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The Future of Education and AI with Salman Khan - #423

The Future of Education and AI with Salman Khan - #423

In the final #TWIMLfest Keynote Interview, we’re joined by Salman Khan, Founder of Khan Academy. In our conversation with Sal, we explore the amazing origin story of the academy, and how coronavirus is shaping the future of education and remote and distance learning, for better and for worse. We also explore Sal’s…

47 MinutesThe TWIML AI Podcast

Reinforcement Learning for search

Reinforcement Learning for search

Hamish from Sajari blows our mind with a great discussion about AI in search. In particular, he talks about Sajari’s quest for performant AI implementations and extensive use of Reinforcement Learning (RL). We’ve been wanting to make this one happen for a while, and it was well worth the wait. Featuring: Hamish Ogilvy…

47 MinutesPractical AI

Why AI Innovation and Social Impact Go Hand in Hand with Milind Tambe - #422

Why AI Innovation and Social Impact Go Hand in Hand with Milind Tambe - #422

In this special #TWIMLfest Keynote episode, we’re joined by Milind Tambe, Director of AI for Social Good at Google Research India, and Director of the Center for Research in Computation and Society (CRCS) at Harvard University. In our conversation, we explore Milind’s various research interests, most of which fall…

36 MinutesThe TWIML AI Podcast

What's Next for Fast.ai? w/ Jeremy Howard - #421

What's Next for Fast.ai? w/ Jeremy Howard - #421

In this special #TWIMLfest episode of the podcast, we’re joined by Jeremy Howard, Founder of Fast.ai. In our conversation with Jeremy, we discuss his career path, including his journey through the consulting world and how those experiences led him down the path to ML education, his thoughts on the current state of the…

1h 01mThe TWIML AI Podcast

When data leakage turns into a flood of trouble

When data leakage turns into a flood of trouble

Rajiv Shah teaches Daniel and Chris about data leakage, and its major impact upon machine learning models. It’s the kind of topic that we don’t often think about, but which can ruin our results. Raj discusses how to use activation maps and image embedding to find leakage, so that leaking information in our test set…

48 MinutesPractical AI

Feature Stores for MLOps with Mike del Balso - #420

Feature Stores for MLOps with Mike del Balso - #420

Today we’re joined by Mike del Balso, co-Founder and CEO of Tecton. Mike, who you might remember from our last conversation on the podcast, was a foundational member of the Uber team that created their ML platform, Michelangelo. Since his departure from the company in 2018, he has been busy building up Tecton, and…

45 MinutesThe TWIML AI Podcast

Exploring Causality and Community with Suzana Ilić - #419

Exploring Causality and Community with Suzana Ilić - #419

In this special #TWIMLfest episode, we’re joined by Suzana Ilić, a computational linguist at Causaly and founder of Machine Learning Tokyo (MLT). Suzana joined us as a keynote speaker to discuss the origins of the MLT community, but we cover a lot of ground in this conversation. We briefly discuss Suzana’s work at…

54 MinutesThe TWIML AI Podcast

Decolonizing AI with Shakir Mohamed - #418

Decolonizing AI with Shakir Mohamed - #418

In this special #TWIMLfest edition of the podcast, we’re joined by Shakir Mohamed, a Senior Research Scientist at DeepMind. Shakir is also a leader of Deep Learning Indaba, a non-profit organization whose mission is to Strengthen African Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. In our conversation with Shakir, we…

54 MinutesThe TWIML AI Podcast

Productionizing AI at LinkedIn

Productionizing AI at LinkedIn

Suju Rajan from LinkedIn joined us to talk about how they are operationalizing state-of-the-art AI at LinkedIn. She sheds light on how AI can and is being used in recruiting, and she weaves in some great explanations of how graph-structured data, personalization, and representation learning can be applied to…

55 MinutesPractical AI

Spatial Analysis for Real-Time Video Processing with Adina Trufinescu

Spatial Analysis for Real-Time Video Processing with Adina Trufinescu

Today we’re joined by Adina Trufinescu, Principal Program Manager at Microsoft, to discuss some of the computer vision updates announced at Ignite 2020. We focus on the technical innovations that went into their recently announced spatial analysis software, and the software’s use cases including the movement of people…

40 MinutesThe TWIML AI Podcast

R, Data Science, & Computational Biology

R, Data Science, & Computational Biology

We’re partnering with the upcoming R Conference, because the R Conference is well… amazing! Tons of great AI content, and they were nice enough to connect us to Daniel Chen for this episode. He discusses data science in Computational Biology and his perspective on data science project organization. Sponsors…

54 MinutesPractical AI

How Deep Learning has Revolutionized OCR with Cha Zhang - #416

How Deep Learning has Revolutionized OCR with Cha Zhang - #416

Today we’re joined by Cha Zhang, a Partner Engineering Manager at Microsoft Cloud & AI. Cha’s work at MSFT is focused on exploring ways that new technologies can be applied to optical character recognition, or OCR, pushing the boundaries of what has been seen as an otherwise ‘solved’ problem. In our conversation with…

58 MinutesThe TWIML AI Podcast