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- 2025 in AI, with Nathan Benaich · 1 jam 1 mntEpisode 144 Happy New Year! This is one of my favorite episodes of the year — for the fourth time, Nathan Benaich and I did our yearly roundup of AI news and advancements…
- Iason Gabriel: Value Alignment and the Ethics of Advanced AI Systems · 59 mntEpisode 143 I spoke with Iason Gabriel about: * Value alignment * Technology and worldmaking * How AI systems affect individuals and the social world Iason is a philosopher and…
- 2024 in AI, with Nathan Benaich · 1 jam 48 mntEpisode 142 Happy holidays! This is one of my favorite episodes of the year — for the third time, Nathan Benaich and I did our yearly roundup of all the AI news and advancements…
- Philip Goff: Panpsychism as a Theory of Consciousness · 1 jam 0 mntEpisode 141 I spoke with Professor Philip Goff about: * What a “post-Galilean” science of consciousness looks like * How panpsychism helps explain consciousness and the hybrid…
- Some Changes at The Gradient · 34 mntHi everyone! If you’re a new subscriber or listener, welcome. If you’re not new, you’ve probably noticed that things have slowed down from us a bit recently. Hugh Zhang, Andrey…
- Jacob Andreas: Language, Grounding, and World Models · 1 jam 52 mntEpisode 140 I spoke with Professor Jacob Andreas about: * Language and the world * World models * How he’s developed as a scientist Enjoy! Jacob is an associate professor at MIT…
- Evan Ratliff: Our Future with Voice Agents · 1 jam 19 mntEpisode 139 I spoke with Evan Ratliff about: * Shell Game, Evan’s new podcast, where he creates an AI voice clone of himself and sets it loose. * The end of the Longform Podcast…
- Meredith Ringel Morris: Generative AI's HCI Moment · 1 jam 37 mntEpisode 138 I spoke with Meredith Morris about: * The intersection of AI and HCI and why we need more cross-pollination between AI and adjacent fields * Disability studies and AI…
- Davidad Dalrymple: Towards Provably Safe AI · 1 jam 20 mntEpisode 137 I spoke with Davidad Dalrymple about: * His perspectives on AI risk * ARIA (the UK’s Advanced Research and Invention Agency) and its Safeguarded AI Programme…
- Clive Thompson: Tales of Technology · 2 jam 27 mntEpisode 136 I spoke with Clive Thompson about: * How he writes * Writing about the climate and biking across the US * Technology culture and persistent debates in AI * Poetry…
- Judy Fan: Reverse Engineering the Human Cognitive Toolkit · 1 jam 32 mntEpisode 136 I spoke with Judy Fan about: * Our use of physical artifacts for sensemaking * Why cognitive tools can be a double-edged sword * Her approach to scientific inquiry…
- L.M. Sacasas: The Questions Concerning Technology · 1 jam 47 mntEpisode 135 I spoke with L. M. Sacasas about: * His writing and intellectual influences * The value of asking hard questions about technology and our relationship to it * What…
- Pete Wolfendale: The Revenge of Reason · 2 jam 52 mntEpisode 134 I spoke with Pete Wolfendale about: * The flaws in longtermist thinking * Selections from his new book, The Revenge of Reason * Metaphysics * What philosophy has to…
- Peter Lee: Computing Theory and Practice, and GPT-4's Impact · 1 jam 1 mntEpisode 133 I spoke with Peter Lee about: * His early work on compiler generation, metacircularity, and type theory * Paradoxical problems * GPT-4s impact, Microsoft’s “Sparks of…
- Manuel & Lenore Blum: The Conscious Turing Machine · 2 jam 23 mntEpisode 132 I spoke with Manuel and Lenore Blum about: * Their early influences and mentors * The Conscious Turing Machine and what theoretical computer science can tell us about…
- Kevin Dorst: Against Irrationalist Narratives · 2 jam 15 mntEpisode 131 I spoke with Professor Kevin Dorst about: * Subjective Bayesianism and epistemology foundations * What happens when you’re uncertain about your evidence * Why it’s…
- David Pfau: Manifold Factorization and AI for Science · 2 jam 0 mntEpisode 130 I spoke with David Pfau about: * Spectral learning and ML * Learning to disentangle manifolds and (projective) representation theory * Deep learning for computational…
- Dan Hart and Michelle Michael: Bringing AI to Students in New South Wales · 1 jam 13 mntEpisode 129 I spoke with Dan Hart and Michelle Michael about: * Developing NSWEduChat, an AI-powered chatbot designed and delivered by the NSW Department of Education for…
- Kristin Lauter: Private AI, Homomorphic Encryption, and AI for Cryptography · 1 jam 17 mntEpisode 129 I spoke with Kristin Lauter about: * Elliptic curve cryptography and homomorphic encryption * Standardizing cryptographic protocols * Machine Learning on encrypted…
- Sergiy Nesterenko: Automating Circuit Board Design · 1 jam 3 mntEpisode 128 I spoke with Sergiy Nesterenko about: * Developing an automated system for designing PCBs * Difficulties in human and automated PCB design * Building a startup at the…
