The Information Bottleneck

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Episodes · 25

Why AI Benchmarks Are Lying to You - with Wenhu Chen (Meta/University of Waterloo)

Jun 13, 2026 · 1h 19m

Jürgen Schmidhuber - Part 2: JEPA, the Road to AGI, and Who Really Invented Modern AI

Jun 7, 2026 · 1h 29m

Jürgen Schmidhuber - World Models, RL, and the Year that changed AI (Part 1)

Jun 4, 2026 · 1h 37m

AI for Science and the Thermodynamics of Generative AI - with Max Welling (UvA, CuspAI)

May 29, 2026 · 1h 13m

After Math Falls, What's Next? with Julia Kempe (NYU/Meta)

May 25, 2026 · 1h 14m

Intelligence in an Open World - with Mengye Ren (NYU)

May 20, 2026 · 59m

Language, Cognition, and the Limits of LLMs - with Tal Linzen (NYU/Google)

May 17, 2026 · 1h 23m

The Principles of Diffusion Models - with Jesse Lai (Sony AI)

May 10, 2026 · 55m

Inside xAI, and the Bet on AI Math - with Christian Szegedy (Math Inc)

May 4, 2026 · 1h 12m

Reasoning Models and Planning - with Rao Kambhampati (Arizona State)

Apr 29, 2026 · 1h 11m

What Actually Matters in AI? - with Zhuang Liu (Princeton)

Apr 24, 2026 · 1h 9m

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

Apr 15, 2026 · 1h 24m

The Hidden Engine of Vision with Peyman Milanfar (Google)

Apr 10, 2026 · 1h 24m

How to Build the Smartest Camera in Your Pocket - with Peyman Milanfar (Google)

Apr 5, 2026 · 1h 26m

Reinventing AI From Scratch with Yaroslav Bulatov

Mar 30, 2026 · 57m

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

Mar 24, 2026 · 1h 18m

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

Mar 19, 2026 · 49m

Training Is Nothing Like Learning with Naomi Saphra (Harvard)

Mar 13, 2026 · 1h 11m

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

Mar 6, 2026 · 1h 2m

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

Mar 2, 2026 · 1h 25m

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

Feb 24, 2026 · 44m

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

Feb 17, 2026 · 1h 15m

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

Feb 8, 2026 · 1h 31m

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

Feb 1, 2026 · 1h 14m

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

Jan 20, 2026 · 1h 25m