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The Robot Brains Podcast

The Robot Brains Podcast

With Pieter Abeel

Pieter Abbeel · The Robot Brains Podcast

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Show overview

The Robot Brains Podcast has been publishing since 2021, and across the 2 years since has built a catalogue of 67 episodes, alongside 2 trailers or bonus episodes. That works out to roughly 65 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a fortnightly cadence, with the show now in its 3rd season.

Episodes typically run thirty-five to sixty minutes — most land between 47 min and 1h 4m — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. It is catalogued as a EN-language Technology show.

The catalogue appears to be on hiatus or wound down — the most recent episode landed 2.8 years ago, with no new episodes in over a year.

Episodes
67
Running
2021–2023 · 2y
Median length
56 min
Cadence
Fortnightly

From the publisher

In each episode of The Robot Brains podcast, renowned artificial intelligence researcher, professor and entrepreneur Pieter Abbeel meets the brilliant minds attempting to build robots with brains. Pieter is joined by leading experts in AI Robotics from all over the world as he explores how far humanity has come in its mission to create conscious computers, mindful machines and rational robots. Host: Pieter Abbeel | Executive Producers: Alice Patel & Henry Tobias Jones | Audio Production: Kieron Matthew Banerji | Title Music: Alejandro Del Pozo Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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S3 Ep 20Jitendra Malik: Building AI from the ground-up, sensorimotor before language

Jitendra Malik, Professor of EECS at UC Berkeley discusses with host Pieter Abbeel building AI from the ground-up and sensorimotor before language. Subscribe to the Robot Brains Podcast today | Visit therobotbrains.ai and follow us on YouTube at TheRobotBrainsPodcast and Twitter at @pabbeel. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Aug 17, 20231h 15m

S3 Ep 19Seb Boyer of Farmwise: AI that helps feed the world

Seb Boyer of Farmwise discusses with host Pieter Abbeel AI that helps feed the world. Subscribe to the Robot Brains Podcast today | Visit therobotbrains.ai and follow us on YouTube at TheRobotBrainsPodcast and Twitter at @pabbeel. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Aug 11, 202350 min

S3 Ep 18John Schulman of OpenAI on ChatGPT: invention, capabilities and limitations

John Schulman, co-founder OpenAI, discusses with host Pieter Abbeel the invention, capabilities, and limitations of ChatGPT. Subscribe to the Robot Brains Podcast today | Visit therobotbrains.ai and follow us on YouTube at TheRobotBrainsPodcast and Twitter at @pabbeel. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Aug 3, 202342 min

S3 Ep 17Yaniv Altshuler: reducing cow methane emissions with AI

Yaniv Altshuler, MIT Media Lab researcher, joins Pieter Abbeel to discuss reducing cow methane emissions with AI and more. Subscribe to the Robot Brains Podcast today | Visit therobotbrains.ai and follow us on YouTube at TheRobotBrainsPodcast and Twitter at @pabbeel. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jul 26, 202353 min

S3 Ep 16Woody Hoburg: NASA Astronaut directly from the International Space Station

Woody Hoburg, a member of NASA’s Expedition 69 crew, joined Pieter Abbeel to discuss his life and work currently aboard the International Space Station.Subscribe to the Robot Brains Podcast today | Visit therobotbrains.ai and follow us on YouTube at TheRobotBrainsPodcast and Twitter at @pabbeel. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jul 12, 202317 min

S3 Ep 15Jesse Levinson of Zoox: reinventing personal transportation from the ground up

Jesse Levinson, co-founder and CTO of Zoox joins Pieter Abbeel to discuss reinventing personal transportation from the ground up. Subscribe to the Robot Brains Podcast today | Visit therobotbrains.ai and follow us on YouTube at TheRobotBrainsPodcast and Twitter at @pabbeel. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jul 6, 20231h 0m

S3 Ep 14Noam Brown: from Open AI on solving Poker and Diplomacy with AI

Noam Brown joins host Pieter Abbeel to discuss solving poker and Diplomacy with AI. Subscribe to the Robot Brains Podcast today | Visit therobotbrains.ai and follow us on YouTube at TheRobotBrainsPodcast and Twitter @therobotbrains. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jun 28, 20231h 14m

S3 Ep 13Stephen Balaban: building the most cost-effective AI cloud

Stephen Balaban, CEO and founder of Lambda joins host Pieter Abbeel to discuss building the most cost-effective AI cloud.Subscribe to the Robot Brains Podcast today | Visit therobotbrains.ai and follow us on YouTube at TheRobotBrainsPodcast and Twitter @therobotbrains. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jun 21, 202339 min

S3 Ep 12Rocky Duan: from OpenAI to Covariant and building foundation models for robotic automation

Rocky Duan, CTO of Covariant joins joins Host Pieter Abbeel to talk about his time at OpenAI to founding Covariant to build foundation models for robotic automation. Subscribe to the Robot Brains Podcast today | Visit therobotbrains.ai and follow us on YouTube at TheRobotBrainsPodcast and Twitter @therobotbrains. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jun 7, 202357 min

S3 Ep 11Raffaello D'Andrea of Verity: how drones can find misplaced items and put on art shows

Raffaello D'Andrea of Verity, Kiva Systems, and ETH Zurich joins Host Pieter Abbeel to discuss how drones misplace items and put on art shows. Subscribe to the Robot Brains Podcast today | Visit therobotbrains.ai and follow us on YouTube at TheRobotBrainsPodcast and Twitter @therobotbrains. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

May 24, 202356 min

S3 Ep 10Yejin Choi: teaching AI common sense and morality

Yejin Choi joins Host Pieter Abbeel to discuss how we can teach AI common sense and morality and what ChatGPT can't do yet.Subscribe to the Robot Brains Podcast today | Visit therobotbrains.ai and follow us on YouTube at TheRobotBrainsPodcast and Twitter @therobotbrains. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

May 17, 202356 min

S3 Ep 9Geoff Hinton Returns: the Godfather of AI on quitting Google to warn of AI risks

Geoff Hinton, the "Godfather of AI" returns to the Robot Brains with Pieter Abeel to discuss quitting Google to warn of AI risks. Geoff and Peter discuss whether AI is smarter than people, the role of regulation, fusing human and artificial intelligence, and what Geoff's next steps will be. Subscribe to the Robot Brains Podcast today | Visit therobotbrains.ai and follow us on YouTube at TheRobotBrainsPodcast and Twitter @therobotbrains. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

May 10, 202356 min

S3 Ep 8Lukas Biewald of Weights and Biases: solving pain-points of AI researchers

Lukas Biewald of Weights and Biases joins Host Pieter Abbeel to discuss solving the pain-points of AI researchers and practitioners.Subscribe to the Robot Brains Podcast today | Visit therobotbrains.ai and follow us on YouTube at TheRobotBrainsPodcast and Twitter @therobotbrains. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

May 3, 202351 min

S3 Ep 7Nando de Freitas of DeepMind: generalizable AI to benefit everyone

Nando de Freitas of DeepMind joins Host Pieter Abbeel to discuss generalizable AI to benefit everyone. Subscribe to the Robot Brains Podcast today | Visit therobotbrains.ai and follow us on YouTube at TheRobotBrainsPodcast and Twitter @therobotbrains. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Apr 26, 20231h 8m

S3 Ep 6Richard Socher of You.com: the David taking on the "Search" Goliath Google

Richard Socher from You.com (and before that, Stanford, MetaMind, Salesforce) joins Host Pieter Abbeel to discuss the future of search, LLMs, AGI, You.com, Metamind, AIX Ventures. Subscribe to the Robot Brains Podcast today | Visit therobotbrains.ai and follow us on YouTube at TheRobotBrainsPodcast and Twitter @therobotbrains. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Apr 19, 20231h 29m

S3 Ep 5Raluca Ada Popa: how to train AI and keep your data confidential

Raluca Ada Popa from UC Berkeley, Opaque Systems, PreVeil joins Host Pieter Abbeel to discuss data privacy and AI, cloud enclaves, confidential and encrypted computing, differential privacy, PreVeil, and Opaque Systems.Subscribe to the Robot Brains Podcast today | Visit therobotbrains.ai and follow us on YouTube at TheRobotBrainsPodcast and Twitter @therobotbrains. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Apr 12, 202356 min

S3 Ep 4Aidan Gomez of Cohere: building instructable agents

Aidan Gomez, co-founder and CEO of Cohere joins Host Pieter Abbeel to discuss transformers, large language models, command and instruct models, prompt engineering, and LLMs competitive landscape.Subscribe to the Robot Brains Podcast today | Visit therobotbrains.ai and follow us on YouTube at TheRobotBrainsPodcast and Twitter @therobotbrains. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Apr 5, 202345 min

S3 Ep 3Alexandr Wang of ScaleAI: in AI your data writes the program

Alexandr Wang from Scale AI joins Host Pieter Abbeel to discuss data, labeling, foundation models, LLMs, truthfulness, reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF), and AI for defense.Subscribe to the Robot Brains Podcast today | Visit therobotbrains.ai and follow us on YouTube at TheRobotBrainsPodcast and Twitter @therobotbrains. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mar 29, 20231h 3m

S3 Ep 2Chelsea Finn: how to build AI that can keep up with an always changing world

Chelsea Finn joins Host Pieter Abbeel to discuss distribution shift, meta-learning, editing LLMs, single-life RL, and what can AI not (yet) do today.Subscribe to the Robot Brains Podcast today | Visit therobotbrains.ai and follow us on YouTube at TheRobotBrainsPodcast and Twitter @therobotbrains. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mar 22, 20231h 2m

S3 Ep 1Yoshua Bengio: equipping AI with higher level cognition and creativity

Yoshua Bengio joins Host Pieter Abbeel to discuss large language models, higher level cognition, causality, responsible AI, and human creativity. SUBSCRIBE TO THE ROBOT BRAINS PODCAST TODAY | Visit therobotbrains.ai and follow us on YouTube at TheRobotBrainsPodcast, Twitter @therobotbrains, and Instagram @therobotbrains. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mar 15, 20231h 17m
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