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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Pragmatic Quantum Machine Learning with Peter W...
Today we’re joined by Peter Wittek, Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto working on quantum-enhanced machine learning and the application of high-performance learning algorithms in quantum physics. Peter and I caught up back in November...
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*Bonus Episode* A Quantum Machine Learning Algo...
In this special bonus episode of the podcast, I’m joined by Ewin Tang, a PhD student in the Theoretical Computer Science group at the University of Washington. In our conversation, Ewin and I dig into her paper “A quantum-inspired classical...
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Supporting TensorFlow at Airbnb with Alfredo Lu...
This interview features my conversation with Alfredo Luque, a software engineer on the machine infrastructure team at Airbnb. If you’re among the many TWiML fans interested in AI Platforms and ML infrastructure, you probably remember my interview...
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Mining the Vatican Secret Archives with TensorF...
Today we’re joined by Elena Nieddu, PhD Student at Roma Tre University, who presented on her project “In Codice Ratio” at the TF Dev Summit. In our conversation, Elena provides an overview of the project, which aims to annotate and transcribe...
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Exploring TensorFlow 2.0 with Paige Bailey - TW...
Today we're joined by Paige Bailey, a TensorFlow developer advocate at Google to discuss the TensorFlow 2.0 alpha release. Paige and I sat down to talk through the latest TensorFlow updates, and we cover a lot of ground, including the evolution of the...
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Privacy-Preserving Decentralized Data Science w...
Today we’re joined by Andrew Trask, PhD student at the University of Oxford and Leader of the OpenMined Project. OpenMined is an open-source community focused on researching, developing, and promoting tools for secure, privacy-preserving,...
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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of the Forget Ga...
Today we’re joined by Jos Van Der Westhuizen, PhD student in Engineering at Cambridge University. Jos’ research focuses on applying LSTMs, or Long Short-Term Memory neural networks, to biological data for various tasks. In our conversation, we...
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Building a Recommendation Agent for The North F...
Today we’re joined by Andrew Guldman, VP of Product Engineering and Research and Development at Fluid. Andrew and I caught up a while back to discuss Fluid XPS, a user experience built to help the casual shopper decide on the best product choices...
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Active Learning for Materials Design with Kevin...
Today we’re joined by Kevin Tran, PhD student in the department of chemical engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. Kevin’s research focuses on creating and using automated, active learning workflows to perform density functional theory, or...
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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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