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What Does it Mean for a Machine to "Understand"? with Thomas Dietterich - #315

What Does it Mean for a Machine to "Understand"? with Thomas Dietterich - #315

Today we have the pleasure of being joined by Tom Dietterich, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Oregon State University. Tom recently wrote a blog post titled "What does it mean for a machine to “understand”, and in our conversation, he goes into great detail on his thoughts. We cover a lot of ground, including…

38 MinutesThe TWIML AI Podcast

Open source data labeling tools

Open source data labeling tools

What’s the most practical of practical AI things? Data labeling of course! It’s also one of the most time consuming and error prone processes that we deal with in AI development. Michael Malyuk of Heartex and Label Studio joins us to discuss various data labeling challenges and open source tooling to help us overcome…

44 MinutesPractical AI

Scaling TensorFlow at LinkedIn with Jonathan Hung - #314

Scaling TensorFlow at LinkedIn with Jonathan Hung - #314

Today we’re joined by Jonathan Hung, Sr. Software Engineer at LinkedIn. Jonathan presented at TensorFlow world last week, titled Scaling TensorFlow at LinkedIn. In our conversation, we discuss their motivation for using TensorFlow on their pre-existing Hadoop clusters infrastructure, TonY, or TensorFlow on Yard…

35 MinutesThe TWIML AI Podcast

Machine Learning at GitHub with Omoju Miller - #313

Machine Learning at GitHub with Omoju Miller - #313

Today we’re joined by Omoju Miller, a Sr. machine learning engineer at GitHub. In our conversation, we discuss: • Her dissertation, Hiphopathy, A Socio-Curricular Study of Introductory Computer Science, • Her work as an inaugural member of the Github machine learning team • Her two presentations at Tensorflow World…

44 MinutesThe TWIML AI Podcast

Using AI to Diagnose and Treat Neurological Disorders with Archana Venkataraman - #312

Using AI to Diagnose and Treat Neurological Disorders with Archana Venkataraman - #312

Today we’re joined by Archana Venkataraman, John C. Malone Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. Archana’s research at the Neural Systems Analysis Laboratory focuses on developing tools, frameworks, and algorithms to better understand, and treat neurological and…

47 MinutesThe TWIML AI Podcast

It's time to talk time series

It's time to talk time series

Times series data is everywhere! I mean, seriously, try to think of some data that isn’t a time series. You have stock prices and weather data, which are the classics, but you also have a time series of images on your phone, time series log data coming off of your servers, and much more. In this episode, Anais from…

43 MinutesPractical AI

Live from TWIMLcon! Operationalizing Responsible AI - #310

Live from TWIMLcon! Operationalizing Responsible AI - #310

An often forgotten about topic garnered high praise at TWIMLcon this month: operationalizing responsible and ethical AI. This important topic was combined with an impressive panel of speakers, including: Rachel Thomas, Director, Center for Applied Data Ethics at the USF Data Institute, Guillaume Saint-Jacques, Head of…

31 MinutesThe TWIML AI Podcast

AI in the browser

AI in the browser

We’ve mentioned ML/AI in the browser and in JS a bunch on this show, but we haven’t done a deep dive on the subject… until now! Victor Dibia helps us understand why people are interested in porting models to the browser and how people are using the functionality. We discuss TensorFlow.js and some applications built…

50 MinutesPractical AI

Live from TWIMLcon! Scaling ML in the Traditional Enterprise - #309

Live from TWIMLcon! Scaling ML in the Traditional Enterprise - #309

Machine learning and AI is finding a place in the traditional enterprise - although the path to get there is different. In this episode, our panel analyzes the state and future of larger, more established brands. Hear from Amr Awadallah, Founder and Global CTO of Cloudera, Pallav Agrawal, Director of Data Science at…

34 MinutesThe TWIML AI Podcast

Blacklisted facial recognition and surveillance companies

Blacklisted facial recognition and surveillance companies

The United States has blacklisted several Chinese AI companies working in facial recognition and surveillance. Why? What are these companies doing exactly, and how does this fit into the international politics of AI? We dig into these questions and attempt to do some live fact finding in this episode. Sponsors…

49 MinutesPractical AI

Live from TWIMLcon! Culture & Organization for Effective ML at Scale (Panel) - #308

Live from TWIMLcon! Culture & Organization for Effective ML at Scale (Panel) - #308

TWIMLcon brought together so many in the ML/AI community to discuss the unique challenges to building and scaling machine learning platforms. In this episode, hear about changing the way companies think about machine learning from a diverse set of panelists including Pardis Noorzad, Data Science Manager at Twitter…

28 MinutesThe TWIML AI Podcast