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The Information Bottleneck

Ravid Shwartz-Ziv & Allen Roush
Artificial Intelligence
Openai
AI Research
AI Coding
Machine Learning
Joint Embedding Predictive Architectures
NVIDIA
Generative AI
Gpt-5
Reinforcement Learning
Copyright
Representation Learning
AI Model Compression
Large Language Models
Gpt-4
AI Ethics
Samplers
Cursor
Neuroscience
Recursive Language Models

Two AI Researchers - Ravid Shwartz Ziv, and Allen Roush, discuss the latest trends, news, and research within Generative AI, LLMs, GPUs, and Cloud Systems.

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Stefano Soatto, VP for AI at AWS and Professor at UCLA, the person responsible for agentic AI at AWS, joins us to explain why building reliable AI agents is fundamentally a control theory problem.

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Tanishq Abraham, CEO and co-founder of Sophont.ai, joins us to talk about building foundation models specifically for medicine.

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Anastasios Angelopoulos, Co-Founder and CEO of Arena AI (formerly LMArena), joins us to talk about why static benchmarks are failing, how human preference data actually works under the hood, and what it takes to be the "gold standard" of AI evaluatio... more

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Fred Sala, Assistant Professor at UW-Madison and Chief Scientist at Snorkel AI, joins us to talk about why personalization might be the next frontier for LLMs, why data still matters more than architecture, and how weak supervision refuses to die.

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Fred Sala
Assistant Professor at UW-Madison and Chief Scientist at Snorkel AI
Snorkel AI
Episode: EP25: Personalization, Data, and the Chaos of Fine-Tuning with Fred Sala (UW-Madison / Snorkel AI)
Bayan Bruss
VP at Applied AI at Capital One
Capital One
Episode: EP24: Can AI Learn to Think About Money? - with Bayan Bruss (Capital One)
David Mezzetti
Founder of TextAI, AI researcher focused on local-first AI and semantic search.
NewML
Episode: EP23: Building Open Source AI Frameworks: David Mezzetti on TxtAI and Local-First AI
Cody Blakeney
Data curation expert and contributor to Datology AI
Datology AI
Episode: EP22: Data Curation for LLMs with Cody Blakeney (Datology AI)
Niloofar Mireshghallah
Incoming assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University and member of the technical staff at Humans End
Carnegie Mellon University
Episode: EP21: Privacy in the Age of Agents with Niloofar Mireshghallah
Atlas Wang
Faculty at UT Austin and research director at XTX
XTX
Episode: EP19: AI in Finance and Symbolic AI with Atlas Wang
Judah Goldfeder
PhD candidate at Columbia University and student researcher at Google.
Columbia University, Google
Episode: EP18: AI Robotics
Will Brown
Expert in reinforcement learning and algorithmic game theory.
Episode: EP17: RL with Will Brown
Jonas Geiping
A machine learning researcher.
University of Tübingen
Episode: EP13: Recurrent-Depth Models and Latent Reasoning with Jonas Geiping

Hosts

Ravid Shwartz Ziv
Co-host and AI researcher focusing on generative AI and related technologies.
Allen Roush
Co-host and AI researcher providing insights on developments within artificial intelligence.

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EP26: Measuring Intelligence in the Wild - Arena and the Future of AI Evaluation
Q: What does Arena do and why is it needed?
Arena focuses on measuring AI intelligence by analyzing real-world user interactions, providing actionable insights rather than relying on static benchmarks.
EP24: Can AI Learn to Think About Money? - with Bayan Bruss (Capital One)
Q: How do you think about personalization in AI systems?
Personalization cannot achieve perfection due to incomplete information about user behavior; however, it can get close by learning from collective behaviors.
EP24: Can AI Learn to Think About Money? - with Bayan Bruss (Capital One)
Q: What techniques do you use for model calibration?
Techniques like Monte Carlo dropout and deep ensembles are used to model uncertainty.
EP24: Can AI Learn to Think About Money? - with Bayan Bruss (Capital One)
Q: Do you think markets are efficient?
In many situations, yes, markets are efficient, but human biases affect their efficiency.
EP23: Building Open Source AI Frameworks: David Mezzetti on TxtAI and Local-First AI
Q: What are your views on the evolution of AI in relation to local architectures?
It's powerful to have the ability to fine-tune a model and customize it to your data.

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This series features in-depth conversations centered around the rapidly evolving fields of artificial intelligence and machine learning. It consistently explores trending topics such as generative AI, reinforcement learning, the application of AI in various sectors including finance, robotics, and urban design, as well as underlying theories like the Information Bottleneck and scaling laws in neural networks. The hosts frequently engage with leading experts, providing listeners not only with contemporary insights but also with critiques of current industry practices and future directions in AI research. The series is particularly noteworthy for its emphasis on real-world applications and the ethical considerations that arise from the integr... more

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