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Interviews with various people who research, build, or use AI, including academics, engineers, artists, entrepreneurs, and more. thegradientpub.substack.com
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...
Episode 143 I spoke with Iason Gabriel about: * Value alignment * Technology and worldmaking * How AI systems affect individuals and the soc...
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...
Episode 141 I spoke with Professor Philip Goff about: * What a “post-Galilean” science of consciousness looks like * How panpsychism helps e...
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Episode 140 I spoke with Professor Jacob Andreas about: * Language and the world * World models * How he’s developed as a scientist Enjoy! J...
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...
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...
Episode 137 I spoke with Davidad Dalrymple about: * His perspectives on AI risk * ARIA (the UK’s Advanced Research and Invention Agency) and...
Episode 136 I spoke with Clive Thompson about: * How he writes * Writing about the climate and biking across the US * Technology culture and...
Episode 136 I spoke with Judy Fan about: * Our use of physical artifacts for sensemaking * Why cognitive tools can be a double-edged sword *...
Episode 135 I spoke with L. M. Sacasas about: * His writing and intellectual influences * The value of asking hard questions about technolog...
Episode 134 I spoke with Pete Wolfendale about: * The flaws in longtermist thinking * Selections from his new book, The Revenge of Reason *...
Episode 133 I spoke with Peter Lee about: * His early work on compiler generation, metacircularity, and type theory * Paradoxical problems *...
Episode 132 I spoke with Manuel and Lenore Blum about: * Their early influences and mentors * The Conscious Turing Machine and what theoreti...
Episode 131 I spoke with Professor Kevin Dorst about: * Subjective Bayesianism and epistemology foundations * What happens when you’re uncer...
Episode 130 I spoke with David Pfau about: * Spectral learning and ML * Learning to disentangle manifolds and (projective) representation th...
Episode 129 I spoke with Dan Hart and Michelle Michael about: * Developing NSWEduChat , an AI-powered chatbot designed and delivered by the...
Episode 129 I spoke with Kristin Lauter about: * Elliptic curve cryptography and homomorphic encryption * Standardizing cryptographic protoc...
Episode 128 I spoke with Sergiy Nesterenko about: * Developing an automated system for designing PCBs * Difficulties in human and automated...
Episode 127 I spoke with Christopher Thi Nguyen about: * How we lose control of our values * The tradeoffs of legibility, aggregation, and s...
Episode 126 I spoke with Vivek Natarajan about: * Improving access to medical knowledge with AI * How an LLM for medicine should behave * As...
Episode 125 False universalism freaks me out. It doesn’t freak me out as a first principle because of epistemic violence; it freaks me out b...
Episode 124 You may think you’re doing a priori reasoning, but actually you’re just over-generalizing from your current experience of techno...
Episode 123 I spoke with Suhail Doshi about: * Why benchmarks aren’t prepared for tomorrow’s AI models * How he thinks about artists in a wo...
Episode 122 I spoke with Azeem Azhar about: * The speed of progress in AI * Historical context for some of the terminology we use and how we...
Episode 122 I spoke with Professor David Thorstad about: * The practical difficulties of doing interdisciplinary work * Why theories of huma...
Episode 121 I spoke with Professor Ryan Tibshirani about: * Differences between the ML and statistics communities in scholarship, terminolog...
In episode 120 of The Gradient Podcast, Daniel Bashir speaks to Sasha Luccioni. Sasha is the AI and Climate Lead at HuggingFace, where she s...
In episode 119 of The Gradient Podcast, Daniel Bashir speaks to Professor Michael Sipser . Professor Sipser is the Donner Professor of Mathe...
In episode 118 of The Gradient Podcast, Daniel Bashir speaks to Andrew Lee . Andrew is co-founder and CEO of Shortwave, a company dedicated...
Episode 117 “You get more of what you engage with. Everyone who complains about coverage should understand that every click, every quote twe...
In episode 116 of The Gradient Podcast, Daniel Bashir speaks to Kate Park . Kate is the Director of Product at Scale AI. Prior to joining Sc...
In episode 115 of The Gradient Podcast, Daniel Bashir speaks to Ben Wellington. Ben is the Deputy Head of Feature Forecasting at Two Sigma,...
“There is this move from generality in a relative sense of ‘we are not as specialized as insects’ to generality in the sense of omnipotent,...
In episode 113 of The Gradient Podcast, Daniel Bashir speaks to Professor Sasha Rush . Professor Rush is an Associate Professor at Cornell U...
In episode 112 of The Gradient Podcast, Daniel Bashir speaks to Cameron Jones and Sean Trott. Cameron is a PhD candidate in the Cognitive Sc...
In episode 111 of The Gradient Podcast, Daniel Bashir speaks to Nicholas Thompson . Nicholas is the CEO of The Atlantic . Previously, he ser...
In episode 110 of The Gradient Podcast, Daniel Bashir speaks to Professor Subbarao Kambhampati . Professor Kambhampati is a professor of com...
In episode 109 of The Gradient Podcast, Daniel Bashir speaks to Russ Maschmeyer . Russ is the Product Lead for AI and Spatial Commerce at Sh...
In episode 108 of The Gradient Podcast, Daniel Bashir speaks to Professor Benjamin Breen . Professor Breen is an associate professor of hist...
In episode 107 of The Gradient Podcast, Daniel Bashir speaks to Professor Ted Gibson . Ted is a Professor of Cognitive Science at MIT. He le...
In episode 106 of The Gradient Podcast, Daniel Bashir speaks to Professor Harvey Lederman . Professor Lederman is a professor of philosophy...
In episode 105 of The Gradient Podcast, Daniel Bashir speaks to Eric Jang . Have suggestions for future podcast guests (or other feedback)?...
In episode 104 of The Gradient Podcast, Daniel Bashir speaks to Nathan Benaich . Nathan is Founder and General Partner at Air Street Capital...
In episode 103 of The Gradient Podcast, Daniel Bashir speaks to Dr. Kathleen Fisher. As the director of DARPA’s Information Innovation Offic...
In episode 102 of The Gradient Podcast, Daniel Bashir speaks to Peter Tse . Professor Tse is a Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience and chair...
In episode 101 of The Gradient Podcast, Daniel Bashir speaks to Vera Liao . Vera is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research (MSR) Montr...
In episode 100 of The Gradient Podcast, Daniel Bashir speaks to Professor Thomas Dietterich . Professor Dietterich is Distinguished Professo...
In episode 99 of The Gradient Podcast, Daniel Bashir speaks to Professor Martin Wattenberg . Professor Wattenberg is a professor at Harvard...