Knowledge Distillation is the podcast that brings together a mixture of experts from across the Artificial Intelligence community. We talk to the world’s leading researchers about their experiences developing cutting-edge models as well as the technologists taking AI tools out of the lab and turning them into commercial products and services. Knowledge Distillation also takes a critical look at the impact of artificial intelligence on society – opting for expert analysis instead of hysterica ...
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Each episode of Distillations podcast takes a deep-dive into a moment of science-related history in order to shed light on the present.
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Neuroscience and AI with Basis co-founder Emily Mackevicius
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Emily Mackevicius is a co-founder and director of Basis, a nonprofit applied research organization focused on understanding and building intelligence while advancing society’s ability to solve intractable problems. Emily is a member of the Simons Society of Fellows, and a postdoc in the Aronov lab and the Center for Theoretical Neuroscience at Colu…
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Stable Diffusion 3 with Stability AI's Kate Hodesdon
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Stability AI’s Stable Diffusion model is one of the best known and most widely used text-to-image systems. The decision to open-source both the model weights and code has ensured its mass adoption, with the company claiming more than 330 million downloads. Details of the latest version - Stable Diffusion 3 - were revealed in a paper, published by t…
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Inside OpenAI's trust and safety operation - with Rosie Campbell
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No organisation in the AI world is under more intense scrutiny than OpenAI. The maker of Dall-E, GPT4, ChatGPT and Sora is constantly pushing the boundaries of artificial intelligence and has supercharged the enthusiasm of the general public for AI technologies. With that elevated position come questions about how OpenAI can ensure its models are n…
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Deepfakes deep dive with Nina Schick
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Nina Schick is a leading commentator on Artificial Intelligence and its impact on business, geopolitics and humanity. Her book ‘Deepfakes and the Infocalypse’ charts the early use of gen AI to create deepfake pornography and the technology’s subsequent use as a tool of political manipulation. With over two decades of geopolitical experience, Nina h…
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Papers of the Month with Charlie Blake, Research Engineer at Graphcore
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Charlie Blake from Graphcore’s research team discusses their AI Papers of the Month for January 2024. Graphcore research has been collating and sharing a review of the most consequential AI papers internally, every month, for a number of years. Now – for the first time – the research team is making this valuable resource public, to help the wider A…
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The rise of synthetic data with Florian Hönicke from Jina AI
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Data is the fuel that is powering the AI revolution - but what do we do when there's just not enough data to satisfy the insatiable appetite of new model training? In this episode, Florian Hönicke, Principal AI Engineer at Jina AI, discusses the use of LLMs to generate synthetic data to help solve the data bottleneck. He also addresses the potentia…
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NeurIPS is the world’s largest AI conference, where leading AI practitioners come together to share the latest research and debate the way forward for artificial intelligence. In this special episode, Helen examines some of the big themes of NeurIPS 2023 and talks to a range of attendees about their work, the big issues of the day, and what they’ve…
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Miranda Mowbray - Honorary Lecturer in Computer Science, University of Bristol: AI and Ethics
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Miranda Mowbray is one of Britain’s leading thinkers on the ethics of Artificial Intelligence. After a long and distinguished career as a research scientist with HP, she is now an Honorary Lecturer in Computer Science at the University of Bristol where she specialises in ethics for AI, and data science for cybersecurity. In our wide-ranging convers…
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Danijela Horak - Head of AI Research, BBC R&D
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Danijela Horak explains how the BBC is making use of AI and its plans for the future, including detecting deepfakes as well as using deepfake technology as part of its production process. Danijela and Helen discuss the Corporation's use of open source models and its view on closed source technologies such as the GPT family of models from OpenAI. We…
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First episode coming soon... Join Graphcore's Helen Byrne and leading figures in the world of Artificial Intelligence as they discuss advances in AI research, commercial deployment, ethics, and occasional weird and wonderful applications.Helen Byrne
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Exploring 'Health Equity Tourism'
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In the wake of the murder of George Floyd and the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a new public interest in health inequities research. With this new focus, there also has come new funding with many researchers and institutions clamoring to receive lucrative funding and recognition in the field, but there are no official guidelines to distinguish …
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The Mothers of Gynecology
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Of all wealthy countries, the United States is the most dangerous place to have a baby. Our maternal mortality rate is abysmal, and over the past five years it’s only gotten worse. And there are huge racial disparities: Black women are three times more likely to die than white women. Despite some claims to the contrary, the problem isn’t race, it’s…
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Certain medical instruments have built-in methods of correcting for race. They’re based on the premise that Black bodies are inherently different from White bodies. The tool that measures kidney function, for example, underestimates how severe some Black patients’ kidney disease is, and prevents them from getting transplants. Medical students and d…
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When the plague broke out in San Francisco in 1900 the public health department poured all of their energy into stopping its spread in Chinatown, as if Chinatown were the problem. This episode reveals why they did it, what it has to do with race science, and what it tells us about the history of public health. Credits Host: Elisabeth Berry Drago Se…
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In 2005 the FDA approved a pill to treat high blood preassure only in African Americans. This so-called miracle drug was named BiDil, and it became the first race-specific drug in the United States. It might sound like a good a good thing, but it had the unintended consequence of perpetuating the myth that race is a biological construct. Credits Ho…
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Bad Blood, Bad Science
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The word “Tuskegee” has come to symbolize the Black community’s mistrust of the medical establishment. It has become American lore. However, most people don’t know what actually happened in Macon County, Alabama, from 1932 to 1972. This episode unravels the myths of the U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS) Syphilis Study (the correct name of the stud…
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The African Burial Ground
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In 1991, as crews broke ground on a new federal office building in lower Manhattan, they discovered human skeletons. It soon became clear that it was the oldest and largest African cemetery in the country. The federal government was ready to keep building, but people from all over the African diaspora were moved to treat this site with dignity, res…
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Return, Rebury, Repatriate
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In 2019, Abdul-Aliy Muhammad, a community organizer and journalist, learned that the Penn Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology had a collection of skulls that belonged to enslaved people. As Muhammad demanded that the university return these skulls, they discovered that claiming ownership over bodies of marginalized people is not just a relic of …
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In the 1990s a liberal population geneticist launched the Human Genome Diversity Project. The goal was to sequence the genomes of “isolated” and “disappearing” indigenous groups throughout the world. The project did not go as planned—indigenous groups protested it, and scientists and anthropologists criticized it. This episode examines what went wr…
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Keepers of the Flame
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In the 1970s Barry Mehler started tracking race scientists and he noticed something funny: they all had the same funding source. One wealthy man was using his incredible resources to prop up any scientist he could find who would validate his white supremacist ideology—and make it seem like it was backed by a legitimate scientific consensus. About I…
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Calamity in Philadelphia
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In 1793 a yellow fever epidemic almost destroyed Philadelphia. The young city was saved by two Black preachers, Richard Allen and Absalom Jones, who organized the free Black community in providing essential services and nursing the sick and dying. Allen and Jones were assured of two things: that stepping up would help them gain full equality and ci…
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In 2018 ancient DNA researchers revealed their analysis of a 10,000 year old skeleton called Cheddar Man. He was the oldest complete skeleton ever discovered in England, and the revelation that he had dark skin challenged assumptions many people had about what the earliest people in Britain looked like.…
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It might seem as though the way we think about race now is how we’ve always thought about it—but it isn’t. Race was born out of the Enlightenment in Europe, along with the invention of modern western science. And it was tied to the politics of the age—imperialism and later slavery. This episode traces the origins of race science to the Enlightenmen…
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Our new season, Innate: How Science Invented the Myth of Race, drops on February 7th.
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