The Information Bottleneck Podcast
1) EP28: How to Control a Stochastic Agent with Stefano Soatto (VP AWS/ Pro. UCLA)
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.Ste...Show More
2) EP27: Medical Foundation Models - with Tanishq Abraham (Sophont.AI)
Tanishq Abraham, CEO and co-founder of Sophont.ai, joins us to talk about building foundation models specifically for medicine.Sophont is trying to be something like an OpenAI or Anthropic but for hea...Show More
3) EP26: Measuring Intelligence in the Wild - Arena and the Future of AI Evaluation
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 ...Show More
4) EP25: Personalization, Data, and the Chaos of Fine-Tuning with Fred Sala (UW-Madison / Snorkel AI)
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 archite...Show More
5) EP24: Can AI Learn to Think About Money?" - with Bayan Bruss (Capital One)
Bayan Bruss, VP of Applied AI at Capital One, joins us to talk about building AI systems that can make autonomous financial decisions, and why money might be the hardest problem in machine learning.Ba...Show More
6) EP23: Building Open Source AI Frameworks: David Mezzetti on TextAI and Local-First AI
David Mezzetti, creator of TextAI, joins us to talk about building open source AI frameworks as a solo developer - and why local-first AI still matters in the age of API-everything.David's path from r...Show More
7) EP22: Data Curation for LLMs with Cody Blakeney (Datology AI)
Cody Blakeney from Datology AI joins us to talk about data curation - the unglamorous but critical work of figuring out what to actually train models on.Cody's path from writing CUDA kernels to spendi...Show More
8) EP21: Privacy in the Age of Agents with Niloofar Mireshghallah
Guest: Niloofar Mireshghallah (Incoming Assistant Professor at CMU, Member of Technical Staff at Humans and AI)In this episode, we dive into AI privacy, frontier model capabilities, and why academia s...Show More
9) EP20: Yann LeCun
Yann LeCun β Why LLMs Will Never Get Us to AGI"The path to superintelligence - just train up the LLMs, train on more synthetic data, hire thousands of people to school your system in post-training, in...Show More
10) EP19: AI in Finance and Symbolic AI with Atlas Wang
Atlas Wang (UT Austin faculty, XTX Research Director) joins us to explore two fascinating frontiers: the foundations of symbolic AI and the practical challenges of building AI systems for quantitative...Show More