{"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":"Nicholas Carlini (Google DeepMind)","slug":"nicholas-carlini-google-deepmind","published_at":"2025-01-25T21:22:34+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/machine-learning-street-talk/nicholas-carlini-google-deepmind","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/machine-learning-street-talk","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/machinelearningstreettalk/episodes/Nicholas-Carlini-Google-DeepMind-e2tvqch","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/1e4a0eac/podcast/play/97560401/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2025-0-25%2Fe2cfa06e-9d17-d934-48a1-c88f969a4f47.mp3","summary":"Nicholas Carlini from Google DeepMind offers his view of AI security, emergent LLM capabilities, and his groundbreaking model-stealing research. He reveals how LLMs can unexpectedly excel at tasks like chess and discusses the security pitfalls of LLM-generated code. SPONSOR MESSAGES: *** CentML offers competitive pricing for GenAI model deployment, with flexible options to suit a wide range of models, from small to large-scale deployments. https://centml.ai/pricing/ Tufa AI Labs is a brand new research lab in Zurich started by Benjamin Crouzier focussed on o-series style reasoning and AGI. Are you interested in working on reasoning, or getting involved in their events? Goto https://tufalabs.ai/ *** Transcript: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/lat7sfyd4k3g5k9crjpbf/CARLINI.pdf?rlkey=b7kcqbvau17uw6rksbr8ccd8v&amp;dl=0 TOC: 1. ML Security Fundamentals [00:00:00] 1.1 ML Model Reasoning and Security Fundamentals [00:03:04] 1.2 ML Security Vulnerabilities and System Design [00:08:22] 1.3 LLM Chess Capabilities and Emergent Behavior [00:13:20] 1.4 Model Training, RLHF, and Calibration Effects 2. Model Evaluation and Research Methods [00:19:40] 2.1 Model Reasoning and Evaluation Metrics [00:24:37] 2.2 Security Research Philosophy and Methodology [00:27:50] 2.3 Security Disclosure Norms and Community Differences 3. LLM Applications and Best Practices [00:44:29] 3.1 Practical LLM Applications and Productivity Gains [00:49:51] 3.2 Effective LLM Usage and Prompting Strategies [00:53:03] 3.3 Security Vulnerabilities in LLM-Generated Code 4. Advanced LLM Research and Architecture [00:59:13] 4.1 LLM Code Generation Performance and O(1) Labs Experience [01:03:31] 4.2 Adaptation Patterns and Benchmarking Challenges [01:10:10] 4.3 Model Stealing Research and Production LLM Architecture Ex…","meta_description":"Nicholas Carlini from Google DeepMind offers his view of AI security, emergent LLM capabilities, and his groundbreaking model-stealing research. He reveal…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4875,"processing_state":"processed","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/machine-learning-street-talk/episodes/nicholas-carlini-google-deepmind/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/nicholas-carlini-google-deepmind.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}