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The Gradient Podcast

Interviews with various people who research, build, or use AI, including academics, engineers, artists, entrepreneurs, and more.

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Sewon Min: The Science of Natural Language On developing practical natural language processing systems, benchmarks in NLP, text retrieval, and the limitations and promise of language models.

Mar 23

Richard Socher: Re-Imagining Search On neural networks for language, leading Salesforce Research, research and management in AI, and taking on the only game in town with a new search…

Mar 16

Joe Edelman: Meaning-Aligned AI How technology sometimes fails us, and how we can make it more human.

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Mar 9

Ed Grefenstette: Language, Semantics, Cohere On distributional semantics, pragmatics and communication, grounding and consciousness, and leading ML at Cohere.

Mar 2

Ken Liu: What Science Fiction Can Teach Us On fiction's value, critical reflection on technology, LLMs for creativity, and looking toward the future.

Feb 23

Hattie Zhou: Lottery Tickets and Algorithmic Reasoning in LLMs On lottery tickets and forgetting in neural networks, endowing LLMs with algorithmic reasoning, and ML research culture.

Feb 16

Kyunghyun Cho: Neural Machine Translation, Language, and Doing Good Science On decades of NLP research, becoming a good researcher, and finding peace and balance.

Feb 9

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