The Gradient: Perspectives on AI
Episodes
Nathan Benaich: The State of AI Report
10 Nov 2022
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Matt Sheehan: China's AI Strategy and Governance
03 Nov 2022
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Luis Voloch: AI and Biology
27 Oct 2022
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Zachary Lipton: Where Machine Learning Falls Short
13 Oct 2022
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Stuart Russell: The Foundations of Artificial Intelligence
06 Oct 2022
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Have suggestions for future podcast guests (or other feedback)? Let us know here!In episode 44 of The Gradient Podcast, Daniel Bashir speaks to Profes...
Varun Ganapathi: AKASA, AI and Healthcare
29 Sep 2022
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Have suggestions for future podcast guests (or other feedback)? Let us know here!In episode 43 of The Gradient Podcast, Daniel Bashir speaks to Varun ...
Joel Lehman: Open-Endedness and Evolution through Large Models
22 Sep 2022
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Have suggestions for future podcast guests (or other feedback)? Let us know here!In episode 42 of The Gradient Podcast, Daniel Bashir speaks to Joel L...
Andrew Feldman: Cerebras and AI Hardware
15 Sep 2022
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Have suggestions for future podcast guests (or other feedback)? Let us know here!In episode 42 of The Gradient Podcast, Daniel Bashir speaks to Andrew...
Christopher Manning: Linguistics and the Development of NLP
08 Sep 2022
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Have suggestions for future podcast guests (or other feedback)? Let us know here!In episode 41 of The Gradient Podcast, Daniel Bashir speaks to Christ...
Jeff Clune: Genetic Algorithms, Quality-Diversity, Curiosity
01 Sep 2022
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In episode 41 of The Gradient Podcast, Andrey Kurenkov speaks to Professor Jeff Clune.Jeff is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the Univer...
Catherine Olsson and Nelson Elhage: Anthropic, Understanding Transformers
26 Aug 2022
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In episode 40 of The Gradient Podcast, Andrey Kurenkov speaks to Catherine Olsson and Nelson Elhage.Catherine and Nelson are both members of technical...
Been Kim: Interpretable Machine Learning
18 Aug 2022
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In episode 38 of The Gradient Podcast, Daniel Bashir speaks to Been Kim.Been is a staff research scientist at Google Brain focused on interpretability...
Laura Weidinger: Ethical Risks, Harms, and Alignment of Large Language Models
05 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In episode 37 of The Gradient Podcast, Andrey Kurenkov speaks to Laura WeidingerLaura is a senior research scientist at DeepMind, with her focus being...
Sebastian Raschka: AI Education and Research
29 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In episode 36 of The Gradient Podcast, Daniel Bashir speaks to Sebastian Raschka.Sebastian is an Assistant Professor of Statistics at the University o...
Lt. General Jack Shanahan: AI in the DoD, Project Maven, and Bridging the Tech-DoD Gap
22 Jul 2022
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In episode 35 of The Gradient Podcast, guest host Sharon Zhou speaks to Jack Shanahan.John (Jack) Shanahan was a Lieutenant General in the United Stat...
Sara Hooker: Cohere For AI, the Hardware Lottery, and DL Tradeoffs
14 Jul 2022
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In episode 34 of The Gradient Podcast, Daniel Bashir speaks to Sara Hooker.Sara (@sarahookr) leads Cohere for AI and is a former Research Scientist at...
Lukas Biewald: Crowdsourcing at CrowdFlower and ML Tooling at Weights & Biases
07 Jul 2022
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In episode 33 of The Gradient Podcast, Andrey Kurenkov speaks to Lukas Biewald.Lukas Biewald is a co-founder of Weights and Biases, a company that cre...
Chip Huyen: Machine Learning Tools and Systems
30 Jun 2022
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In episode 32 of The Gradient Podcast, Andrey Kurenkov speaks to Chip Huyen.Chip Huyen is a co-founder of Claypot AI, a platform for real-time machine...
Preetum Nakkiran: An Empirical Theory of Deep Learning
24 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In episode 31 of The Gradient Podcast, Daniel Bashir speaks to Preetum Nakkiran.Preetum is a Research Scientist at Apple, a Visiting Researcher at UCS...
Max Woolf: Data Science at BuzzFeed and AI Content Generation
16 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In episode 30 of The Gradient Podcast, Daniel Bashir speaks to Max Woolf.Max Woolf (@minimaxir) is currently a Data Scientist at BuzzFeed in San Franc...
Rosanne Liu: Paths in AI Research and ML Collective
10 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In episode 29 of The Gradient Podcast, we chat with Rosanne Liu. Rosanne is a research scientist in Google Brain, and co-founder and executive directo...
Ben Green: "Tech for Social Good" Needs to Do More
02 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In episode 28 of The Gradient Podcast, Daniel Bashir speaks to Ben Green, postdoctoral scholar in the Michigan Society of Fellows and Assistant Profes...
Max Braun: Teaching Robots to Help People in their Everyday Lives
26 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In episode 27 of The Gradient Podcast, Andrey Kurenkov speaks to Max Braun, who leads the AI and robotics software engineering team at Everyday Robots...
Yejin Choi: Teaching Machines Common Sense and Morality
19 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In episode 26 of The Gradient Podcast, Daniel Bashir speaks to Yejin Choi, professor of Computer Science at the University of Washington, and senior r...
David Chalmers on AI and Consciousness
12 May 2022
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In episode 25 of The Gradient Podcast, Daniel Bashir speaks to David Chalmers, professor of philosophy and Philosophy and Neural Science at New York U...
Greg Yang on Communicating Research, Tensor Programs, and µTransfer
28 Apr 2022
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In episode 24 of The Gradient Podcast, Daniel Bashir talks to Greg Yang, senior researcher at Microsoft Research. Greg Yang’s Tensor Programs framew...
Nick Walton on AI Dungeon and the Future of AI in Games
24 Mar 2022
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In the 23rd interview of The Gradient Podcast, we talk to Nick Walton, the CEO and Co-Founder of Latitude, the goal of which is to make AI a tool of f...
Connor Leahy on EleutherAI, Replicating GPT-2/GPT-3, AI Risk and Alignment
03 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In episode 22 of The Gradient Podcast, we talk to Connor Leahy, an AI researcher focused on AI alignment and a co-founder of EleutherAI.Subscribe to T...
Percy Liang on Machine Learning Robustness, Foundation Models, and Reproducibility
27 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In interview 21 of The Gradient Podcast, we talk to Percy Liang, an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University and the director of...
Eric Jang on Robots Learning at Google and Generalization via Language
08 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In episode 20 of The Gradient Podcast, we talk to Eric Jang, a research scientist on the Robotics team at Google.Eric is a research scientist on the R...
Rishi Bommasani on Foundation Models
09 Dec 2021
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In episode 19 of The Gradient Podcast, we talk to Rishi Bommasani, a Ph.D student at Stanford focused on Foundation Models. Rish is a second-year Ph.D...
Upol Ehsan on Human-Centered Explainable AI and Social Transparency
03 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In episode 18 of The Gradient Podcast, we talked to Upol Ehsan, an Explainable AI (XAI) researcher who combines his background in Philosophy and Human...
Miles Brundage on AI Misuse and Trustworthy AI
23 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In episode 17 of The Gradient Podcast, we talk to Miles Brundage, Head of Policy Research at OpenAI and a researcher passionate about the responsible ...
Jeffrey Ding on China's AI Dream, the AI 'Arms Race', and AI as a General Purpose Technology
18 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In episode 16 of The Gradient Podcast, we talk to Jeffrey Ding, a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation(...
Alex Tamkin on Self-Supervised Learning and Large Language Models
11 Nov 2021
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In episode 15 of The Gradient Podcast, we talk to Stanford PhD Candidate Alex TamkinSubscribe to The Gradient Podcast: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Pock...
Peter Henderson on RL Benchmarking, Climate Impacts of AI, and AI for Law
28 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In episode 14 of The Gradient Podcast, we interview Stanford PhD Candidate Peter HendersonSubscribe to The Gradient Podcast: Apple Podcasts | Spotify ...
Chelsea Finn on Meta Learning & Model Based Reinforcement Learning
14 Oct 2021
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In episode 13 of The Gradient Podcast, we interview Stanford Professor Chelsea FinnSubscribe to The Gradient Podcast: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Pocke...
Devi Parikh on Generative Art & AI for Creativity
01 Oct 2021
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In episode 12 of The Gradient Podcast, we interview Devi Parikh, a professor at Georgia Tech whose research focuses on computer vision, natural langua...
Sergey Levine on Robot Learning & Offline RL
16 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In episode 11 of The Gradient Podcast, we interview Sergey Levine, a professor at Berkeley whose research focuses on machine learning for decision mak...
Jeremy Howard on Kaggle, Enlitic, and fast.ai
09 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In episode 10 of The Gradient Podcast, we interview data scientist, researcher, developer, educator, and entrepreneur Jeremy Howard.Subscribe to The G...
Evan Hubinger on Effective Altruism and AI Safety
03 Sep 2021
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In episode 9 of The Gradient Podcast, we interview Yannic Kilcher, an AI researcher and educator.Subscribe to The Gradient Podcast: Apple Podcasts |...
Yannic Kilcher on Being an AI Researcher and Educator
27 Aug 2021
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In episode 8 of The Gradient Podcast, we interview Yannic Kilcher, an AI researcher and educator.Subscribe to The Gradient Podcast: Apple Podcasts |...
Alexander Veysov on Self-Teaching AI and Creating Open Speech-To-Text
19 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In episode 7 of The Gradient Podcast, we interview founder and owner of Silero Alexander Veysov. You can find a transcript of our conversation here, a...
Yann LeCun on his Start in Research and Self-Supervised Learning
05 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In episode 6 of The Gradient Podcast, we interview Deep Learning pioneer Yann LeCun.Subscribe to The Gradient Podcast: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Po...
Anna Rogers on the Flaws of Peer Review in AI
30 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In episode 5 of The Gradient Podcast, we interview NLP researcher Anna Rogers.Subscribe to The Gradient Podcast: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Pocket C...
Joel Simon on AI art and Artbreeder
20 Jul 2021
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In episode 4 of The Gradient Podcast, we interview artist, engineer, and entrepreneur Joel Simon.Subscribe to The Gradient Podcast: Apple Podcasts |...
Abubakar Abid on AI for Genomics, Gradio, and the Fatima Fellowship
06 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Subscribe to The Gradient Podcast: iTunes | RSS | SpotifyIn episode 3 of The Gradient Podcast, we interview researcher and entrepreneur Abub...
Helena Sarin on being an AI Artist
19 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In episode 2 of The Gradient Podcast, we interview AI artist Helana Sarin. Check out her work and follow her over at her Twitter @NeuralBricolage.Hele...
Hello World from The Gradient Podcast!
01 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hello world! After more than 3 years of publishing overviews and perspectives from the AI community on thegradient.pub, The Gradient now has a podcast...