Today we’re joined by Nicholas Carlini, a research scientist at Google Brain. Nicholas works at the intersection of machine learning and computer security, and his recent paper “Extracting Training Data from LLMs” has generated quite a buzz within the ML community. In our conversation, we discuss the current state of adversarial machine learning research, th ... Show More
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How AI Learns to Smell with Alex Wiltschko - #771
In this episode, Alex Wiltschko, founder and CEO of Osmo, joins the show to discuss his goal of giving computers a sense of smell and what it takes to build olfactory intelligence. We explore the science behind smell, from the hundreds of olfactory receptors in the human nose to ... Show More
59m 55s
Jun 16
Why AI Agents Break the GenAI Security Model with Devvret Rishi - #770
In this episode, Sam talks with Dev Rishi, GM of AI at Rubrik, about what happens when agents move beyond answering questions and start taking action across tools, systems, and business processes. We explore why the enterprise playbook of static guardrails plus human approval sta ... Show More
56m 18s
Jun 9
Is RAG Dead? Lessons from Building AI for Tax Law with Alex Bowcut - #769
As context windows grow into the millions of tokens, many AI practitioners are questioning whether retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is still necessary. If modern models can ingest entire libraries of documents, why bother with retrieval at all? In this episode, Alex Bowcut, H ... Show More
51m 32s
Jun 2023
Managing machine learning risks. [Research Saturday]
Our guest, Johannes Ullrich from SANS Institute, joins Dave to discuss their research on "Machine Learning Risks: Attacks Against Apache NiFi." Using their honeypot network, researchers were able to collect some interesting data about a threat actor who is currently going after e ... Show More
18m 34s
Dec 2017
Mercedes Benz Machine Learning Research
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">This episode features an interview with Rigel Smiroldo recorded at NIPS 2017 in Long Beach California.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> We discuss data privacy, machine learning use cases, model deployment, and end-to-end machine learning ... Show More
27m 5s
Sep 2024
20VC: OpenAI's Newest Board Member, Zico Colter on The Biggest Bottlenecks to the Performance of Foundation Models | The Biggest Questions and Concerns in AI Safety | How to Regulate an AI-Centric World
<p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>Zico Colter is a Professor and the Director of the Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon University. His research spans several topics in AI and machine learning, including work in AI safety and robustness, LLM security, the impact of dat ... Show More
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Jan 2025
Crypto client or cyber trap? [Research Saturday]
Karlo Zanki, Reverse Engineer at ReversingLabs, discussing their work on "Malicious PyPI crypto pay package aiocpa implants infostealer code." ReversingLabs' machine learning-based threat hunting system identified a malicious PyPI package, aiocpa, designed to exfiltrate cryptocur ... Show More
21m 2s