The Information Bottleneck

We host Tal Linzen, Associate Professor at NYU and Research Scientist at Google, for a conversation on the intersection of cognitive science and large language models. We discussed why children can learn language from around ...

We host Chieh-Hsin (Jesse) Lai, Staff Research Scientist at Sony AI and visiting professor at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, for a conversation about diffusion models, the technology behind tools like Stabl...

We talked with Christian Szegedy, co-inventor of Inception and Batch Normalization, founding scientist at xAI, now at Math Inc, about what it takes to build a frontier lab, and why he left xAI to work on formal mathematics. C...

We sat down with Rao Kambhampati, a Professor of CS at Arizona State University and former President of AAAI, to talk about reasoning models: what they are, when they work, and when they break. Rao has been working on plannin...

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...