Thinking Machines: AI & Philosophy
“Thinking Machines,” hosted by Daniel Reid Cahn, bridges the worlds of artificial intelligence and philosophy - aimed at technical audiences. Episodes explore how AI challenges our understanding of topics like consciousness, free will, and morality, featuring interviews with leading thinkers, AI leaders, founders, machine learning engineers, and philosophers. Daniel guides listeners through the complex landscape of artificial intelligence, questioning its impact on human knowledge, ethics, and the future.
We talk through the big questions that are bubbling through the AI community, covering topics like "Can AI be Creative?" and "Is the Turing Test outdated?", introduce new concepts to our vocabulary like "human washing," and only occasionally agree with each other.
Daniel is a machine learning engineer who misses his time as a philosopher at King's College London. Daniel is the cofounder and CEO of Slingshot AI, building the foundation model for psychology.
- Update frequency
- every 13 days
- Average duration
- 38 minutes
- Episodes
- 26
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2025
Programming for Machine Learning (Tech Talk)
Daniel hosts our machine learning research intern and Cambridge Masters student, Andy Lo, to talk about the present and future of ML programming. Topics include:
- PyTorch vs. TensorFlow vs. Jax vs MoJo
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AI's End of History Illusion
In this episode, Daniel shares his perspective on the opportunities for the next wave of AI-native startups.
Machine Learning isn’t just about sentiment classification, churn prediction, and revenue f…
Design Driven Development at Slingshot
Daniel hosts our Founding Engineer, Edwin Zhang to unravel the balance in Design Driven Developments. Key things they cover:
- The conundrums faced when balancing user wants with real, valuable needs - …
LLM Inference Speed (Tech Deep Dive)
In this tech talk, we dive deep into the technical specifics around LLM inference.
The big question is: Why are LLMs slow? How can they be faster? And might slow inference affect UX in the next genera…
Why is Llama 2 Open Source? What is Meta up to?
This episode delves into the ongoing debate of the competitiveness between open-source and closed-source models and the reasons behind Meta's decision to publish Llama2 with a permissive open-source …
Can AI be Creative?
Ever seen a piece of work and thought, "Wow, a machine did that?"
In our very first Slingtalk episode, we unravel the broad world of AI and where creativity plays a part in the process. We cover:
- AI…