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Machine Learning Street Talk: Tim Scarfe's AI podcast

MLST is Tim Scarfe's technical AI podcast, with co-interviewer Keith Duggar: long interviews on deep learning, cognition and philosophy for 220K subscribers.

Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST) is a technical AI podcast and YouTube channel run by Tim Scarfe (@ecsquendor on X), who hosts most of the interviews, with Keith Duggar (@DoctorDuggar) as co-interviewer. The show runs long conversations with researchers on deep learning and large language models, and also on cognitive science, neuroscience, mathematics and the philosophy of mind; its own channel description promises "the latest in advanced AI Research, Science and Philosophy". Scarfe holds a PhD in machine learning and a first-class computer science degree. Before MLST he founded the software company Dot Net Solutions in 2003, worked as a principal engineer at Microsoft and was chief data scientist at bp. Duggar took his PhD at MIT and has worked at IBM Research, on Wall Street and at Microsoft. MLST calls itself a media production company making video, audio and written content, and is supported through Patreon, and publishes written essays on its Substack at mlst.ai. The channel opened in April 2020, carries about 350 videos and 220,000 subscribers, and in September 2026 was publishing several interviews a week, including episodes on physical AI and on speech recognition. The show is also distributed on Spotify and Apple Podcasts, with an open-access papers archive at archive.mlst.ai.

Specialization

AI podcasting, deep learning research, cognitive science, philosophy of mind

Country

United Kingdom