Podcast Episodes

Episode 20 - John Platt

Season 1 Episode 20

This week I talk to John Platt, a Distinguished Scientist at Google, about twin problems: finding cheap zero-carbon energy sources and mitigating global warming. John is a polymath, having discovered…

Published on 6 years, 4 months ago

Episode 19 - Chelsea Finn

Season 1 Episode 19

This week we return to the world of thinking robots with Chelsea Finn, one of the youngest experts in the field, who talks about her journey, about her work in meta-learning and about lifelong learni…

Published on 6 years, 5 months ago

Episode 18 - Partha Talukdar

Season 1 Episode 18

This week, we look at AI in India. With its massive population, fast-growing economy, English-language education and large supply of brilliant researchers and engineers, it should be competing with C…

Published on 6 years, 5 months ago

Episode 17 - Yann Lecun

Season 1 Episode 17

This week I talk to Yann Lecun, one of the brightest minds in machine learning today. Yann's work lies behind some of the most critical AI applications, most notably computer vision systems that pow…

Published on 6 years, 5 months ago

Trae Stephens and Brian Schimpf

Season 1 Episode 16

This week I talk to Trae Stephens and Brian Schimpf from Anduril Industries, an AI defense contractor, about the current state of AI research and deployment for national security, including how the U…

Published on 6 years, 6 months ago

Episode 15 - Ken Church

Season 1 Episode 15

This week, I talk to Ken Church, a pioneer in Natural Language Processing, whose use of statistical models on part of speech tagging revolutionized the field and is what makes automatic dictation and…

Published on 6 years, 7 months ago

Episode 14 - Sergey Levine

This week, I talk to Sergey Levine, one of the most prolific researchers in robot learning. We talked about developing a robot's sense of touch and about robot dreams and whether he believes we know …

Published on 6 years, 7 months ago

Episode 13 - Pieter Abbeel

Season 1 Episode 13

Thinking robots: that's how much of the world envisions artificial intelligence and if there is one person on the planet who understands the limitations and promise of intelligence in robots, it's Pi…

Published on 6 years, 8 months ago

Samy Bengio and Yoshua Bengio

Season 1 Episode 12

This week I talk to the Bengio brothers, Samy and Yoshua, in their first interview together. Yoshua recently won the Turing Award with Geoff Hinton and Yann Lecun, while Samy leads a team of research…

Published on 6 years, 8 months ago

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Season 1 Episode 11

Published on 6 years, 8 months ago