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Flying high with AI drone racing at AlphaPilot

Flying high with AI drone racing at AlphaPilot

Chris and Daniel talk with Keith Lynn, AlphaPilot Program Manager at Lockheed Martin. AlphaPilot is an open innovation challenge, developing artificial intelligence for high-speed racing drones, created through a partnership between Lockheed Martin and The Drone Racing League (DRL). AlphaPilot challenged university…

48 MinutesPractical AI

Live from TWIMLcon! Encoding Company Culture in Applied AI Systems - #305

Live from TWIMLcon! Encoding Company Culture in Applied AI Systems - #305

In this episode, Sam is joined by Deepak Agarwal, VP of Engineering at LinkedIn, who graced the stage at TWIMLcon: AI Platforms for a keynote interview. Deepak shares the impact that standardizing processes and tools have on a company’s culture and productivity levels, and best practices to increasing ML ROI. He also…

32 MinutesThe TWIML AI Podcast

AI in the majority world and model distillation

AI in the majority world and model distillation

Chris and Daniel take some time to cover recent trends in AI and some noteworthy publications. In particular, they discuss the increasing AI momentum in the majority world (Africa, Asia, South and Central America and the Caribbean), and they dig into Hugging Face’s recent model distillation results. Sponsors…

45 MinutesPractical AI

The Future of Mixed-Autonomy Traffic with Alexandre Bayen - #303

The Future of Mixed-Autonomy Traffic with Alexandre Bayen - #303

Today we are joined by Alexandre Bayen, Director of the Institute for Transportation Studies and Professor at UC Berkeley. Alex's current research is in mixed-autonomy traffic to understand how the growing automation in self-driving vehicles can be used to improve mobility and flow of traffic. At the AWS re:Invent…

44 MinutesThe TWIML AI Podcast

The influence of open source on AI development

The influence of open source on AI development

The All Things Open conference is happening soon, and we snagged one of their speakers to discuss open source and AI. Samuel Taylor talks about the essential role that open source is playing in AI development and research, and he gives us some tips on choosing AI-related side projects. Sponsors: DigitalOcean –…

46 MinutesPractical AI

Deep Reinforcement Learning for Logistics at Instadeep with Karim Beguir - #302

Deep Reinforcement Learning for Logistics at Instadeep with Karim Beguir - #302

Today we are joined by Karim Beguir, Co-Founder and CEO of InstaDeep, a company focusing on building advanced decision-making systems for the enterprise. In this episode, we focus on logistical problems that require decision-making in complex environments using deep learning and reinforcement learning. Karim explains…

44 MinutesThe TWIML AI Podcast

Deep Learning with Structured Data w/ Mark Ryan - #301

Deep Learning with Structured Data w/ Mark Ryan - #301

Today we're joined by Mark Ryan, author of the upcoming book Deep Learning with Structured Data. Working on the support team at IBM Data and AI, he saw a lack of general structured data sets people could apply their models to. Using the streetcar network in Toronto, Mark gathered an open data set that started the…

40 MinutesThe TWIML AI Podcast

Worlds are colliding - AI and HPC

Worlds are colliding - AI and HPC

In this very special fully-connected episode of Practical AI, Daniel interviews Chris. They discuss High Performance Computing (HPC) and how it is colliding with the world of AI. Chris explains how HPC differs from cloud/on-prem infrastructure, and he highlights some of the challenges of an HPC-based AI strategy.…

48 MinutesPractical AI

Swarm AI for Event Outcome Prediction with Gregg Willcox - TWIML Talk #299

Swarm AI for Event Outcome Prediction with Gregg Willcox - TWIML Talk #299

Today we're joined by Gregg Willcox, Director of Research and Development at Unanimous AI. Inspired by the natural phenomenon called 'swarming', which uses the collective intelligence of a group to produce more accurate results than an individual alone, ‘Swarm AI’ was born. A game-like platform that channels the…

41 MinutesThe TWIML AI Podcast

Rebooting AI: What's Missing, What's Next with Gary Marcus - TWIML Talk #298

Rebooting AI: What's Missing, What's Next with Gary Marcus - TWIML Talk #298

Today we're joined by Gary Marcus, CEO and Founder at Robust.AI, well-known scientist, bestselling author, professor and entrepreneur. Hear Gary discuss his latest book, ‘Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust’, an extensive look into the current gaps, pitfalls and areas for improvement in the…

48 MinutesThe TWIML AI Podcast