Podcast Episodes

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". AI learned to understand the world just by read…

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

"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 AI platform that quietly built one of the world's largest AI companio…

Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago

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 multiplication set 56 years ago. Google has been killing it …

Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago

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 started from scratch (randomly initialized) without…

Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago

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 actively trying things out, not just by looking at to…

Published on 5 months ago

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 development. Their unique strategy is reinforcement learnin…

Published on 5 months, 1 week ago

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 Artificial Superintelligence (ASI) safety and governance.…

Published on 5 months, 1 week ago

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 humans such that at least 2 humans could solve ea…

Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago

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 the team, now part of Tufa Labs in Zurich, achieve…

Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago

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 systems. He critiques current AI research methodol…

Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago