The Information Bottleneck

In this episode, we hosted Zhuang Liu , Assistant Professor at Princeton and former researcher at Meta, for a conversation about what actually matters in modern AI and what turns out to be a historical accident. Zhuang is beh...

We talked with Sasha Rush , researcher at Cursor and professor at Cornell, about what it actually feels like to we in the heart of the AI revolution and build coding agents right now. Sasha shared how these systems are changi...

How Denoising Secretly Powers Everything in AI Peyman Milanfar is a Distinguished Scientist at Google, leading its Computational Imaging team. He's a member of the National Academy of Engineering, an IEEE Fellow, and one of t...

Yaroslav Bulatov helped build the AI era from the inside, as one of the earliest researchers at both OpenAI and Google Brain. Now he wants to tear it all down and start over. Modern deep learning, he argues, is up to 100x mor...

We talk with Kyunghyun Cho, who is a Professor of Health Statistics and a Professor of Computer Science and Data Science at New York University, and a former Executive Director at Genentech, about why healthcare might be the ...

In this episode, we talk with Stefano Ermon, Stanford professor, co-founder & CEO of Inception AI, and co-inventor of DDIM, FlashAttention, DPO, and score-based/diffusion models, about why diffusion-based language models may...