{"podcast":{"title":"Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)","slug":"machine-learning-street-talk","podcast_index_feed_id":781643,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/1e4a0eac/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/machinelearningstreettalk","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/4981699/4981699-1757416025703-f026fa81b6d04.jpg","author":"Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)","episode_count":250,"summary":"Welcome! We engage in fascinating discussions with pre-eminent figures in the AI field. Our flagship show covers current affairs in AI, cognitive science, neuroscience and philosophy of mind with in-depth analysis. Our approach is unrivalled in terms of scope and rigour – we believe in intellectual diversity in AI, and we touch on all of the main ideas in the field with the hype surgically removed. MLST is run by Tim Scarfe, Ph.D (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ecsquizor/) and features regular appearances from MIT Doctor of Philosophy Keith Duggar (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-keith-duggar/).","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/machine-learning-street-talk"},"episode":{"title":"\"Blurring Reality\" - Chai's Social AI Platform (SPONSORED)","slug":"blurring-reality-chai-s-social-ai-platform-sponsored","published_at":"2025-05-26T21:18:57+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/machine-learning-street-talk/blurring-reality-chai-s-social-ai-platform-sponsored","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/machine-learning-street-talk","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/machinelearningstreettalk/episodes/Blurring-Reality---Chais-Social-AI-Platform-SPONSORED-e33d0jm","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/1e4a0eac/podcast/play/103235638/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2025-4-26%2F401041586-44100-2-c1c7c54714968.mp3","summary":""Blurring Reality" - Chai's Social AI Platform - sponsored This episode of MLST explores the groundbreaking work of Chai, a social AI platform that quietly built one of the world's largest AI companion ecosystems before ChatGPT's mainstream adoption. With over 10 million active users and just 13 engineers serving 2 trillion tokens per day, Chai discovered the massive appetite for AI companionship through serendipity while searching for product-market fit. CHAI sponsored this show *because they want to hire amazing engineers* -- CAREER OPPORTUNITIES AT CHAI Chai is actively hiring in Palo Alto with competitive compensation ($300K-$800K+ equity) for roles including AI Infrastructure Engineers, Software Engineers, Applied AI Researchers, and more. Fast-track qualification available for candidates with significant product launches, open source contributions, or entrepreneurial success. https://www.chai-research.com/jobs/ The conversation with founder William Beauchamp and engineers Tom Lu and Nischay Dhankhar covers Chai's innovative technical approaches including reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF), model blending techniques that combine smaller models to outperform larger ones, and their unique infrastructure challenges running exaflop-class compute. SPONSOR MESSAGES: *** Tufa AI Labs is a brand new research lab in Zurich started by Benjamin Crouzier focussed on o-series style reasoning and AGI. They are hiring a Chief Engineer and ML engineers in Zurich and SF. Goto https://tufalabs.ai/ *** Key themes explored include: - The ethics of AI engagement optimization and attention hacking - Content moderation at scale with a lean engineering team - The shift from AI as utility tool to AI as social companion - How users form deep emotional bonds with ar…","meta_description":"\"Blurring Reality\" - Chai's Social AI Platform - sponsored This episode of MLST explores the groundbreaking work of Chai, a social AI platform t…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3059,"processing_state":"processed","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/machine-learning-street-talk/episodes/blurring-reality-chai-s-social-ai-platform-sponsored/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/machine-learning-street-talk/blurring-reality-chai-s-social-ai-platform-sponsored.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}