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Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)

Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)

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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 diversity in AI, and we touch on all of the main ideas in the field with the hype surgically removed. MLST is run by Tim Scarfe, Ph.D (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ecsquizor/) and features regular appe...

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Episodes (263)

How Replication Could Teach Machines What Good Science Looks Like — Edward Hughe...

Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)

Sep 11, 20262:01:53completed

AI 2040: Plan A report - Daniel Kokotajlo & Thomas Larsen

Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)

Sep 8, 20261:29:46completed

Designing How AI Grows — Tom McGrath

Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)

Sep 2, 20261:40:14pending

Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs — Ilia Shumailov & Alexander...

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Aug 22, 202649:00pending

Every Exponential Ends — Silicon Valley Forgot — Adam Becker

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Aug 20, 20261:18:23pending

AI Is Learning at the Wrong Level of Abstraction — Matthieu Wyart

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Aug 10, 20261:18:56pending

How Researchers Test AI for Hidden Goals — Apollo Research

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Jul 31, 20261:18:59pending

Why a Nation Can't Outsource Its Frontier AI - Alistair Pullen (Cosine AI)

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Jul 13, 202655:56pending

The Benchmark With No Instructions — ARC-AGI-3 (winning team!)

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Jul 1, 20261:24:34pending

The Thermodynamic AI Computing Chip - Thomas Ahle

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Jun 28, 20261:02:59pending

He won a Nobel here for AlphaFold. Then he left. - John Jumper

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Jun 22, 202653:05pending

When AI Decides You're a Threat — Brad Carson

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May 31, 20261:20:51pending

Intelligence is collective, not artificial — Prof. Michael I. Jordan (UC Berkele...

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May 21, 20261:17:09pending

The AI Models Smart Enough to Know They're Cheating — Beth Barnes & David Rein [...

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May 4, 20261:53:26pending

When AI Discovers The Next Transformer - Robert Lange (Sakana)

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Mar 13, 20261:18:06pending

"Vibe Coding is a Slot Machine" - Jeremy Howard

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Mar 3, 20261:26:39pending

Evolution "Doesn't Need" Mutation - Blaise Agüera y Arcas

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Feb 16, 202655:48pending

VAEs Are Energy-Based Models? [Dr. Jeff Beck]

Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)

Jan 25, 202646:56pending

Abstraction & Idealization: AI's Plato Problem [Mazviita Chirimuuta]

Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)

Jan 23, 202653:37pending

Why Every Brain Metaphor in History Has Been Wrong [SPECIAL EDITION]

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Jan 23, 202642:04pending

Bayesian Brain, Scientific Method, and Models [Dr. Jeff Beck]

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Dec 31, 20251:16:37pending

Your Brain is Running a Simulation Right Now [Max Bennett]

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Dec 30, 20253:17:09pending

The 3 Laws of Knowledge [César Hidalgo]

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Dec 27, 20251:37:05pending

"I Desperately Want To Live In The Matrix" - Dr. Mike Israetel

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Dec 24, 20252:55:46pending

Making deep learning perform real algorithms with Category Theory (Andrew Dudzik...

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Dec 22, 202543:57pending

Are AI Benchmarks Telling The Full Story? [SPONSORED] (Andrew Gordon and Nora Pe...

Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)

Dec 20, 202516:04pending

The Mathematical Foundations of Intelligence [Professor Yi Ma]

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Dec 13, 20251:39:14pending

Pedro Domingos: Tensor Logic Unifies AI Paradigms

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Dec 8, 20251:27:48pending

He Co-Invented the Transformer. Now: Continuous Thought Machines - Llion Jones a...

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Nov 23, 20251:12:39pending

Why Humans Are Still Powering AI [Sponsored]

Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)

Nov 3, 202524:19pending

The Universal Hierarchy of Life - Prof. Chris Kempes [SFI]

Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)

Oct 25, 202540:59pending

Google Researcher Shows Life "Emerges From Code" - Blaise Agüera y Arcas

Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)

Oct 21, 202559:53pending

The Secret Engine of AI - Prolific [Sponsored] (Sara Saab, Enzo Blindow)

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Oct 18, 20251:19:39pending

AI Agents Can Code 10,000 Lines of Hacking Tools In Seconds - Dr. Ilia Shumailov...

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Oct 4, 20251:01:07pending

New top score on ARC-AGI-2-pub (29.4%) - Jeremy Berman

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Sep 27, 20251:08:27pending

Deep Learning is Not So Mysterious or Different - Prof. Andrew Gordon Wilson (NY...

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Sep 19, 20252:03:48pending

Karl Friston - Why Intelligence Can't Get Too Large (Goldilocks principle)

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Sep 10, 20251:21:39pending

The Day AI Solves My Puzzles Is The Day I Worry (Prof. Cristopher Moore)

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Sep 4, 20251:34:52pending

Michael Timothy Bennett: Defining Intelligence and AGI Approaches

Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)

Aug 28, 20251:05:44pending

Superintelligence Strategy (Dan Hendrycks)

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Aug 14, 20251:45:38pending

DeepMind Genie 3 [World Exclusive] (Jack Parker Holder, Shlomi Fruchter)

Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)

Aug 5, 202558:22pending

Large Language Models and Emergence: A Complex Systems Perspective (Prof. David...

Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)

Jul 31, 202549:48pending

Pushing compute to the limits of physics

Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)

Jul 21, 20251:23:32pending

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

Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)

Jul 6, 20252:16:22pending

The Fractured Entangled Representation Hypothesis (Intro)

Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)

Jul 5, 202515:45pending

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

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Jun 24, 20252:07:07pending

How AI Learned to Talk and What It Means - Prof. Christopher Summerfield

Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)

Jun 17, 20251:08:28pending

"Blurring Reality" - Chai's Social AI Platform (SPONSORED)

Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)

May 26, 202550:59pending

Google AlphaEvolve - Discovering new science (exclusive interview)

Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)

May 14, 20251:13:58pending

Prof. Randall Balestriero - LLMs without pretraining and SSL

Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)

Apr 23, 202534:30pending