2025 in AI, with Nathan Benaich
Episode 144 Happy New Year! This is one of my favorite episodes of the year — for the fourth time, Nathan Benaich and I did our yearly round...
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Interviews with various people who research, build, or use AI, including academics, engineers, artists, entrepreneurs, and more. thegradientpub.substack.com
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Iason Gabriel: Value Alignment and the Ethics of Advanced AI Systems
Episode 143 I spoke with Iason Gabriel about: * Value alignment * Technology and worldmaking * How AI systems affect individuals and the soc...
2024 in AI, with Nathan Benaich
Episode 142 Happy holidays! This is one of my favorite episodes of the year — for the third time, Nathan Benaich and I did our yearly roundu...
Philip Goff: Panpsychism as a Theory of Consciousness
Episode 141 I spoke with Professor Philip Goff about: * What a “post-Galilean” science of consciousness looks like * How panpsychism helps e...
Some Changes at The Gradient
Hi everyone! If you’re a new subscriber or listener, welcome. If you’re not new, you’ve probably noticed that things have slowed down from u...
Jacob Andreas: Language, Grounding, and World Models
Episode 140 I spoke with Professor Jacob Andreas about: * Language and the world * World models * How he’s developed as a scientist Enjoy! J...
Evan Ratliff: Our Future with Voice Agents
Episode 139 I spoke with Evan Ratliff about: * Shell Game , Evan’s new podcast, where he creates an AI voice clone of himself and sets it lo...
Meredith Ringel Morris: Generative AI's HCI Moment
Episode 138 I spoke with Meredith Morris about: * The intersection of AI and HCI and why we need more cross-pollination between AI and adjac...
Davidad Dalrymple: Towards Provably Safe AI
Episode 137 I spoke with Davidad Dalrymple about: * His perspectives on AI risk * ARIA (the UK’s Advanced Research and Invention Agency) and...
Clive Thompson: Tales of Technology
Episode 136 I spoke with Clive Thompson about: * How he writes * Writing about the climate and biking across the US * Technology culture and...
Judy Fan: Reverse Engineering the Human Cognitive Toolkit
Episode 136 I spoke with Judy Fan about: * Our use of physical artifacts for sensemaking * Why cognitive tools can be a double-edged sword *...
L.M. Sacasas: The Questions Concerning Technology
Episode 135 I spoke with L. M. Sacasas about: * His writing and intellectual influences * The value of asking hard questions about technolog...
Pete Wolfendale: The Revenge of Reason
Episode 134 I spoke with Pete Wolfendale about: * The flaws in longtermist thinking * Selections from his new book, The Revenge of Reason *...
Peter Lee: Computing Theory and Practice, and GPT-4's Impact
Episode 133 I spoke with Peter Lee about: * His early work on compiler generation, metacircularity, and type theory * Paradoxical problems *...
Manuel & Lenore Blum: The Conscious Turing Machine
Episode 132 I spoke with Manuel and Lenore Blum about: * Their early influences and mentors * The Conscious Turing Machine and what theoreti...
Kevin Dorst: Against Irrationalist Narratives
Episode 131 I spoke with Professor Kevin Dorst about: * Subjective Bayesianism and epistemology foundations * What happens when you’re uncer...
David Pfau: Manifold Factorization and AI for Science
Episode 130 I spoke with David Pfau about: * Spectral learning and ML * Learning to disentangle manifolds and (projective) representation th...
Dan Hart and Michelle Michael: Bringing AI to Students in New South Wales
Episode 129 I spoke with Dan Hart and Michelle Michael about: * Developing NSWEduChat , an AI-powered chatbot designed and delivered by the...
Kristin Lauter: Private AI, Homomorphic Encryption, and AI for Cryptography
Episode 129 I spoke with Kristin Lauter about: * Elliptic curve cryptography and homomorphic encryption * Standardizing cryptographic protoc...
Sergiy Nesterenko: Automating Circuit Board Design
Episode 128 I spoke with Sergiy Nesterenko about: * Developing an automated system for designing PCBs * Difficulties in human and automated...