Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)
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When AI Discovers The Next Transformer - Robert Lange (Sakana)
78 hours 6 mins; March 13, 2026
"Vibe Coding is a Slot Machine" - Jeremy Howard
86 hours 39 mins; March 03, 2026
Evolution "Doesn't Need" Mutation - Blaise AgĂĽera y Arcas
55 mins; February 16, 2026
VAEs Are Energy-Based Models? [Dr. Jeff Beck]
46 mins; January 25, 2026
Abstraction & Idealization: AI's Plato Problem [Mazviita Chirimuuta]
53 mins; January 23, 2026
Why Every Brain Metaphor in History Has Been Wrong [SPECIAL EDITION]
42 mins; January 23, 2026
Bayesian Brain, Scientific Method, and Models [Dr. Jeff Beck]
76 hours 37 mins; December 31, 2025
Your Brain is Running a Simulation Right Now [Max Bennett]
197 hours 9 mins; December 30, 2025
The 3 Laws of Knowledge [César Hidalgo]
97 hours 5 mins; December 27, 2025
"I Desperately Want To Live In The Matrix" - Dr. Mike Israetel
175 hours 46 mins; December 24, 2025
Making deep learning perform real algorithms with Category Theory (Andrew Dudzik, Petar Velichkovich, Taco Cohen, Bruno Gavranović, Paul Lessard)
43 mins; December 22, 2025
Are AI Benchmarks Telling The Full Story? [SPONSORED] (Andrew Gordon and Nora Petrova - Prolific)
16 mins; December 20, 2025
The Mathematical Foundations of Intelligence [Professor Yi Ma]
99 hours 14 mins; December 13, 2025
Pedro Domingos: Tensor Logic Unifies AI Paradigms
87 hours 48 mins; December 07, 2025
He Co-Invented the Transformer. Now: Continuous Thought Machines - Llion Jones and Luke Darlow [Sakana AI]
72 hours 39 mins; November 23, 2025
Why Humans Are Still Powering AI [Sponsored]
24 mins; November 02, 2025
The Universal Hierarchy of Life - Prof. Chris Kempes [SFI]
40 mins; October 25, 2025
Google Researcher Shows Life "Emerges From Code" - Blaise AgĂĽera y Arcas
59 mins; October 21, 2025
The Secret Engine of AI - Prolific [Sponsored] (Sara Saab, Enzo Blindow)
79 hours 39 mins; October 18, 2025
AI Agents Can Code 10,000 Lines of Hacking Tools In Seconds - Dr. Ilia Shumailov (ex-GDM)
61 hours 7 mins; October 04, 2025
New top score on ARC-AGI-2-pub (29.4%) - Jeremy Berman
68 hours 27 mins; September 27, 2025
Deep Learning is Not So Mysterious or Different - Prof. Andrew Gordon Wilson (NYU)
123 hours 48 mins; September 19, 2025
Karl Friston - Why Intelligence Can't Get Too Large (Goldilocks principle)
81 hours 39 mins; September 10, 2025
The Day AI Solves My Puzzles Is The Day I Worry (Prof. Cristopher Moore)
94 hours 52 mins; September 04, 2025
Michael Timothy Bennett: Defining Intelligence and AGI Approaches
65 hours 44 mins; August 28, 2025
Superintelligence Strategy (Dan Hendrycks)
105 hours 38 mins; August 13, 2025
DeepMind Genie 3 [World Exclusive] (Jack Parker Holder, Shlomi Fruchter)
58 mins; August 05, 2025
Large Language Models and Emergence: A Complex Systems Perspective (Prof. David C. Krakauer)
49 mins; July 31, 2025
Pushing compute to the limits of physics
83 hours 32 mins; July 21, 2025
The Fractured Entangled Representation Hypothesis (Kenneth Stanley, Akarsh Kumar)
136 hours 22 mins; July 05, 2025
The Fractured Entangled Representation Hypothesis (Intro)
15 mins; July 05, 2025
Three Red Lines We're About to Cross Toward AGI (Daniel Kokotajlo, Gary Marcus, Dan Hendrycks)
127 hours 7 mins; June 23, 2025
How AI Learned to Talk and What It Means - Prof. Christopher Summerfield
68 hours 28 mins; June 16, 2025
"Blurring Reality" - Chai's Social AI Platform (SPONSORED)
50 mins; May 26, 2025
Google AlphaEvolve - Discovering new science (exclusive interview)
73 hours 58 mins; May 14, 2025
Prof. Randall Balestriero - LLMs without pretraining and SSL
34 mins; April 23, 2025
How Machines Learn to Ignore the Noise (Kevin Ellis + Zenna Tavares)
76 hours 55 mins; April 08, 2025
Eiso Kant (CTO poolside) - Superhuman Coding Is Coming!
96 hours 28 mins; April 02, 2025
The Compendium - Connor Leahy and Gabriel Alfour
97 hours 10 mins; March 30, 2025
ARC Prize v2 Launch! (Francois Chollet and Mike Knoop)
54 mins; March 24, 2025
Test-Time Adaptation: the key to reasoning with DL (Mohamed Osman)
63 hours 36 mins; March 22, 2025
GSMSymbolic paper - Iman Mirzadeh (Apple)
71 hours 23 mins; March 19, 2025
Reasoning, Robustness, and Human Feedback in AI - Max Bartolo (Cohere)
83 hours 11 mins; March 18, 2025
Tau Language: The Software Synthesis Future (sponsored)
101 hours 19 mins; March 12, 2025
John Palazza - Vice President of Global Sales @ CentML ( sponsored)
54 mins; March 10, 2025
Transformers Need Glasses! - Federico Barbero
60 hours 54 mins; March 08, 2025
Sakana AI - Chris Lu, Robert Tjarko Lange, Cong Lu
97 hours 54 mins; March 01, 2025
Clement Bonnet - Can Latent Program Networks Solve Abstract Reasoning?
51 mins; February 19, 2025
Prof. Jakob Foerster - ImageNet Moment for Reinforcement Learning?
53 mins; February 18, 2025
Daniel Franzen & Jan Disselhoff - ARC Prize 2024 winners
69 hours 4 mins; February 12, 2025
Sepp Hochreiter - LSTM: The Comeback Story?
67 hours 1 min; February 11, 2025
Want to Understand Neural Networks? Think Elastic Origami! - Prof. Randall Balestriero
78 hours 10 mins; February 08, 2025
Nicholas Carlini (Google DeepMind)
81 hours 15 mins; January 25, 2025
Subbarao Kambhampati - Do o1 models search?
92 hours 13 mins; January 22, 2025
How Do AI Models Actually Think? - Laura Ruis
78 hours 1 min; January 19, 2025
Jurgen Schmidhuber on Humans co-existing with AIs
72 hours 50 mins; January 16, 2025
Yoshua Bengio - Designing out Agency for Safe AI
101 hours 53 mins; January 15, 2025
Francois Chollet - ARC reflections - NeurIPS 2024
86 hours 46 mins; January 08, 2025
Jeff Clune - Agent AI Needs Darwin
120 hours 13 mins; January 03, 2025
Neel Nanda - Mechanistic Interpretability (Sparse Autoencoders)
222 hours 36 mins; December 07, 2024
Jonas HĂĽbotter (ETH) - Test Time Inference
105 hours 56 mins; December 01, 2024
How AI Could Be A Mathematician's Co-Pilot by 2026 (Prof. Swarat Chaudhuri)
104 hours 42 mins; November 25, 2024
Nora Belrose - AI Development, Safety, and Meaning
149 hours 50 mins; November 17, 2024
Why Your GPUs are underutilised for AI - CentML CEO Explains
128 hours 40 mins; November 13, 2024
Eliezer Yudkowsky and Stephen Wolfram on AI X-risk
258 hours 30 mins; November 11, 2024
Pattern Recognition vs True Intelligence - Francois Chollet
162 hours 54 mins; November 06, 2024
The Elegant Math Behind Machine Learning - Anil Ananthaswamy
113 hours 11 mins; November 04, 2024
Michael Levin - Why Intelligence Isn't Limited To Brains.
63 hours 35 mins; October 24, 2024
Speechmatics CTO - Next-Generation Speech Recognition
106 hours 23 mins; October 23, 2024
Dr. Sanjeev Namjoshi - Active Inference
165 hours 32 mins; October 22, 2024
Joscha Bach - Why Your Thoughts Aren't Yours.
112 hours 45 mins; October 20, 2024
Decompiling Dreams: A New Approach to ARC? - Alessandro Palmarini
51 mins; October 19, 2024
It's Not About Scale, It's About Abstraction - Francois Chollet
46 mins; October 12, 2024
Bold AI Predictions From Cohere Co-founder
47 mins; October 10, 2024
Open-Ended AI: The Key to Superhuman Intelligence? - Prof. Tim Rocktäschel
55 mins; October 04, 2024
Ben Goertzel on "Superintelligence"
97 hours 18 mins; October 01, 2024
Taming Silicon Valley - Prof. Gary Marcus
116 hours 55 mins; September 24, 2024
Prof. Mark Solms - The Hidden Spring
86 hours 45 mins; September 18, 2024
Patrick Lewis (Cohere) - Retrieval Augmented Generation
73 hours 46 mins; September 16, 2024
Ashley Edwards - Genie Paper (DeepMind/Runway)
25 mins; September 13, 2024
Cohere's SVP Technology - Saurabh Baji
90 hours 25 mins; September 12, 2024
David Hanson's Vision for Sentient Robots
53 mins; September 10, 2024
The Fabric of Knowledge - David Spivak
46 mins; September 05, 2024
JĂĽrgen Schmidhuber - Neural and Non-Neural AI, Reasoning, Transformers, and LSTMs
99 hours 39 mins; August 28, 2024
"AI should NOT be regulated at all!" - Prof. Pedro Domingos
132 hours 15 mins; August 25, 2024
Adversarial Examples and Data Modelling - Andrew Ilyas (MIT)
88 hours 0 mins; August 22, 2024
Joscha Bach - AGI24 Keynote (Cyberanimism)
57 mins; August 21, 2024
Gary Marcus' keynote at AGI-24
72 hours 16 mins; August 17, 2024
Is ChatGPT an N-gram model on steroids?
32 mins; August 15, 2024
Jay Alammar on LLMs, RAG, and AI Engineering
57 mins; August 11, 2024
Can AI therapy be more effective than drugs?
134 hours 7 mins; August 08, 2024
Prof. Subbarao Kambhampati - LLMs don't reason, they memorize (ICML2024 2/13)
102 hours 27 mins; July 29, 2024
Sayash Kapoor - How seriously should we take AI X-risk? (ICML 1/13)
49 mins; July 28, 2024
Sara Hooker - Why US AI Act Compute Thresholds Are Misguided
65 hours 41 mins; July 18, 2024
Prof. Murray Shanahan - Machines Don't Think Like Us
135 hours 22 mins; July 14, 2024
David Chalmers - Reality+
77 hours 57 mins; July 08, 2024
Ryan Greenblatt - Solving ARC with GPT4o
138 hours 1 min; July 06, 2024
Aiden Gomez - CEO of Cohere (AI's 'Inner Monologue' – Crucial for Reasoning)
60 hours 22 mins; June 29, 2024
New "50%" ARC result and current winners interviewed
134 hours 17 mins; June 18, 2024
Cohere co-founder Nick Frosst on building LLM apps for business
41 mins; June 16, 2024