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Active learning & endangered languages

Active learning & endangered languages

Don’t all AI methods need a bunch of data to work? How could AI help document and revitalize endangered languages with “human-in-the-loop” or “active learning” methods? Sarah Moeller from the University of Florida joins us to discuss those and other related questions. She also shares many of her personal experiences…

49 MinutesPractical AI

AI for Enterprise Decisioning at Scale with Rob Walker - #573

AI for Enterprise Decisioning at Scale with Rob Walker - #573

Today we’re joined by Rob Walker, VP of decisioning & analytics and gm of one-to-one customer engagement at Pegasystems. Rob, who you might know from his previous appearances on the podcast, joins us to discuss his work on AI and ML in the context of customer engagement and decisioning, the various problems that need…

39 MinutesThe TWIML AI Podcast

Studying Machine Intelligence with Been Kim - #571

Studying Machine Intelligence with Been Kim - #571

Today we continue our ICLR coverage joined by Been Kim, a staff research scientist at Google Brain, and an ICLR 2022 Invited Speaker. Been, whose research has historically been focused on interpretability in machine learning, delivered the keynote Beyond interpretability: developing a language to shape our…

53 MinutesThe TWIML AI Podcast

Learning the language of life

Learning the language of life

AI is discovering new drugs. Sound like science fiction? Not at Absci! Sean and Joshua join us to discuss their AI-driven pipeline for drug discovery. We discuss the tech along with how it might change how we think about healthcare at the most fundamental level. Sponsors: Changelog++ – You love our content and you…

48 MinutesPractical AI

Advances in Neural Compression with Auke Wiggers - #570

Advances in Neural Compression with Auke Wiggers - #570

Today we’re joined by Auke Wiggers, an AI research scientist at Qualcomm. In our conversation with Auke, we discuss his team’s recent research on data compression using generative models. We discuss the relationship between historical compression research and the current trend of neural compression, and the benefit of…

38 MinutesThe TWIML AI Podcast

MLOps is NOT Real

MLOps is NOT Real

We all hear a lot about MLOps these days, but where does MLOps end and DevOps begin? Our friend Luis from OctoML joins us in this episode to discuss treating AI/ML models as regular software components (once they are trained and ready for deployment). We get into topics including optimization on various kinds of…

46 MinutesPractical AI

Mixture-of-Experts and Trends in Large-Scale Language Modeling with Irwan Bello - #569

Mixture-of-Experts and Trends in Large-Scale Language Modeling with Irwan Bello - #569

Today we’re joined by Irwan Bello, formerly a research scientist at Google Brain, and now on the founding team at a stealth AI startup. We begin our conversation with an exploration of Irwan’s recent paper, Designing Effective Sparse Expert Models, which acts as a design guide for building sparse large language model…

46 MinutesThe TWIML AI Podcast

🌍 AI in Africa - Agriculture

🌍 AI in Africa - Agriculture

In the fourth “AI in Africa” spotlight episode, we welcome Leonida Mutuku and Godliver Owomugisha, two experts in applying advanced technology in agriculture. We had a great discussion about ending poverty, hunger, and inequality in Africa via AI innovation. The discussion touches on open data, relevant models…

51 MinutesPractical AI

Daring to DAIR: Distributed AI Research with Timnit Gebru - #568

Daring to DAIR: Distributed AI Research with Timnit Gebru - #568

Today we’re joined by friend of the show Timnit Gebru, the founder and executive director of DAIR, the Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute. In our conversation with Timnit, we discuss her journey to create DAIR, their goals and some of the challenges shes faced along the way. We start is the obvious…

52 MinutesThe TWIML AI Podcast

Hierarchical and Continual RL with Doina Precup - #567

Hierarchical and Continual RL with Doina Precup - #567

Today we’re joined by Doina Precup, a research team lead at DeepMind Montreal, and a professor at McGill University. In our conversation with Doina, we discuss her recent research interests, including her work in hierarchical reinforcement learning, with the goal being agents learning abstract representations…

50 MinutesThe TWIML AI Podcast

Quick, beautiful web UIs for ML apps

Quick, beautiful web UIs for ML apps

Abubakar Abid joins Daniel and Chris for a tour of Gradio and tells them about the project joining Hugging Face. What’s Gradio? The fastest way to demo your machine learning model with a friendly web interface, allowing non-technical users to access, use, and give feedback on models. Sponsors: Fastly – Our bandwidth…

42 MinutesPractical AI