Generally Intelligent

37 Episodes

1. Episode 37: Rylan Schaeffer, Stanford: On investigating emergent abilities and challenging dominant research ideas

   Published: 18/09/2024
2. Episode 36: Ari Morcos, DatologyAI: On leveraging data to democratize model training

   Published: 11/07/2024
3. Episode 35: Percy Liang, Stanford: On the paradigm shift and societal effects of foundation models

   Published: 9/05/2024
4. Episode 34: Seth Lazar, Australian National University: On legitimate power, moral nuance, and the political philosophy of AI

   Published: 12/03/2024
5. Episode 33: Tri Dao, Stanford: On FlashAttention and sparsity, quantization, and efficient inference

   Published: 9/08/2023
6. Episode 32: Jamie Simon, UC Berkeley: On theoretical principles for how neural networks learn and generalize

   Published: 22/06/2023
7. Episode 31: Bill Thompson, UC Berkeley, on how cultural evolution shapes knowledge acquisition

   Published: 29/03/2023
8. Episode 30: Ben Eysenbach, CMU, on designing simpler and more principled RL algorithms

   Published: 23/03/2023
9. Episode 29: Jim Fan, NVIDIA, on foundation models for embodied agents, scaling data, and why prompt engineering will become irrelevant

   Published: 9/03/2023
10. Episode 28: Sergey Levine, UC Berkeley, on the bottlenecks to generalization in reinforcement learning, why simulation is doomed to succeed, and how to pick good research problems

    Published: 1/03/2023
11. Episode 27: Noam Brown, FAIR, on achieving human-level performance in poker and Diplomacy, and the power of spending compute at inference time

    Published: 9/02/2023
12. Episode 26: Sugandha Sharma, MIT, on biologically inspired neural architectures, how memories can be implemented, and control theory

    Published: 17/01/2023
13. Episode 25: Nicklas Hansen, UCSD, on long-horizon planning and why algorithms don't drive research progress

    Published: 16/12/2022
14. Episode 24: Jack Parker-Holder, DeepMind, on open-endedness, evolving agents and environments, online adaptation, and offline learning

    Published: 6/12/2022
15. Episode 23: Celeste Kidd, UC Berkeley, on attention and curiosity, how we form beliefs, and where certainty comes from

    Published: 22/11/2022
16. Episode 22: Archit Sharma, Stanford, on unsupervised and autonomous reinforcement learning

    Published: 17/11/2022
17. Episode 21: Chelsea Finn, Stanford, on the biggest bottlenecks in robotics and reinforcement learning

    Published: 3/11/2022
18. Episode 20: Hattie Zhou, Mila, on supermasks, iterative learning, and fortuitous forgetting

    Published: 14/10/2022
19. Episode 19: Minqi Jiang, UCL, on environment and curriculum design for general RL agents

    Published: 19/07/2022
20. Episode 18: Oleh Rybkin, UPenn, on exploration and planning with world models

    Published: 11/07/2022