The Information Bottleneck

The Future of Coding Agents with Sasha Rush (Cursor/Cornell)

The Hidden Engine of Vision with Peyman Milanfar (Google)

Reinventing AI From Scratch with Yaroslav Bulatov

Why Healthcare Is AI's Hardest and Most Important Problem with Kyunghyun Cho (NYU)

Diffusion LLM & Why the Future of AI Won't Be Autoregressive - Stefano Ermon (Stanford /Inception)

Training Is Nothing Like Learning with Naomi Saphra (Harvard)

EP28: How to Control a Stochastic Agent with Stefano Soatto (VP AWS/ Pro. UCLA)

EP27: Medical Foundation Models - with Tanishq Abraham (Sophont.AI)

EP26: Measuring Intelligence in the Wild - Arena and the Future of AI Evaluation

EP25: Personalization, Data, and the Chaos of Fine-Tuning with Fred Sala (UW-Madison / Snorkel AI)

EP24: Can AI Learn to Think About Money? - with Bayan Bruss (Capital One)

EP23: Building Open Source AI Frameworks: David Mezzetti on TxtAI and Local-First AI

EP22: Data Curation for LLMs with Cody Blakeney (Datology AI)

EP21: Privacy in the Age of Agents with Niloofar Mireshghallah

Yann LeCun: Why AI Safety is like a Jet Engine ✈️

EP20: Yann LeCun

In this episode of The Information Bottleneck, Ravid Shwartz-Ziv interviews Yann LeCun, a Turing Award winner and AI pioneer, about his new startup, Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI), and its focus on world models. LeCun discusses the shift in AI research from open, collaborative environments to more secretive, indus...

EP19: AI in Finance and Symbolic AI with Atlas Wang

In this episode of The Information Bottleneck, Ravid Shwartz-Ziv and Allen Roush host Atlas Wang to discuss NeurIPS 2024, including the increasing presence of VCs, the quality of workshops versus main conferences, and the conference web app. The conversation shifts to low dimensionality in neural networks, symbolic equ...

EP18: AI Robotics

In this episode of The Information Bottleneck, Ravid Shwartz-Ziv and Allen are joined by Judah Goldfeder to discuss recent news regarding Google selling TPUs to other companies and its potential impact on Nvidia. The conversation then shifts to the White House's new AI initiative, Genesis, and the role of government in...

EP17: RL with Will Brown

In this episode of the Information and Bottleneck podcast, Will Brown, an expert in reinforcement learning (RL), discusses his background in math, computer science, and philosophy, leading to his work in algorithmic game theory and multi-agent reinforcement learning. He explains his transition from theoretical research...

EP16: AI News and Papers