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By Daniel Bashir
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Deeply researched, technical interviews with experts thinking about AI and technology.
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1 hr 1 min
Topics
Model development, learning methods, prediction systems, and applied machine learning.
Major technology platforms, companies, ecosystems, leadership, and competitive behavior.
Systems that generate text, images, audio, video, software, or other new content.
Formats
Detailed technical, architectural, or research-oriented examination.
Host-led conversation where a guest supplies most of the subject matter.
Audience level
Assumes basic technology literacy and familiarity with common products, roles, and terminology.
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Episode 144 Happy New Year! This is one of my favorite episodes of the year — for the fourth time, Nathan Benaich and I did our yearly roundup of AI news and advancements, including selections from this year’s State of AI Report. If you’ve stuck around and continue to listen, I’m really thankful you’re here.
Episode 143 I spoke with Iason Gabriel about: Value alignment Technology and worldmaking How AI systems affect individuals and the social world Iason is a philosopher and Senior Staff Research Scientist at Google DeepMind.
Episode 142 Happy holidays! This is one of my favorite episodes of the year — for the third time, Nathan Benaich and I did our yearly roundup of all the AI news and advancements you need to know.
Episode 141 I spoke with Professor Philip Goff about: What a “post-Galilean” science of consciousness looks like How panpsychism helps explain consciousness and the hybrid cosmopsychist view Enjoy!
Hi everyone! If you’re a new subscriber or listener, welcome. If you’re not new, you’ve probably noticed that things have slowed down from us a bit recently. Hugh Zhang, Andrey Kurenkov and I sat down to recap some of The Gradient’s history, where we are now, and how things will look going forward.
Episode 140 I spoke with Professor Jacob Andreas about: Language and the world World models How he’s developed as a scientist Enjoy! Jacob is an associate professor at MIT in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science as well as the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
Episode 139 I spoke with Evan Ratliff about: Shell Game, Evan’s new podcast, where he creates an AI voice clone of himself and sets it loose. The end of the Longform Podcast and his thoughts on the state of journalism. Enjoy!
Enjoy! Meredith is Director for Human-AI Interaction Research for Google DeepMind and an Affiliate Professor in The Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering and in The Information School at the University of Washington, where she participates in the dub research consortium.
Episode 137 I spoke with Davidad Dalrymple about: His perspectives on AI risk ARIA (the UK’s Advanced Research and Invention Agency) and its Safeguarded AI Programme Enjoy—and let me know what you think! Davidad is a Programme Director at ARIA. He was most recently a Research Fellow in technical AI safety at Oxford.
Episode 136 I spoke with Clive Thompson about: How he writes Writing about the climate and biking across the US Technology culture and persistent debates in AI Poetry Enjoy—and let me know what you think! Clive is a journalist who writes about science and technology.