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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Edge AI for Smart Manufacturing with Trista Che...
Today we’re joined by Trista Chen, chief scientist of machine learning at Inventec. At GTC, Trista spoke on “Edge AI in Smart Manufacturing: Defect Detection and Beyond.” In our conversation, we discuss a few of the challenges that Industry 4.0...
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Machine Learning for Security and Security for ...
Today we’re joined by Nicole Nichols, a senior research scientist at the Pacific Northwest National Lab. Nicole joined me to discuss her recent presentation at GTC, which was titled “Machine Learning for Security, and Security for Machine...
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Domain Adaptation and Generative Models for Sin...
Today we’re joined by Gerald Quon, assistant professor in the Molecular and Cellular Biology department at UC Davis. Gerald presented his work on Deep Domain Adaptation and Generative Models for Single Cell Genomics at GTC this year, which explores...
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Mapping Dark Matter with Bayesian Neural Networ...
You might have seen the news yesterday that MIT researcher Katie Bouman produced the first image of a black hole. What’s been less reported is that the algorithm she developed to accomplish this is based on machine learning. Machine learning is...
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Deep Learning for Population Genetic Inference ...
Today we’re joined by Dan Schrider, assistant professor in the department of genetics at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. My discussion with Dan starts with an overview of population genomics and from there digs into his application...
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Empathy in AI with Rob Walker - TWiML Talk #248
Today we’re joined by Rob Walker, Vice President of Decision Management at Pegasystems. Rob joined us back in to discuss “Hyperpersonalizing the customer experience.” Today, he’s back for a discussion about the role of empathy in AI systems....
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Benchmarking Custom Computer Vision Services at...
Today we’re joined by Tom Szumowski, Data Scientist at URBN, the parent company of Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie, and other consumer fashion brands. Tom and I caught up recently to discuss his project “Exploring Custom Vision Services for...
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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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