Podcast Episodes

Pushing compute to the limits of physics

Dr. Maxwell Ramstead grills Guillaume Verdon (AKA “Beff Jezos”) who's the founder of Thermodynamic computing startup Extropic.

Guillaume shares his unique path – from dreaming about space travel as a …

Published on 5 months ago

The Fractured Entangled Representation Hypothesis (Kenneth Stanley, Akarsh Kumar)

Are the AI models you use today imposters?

Please watch the intro video we did before this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1q6Hhz0MAg

In this episode, hosts Dr. Tim Scarfe and Dr. Duggar are joined b…

Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago

The Fractured Entangled Representation Hypothesis (Intro)

What if today's incredible AI is just a brilliant "impostor"? This episode features host Dr. Tim Scarfe in conversation with guests Prof. Kenneth Stanley (ex-OpenAI), Dr. Keith Duggar (MIT), and Arka…

Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago

Three Red Lines We're About to Cross Toward AGI (Daniel Kokotajlo, Gary Marcus, Dan Hendrycks)

What if the most powerful technology in human history is being built by people who openly admit they don't trust each other? In this explosive 2-hour debate, three AI experts pull back the curtain on…

Published on 6 months ago

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 6 months, 1 week 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 7 months 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 7 months, 1 week 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 8 months 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 8 months, 2 weeks 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 8 months, 3 weeks ago