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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Rethinking Model Size: Train Large, Then Compre...
Today we’re joined by Joseph Gonzalez, Assistant Professor in the EECS department at UC Berkeley. Our main focus in the conversation is Joseph’s paper “Train Large, Then Compress: Rethinking Model Size for Efficient Training and Inference...
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The Physics of Data with Alpha Lee - #377
Today we’re joined by Alpha Lee, Winton Advanced Fellow in the Department of Physics at the University of Cambridge, and Co-Founder of startup, PostEra. Our conversation centers around Alpha’s research which can be broken down into three main...
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Is Linguistics Missing from NLP Research? w/ Em...
Today we’re joined by Emily M. Bender, Professor of Linguistics at the University of Washington. Our discussion covers a lot of ground, but centers on the question, "Is Linguistics Missing from NLP Research?" We explore if we would be making...
51 min
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Disrupting DeepFakes: Adversarial Attacks Again...
Today we’re joined by Nataniel Ruiz, a PhD Student in the Image & Video Computing group at Boston University. We caught up with Nataniel to discuss his paper “Disrupting DeepFakes: Adversarial Attacks Against Conditional Image...
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Understanding the COVID-19 Data Quality Problem...
Today we’re joined by Sherri Rose, Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School. Sherri’s research centers around developing and integrating statistical machine learning approaches to improve human health. We cover a lot of ground in our...
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The Whys and Hows of Managing Machine Learning ...
Today we’re joined by Lukas Biewald, founder and CEO of Weights & Biases, to discuss their new tool Artifacts, an end to end pipeline tracker. You might remember Lukas from his original interview with us towards the end of last year, for more...
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Language Modeling and Protein Generation at Sal...
Today we’re joined Richard Socher, Chief Scientist and Executive VP at Salesforce. Richard, who has been at the forefront of Salesforce’s AI Research since they acquired his startup Metamind in 2016, and his team have been publishing a ton of...
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AI Research at JPMorgan Chase with Manuela Velo...
Today we’re joined by Manuela Veloso, Head of AI Research at JPMorgan Chase and Professor at Carnegie Mellon University. Since moving from CMU to JPMorgan Chase, Manuela and her team established a set of seven lofty research goals. In this...
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Panel: Responsible Data Science in the Fight A...
Since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, we’ve seen an outpouring of interest on the part of data scientists and AI practitioners wanting to make a contribution. At the same time, some of the resulting efforts have been criticized for...
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Adversarial Examples Are Not Bugs, They Are Fea...
Today we’re joined by Aleksander Madry, Faculty in the MIT EECS Department, a member of CSAIL and of the Theory of Computation group. Aleksander, whose work is more on the theoretical side of machine learning research, walks us through his paper...
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AI for Social Good: Why "Good" isn't Enough wit...
Today we’re joined by Ben Green, PhD Candidate at Harvard, Affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard, Research Fellow at the AI Now Institute at NYU. Ben’s research is focused on social and policy impacts of...
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The Evolution of Evolutionary AI with Risto Mii...
Today we’re joined by Risto Miikkulainen, Associate VP of Evolutionary AI at Cognizant AI, and Professor of Computer Science at the UT Austin. Risto joined us back on to discuss evolutionary algorithms, and today we do an update of sorts on what is...
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Neural Architecture Search and Google’s New Aut...
Today we’re super excited to share our recent conversation with Quoc Le, a research scientist at Google, on the Brain team. Quoc has been very busy recently with his work on Google’s AutoML Zero, which details significant advances in automated...
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Automating Electronic Circuit Design with Deep ...
Today we’re joined by return guest Karim Beguir, Co-Founder and CEO of InstaDeep. We originally spoke with Karim about InstaDeep’s work back on episode 302, check that episode out for a full brief of Karim’s background. In today’s...
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Neural Ordinary Differential Equations with Dav...
Today we’re joined by David Duvenaud, Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto. David, who joined us back on back in January ‘18, is back to talk about the various papers that have come out of his lab over the last year and change,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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