{"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":"Prof. Jakob Foerster - ImageNet Moment for Reinforcement Learning?","slug":"prof-jakob-foerster-imagenet-moment-for-reinforcement-learning","published_at":"2025-02-18T20:21:54+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/machine-learning-street-talk/prof-jakob-foerster-imagenet-moment-for-reinforcement-learning","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/machine-learning-street-talk","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/machinelearningstreettalk/episodes/Prof--Jakob-Foerster---ImageNet-Moment-for-Reinforcement-Learning-e2v2cl2","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/1e4a0eac/podcast/play/98693218/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2025-1-18%2F52dc0817-4adf-4877-0b7b-e190a4542c3a.mp3","summary":"Prof. Jakob Foerster, a leading AI researcher at Oxford University and Meta, and Chris Lu, a researcher at OpenAI -- they explain how AI is moving beyond just mimicking human behaviour to creating truly intelligent agents that can learn and solve problems on their own. Foerster champions open-source AI for responsible, decentralised development. He addresses AI scaling, goal misalignment (Goodhart's Law), and the need for holistic alignment, offering a quick look at the future of AI and how to guide it. 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. Check out their super fast DeepSeek R1 hosting! 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. They are hiring a Chief Engineer and ML engineers. Events in Zurich. Goto https://tufalabs.ai/ *** TRANSCRIPT/REFS: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/yqjszhntfr00bhjh6t565/JAKOB.pdf?rlkey=scvny4bnwj8th42fjv8zsfu2y&dl=0 Prof. Jakob Foerster https://x.com/j_foerst https://www.jakobfoerster.com/ University of Oxford Profile: https://eng.ox.ac.uk/people/jakob-foerster/ Chris Lu: https://chrislu.page/ TOC 1. GPU Acceleration and Training Infrastructure [00:00:00] 1.1 ARC Challenge Criticism and FLAIR Lab Overview [00:01:25] 1.2 GPU Acceleration and Hardware Lottery in RL [00:05:50] 1.3 Data Wall Challenges and Simulation-Based Solutions [00:08:40] 1.4 JAX Implementation and Technical Acceleration 2. Learning Frameworks and Policy Optimization [00:14:18] 2.1 Evolution of RL Algorithms and Mirror Learning Framework [00:15:25] 2.2 Meta-Learning and Policy Optimization Algorithms [00:21:47] 2.3 Language Mod…","meta_description":"Prof. Jakob Foerster, a leading AI researcher at Oxford University and Meta, and Chris Lu, a researcher at OpenAI -- they explain how AI is moving beyond…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3211,"processing_state":"processed","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/machine-learning-street-talk/episodes/prof-jakob-foerster-imagenet-moment-for-reinforcement-learning/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/prof-jakob-foerster-imagenet-moment-for-reinforcement-learning.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}