Generally Intelligent

By Kanjun Qiu

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Episodes: 40

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

Episode Date
There will be a scientific theory of deep learning
Apr 24, 2026
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