130. Edouard Harris - New Research: Advanced AI may tend to seek power *by default*12 October 2022Progress in AI has been accelerating dramatically in recent years, and even months. It seems like every other day, there’s a new, previously-believed-to-be-impossible feat of AI that’s achieved by a world-leading lab. And increasingly, these breakthroughs have been driven by the same, simple idea: A...00:58:22
129. Amber Teng - Building apps with a new generation of language models05 October 2022It’s no secret that a new generation of powerful and highly scaled language models is taking the world by storm. Companies like OpenAI, AI21Labs, and Cohere have built models so versatile that they’re powering hundreds of new applications, and unlocking entire new markets for AI-generated text.In li...00:51:21
128. David Hirko - AI observability and data as a cybersecurity weakness 28 September 2022Imagine you’re a big hedge fund, and you want to go out and buy yourself some data. Data is really valuable for you — it’s literally going to shape your investment decisions and determine your outcomes.But the moment you receive your data, a cold chill runs down your spine: how do you know your data...00:49:02
127. Matthew Stewart - The emerging world of ML sensors21 September 2022Today, we live in the era of AI scaling. It seems like everywhere you look people are pushing to make large language models larger, or more multi-modal and leveraging ungodly amounts of processing power to do it.But although that’s one of the defining trends of the modern AI era, it’s not the only o...00:41:34
126. JR King - Does the brain run on deep learning? 14 September 2022Deep learning models — transformers in particular — are defining the cutting edge of AI today. They’re based on an architecture called an artificial neural network, as you probably already know if you’re a regular Towards Data Science reader. And if you are, then you might also already know that as ...00:55:43
125. Ryan Fedasiuk - Can the U.S. and China collaborate on AI safety?07 September 2022It’s no secret that the US and China are geopolitical rivals. And it’s also no secret that that rivalry extends into AI — an area both countries consider to be strategically critical.But in a context where potentially transformative AI capabilities are being unlocked every few weeks, many of which l...00:48:19
124. Alex Watson - Synthetic data could change everything18 May 2022There’s a website called thispersondoesnotexist.com. When you visit it, you’re confronted by a high-resolution, photorealistic AI-generated picture of a human face. As the website’s name suggests, there’s no human being on the face of the earth who looks quite like the person staring back at you on ...00:51:47
123. Ala Shaabana and Jacob Steeves - AI on the blockchain (it actually might just make sense)12 May 2022Two ML researchers with world-class pedigrees who decided to build a company that puts AI on the blockchain. Now to most people — myself included — “AI on the blockchain” sounds like a winning entry in some kind of startup buzzword bingo. But what I discovered talking to Jacob and Ala was that they ...00:54:43
122. Sadie St. Lawrence - Trends in data science04 May 2022As you might know if you follow the podcast, we usually talk about the world of cutting-edge AI capabilities, and some of the emerging safety risks and other challenges that the future of AI might bring. But I thought that for today’s episode, it would be fun to change things up a bit and talk about...00:43:02
121. Alexei Baevski - data2vec and the future of multimodal learning27 April 2022If the name data2vec sounds familiar, that’s probably because it made quite a splash on social and even traditional media when it came out, about two months ago. It’s an important entry in what is now a growing list of strategies that are focused on creating individual machine learning architectures...00:49:31
