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Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)

by Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)

Why Leibniz Couldn't Find the Mind Inside the Mill (Joscha Bach)

11/02/2026 • 01:37:07

Joscha Bach is a cognitive scientist and the founder of the California Institute for Machine Consciousness. SPONSOR: --- Parallel is a single platf...

Mathematics Just Changed Forever — Kevin Hartnett

10/26/2026 • 01:33:33

Kevin Hartnett is the author of *The Proof in the Code*.SPONSOR:---Cyber Fund built the Monastery to help founders ship products that were impossible ...

What Most People Get Wrong About Evolution | Akarsh Kumar

10/10/2026 • 00:47:54

A lot of people in AI treat evolution as a dumb fallback, basically random search for when you can't take a gradient. Akarsh Kumar thinks that is wron...

How a Voice Agent Learns the Rhythm of Conversation — Shawn Wen

10/01/2026 • 01:10:09

Tsung-Hsien (Shawn) Wen, CTO of PolyAI, tells Tim Scarfe why voice agents are harder than text agents. Voice adds time, and a good conversation depend...

Who Checks a Proof No Human Can Read? — Leo de Moura

09/30/2026 • 01:14:19

Leonardo de Moura created Lean and co-created Z3. ---This episode is sponsored by Parallel.Parallel, where agents find answers: web search, extraction...

When AI Research Starts Moving Faster Than Human Research - Zhengyao Jiang

09/26/2026 • 00:43:42

Weco let an AI coding agent rewrite the harness around another agent for eight days: its code, prompts and tools, while the underlying language model ...

How Deep Learning Finally Cracked Messy Tables - Frank Hutter

09/23/2026 • 01:53:12

Frank Hutter, co-founder of Prior Labs, talks about TabPFN, a tabular foundation model that makes predictions in a single forward pass, and the resear...

Why Scaling Prediction Cannot Create Intelligence - Alexander Mattick

09/21/2026 • 02:14:20

Alexander Mattick is a researcher at Fraunhofer IIS and a PhD researcher at the University of Technology Nuremberg (UTN), and a regular on Yannic Kilc...

How Physical AI Learns Across Language, Video and Action — Ming-Yu Liu

09/15/2026 • 00:25:57

The car making a left turn at the start of this episode was never filmed. Cosmos 3 generated it. Ming-Yu Liu, who leads the Cosmos research at NVIDIA,...

Speech Recognition Is Not a Solved Problem — Pavan Kumar Reddy

09/14/2026 • 01:42:22

Pavan Kumar Reddy leads audio research at Mistral AI. He joins Tim Scarfe for a deep technical tour of Voxtral — and explains why the frontier of depl...