Thinking Machines: AI & Philosophy
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Thinking Machines: AI & Philosophy is a technology podcast hosted by Daniel Reid Cahn. It has 27 episodes, with the latest published September 2025.
“Thinking Machines,” hosted by Daniel Reid Cahn, bridges the worlds of artificial intelligence and philosophy - aimed at technical audiences. Episodes explore how AI challenges our understanding of topics like consciousness, free will, and morality, featuring interviews with leading thinkers, AI leaders, founders, machine learning engineers, and philosophers. Daniel guides listeners through the complex landscape of artificial intelligence, questioning its impact on human knowledge, ethics, and the future.We talk through the big questions that are bubbling through the AI community, covering topics like "Can AI be Creative?" and "Is the Turing Test outdated?", introduce new concepts to our vocabulary like "human washing," and only occasionally agree with each other.Daniel is a machine learning engineer who misses his time as a philosopher at King's College London. Daniel is the cofounder and CEO of Slingshot AI, building the foundation model for psychology.
technology ·en ·27 episodes
AI Therapy: An Open Conversation with Therapists
AI Therapy with Slingshot's Derrick Hull
What if we could cure loneliness? Philosophy, dopamine, and more with Mark Ungless
Does Philosophy Make Progress? Chatting with Every's Dan Shipper
OpenAI o1: Another GPT-3 moment?
The Future is Fine Tuned (with Dev Rishi, Predibase)
Pre-training LLMs: One Model To Rule Them All? with Talfan Evans, DeepMind
On Adversarial Training & Robustness with Bhavna Gopal
On Emotionally Intelligent AI (with Chris Gagne, Hume AI)
Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned (with Joel Lehman)
Where are the good AI products? (with Varun Shenoy)
The End of RAG (with Donato Riccio)
GPUs and how the cloud is changing (with Cedana Founder, Neel Master)
Live Video Translation with AI
Is open-source AI safe? (with SafeLlama founder, Enoch Kan)
What is the future of AI-assisted or AI-driven software?
Is the Turing Test Outdated?
Prompt Engineering
AI for Investment Diligence
The Myth of Human-in-the-Loop
AI-Generated Content and the Boring Apocalypse
Programming for Machine Learning (Tech Talk)
AI's End of History Illusion
Design Driven Development at Slingshot
LLM Inference Speed (Tech Deep Dive)
Why is Llama 2 Open Source? What is Meta up to?
Can AI be Creative?
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