The Information Bottleneck announces John Platt as a guest
The host says Platt’s group works on contrails, wildfire detection from orbit, carbon monitoring, plasma physics and AI that writes scientific software.
TLDR
On September 11, 2026, The Information Bottleneck announced plans to host John Platt, a Google Fellow and head of Google Research’s Applied Science branch, that week and invited questions. The host highlighted Platt’s Daedalus essay, describing its argument that how readily AI can tackle a problem tracks the availability of metrics and benchmarks. One reply suggested asking about neural networks that remove bias variables from most layers and about neural-network optimization.
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