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

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   Matthieu Wyart

   AI Is Learning at the Wrong Level of Abstraction — Matthieu Wyart · Aug 2026

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   Max Bartolo

   Reasoning, Robustness, and Human Feedback in AI - Max Bartolo (Cohere) · Mar 2025

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   Max Welling

   #036 - Max Welling: Quantum, Manifolds & Symmetries in ML · Jan 2021

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   Mazviita Chirimuuta

   Abstraction & Idealization: AI's Plato Problem [Mazviita Chirimuuta] · Jan 2026

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   Michael Timothy Bennett

   Michael Timothy Bennett: Defining Intelligence and AGI Approaches · Aug 2025

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   Ming-Yu Liu

   How Physical AI Learns Across Language, Video and Action — Ming-Yu Liu · Sep 2026

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   Minqi Jiang

   Can we build a generalist agent? Dr. Minqi Jiang and Dr. Marc Rigter · 2 episodes

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   Mohamed Osman

   Test-Time Adaptation: the key to reasoning with DL (Mohamed Osman) · Mar 2025

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   Murray Shanahan

   Prof. Murray Shanahan - Machines Don't Think Like Us · Jul 2024

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    Neel Nanda

    Neel Nanda - Mechanistic Interpretability (Sparse Autoencoders) · 2 episodes

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    Nora Belrose

    Nora Belrose - AI Development, Safety, and Meaning · Nov 2024

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    Nora Petrova
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    Patrick Lewis

    Patrick Lewis (Cohere) - Retrieval Augmented Generation · Sep 2024

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    Paul Lessard

    Dr. Paul Lessard - Categorical/Structured Deep Learning · Apr 2024

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    Pavan Muddireddy

    Speech Recognition Is Not a Solved Problem — Pavan Muddireddy · Sep 2026

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    Petar Velichkovich
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    Petar Veličković

    #85 Dr. Petar Veličković (Deepmind) - Categories, Graphs, Reasoning [NEURIPS22 UNPLUGGED] · Dec 2022

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    Randall Balestriero

    Prof. Randall Balestriero - LLMs without pretraining and SSL · 2 episodes

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    Rebecca Roache

    The Social Dilemma Part 3 - Dr. Rebecca Roache · Oct 2020

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    Riddhi J. Pitliya
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    Robert Miles

    ROBERT MILES - "There is a good chance this kills everyone" · May 2023

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    Robert Tjarko Lange
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    Sanjeev Namjoshi

    Dr. Sanjeev Namjoshi - Active Inference · Oct 2024

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    Sanyam Bhutani

    Kaggle, ML Community / Engineering (Sanyam Bhutani) · Oct 2020

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    Sara Hooker

    Sara Hooker - Why US AI Act Compute Thresholds Are Misguided · 3 episodes

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    Sara Saab

    The Secret Engine of AI - Prolific [Sponsored] (Sara Saab, Enzo Blindow) · Oct 2025

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    Saurabh Baji

    Cohere's SVP Technology - Saurabh Baji · Sep 2024

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    Sayak Paul

    Sayak Paul · Jul 2020

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    Sayash Kapoor

    Sayash Kapoor - How seriously should we take AI X-risk? (ICML 1/13) · Jul 2024

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    Sepp Hochreiter

    Sepp Hochreiter - LSTM: The Comeback Story? · Feb 2025

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    Shlomi Fruchter
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    Simon Kornblith

    #032- Simon Kornblith / GoogleAI - SimCLR and Paper Haul! · Dec 2020

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    Simon Stringer

    #041 - Biologically Plausible Neural Networks - Dr. Simon Stringer · Feb 2021

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    Sreejan Kumar

    #97 SREEJAN KUMAR - Human Inductive Biases in Machines from Language · Jan 2023

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    Subbarao Kambhampati

    Subbarao Kambhampati - Do o1 models search? · 2 episodes

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    Swarat Chaudhuri

    How AI Could Be A Mathematician's Co-Pilot by 2026 (Prof. Swarat Chaudhuri) · Nov 2024

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    Taco Cohen
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    Thomas Ahle

    The Thermodynamic AI Computing Chip - Thomas Ahle · Jun 2026

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    Thomas Larsen
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    Thomas Lux

    #69 DR. THOMAS LUX - Interpolation of Sparse High-Dimensional Data · Mar 2022

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