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Towards Data Science — 130 episodes

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130. Edouard Harris - New Research: Advanced AI may tend to seek power *by default*

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129. Amber Teng - Building apps with a new generation of language models

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128. David Hirko - AI observability and data as a cybersecurity weakness

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127. Matthew Stewart - The emerging world of ML sensors

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126. JR King - Does the brain run on deep learning?

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125. Ryan Fedasiuk - Can the U.S. and China collaborate on AI safety?

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124. Alex Watson - Synthetic data could change everything

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123. Ala Shaabana and Jacob Steeves - AI on the blockchain (it actually might just make sense)

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122. Sadie St. Lawrence - Trends in data science

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121. Alexei Baevski - data2vec and the future of multimodal learning

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120. Liam Fedus and Barrett Zoph - AI scaling with mixture of expert models

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119. Jaime Sevilla - Projecting AI progress from compute trends

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118. Angela Fan - Generating Wikipedia articles with AI

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117. Beena Ammanath - Defining trustworthy AI

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116. Katya Sedova - AI-powered disinformation, present and future

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115. Irina Rish - Out-of-distribution generalization

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114. Sam Bowman - Are we *under-hyping* AI?

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113. Yaron Singer - Catching edge cases in AI

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112. Tali Raveh - AI, single cell genomics, and the new era of computational biology

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111. Mo Gawdat - Scary Smart: A former Google exec’s perspective on AI risk

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110. Alex Turner - Will powerful AIs tend to seek power?

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109. Danijar Hafner - Gaming our way to AGI

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108. Last Week In AI — 2021: The (full) year in review

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107. Kevin Hu - Data observability and why it matters

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106. Yang Gao - Sample-efficient AI

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105. Yannic Kilcher - A 10,000-foot view of AI

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104. Ken Stanley - AI without objectives

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103. Gillian Hadfield - How to create explainable AI regulations that actually make sense

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102. Wendy Foster - AI ethics as a user experience challenge

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101. Ayanna Howard - AI and the trust problem

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100. Max Jaderberg - Open-ended learning at DeepMind

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99. Margaret Mitchell - (Practical) AI ethics

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98. Mike Tung - Are knowledge graphs AI’s next big thing?

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97. Anthony Habayeb - The present and future of AI regulation

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96. Jan Leike - AI alignment at OpenAI

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95. Francesca Rossi - Thinking, fast and slow: AI edition

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94. Divya Siddarth - Are we thinking about AI wrong?

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93. 2021: A year in AI (so far) - Reviewing the biggest AI stories of 2021 with our friends at the Let’s Talk AI podcast

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92. Daniel Filan - Peering into neural nets for AI safety

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91. Peter Gao - Self-driving cars: Past, present and future

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90. Jeffrey Ding - China’s AI ambitions and why they matter

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89. Pointing AI in the right direction - A cross-over episode with the Banana Data podcast!

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88. Oren Etzioni - The case against (worrying about) existential risk from AI

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87. Evan Hubinger - The Inner Alignment Problem

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86. Andy Jones - AI Safety and the Scaling Hypothesis

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85. Brian Christian - The Alignment Problem

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84. Eliano Marques - The (evolving) world of AI privacy and data security

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83. Rosie Campbell - Should all AI research be published?

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82. Jakob Foerster - The high cost of automated weapons

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81. Nicolas Miailhe - AI risk is a global problem

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80. Yan Li - The Surprising Challenges of Global AI Philanthropy

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79. Ryan Carey - What does your AI want?

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78. Melanie Mitchell - Existential risk from AI: A skeptical perspective

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77. Josh Fairfield - AI advances, but can the law keep up?

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76. Stuart Armstrong - AI: Humanity's Endgame?

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75. Georg Northoff - Consciousness and AI

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74. Ethan Perez - Making AI safe through debate

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73. David Roodman - Economic history and the road to the singularity

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72. Margot Gerritsen - Does AI have to be understandable to be ethical?

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71. Ben Garfinkel - Superhuman AI and the future of democracy and government

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70. Sarah Williams - What does ethical AI even mean?

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69. Anders Sandberg - Answering the Fermi Question: Is AI our Great Filter?

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68. Silvia Milano - Ethical problems with recommender systems

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67. Joaquin Quiñonero-Candela - Responsible AI at Facebook

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66. Owain Evans - Predicting the future of AI

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65. Helen Toner - The strategic and security implications of AI

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64. David Krueger - Managing the incentives of AI

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63. Geordie Rose - Will AGI need to be embodied?

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62. Nicolai Baldin - AI meets the law: Bias, fairness, privacy and regulation

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61. Ben Goertzel - The unorthodox path to AGI

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60. Rob Miles - Why should I care about AI safety?

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59. Matthew Stewart - Tiny ML and the future of on-device AI

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58. David Duvenaud - Using generative models for explainable AI

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57. Dylan Hadfield-Menell - Humans in the loop

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56. Annette Zimmermann - The ethics of AI

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55. Rohin Shah - Effective altruism, AI safety, and learning human preferences from the state of the world

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54. Tim Rocktäschel - Deep reinforcement learning, symbolic learning and the road to AGI

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53. Edouard Harris - Emerging problems in machine learning: making AI "good"

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52. Sanyam Bhutani - Networking like a pro in data science

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51. Adrien Treuille and Tim Conkling - Streamlit Is All You Need

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50. Ken Jee - Building your brand in data science

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49. Catherine Zhou - The data science of learning

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48. Emmanuel Ameisen - Beyond the jupyter notebook: how to build data science products

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47. Goku Mohandas - Industry research and how to show off your projects

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46. Ihab Ilyas - Data cleaning is finally being automated

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45. Kenny Ning - Is data science merging with data engineering?

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44. Jakob Foerster - Multi-agent reinforcement learning and the future of AI

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43. Ian Scott - Data science at Deloitte

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42. Will Grathwohl - Energy-based models and the future of generative algorithms

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41. Solmaz Shahalizadeh - Data science in high-growth companies

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40. David Meza - Data science at NASA

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39. Nick Pogrebnyakov - Data science at Reuters, and the remote work after the coronavirus

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38. Matthew Stewart - Data privacy and machine learning in environmental science

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37. Sean Knapp - The brave new world of data engineering

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36. Max Welling - The future of machine learning

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35. Rubén Harris - Learning and looking for jobs in quarantine

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34. Denise Gosnell and Matthias Broecheler - You should really learn about graph databases. Here’s why.

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33. Roland Memisevic - Machines that can see and hear

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32. Bahador Khaleghi - Explainable AI and AI interpretability

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31. Russell Pollari - Building habits and breaking into data science

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30. Interviewing the Medium data science team

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29. Cameron Davidson-Pillon - Data science at Shopify

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28. Emily Robinson - Building a Career in Data Science

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27. Alayna Kennedy - AI safety, AI ethics and the AGI debate

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26. Jeremy Howard - Coronavirus: the data behind the disease

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25. Chris Parmer - Plotly founder on what data science is, and where it's going

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24. Xander Steenbrugge - Machine learning as a creative tool, and the quest for artificial general intelligence

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23. Iain Harlow - Leaving academia for industry and optimizing how you learn

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22. Luke Marsden - Data Science Infrastructure and MLOps

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21. Adam Waksman - Data science is becoming software engineering

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20. Chanchal Chatterjee - Real Talk with AI Leader at Google

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19. Will Koehrsen - Self-Learning Data Science and Sharing the Knowledge on Medium

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18. Edouard Harris - Mastering the data science job hunt

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17. Nate Nichols - Product instinct and data storytelling

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16. Helen Ngo - Real Talk with Machine Learning Engineer

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15. Ian Xiao - Why Machine Learning Is More Boring Than You May Think

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14. Jeremie Harris - Building a Data Science Startup & Getting Into Data Science

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13. Jessica Li - Predicting Snowmelt Patterns with Deep Learning and Satellite Imagery

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12. Rachael Tatman - Data science at Kaggle

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11. Sanjeev Sharma - DataOps and data science at enterprise scale

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10. Sanyam Bhutani - Data science beyond the classroom

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9. Ben Lorica - Trends in data science with O'Reilly Media's Chief Data Scientist

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8. George Hayward: comedian, lawyer and data scientist

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7. Serkan Piantino - From Facebook to startups: data science is becoming an engineering problem

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6. Jay Feng - Data science in the startup world

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5. Rocio Ng - Data science and product management at LinkedIn

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4. Akshay Singh - The thin line between data science and data engineering

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Susan Holcomb - Nontechnical career skills for data scientists

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Tan Vachiramon - Choosing the right algorithm for your real-world problem

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Joel Grus - The case against the jupyter notebook