Machine Learning Street Talk
Research-grade conversations on machine learning, with the people writing the papers.
23 episodes indexed · ~3.1/month · since 2026-01 · Visit original ↗
Strange Geometric Shapes Found Inside AIs — Tom McGrath
2026-09-02 · 1h 40m · 0 moments
AI Internals Are Weird — Tom McGrath
2026-09-02 · 1h 40m · 0 moments
Why Frontier AI Labs Fight to Hide Chain of Thought — Ilia Shumailov & Alexander Panfilov
2026-08-22 · 49m · 0 moments
Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs — Ilia Shumailov & Alexander Panfilov
2026-08-22 · 49m · 0 moments
An Astrophysicist Debunks the Singularity — Adam Becker
2026-08-20 · 1h 18m · 0 moments
Every Exponential Ends — Silicon Valley Forgot — Adam Becker
2026-08-20 · 1h 18m · 0 moments
Why Deep Networks Don’t Need to Memorize Everything — Matthieu Wyart
2026-08-10 · 1h 19m · 6 moments
AI Is Learning at the Wrong Level of Abstraction — Matthieu Wyart
2026-08-10 · 1h 19m · 6 moments
How Researchers Test AI for Hidden Goals — Apollo Research
2026-07-31 · 1h 19m · 6 moments
Watching America Run Away With AI - Alistair Pullen (Cosine AI)
2026-07-13 · 56m · 6 moments
Britain Is Losing The AI Race To America - Alistair Pullen (Cosine AI)
2026-07-13 · 56m · 6 moments
Why a Nation Can't Outsource Its Frontier AI - Alistair Pullen (Cosine AI)
2026-07-13 · 56m · 6 moments
ARC-AGI-3 winning team - Millennia of minds, compressed into words.
2026-07-01 · 1h 25m · 6 moments
The Thermodynamic AI Chip · Thomas Ahle
2026-06-28 · 1h 3m · 6 moments
He won a Nobel here for AlphaFold. Then he left. - John Jumper
2026-06-22 · 53m · 6 moments
The Ex-Pentagon Chief Sounding the Alarm on AI Weapons — Brad Carson
2026-05-31 · 1h 21m · 6 moments
Intelligence is collective, not artificial — Prof. Michael I. Jordan (UC Berkeley / Inria)
2026-05-20 · 1h 17m · 30 moments
The AI Progress Chart Everyone Is Misreading — Beth Barnes & David Rein
2026-05-04 · 1h 53m · 6 moments
When AI Discovers the Next Transformer — Robert Lange
2026-03-13 · 1h 18m · 5 moments
The Dangerous Illusion of AI Coding? - Jeremy Howard
2026-03-03 · 1h 27m · 6 moments
What If Intelligence Didn't Evolve? It "Was There" From the Start! - Blaise Agüera y Arcas
2026-02-16 · 56m · 6 moments
The Brain Is Just Specialized Agents Talking To Each Other — Dr. Jeff Beck
2026-01-25 · 47m · 6 moments
Why AI Has a Plato Problem — Mazviita Chirimuuta
2026-01-23 · 54m · 6 moments