Podcast Episodes

#102 - Prof. MICHAEL LEVIN, Prof. IRINA RISH - Emergence, Intelligence, Transhumanism

Season 1 Episode 102

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Michael Levin is a Distinguished Professor in the Biology department at Tufts Un…

Published on 2 years, 10 months ago

#101 DR. WALID SABA - Extrapolation, Compositionality and Learnability

Season 1 Episode 101

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We had a discussion with Dr. Walid Saba about whether or not MLP neural networks can…

Published on 2 years, 10 months ago

#100 Dr. PATRICK LEWIS (co:here) - Retrieval Augmented Generation

Season 1 Episode 100

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 research scientist at the Fundamental AI Research Lab…

Published on 2 years, 10 months ago

#99 - CARLA CREMER & IGOR KRAWCZUK - X-Risk, Governance, Effective Altruism

Season 1 Episode 99

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Carla Cremer and Igor Krawczuk argue th…

Published on 2 years, 10 months ago

[NO MUSIC] #98 - Prof. LUCIANO FLORIDI - ChatGPT, Singularitarians, Ethics, Philosophy of Information

Season 1 Episode 98

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We are living in an age of rapid technological advancement, and with thi…

Published on 2 years, 10 months ago

#98 - Prof. LUCIANO FLORIDI - ChatGPT, Superintelligence, Ethics, Philosophy of Information

Season 1 Episode 98

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(If music annoying, skip to main interview @ 14:14)

We are living in an a…

Published on 2 years, 10 months ago

#97 SREEJAN KUMAR - Human Inductive Biases in Machines from Language

Season 1 Episode 97

Research has shown that humans possess strong inductive biases which enable them to quickly learn and generalize. In order to instill these same useful human inductive biases into machines, a paper w…

Published on 2 years, 11 months ago

#96 Prof. PEDRO DOMINGOS - There are no infinities, utility functions, neurosymbolic

Season 1 Episode 96

Pedro Domingos, Professor Emeritus of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington, is renowned for his research in machine learning, particularly for his work on Markov logic net…

Published on 2 years, 11 months ago

#95 - Prof. IRINA RISH - AGI, Complex Systems, Transhumanism

Season 1 Episode 95

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 Applied Mathematics from the Moscow Gubkin Institu…

Published on 3 years ago

#94 - ALAN CHAN - AI Alignment and Governance #NEURIPS

Season 1 Episode 94

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Alan Chan is a PhD student at Mila, the Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms, supervised by Nicolas Le Roux. Before joining Mila, Alan was a Masters stu…

Published on 3 years ago