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Visualizing Climate Impact with GANs w/ Sasha Luccioni - #413

Visualizing Climate Impact with GANs w/ Sasha Luccioni - #413

Today we’re joined by Sasha Luccioni, a Postdoctoral Researcher at the MILA Institute, and moderator of our upcoming TWIMLfest Panel, ‘ Machine Learning in the Fight Against Climate Change. ’ We were first introduced to Sasha’s work through her paper on ‘ Visualizing The Consequences Of Climate Change Using…

42 MinutesThe TWIML AI Podcast

ML-Powered Language Learning at Duolingo with Burr Settles - #412

ML-Powered Language Learning at Duolingo with Burr Settles - #412

Today we’re joined by Burr Settles, Research Director at Duolingo. Most would acknowledge that one of the most effective ways to learn is one on one with a tutor, and Duolingo’s main goal is to replicate that at scale. In our conversation with Burr, we dig how the business model has changed over time, the properties…

55 MinutesThe TWIML AI Podcast

Learning about (Deep) Learning

Learning about (Deep) Learning

In anticipation of the upcoming NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference (GTC), Will Ramey joins Daniel and Chris to talk about education for artificial intelligence practitioners, and specifically the role that the NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute plays in the industry. Will’s insights from long experience are shaping how we…

53 MinutesPractical AI

Understanding Cultural Style Trends with Computer Vision w/ Kavita Bala - #410

Understanding Cultural Style Trends with Computer Vision w/ Kavita Bala - #410

Today we’re joined by Kavita Bala, the Dean of Computing and Information Science at Cornell University. Kavita, whose research explores the overlap of computer vision and computer graphics, joined us to discuss a few of her projects, including GrokStyle, a startup that was recently acquired by Facebook and is…

38 MinutesThe TWIML AI Podcast

When AI goes wrong

When AI goes wrong

So, you trained a great AI model and deployed it in your app? It’s smooth sailing from there right? Well, not in most people’s experience. Sometimes things goes wrong, and you need to know how to respond to a real life AI incident. In this episode, Andrew and Patrick from BNH.ai join us to discuss an AI incident…

59 MinutesPractical AI

3D Deep Learning with PyTorch 3D w/ Georgia Gkioxari - #408

3D Deep Learning with PyTorch 3D w/ Georgia Gkioxari - #408

Today we’re joined by Georgia Gkioxari, a research scientist at Facebook AI Research. Georgia was hand-picked by the TWIML community to discuss her work on the recently released open-source library PyTorch3D. In our conversation, Georgia describes her experiences as a computer vision researcher prior to the 2012 deep…

35 MinutesThe TWIML AI Podcast

Speech tech and Common Voice at Mozilla

Speech tech and Common Voice at Mozilla

Many people are excited about creating usable speech technology. However, most of the audio data used by large companies isn’t available to the majority of people, and that data is often biased in terms of language, accent, and gender. Jenny, Josh, and Remy from Mozilla join us to discuss how Mozilla is building an…

59 MinutesPractical AI

What are the Implications of Algorithmic Thinking? with Michael I. Jordan - #407

What are the Implications of Algorithmic Thinking? with Michael I. Jordan - #407

Today we’re joined by the legendary Michael I. Jordan, Distinguished Professor in the Departments of EECS and Statistics at UC Berkeley. Michael was gracious enough to connect us all the way from Italy after being named IEEE’s 2020 John von Neumann Medal recipient. In our conversation with Michael, we explore his…

57 MinutesThe TWIML AI Podcast

Beyond Accuracy: Behavioral Testing of NLP Models with Sameer Singh - #406

Beyond Accuracy: Behavioral Testing of NLP Models with Sameer Singh - #406

Today we’re joined by Sameer Singh, an assistant professor in the department of computer science at UC Irvine. Sameer’s work centers on large-scale and interpretable machine learning applied to information extraction and natural language processing. We caught up with Sameer right after he was awarded the best paper…

42 MinutesThe TWIML AI Podcast

Getting Waymo into autonomous driving

Getting Waymo into autonomous driving

Waymo’s mission is to make it safe and easy for people and things to get where they’re going. After describing the state of the industry, Drago Anguelov - Principal Scientist and Head of Research at Waymo - takes us on a deep dive into the world of AI-powered autonomous driving. Starting with Waymo’s approach to…

1h 01mPractical AI