Generally Intelligent

By Kanjun Qiu

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Episodes: 39

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Conversations with builders and thinkers on AI's technical and societal futures. Made by Imbue.

Episode Date
Malleable software and human agency with Geoffrey Litt
Nov 14, 2025
From lawless spaces to true liberty: rethinking AI's role in society
Aug 13, 2025
Rylan Schaeffer, Stanford: Investigating emergent abilities and challenging dominant research ideas
Sep 18, 2024
Ari Morcos, DatologyAI: Leveraging data to democratize model training
Jul 11, 2024
Percy Liang, Stanford: The paradigm shift and societal effects of foundation models
May 09, 2024
Seth Lazar, Australian National University: Legitimate power, moral nuance, and the political philosophy of AI
Mar 12, 2024
Tri Dao, Stanford: FlashAttention and sparsity, quantization, and efficient inference
Aug 09, 2023
Jamie Simon, UC Berkeley: Theoretical principles for how neural networks learn and generalize
Jun 22, 2023
Bill Thompson, UC Berkeley: How cultural evolution shapes knowledge acquisition
Mar 29, 2023
Ben Eysenbach, CMU: Designing simpler and more principled RL algorithms
Mar 23, 2023
Jim Fan, NVIDIA: Foundation models for embodied agents, scaling data, and why prompt engineering will become irrelevant
Mar 09, 2023
Sergey Levine, UC Berkeley: The bottlenecks to generalization in reinforcement learning, why simulation is doomed to succeed, and how to pick good research problems
Mar 01, 2023
Noam Brown, FAIR: Achieving human-level performance in poker and Diplomacy, and the power of spending compute at inference time
Feb 09, 2023
Sugandha Sharma, MIT: Biologically inspired neural architectures, how memories can be implemented, and control theory
Jan 17, 2023
Nicklas Hansen, UCSD: Long-horizon planning and why algorithms don't drive research progress
Dec 16, 2022
Jack Parker-Holder, DeepMind: Open-endedness, evolving agents and environments, online adaptation, and offline learning
Dec 06, 2022
Celeste Kidd, UC Berkeley: Attention and curiosity, how we form beliefs, and where certainty comes from
Nov 22, 2022
Archit Sharma, Stanford: Unsupervised and autonomous reinforcement learning
Nov 17, 2022
Chelsea Finn, Stanford: The biggest bottlenecks in robotics and reinforcement learning
Nov 03, 2022
Hattie Zhou, Mila: Supermasks, iterative learning, and fortuitous forgetting
Oct 14, 2022
Minqi Jiang, UCL: Environment and curriculum design for general RL agents
Jul 19, 2022
Oleh Rybkin, UPenn: Exploration and planning with world models
Jul 11, 2022
Andrew Lampinen, DeepMind. Symbolic behavior, mental time travel, and insights from psychology
Feb 28, 2022
Yilun Du, MIT: Energy-based models, implicit functions, and modularity
Dec 21, 2021
Martín Arjovsky, INRIA: Benchmarks for robustness and geometric information theory
Oct 15, 2021
Yash Sharma, MPI-IS: Generalizability, causality, and disentanglement
Sep 24, 2021
Jonathan Frankle, MIT: The lottery ticket hypothesis and the science of deep learning
Sep 10, 2021
Jacob Steinhardt, UC Berkeley: Machine learning safety, alignment and measurement
Jun 18, 2021
Vincent Sitzmann, MIT: Neural scene representations for computer vision and more general AI
May 20, 2021
Dylan Hadfield-Menell, UC Berkeley/MIT: The value alignment problem in AI
May 12, 2021
Drew Linsley, Brown: Inductive biases for vision and generalization
Apr 02, 2021
Giancarlo Kerg, Mila: Approaching deep learning from mathematical foundations
Mar 27, 2021
Yujia Huang, Caltech: Neuro-inspired generative models
Mar 18, 2021
Julian Chibane, MPI-INF: 3D reconstruction using implicit functions
Mar 05, 2021
Katja Schwarz, MPI-IS: GANs, implicit functions, and 3D scene understanding
Feb 24, 2021
Joel Lehman, OpenAI: Evolution, open-endedness, and reinforcement learning
Feb 17, 2021
Cinjon Resnick, NYU: Activity and scene understanding
Feb 01, 2021
Sarah Jane Hong, Latent Space: Neural rendering & research process
Jan 07, 2021
Kelvin Guu, Google AI: Language models & overlooked research problems
Dec 15, 2020