The Robot Brains Podcast

By Pieter Abbeel

Technology Education

What's The Robot Brains Podcast about?

In each episode of The Robot Brains podcast, renowned artificial intelligence researcher, professor and entrepreneur Pieter Abbeel meets the brilliant minds attempting to build robots with brains. Pieter is joined by leading experts in AI Robotics from all over the world as he explores how far humanity has come in its mission to create conscious computers, mindful machines and rational robots. Host: Pieter Abbeel | Executive Producers: Alice Patel & Henry Tobias Jones | Audio Production: Kieron Matthew Banerji | Title Music: Alejandro Del Pozo Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Jitendra Malik: Building AI...

08.17.2023

Jitendra Malik, Professor of EECS at UC Berkeley discusses with host Pieter Abbeel building AI from the ground-up and sensorimotor before language. Subscribe to the Robot Brains Podcast today | Visit therobotbrains.ai and follow us on YouTube at TheRobotBrainsPodcast and ...

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08.17.2023 Jitendra Malik: Building AI from the ground-up, sensorimotor before language Jitendra Malik, Professor of EECS at UC Berkeley discusses with host Pieter Abbeel building AI from the ground-up and sensorimotor before language. Subscribe to the Robot Brains Podcast today \| Visit therobotbrains.ai and follow us on YouTube at TheRobotBrainsPodcast and ...
08.11.2023 Seb Boyer of Farmwise: AI that helps feed the world Seb Boyer of Farmwise discusses with host Pieter Abbeel AI that helps feed the world. Subscribe to the Robot Brains Podcast today \| Visit therobotbrains.ai and follow us on YouTube at TheRobotBrainsPodcast and Twitter at @pabbeel. Hosted on Acast. See ...
08.03.2023 John Schulman of OpenAI on ChatGPT: invention, capabilities and limitations John Schulman, co-founder OpenAI, discusses with host Pieter Abbeel the invention, capabilities, and limitations of ChatGPT. Subscribe to the Robot Brains Podcast today \| Visit therobotbrains.ai and follow us on YouTube at TheRobotBrainsPodcast and Twitter at @pabbeel. Hosted on Acast. ...
07.26.2023 Yaniv Altshuler: reducing cow methane emissions with AI Yaniv Altshuler, MIT Media Lab researcher, joins Pieter Abbeel to discuss reducing cow methane emissions with AI and more. Subscribe to the Robot Brains Podcast today \| Visit therobotbrains.ai and follow us on YouTube at TheRobotBrainsPodcast and Twitter at @pabbeel. ...
07.12.2023 Woody Hoburg: NASA Astronaut directly from the International Space Station Woody Hoburg, a member of NASA’s Expedition 69 crew, joined Pieter Abbeel to discuss his life and work currently aboard the International Space Station. Subscribe to the Robot Brains Podcast today \| Visit therobotbrains.ai and follow us on YouTube at ...
07.06.2023 Jesse Levinson of Zoox: reinventing personal transportation from the ground up Jesse Levinson, co-founder and CTO of Zoox joins Pieter Abbeel to discuss reinventing personal transportation from the ground up. Subscribe to the Robot Brains Podcast today \| Visit therobotbrains.ai and follow us on YouTube at TheRobotBrainsPodcast and Twitter at @pabbeel. ...
06.28.2023 Noam Brown: from Open AI on solving Poker and Diplomacy with AI Noam Brown joins host Pieter Abbeel to discuss solving poker and Diplomacy with AI. Subscribe to the Robot Brains Podcast today \| Visit therobotbrains.ai and follow us on YouTube at TheRobotBrainsPodcast and Twitter @therobotbrains. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for ...
06.21.2023 Stephen Balaban: building the most cost-effective AI cloud Stephen Balaban, CEO and founder of Lambda joins host Pieter Abbeel to discuss building the most cost-effective AI cloud. Subscribe to the Robot Brains Podcast today \| Visit therobotbrains.ai and follow us on YouTube at TheRobotBrainsPodcast and Twitter @therobotbrains. Hosted ...
06.07.2023 Rocky Duan: from OpenAI to Covariant and building foundation models for robotic automation Rocky Duan, CTO of Covariant joins joins Host Pieter Abbeel to talk about his time at OpenAI to founding Covariant to build foundation models for robotic automation. Subscribe to the Robot Brains Podcast today \| Visit therobotbrains.ai and follow us ...
05.24.2023 Raffaello D'Andrea of Verity: how drones can find misplaced items and put on art shows Raffaello D'Andrea of Verity, Kiva Systems, and ETH Zurich joins Host Pieter Abbeel to discuss how drones misplace items and put on art shows. Subscribe to the Robot Brains Podcast today \| Visit therobotbrains.ai and follow us on YouTube at ...
05.17.2023 Yejin Choi: teaching AI common sense and morality Yejin Choi joins Host Pieter Abbeel to discuss how we can teach AI common sense and morality and what ChatGPT can't do yet. Subscribe to the Robot Brains Podcast today \| Visit therobotbrains.ai and follow us on YouTube at TheRobotBrainsPodcast ...
05.10.2023 Geoff Hinton Returns: the Godfather of AI on quitting Google to warn of AI risks Geoff Hinton, the "Godfather of AI" returns to the Robot Brains with Pieter Abeel to discuss quitting Google to warn of AI risks. Geoff and Peter discuss whether AI is smarter than people, the role of regulation, fusing human and ...
05.03.2023 Lukas Biewald of Weights and Biases: solving pain-points of AI researchers Lukas Biewald of Weights and Biases joins Host Pieter Abbeel to discuss solving the pain-points of AI researchers and practitioners. Subscribe to the Robot Brains Podcast today \| Visit therobotbrains.ai and follow us on YouTube at TheRobotBrainsPodcast and Twitter @therobotbrains. ...
04.26.2023 Nando de Freitas of DeepMind: generalizable AI to benefit everyone Nando de Freitas of DeepMind joins Host Pieter Abbeel to discuss generalizable AI to benefit everyone. Subscribe to the Robot Brains Podcast today \| Visit therobotbrains.ai and follow us on YouTube at TheRobotBrainsPodcast and Twitter @therobotbrains. Hosted on Acast. See ...
04.19.2023 Richard Socher of You.com: the David taking on the "Search" Goliath Google Richard Socher from You.com (and before that, Stanford, MetaMind, Salesforce) joins Host Pieter Abbeel to discuss the future of search, LLMs, AGI, You.com, Metamind, AIX Ventures. Subscribe to the Robot Brains Podcast today \| Visit therobotbrains.ai and follow us on ...
04.12.2023 Raluca Ada Popa: how to train AI and keep your data confidential Raluca Ada Popa from UC Berkeley, Opaque Systems, PreVeil joins Host Pieter Abbeel to discuss data privacy and AI, cloud enclaves, confidential and encrypted computing, differential privacy, PreVeil, and Opaque Systems. Subscribe to the Robot Brains Podcast today \| Visit ...
04.05.2023 Aidan Gomez of Cohere: building instructable agents Aidan Gomez, co-founder and CEO of Cohere joins Host Pieter Abbeel to discuss transformers, large language models, command and instruct models, prompt engineering, and LLMs competitive landscape. Subscribe to the Robot Brains Podcast today \| Visit therobotbrains.ai and follow us ...
03.29.2023 Alexandr Wang of ScaleAI: in AI your data writes the program Alexandr Wang from Scale AI joins Host Pieter Abbeel to discuss data, labeling, foundation models, LLMs, truthfulness, reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF), and AI for defense. Subscribe to the Robot Brains Podcast today \| Visit therobotbrains.ai and follow us ...
03.22.2023 Chelsea Finn: how to build AI that can keep up with an always changing world Chelsea Finn joins Host Pieter Abbeel to discuss distribution shift, meta-learning, editing LLMs, single-life RL, and what can AI not (yet) do today. Subscribe to the Robot Brains Podcast today \| Visit therobotbrains.ai and follow us on YouTube at TheRobotBrainsPodcast ...
03.15.2023 Yoshua Bengio: equipping AI with higher level cognition and creativity Yoshua Bengio joins Host Pieter Abbeel to discuss large language models, higher level cognition, causality, responsible AI, and human creativity. SUBSCRIBE TO THE ROBOT BRAINS PODCAST TODAY \| Visit therobotbrains.ai and follow us on YouTube at TheRobotBrainsPodcast, Twitter @therobotbrains, and ...
06.08.2022 Twitter Q&A with Geoff Hinton Last week, we were honored to have Professor Geoff Hinton join the show for a wide-ranging discussion inspired by insights gleaned from Hinton’s journey in academia, as well as past 10 years with Google Brain. The episode covers how existing ...
06.01.2022 Geoff Hinton on revolutionizing artificial intelligence... again Over the past ten years, AI has experienced breakthrough after breakthrough in everything from computer vision to speech recognition, protein folding prediction, and so much more. Many of these advancements hinge on the deep learning work conducted by our guest, ...
05.25.2022 Clement Delangue of Hugging Face on building the GitHub of machine learning Originally created to be an open domain conversational AI, your own ‘artificial BFF' that you could chat with when your real friends weren’t available — fast forward six years, and Hugging Face is the leading Natural Language Processing (NLP) start-up. ...
05.18.2022 Amit Aggarwal of THE YES is making AI fashionable As we all re-entered society over the last year, after months of WFH sweatpants and t-shirts, a personal stylist would have been helpful. Well, now there’s AI for that - THE YES. By taking a quick style quiz, you’ll have ...
05.12.2022 Spotify's Gustav Söderström on machine learning to personalize user experiences Music is universal. It transcends language. Melodies have the power to trigger strong emotions. In fact, our brains release dopamine - the “feel good” hormone - when we listen to music. Today’s guest, Spotify’s Chief R&D; Officer Gustav Söderström, has ...
05.04.2022 Adam Bry of Skydio is leading the next generation of autonomous drones When you are skiing down a mountain, riding your bike along a forest trail, or surfing 6-footers, it is hard enough just to concentrate on what you are doing, let alone try to capture a video of the moment. But ...
04.27.2022 Catapult Sports on AI that is changing the game Sports and artificial intelligence aren’t two areas that often intersect. That has begun to change as IoT and wearables have begun to be adopted by more professional sports teams. The data that’s produced can be used to identify areas of ...
04.20.2022 Amit Prakash of ThoughtSpot on empowering companies to make data-driven decisions Every business wants to be a data-driven business these days; basing decisions on tangible facts derived from historical precedents and clear-cut numbers. But that’s a lot easier said than done. This episode’s guest, Amit Prakash, is on a mission to ...
04.13.2022 Eric Horvitz of Microsoft on AI for the greater good On Episode 15 of Season 2, we’re joined by Eric Horvitz, Microsoft’s first ever Chief Scientific Officer. His research spans theoretical and practical challenges with developing systems that perceive, learn, and reason. He’s the company’s top inventor since joining in ...
04.06.2022 Andrew Song of Whisper AI on solving hearing loss with AI The five senses...touch, sight, smell, taste, and hearing. They are critical to how we perceive the world around us. Without them, we are lost. And as we grow older, they tend to weaken particularly when it comes to sight and ...
03.30.2022 Dean Ayanna Howard on why AI can never be truly unbiased For Episode 13, we're joined by industry pioneer, Dean Ayanna Howard. She began working at NASA's JPL at 18-years old to help build the Mars Rover and never slowed down from there. She is a successful roboticist, entrepreneur, educator, and ...
03.23.2022 Shakir Mohamed of DeepMind on the power of deep learning If any company is at the top of most people’s minds when it comes to AI, it’s DeepMind. They have been at the forefront of many major breakthroughs including AlphaGo, the first AI to beat a human Go world champion ...
03.16.2022 Revolution Robotics is bringing a robotics team to every school It doesn’t matter what country you live in, or what industry you build a career in, STEM skills are increasingly important - particularly for children and students who are yet to join the world of work. Introducing robotics to children ...
03.09.2022 George Netscher of SafelyYou on the role of AI for fall detection On Episode 10 of Season 2, Pieter is joined by the CEO of SafelyYou, George Netscher. Pieter and George first met at UC Berkeley's AI lab when George was pursuing a PhD with a clear picture in his mind of ...
03.02.2022 Flora Tasse on building computer vision-based customer service models For Episode 9, we welcome an AI researcher and entrepreneur who has been on a remarkable journey, Flora Tasse. She grew up in Cameroon, where she completed her Bachelors in Mathematics at the University of Buea. She received a second ...
02.23.2022 How Wayve is teaching cars to drive For Episode 8, Pieter Abbeel interviews Alex Kendall, the co-founder and CEO of Wayve, the London-based company pioneering AI technology to enable autonomous vehicles to drive in complex, never-seen-before environments. Alex is a world expert in deep learning and computer ...
02.16.2022 Meet Ross Wightman, a prolific contributor to the AI/ML open source movement One thing every AI researcher knows is that most foundational AI research is actually happening in open-source. Indeed, most AI researchers publish their research findings openly on arxiv, a freely accessible, open repository originally mostly used by physics researchers. And ...
02.09.2022 Cathy Wu of MIT on the future of our highways and roads Previous guests on our podcasts - from Tesla, Aurora, Waymo - are building the brains of the cars and trucks of our future. This episode's guest, Professor Cathy Wu, is building the roadways of our future. She is building machine-learning ...
02.02.2022 Tanay Tandon of Athelas on the future of blood diagnostics using machine-learning Analyzing a person’s blood (and the cells within it) is often used to diagnose many health conditions and illnesses, from infections to leukemia and bone marrow disorders. Generally it's a long and expensive process. You have to go to the ...
01.26.2022 What matters in tech according to Benedict Evans Warning Explicit language used in the episode. Benedict Evans, long-time technology analyst and occasional VC at firms such as Andreessen Horowitz, is well-known for his analysis of mobile, media and technology trends. He writes a popular weekly newsletter on the ...
01.19.2022 David Rolnick on how machine learning can help tackle climate change While the world’s temperature rises, there are scores of scientists working around the globe to study causes and solutions. One scientist in particular, David Rolnick, has stood out as a pioneer of machine-learning in the fight against climate change. David ...
01.12.2022 Mike Fisher of Etsy talks AI and E-commerce In the second episode of Season Two of The Robot Brains, Pieter Abbeel interviews the Chief Technology Officer of Etsy, Mike Fisher. Etsy is a global online marketplace, where people come together to make, sell, buy, and collect unique items. ...
01.05.2022 Sergey Levine explains the challenges of real world robotics In Episode One of Season Two, Host Pieter Abbeel is joined by guest (and close collaborator) Sergey Levine, professor at UC Berkeley, EECS. Sergey discusses the early years of his career, how Andrew Ng influenced him to become interested in ...
12.26.2021 Season Two: Trailer Join host Pieter Abbeel on Season 2 of the The Robot Brains podcast as he explores how far humanity has come in its mission to create conscious computers, mindful machines, and rational robots. Episode 1 of Season Two will air ...
08.25.2021 Ilya Sutskever explains the origins of deep learning On the last episode (Ep.22) of Season One of The Robot Brains Podcast our guest is Ilya Sutskever. Ilya is the Co-Founder and Chief Scientist of OpenAI. As a PhD student at Toronto, Ilya was one of the authors on ...
08.18.2021 Josh Lessing on AppHarvest and the future of robotic farming On the penultimate episode (Ep.21) of Season One of The Robot Brains Podcast our guest is Josh Lessing. Josh is the CTO of AppHarvest, one of the leading pioneers in Agricultural Technology (or AgTech). Farming is one of the world's ...
08.11.2021 Fei-Fei Li on revolutionizing AI for the real world On Ep.20 of The Robot Brains Podcast, Pieter Abbeel is joined by Fei-Fei Li. Her legendary status in the field of AI precedes her on our podcast because she's been discussed frequently by many of our previous guests - many ...
08.04.2021 Boris Krumrey explains UiPath's dream of a robot for every office worker Joining us for episode 19 of The Robot Brains Podcast is Boris Krumrey, Global VP of Automation Solutions at UI Path. We have all heard of physical robots, autonomous machines that help humans with tasks in the real world, but ...
07.28.2021 Chris Urmson on Aurora and the future of autonomous vehicles In episode 18 of The Robot Brains Podcast our host Pieter Abbeel meets Chris Urmson. Chris is one of the world-leading pioneers in self-driving. He led the Google self-driving project for several years - which later became Waymo. Then, in ...
07.21.2021 Peter Puchwein explains KNAPP's robotics-enhanced vision for the future of the logistics industry In episode 17 of our host Pieter Abbeel meets Peter Puchwein. Peter is the Vice President of Innovation at KNAPP, one of the world market leaders in warehouse logistics and automation. During their interview Pieter and Peter discuss the many ...

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