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Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)

Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)

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Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST) is a technology podcast hosted by Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST). It has 249 episodes, with the latest published March 2026.

Welcome! We engage in fascinating discussions with pre-eminent figures in the AI field. Our flagship show covers current affairs in AI, cognitive science, neuroscience and philosophy of mind with in-depth analysis. Our approach is unrivalled in terms of scope and rigour – we believe in intellectual diversity in AI, and we touch on all of the main ideas in the field with the hype surgically removed. MLST is run by Tim Scarfe, Ph.D (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ecsquizor/) and features regular appearances from MIT Doctor of Philosophy Keith Duggar (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-keith-duggar/).

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1

When AI Discovers The Next Transformer - Robert Lange (Sakana)

2

"Vibe Coding is a Slot Machine" - Jeremy Howard

3

Evolution "Doesn't Need" Mutation - Blaise Agüera y Arcas

4

VAEs Are Energy-Based Models? [Dr. Jeff Beck]

5

Abstraction & Idealization: AI's Plato Problem [Mazviita Chirimuuta]

6

Why Every Brain Metaphor in History Has Been Wrong [SPECIAL EDITION]

7

Bayesian Brain, Scientific Method, and Models [Dr. Jeff Beck]

8

Your Brain is Running a Simulation Right Now [Max Bennett]

9

The 3 Laws of Knowledge [César Hidalgo]

10

"I Desperately Want To Live In The Matrix" - Dr. Mike Israetel

11

Making deep learning perform real algorithms with Category Theory (Andrew Dudzik, Petar Velichkovich, Taco Cohen, Bruno Gavranović, Paul Lessard)

12

Are AI Benchmarks Telling The Full Story? [SPONSORED] (Andrew Gordon and Nora Petrova - Prolific)

13

The Mathematical Foundations of Intelligence [Professor Yi Ma]

14

Pedro Domingos: Tensor Logic Unifies AI Paradigms

15

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

16

Why Humans Are Still Powering AI [Sponsored]

17

The Universal Hierarchy of Life - Prof. Chris Kempes [SFI]

18

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

19

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

20

AI Agents Can Code 10,000 Lines of Hacking Tools In Seconds - Dr. Ilia Shumailov (ex-GDM)

21

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

22

Deep Learning is Not So Mysterious or Different - Prof. Andrew Gordon Wilson (NYU)

23

Karl Friston - Why Intelligence Can't Get Too Large (Goldilocks principle)

24

The Day AI Solves My Puzzles Is The Day I Worry (Prof. Cristopher Moore)

25

Michael Timothy Bennett: Defining Intelligence and AGI Approaches

26

Superintelligence Strategy (Dan Hendrycks)

27

DeepMind Genie 3 [World Exclusive] (Jack Parker Holder, Shlomi Fruchter)

28

Large Language Models and Emergence: A Complex Systems Perspective (Prof. David C. Krakauer)

29

Pushing compute to the limits of physics

30

The Fractured Entangled Representation Hypothesis (Kenneth Stanley, Akarsh Kumar)

31

The Fractured Entangled Representation Hypothesis (Intro)

32

Three Red Lines We're About to Cross Toward AGI (Daniel Kokotajlo, Gary Marcus, Dan Hendrycks)

33

How AI Learned to Talk and What It Means - Prof. Christopher Summerfield

34

"Blurring Reality" - Chai's Social AI Platform (SPONSORED)

35

Google AlphaEvolve - Discovering new science (exclusive interview)

36

Prof. Randall Balestriero - LLMs without pretraining and SSL

37

How Machines Learn to Ignore the Noise (Kevin Ellis + Zenna Tavares)

38

Eiso Kant (CTO poolside) - Superhuman Coding Is Coming!

39

The Compendium - Connor Leahy and Gabriel Alfour

40

ARC Prize v2 Launch! (Francois Chollet and Mike Knoop)

41

Test-Time Adaptation: the key to reasoning with DL (Mohamed Osman)

42

GSMSymbolic paper - Iman Mirzadeh (Apple)

43

Reasoning, Robustness, and Human Feedback in AI - Max Bartolo (Cohere)

44

Tau Language: The Software Synthesis Future (sponsored)

45

John Palazza - Vice President of Global Sales @ CentML ( sponsored)

46

Transformers Need Glasses! - Federico Barbero

47

Sakana AI - Chris Lu, Robert Tjarko Lange, Cong Lu

48

Clement Bonnet - Can Latent Program Networks Solve Abstract Reasoning?

49

Prof. Jakob Foerster - ImageNet Moment for Reinforcement Learning?

50

Daniel Franzen & Jan Disselhoff - ARC Prize 2024 winners

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