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Open-Source Drug Discovery with DeepChem with Bharath Ramsundar - #566

Open-Source Drug Discovery with DeepChem with Bharath Ramsundar - #566

Today we’re joined by Bharath Ramsundar, founder and CEO of Deep Forest Sciences. In our conversation with Bharath, we explore his work on the DeepChem, an open-source library for drug discovery, materials science, quantum chemistry, and biology tools. We discuss the challenges that biotech and pharmaceutical…

30 MinutesThe TWIML AI Podcast

It's been a BIG week in AI news 🗞

It's been a BIG week in AI news 🗞

This last week has been a big week for AI news. BigScience is training a huge language model (while the world watches), and NVIDIA announced their latest “Hopper” GPUs. Chris and Daniel discuss these and other topics on this fully connected episode! Sponsors: Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure…

41 MinutesPractical AI

Advancing Hands-On Machine Learning Education with Sebastian Raschka - #565

Advancing Hands-On Machine Learning Education with Sebastian Raschka - #565

Today we’re joined by Sebastian Raschka, an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and lead AI educator at Grid.ai. In our conversation with Sebastian, we explore his work around AI education, including the “hands-on” philosophy that he takes when building these courses, his recent book Machine…

41 MinutesThe TWIML AI Podcast

"Foundation" models

"Foundation" models

The term “foundation” model has been around since about the middle of last year when a research group at Stanford published the comprehensive report On the Opportunities and Risks of Foundation Models. The naming of these models created some strong reactions, both good and bad. In this episode, Chris and Daniel dive…

41 MinutesPractical AI

Big Science and Embodied Learning at Hugging Face 🤗 with Thomas Wolf - #564

Big Science and Embodied Learning at Hugging Face 🤗 with Thomas Wolf - #564

Today we’re joined by Thomas Wolf, co-founder and chief science officer at Hugging Face 🤗. We cover a ton of ground In our conversation, starting with Thomas’ interesting backstory as a quantum physicist and patent lawyer, and how that lead him to a career in machine learning. We explore how Hugging Face began, what…

47 MinutesThe TWIML AI Podcast

Clothing AI in a data fabric

Clothing AI in a data fabric

What happens when your data operations grow to Internet-scale? How do thousands or millions of data producers and consumers efficiently, effectively, and productively interact with each other? How are varying formats, protocols, security levels, performance criteria, and use-case specific characteristics meshed into…

46 MinutesPractical AI

Full-Stack AI Systems Development with Murali Akula - #563

Full-Stack AI Systems Development with Murali Akula - #563

Today we’re joined by Murali Akula, a Sr. director of Software Engineering at Qualcomm. In our conversation with Murali, we explore his role at Qualcomm, where he leads the corporate research team focused on the development and deployment of AI onto Snapdragon chips, their unique definition of “full stack”, and how…

44 MinutesThe TWIML AI Podcast

Creating a culture of innovation

Creating a culture of innovation

Daniel and Chris talk with Lukas Egger, Head of Innovation Office and Strategic Projects at SAP Business Process Intelligence. Lukas describes what it takes to bring a culture of innovation into an organization, and how to infuse product development with that innovation culture. He also offers suggestions for how to…

52 MinutesPractical AI

100x Improvements in Deep Learning Performance with Sparsity, w/ Subutai Ahmad - #562

100x Improvements in Deep Learning Performance with Sparsity, w/ Subutai Ahmad - #562

Today we’re joined by Subutai Ahmad, VP of research at Numenta. While we’ve had numerous conversations about the biological inspirations of deep learning models with folks working at the intersection of deep learning and neuroscience, we dig into uncharted territory with Subutai. We set the stage by digging into some…

51 MinutesThe TWIML AI Podcast

Deploying models (to tractors 🚜)

Deploying models (to tractors 🚜)

Alon from Greeneye and Moses from ClearML blew us away when they said that they are training 1000’s of models a year that get deployed to Kubernetes clusters on tractors. Yes… we said tractors, as in farming! This is a super cool discussion about MLOps solutions at scale for interesting use cases in agriculture.…

51 MinutesPractical AI

Scaling BERT and GPT for Financial Services with Jennifer Glore - #561

Scaling BERT and GPT for Financial Services with Jennifer Glore - #561

Today we’re joined by Jennifer Glore, VP of customer engineering at SambaNova Systems. In our conversation with Jennifer, we discuss how, and why, Sambanova, who is primarily focused on building hardware to support machine learning applications, has built a GPT language model for the financial services industry.…

44 MinutesThe TWIML AI Podcast

Trends in Deep Reinforcement Learning with Kamyar Azizzadenesheli - #560

Trends in Deep Reinforcement Learning with Kamyar Azizzadenesheli - #560

Today we’re joined by Kamyar Azizzadenesheli, an assistant professor at Purdue University, to close out our AI Rewind 2021 series! In this conversation, we focused on all things deep reinforcement learning, starting with a general overview of the direction of the field, and though it might seem to be slowing, thats…

1h 18mThe TWIML AI Podcast