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Creating a Data-Driven Culture at ADP with Jack Berkowitz - #543

Creating a Data-Driven Culture at ADP with Jack Berkowitz - #543

Today we continue our 2021 re:Invent series joined by Jack Berkowitz, chief data officer at ADP. In our conversation with Jack, we explore the ever evolving role and growth of machine learning at the company, from the evolution of their ML platform, to the unique team structure. We discuss Jack’s perspective on data…

35 MinutesThe TWIML AI Podcast

Friendly federated learning 🌼

Friendly federated learning 🌼

This episode is a follow up to our recent Fully Connected show discussing federated learning. In that previous discussion, we mentioned Flower (a “friendly” federated learning framework). Well, one of the creators of Flower, Daniel Beutel, agreed to join us on the show to discuss the project (and federated learning…

47 MinutesPractical AI

re:Invent Roundup 2021 with Bratin Saha - #542

re:Invent Roundup 2021 with Bratin Saha - #542

Today we’re joined by Bratin Saha, vice president and general manager at Amazon. In our conversation with Bratin, we discuss quite a few of the recent ML-focused announcements coming out of last weeks re:Invent conference, including new products like Canvas and Studio Lab, as well as upgrades to existing services like…

42 MinutesThe TWIML AI Podcast

Technology as a force for good

Technology as a force for good

Here’s a bonus episode this week from our friends behind Me, Myself, and AI — a podcast on artificial intelligence and business, and produced by MIT Sloan Management Review and Boston Consulting Group. We partnered with them to help promote their awesome podcast. We hand picked this full-length episode to share with…

26 MinutesPractical AI

Multi-modal Deep Learning for Complex Document Understanding with Doug Burdick - #541

Multi-modal Deep Learning for Complex Document Understanding with Doug Burdick - #541

Today we’re joined by Doug Burdick, a principal research staff member at IBM Research. In a recent interview, Doug’s colleague Yunyao Li joined us to talk through some of the broader enterprise NLP problems she’s working on. One of those problems is making documents machine consumable, especially with the…

46 MinutesThe TWIML AI Podcast

AI-generated code with OpenAI Codex

AI-generated code with OpenAI Codex

Recently, GitHub released Copilot, which is an amazing AI pair programmer powered by OpenAI’s Codex model. In this episode, Natalie Pistunovich tells us all about Codex and helps us understand where it fits in our development workflow. We also discuss MLOps and how AI is influencing software engineering more…

47 MinutesPractical AI

Building a Deep Tech Startup in NLP with Nasrin Mostafazadeh - #539

Building a Deep Tech Startup in NLP with Nasrin Mostafazadeh - #539

Today we’re joined by friend-of-the-show Nasrin Mostafazadeh, co-founder of Verneek. Though Verneek is still in stealth, Nasrin was gracious enough to share a bit about the company, including their goal of enabling anyone to make data-informed decisions without the need for a technical background, through the use of…

51 MinutesThe TWIML AI Podcast

Zero-shot multitask learning

Zero-shot multitask learning

In this Fully-Connected episode, Daniel and Chris ponder whether in-person AI conferences are on the verge of making a post-pandemic comeback. Then on to BigScience from Hugging Face, a year-long research workshop on large multilingual models and datasets. Specifically they dive into the T0, a series of natural…

46 MinutesPractical AI

Models for Human-Robot Collaboration with Julie Shah - #538

Models for Human-Robot Collaboration with Julie Shah - #538

Today we’re joined by Julie Shah, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Julie’s work lies at the intersection of aeronautics, astronautics, and robotics, with a specific focus on collaborative and interactive robotics. In our conversation, we explore how robots would achieve the ability to…

42 MinutesThe TWIML AI Podcast

Four Key Tools for Robust Enterprise NLP with Yunyao Li - #537

Four Key Tools for Robust Enterprise NLP with Yunyao Li - #537

Today we’re joined by Yunyao Li, a senior research manager at IBM Research. Yunyao is in a somewhat unique position at IBM, addressing the challenges of enterprise NLP in a traditional research environment, while also having customer engagement responsibilities. In our conversation with Yunyao, we explore the…

58 MinutesThe TWIML AI Podcast

Machine Learning at GSK with Kim Branson - #536

Machine Learning at GSK with Kim Branson - #536

Today we’re joined by Kim Branson, the SVP and global head of artificial intelligence and machine learning at GSK. We cover a lot of ground in our conversation, starting with a breakdown of GSK’s core pharmaceutical business, and how ML/AI fits into that equation, use cases that appear using genetics data as a data…

1h 01mThe TWIML AI Podcast