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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Deep Learning in Optics with Aydogan Ozcan - TW...
Today, we’re joined by Aydogan Ozcan, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UCLA, where his research group focuses on photonics and its applications to nano- and biotechnology. In our conversation, we explore his group's research into...
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Scaling Machine Learning on Graphs at LinkedIn ...
Today we’re joined by Hema Raghavan and Scott Meyer of LinkedIn. Hema is an Engineering Director Responsible for AI for Growth and Notifications, while Scott serves as a Principal Software Engineer. In this conversation, Hema, Scott and I dig into...
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Safer Exploration in Deep Reinforcement Learnin...
Today we conclude our Black in AI series with Sicelukwanda Zwane, a masters student at the University of Witwatersrand and graduate research assistant at the CSIR. At the workshop, he presented on “Safer Exploration in Deep Reinforcement Learning...
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Dissecting the Controversy around OpenAI's New ...
If you’re listening to this podcast, you’ve likely seen some of the press coverage and discussion surrounding the release, or lack thereof, of OpenAI’s new GPT-2 Language Model. The announcement caused quite a stir, with reactions spanning...
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Human-Centered Design with Mira Lane - TWiML Ta...
Today we present the final episode in our AI for the Benefit of Society series, in which we’re joined by Mira Lane, Partner Director for Ethics and Society at Microsoft. Mira and I focus our conversation on the role of culture and human-centered...
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Fairness in Machine Learning with Hanna Wallach...
Today we’re joined by Hanna Wallach, a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research. Hanna and I really dig into how bias and a lack of interpretability and transparency show up across machine learning. We discuss the role that human biases, even...
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AI for Healthcare with Peter Lee - TWiML Talk #231
In this episode, we’re joined by Peter Lee, Corporate Vice President at Microsoft Research responsible for the company’s healthcare initiatives. Peter and I met a few months ago at the Microsoft Ignite conference, where he gave me some really...
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An Optimized Recurrent Unit for Ultra-Low Power...
Today, we're joined by Justice Amoh Jr., a Ph.D. student at Dartmouth’s Thayer School of Engineering. Justice presented his work on “An Optimized Recurrent Unit for Ultra-Low Power Acoustic Event Detection.” In our conversation, we discuss his...
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Pathologies of Neural Models and Interpretabili...
Today, we're excited to continue our Black in AI series with Alvin Grissom II, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Ursinus College. Alvin’s research is focused on computational linguistics, and we begin with a brief chat about some of his...
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AI for Earth with Lucas Joppa - TWiML Talk #228
In this episode of our AI For the Benefit of Society with Microsoft series, we’re joined by Lucas Joppa and Zach Parisa. Lucas is the Chief Environmental Officer at Microsoft, spearheading their 5 year, $50 million AI for Earth commitment, which...
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AI for Accessibility with Wendy Chisholm - TWiM...
Today we’re joined by Wendy Chisholm, Lois Brady, and Matthew Guggemos. Wendy is a principal accessibility architect at Microsoft, and one of the chief proponents of the AI for Accessibility program, which extends grants to AI-powered accessibility...
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AI for Humanitarian Action with Justin Spelhaug...
Today we're joined by Justin Spelhaug, General Manager of Technology for Social Impact at Microsoft. In our conversation, Justin and I discuss the company’s efforts in AI for Humanitarian Action, a program which extends grants to fund AI-powered...
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Teaching AI to Preschoolers with Randi Williams...
Today, in the first episode of our Black in AI series, we’re joined by Randi Williams, PhD student at the MIT Media Lab. At the Black in AI workshop Randi presented her research on Popbots: A Early Childhood AI Curriculum, which is geared towards...
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Holistic Optimization of the LinkedIn News Feed...
Today we’re joined by Tim Jurka, Head of Feed AI at LinkedIn. As you can imagine Feed AI is responsible for curating all the content you see daily on the LinkedIn site. What’s less apparent to those that don’t work on this type of product is the...
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AI at the Edge at Qualcomm with Gary Brotman - ...
Today we’re joined by Gary Brotman, Senior Director of Product Management at Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. Gary, who got his start in AI through music, now leads strategy and product planning for the company’s Artificial Intelligence and Machine...
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AI Innovation at CES - TWiML Talk #222
A few weeks ago, I made the trek to Las Vegas for the world’s biggest electronics conference, CES. CES is one of those things that’s hard to fully understand without having seen, so I thought it’d be fun to give you a look at it from my vantage...
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Self-Tuning Services via Real-Time Machine Lear...
Today we’re joined by Vladimir Bychkovsky, Engineering Manager at Facebook, to discuss Spiral. Spiral is a system they’ve developed for self-tuning high-performance infrastructure services at scale, using real-time machine learning. In our...
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Building a Recommender System from Scratch at 2...
Today we’re joined by JJ Espinoza, former Director of Data Science at 20th Century Fox. In this talk we start out with a discussion JJ’s transition from econometrician to data scientist, and then dig into his and his team’s experience building...
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Legal and Policy Implications of Model Interpre...
Today we’re joined by Solon Barocas, Assistant Professor of Information Science at Cornell University. Solon is also the co-founder of the Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency in Machine Learning workshop that is hosted annually at conferences...
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Trends in Computer Vision with Siddha Ganju - T...
In the final episode of our AI Rewind series, we’re excited to have Siddha Ganju back on the show. Siddha, who is now an autonomous vehicles solutions architect at Nvidia shares her thoughts on trends in Computer Vision in 2018 and beyond. We cover...
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Trends in Reinforcement Learning with Simon Osi...
In this episode of our AI Rewind series, we introduce a new friend of the show, Simon Osindero, Staff Research Scientist at DeepMind. We discuss trends in Deep Reinforcement Learning in 2018 and beyond. We’ve packed a bunch into this show, as Simon...
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Trends in Natural Language Processing with Seba...
In this episode of our AI Rewind series, we’ve brought back recent guest Sebastian Ruder, PhD Student at the National University of Ireland and Research Scientist at Aylien, to discuss trends in Natural Language Processing in 2018 and beyond. In our...
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Trends in Machine Learning with Anima Anandkuma...
In this episode of our AI Rewind series, we’re back with Anima Anandkumar, Bren Professor at Caltech and now Director of Machine Learning Research at NVIDIA. Anima joins us to discuss her take on trends in the broader Machine Learning field in 2018...
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Trends in Deep Learning with Jeremy Howard - TW...
In this episode of our AI Rewind series, we’re bringing back one of your favorite guests of the year, Jeremy Howard, founder and researcher at Fast.ai. Jeremy joins us to discuss trends in Deep Learning in 2018 and beyond. We cover many of the...
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Training Large-Scale Deep Nets with RL with Nan...
Today we close out both our NeurIPS series and our 2018 conference coverage with this interview with Nando de Freitas, Team Lead & Principal Scientist at Deepmind and Fellow at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. In our conversation, we...
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