Thinking Machines: AI & Philosophy
Episodes
AI Therapy: An Open Conversation with Therapists
30 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
(Cross-posted from Fit Check) The mental health field is facing an unexpected disruption: AI is already the largest provider of mental health support...
AI Therapy with Slingshot's Derrick Hull
17 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Everyone should go to therapy.” It’s a common statement, but much harder to achieve than it looks. There’s only one therapist for every 10K w...
What if we could cure loneliness? Philosophy, dopamine, and more with Mark Ungless
26 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Artificial neural networks were designed to emulate the human brain - and their insane performance on a wide range of tasks is pretty good evidence to...
Does Philosophy Make Progress? Chatting with Every's Dan Shipper
23 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Is the AI revolution we're experiencing going to push us into a future we can't imagine? Or will the pace of progress enable us to adjust along the wa...
OpenAI o1: Another GPT-3 moment?
18 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
GPT-3 didn't have much of a splash outside of the AI community, but it foreshadowed the AI explosion to come. Is o1 OpenAI's second GPT-3 moment?Machi...
The Future is Fine Tuned (with Dev Rishi, Predibase)
24 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dev Rishi is the founder and CEO of Predibase, the company behind Ludwig and LoRAX. Predibase just released LoRA Land, a technical report showing 310 ...
Pre-training LLMs: One Model To Rule Them All? with Talfan Evans, DeepMind
18 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Talfan Evans is a research engineer at DeepMind, where he focuses on data curation and foundational research for pre-training LLMs and multimodal mode...
On Adversarial Training & Robustness with Bhavna Gopal
08 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"Understanding what's going on in a model is important to fine-tune it for specific tasks and to build trust."Bhavna Gopal is a PhD candidate at Duke,...
On Emotionally Intelligent AI (with Chris Gagne, Hume AI)
19 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Gagne manages AI research at Hume, which just released an expressive text-to-speech model in a super impressive demo. Chris and Daniel discuss A...
Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned (with Joel Lehman)
22 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Former OpenAI Research Scientist Joel Lehman joins to discuss the non-linear nature of technological progress and the present day implications of his ...
Where are the good AI products? (with Varun Shenoy)
12 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“Where are the good AI products?” asks Varun Shenoy, ML engineer in his latest blog post. Varun and I talk through:What are the cool applications ...
The End of RAG (with Donato Riccio)
09 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
ML Engineer and tech writer Donato Riccio wrote an article entitled "The End of RAG?" discussing what might replace Retrieval Augmented Generation in ...
GPUs and how the cloud is changing (with Cedana Founder, Neel Master)
02 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What’s going on with GPUs? We talk through the GPU bottleneck/supply gut, Meta’s apparent 600,000 H100-equivalents and the future of the GPU cloud...
Live Video Translation with AI
22 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Founders of Lingopal, Deven Orie and Casey Schneider, join to talk about their startup story, developing real-time translation software for enterprise...
Is open-source AI safe? (with SafeLlama founder, Enoch Kan)
12 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Founder of the SafeLlama community, Enoch Kan joins us today, to talk about safety in open source and medical AI. Enoch previously worked in AI for ra...
What is the future of AI-assisted or AI-driven software?
05 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Join Daniel Cahn on another SlingTalk episode with Kristian Freed (ex-CTO at Pariti and Elder), discussing the past, present and future of AI-assisted...
Is the Turing Test Outdated?
15 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In 1950, Alan Turing asked, “Can machines think?” He suggested the Imitation Game as a test to evaluate whether a machine can think, more commonly...
Prompt Engineering
08 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Join Daniel Cahn on SlingTalks as he welcomes Jonathan Pedoeem (Founder of PromptLayer) to talk through Prompt Engineering. This episode offers an in-...
AI for Investment Diligence
24 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Adam Kirsh (Head of Product & Engineering, Stealth Startup) joins Slingshot to talk about how AI is transforming investment due diligence.Beyond A...
The Myth of Human-in-the-Loop
15 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ex-Datadog Founding PM, Ayush Kapur, joins Daniel Cahn on SlingTalks to talk through the overloaded term, "Human in the Loop". They hone in on the imp...
AI-Generated Content and the Boring Apocalypse
08 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
AI is increasingly doing the heavy lifting in our communications and content generation. On this episode, Guilherme Freire, Founding ML Engineer at Sl...
Programming for Machine Learning (Tech Talk)
30 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Daniel hosts our machine learning research intern and Cambridge Masters student, Andy Lo, to talk about the present and future of ML programming. Topi...
AI's End of History Illusion
25 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Daniel shares his perspective on the opportunities for the next wave of AI-native startups.Machine Learning isn’t just about sentim...
Design Driven Development at Slingshot
16 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Daniel hosts our Founding Engineer, Edwin Zhang to unravel the balance in Design Driven Developments. Key things they cover:The conundrums faced when ...
LLM Inference Speed (Tech Deep Dive)
06 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this tech talk, we dive deep into the technical specifics around LLM inference.The big question is: Why are LLMs slow? How can they be faster? And ...
Why is Llama 2 Open Source? What is Meta up to?
22 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode delves into the ongoing debate of the competitiveness between open-source and closed-source models and the reasons behind Meta's decision...
Can AI be Creative?
12 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ever seen a piece of work and thought, "Wow, a machine did that?" In our very first Slingtalk episode, we unravel the broad world of AI and where crea...