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Michael Sipser: Problems in the Theory of Computation
On interesting and difficult problems, finite automata, derandomization, and P vs NP.
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daniel bashir
1:28:21
Andrew Lee: How AI will Shape the Future of Email
On developing a smart AI assistant, and how email clients will look in the future.
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daniel bashir
1:03:40

March 2024

Joss Fong: Videomaking, AI, and Science Communication
On video journalism and science communication, bias in generative AI, incentives in journalism, and how video production is changing.
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daniel bashir
1:23:58
2
Kate Park: Data Engines for Vision and Language
On the importance of data, training for vision vs. language models, and flywheels.
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daniel bashir
41:34
Ben Wellington: ML for Finance and Storytelling through Data
On challenges for ML in quantitative trading and investing, and telling stories through data.
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daniel bashir
1:07:40
Venkatesh Rao: Protocols, Intelligence, and Scaling
On abstractions for AI, why monolithic scaling will stall, LLMs and experiential age, protocols, and value systems.
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daniel bashir
2:18:34
1

February 2024

Sasha Rush: Building Better NLP Systems
On architectures for NLP, efficiency, prompting, open-source, and cultivating research environments.
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daniel bashir
54:03
1
Cameron Jones & Sean Trott: Understanding, Grounding, and Reference in LLMs
On the study of LLMs, distributional semantics vs embodiment, what it means to understand, theory of mind, and interpreting LLMs' behavior.
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daniel bashir
1:59:26
6
Nicholas Thompson: AI and Journalism
On journalism, editing, running, creating good conversational spaces, and why building AGI might be a mistake.
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daniel bashir
59:43
3
Subbarao Kambhampati: Planning, Reasoning, and Interpretability in the Age of LLMs
On explanations, thinking and language, LLMs' difficulties in planning and reasoning, and AI as a natural science.
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daniel bashir
1:59:03
5
Russ Maschmeyer: Spatial Commerce and AI in Retail
On AI in the entrepreneurial and retail worlds, personalized web experiences, and spatial commerce.
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daniel bashir
55:40
4

January 2024

Benjamin Breen: The Intersecting Histories of Psychedelics and AI Research
A historian's perspective on transformative technological change, how humans construct narratives, and how AI and psychedelics research have overlapped.
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daniel bashir
1:07:45
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