism and the Free Energy Principle - Prof. Friston, Prof Buckley, Dr. Ramstead
05 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We explore connections between FEP and enactivism, including tensions raised in a paper critiquing FEP from an enactivist perspective. Dr. Maxwell Ra...
STEPHEN WOLFRAM 2.0 - Resolving the Mystery of the Second Law of Thermodynamics
15 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Please check out Numerai - our sponsor @ http://numer.ai/mlst Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mlst Discord: https://discord.gg/ESrGqhf5CB The Secon...
Prof. Jürgen Schmidhuber - FATHER OF AI ON ITS DANGERS
14 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Please check out Numerai - our sponsor @ http://numer.ai/mlst Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mlst Discord: https://discord.gg/ESrGqhf5CB Professor...
Can We Develop Truly Beneficial AI? George Hotz and Connor Leahy
04 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mlst Discord: https://discord.gg/ESrGqhf5CB George Hotz and Connor Leahy discuss the crucial challenge of developing...
Dr. MAXWELL RAMSTEAD - The Physics of Survival
16 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mlst Discord: https://discord.gg/ESrGqhf5CB Join us for a fascinating discussion of the free energy principle with D...
MUNK DEBATE ON AI (COMMENTARY) [DAVID FOSTER]
02 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mlst Discord: https://discord.gg/ESrGqhf5CB The discussion between Tim Scarfe and David Foster provided an in-depth ...
[SPONSORED] The Digitized Self: AI, Identity and the Human Psyche (YouAi)
29 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sponsored Episode - YouAi What if an AI truly knew you—your thoughts, values, aptitudes, and dreams? An AI that could enhance your life in profound...
Joscha Bach and Connor Leahy on AI risk
20 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Support us! https://www.patreon.com/mlst MLST Discord: https://discord.gg/aNPkGUQtc5 Twitter: https://twitter.com/MLStreetTalk The first 10 mins of ...
Neel Nanda - Mechanistic Interpretability
18 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this wide-ranging conversation, Tim Scarfe interviews Neel Nanda, a researcher at DeepMind working on mechanistic interpretability, which aims to u...
Prof. Daniel Dennett - Could AI Counterfeit People Destroy Civilization? (SPECIAL EDITION)
04 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Please check out Numerai - our sponsor using our link @ http://numer.ai/mlst Numerai is a groundbreaking platform which is taking the data science wo...
Decoding the Genome: Unraveling the Complexities with AI and Creativity [Prof. Jim Hughes, Oxford]
31 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Support us! https://www.patreon.com/mlst MLST Discord: https://discord.gg/aNPkGUQtc5 Twitter: https://twitter.com/MLStreetTalk In this eye-opening ...
ROBERT MILES - "There is a good chance this kills everyone"
21 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Please check out Numerai - our sponsor @ https://numerai.com/mlst Numerai is a groundbreaking platform which is taking the data science world by stor...
AI Senate Hearing - Executive Summary (Sam Altman, Gary Marcus)
16 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Support us! https://www.patreon.com/mlst MLST Discord: https://discord.gg/aNPkGUQtc5 Twitter: https://twitter.com/MLStreetTalk In a historic and can...
Future of Generative AI [David Foster]
11 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Generative Deep Learning, 2nd Edition [David Foster] https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/generative-deep-learning/9781098134174/ Support us! https:/...
PERPLEXITY AI - The future of search.
08 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
https://www.perplexity.ai/ https://www.perplexity.ai/iphone https://www.perplexity.ai/android Interview with Aravind Srinivas, CEO and Co-Founder of ...
#114 - Secrets of Deep Reinforcement Learning (Minqi Jiang)
16 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mlst Discord: https://discord.gg/ESrGqhf5CB Twitter: https://twitter.com/MLStreetTalk In this exclusive interview, D...
Unlocking the Brain's Mysteries: Chris Eliasmith on Spiking Neural Networks and the Future of Human-Machine Interaction
10 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mlst Discord: https://discord.gg/ESrGqhf5CB Twitter: https://twitter.com/MLStreetTalk Chris Eliasmith is a renowned ...
#112 AVOIDING AGI APOCALYPSE - CONNOR LEAHY
02 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Support us! https://www.patreon.com/mlst MLST Discord: https://discord.gg/aNPkGUQtc5 In this podcast with the legendary Connor Leahy (CEO Conjecture...
#111 - AI moratorium, Eliezer Yudkowsky, AGI risk etc
01 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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://po...
#110 Dr. STEPHEN WOLFRAM - HUGE ChatGPT+Wolfram announcement!
23 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT, CHATGPT+WOLFRAM! You saw it HERE first! YT version: https://youtu.be/z5WZhCBRDpU Support us! https://www.patreon.com/mlst MLST D...
#109 - Dr. DAN MCQUILLAN - Resisting AI
20 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
YT version: https://youtu.be/P1j3VoKBxbc (references in pinned comment) Support us! https://www.patreon.com/mlst MLST Discord: https://discord.gg/aNP...
#108 - Dr. JOEL LEHMAN - Machine Love [Staff Favourite]
16 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Support us! https://www.patreon.com/mlst MLST Discord: https://discord.gg/aNPkGUQtc5 We are honoured to welcome Dr. Joel Lehman, an eminent ma...
#107 - Dr. RAPHAËL MILLIÈRE - Linguistics, Theory of Mind, Grounding
13 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Support us! https://www.patreon.com/mlst MLST Discord: https://discord.gg/aNPkGUQtc5 Dr. Raphaël Millière is the 2020 Robert A. Burt Presidential Sc...
#106 - Prof. KARL FRISTON 3.0 - Collective Intelligence [Special Edition]
11 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
#105 - Dr. MICHAEL OLIVER [CSO - Numerai]
04 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Access Numerai here: http://numer.ai/mlst Michael Oliver is the Chief Scientist at Numerai, a hedge fund that crowdsources machine learning models fr...
#104 - Prof. CHRIS SUMMERFIELD - Natural General Intelligence [SPECIAL EDITION]
22 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Support us! https://www.patreon.com/mlst MLST Discord: https://discord.gg/aNPkGUQtc5 Christopher Summerfield, Department of Experimental Psych...
#103 - Prof. Edward Grefenstette - Language, Semantics, Philosophy
11 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Support us! https://www.patreon.com/mlst MLST Discord: https://discord.gg/aNPkGUQtc5 YT: https://youtu.be/i9VPPmQn9HQ Edward Grefenstette is a ...
#102 - Prof. MICHAEL LEVIN, Prof. IRINA RISH - Emergence, Intelligence, Transhumanism
11 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Support us! https://www.patreon.com/mlst MLST Discord: https://discord.gg/aNPkGUQtc5 YT: https://youtu.be/Vbi288CKgis Michael Levin is a Distinguishe...
#100 Dr. PATRICK LEWIS (co:here) - Retrieval Augmented Generation
10 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 rese...
#99 - CARLA CREMER & IGOR KRAWCZUK - X-Risk, Governance, Effective Altruism
05 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
YT version (with references): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxaTinmKxs0 Support us! https://www.patreon.com/mlst MLST Discord: https://discord.gg/aN...
[NO MUSIC] #98 - Prof. LUCIANO FLORIDI - ChatGPT, Singularitarians, Ethics, Philosophy of Information
03 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
#98 - Prof. LUCIANO FLORIDI - ChatGPT, Superintelligence, Ethics, Philosophy of Information
03 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Support us! https://www.patreon.com/mlst MLST Discord: https://discord.gg/aNPkGUQtc5 YT version: https://youtu.be/YLNGvvgq3eg (If music annoying, skip...
#97 SREEJAN KUMAR - Human Inductive Biases in Machines from Language
28 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Research has shown that humans possess strong inductive biases which enable them to quickly learn and generalize. In order to instill these same usefu...
#96 Prof. PEDRO DOMINGOS - There are no infinities, utility functions, neurosymbolic
30 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Pedro Domingos, Professor Emeritus of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington, is renowned for his research in machine learni...
#95 - Prof. IRINA RISH - AGI, Complex Systems, Transhumanism
26 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 A...
#94 - ALAN CHAN - AI Alignment and Governance #NEURIPS
26 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
#93 Prof. MURRAY SHANAHAN - Consciousness, Embodiment, Language Models
24 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Support us! https://www.patreon.com/mlst Professor Murray Shanahan is a renowned researcher on sophisticated cognition and its implications for artif...
#92 - SARA HOOKER - Fairness, Interpretability, Language Models
23 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Support us! https://www.patreon.com/mlst Sara Hooker is an exceptionally talented and accomplished leader and research scientist in the field of machi...
#91 - HATTIE ZHOU - Teaching Algorithmic Reasoning via In-context Learning #NeurIPS
20 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Support us! https://www.patreon.com/mlst Hattie Zhou, a PhD student at Université de Montréal and Mila, has set out to understand and explain the p...
(Music Removed) #90 - Prof. DAVID CHALMERS - Consciousness in LLMs [Special Edition]
19 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Support us! https://www.patreon.com/mlst (On the main version we released; the music was a tiny bit too loud in places, and some pieces had percussion...
#90 - Prof. DAVID CHALMERS - Consciousness in LLMs [Special Edition]
19 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Support us! https://www.patreon.com/mlst David Chalmers is a professor of philosophy and neural science at New York University, and an honorary profes...
#88 Dr. WALID SABA - Why machines will never rule the world [UNPLUGGED]
16 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Support us! https://www.patreon.com/mlst Dr. Walid Saba recently reviewed the book Machines Will Never Rule The World, which argues that strong AI is ...
#86 - Prof. YANN LECUN and Dr. RANDALL BALESTRIERO - SSL, Data Augmentation, Reward isn't enough [NEURIPS2022]
11 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Yann LeCun is a French computer scientist known for his pioneering work on convolutional neural networks, optical character recognition and computer v...
#85 Dr. Petar Veličković (Deepmind) - Categories, Graphs, Reasoning [NEURIPS22 UNPLUGGED]
08 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Petar Veličković is a Staff Research Scientist at DeepMind, he has firmly established himself as one of the most significant up and coming...
#84 LAURA RUIS - Large language models are not zero-shot communicators [NEURIPS UNPLUGGED]
06 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this NeurIPSs interview, we speak with Laura Ruis about her research on the ability of language models to interpret language in context. She has de...
#83 Dr. ANDREW LAMPINEN (Deepmind) - Natural Language, Symbols and Grounding [NEURIPS2022 UNPLUGGED]
04 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
First in our unplugged series live from #NeurIPS2022 We discuss natural language understanding, symbol meaning and grounding and Chomsky with Dr. Andr...
#82 - Dr. JOSCHA BACH - Digital Physics, DL and Consciousness [UNPLUGGED]
27 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
AI Helps Ukraine - Charity Conference A charity conference on AI to raise funds for medical and humanitarian aid for Ukraine https://aihelpsukraine.cc...
#81 JULIAN TOGELIUS, Prof. KEN STANLEY - AGI, Games, Diversity & Creativity [UNPLUGGED]
20 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Support us (and please rate on podcast app) https://www.patreon.com/mlst In this show tonight with Prof. Julian Togelius (NYU) and Prof. Ken St...
#80 AIDAN GOMEZ [CEO Cohere] - Language as Software
15 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We had a conversation with Aidan Gomez, the CEO of language-based AI platform Cohere. Cohere is a startup which uses artificial intelligence to help u...
#79 Consciousness and the Chinese Room [Special Edition] (CHOLLET, BISHOP, CHALMERS, BACH)
08 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This video is demonetised on music copyright so we would appreciate support on our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/mlst We would also appreciat...
MLST #78 - Prof. NOAM CHOMSKY (Special Edition)
08 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mlst Discord: https://discord.gg/ESrGqhf5CB In this special edition episode, we have a conversation with Prof. Noam C...
#77 - Vitaliy Chiley (Cerebras)
16 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Vitaliy Chiley is a Machine Learning Research Engineer at the next-generation computing hardware company Cerebras Systems. We spoke about how DL...
#76 - LUKAS BIEWALD (Weights and Biases CEO)
09 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Check out Weights and Biases here! https://wandb.me/MLST Lukas Biewald is an entrepreneur living in San Francisco. He was the founder and CEO of...
#75 - Emergence [Special Edition] with Dr. DANIELE GRATTAROLA
29 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
An emergent behavior or emergent property can appear when a number of simple entities operate in an environment, forming more complex behaviours ...
#74 Dr. ANDREW LAMPINEN - Symbolic behaviour in AI [UNPLUGGED]
14 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Please note that in this interview Dr. Lampinen was expressing his personal opinions and they do not necessarily represent those of DeepMind. P...
#73 - YASAMAN RAZEGHI & Prof. SAMEER SINGH - NLP benchmarks
07 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mlst Discord: https://discord.gg/ESrGqhf5CB YT version: https://youtu.be/RzGaI7vXrkk This week we speak with Yasaman ...
#72 Prof. KEN STANLEY 2.0 - On Art and Subjectivity [UNPLUGGED]
29 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
YT version: https://youtu.be/DxBZORM9F-8 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mlst Discord: https://discord.gg/ESrGqhf5CB Prof. Ken Stanley argued ...
#71 - ZAK JOST (Graph Neural Networks + Geometric DL) [UNPLUGGED]
25 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Special discount link for Zak's GNN course - https://bit.ly/3uqmYVq Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mlst Discord: https://discord.gg/ESrGqhf5CB YT ve...
#70 - LETITIA PARCALABESCU - Symbolics, Linguistics [UNPLUGGED]
19 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today we are having a discussion with Letitia Parcalabescu from the AI Coffee Break youtube channel! We discuss linguistics, symbolic AI and our respe...
#69 DR. THOMAS LUX - Interpolation of Sparse High-Dimensional Data
12 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today we are speaking with Dr. Thomas Lux, a research scientist at Meta in Silicon Valley. In some sense, all of supervised machine learning ca...
#68 DR. WALID SABA 2.0 - Natural Language Understanding [UNPLUGGED]
07 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mlst Discord: https://discord.gg/HNnAwSduud YT version: https://youtu.be/pMtk-iUaEuQ Dr. Walid Saba is an old-school...
#67 Prof. KARL FRISTON 2.0
02 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We engage in a bit of epistemic foraging with Prof. Karl Friston! In this show; we discuss the free energy principle in detail, also emergence, cognit...
#66 ALEXANDER MATTICK - [Unplugged / Community Edition]
28 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We have a chat with Alexander Mattick aka ZickZack from Yannic's Discord community. Alex is one of the leading voices in that community and has an imp...
#65 Prof. PEDRO DOMINGOS [Unplugged]
26 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Note: there are no politics discussed in this show and please do not interpret this show as any kind of a political statement from us. We have d...
#64 Prof. Gary Marcus 3.0
24 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mlst Discord: https://discord.gg/HNnAwSduud YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDY2nhkPZxw We have a chat with Prof....
#063 - Prof. YOSHUA BENGIO - GFlowNets, Consciousness & Causality
22 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We are now sponsored by Weights and Biases! Please visit our sponsor link: http://wandb.me/MLST Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mlst For Yoshua Bengi...
#062 - Dr. Guy Emerson - Linguistics, Distributional Semantics
03 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Guy Emerson is a computational linguist and obtained his Ph.D from Cambridge university where he is now a research fellow and lecturer. On panel w...
061: Interpolation, Extrapolation and Linearisation (Prof. Yann LeCun, Dr. Randall Balestriero)
04 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We are now sponsored by Weights and Biases! Please visit our sponsor link: http://wandb.me/MLST Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mlst Yann LeCun think...
#60 Geometric Deep Learning Blueprint (Special Edition)
19 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mlst The last decade has witnessed an experimental revolution in data science and machine learning, epitomised by dee...
#59 - Jeff Hawkins (Thousand Brains Theory)
03 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mlst The ultimate goal of neuroscience is to learn how the human brain gives rise to human intelligence and what it m...
#58 Dr. Ben Goertzel - Artificial General Intelligence
11 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The field of Artificial Intelligence was founded in the mid 1950s with the aim of constructing “thinking machines” - that is to say, computer syst...
#57 - Prof. Melanie Mitchell - Why AI is harder than we think
25 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Since its beginning in the 1950s, the field of artificial intelligence has vacillated between periods of optimistic predictions and massive investment...
#56 - Dr. Walid Saba, Gadi Singer, Prof. J. Mark Bishop (Panel discussion)
08 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It has been over three decades since the statistical revolution overtook AI by a storm and over two decades since deep learning (DL) helped ushe...
#55 Self-Supervised Vision Models (Dr. Ishan Misra - FAIR).
21 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Ishan Misra is a Research Scientist at Facebook AI Research where he works on Computer Vision and Machine Learning. His main research interest is ...
#54 Gary Marcus and Luis Lamb - Neurosymbolic models
04 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Gary Marcus is a scientist, best-selling author, and entrepreneur. He is Founder and CEO of Robust.AI, and was Founder and CEO of Geome...
#53 Quantum Natural Language Processing - Prof. Bob Coecke (Oxford)
19 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Bob Coercke is a celebrated physicist, he's been a Physics and Quantum professor at Oxford University for the last 20 years. He is particularly intere...
#52 - Unadversarial Examples (Hadi Salman, MIT)
01 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Performing reliably on unseen or shifting data distributions is a difficult challenge for modern vision systems, even slight corruptions or transforma...
#51 Francois Chollet - Intelligence and Generalisation
16 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In today's show we are joined by Francois Chollet, I have been inspired by Francois ever since I read his Deep Learning with Python book and started u...
#50 Christian Szegedy - Formal Reasoning, Program Synthesis
04 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Christian Szegedy from Google Research is a deep learning heavyweight. He invented adversarial examples, one of the first object detection algorit...
#49 - Meta-Gradients in RL - Dr. Tom Zahavy (DeepMind)
23 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The race is on, we are on a collective mission to understand and create artificial general intelligence. Dr. Tom Zahavy, a Research Scientist at DeepM...
#48 Machine Learning Security - Andy Smith
16 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
First episode in a series we are doing on ML DevOps. Starting with the thing which nobody seems to be talking about enough, security! We chat with cyb...