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The Robot Brains Podcast

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In each episode of The Robot Brains podcast, renowned artificial intelligence researcher, professor and entrepreneur Pieter Abbeel meets the brilliant minds attempting to build robots with brains. Pieter is joined by leading experts in AI Robotics from all over the world as he explores how far humanity has come in its mission to create conscious computers, mindful machines and rational robots. Host: Pieter Abbeel | Executive Producers: Alice Patel & Henry Tobias Jones | Audio Production: Kieron Matthew Banerji | Title Music: Alejandro Del Pozo

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Episodes

Jitendra Malik: Building AI from the ground-up, sensorimotor before language

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....

Aug 17, 20231 hr 16 minSeason 3Ep. 20

Seb Boyer of Farmwise: AI that helps feed the world

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....

Aug 11, 202350 minSeason 3Ep. 19

John Schulman of OpenAI on ChatGPT: invention, capabilities and limitations

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....

Aug 03, 202342 minSeason 3Ep. 18

Yaniv Altshuler: reducing cow methane emissions with AI

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....

Jul 26, 202354 minSeason 3Ep. 17

Woody Hoburg: NASA Astronaut directly from the International Space Station

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....

Jul 12, 202318 minSeason 3Ep. 16

Jesse Levinson of Zoox: reinventing personal transportation from the ground up

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....

Jul 06, 20231 hr 1 minSeason 3Ep. 15

Noam Brown: from Open AI on solving Poker and Diplomacy with AI

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....

Jun 28, 20231 hr 15 minSeason 3Ep. 14

Stephen Balaban: building the most cost-effective AI cloud

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....

Jun 21, 202339 minSeason 3Ep. 13

Rocky Duan: from OpenAI to Covariant and building foundation models for robotic automation

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....

Jun 07, 202357 minSeason 3Ep. 12

Raffaello D'Andrea of Verity: how drones can find misplaced items and put on art shows

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....

May 24, 202357 minSeason 3Ep. 11

Yejin Choi: teaching AI common sense and morality

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....

May 17, 202357 minSeason 3Ep. 10

Geoff Hinton Returns: the Godfather of AI on quitting Google to warn of AI risks

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 at TheRobotBrainsPodcast and Twitter @therobotbrains . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informati...

May 10, 202357 minSeason 3Ep. 9

Lukas Biewald of Weights and Biases: solving pain-points of AI researchers

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....

May 03, 202351 minSeason 3Ep. 8

Nando de Freitas of DeepMind: generalizable AI to benefit everyone

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....

Apr 26, 20231 hr 9 minSeason 3Ep. 7

Richard Socher of You.com: the David taking on the "Search" Goliath Google

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 more information....

Apr 19, 20231 hr 29 minSeason 3Ep. 6

Raluca Ada Popa: how to train AI and keep your data confidential

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 . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Apr 12, 202356 minSeason 3Ep. 5

Aidan Gomez of Cohere: building instructable agents

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.com/privacy for more information....

Apr 05, 202346 minSeason 3Ep. 4

Alexandr Wang of ScaleAI: in AI your data writes the program

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/privacy for more information....

Mar 29, 20231 hr 4 minSeason 3Ep. 3

Chelsea Finn: how to build AI that can keep up with an always changing world

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....

Mar 22, 20231 hr 2 minSeason 3Ep. 2

Yoshua Bengio: equipping AI with higher level cognition and creativity

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 more information....

Mar 15, 20231 hr 18 minSeason 3Ep. 1

Twitter Q&A with Geoff Hinton

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 sleep; and why it’s better to grow our computers than manufacture them. As you might recall, we also...

Jun 08, 202244 minSeason 2Ep. 23

Geoff Hinton on revolutionizing artificial intelligence... again

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 the Nobel prize for computer science, he has over half a million citations of his work. Hinton has spe...

Jun 01, 20221 hr 23 minSeason 2Ep. 22

Clement Delangue of Hugging Face on building the GitHub of machine learning

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, Clement Delangue , CEO of Hugging Face , believes in the sustainable long-term benefits of open-scie...

May 25, 202257 minSeason 2Ep. 21

Amit Aggarwal of THE YES is making AI fashionable

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 more personalized your feed gets. Right now, the company only offers women clothes but may expand in th...

May 18, 202245 minSeason 2Ep. 20

Spotify's Gustav Söderström on machine learning to personalize user experiences

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 platform to personalize individual content experiences with the help of artificial intelligence. Pieter ...

May 12, 202253 minSeason 2Ep. 19

Adam Bry of Skydio is leading the next generation of autonomous drones

When you are skiing down a mountain, riding your bike along a forest trail, or surfing 6-footers, it is hard enough just to concentrate on what you are doing, let alone try to capture a video of the moment. But what if you could hire a professional videographer to follow you and capture every move? Well, now you can in the form of AI-powered drones from Skydio. While personal use is just one application, the company has found success across a multitude of use cases . In this episode, we’re joine...

May 04, 202248 minSeason 2Ep. 18

Catapult Sports on AI that is changing the game

Sports and artificial intelligence aren’t two areas that often intersect. That has begun to change as IoT and wearables have begun to be adopted by more professional sports teams . The data that’s produced can be used to identify areas of performance improvement, potential future injuries and insights about team structure on the field. Today’s guest, Param Hegde , former CTO of Catapult Sports joined the show to share how the company is using data-driven intelligence to help athletes reach the t...

Apr 27, 202242 minSeason 2Ep. 17

Amit Prakash of ThoughtSpot on empowering companies to make data-driven decisions

Every business wants to be a data-driven business these days; basing decisions on tangible facts derived from historical precedents and clear-cut numbers. But that’s a lot easier said than done. This episode’s guest, Amit Prakash , is on a mission to change that. Based on his experience working on Microsoft’s Bing and then at Google working on Google Brain , he co-founded Thoughtspot to make querying data as easy as having a simple conversation. Thoughtspot provides artificial intelligence (AI) ...

Apr 20, 202255 minSeason 2Ep. 16

Eric Horvitz of Microsoft on AI for the greater good

On Episode 15 of Season 2, we’re joined by Eric Horvitz , Microsoft’s first ever Chief Scientific Officer. His research spans theoretical and practical challenges with developing systems that perceive, learn, and reason. He’s the company’s top inventor since joining in 1993 with over 300 patents filed. He has been elected Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Fellow of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and...

Apr 13, 202258 minSeason 2Ep. 15

Andrew Song of Whisper AI on solving hearing loss with AI

The five senses...touch, sight, smell, taste, and hearing. They are critical to how we perceive the world around us. Without them, we are lost. And as we grow older, they tend to weaken particularly when it comes to sight and hearing. Today’s guest, Andrew Song , is the co-founder and CEO of Whisper AI, and he is on a mission to help give people great hearing regardless of their age. After graduating from the University of Waterloo with degrees in mathematics and computer science, Andrew went to...

Apr 06, 202247 minSeason 2Ep. 14
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