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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The Measure and Mismeasure of Fairness with Sha...
Today we’re joined by Sharad Goel, Assistant Professor in the management science & engineering department at Stanford. Sharad, who also has appointments in the computer science, sociology, and law departments, has spent the recent years focused...
47 min
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Simulating the Future of Traffic with RL w/ Cat...
Today we’re joined by Cathy Wu, Gilbert W. Winslow Career Development Assistant Professor in the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT. We had the pleasure of catching up with Cathy at NeurIPS to discuss her talk “Mixed Autonomy...
34 min
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Consciousness and COVID-19 with Yoshua Bengio -...
Today we’re joined by one of, if not the most cited computer scientist in the world, Yoshua Bengio. Yoshua is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Operations Research at the University of Montreal and the Founder and Scientific...
48 min
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Geometry-Aware Neural Rendering with Josh Tobin...
Today we’re joined by Josh Tobin, Co-Organizer of the machine learning training program Full Stack Deep Learning, and more recently, the founder of a stealth startup. We had the pleasure of sitting down with Josh prior to his presentation of his...
25 min
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The Third Wave of Robotic Learning with Ken Gol...
Today we’re joined by Ken Goldberg, professor of engineering and William S. Floyd Jr. distinguished chair in engineering at UC Berkeley. Ken, who is also an accomplished artist, and collaborator on projects such as DexNet and The Telegarden, has...
60 min
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Learning Visiolinguistic Representations with V...
Today we’re joined by Stefan Lee, assistant professor at the school of electrical engineering and computer science at Oregon State University. Stefan, who we sat down with at NeurIPS this past winter, is focused on the development of agents that can...
26 min
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Upside-Down Reinforcement Learning with Jürgen ...
Today we’re joined by Jürgen Schmidhuber, Co-Founder and Chief Scientist of NNAISENSE, the Scientific Director at IDSIA, as well as a Professor of AI at USI and SUPSI in Switzerland. Jürgen’s lab is well known for creating the Long Short-Term...
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SLIDE: Smart Algorithms over Hardware Accelerat...
Today we're joined by Beidi Chen, PhD student at Rice University. Beidi is part of the team that developed a cheaper, algorithmic, CPU alternative to state-of-the-art GPU machines. They presented their findings at NeurIPS 2019 and have since gained a...
30 min
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Advancements in Machine Learning with Sergey Le...
Today we're joined by Sergey Levine, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UC Berkeley. We last heard from Sergey back in 2017, where we explored Deep Robotic Learning. We caught up with Sergey at...
42 min
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Secrets of a Kaggle Grandmaster with David Odai...
Imagine spending years learning ML from the ground up, from its theoretical foundations, but still feeling like you didn’t really know how to apply it. That’s where David Odaibo found himself in 2015, after the second year of his PhD. David’s...
40 min
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NLP for Mapping Physics Research with Matteo Ch...
Predicting the future of science, particularly physics, is the task that Matteo Chinazzi, an associate research scientist at Northeastern University focused on in his paper , along with co-authors including former TWIML AI Podcast guest . In addition...
34 min
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Metric Elicitation and Robust Distributed Learn...
The unfortunate reality is that many of the most commonly used machine learning metrics don't account for the complex trade-offs that come with real-world decision making. This is one of the challenges that today’s guest, Sanmi Koyejo has dedicated...
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High-Dimensional Robust Statistics with Ilias D...
Today we’re joined by Ilias Diakonikolas, faculty in the CS department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and author of the paper Distribution-Independent PAC Learning of Halfspaces with Massart Noise, which was the recipient of the NeurIPS...
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How AI Predicted the Coronavirus Outbreak with ...
Today we’re joined by Kamran Khan, founder & CEO of BlueDot, and professor of medicine and public health at the University of Toronto. BlueDot, a digital health company with a focus on surveilling global infectious disease outbreaks, has been...
50 min
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Turning Ideas into ML Powered Products with Emm...
Today we’re joined by Emmanuel Ameisen, machine learning engineer at Stripe, and author of the recently published book “Building Machine Learning Powered Applications; Going from Idea to Product.” In our conversation, we discuss structuring...
41 min
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Algorithmic Injustices and Relational Ethics wi...
Today we’re joined by Abeba Birhane, PhD Student at University College Dublin and author of the recent paper . We caught up with Abeba, whose aforementioned paper was the recipient of the Best Paper award at the most recent Black in AI Workshop at...
40 min
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AI for Agriculture and Global Food Security wit...
Today we’re excited to kick off our annual Black in AI Series joined by Nemo Semret, CTO of Gro Intelligence. Gro provides an agricultural data platform dedicated to improving global food security, focused on applying AI at macro scale. In our...
63 min
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Practical Differential Privacy at LinkedIn with...
Today we’re joined by Ryan Rogers, Senior Software Engineer at LinkedIn. We caught up with Ryan at NeurIPS, where he presented the paper “Practical Differentially Private Top-k Selection with Pay-what-you-get Composition” as a spotlight talk. In...
32 min
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Networking Optimizations for Multi-Node Deep Le...
Today we conclude our KubeCon ‘19 Series joined by Erez Cohen, VP of CloudX & AI at Mellanox. In our conversation, we discuss: Erez’s talk “Networking Optimizations for Multi-Node Deep Learning on Kubernetes.” where he discusses problems...
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Managing Research Needs at the University of Mi...
Today we’re joined by Bob Killen, Research Cloud Administrator at the University of Michigan. In our conversation, we discuss: How his group is deploying Kubernetes at UM. The user experience of his broad user base, including those using KubeFlow...
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Scalable and Maintainable Workflows at Lyft wit...
Today we kick off our KubeCon ‘19 series joined by Haytham AbuelFutuh and Ketan Umare, a pair of software engineers at Lyft. In our conversation, we discuss:  Their newly open-sourced, cloud-native ML and data processing platform, Flyte. What...
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Causality 101 with Robert Osazuwa Ness - #342
Today we’re accompanied by Robert Osazuwa Ness, Machine Learning Research Engineer at ML Startup Gamalon and Instructor at Northeastern University. Robert, who we had the pleasure of meeting at the Black in AI Workshop at NeurIPS last month, joins...
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PaccMann^RL: Designing Anticancer Drugs with Re...
Today we’re joined by Jannis Born, Ph.D. student at ETH & IBM Research Zurich. We caught up with Jannis a few weeks back at NeurIPS, to discuss:  His research paper “PaccMann<sup>RL</sup>: Designing anticancer drugs from...
41 min
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Social Intelligence with Blaise Aguera y Arcas ...
Today we’re joined by Blaise Aguera y Arcas, a distinguished scientist at Google. We had the pleasure of catching up with Blaise at NeurIPS last month, where he was invited to speak on “Social Intelligence.” In our conversation, we discuss: ...
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Music & AI Plus a Geometric Perspective on Rein...
Today we’re joined by Pablo Samuel Castro, Staff Research Software Developer at Google. Pablo, whose research is mainly focused on reinforcement learning, and I caught up at NeurIPS last month. We cover a lot of ground in our conversation, including...
43 min