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Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)
Welcome! We engage in fascinating discussions with pre-eminent figures in the AI field. Our flagship show covers current affairs in AI, cognitive science, neuroscience and philosophy of mind with in-depth analysis. Our approach is unrivalled in terms of scope and rigour – we believe in intellectual...
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Every Exponential Ends — Silicon Valley Forgot — Adam Becker
Astrophysicist Adam Becker, author of "What Is Real?", joins Tim Scarfe to take apart the futures Silicon Valley keeps selling: the 2045 singularity,...
AI Is Learning at the Wrong Level of Abstraction — Matthieu Wyart
This episode is sponsored by Notion. Learn more about Notion's Developer Platform today at https://notion.com/mlstWhy can deep networks discover abstr...
How Researchers Test AI for Hidden Goals — Apollo Research
Can an AI do the right thing for the wrong reason? Tim Scarfe speaks with Apollo Research’s Alexander Meinke, Axel Højmark and Jérémy Scheurer about M...
Why a Nation Can't Outsource Its Frontier AI - Alistair Pullen (Cosine AI)
This episode is sponsored by Notion. Learn more about Notion's Developer Platform today at https://notion.com/mlst
Britain's most...
The Benchmark With No Instructions — ARC-AGI-3 (winning team!)
Tim Scarfe travels to Zurich to sit down with the Tufa Labs ARC-AGI-3 team — founder Benjamin Crouzier, with Jeroen Cottaar, Dries Smit, Stefano Viel...
The First Thermodynamic AI Computing Chip - Thomas Ahle
Thomas Ahle wants Normal Computing to be the Lovable for chip design: type your intent, and a swarm of agents carries it from design through optimisat...
He won a Nobel here for AlphaFold. Then he left. - John Jumper
This episode is sponsored by Notion. Learn more about Notion's Developer Platform today at https://notion.com/mlstProtein folding stalled biology for...
When AI Decides You're a Threat — Brad Carson
Brad Carson was the Army's General Counsel, served two terms in Congress and was Acting Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness. He now...
Intelligence is collective, not artificial — Prof. Michael I. Jordan (UC Berkeley / Inria)
Michael I. Jordan, described by Science magazine as the most influential computer scientist alive, has never thought of himself as an AI researcher. I...
![The AI Models Smart Enough to Know They're Cheating — Beth Barnes & David Rein [METR]](https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_episode/4981699/4981699-1777894865466-6073457253175.jpg)
The AI Models Smart Enough to Know They're Cheating — Beth Barnes & David Rein [METR]
Beth Barnes and David Rein on the one graph that ate the AI timelines discourse, and why the two people who built it are the most careful about how yo...
When AI Discovers The Next Transformer - Robert Lange (Sakana)
Robert Lange, founding researcher at Sakana AI, joins Tim to discuss *Shinka Evolve* — a framework that combines LLMs with evolutionary algorithms to...
"Vibe Coding is a Slot Machine" - Jeremy Howard
Dive into the realities of AI-assisted coding, the origins of modern fine-tuning, and the cognitive science behind machine learning with fast.ai found...
Evolution "Doesn't Need" Mutation - Blaise Agüera y Arcas
What if life itself is just a really sophisticated computer program that wrote itself into existence?
Blaise Agüera y Arcas presen...
![VAEs Are Energy-Based Models? [Dr. Jeff Beck]](https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_episode/4981699/4981699-1769335228067-f8b24f63a90ce.jpg)
VAEs Are Energy-Based Models? [Dr. Jeff Beck]
What makes something truly *intelligent?* Is a rock an agent? Could a perfect simulation of your brain actually *be* you? In this fascinating conversa...
![Abstraction & Idealization: AI's Plato Problem [Mazviita Chirimuuta]](https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_episode/4981699/4981699-1769164604861-4d213e7b7ad83.jpg)
Abstraction & Idealization: AI's Plato Problem [Mazviita Chirimuuta]
Professor Mazviita Chirimuuta joins us for a fascinating deep dive into the philosophy of neuroscience and what it really means to understand the mind...
![Why Every Brain Metaphor in History Has Been Wrong [SPECIAL EDITION]](https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_episode/4981699/4981699-1769164243064-406a3829dadce.jpg)
Why Every Brain Metaphor in History Has Been Wrong [SPECIAL EDITION]
What if everything we think we know about the brain is just a really good metaphor that we forgot was a metaphor?This episode takes you on a journey t...
![We Invented Momentum Because Math is Hard [Dr. Jeff Beck]](https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_episode/4981699/4981699-1767519058125-70e9deee2645.jpg)
We Invented Momentum Because Math is Hard [Dr. Jeff Beck]
Dr. Jeff Beck, mathematician turned computational neuroscientist, joins us for a fascinating deep dive into why the future of AI might look less like...
![Your Brain is Running a Simulation Right Now [Max Bennett]](https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_episode/4981699/4981699-1767079339335-a109222a5f86d.jpg)
Your Brain is Running a Simulation Right Now [Max Bennett]
Tim sits down with Max Bennett to explore how our brains evolved over 600 million years—and what that means for understanding both human intelligence...
![The 3 Laws of Knowledge [César Hidalgo]](https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_episode/4981699/4981699-1766860551345-874e1b9b40007.jpg)
The 3 Laws of Knowledge [César Hidalgo]
César Hidalgo has spent years trying to answer a deceptively simple question: What is knowledge, and why is it so hard to move around?
"I Desperately Want To Live In The Matrix" - Dr. Mike Israetel
This is a lively, no-holds-barred debate about whether AI can truly be intelligent, conscious, or understand anything at all — and what happens when (...
Category theory: the "Final Boss" of Deep Learning (Andrew Dudzik, Petar Velichkovich, Taco Cohen, Bruno Gavranović, Paul Lessard)
We often think of Large Language Models (LLMs) as all-knowing, but as the team reveals, they still struggle with the logic of a second-grader. Why can...
![Are AI Benchmarks Telling The Full Story? [SPONSORED] (Andrew Gordon and Nora Petrova - Prolific)](https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_episode/4981699/4981699-1766264087784-851fc964a7661.jpg)
Are AI Benchmarks Telling The Full Story? [SPONSORED] (Andrew Gordon and Nora Petrova - Prolific)
Is a car that wins a Formula 1 race the best choice for your morning commute? Probably not. In this sponsored deep dive with Prolific, we explore why...
![The Mathematical Foundations of Intelligence [Professor Yi Ma]](https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_episode/4981699/4981699-1765664086120-8602b5bc645a1.jpg)
The Mathematical Foundations of Intelligence [Professor Yi Ma]
What if everything we think we know about AI understanding is wrong? Is compression the key to intelligence? Or is there something more—a leap from me...
Pedro Domingos: Tensor Logic Unifies AI Paradigms
Pedro Domingos, author of the bestselling book "The Master Algorithm," introduces his latest work: Tensor Logic - a new programming language he believ...
!["I Invented the Transformer. Now I'm Replacing It." & Continuous Thought Machines - Llion Jones and Luke Darlow [Sakana AI]](https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_episode/4981699/4981699-1763918480508-6b65ec4dfad2b.jpg)
"I Invented the Transformer. Now I'm Replacing It." & Continuous Thought Machines - Llion Jones and Luke Darlow [Sakana AI]
The Transformer architecture (which powers ChatGPT and nearly all modern AI) might be trapping the industry in a localized rut, preventing us from fin...
![Why Humans Are Still Powering AI [Sponsored]](https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_episode/4981699/4981699-1762130531151-b25593d2e6fc3.jpg)
Why Humans Are Still Powering AI [Sponsored]
Ever wonder where AI models actually get their "intelligence"? We reveal the dirty secret of Silicon Valley: behind every impressive AI system are tho...
![The Universal Hierarchy of Life - Prof. Chris Kempes [SFI]](https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_episode/4981699/4981699-1761389525347-aa00a453b8ad9.jpg)
The Universal Hierarchy of Life - Prof. Chris Kempes [SFI]
"What is life?" - asks Chris Kempes, a professor at the Santa Fe Institute.
Chris explains that scientists are moving beyond a pur...
Life, Intelligence, and Embodied Computation - Blaise Agüera y Arcas
Blaise Agüera y Arcas explores some mind-bending ideas about what intelligence and life really are—and why they might be more similar than we think (f...
![Why AI Needs Culture (Not Just Data) [Sponsored] (Sara Saab, Enzo Blindow - Prolific)](https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_episode/4981699/4981699-1760796298029-c4a7d8b4ae19c.jpg)
Why AI Needs Culture (Not Just Data) [Sponsored] (Sara Saab, Enzo Blindow - Prolific)
We sat down with Sara Saab (VP of Product at Prolific) and Enzo Blindow (VP of Data and AI at Prolific) to explore the critical role of human evaluati...
AI Agents Can Code 10,000 Lines of Hacking Tools In Seconds - Dr. Ilia Shumailov (ex-GDM)
Dr. Ilia Shumailov - Former DeepMind AI Security Researcher, now building security tools for AI agents
Ever wondered what happens...
New top score on ARC-AGI-2-pub (29.4%) - Jeremy Berman
We need AI systems to synthesise new knowledge, not just compress the data they see. Jeremy Berman, is a research scientist at Reflection AI and recen...
Deep Learning is Not So Mysterious or Different - Prof. Andrew Gordon Wilson (NYU)
Professor Andrew Wilson from NYU explains why many common-sense ideas in artificial intelligence might be wrong. For decades, the rule of thumb in mac...
Karl Friston - Why Intelligence Can't Get Too Large (Goldilocks principle)
In this episode, hosts Tim and Keith finally realize their long-held dream of sitting down with their hero, the brilliant neuroscientist Professor Kar...
The Day AI Solves My Puzzles Is The Day I Worry (Prof. Cristopher Moore)
We are joined by Cristopher Moore, a professor at the Santa Fe Institute with a diverse background in physics, computer science, and machine learning....
Michael Timothy Bennett: Defining Intelligence and AGI Approaches
Dr. Michael Timothy Bennett is a computer scientist who's deeply interested in understanding artificial intelligence, consciousness, and what it means...
Superintelligence Strategy (Dan Hendrycks)
Deep dive with Dan Hendrycks, a leading AI safety researcher and co-author of the "Superintelligence Strategy" paper with former Google CEO Eric Schmi...
![DeepMind Genie 3 [World Exclusive] (Jack Parker Holder, Shlomi Fruchter)](https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_episode/4981699/4981699-1754404123587-11ae564331fec.jpg)
DeepMind Genie 3 [World Exclusive] (Jack Parker Holder, Shlomi Fruchter)
This episode features Shlomi Fuchter and Jack Parker Holder from Google DeepMind, who are unveiling a new AI called Genie 3. The host, Tim Scarfe, des...
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 c...
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...
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=o1q6Hh...