Dec 17
Rethinking Pre-Training for Agentic AI with Aakanksha Chowdhery - #759
Today, we're joined by Aakanksha Chowdhery, member of technical staff at Reflection, to explore the fundamental shifts required to build true agentic AI. While the industry has largely focused on post-training techniques to improve reasoning, Aakanksha draws on her experience lea ... Show More
52m 54s
Dec 9
Why Vision Language Models Ignore What They See with Munawar Hayat - #758
In this episode, we’re joined by Munawar Hayat, researcher at Qualcomm AI Research, to discuss a series of papers presented at NeurIPS 2025 focusing on multimodal and generative AI. We dive into the persistent challenge of object hallucination in Vision-Language Models (VLMs), wh ... Show More
57m 40s
Sep 2024
The Road to Autonomous Intelligence with Andrej Karpathy
Andrej Karpathy joins Sarah and Elad in this week of No Priors. Andrej, who was a founding team member of OpenAI and former Senior Director of AI at Tesla, needs no introduction. In this episode, Andrej discusses the evolution of self-driving cars, comparing Tesla and Waymo’s app ... Show More
44m 16s
Aug 2024
AI in Action: From Machine Learning Interpretability to Cybersecurity with Serg Masís and Nirmal Budhathoki
In this DSS Podcast, Anna Anisin welcomes Serg Masís, Climate and Agronomic Data Scientist at Syngenta. Serg, an expert in machine learning interpretability and responsible AI, shares his diverse background and journey into data science. He discusses the challenges of building fa ... Show More
25m 37s
Dec 2024
Harvard Releases AI Training Dataset, Google Releases Gemini 2.0, and Two New Types of Infinity
We're experimenting and would love to hear from you!In today's episode of Discover Daily, we begin with a development for artificial intelligence research. Harvard University has unveiled a comprehensive AI training dataset, marking a significant step forward in democrat ... Show More
10m 21s
Sep 2024
Smart Talks with IBM: The power of Granite in business
As the scale of artificial intelligence continues to evolve, open technology like many of IBM’s Granite models are helping enhance transparency in AI and improve efficiency across businesses. In this episode of Smart Talks with IBM, Jacob Goldstein sat down with Maryam Ashoori, t ... Show More
32m 16s
Jul 2024
Altrove: Harnessing AI and Automation to Innovate Material Science
<p>In this episode of "The AI Podcast," host Eli Schafer explores how the French startup Altrove is revolutionizing the field of material science. Discover how Altrove leverages advanced AI models and automated lab processes to predict and create new, stable materials, overcoming ... Show More
8m 13s
Jul 2025
Can AI Accelerate Science? Dr. Andy Beam on AI’s Next Frontier
<p><a href='https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/w5aftmmy3fux99mq/Episode_32_Beam_bio.pdf'>Dr. Andy Beam</a> has trained models, mentored scientists, and used data to quantify the value of treatments. In this episode of NEJM AI Grand Rounds, Raj Manrai turns the table on his co-host, ... Show More
1h 7m
Today, we're joined by Sergey Levine, associate professor at UC Berkeley and co-founder of Physical Intelligence, to discuss π0 (pi-zero), a general-purpose robotic foundation model. We dig into the model architecture, which pairs a vision language model (VLM) with a diffusion-based action expert, and the model training "recipe," emphasizing the roles of pre ... Show More
