The Information Bottleneck

In this episode, we sit down with Peyman Milanfar, Distinguished Scientist at Google, where he leads the Computational Imaging team. Peyman is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, an IEEE Fellow, and one of the ke...

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...

Naomi Saphra, Kempner Research Fellow at Harvard and incoming Assistant Professor at Boston University, joins us to explain why you can't do interpretability without understanding training dynamics, in the same way you can't...

Stefano Soatto, VP for AI at AWS and Professor at UCLA, joins us to explore how the agentic era fundamentally redefines machine learning, from static train-and-test models to dynamic, interactive control systems. This shift u...