Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)
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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...
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245 επεισόδια![Abstraction & Idealization: AI's Plato Problem [Mazviita Chirimuuta]](https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_episode/4981699/4981699-1769164604861-4d213e7b7ad83.jpg)
Abstraction & Idealization: AI's Plato Problem [Mazviita Chirimuuta]
Professor Mazviita Chirimuuta joins us for a fascinating deep dive into the philosophy of neuroscience and what it really means to understand the mind...
![Why Every Brain Metaphor in History Has Been Wrong [SPECIAL EDITION]](https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_episode/4981699/4981699-1769164243064-406a3829dadce.jpg)
Why Every Brain Metaphor in History Has Been Wrong [SPECIAL EDITION]
What if everything we think we know about the brain is just a really good metaphor that we forgot was a metaphor?This episode takes you on a journey t...
![We Invented Momentum Because Math is Hard [Dr. Jeff Beck]](https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_episode/4981699/4981699-1767519058125-70e9deee2645.jpg)
We Invented Momentum Because Math is Hard [Dr. Jeff Beck]
Dr. Jeff Beck, mathematician turned computational neuroscientist, joins us for a fascinating deep dive into why the future of AI might look less like...
![Your Brain is Running a Simulation Right Now [Max Bennett]](https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_episode/4981699/4981699-1767079339335-a109222a5f86d.jpg)
Your Brain is Running a Simulation Right Now [Max Bennett]
Tim sits down with Max Bennett to explore how our brains evolved over 600 million years—and what that means for understanding both human intelligence...
![The 3 Laws of Knowledge [César Hidalgo]](https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_episode/4981699/4981699-1766860551345-874e1b9b40007.jpg)
The 3 Laws of Knowledge [César Hidalgo]
César Hidalgo has spent years trying to answer a deceptively simple question: What is knowledge, and why is it so hard to move around?
"I Desperately Want To Live In The Matrix" - Dr. Mike Israetel
This is a lively, no-holds-barred debate about whether AI can truly be intelligent, conscious, or understand anything at all — and what happens when (...
Category theory: the "Final Boss" of Deep Learning (Andrew Dudzik, Petar Velichkovich, Taco Cohen, Bruno Gavranović, Paul Lessard)
We often think of Large Language Models (LLMs) as all-knowing, but as the team reveals, they still struggle with the logic of a second-grader. Why can...
![Are AI Benchmarks Telling The Full Story? [SPONSORED] (Andrew Gordon and Nora Petrova - Prolific)](https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_episode/4981699/4981699-1766264087784-851fc964a7661.jpg)
Are AI Benchmarks Telling The Full Story? [SPONSORED] (Andrew Gordon and Nora Petrova - Prolific)
Is a car that wins a Formula 1 race the best choice for your morning commute? Probably not. In this sponsored deep dive with Prolific, we explore why...
![The Mathematical Foundations of Intelligence [Professor Yi Ma]](https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_episode/4981699/4981699-1765664086120-8602b5bc645a1.jpg)
The Mathematical Foundations of Intelligence [Professor Yi Ma]
What if everything we think we know about AI understanding is wrong? Is compression the key to intelligence? Or is there something more—a leap from me...
Pedro Domingos: Tensor Logic Unifies AI Paradigms
Pedro Domingos, author of the bestselling book "The Master Algorithm," introduces his latest work: Tensor Logic - a new programming language he believ...
!["I Invented the Transformer. Now I'm Replacing It." & Continuous Thought Machines - Llion Jones and Luke Darlow [Sakana AI]](https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_episode/4981699/4981699-1763918480508-6b65ec4dfad2b.jpg)
"I Invented the Transformer. Now I'm Replacing It." & Continuous Thought Machines - Llion Jones and Luke Darlow [Sakana AI]
The Transformer architecture (which powers ChatGPT and nearly all modern AI) might be trapping the industry in a localized rut, preventing us from fin...
![Why Humans Are Still Powering AI [Sponsored]](https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_episode/4981699/4981699-1762130531151-b25593d2e6fc3.jpg)
Why Humans Are Still Powering AI [Sponsored]
Ever wonder where AI models actually get their "intelligence"? We reveal the dirty secret of Silicon Valley: behind every impressive AI system are tho...
![The Universal Hierarchy of Life - Prof. Chris Kempes [SFI]](https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_episode/4981699/4981699-1761389525347-aa00a453b8ad9.jpg)
The Universal Hierarchy of Life - Prof. Chris Kempes [SFI]
"What is life?" - asks Chris Kempes, a professor at the Santa Fe Institute.
Chris explains that scientists are moving beyond a pur...
Life, Intelligence, and Embodied Computation - Blaise Agüera y Arcas
Blaise Agüera y Arcas explores some mind-bending ideas about what intelligence and life really are—and why they might be more similar than we think (f...
![Why AI Needs Culture (Not Just Data) [Sponsored] (Sara Saab, Enzo Blindow - Prolific)](https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_episode/4981699/4981699-1760796298029-c4a7d8b4ae19c.jpg)
Why AI Needs Culture (Not Just Data) [Sponsored] (Sara Saab, Enzo Blindow - Prolific)
We sat down with Sara Saab (VP of Product at Prolific) and Enzo Blindow (VP of Data and AI at Prolific) to explore the critical role of human evaluati...
AI Agents Can Code 10,000 Lines of Hacking Tools In Seconds - Dr. Ilia Shumailov (ex-GDM)
Dr. Ilia Shumailov - Former DeepMind AI Security Researcher, now building security tools for AI agents
Ever wondered what happens...
New top score on ARC-AGI-2-pub (29.4%) - Jeremy Berman
We need AI systems to synthesise new knowledge, not just compress the data they see. Jeremy Berman, is a research scientist at Reflection AI and recen...
Deep Learning is Not So Mysterious or Different - Prof. Andrew Gordon Wilson (NYU)
Professor Andrew Wilson from NYU explains why many common-sense ideas in artificial intelligence might be wrong. For decades, the rule of thumb in mac...
Karl Friston - Why Intelligence Can't Get Too Large (Goldilocks principle)
In this episode, hosts Tim and Keith finally realize their long-held dream of sitting down with their hero, the brilliant neuroscientist Professor Kar...
The Day AI Solves My Puzzles Is The Day I Worry (Prof. Cristopher Moore)
We are joined by Cristopher Moore, a professor at the Santa Fe Institute with a diverse background in physics, computer science, and machine learning....
Michael Timothy Bennett: Defining Intelligence and AGI Approaches
Dr. Michael Timothy Bennett is a computer scientist who's deeply interested in understanding artificial intelligence, consciousness, and what it means...
Superintelligence Strategy (Dan Hendrycks)
Deep dive with Dan Hendrycks, a leading AI safety researcher and co-author of the "Superintelligence Strategy" paper with former Google CEO Eric Schmi...
![DeepMind Genie 3 [World Exclusive] (Jack Parker Holder, Shlomi Fruchter)](https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_episode/4981699/4981699-1754404123587-11ae564331fec.jpg)
DeepMind Genie 3 [World Exclusive] (Jack Parker Holder, Shlomi Fruchter)
This episode features Shlomi Fuchter and Jack Parker Holder from Google DeepMind, who are unveiling a new AI called Genie 3. The host, Tim Scarfe, des...
Large Language Models and Emergence: A Complex Systems Perspective (Prof. David C. Krakauer)
Prof. David Krakauer, President of the Santa Fe Institute argues that we are fundamentally confusing knowledge with intelligence, especially when it c...
Pushing compute to the limits of physics
Dr. Maxwell Ramstead grills Guillaume Verdon (AKA “Beff Jezos”) who's the founder of Thermodynamic computing startup Extropic.
Guillaume shares...
The Fractured Entangled Representation Hypothesis (Kenneth Stanley, Akarsh Kumar)
Are the AI models you use today imposters?
Please watch the intro video we did before this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1q6Hh...
The Fractured Entangled Representation Hypothesis (Intro)
What if today's incredible AI is just a brilliant "impostor"? This episode features host Dr. Tim Scarfe in conversation with guests Prof. Kenneth Stan...
Three Red Lines We're About to Cross Toward AGI (Daniel Kokotajlo, Gary Marcus, Dan Hendrycks)
What if the most powerful technology in human history is being built by people who openly admit they don't trust each other? In this explosive 2-hour...
How AI Learned to Talk and What It Means - Prof. Christopher Summerfield
We interview Professor Christopher Summerfield from Oxford University about his new book "These Strange New Minds: How AI Learned to Talk and What It"...
"Blurring Reality" - Chai's Social AI Platform (SPONSORED)
"Blurring Reality" - Chai's Social AI Platform - sponsored
This episode of MLST explores the groundbreaking work of Chai, a social...
Google AlphaEvolve - Discovering new science (exclusive interview)
Today GoogleDeepMind released AlphaEvolve: a Gemini coding agent for algorithm discovery. It beat the famous Strassen algorithm for matrix multiplicat...
Prof. Randall Balestriero - LLMs without pretraining and SSL
Randall Balestriero joins the show to discuss some counterintuitive findings in AI. He shares research showing that huge language models, even when st...
How Machines Learn to Ignore the Noise (Kevin Ellis + Zenna Tavares)
Prof. Kevin Ellis and Dr. Zenna Tavares talk about making AI smarter, like humans. They want AI to learn from just a little bit of information by acti...
Eiso Kant (CTO poolside) - Superhuman Coding Is Coming!
Eiso Kant, CTO of poolside AI, discusses the company's approach to building frontier AI foundation models, particularly focused on software developmen...
The Compendium - Connor Leahy and Gabriel Alfour
Connor Leahy and Gabriel Alfour, AI researchers from Conjecture and authors of "The Compendium," joinus for a critical discussion centered on Artifici...
ARC Prize v2 Launch! (Francois Chollet and Mike Knoop)
We are joined by Francois Chollet and Mike Knoop, to launch the new version of the ARC prize! In version 2, the challenges have been calibrated with h...
Test-Time Adaptation: the key to reasoning with DL (Mohamed Osman)
Mohamed Osman joins to discuss MindsAI's highest scoring entry to the ARC challenge 2024 and the paradigm of test-time fine-tuning. They explore how t...
GSMSymbolic paper - Iman Mirzadeh (Apple)
Iman Mirzadeh from Apple, who recently published the GSM-Symbolic paper discusses the crucial distinction between intelligence and achievement in AI s...
Reasoning, Robustness, and Human Feedback in AI - Max Bartolo (Cohere)
Dr. Max Bartolo from Cohere discusses machine learning model development, evaluation, and robustness. Key topics include model reasoning, the DynaBenc...
Tau Language: The Software Synthesis Future (sponsored)
This sponsored episode features mathematician Ohad Asor discussing logical approaches to AI, focusing on the limitations of machine learning and intro...