977 - The Next Day feat. Ryan Grim and Jeremy Scahill
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Key Takeaways
“We discuss what finally led to this moment, whether this ceasefire will be any different than the previous ones, and the future of Gaza, Israel, and the Gulf States.”
“We discuss what finally led to this moment, whether this ceasefire will be any different than the previous ones, and the future of Gaza, Israel, and the Gulf States.”
“Norman Ohler is a historian and author of “Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich,” a book that investigates the role of psychoactive drugs, particularly stimulants such as methamphetamine, in the military history of World War II.”
“The episode features a discussion with Jeffrey Wasserstrom, a historian of modern China.”
“Robert Rodriguez is a legendary filmmaker and creator of Sin City, El Mariachi, Desperado, Spy Kids, Machete, From Dusk Till Dawn, Alita: Battle Angel, The Faculty, and his newest venture Brass Knuckle Films.”
“Tim is happy to book a town hall in YOUR neck of the woods if you reach out to him: https://x.com/crulge”
“Gregory Aldrete is a historian specializing in ancient Rome and military history.”
“Topics include: mandatory potty training in Utah, a Chinese spy bird, dick biting, and the international crisis of cousins.”
“Ram discusses how the serverless paradigm impacts the vector database’s core architecture, key features, and other considerations.”
“Did you know that there's a tunnel under Eastern Pkwy?”
“Brendan & Noah a.k.a. The Blowback Boys stop by to discuss their new podcast season, covering 40+ years of covert crimes and international disorder flowing through Afghanistan.”
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“Will and Hesse will give you the keys to unlock true movie consciousness.”
“Jeff Clune discusses the broad ambitious goal of the AI field, artificial general intelligence, where we are on the path to achieving it, and his opinion on what we should be doing to get there, specifically, focusing on AI generating algorithms.”
“The article doesn't contain direct quotes, but it references several research papers and articles.”
“We discuss the emergence of the transformer model and the emergence of BERT-ology, the recent shift to solving more multimodal problems, the importance of this subfield as one of the “Grand Directions'' of Hugging Face’s research agenda, and the importance of BLOOM, the open-access Multilingual Language Model that was the output of the BigScience project.”
“Magnus Carlsen is the highest-rated chess player in history and widely considered to be the greatest chess player of all time.”
“Shayan helps us define “data-centric”, while discussing the main challenges that organizations face when dealing with labeling, how these problems are currently being solved, and how techniques like active learning and weak supervision could be used to more effectively label.”
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“We’re joined by campaign reporter extraordinaire Dave Weigel to break down the key races to watch, track the trends to follow, and generally put drills to our temples as we attempt to once again engage in American Electoral Politics.”
“What can these films tell us about the new Chinese century? Does belt and road translate to the cinema? Can Xi thought defeat the neoliberlized menace of CGI blood and lead to the return of true action filmmaking? Is it based to get silly with your homies?”
“The article doesn't contain a direct quote, but it mentions the exploration of challenges, use cases, and the role of differentiable programming.”
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“The episode discusses the lab leak theory and related topics.”
“We explore what no-code environments like the aforementioned Canvas mean for the democratization of ML tooling, and some of the key challenges to delivering it as a consumable product.”
“The podcast discusses union internal politics, rank and file leadership, the value of strikes, and organizing Amazon.”
“Niels Jorgensen is a former New York firefighter for over 21 years, who was there at Ground Zero on September 11th, 2001.”
“We explore examples of social learning, and how it applies to AI contextually, and defining intelligence.”
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“The podcast discusses when an agent can stop learning and start exploiting knowledge, and which strategy leads to minimal learning time.”
“Eric Weinstein is a mathematician with a bold and piercing intelligence, unafraid to explore the biggest questions in the universe and shine a light on the darkest corners of our society.”
“In our conversation, we discuss quite a few topics, including Vision-for-Robotics, the expansion of the field of 3D Vision, Self-Supervised Learning for CV Tasks, and much more!”
“Michael Kearns is a professor at University of Pennsylvania and a co-author of the new book Ethical Algorithm that is the focus of much of our conversation, including algorithmic fairness, bias, privacy, and ethics in general.”
“This conversation is part of the Artificial Intelligence podcast.”
“The article doesn't contain a direct quote, but it mentions Judy Gichoya's research on the paper “Phronesis of AI in Radiology: Superhuman meets Natural Stupidy.””
“In our conversation, we discuss the generation and detection of artificial content, including “fake news” and “deep fakes,” the state of generation and detection for text, video, and audio, the key challenges in each of these modalities, the role of GANs on both sides of the equation, and other potential solutio”
“We discuss trends in Deep Reinforcement Learning in 2018 and beyond.”
“Naila Murray presented at the Indaba on computer vision.”
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“The episode discusses two of Adji Bousso Dieng's papers: "Noisin: Unbiased Regularization for Recurrent Neural Networks" and "TopicRNN: A Recurrent Neural Network with Long-Range Semantic Dependency."”
“In our conversation, we discuss the three main themes of the symposium: understanding and identifying the main types of intelligence, including non-human intelligence, developing better ways to test and measure these intelligences, and understanding how and where research efforts should focus to best benefit society.”
“Marco explains Optimal Transport, which provides a way for us to compare probability measures.”
“We discuss Missy’s research into the infrastructural and operational challenges presented by autonomous vehicles, including cars, drones and unmanned aircraft.”
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“Ayanna provides a really interesting overview of a few of her experiments, including a simulation of an emergency situation, where, well, I don’t want to spoil it, but let’s just say as the actual intelligent beings, we need to make some better decisions.”
“We discuss the role of bias in datasets, and explore his vision for models that can identify these biases and adjust the way they train themselves in order to avoid taking on those biases.”
“Thierry Derungs, Chief Digital Officer at BNP Paribas, discusses how BNP uses AI and some of the opportunities that have arisen with the changing AI landscape.”
“Dario and I dive into the two areas of AI safety that he and his team are focused on--robustness and alignment.”
“The show is part of a series that I’m really excited about...”
“In this episode, I speak with Matthew Taylor, Open Source Manager at Numenta. You might remember hearing a bit about Numenta from an interview I did with Francisco Weber of Cortical.io, for TWiML Talk #10, a show which remains the most popular show on the podcast.”
“Daryn and I discuss the many challenges of collecting training data for autonomous vehicles, along with some thoughts on human-powered insights and annotation, semantic segmentation, and a ton more great stuff.”
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