Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)

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Welcome! The team at MLST is inspired by academic research and each week we engage in dynamic discussion with pre-eminent figures in the AI field. Our flagship show covers current affairs in AI 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 without succumbing to hype. MLST is run by Tim Scarfe, Ph.D (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ecsquizor/)

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#109 - Dr. DAN MCQUILLAN - ...

03.20.2023

YT version: https://youtu.be/P1j3VoKBxbc (references in pinned comment) Support us! https://www.patreon.com/mlst MLST Discord: https://discord.gg/aNPkGUQtc5 Dan McQuillan, a visionary in digital culture and social innovation, emphasizes the importance of understanding technology's complex relationship with society. As an academic at Goldsmiths, University of ...

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03.20.2023 #109 - Dr. DAN MCQUILLAN - Resisting AI YT version: https://youtu.be/P1j3VoKBxbc (references in pinned comment) Support us! https://www.patreon.com/mlst MLST Discord: https://discord.gg/aNPkGUQtc5 Dan McQuillan, a visionary in digital culture and social innovation, emphasizes the importance of understanding technology's complex relationship with society. As an academic at Goldsmiths, University of ...
03.16.2023 #108 - Dr. JOEL LEHMAN - Machine Love [Staff Favourite] Support us! https://www.patreon.com/mlst MLST Discord: https://discord.gg/aNPkGUQtc5 We are honoured to welcome Dr. Joel Lehman, an eminent machine learning research scientist, whose work in AI safety, reinforcement learning, creative open-ended search algorithms, and indeed the philosophy of open-endedness and abandoning objectives ...
03.13.2023 #107 - Dr. RAPHAËL MILLIÈRE - Linguistics, Theory of Mind, Grounding Support us! https://www.patreon.com/mlst MLST Discord: https://discord.gg/aNPkGUQtc5 Dr. Raphaël Millière is the 2020 Robert A. Burt Presidential Scholar in Society and Neuroscience in the Center for Science and Society, and a Lecturer in the Philosophy Department at Columbia University. His research ...
03.11.2023 #106 - Prof. KARL FRISTON 3.0 - Collective Intelligence [Special Edition] This show is sponsored by Numerai, please visit them here with our sponsor link (we would really appreciate it) http://numer.ai/mlst Prof. Karl Friston recently proposed a vision of artificial intelligence that goes beyond machines and algorithms, and embraces humans and ...
03.04.2023 #105 - Dr. MICHAEL OLIVER [CSO - Numerai] Access Numerai here: http://numer.ai/mlst Michael Oliver is the Chief Scientist at Numerai, a hedge fund that crowdsources machine learning models from data scientists. He has a PhD in Computational Neuroscience from UC Berkeley and was a postdoctoral researcher at the ...
02.22.2023 #104 - Prof. CHRIS SUMMERFIELD - Natural General Intelligence [SPECIAL EDITION] Support us! https://www.patreon.com/mlst MLST Discord: https://discord.gg/aNPkGUQtc5 Christopher Summerfield, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford is a Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Oxford and a Research Scientist at Deepmind UK. His work focusses on the neural and ...
02.11.2023 #103 - Prof. Edward Grefenstette - Language, Semantics, Philosophy Support us! https://www.patreon.com/mlst MLST Discord: https://discord.gg/aNPkGUQtc5 YT: https://youtu.be/i9VPPmQn9HQ Edward Grefenstette is a Franco-American computer scientist who currently serves as Head of Machine Learning at Cohere and Honorary Professor at UCL. He has previously been a research scientist at Facebook AI ...
02.11.2023 #102 - Prof. MICHAEL LEVIN, Prof. IRINA RISH - Emergence, Intelligence, Transhumanism Support us! https://www.patreon.com/mlst MLST Discord: https://discord.gg/aNPkGUQtc5 YT: https://youtu.be/Vbi288CKgis Michael Levin is a Distinguished Professor in the Biology department at Tufts University, and the holder of the Vannevar Bush endowed Chair. He is the Director of the Allen Discovery Center at ...
02.10.2023 #101 DR. WALID SABA - Extrapolation, Compositionality and Learnability MLST Discord! https://discord.gg/aNPkGUQtc5 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mlst YT: https://youtu.be/snUf_LIfQII We had a discussion with Dr. Walid Saba about whether or not MLP neural networks can extrapolate outside of the training support, and what it means to extrapolate in a vector space. Then ...
02.10.2023 #100 Dr. PATRICK LEWIS (co:here) - Retrieval Augmented Generation Dr. Patrick Lewis is a London-based AI and Natural Language Processing Research Scientist, working at co:here. Prior to this, Patrick worked as a research scientist at the Fundamental AI Research Lab (FAIR) at Meta AI. During his PhD, Patrick split ...
02.05.2023 #99 - CARLA CREMER & IGOR KRAWCZUK - X-Risk, Governance, Effective Altruism YT version (with references): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxaTinmKxs0 Support us! https://www.patreon.com/mlst MLST Discord: https://discord.gg/aNPkGUQtc5 Carla Cremer and Igor Krawczuk argue that AI risk should be understood as an old problem of politics, power and control with known solutions, and that threat models should ...
02.03.2023 [NO MUSIC] #98 - Prof. LUCIANO FLORIDI - ChatGPT, Singularitarians, Ethics, Philosophy of Information Support us! https://www.patreon.com/mlst MLST Discord: https://discord.gg/aNPkGUQtc5 YT version: https://youtu.be/YLNGvvgq3eg We are living in an age of rapid technological advancement, and with this growth comes a digital divide. Professor Luciano Floridi of the Oxford Internet Institute / Oxford University believes that ...
02.03.2023 #98 - Prof. LUCIANO FLORIDI - ChatGPT, Superintelligence, Ethics, Philosophy of Information Support us! https://www.patreon.com/mlst MLST Discord: https://discord.gg/aNPkGUQtc5 YT version: https://youtu.be/YLNGvvgq3eg (If music annoying, skip to main interview @ 14:14) We are living in an age of rapid technological advancement, and with this growth comes a digital divide. Professor Luciano Floridi of ...
01.28.2023 #97 SREEJAN KUMAR - Human Inductive Biases in Machines from Language Research has shown that humans possess strong inductive biases which enable them to quickly learn and generalize. In order to instill these same useful human inductive biases into machines, a paper was presented by Sreejan Kumar at the NeurIPS conference ...
12.30.2022 #96 Prof. PEDRO DOMINGOS - There are no infinities, utility functions, neurosymbolic Pedro Domingos, Professor Emeritus of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington, is renowned for his research in machine learning, particularly for his work on Markov logic networks that allow for uncertain inference. He is also the author ...
12.26.2022 #95 - Prof. IRINA RISH - AGI, Complex Systems, Transhumanism Canadian Excellence Research Chair in Autonomous AI. Irina holds an MSc and PhD in AI from the University of California, Irvine as well as an MSc in Applied Mathematics from the Moscow Gubkin Institute. Her research focuses on machine learning, ...
12.26.2022 #94 - ALAN CHAN - AI Alignment and Governance #NEURIPS Support us! https://www.patreon.com/mlst Alan Chan is a PhD student at Mila, the Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms, supervised by Nicolas Le Roux. Before joining Mila, Alan was a Masters student at the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute and the University of ...
12.24.2022 #93 Prof. MURRAY SHANAHAN - Consciousness, Embodiment, Language Models Support us! https://www.patreon.com/mlst Professor Murray Shanahan is a renowned researcher on sophisticated cognition and its implications for artificial intelligence. His 2016 article ‘Conscious Exotica’ explores the Space of Possible Minds, a concept first proposed by philosopher Aaron Sloman in 1984, ...
12.23.2022 #92 - SARA HOOKER - Fairness, Interpretability, Language Models Support us! https://www.patreon.com/mlst Sara Hooker is an exceptionally talented and accomplished leader and research scientist in the field of machine learning. She is the founder of Cohere For AI, a non-profit research lab that seeks to solve complex machine learning ...
12.20.2022 #91 - HATTIE ZHOU - Teaching Algorithmic Reasoning via In-context Learning #NeurIPS Support us! https://www.patreon.com/mlst Hattie Zhou, a PhD student at Université de Montréal and Mila, has set out to understand and explain the performance of modern neural networks, believing it a key factor in building better, more trusted models. Having previously ...
12.19.2022 (Music Removed) #90 - Prof. DAVID CHALMERS - Consciousness in LLMs [Special Edition] Support us! https://www.patreon.com/mlst (On the main version we released; the music was a tiny bit too loud in places, and some pieces had percussion which was a bit distracting -- here is a version with all music removed so you ...
12.19.2022 #90 - Prof. DAVID CHALMERS - Consciousness in LLMs [Special Edition] Support us! https://www.patreon.com/mlst David Chalmers is a professor of philosophy and neural science at New York University, and an honorary professor of philosophy at the Australian National University. He is the co-director of the Center for Mind, Brain, and Consciousness, ...
12.16.2022 #88 Dr. WALID SABA - Why machines will never rule the world [UNPLUGGED] Support us! https://www.patreon.com/mlst Dr. Walid Saba recently reviewed the book Machines Will Never Rule The World, which argues that strong AI is impossible. He acknowledges the complexity of modeling mental processes and language, as well as interactive dialogues, and questions ...
12.11.2022 #86 - Prof. YANN LECUN and Dr. RANDALL BALESTRIERO - SSL, Data Augmentation, Reward isn't enough [NEURIPS2022] Yann LeCun is a French computer scientist known for his pioneering work on convolutional neural networks, optical character recognition and computer vision. He is a Silver Professor at New York University and Vice President, Chief AI Scientist at Meta. Along ...
12.08.2022 #85 Dr. Petar Veličković (Deepmind) - Categories, Graphs, Reasoning [NEURIPS22 UNPLUGGED] Dr. Petar Veličković is a Staff Research Scientist at DeepMind, he has firmly established himself as one of the most significant up and coming researchers in the deep learning space. He invented Graph Attention Networks in 2017 and has been ...
12.06.2022 #84 LAURA RUIS - Large language models are not zero-shot communicators [NEURIPS UNPLUGGED] In this NeurIPSs interview, we speak with Laura Ruis about her research on the ability of language models to interpret language in context. She has designed a simple task to evaluate the performance of widely used state-of-the-art language models and ...
12.04.2022 #83 Dr. ANDREW LAMPINEN (Deepmind) - Natural Language, Symbols and Grounding [NEURIPS2022 UNPLUGGED] First in our unplugged series live from #NeurIPS2022 We discuss natural language understanding, symbol meaning and grounding and Chomsky with Dr. Andrew Lampinen from DeepMind. We recorded a LOT of material from NeurIPS, keep an eye out for the uploads. ...
11.27.2022 #82 - Dr. JOSCHA BACH - Digital Physics, DL and Consciousness [UNPLUGGED] AI Helps Ukraine - Charity Conference A charity conference on AI to raise funds for medical and humanitarian aid for Ukraine https://aihelpsukraine.cc/ YT version: https://youtu.be/LgwjcqhkOA4 Support us! https://www.patreon.com/mlst Dr. Joscha Bach (born 1973 in Weimar, Germany) is a German artificial ...
11.20.2022 #81 JULIAN TOGELIUS, Prof. KEN STANLEY - AGI, Games, Diversity & Creativity [UNPLUGGED] Support us (and please rate on podcast app) https://www.patreon.com/mlst In this show tonight with Prof. Julian Togelius (NYU) and Prof. Ken Stanley we discuss open-endedness, AGI, game AI and reinforcement learning. [Prof Julian Togelius] https://engineering.nyu.edu/faculty/julian-togelius https://twitter.com/togelius [Prof Ken Stanley] https://www.cs.ucf.edu/~kstanley/ ...
11.15.2022 #80 AIDAN GOMEZ [CEO Cohere] - Language as Software We had a conversation with Aidan Gomez, the CEO of language-based AI platform Cohere. Cohere is a startup which uses artificial intelligence to help users build the next generation of language-based applications. It's headquartered in Toronto. The company has raised ...
11.08.2022 #79 Consciousness and the Chinese Room [Special Edition] (CHOLLET, BISHOP, CHALMERS, BACH) This video is demonetised on music copyright so we would appreciate support on our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/mlst We would also appreciate it if you rated us on your podcast platform. YT: https://youtu.be/_KVAzAzO5HU Panel: Dr. Tim Scarfe, Dr. Keith Duggar Guests: Prof. ...
07.08.2022 MLST #78 - Prof. NOAM CHOMSKY (Special Edition) Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mlst Discord: https://discord.gg/ESrGqhf5CB In this special edition episode, we have a conversation with Prof. Noam Chomsky, the father of modern linguistics and the most important intellectual of the 20th century. With a career spanning the better part of a ...
06.16.2022 #77 - Vitaliy Chiley (Cerebras) Vitaliy Chiley is a Machine Learning Research Engineer at the next-generation computing hardware company Cerebras Systems. We spoke about how DL workloads including sparse workloads can run faster on Cerebras hardware. [00:00:00] Housekeeping [00:01:08] Preamble [00:01:50] Vitaliy Chiley Introduction [00:03:11] ...
06.09.2022 #76 - LUKAS BIEWALD (Weights and Biases CEO) Check out Weights and Biases here! https://wandb.me/MLST Lukas Biewald is an entrepreneur living in San Francisco. He was the founder and CEO of Figure Eight an Internet company that collects training data for machine learning. In 2018, he founded Weights ...
04.29.2022 #75 - Emergence [Special Edition] with Dr. DANIELE GRATTAROLA An emergent behavior or emergent property can appear when a number of simple entities operate in an environment, forming more complex behaviours as a collective. If emergence happens over disparate size scales, then the reason is usually a causal relation ...
04.14.2022 #74 Dr. ANDREW LAMPINEN - Symbolic behaviour in AI [UNPLUGGED] Please note that in this interview Dr. Lampinen was expressing his personal opinions and they do not necessarily represent those of DeepMind. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mlst Discord: https://discord.gg/ESrGqhf5CB YT version: https://youtu.be/yPMtSXXn4OY Dr. Andrew Lampinen is a Senior Research Scientist at DeepMind, and ...
04.07.2022 #73 - YASAMAN RAZEGHI & Prof. SAMEER SINGH - NLP benchmarks Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mlst Discord: https://discord.gg/ESrGqhf5CB YT version: https://youtu.be/RzGaI7vXrkk This week we speak with Yasaman Razeghi and Prof. Sameer Singh from UC Urvine. Yasaman recently published a paper called Impact of Pretraining Term Frequencies on Few-Shot Reasoning where she demonstrated comprehensively that ...
03.29.2022 #72 Prof. KEN STANLEY 2.0 - On Art and Subjectivity [UNPLUGGED] YT version: https://youtu.be/DxBZORM9F-8 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mlst Discord: https://discord.gg/ESrGqhf5CB Prof. Ken Stanley argued in his book that our world has become saturated with objectives. The process of setting an objective, attempting to achieve it, and measuring progress along the way has become ...
03.25.2022 #71 - ZAK JOST (Graph Neural Networks + Geometric DL) [UNPLUGGED] Special discount link for Zak's GNN course - https://bit.ly/3uqmYVq Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mlst Discord: https://discord.gg/ESrGqhf5CB YT version: https://youtu.be/jAGIuobLp60 (there are lots of helper graphics there, recommended if poss) Want to sponsor MLST!? Let us know on Linkedin / Twitter. [00:00:00] Preamble [00:03:12] ...
03.19.2022 #70 - LETITIA PARCALABESCU - Symbolics, Linguistics [UNPLUGGED] Today we are having a discussion with Letitia Parcalabescu from the AI Coffee Break youtube channel! We discuss linguistics, symbolic AI and our respective Youtube channels. Make sure you subscribe to her channel! In the first 15 minutes Tim dissects ...
03.12.2022 #69 DR. THOMAS LUX - Interpolation of Sparse High-Dimensional Data Today we are speaking with Dr. Thomas Lux, a research scientist at Meta in Silicon Valley. In some sense, all of supervised machine learning can be framed through the lens of geometry. All training data exists as points in euclidean ...
03.07.2022 #68 DR. WALID SABA 2.0 - Natural Language Understanding [UNPLUGGED] Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mlst Discord: https://discord.gg/HNnAwSduud YT version: https://youtu.be/pMtk-iUaEuQ Dr. Walid Saba is an old-school polymath. He has a background in cognitive psychology, linguistics, philosophy, computer science and logic and he’s is now a Senior Scientist at Sorcero. Walid is perhaps the ...
03.02.2022 #67 Prof. KARL FRISTON 2.0 We engage in a bit of epistemic foraging with Prof. Karl Friston! In this show; we discuss the free energy principle in detail, also emergence, cognition, consciousness and Karl's burden of knowledge! YT: https://youtu.be/xKQ-F2-o8uM Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mlst Discord: https://discord.gg/HNnAwSduud [00:00:00] Introduction ...
02.28.2022 #66 ALEXANDER MATTICK - [Unplugged / Community Edition] We have a chat with Alexander Mattick aka ZickZack from Yannic's Discord community. Alex is one of the leading voices in that community and has an impressive technical depth. Don't forget MLST has now started it's own Discord server too, ...
02.26.2022 #65 Prof. PEDRO DOMINGOS [Unplugged] Note: there are no politics discussed in this show and please do not interpret this show as any kind of a political statement from us. We have decided not to discuss politics on MLST anymore due to its divisive nature. ...
02.24.2022 #64 Prof. Gary Marcus 3.0 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mlst Discord: https://discord.gg/HNnAwSduud YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDY2nhkPZxw We have a chat with Prof. Gary Marcus about everything which is currently top of mind for him, consciousness [00:00:00] Gary intro [00:01:25] Slightly conscious [00:24:59] Abstract, compositional models [00:32:46] Spline theory of NNs ...
02.22.2022 #063 - Prof. YOSHUA BENGIO - GFlowNets, Consciousness & Causality We are now sponsored by Weights and Biases! Please visit our sponsor link: http://wandb.me/MLST Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mlst For Yoshua Bengio, GFlowNets are the most exciting thing on the horizon of Machine Learning today. He believes they can solve previously intractable problems ...
02.03.2022 #062 - Dr. Guy Emerson - Linguistics, Distributional Semantics Dr. Guy Emerson is a computational linguist and obtained his Ph.D from Cambridge university where he is now a research fellow and lecturer. On panel we also have myself, Dr. Tim Scarfe, as well as Dr. Keith Duggar and the ...
01.04.2022 061: Interpolation, Extrapolation and Linearisation (Prof. Yann LeCun, Dr. Randall Balestriero) We are now sponsored by Weights and Biases! Please visit our sponsor link: http://wandb.me/MLST Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mlst Yann LeCun thinks that it's specious to say neural network models are interpolating because in high dimensions, everything is extrapolation. Recently Dr. Randall Balestriero, ...
10.31.2021 Siraj Raval - Stories about YouTube, Plagiarism, and the Dangers of Fame (Interview) Yannic has a conversation with Siraj Raval about his journey on YouTube, and the perils of fame. Siraj Raval was a famous ML youtuber who was caught plagiarising his content and having a catastrophic fall from grace. OUTLINE: 0:00 - ...

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