Towards Data Science Podcast
1) 131. Jeremie Harris - TDS Podcast Finale: The future of AI, and the risks that come with it
On the last episode of the Towards Data Science Podcast, host Jeremie Harris offers his perspective on the last two years of AI progress, and what he thinks it means for everything, from AI safety to ...Show More
2) 130. Edouard Harris - New Research: Advanced AI may tend to seek power *by default*
Progress in AI has been accelerating dramatically in recent years, and even months. It seems like every other day, there’s a new, previously-believed-to-be-impossible feat of AI that’s achieved by a w...Show More
130. Edouard Harris - New Research: Advanced AI may tend to seek power *by default*
58:22 | Oct 12th, 2022
3) 129. Amber Teng - Building apps with a new generation of language models
It’s no secret that a new generation of powerful and highly scaled language models is taking the world by storm. Companies like OpenAI, AI21Labs, and Cohere have built models so versatile that they’re...Show More
4) 128. David Hirko - AI observability and data as a cybersecurity weakness
Imagine you’re a big hedge fund, and you want to go out and buy yourself some data. Data is really valuable for you — it’s literally going to shape your investment decisions and determine your outcome...Show More
5) 127. Matthew Stewart - The emerging world of ML sensors
Today, we live in the era of AI scaling. It seems like everywhere you look people are pushing to make large language models larger, or more multi-modal and leveraging ungodly amounts of processing pow...Show More
6) 126. JR King - Does the brain run on deep learning?
Deep learning models — transformers in particular — are defining the cutting edge of AI today. They’re based on an architecture called an artificial neural network, as you probably already know if you...Show More
7) 125. Ryan Fedasiuk - Can the U.S. and China collaborate on AI safety?
It’s no secret that the US and China are geopolitical rivals. And it’s also no secret that that rivalry extends into AI — an area both countries consider to be strategically critical. But in a context...Show More
8) 124. Alex Watson - Synthetic data could change everything
There’s a website called thispersondoesnotexist.com. When you visit it, you’re confronted by a high-resolution, photorealistic AI-generated picture of a human face. As the website’s name suggests, the...Show More
9) 123. Ala Shaabana and Jacob Steeves - AI on the blockchain (it actually might just make sense)
Two ML researchers with world-class pedigrees who decided to build a company that puts AI on the blockchain. Now to most people — myself included — “AI on the blockchain” sounds like a winning entry i...Show More
10) 122. Sadie St. Lawrence - Trends in data science
As you might know if you follow the podcast, we usually talk about the world of cutting-edge AI capabilities, and some of the emerging safety risks and other challenges that the future of AI might bri...Show More