The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This W...

Machine learning and artificial intelligence are dramatically changing the way businesses operate and people live. The TWIML AI Podcast brings the top minds and ideas from the world of ML and AI to a broad and influential community of ML/AI researchers, data scientists, engineers and tech-savvy business and IT leaders. Hosted by Sam Charrington, a sought after industry analyst, speaker, commentator and thought leader. Technologies covered include machine learning, artificial intelligence, deep learning, natural language processing, neural networks, analytics, computer science, data science and more.

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ML Innovation in Healthcare with Suchi Saria - ...
Today we’re joined by Suchi Saria, the founder and CEO of Bayesian Health, the John C. Malone associate professor of computer science, statistics, and health policy, and the director of the machine learning and healthcare lab at Johns Hopkins...
44 min
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Cross-Device AI Acceleration, Compilation & Exe...
Today we’re joined by a friend of the show Jeff Gehlhaar, VP of technology and the head of AI software platforms at Qualcomm.  In our conversation with Jeff, we cover a ton of ground, starting with a bit of exploration around ML compilers, what...
39 min
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The Future of Human-Machine Interaction with Da...
Today we continue our AI in Innovation series joined by Dan Bohus, senior principal researcher at Microsoft Research, and , a principal researcher at Microsoft Research.  In this conversation, we use a pair of research projects, Maia Chess and...
46 min
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Vector Quantization for NN Compression with Jul...
Today we’re joined by , a senior research scientist at recently announced startup Waabi.  Julieta was a keynote speaker at the recent LatinX in AI workshop at CVPR, and our conversation focuses on her talk “What do Large-Scale Visual Search...
39 min
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Deep Unsupervised Learning for Climate Informat...
Today we continue our CVPR 2021 coverage joined by Claire Monteleoni, an associate professor at the University of Colorado Boulder.  We cover quite a bit of ground in our conversation with Claire, including her journey down the path from...
40 min
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Skip-Convolutions for Efficient Video Processin...
Today we kick off our CVPR coverage joined by Amir Habibian, a senior staff engineer manager at Qualcomm Technologies.  In our conversation with Amir, whose research primarily focuses on video perception, we discuss a few papers they presented at...
45 min
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Advancing NLP with Project Debater w/ Noam Slon...
Today we’re joined by Noam Slonim, the principal investigator of Project Debater at IBM Research.  In our conversation with Noam, we explore the history of Project Debater, the first AI system that can “debate” humans on complex topics. We...
49 min
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Bringing AI Up to Speed with Autonomous Racing ...
Today we’re joined by Madhur Behl, an Assistant Professor in the department of computer science at the University of Virginia.  In our conversation with Madhur, we explore the super interesting work he’s doing at the intersection of...
50 min
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AI and Society: Past, Present and Future with E...
Today we continue our  AI Innovation series joined by Microsoft’s Chief Scientific Officer, Eric Horvitz.  In our conversation with Eric, we explore his tenure as AAAI president and his focus on the future of AI and its ethical...
51 min
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Agile Applied AI Research with Parvez Ahammad -...
Today we’re joined by Parvez Ahammad, head of data science applied research at LinkedIn. In our conversation, Parvez shares his interesting take on organizing principles for his organization, starting with how data science teams are broadly...
41 min
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Haptic Intelligence with Katherine J. Kuchenbec...
Today we’re joined Katherine J. Kuchenbecker, director at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and of the haptic intelligence department.  In our conversation, we explore Katherine’s research interests, which lie at the...
37 min
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Data Science on AWS with Chris Fregly and Antje...
Today we continue our coverage of the AWS ML Summit joined by Chris Fregly, a principal developer advocate at AWS, and Antje Barth, a senior developer advocate at AWS.  In our conversation with Chris and Antje, we explore their roles as community...
38 min
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Accelerating Distributed AI Applications at Qua...
Today we’re joined by Ziad Asghar, vice president of product management for snapdragon technologies & roadmap at Qualcomm Technologies.  We begin our conversation with Ziad exploring the symbiosis between 5G and AI and what is enabling...
37 min
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Buy AND Build for Production Machine Learning w...
Today we’re joined by Nir Bar-Lev, co-founder and CEO of ClearML. In our conversation with Nir, we explore how his view of the wide vs deep machine learning platforms paradox has changed and evolved over time, how companies should think about...
41 min
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Applied AI Research at AWS with Alex Smola - #487
Today we’re joined by Alex Smola, Vice President and Distinguished Scientist at AWS AI. We had the pleasure to catch up with Alex prior to the upcoming AWS Machine Learning Summit, and we covered a TON of ground in the conversation. We start by...
53 min
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Causal Models in Practice at Lyft with Sean Tay...
Today we’re joined by Sean Taylor, Staff Data Scientist at Lyft Rideshare Labs. We cover a lot of ground with Sean, starting with his recent decision to step away from his previous role as the lab director to take a more hands-on role, and what...
39 min
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Using AI to Map the Human Immune System w/ Jabr...
Today we’re joined by Jabran Zahid, a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research. In our conversation with Jabran, we explore their recent endeavor into the complete mapping of which T-cells bind to which antigens through the Antigen Map Project. We...
39 min
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Learning Long-Time Dependencies with RNNs w/ Ko...
Today we conclude our 2021 ICLR coverage joined by Konstantin Rusch, a PhD Student at ETH Zurich. In our conversation with Konstantin, we explore his recent papers, titled coRNN and uniCORNN respectively, which focus on a novel architecture of...
35 min
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What the Human Brain Can Tell Us About NLP Mode...
Today we continue our ICLR ‘21 series joined by Allyson Ettinger, an Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago.  One of our favorite recurring conversations on the podcast is the two-way street that lies between machine learning and...
36 min
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Probabilistic Numeric CNNs with Roberto Bondesa...
Today we kick off our ICLR 2021 coverage joined by Roberto Bondesan, an AI Researcher at Qualcomm.  In our conversation with Roberto, we explore his paper , which represents features as Gaussian processes, providing a probabilistic description of...
39 min
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Building a Unified NLP Framework at LinkedIn wi...
Today we’re joined by Huiji Gao, a Senior Engineering Manager of Machine Learning and AI at LinkedIn.  In our conversation with Huiji, we dig into his interest in building NLP tools and systems, including a recent open-source project called...
32 min
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Dask + Data Science Careers with Jacqueline Nol...
Today we’re joined by Jacqueline Nolis, Head of Data Science at Saturn Cloud, and co-host of the .  You might remember Jacqueline from our panel, where she shared her experience trying to navigate the suddenly hectic data science job market....
33 min
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Machine Learning for Equitable Healthcare Outco...
Today we’re joined by Irene Chen, a Ph.D. student at MIT.  Irene’s research is focused on developing new machine learning methods specifically for healthcare, through the lens of questions of equity and inclusion. In our conversation, we...
35 min
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AI Storytelling Systems with Mark Riedl - #478
Today we’re joined by Mark Riedl, a Professor in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech. In our conversation with Mark, we explore his work building AI storytelling systems, mainly those that try and predict what listeners think will...
40 min
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Creating Robust Language Representations with J...
Today we’re joined by Jamie Macbeth, an assistant professor in the department of computer science at Smith College.  In our conversation with Jamie, we explore his work at the intersection of cognitive systems and natural language...
39 min