World Models | John Langford (Microsoft AI Labs)
Episode · Sep 5, 2026
The Information Bottleneck · 1 h 6 min
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Podcast, The Information Bottleneck
Hosted by Ravid Shwartz Ziv and Allen Roush
Florian Brand of Prime Intellect discusses how to evaluate agents when their tools and execution environments affect the result. The episode examines benchmark gaming, preventing shortcuts around scoring rules and the statistical limits of expensive evaluation runs. It also asks whether subjective impressions of reliability can be translated into useful measurements of model behavior. Hosted by Ravid Shwartz Ziv and Allen Roush. Watch the full conversation on the publisher’s YouTube channel.