What Most People Get Wrong About Evolution | Akarsh Kumar
A lot of people in AI treat evolution as a dumb fallback, basically random search for when you can't take a gradient. Akarsh Kumar thinks that is wrong. Selection hangs on to partial solutions, so mut...
10 Okt 47min
How a Voice Agent Learns the Rhythm of Conversation — Shawn Wen
Tsung-Hsien (Shawn) Wen, CTO of PolyAI, tells Tim Scarfe why voice agents are harder than text agents. Voice adds time, and a good conversation depends on adapting to the person on the line, not just ...
1 Okt 1h 10min
Who Checks a Proof No Human Can Read? — Leo de Moura
Leonardo de Moura created Lean and co-created Z3. ---This episode is sponsored by Parallel.Parallel, where agents find answers: web search, extraction and deep research APIs built for AI agents.Start ...
30 Sep 1h 14min
When AI Research Starts Moving Faster Than Human Research - Zhengyao Jiang
Weco let an AI coding agent rewrite the harness around another agent for eight days: its code, prompts and tools, while the underlying language model stayed fixed. Tim Scarfe asks Weco co-founder Zhen...
26 Sep 43min
How Deep Learning Finally Cracked Messy Tables - Frank Hutter
Frank Hutter, co-founder of Prior Labs, talks about TabPFN, a tabular foundation model that makes predictions in a single forward pass, and the research behind it.TabPFN is pre-trained on synthetic da...
23 Sep 1h 53min
Why Scaling Prediction Cannot Create Intelligence - Alexander Mattick
Alexander Mattick is a researcher at Fraunhofer IIS and a PhD researcher at the University of Technology Nuremberg (UTN), and a regular on Yannic Kilcher's Discord. He first came on MLST in 2022, afte...
21 Sep 2h 14min
How Physical AI Learns Across Language, Video and Action — Ming-Yu Liu
The car making a left turn at the start of this episode was never filmed. Cosmos 3 generated it. Ming-Yu Liu, who leads the Cosmos research at NVIDIA, explains how one model can describe a video, gene...
15 Sep 25min
Speech Recognition Is Not a Solved Problem — Pavan Kumar Reddy
Pavan Kumar Reddy leads audio research at Mistral AI. He joins Tim Scarfe for a deep technical tour of Voxtral — and explains why the frontier of deployed voice is still a cascade of specialised model...
14 Sep 1h 42min
