Hinton's student, ex-Apple AI lead Salakhutdinov to discuss event-forecasting startup Sooth
ziv_ravid · x · 2026-10-05
The Information Bottleneck podcast previews this week's guest Russ Salakhutdinov: CMU professor and co-founder of Sooth Labs, a startup building AI models that forecast real-world events.
His credentials: PhD under Geoffrey Hinton (from Boltzmann machines to agents), former head of AI research at Apple, and former VP of Research at Meta. The episode will cover Sooth, whether models can really predict the future, and audience questions.
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