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Large Language Models and Emergence: A Complex Systems Perspective (Prof. David C. Krakauer)
Prof. David Krakauer, President of the Santa Fe Institute argues that we are fundamentally confusing knowledge with intelligence, especially when it …
10 months ago
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 un…
10 months, 1 week 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…
10 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 Sta…
10 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…
11 months, 1 week 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…
11 months, 2 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 qu…
1 year 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 multiplica…
1 year 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 s…
1 year, 1 month 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 act…
1 year, 1 month ago