Podcast Episodes

#043 Prof J. Mark Bishop - Artificial Intelligence Is Stupid and Causal Reasoning won't fix it.

Season 1 Episode 43

Professor Mark Bishop does not think that computers can be conscious or have phenomenological states of consciousness unless we are willing to accept panpsychism which is idea that mentality is funda…

Published on 4 years, 10 months ago

#042 - Pedro Domingos - Ethics and Cancel Culture

Season 1 Episode 42

Today we have professor Pedro Domingos and we are going to talk about activism in machine learning, cancel culture, AI ethics and kernels. In Pedro's book the master algorithm, he segmented the AI co…

Published on 4 years, 10 months ago

#041 - Biologically Plausible Neural Networks - Dr. Simon Stringer

Season 1 Episode 41

Dr. Simon Stringer. Obtained his Ph.D in mathematical state space control theory and has been a Senior Research Fellow at Oxford University for over 27 years. Simon is the director of the the Oxford …

Published on 4 years, 10 months ago

#040 - Adversarial Examples (Dr. Nicholas Carlini, Dr. Wieland Brendel, Florian Tramèr)

Season 1 Episode 40

Adversarial examples have attracted significant attention in machine learning, but the reasons for their existence and pervasiveness remain unclear. there's good reason to believe neural networks loo…

Published on 4 years, 10 months ago

#039 - Lena Voita - NLP

Season 1 Episode 39

ena Voita is a Ph.D. student at the University of Edinburgh and University of Amsterdam. Previously, She was a research scientist at Yandex Research and worked closely with the Yandex Translate team.…

Published on 4 years, 11 months ago

#038 - Professor Kenneth Stanley - Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned

Season 1 Episode 38

Professor Kenneth Stanley is currently a research science manager at OpenAI in San Fransisco. We've Been dreaming about getting Kenneth on the show since the very begininning of Machine Learning Stre…

Published on 4 years, 11 months ago

#037 - Tour De Bayesian with Connor Tann

Season 1 Episode 37

Connor Tan is a physicist and senior data scientist working for a multinational energy company where he co-founded and leads a data science team. He holds a first-class degree in experimental and the…

Published on 4 years, 11 months ago

#036 - Max Welling: Quantum, Manifolds & Symmetries in ML

Season 1 Episode 36

Today we had a fantastic conversation with Professor Max Welling, VP of Technology, Qualcomm Technologies Netherlands B.V. 

Max is a strong believer in the power of data and computation and its rele…

Published on 4 years, 11 months ago

#035 Christmas Community Edition!

Season 1 Episode 35

Welcome to the Christmas special community edition of MLST! We discuss some recent and interesting papers from Pedro Domingos (are NNs kernel machines?), Deepmind (can NNs out-reason symbolic machine…

Published on 5 years ago

#034 Eray Özkural- AGI, Simulations & Safety

Season 1 Episode 34

Dr. Eray Ozkural is an AGI researcher from Turkey, he is the founder of Celestial Intellect Cybernetics. Eray is extremely critical of Max Tegmark, Nick Bostrom and MIRI founder Elizier Yodokovsky an…

Published on 5 years ago