John Langford Discusses World Models on The Information Bottleneck

John Langford posted a link to a discussion on world models. The episode comes from The Information Bottleneck podcast and YouTube channel run by Ravid Shwartz Ziv and Allen Roush. Their show covers AI research, papers, and trends. The episode titled World Models lists Langford as a head of Microsoft AI Labs and creator of Vowpal Wabbit who also co-invented CAPTCHA. The description states that transformers need orders of magnitude more data than humans to learn. Linked sources confirm the podcast focuses on generative AI, LLMs, and frontier research.