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SOTA machine translation at Unbabel

SOTA machine translation at Unbabel

José and Ricardo joined Daniel at EMNLP 2022 to discuss state-of-the-art machine translation, the WMT shared tasks, and quality estimation. Among other things, they talk about Unbabel’s innovations in quality estimation including COMET, a neural framework for training multilingual machine translation (MT) evaluation…

30 MinutesPractical AI

Stable Diffusion & Generative AI with Emad Mostaque - #604

Stable Diffusion & Generative AI with Emad Mostaque - #604

Today we’re excited to kick off our 2022 AWS re:Invent series with a conversation with Emad Mostaque, Founder and CEO of Stability.ai. Stability.ai is a very popular name in the generative AI space at the moment, having taken the internet by storm with the release of its stable diffusion model just a few months ago.…

43 MinutesThe TWIML AI Podcast

Exploring Large Language Models with ChatGPT - #603

Exploring Large Language Models with ChatGPT - #603

Today we're joined by ChatGPT, the latest and coolest large language model developed by OpenAl. In our conversation with ChatGPT, we discuss the background and capabilities of large language models, the potential applications of these models, and some of the technical challenges and open questions in the field. We…

37 MinutesThe TWIML AI Podcast

AI competitions & cloud resources

AI competitions & cloud resources

In this special episode, we interview some of the sponsors and teams from a recent case competition organized by Purdue University, Microsoft, INFORMS, and SIL International. 170+ teams from across the US and Canada participated in the competition, which challenged students to create AI-driven systems to caption…

34 MinutesPractical AI

Accelerating Intelligence with AI-Generating Algorithms with Jeff Clune - #602

Accelerating Intelligence with AI-Generating Algorithms with Jeff Clune - #602

Are AI-generating algorithms the path to artificial general intelligence(AGI)? Today we’re joined by Jeff Clune, an associate professor of computer science at the University of British Columbia, and faculty member at the Vector Institute. In our conversation with Jeff, we discuss the broad ambitious goal of the AI…

57 MinutesThe TWIML AI Podcast

Copilot lawsuits & Galactica "science"

Copilot lawsuits & Galactica "science"

There are some big AI-related controversies swirling, and it’s time we talk about them. A lawsuit has been filed against GitHub, Microsoft, and OpenAI related to Copilot code suggestions, and many people have been disturbed by the output of Meta AI’s Galactica model. Does Copilot violate open source licenses? Does…

44 MinutesPractical AI

Engineering Production NLP Systems at T-Mobile with Heather Nolis - #600

Engineering Production NLP Systems at T-Mobile with Heather Nolis - #600

Today we’re joined by Heather Nolis, a principal machine learning engineer at T-Mobile. In our conversation with Heather, we explored her machine learning journey at T-Mobile, including their initial proof of concept project, which held the goal of putting their first real-time deep learning model into production. We…

44 MinutesThe TWIML AI Podcast

Protecting us with the Database of Evil

Protecting us with the Database of Evil

Online platforms and their users are susceptible to a barrage of threats – from disinformation to extremism to terror. Daniel and Chris chat with Matar Haller, VP of Data at ActiveFence, a leader in identifying online harm – is using a combination of AI technology and leading subject matter experts to provide Trust &…

48 MinutesPractical AI

Sim2Real and Optimus, the Humanoid Robot with Ken Goldberg - #599

Sim2Real and Optimus, the Humanoid Robot with Ken Goldberg - #599

Today we’re joined by return guest Ken Goldberg, a professor at UC Berkeley and the chief scientist at Ambi Robotics. It’s been a few years since our initial conversation with Ken, so we spent a bit of time talking through the progress that has been made in robotics in the time that has passed. We discuss Ken’s recent…

47 MinutesThe TWIML AI Podcast

Hybrid computing with quantum processors

Hybrid computing with quantum processors

It’s been a while since we’ve touched on quantum computing. It’s time for an update! This week we talk with Yonatan from Quantum Machines about real progress being made in the practical construction of hybrid computing centers with a mix of classical processors, GPUs, and quantum processors. Quantum Machines is…

44 MinutesPractical AI

The Evolution of the NLP Landscape with Oren Etzioni - #598

The Evolution of the NLP Landscape with Oren Etzioni - #598

Today friend of the show and esteemed guest host John Bohannon is back with another great interview, this time around joined by Oren Etzioni, former CEO of the Allen Institute for AI, where he is currently an advisor. In our conversation with Oren, we discuss his philosophy as a researcher and how that has manifested…

53 MinutesThe TWIML AI Podcast