Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)

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/).

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Episodes (273)

Mon Nov 2nd Why Leibniz Couldn't Find the Mind Inside the Mill (Joscha Bach)
Oct 26th Mathematics Just Changed Forever — Kevin Hartnett
Oct 10th What Most People Get Wrong About Evolution | Akarsh Kumar

Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)

Nov 2, 2026
2 hours
90 MB

Joscha Bach is a cognitive scientist and the founder of the California Institute for Machine Consciousness. SPONSOR: --- Parallel is a single platform for all your agentic research: web search built for AI agents, with Pareto-optimal quality, cost and speed. Get started: https://parallel.ai/mlst --- Bach's null hypothesis is that consciousness is easy: an algorithm not much more complicated than the transformer, simple enough for an infant's brain to discover by itself. In this conversation with Tim, he lays...

Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)

Why Leibniz Couldn't Find the Mind Inside the Mill (Joscha Bach)

Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)

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