Conversations with the people building AI
My guest this time is Francisco Webber, founder and General Manager of artificial intelligence startup Cortical.io. Francisco presented at the O’Reilly AI conference on an approach to natural language understanding based on semantic representations of speech. His talk was called “AI is not a matter of strength but of…
49 MinutesThe TWIML AI Podcast
My guest this time is Pascale Fung, professor of electrical & computer engineering at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Pascale delivered a presentation at the recent O'Reilly AI conference titled "How to make robots empathetic to human feelings in real time," and I caught up with her after her talk to…
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My guest this time is Diogo Almeida, senior data scientist at healthcare startup Enlitic. Diogo and I met at the O'Reilly AI conference, where he delivered a great presentation on in-the-trenches deep learning titled “Deep Learning: Modular in theory, inflexible in practice,” which we discuss in this interview. Diogo…
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My guest this time is Carlos Guestrin, the Amazon professor of Machine Learning at the University of Washington. Carlos and I recorded this podcast at a conference, shortly after Apple's acquisition of his company Turi. Our focus for this podcast is the explainability of machine learning algorithms. In particular, we…
32 MinutesThe TWIML AI Podcast
My guest this time is Angie Hugeback, who is principal data scientist at Spare5. Spare5 helps customers generate the high-quality labeled training datasets that are so crucial to developing accurate machine learning models. In this show, Angie and I cover a ton of the real-world practicalities of generating training…
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My guest this time is Joshua Bloom. Josh is professor of astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley and co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of machine learning startup Wise.io. In this wide-ranging interview you’ll learn how Josh and his research group at Berkeley pioneered the use of machine learning for…
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My guest this time is Charles Isbell, Jr., Professor and Senior Associate Dean in the College of Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology. Charles and I go back a bit… in fact he’s the first AI researcher I ever met. His research focus is what he calls “interactive artificial intelligence,” a discipline of AI…
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My guest this time is Xavier Amatriain. Xavier is a former researcher who went on to lead the machine learning recommendations team at Netflix, and is now the vice president of engineering at Quora, the Q&A site. We spend quite a bit of time digging into each of these experiences in the interview. Here are just a few…
56 MinutesThe TWIML AI Podcast
Siraj Raval is a machine learning hacker and teacher whose machine learning for hackers and fresh machine learning youtube series are fun, informative, high energy and practical ways to learn about a ton of machine learning and AI topics. I had a chance to catch up with Siraj in San Francisco recently, and we had a…
40 MinutesThe TWIML AI Podcast
This Week in Machine Learning & AI brings you the week’s most interesting and important stories from the world of machine learning and artificial intelligence. This week we discuss Intel’s latest deep learning acquisition, AI in the Olympics, and how you can win a free ticket to the O’Reilly AI Conference in New York…
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This Week in Machine Learning & AI brings you the week’s most interesting and important stories from the world of machine learning and artificial intelligence. This week we look at Apple’s acquisition of machine learning startup Turi, DARPA’s autonomous hacker-bot challenge, and Comma.ai’s autonomous driving dataset.…
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This Week in Machine Learning & AI brings you the week’s most interesting and important stories from the world of machine learning and artificial intelligence. We try something new this week with an interview of Clare Corthell, Founding Partner of Luminant Data, recorded live at the Wrangle Conference. We cover her…
48 MinutesThe TWIML AI Podcast