The Information Bottleneck
Two AI Researchers - Ravid Shwartz Ziv, and Allen Roush, discuss the latest trends, news, and research within Generative AI, LLMs, GPUs, and Cloud Systems.
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Jan. 6, 2026
EP21: Privacy in the Age of Agents
Guest: Niloofar Mireshghallah (Incoming Assistant Professor at CMU, Member of Technical Staff at Humans and AI) In this episode, we dive into AI privacy, frontier model capabilities, and why academia still matters. We kick of...
Dec. 15, 2025
EP20: Yann LeCun
Yann LeCun – Why LLMs Will Never Get Us to AGI "The path to superintelligence - just train up the LLMs, train on more synthetic data, hire thousands of people to school your system in post-training, invent new tweaks on RL-I ...
Dec. 10, 2025
EP19: Al in Finance and Symbolic Al with Atlas Wang
Atlas Wang (UT Austin faculty, XTX Research Director) joins us to explore two fascinating frontiers: the foundations of symbolic AI and the practical challenges of building AI systems for quantitative finance. On the symbolic...
Dec. 1, 2025
EP18: AI Robotics
In this episode, we hosted Judah Goldfeder, a PhD candidate at Columbia University and student researcher at Google, to discuss robotics, reproducibility in ML, and smart buildings. Key topics covered: Robotics challenges: We...
Nov. 24, 2025
EP17: RL with Will Brown
In this episode, we talk with Will Brown, a research lead at Prime Intellect , about his journey into reinforcement learning (RL) and multi-agent systems, exploring their theoretical foundations and practical applications. We...
Nov. 17, 2025
EP16: AI News and Papers
In this episode, we discuss various topics in AI, including the challenges of the conference review process, the capabilities of Kimi K2 thinking, the advancements in TPU technology, the significance of real-world data in rob...