
The AI Fundamentalists
A podcast about the fundamentals of safe and resilient modeling systems behind the AI that impacts our lives and our businesses.
Podcasting since 2023 • 33 episodes
The AI Fundamentalists
Latest Episodes
Utility functions: Building smarter AI agents from the fundamentals, part 2
The hosts look at utility functions as the mathematical basis for making AI systems. They use the example of a travel agent that doesn’t get tired and can be increased indefinitely to meet increasing customer demand. They also discuss the diffe...
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Season 1
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Episode 33
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41:36

Mechanism design: Building smarter AI agents from the fundamentals, Part 1
What if we've been approaching AI agents all wrong? While the tech world obsesses over larger language models (LLMs) and prompt engineering, there'a a foundational approach that could revolutionize how we build trustworthy AI systems: mechanism...
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Season 1
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Episode 32
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37:06

Principles, agents, and the chain of accountability in AI systems
Dr. Michael Zargham provides a systems engineering perspective on AI agents, emphasizing accountability structures and the relationship between principals who deploy...
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46:26

Supervised machine learning for science with Christoph Molnar and Timo Freiesleben, Part 2
Part 2 of this series could have easily been renamed "AI for science: The expert’s guide to practical machine learning.” We continue our discussion with Christoph Molnar and Timo Freiesleben to look at how scientists can apply
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41:58

Supervised machine learning for science with Christoph Molnar and Timo Freiesleben, Part 1
Machine learning is transforming scientific research across disciplines, but many scientists remain skeptical about using approaches that focus on prediction over causal understanding. That’s why we are excited to have Christoph Mol...
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Season 1
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Episode 29
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27:29

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