Podcast Episodes

How do we go from search engines to answer engines? With Perplexity AI’s Aravind Srinivas and Denis Yarats

Season 1 Episode 9

With advances in machine learning, the way we search for information online will never be the same.

This week on the No Priors podcast, we dive into a startup that aims to be the most trustworthy plac…

Published on 2 years, 7 months ago

What is the future of search? With Neeva’s Sridhar Ramaswamy

Season 1 Episode 8

For the first time in decades web search might be at risk for disruption. Bing is allied with OpenAI to integrate LLMs. Google has committed to launching new products. New startups are emerging.

Sridh…

Published on 2 years, 7 months ago

What is the role of academia in modern AI research? With Stanford Professor Dr. Percy Liang

Season 1 Episode 7

When AI research is evolving at warp speed and takes significant capital and compute power, what is the role of academia? Dr. Percy Liang – Stanford computer science professor and director of the Sta…

Published on 2 years, 7 months ago

How AI can make drug discovery fail less, with Daphne Koller from Insitro

Season 1 Episode 6

Life-saving therapeutics continue to grow more costly to discover. At the same time, recent advances in using machine learning for the life sciences and medicine are extraordinary. Are we on the verg…

Published on 2 years, 8 months ago

Why the Future of Machine Learning is Open Source with Huggingface’s Clem Delangue

Season 1 Episode 5

After starting as a talking emoji companion, Hugging Face is now an organizing force for the open source AI research ecosystem. Its models are used by companies such as Apple, Salesforce and Microsof…

Published on 2 years, 8 months ago

Founder Stories: What’s behind the largest commercial autonomous system on earth? With Zipline’s Keller Rinaudo Cliffton

Season 1 Episode 4

This is a special bonus episode from our Founder Stories series, where entrepreneurs share the story of their startup journey.

A delivery with Zipline is the closest thing we have to teleportation. It…

Published on 2 years, 8 months ago

How can we make sure that everyone has access to AI? Can small models outperform large models? With Stability AI’s Emad Mostaque

Season 1 Episode 3

AI-generated images have been everywhere over the past year, but one company has fueled an explosive developer ecosystem around large image models: Stability AI. Stability builds open AI tools with a…

Published on 2 years, 8 months ago

What does AI-powered content creation look like? with Runway ML’s Cristobal Valenzuela

Season 1 Episode 2

For a long time, AI-generated images and video felt like a fun toy. Cool, but not something that would bring value to professional content creators. But now we are at the exciting moment where machin…

Published on 2 years, 8 months ago

This is “No Priors”

Season 1

AI is transforming our future, but what does that really mean? In ten years, will humans be forced to please our AGI overlords or will we have unlocked unlimited capacity for human potential?

That's w…

Published on 2 years, 9 months ago

The bot Cicero can collaborate, scheme and build trust with humans. What does this mean for the next frontier of AI? With Noam Brown, Research Scientist at Meta

Season 1 Episode 1

AGI can beat top players in chess, poker, and, now, Diplomacy. In November 2022, a bot named Cicero demonstrated mastery in this game, which requires natural language negotiation and cooperation with…

Published on 2 years, 9 months ago