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Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)

by Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)

The Mathematical Foundations of Intelligence [Professor Yi Ma]

13.12.2025 • 01:39:14

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

08.12.2025 • 01:27:48

Pedro Domingos, author of the bestselling book "The Master Algorithm," introduces his latest work: Tensor Logic - a new programming language he believ...

He Co-Invented the Transformer. Now: Continuous Thought Machines - Llion Jones and Luke Darlow [Sakana AI]

23.11.2025 • 01:12:39

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]

03.11.2025 • 00:24:19

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]

25.10.2025 • 00:40:59

"What is life?" - asks Chris Kempes, a professor at the Santa Fe Institute. Chris explains that scientists are moving beyond a purely Earth-based, bi...

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

21.10.2025 • 00:59:53

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...

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

18.10.2025 • 01:19:39

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)

04.10.2025 • 01:01:07

Dr. Ilia Shumailov - Former DeepMind AI Security Researcher, now building security tools for AI agents Ever wondered what happens when AI agents star...

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

27.09.2025 • 01:08:27

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)

19.09.2025 • 02:03:48

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...