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Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST) — 252 episodes

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1

When AI Decides You're a Threat — Brad Carson

2

Intelligence is collective, not artificial — Prof. Michael I. Jordan (UC Berkeley / Inria)

3

The AI Models Smart Enough to Know They're Cheating — Beth Barnes & David Rein [METR]

4

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

5

"Vibe Coding is a Slot Machine" - Jeremy Howard

6

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

7

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

8

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

9

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

10

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

11

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

12

The 3 Laws of Knowledge [César Hidalgo]

13

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

14

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

15

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

16

The Mathematical Foundations of Intelligence [Professor Yi Ma]

17

Pedro Domingos: Tensor Logic Unifies AI Paradigms

18

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

19

Why Humans Are Still Powering AI [Sponsored]

20

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

21

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

22

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

23

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

24

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

25

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

26

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

27

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

28

Michael Timothy Bennett: Defining Intelligence and AGI Approaches

29

Superintelligence Strategy (Dan Hendrycks)

30

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

31

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

32

Pushing compute to the limits of physics

33

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

34

The Fractured Entangled Representation Hypothesis (Intro)

35

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

36

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

37

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

38

Google AlphaEvolve - Discovering new science (exclusive interview)

39

Prof. Randall Balestriero - LLMs without pretraining and SSL

40

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

41

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

42

The Compendium - Connor Leahy and Gabriel Alfour

43

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

44

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

45

GSMSymbolic paper - Iman Mirzadeh (Apple)

46

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

47

Tau Language: The Software Synthesis Future (sponsored)

48

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

49

Transformers Need Glasses! - Federico Barbero

50

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

51

Clement Bonnet - Can Latent Program Networks Solve Abstract Reasoning?

52

Prof. Jakob Foerster - ImageNet Moment for Reinforcement Learning?

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Daniel Franzen & Jan Disselhoff - ARC Prize 2024 winners

54

Sepp Hochreiter - LSTM: The Comeback Story?

55

Want to Understand Neural Networks? Think Elastic Origami! - Prof. Randall Balestriero

56

Nicholas Carlini (Google DeepMind)

57

Subbarao Kambhampati - Do o1 models search?

58

How Do AI Models Actually Think? - Laura Ruis

59

Jurgen Schmidhuber on Humans co-existing with AIs

60

Yoshua Bengio - Designing out Agency for Safe AI

61

Francois Chollet - ARC reflections - NeurIPS 2024

62

Jeff Clune - Agent AI Needs Darwin

63

Neel Nanda - Mechanistic Interpretability (Sparse Autoencoders)

64

Jonas Hübotter (ETH) - Test Time Inference

65

How AI Could Be A Mathematician's Co-Pilot by 2026 (Prof. Swarat Chaudhuri)

66

Nora Belrose - AI Development, Safety, and Meaning

67

Why Your GPUs are underutilised for AI - CentML CEO Explains

68

Eliezer Yudkowsky and Stephen Wolfram on AI X-risk

69

Pattern Recognition vs True Intelligence - Francois Chollet

70

The Elegant Math Behind Machine Learning - Anil Ananthaswamy

71

Michael Levin - Why Intelligence Isn't Limited To Brains.

72

Speechmatics CTO - Next-Generation Speech Recognition

73

Dr. Sanjeev Namjoshi - Active Inference

74

Joscha Bach - Why Your Thoughts Aren't Yours.

75

Decompiling Dreams: A New Approach to ARC? - Alessandro Palmarini

76

It's Not About Scale, It's About Abstraction - Francois Chollet

77

Bold AI Predictions From Cohere Co-founder

78

Open-Ended AI: The Key to Superhuman Intelligence? - Prof. Tim Rocktäschel

79

Ben Goertzel on "Superintelligence"

80

Taming Silicon Valley - Prof. Gary Marcus

81

Prof. Mark Solms - The Hidden Spring

82

Patrick Lewis (Cohere) - Retrieval Augmented Generation

83

Ashley Edwards - Genie Paper (DeepMind/Runway)

84

Cohere's SVP Technology - Saurabh Baji

85

David Hanson's Vision for Sentient Robots

86

The Fabric of Knowledge - David Spivak

87

Jürgen Schmidhuber - Neural and Non-Neural AI, Reasoning, Transformers, and LSTMs

88

"AI should NOT be regulated at all!" - Prof. Pedro Domingos

89

Adversarial Examples and Data Modelling - Andrew Ilyas (MIT)

90

Joscha Bach - AGI24 Keynote (Cyberanimism)

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Gary Marcus' keynote at AGI-24

92

Is ChatGPT an N-gram model on steroids?

93

Jay Alammar on LLMs, RAG, and AI Engineering

94

Can AI therapy be more effective than drugs?

95

Prof. Subbarao Kambhampati - LLMs don't reason, they memorize (ICML2024 2/13)

96

Sayash Kapoor - How seriously should we take AI X-risk? (ICML 1/13)

97

Sara Hooker - Why US AI Act Compute Thresholds Are Misguided

98

Prof. Murray Shanahan - Machines Don't Think Like Us

99

David Chalmers - Reality+

100

Ryan Greenblatt - Solving ARC with GPT4o

101

Aiden Gomez - CEO of Cohere (AI's 'Inner Monologue' – Crucial for Reasoning)

102

New "50%" ARC result and current winners interviewed

103

Cohere co-founder Nick Frosst on building LLM apps for business

104

What’s the Magic Word? A Control Theory of LLM Prompting.

105

CAN MACHINES REPLACE US? (AI vs Humanity) - Maria Santacaterina

106

Dr. Thomas Parr - Active Inference Book

107

Connor Leahy - e/acc, AGI and the future.

108

Prof. Chris Bishop's NEW Deep Learning Textbook!

109

Philip Ball - How Life Works

110

Dr. Paul Lessard - Categorical/Structured Deep Learning

111

Can we build a generalist agent? Dr. Minqi Jiang and Dr. Marc Rigter

112

Prof. Nick Chater - The Language Game (Part 1)

113

Kenneth Stanley created a new social network based on serendipity and divergence

114

Dr. Brandon Rohrer - Robotics, Creativity and Intelligence

115

Showdown Between e/acc Leader And Doomer - Connor Leahy + Beff Jezos

116

Mahault Albarracin - Cognitive Science

117

$450M AI Startup In 3 Years | Chai AI

118

DOES AI HAVE AGENCY? With Professor. Karl Friston and Riddhi J. Pitliya

119

Understanding Deep Learning - Prof. SIMON PRINCE [STAFF FAVOURITE]

120

Prof. BERT DE VRIES - ON ACTIVE INFERENCE

121

MULTI AGENT LEARNING - LANCELOT DA COSTA

122

THE HARD PROBLEM OF OBSERVERS - WOLFRAM & FRISTON [SPECIAL EDITION]

123

DR. JEFF BECK - THE BAYESIAN BRAIN

124

Prof. Melanie Mitchell 2.0 - AI Benchmarks are Broken!

125

Autopoitic Enactivism and the Free Energy Principle - Prof. Friston, Prof Buckley, Dr. Ramstead

126

STEPHEN WOLFRAM 2.0 - Resolving the Mystery of the Second Law of Thermodynamics

127

Prof. Jürgen Schmidhuber - FATHER OF AI ON ITS DANGERS

128

Can We Develop Truly Beneficial AI? George Hotz and Connor Leahy

129

Dr. MAXWELL RAMSTEAD - The Physics of Survival

130

MUNK DEBATE ON AI (COMMENTARY) [DAVID FOSTER]

131

[SPONSORED] The Digitized Self: AI, Identity and the Human Psyche (YouAi)

132

Joscha Bach and Connor Leahy on AI risk

133

Neel Nanda - Mechanistic Interpretability

134

Prof. Daniel Dennett - Could AI Counterfeit People Destroy Civilization? (SPECIAL EDITION)

135

Decoding the Genome: Unraveling the Complexities with AI and Creativity [Prof. Jim Hughes, Oxford]

136

ROBERT MILES - "There is a good chance this kills everyone"

137

AI Senate Hearing - Executive Summary (Sam Altman, Gary Marcus)

138

Future of Generative AI [David Foster]

139

PERPLEXITY AI - The future of search.

140

#114 - Secrets of Deep Reinforcement Learning (Minqi Jiang)

141

Unlocking the Brain's Mysteries: Chris Eliasmith on Spiking Neural Networks and the Future of Human-Machine Interaction

142

#112 AVOIDING AGI APOCALYPSE - CONNOR LEAHY

143

#111 - AI moratorium, Eliezer Yudkowsky, AGI risk etc

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#110 Dr. STEPHEN WOLFRAM - HUGE ChatGPT+Wolfram announcement!

145

#109 - Dr. DAN MCQUILLAN - Resisting AI

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#108 - Dr. JOEL LEHMAN - Machine Love [Staff Favourite]

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#107 - Dr. RAPHAËL MILLIÈRE - Linguistics, Theory of Mind, Grounding

148

#106 - Prof. KARL FRISTON 3.0 - Collective Intelligence [Special Edition]

149

#105 - Dr. MICHAEL OLIVER [CSO - Numerai]

150

#104 - Prof. CHRIS SUMMERFIELD - Natural General Intelligence [SPECIAL EDITION]

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#103 - Prof. Edward Grefenstette - Language, Semantics, Philosophy

152

#102 - Prof. MICHAEL LEVIN, Prof. IRINA RISH - Emergence, Intelligence, Transhumanism

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#100 Dr. PATRICK LEWIS (co:here) - Retrieval Augmented Generation

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#99 - CARLA CREMER & IGOR KRAWCZUK - X-Risk, Governance, Effective Altruism

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[NO MUSIC] #98 - Prof. LUCIANO FLORIDI - ChatGPT, Singularitarians, Ethics, Philosophy of Information

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#98 - Prof. LUCIANO FLORIDI - ChatGPT, Superintelligence, Ethics, Philosophy of Information

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#97 SREEJAN KUMAR - Human Inductive Biases in Machines from Language

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#96 Prof. PEDRO DOMINGOS - There are no infinities, utility functions, neurosymbolic

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#95 - Prof. IRINA RISH - AGI, Complex Systems, Transhumanism

160

#94 - ALAN CHAN - AI Alignment and Governance #NEURIPS

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#93 Prof. MURRAY SHANAHAN - Consciousness, Embodiment, Language Models

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#92 - SARA HOOKER - Fairness, Interpretability, Language Models

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#91 - HATTIE ZHOU - Teaching Algorithmic Reasoning via In-context Learning #NeurIPS

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(Music Removed) #90 - Prof. DAVID CHALMERS - Consciousness in LLMs [Special Edition]

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#90 - Prof. DAVID CHALMERS - Consciousness in LLMs [Special Edition]

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#88 Dr. WALID SABA - Why machines will never rule the world [UNPLUGGED]

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#86 - Prof. YANN LECUN and Dr. RANDALL BALESTRIERO - SSL, Data Augmentation, Reward isn't enough [NEURIPS2022]

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#85 Dr. Petar Veličković (Deepmind) - Categories, Graphs, Reasoning [NEURIPS22 UNPLUGGED]

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#84 LAURA RUIS - Large language models are not zero-shot communicators [NEURIPS UNPLUGGED]

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#83 Dr. ANDREW LAMPINEN (Deepmind) - Natural Language, Symbols and Grounding [NEURIPS2022 UNPLUGGED]

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#82 - Dr. JOSCHA BACH - Digital Physics, DL and Consciousness [UNPLUGGED]

172

#81 JULIAN TOGELIUS, Prof. KEN STANLEY - AGI, Games, Diversity & Creativity [UNPLUGGED]

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#80 AIDAN GOMEZ [CEO Cohere] - Language as Software

174

#79 Consciousness and the Chinese Room [Special Edition] (CHOLLET, BISHOP, CHALMERS, BACH)

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MLST #78 - Prof. NOAM CHOMSKY (Special Edition)

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#77 - Vitaliy Chiley (Cerebras)

177

#76 - LUKAS BIEWALD (Weights and Biases CEO)

178

#75 - Emergence [Special Edition] with Dr. DANIELE GRATTAROLA

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#74 Dr. ANDREW LAMPINEN - Symbolic behaviour in AI [UNPLUGGED]

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#73 - YASAMAN RAZEGHI & Prof. SAMEER SINGH - NLP benchmarks

181

#72 Prof. KEN STANLEY 2.0 - On Art and Subjectivity [UNPLUGGED]

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#71 - ZAK JOST (Graph Neural Networks + Geometric DL) [UNPLUGGED]

183

#70 - LETITIA PARCALABESCU - Symbolics, Linguistics [UNPLUGGED]

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#69 DR. THOMAS LUX - Interpolation of Sparse High-Dimensional Data

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#68 DR. WALID SABA 2.0 - Natural Language Understanding [UNPLUGGED]

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#67 Prof. KARL FRISTON 2.0

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#66 ALEXANDER MATTICK - [Unplugged / Community Edition]

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#65 Prof. PEDRO DOMINGOS [Unplugged]

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#64 Prof. Gary Marcus 3.0

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#063 - Prof. YOSHUA BENGIO - GFlowNets, Consciousness & Causality

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#062 - Dr. Guy Emerson - Linguistics, Distributional Semantics

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061: Interpolation, Extrapolation and Linearisation (Prof. Yann LeCun, Dr. Randall Balestriero)

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#60 Geometric Deep Learning Blueprint (Special Edition)

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#59 - Jeff Hawkins (Thousand Brains Theory)

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#58 Dr. Ben Goertzel - Artificial General Intelligence

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#57 - Prof. Melanie Mitchell - Why AI is harder than we think

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#56 - Dr. Walid Saba, Gadi Singer, Prof. J. Mark Bishop (Panel discussion)

198

#55 Self-Supervised Vision Models (Dr. Ishan Misra - FAIR).

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#54 Gary Marcus and Luis Lamb - Neurosymbolic models

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#53 Quantum Natural Language Processing - Prof. Bob Coecke (Oxford)

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#52 - Unadversarial Examples (Hadi Salman, MIT)

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#51 Francois Chollet - Intelligence and Generalisation

203

#50 Christian Szegedy - Formal Reasoning, Program Synthesis

204

#49 - Meta-Gradients in RL - Dr. Tom Zahavy (DeepMind)

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#48 Machine Learning Security - Andy Smith

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047 Interpretable Machine Learning - Christoph Molnar

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#046 The Great ML Stagnation (Mark Saroufim and Dr. Mathew Salvaris)

208

#045 Microsoft's Platform for Reinforcement Learning (Bonsai)

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#044 - Data-efficient Image Transformers (Hugo Touvron)

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#043 Prof J. Mark Bishop - Artificial Intelligence Is Stupid and Causal Reasoning won't fix it.

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#042 - Pedro Domingos - Ethics and Cancel Culture

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#041 - Biologically Plausible Neural Networks - Dr. Simon Stringer

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#040 - Adversarial Examples (Dr. Nicholas Carlini, Dr. Wieland Brendel, Florian Tramèr)

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#039 - Lena Voita - NLP

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#038 - Professor Kenneth Stanley - Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned

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#037 - Tour De Bayesian with Connor Tann

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#036 - Max Welling: Quantum, Manifolds & Symmetries in ML

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#035 Christmas Community Edition!

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#034 Eray Özkural- AGI, Simulations & Safety

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#033 Prof. Karl Friston - The Free Energy Principle

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#032- Simon Kornblith / GoogleAI - SimCLR and Paper Haul!

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#031 WE GOT ACCESS TO GPT-3! (With Gary Marcus, Walid Saba and Connor Leahy)

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#030 Multi-Armed Bandits and Pure-Exploration (Wouter M. Koolen)

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#029 GPT-3, Prompt Engineering, Trading, AI Alignment, Intelligence

225

NLP is not NLU and GPT-3 - Walid Saba

226

AI Alignment & AGI Fire Alarm - Connor Leahy

227

Kaggle, ML Community / Engineering (Sanyam Bhutani)

228

Sara Hooker - The Hardware Lottery, Sparsity and Fairness

229

The Social Dilemma Part 3 - Dr. Rebecca Roache

230

The Social Dilemma - Part 1

231

Capsule Networks and Education Targets

232

Programming Languages, Software Engineering and Machine Learning

233

Computation, Bayesian Model Selection, Interactive Articles

234

Kernels!

235

Explainability, Reasoning, Priors and GPT-3

236

SWaV: Unsupervised Learning of Visual Features by Contrasting Cluster Assignments (Mathilde Caron)

237

UK Algoshambles, Neuralink, GPT-3 and Intelligence

238

Sayak Paul

239

Robert Lange on NN Pruning and Collective Intelligence

240

WelcomeAIOverlords (Zak Jost)

241

Facebook Research - Unsupervised Translation of Programming Languages

242

Francois Chollet - On the Measure of Intelligence

243

OpenAI GPT-3: Language Models are Few-Shot Learners

244

Jordan Edwards: ML Engineering and DevOps on AzureML

245

One Shot and Metric Learning - Quadruplet Loss (Machine Learning Dojo)

246

Harri Valpola: System 2 AI and Planning in Model-Based Reinforcement Learning

247

ICLR 2020: Yoshua Bengio and the Nature of Consciousness

248

ICLR 2020: Yann LeCun and Energy-Based Models

249

The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis with Jonathan Frankle

250

Exploring the Limits of Transfer Learning with a Unified Text-to-Text Transformer

251

CURL: Contrastive Unsupervised Representations for Reinforcement Learning

252

Exploring Open-Ended Algorithms: POET