The Robot Brains Podcast

Jitendra Malik , Professor of EECS at UC Berkeley discusses with host Pieter Abbeel building AI from the ground-up and sensorimotor before language. Subscribe to the Robot Brains Podcast today | Visit  therobotbrains.ai  and follow us on YouTube at  TheRobotBrainsPodcast and Twitter at @pabbeel . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Seb Boyer of Farmwise discusses with host Pieter Abbeel AI that helps feed the world. Subscribe to the Robot Brains Podcast today | Visit  therobotbrains.ai  and follow us on YouTube at  TheRobotBrainsPodcast and Twitter at @pabbeel . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

John Schulman , co-founder OpenAI , discusses with host Pieter Abbeel the invention, capabilities, and limitations of ChatGPT. Subscribe to the Robot Brains Podcast today | Visit  therobotbrains.ai  and follow us on YouTube at  TheRobotBrainsPodcast and Twitter at @pabbeel . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Yaniv Altshuler , MIT Media Lab researcher, joins Pieter Abbeel to discuss reducing cow methane emissions with AI and more. Subscribe to the Robot Brains Podcast today | Visit  therobotbrains.ai  and follow us on YouTube at  TheRobotBrainsPodcast and Twitter at @pabbeel . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Woody Hoburg , a member of NASA’s Expedition 69 crew, joined Pieter Abbeel to discuss his life and work currently aboard the International Space Station. Subscribe to the Robot Brains Podcast today | Visit  therobotbrains.ai  and follow us on YouTube at  TheRobotBrainsPodcast and Twitter at @pabbeel . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jesse Levinson , co-founder and CTO of Zoox joins Pieter Abbeel to discuss reinventing personal transportation from the ground up. Subscribe to the Robot Brains Podcast today | Visit  therobotbrains.ai  and follow us on YouTube at  TheRobotBrainsPodcast and Twitter at @pabbeel . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Noam Brown joins host Pieter Abbeel to discuss solving poker and Diplomacy with AI. Subscribe to the Robot Brains Podcast today | Visit  therobotbrains.ai  and follow us on YouTube at  TheRobotBrainsPodcast and Twitter  @therobotbrains . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Stephen Balaban , CEO and founder of Lambda joins host Pieter Abbeel to discuss building the most cost-effective AI cloud. Subscribe to the Robot Brains Podcast today | Visit  therobotbrains.ai  and follow us on YouTube at  TheRobotBrainsPodcast and Twitter  @therobotbrains . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Rocky Duan , CTO of Covariant joins joins Host Pieter Abbeel to talk about his time at OpenAI to founding Covariant to build foundation models for robotic automation. Subscribe to the Robot Brains Podcast today | Visit  therobotbrains.ai  and follow us on YouTube at  TheRobotBrainsPodcast and Twitter  @therobotbrains . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information...

Raffaello D'Andrea of Verity , Kiva Systems , and ETH Zurich joins Host Pieter Abbeel to discuss how drones misplace items and put on art shows. Subscribe to the Robot Brains Podcast today | Visit  therobotbrains.ai  and follow us on YouTube at  TheRobotBrainsPodcast and Twitter  @therobotbrains . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Yejin Choi joins Host Pieter Abbeel to discuss how we can teach AI common sense and morality and what ChatGPT can't do yet. Subscribe to the Robot Brains Podcast today | Visit  therobotbrains.ai  and follow us on YouTube at  TheRobotBrainsPodcast and Twitter  @therobotbrains . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Geoff Hinton , the "Godfather of AI" returns to the Robot Brains with Pieter Abeel to discuss quitting Google to warn of AI risks. Geoff and Peter discuss whether AI is smarter than people, the role of regulation, fusing human and artificial intelligence, and what Geoff's next steps will be. Subscribe to the Robot Brains Podcast today | Visit  therobotbrains.ai  and follow us on YouTube...

Lukas Biewald of Weights and Biases joins Host Pieter Abbeel to discuss solving the pain-points of AI researchers and practitioners. Subscribe to the Robot Brains Podcast today | Visit  therobotbrains.ai  and follow us on YouTube at  TheRobotBrainsPodcast and Twitter  @therobotbrains . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nando de Freitas of DeepMind joins Host Pieter Abbeel to discuss generalizable AI to benefit everyone. Subscribe to the Robot Brains Podcast today | Visit  therobotbrains.ai  and follow us on YouTube at  TheRobotBrainsPodcast and Twitter  @therobotbrains . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Richard Socher from You.com (and before that, Stanford, MetaMind, Salesforce) joins Host Pieter Abbeel to discuss the future of search, LLMs, AGI, You.com, Metamind, AIX Ventures . Subscribe to the Robot Brains Podcast today | Visit  therobotbrains.ai  and follow us on YouTube at  TheRobotBrainsPodcast and Twitter  @therobotbrains . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for mo...

Raluca Ada Popa from UC Berkeley, Opaque Systems , PreVeil joins Host Pieter Abbeel to discuss data privacy and AI, cloud enclaves, confidential and encrypted computing, differential privacy, PreVeil, and Opaque Systems. Subscribe to the Robot Brains Podcast today | Visit  therobotbrains.ai  and follow us on YouTube at  TheRobotBrainsPodcast and Twitter  @therobotbrains . Hoste...

Aidan Gomez , co-founder and CEO of Cohere joins Host Pieter Abbeel to discuss transformers, large language models, command and instruct models, prompt engineering, and LLMs competitive landscape. Subscribe to the Robot Brains Podcast today | Visit  therobotbrains.ai  and follow us on YouTube at  TheRobotBrainsPodcast and Twitter  @therobotbrains . Hosted on Acast. See acast.co...

Alexandr Wang from Scale AI joins Host Pieter Abbeel to discuss data, labeling, foundation models, LLMs, truthfulness, reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF), and AI for defense. Subscribe to the Robot Brains Podcast today | Visit  therobotbrains.ai  and follow us on YouTube at  TheRobotBrainsPodcast and Twitter  @therobotbrains . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/priva...

Chelsea Finn joins Host Pieter Abbeel to discuss distribution shift, meta-learning, editing LLMs, single-life RL, and what can AI not (yet) do today. Subscribe to the Robot Brains Podcast today | Visit  therobotbrains.ai  and follow us on YouTube at  TheRobotBrainsPodcast and Twitter  @therobotbrains . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Yoshua Bengio joins Host Pieter Abbeel to discuss large language models, higher level cognition, causality, responsible AI, and human creativity. SUBSCRIBE TO THE ROBOT BRAINS PODCAST TODAY | Visit  therobotbrains.ai  and follow us on YouTube at  TheRobotBrainsPodcast , Twitter  @therobotbrains , and Instagram  @therobotbrains . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for m...

Last week, we were honored to have Professor Geoff Hinton join the show for a wide-ranging discussion inspired by insights gleaned from Hinton’s journey in academia , as well as past 10 years with Google Brain . The episode covers how existing neural networks and backpropagation models operate differently than how the brain actually works; the AlexNet/ ImageNet breakthrough moment; the purpose of...

Over the past ten years, AI has experienced breakthrough after breakthrough in everything from computer vision to speech recognition, protein folding prediction, and so much more. Many of these advancements hinge on the deep learning work conducted by our guest, Geoff Hinton , who has fundamentally changed the focus and direction of the field. A recipient of the Turing Award , the equivalent of th...

Originally created to be an open domain conversational AI, your own ‘artificial BFF' that you could chat with when your real friends weren’t available — fast forward six years, and Hugging Face is the leading Natural Language Processing (NLP) start-up. The company is currently valued at $2B with over 10,000 companies using the open-source AI platform - including Bing, Apple, and Monzo. Our guest,...

As we all re-entered society over the last year, after months of WFH sweatpants and t-shirts, a personal stylist would have been helpful. Well, now there’s AI for that - THE YES . By taking a quick style quiz, you’ll have daily product and brand recommendations and a personalized feed displaying exactly what you’re looking for — in your size, budget and preferences. The more you say “yes”, the mor...

Music is universal. It transcends language. Melodies have the power to trigger strong emotions. In fact, our brains release dopamine - the “feel good” hormone - when we listen to music. Today’s guest, Spotify’s Chief R&D Officer Gustav Söderström, has been helping to bring the magic of music, personalized playlists, and more recently, podcasts to people around the world. He’s also led the plat...