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Machine Learning Street Talk

Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)

This is the audio podcast for the ML Street Talk YouTube channel at Thanks for checking us out! We think that scientists and engineers are the heroes of our generation. Each week we have a h...

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Mathematics Just Changed Forever — Kevin Hartnett

Kevin Hartnett is the author of *The Proof in the Code*.SPONSOR:---Cyber Fund built the Monastery to help founders ship products that were i...

01:33:33Oct 26, 2026

What Most People Get Wrong About Evolution | Akarsh Kumar

A lot of people in AI treat evolution as a dumb fallback, basically random search for when you can't take a gradient. Akarsh Kumar thinks th...

00:47:54Oct 10, 2026

How a Voice Agent Learns the Rhythm of Conversation — Shawn Wen

Tsung-Hsien (Shawn) Wen, CTO of PolyAI, tells Tim Scarfe why voice agents are harder than text agents. Voice adds time, and a good conversat...

01:10:09Oct 1, 2026

Who Checks a Proof No Human Can Read? — Leo de Moura

Leonardo de Moura created Lean and co-created Z3. ---This episode is sponsored by Parallel.Parallel, where agents find answers: web search,...

01:14:19Sep 30, 2026

When AI Research Starts Moving Faster Than Human Research - Zhengyao Jiang

Weco let an AI coding agent rewrite the harness around another agent for eight days: its code, prompts and tools, while the underlying langu...

00:43:42Sep 26, 2026

How Deep Learning Finally Cracked Messy Tables - Frank Hutter

Frank Hutter, co-founder of Prior Labs, talks about TabPFN, a tabular foundation model that makes predictions in a single forward pass, and...

01:53:12Sep 23, 2026

Why Scaling Prediction Cannot Create Intelligence - Alexander Mattick

Alexander Mattick is a researcher at Fraunhofer IIS and a PhD researcher at the University of Technology Nuremberg (UTN), and a regular on Y...

02:14:20Sep 21, 2026

How Physical AI Learns Across Language, Video and Action — Ming-Yu Liu

The car making a left turn at the start of this episode was never filmed. Cosmos 3 generated it. Ming-Yu Liu, who leads the Cosmos research...

00:25:57Sep 15, 2026

Speech Recognition Is Not a Solved Problem — Pavan Muddireddy

Pavankumar Reddy Muddireddy leads audio research at Mistral AI. He joins Tim Scarfe for a deep technical tour of Voxtral — and explains why...

01:42:22Sep 14, 2026

How Replication Could Teach Machines What Good Science Looks Like — Edward Hughes

Can a machine learn the judgement that separates a plausible-looking result from a faithful experiment? Edward Hughes, Chief Scientist and c...

02:01:53Sep 11, 2026

AI 2040: Plan A report - Daniel Kokotajlo & Thomas Larsen

Could slowing AI development make superintelligence safer? Daniel Kokotajlo and Thomas Larsen of the AI Futures Project join Tim Scarfe to e...

01:29:46Sep 8, 2026

Designing How AI Grows — Tom McGrath

Tom McGrath is co-founder and Chief Scientist at Goodfire, and a former Google DeepMind researcher. He joins Tim Scarfe to ask what neural n...

01:40:14Sep 2, 2026

Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs — Ilia Shumailov & Alexander Panfilov

Tim Scarfe speaks with Ilia Shumailov and Alexander Panfilov about their paper, Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs.The core...

00:49:00Aug 22, 2026

Every Exponential Ends — Silicon Valley Forgot — Adam Becker

Astrophysicist Adam Becker, author of "What Is Real?", joins Tim Scarfe to take apart the futures Silicon Valley keeps selling: the 2045 sin...

01:18:23Aug 20, 2026

AI Is Learning at the Wrong Level of Abstraction — Matthieu Wyart

This episode is sponsored by Notion. Learn more about Notion's Developer Platform today at https://notion.com/mlstWhy can deep networks disc...

01:18:56Aug 10, 2026

How Researchers Test AI for Hidden Goals — Apollo Research

Can an AI do the right thing for the wrong reason? Tim Scarfe speaks with Apollo Research’s Alexander Meinke, Axel Højmark and Jérémy Scheur...

01:18:59Jul 31, 2026

Why a Nation Can't Outsource Its Frontier AI - Alistair Pullen (Cosine AI)

This episode is sponsored by Notion. Learn more about Notion's Developer Platform today at https://notion.com/mlst Britain's most capable co...

00:55:56Jul 13, 2026

The Benchmark With No Instructions — ARC-AGI-3 (winning team!)

Tim Scarfe travels to Zurich to sit down with the Tufa Labs ARC-AGI-3 team — founder Benjamin Crouzier, with Jeroen Cottaar, Dries Smit, Ste...

01:24:34Jul 1, 2026

The Thermodynamic AI Computing Chip - Thomas Ahle

Thomas Ahle wants Normal Computing to be the Lovable for chip design: type your intent, and a swarm of agents carries it from design through...

01:02:59Jun 28, 2026

He won a Nobel here for AlphaFold. Then he left. - John Jumper

This episode is sponsored by Notion. Learn more about Notion's Developer Platform today at https://notion.com/mlstProtein folding stalled bi...

00:53:05Jun 22, 2026