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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/).

Tim Scarfe Show homepage 1 episode
21 September 20262 h 14 min

Prediction is not control, and information is expensive

With LinkedIn ad, Ad voice (LinkedIn, political ad), Alexander Mattick

Alexander Mattick tells the history of generative modelling as a question of where the cost of inference is paid, from rigid variational families and slow sampling to diffusion and flow matching, which move that cost into training.

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