Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)

Welcome! We engage in fascinating discussions with pre-eminent figures in the AI field. Our flagship show covers current affairs in AI, cognitive science, neuroscience and philosophy of mind with in-depth analysis. Our approach is unrivalled in terms of scope and rigour – we believe in intellectual diversity in AI, and we touch on all of the main ideas in the field with the hype surgically removed. MLST is run by Tim Scarfe, Ph.D (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ecsquizor/) and features regular appearances from MIT Doctor of Philosophy Keith Duggar (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-keith-duggar/).

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Every guest on Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)

172 guests, ranked by how many people never want them back.

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   Tom McGrath

   Designing How AI Grows — Tom McGrath · Sep 2026

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   Mark Solms

   Prof. Mark Solms - The Hidden Spring · Sep 2024

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   Nick Chater

   Prof. Nick Chater - The Language Game (Part 1) · Mar 2024

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   Aiden Gomez

   Aiden Gomez - CEO of Cohere (AI's 'Inner Monologue' – Crucial for Reasoning) · Jun 2024

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   Akarsh Kumar
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   Alan Chan

   #94 - ALAN CHAN - AI Alignment and Governance #NEURIPS · Dec 2022

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   Alessandro Palmarini

   Decompiling Dreams: A New Approach to ARC? - Alessandro Palmarini · Oct 2024

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   Alexander Mattick

   #66 ALEXANDER MATTICK - [Unplugged / Community Edition] · Feb 2022

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   Alexander Panfilov
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    Andrew Dudzik

    Making deep learning perform real algorithms with Category Theory (Andrew Dudzik, Petar Velichkovich, Taco Cohen, Bruno Gavranović, Paul Lessard) · Dec 2025

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    Andrew Gordon

    Are AI Benchmarks Telling The Full Story? [SPONSORED] (Andrew Gordon and Nora Petrova - Prolific) · Dec 2025

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    Andrew Gordon Wilson

    Deep Learning is Not So Mysterious or Different - Prof. Andrew Gordon Wilson (NYU) · Sep 2025

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    Andrew Ilyas

    Adversarial Examples and Data Modelling - Andrew Ilyas (MIT) · Aug 2024

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    Andy Smith

    #48 Machine Learning Security - Andy Smith · Mar 2021

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    Ashley Edwards

    Ashley Edwards - Genie Paper (DeepMind/Runway) · Sep 2024

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    Beff Jezos
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    Beth Barnes

    The AI Models Smart Enough to Know They're Cheating — Beth Barnes & David Rein [METR] · May 2026

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    Bob Coecke

    #53 Quantum Natural Language Processing - Prof. Bob Coecke (Oxford) · May 2021

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    Brad Carson

    When AI Decides You're a Threat — Brad Carson · May 2026

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    Brandon Rohrer

    Dr. Brandon Rohrer - Robotics, Creativity and Intelligence · Feb 2024

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    Bruno Gavranović
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    Carla Cremer

    #99 - CARLA CREMER & IGOR KRAWCZUK - X-Risk, Governance, Effective Altruism · Feb 2023

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    Chris Eliasmith

    Unlocking the Brain's Mysteries: Chris Eliasmith on Spiking Neural Networks and the Future of Human-Machine Interaction · Apr 2023

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    Chris Lu

    Sakana AI - Chris Lu, Robert Tjarko Lange, Cong Lu · Mar 2025

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    Christian Szegedy

    #50 Christian Szegedy - Formal Reasoning, Program Synthesis · Apr 2021

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    Christoph Molnar

    047 Interpretable Machine Learning - Christoph Molnar · Mar 2021

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    Christopher Summerfield

    How AI Learned to Talk and What It Means - Prof. Christopher Summerfield · Jun 2025

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    Clement Bonnet

    Clement Bonnet - Can Latent Program Networks Solve Abstract Reasoning? · Feb 2025

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    Cong Lu
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    Connor Tann

    #037 - Tour De Bayesian with Connor Tann · Jan 2021

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    Cristopher Moore

    The Day AI Solves My Puzzles Is The Day I Worry (Prof. Cristopher Moore) · Sep 2025

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    Daniel Franzen

    Daniel Franzen & Jan Disselhoff - ARC Prize 2024 winners · Feb 2025

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    David Hanson

    David Hanson's Vision for Sentient Robots · Sep 2024

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    David Rein
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    David Spivak

    The Fabric of Knowledge - David Spivak · Sep 2024

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    Edward Grefenstette

    #103 - Prof. Edward Grefenstette - Language, Semantics, Philosophy · Feb 2023

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    Enzo Blindow
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    Eray Özkural

    #034 Eray Özkural- AGI, Simulations & Safety · Dec 2020

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    Federico Barbero

    Transformers Need Glasses! - Federico Barbero · Mar 2025

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    Florian Tramèr
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