{"podcast":{"title":"The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence)","slug":"twiml-ai-podcast","podcast_index_feed_id":1045879,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/MLN2155636147","website_url":"https://twimlai.com","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/35230150-ee98-11eb-ad1a-b38cbabcd053/image/TWIML_AI_Podcast_Official_Cover_Art_1400px.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"TWIML","episode_count":785,"summary":"Machine learning and artificial intelligence are dramatically changing the way businesses operate and people live. The TWIML AI Podcast brings the top minds and ideas from the world of ML and AI to a broad and influential community of ML/AI researchers, data scientists, engineers and tech-savvy business and IT leaders. Hosted by Sam Charrington, a sought after industry analyst, speaker, commentator and thought leader. Technologies covered include machine learning, artificial intelligence, deep learning, natural language processing, neural networks, analytics, computer science, data science and more.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/twiml-ai-podcast"},"episode":{"title":"The Decentralized Future of Private AI with Illia Polosukhin - #749","slug":"the-decentralized-future-of-private-ai-with-illia-polosukhin-749","published_at":"2025-09-30T16:22:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/twiml-ai-podcast/the-decentralized-future-of-private-ai-with-illia-polosukhin-749","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/twiml-ai-podcast","url":"https://twimlai.com/podcast/twimlai/the-decentralized-future-of-private-ai/","audio_url":"https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/MLN2189764781.mp3?updated=1762292711","summary":"Illia Polosukhin, co-author of the Transformer paper, explains how decentralized infrastructure can solve the growing privacy and liability risks of centralized AI. 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