Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast
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- StandardSummaries only🔬 An Oscar, Two Asteroids, and the Algorithm in Your sklearn: John Platt on AI for Science
Published Sep 22, 2026
How often do you get to talk to a guest who has both an Academy Award and who invented textbook machine learning algorithms? John Platt has an Oscar, two textbook algorithms, two named asteroids, and an Erdos-Bacon number of 6. This was easily the most fun bio of all the guests we’ve read to date. And the result was an epic and fun chat covering Google’s Empirical Research Assistance (ERA), how AI can help battle climate change, and tons of great stories about the co-evolution of science and AI.