Podcast Episodes

#93 Prof. MURRAY SHANAHAN - Consciousness, Embodiment, Language Models

Season 1 Episode 93

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Professor Murray Shanahan is a renowned researcher on sophisticated cognition and its implications for artificial intelligence. His 2016 article ‘Conscious E…

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#92 - SARA HOOKER - Fairness, Interpretability, Language Models

Season 1 Episode 92

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Sara Hooker is an exceptionally talented and accomplished leader and research scientist in the field of machine learning. She is the founder of Cohere For AI,…

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#91 - HATTIE ZHOU - Teaching Algorithmic Reasoning via In-context Learning #NeurIPS

Season 1 Episode 91

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Hattie Zhou, a PhD student at Université de Montréal and Mila, has set out to understand and explain the performance of modern neural networks, believing it …

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(Music Removed) #90 - Prof. DAVID CHALMERS - Consciousness in LLMs [Special Edition]

Season 1 Episode 90

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(On the main version we released; the music was a tiny bit too loud in places, and some pieces had percussion which was a bit distracting -- here is a version…

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#90 - Prof. DAVID CHALMERS - Consciousness in LLMs [Special Edition]

Season 1 Episode 90

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David Chalmers is a professor of philosophy and neural science at New York University, and an honorary professor of philosophy at the Australian National Univ…

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#88 Dr. WALID SABA - Why machines will never rule the world [UNPLUGGED]

Season 1 Episode 88

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Dr. Walid Saba recently reviewed the book Machines Will Never Rule The World, which argues that strong AI is impossible. He acknowledges the complexity of mod…

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#86 - Prof. YANN LECUN and Dr. RANDALL BALESTRIERO - SSL, Data Augmentation, Reward isn't enough [NEURIPS2022]

Season 1 Episode 86

Yann LeCun is a French computer scientist known for his pioneering work on convolutional neural networks, optical character recognition and computer vision. He is a Silver Professor at New York Unive…

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#85 Dr. Petar Veličković (Deepmind) - Categories, Graphs, Reasoning [NEURIPS22 UNPLUGGED]

Season 1 Episode 85

Dr. Petar Veličković  is a Staff Research Scientist at DeepMind, he has firmly established himself as one of the most significant up and coming researchers in the deep learning space. He invented Gra…

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#84 LAURA RUIS - Large language models are not zero-shot communicators [NEURIPS UNPLUGGED]

Season 1 Episode 84

In this NeurIPSs interview, we speak with Laura Ruis about her research on the ability of language models to interpret language in context. She has designed a simple task to evaluate the performance …

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#83 Dr. ANDREW LAMPINEN (Deepmind) - Natural Language, Symbols and Grounding [NEURIPS2022 UNPLUGGED]

Season 1 Episode 83

First in our unplugged series live from #NeurIPS2022

We discuss natural language understanding, symbol meaning and grounding and Chomsky with Dr. Andrew Lampinen from DeepMind. 

We recorded a LOT of …

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