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John Platt (Google): AI for Climate and Science
Listen now (73 mins) | John Platt is a Google Fellow and leads the Applied Science team at Google Research, the group working on climate and science.
Oct 10
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Ravid Shwartz Ziv
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1:12:30
Yuandong Tian on Recursive Self-Improvement
Yuandong Tian spent many years at Meta FAIR and recently left to co-found Recursive Superintelligence, a company building AI that improves itself.
Oct 5
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Ravid Shwartz Ziv
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58:23
September 2026
Chris Manning: Language Is the Real Unlock for Intelligence
Listen now (56 mins) | Chris Manning is a legend in NLP.
Sep 27
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Ravid Shwartz Ziv
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55:51
Why AI Still Can't See wtih Andrew Dai
Listen now (58 mins) | Andrew Dai spent over a decade at Google Brain and DeepMind, where he co-wrote the 2015 paper that introduced language model…
Sep 24
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Ravid Shwartz Ziv
1
58:17
Can AI Replace Doctors? Zachary Lipton on the Future of Healthcare and AI
Zachary Lipton is an associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University and a co-founder of Abridge, a healthcare AI company (and a jazz saxophonist!).
Sep 21
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Ravid Shwartz Ziv
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Allen Roush
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1:31:17
Sara Hooker on the End of Static AI
What comes after scaling?
Sep 16
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Ravid Shwartz Ziv
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1:35:51
Tiny Recursive Models Beat the Giants - Alexia Jolicoeur-Martineau (Microsoft)
Alexia Jolicoeur-Martineau is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft and the author of "Less is More: Recursive Reasoning with Tiny Networks," the paper…
Sep 15
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Ravid Shwartz Ziv
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Allen Roush
1
52:22
Continual Learning Is the Next Bottleneck | Rohan Anil (Core Automation )
Listen now (71 mins) | Rohan Anil spent eleven and a half years at Google, where he went from writing memory allocators to large-scale linear solvers…
Sep 10
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Ravid Shwartz Ziv
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1:11:09
World Models | John Langford (Microsoft AI Labs)
John Langford, one of the heads of Microsoft's AI Labs, the creator of Vowpal Wabbit, and a co-inventor of CAPTCHA, joins us to talk about world models.
Sep 5
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Ravid Shwartz Ziv
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1:05:39
Which Tabular Model Should You Actually Use? | David Holzmüller (INRIA)
Tabular data is still where most of machine learning actually happens in industry, and the field has changed a lot in the last few years.
Sep 3
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Ravid Shwartz Ziv
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Allen Roush
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55:40
Why You Can't Just Rent 1,000 GPUs | Charles Frye (Modal)
Charles Frye (Modal, ex-Weights & Biases, Berkeley PhD) joins Ravid and Allen to explain why modern AI research is bottlenecked by compute, and why…
Sep 1
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Ravid Shwartz Ziv
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Allen Roush
1:03:00
August 2026
Stella Biderman (EleutherAI) - Open Source, AI Safety, and Who We Can Trust
Stella Biderman, Executive Director of EleutherAI, joins us the week an OpenAI model autonomously broke out of its sandbox and hacked Hugging Face.
Aug 28
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Ravid Shwartz Ziv
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1:06:25
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