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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re:Invent Roundup Roundtable 2018 with Dave McC...
For today’s show, I’m excited to present our second annual re:Invent Roundtable Roundup. This year I’m joined by my friends Dave McCrory, VP of Software Engineering at Wise.io at GE Digital, and Val Bercovici, Founder and CEO of Pencil...
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Knowledge Graphs and Expert Augmentation with M...
Today we’re joined by Marisa Boston, Director of Cognitive Technology in KPMG’s Cognitive Automation Lab. Marisa and I caught up to discuss some of the ways that they’re using AI to build tools that help augment the knowledge of KPMG’s teams...
45 min
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ML/DL for Non-Stationary Time Series Analysis i...
Today, we’re joined by Stuart Reid, Chief Scientist at NMRQL Research. NMRQL, based in Stellenbosch, South Africa, is an investment management firm that uses machine learning algorithms to make adaptive, unbiased, scalable, and testable trading...
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Industrializing Machine Learning at Shell with ...
In this episode of our AI Platforms series, we’re joined by Daniel Jeavons, General Manager of Data Science at Shell. In our conversation, Daniel and I explore the evolution of analytics and data science at Shell, and cover a ton of interesting...
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Resurrecting a Recommendations Platform at Comc...
In this episode of our AI Platforms series, we’re joined by Leemay Nassery, Senior Engineering Manager and head of the recommendations team at Comcast. Leemay spoke at the Strange Loop conference a few months ago on “Resurrecting a recommendations...
46 min
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Productive Machine Learning at LinkedIn with Be...
In this episode of our AI Platforms series, we’re joined by Bee-Chung Chen, Principal Staff Engineer and Applied Researcher at LinkedIn. Bee-Chung and I caught up to discuss LinkedIn’s internal AI automation platform, Pro-ML, which was built with...
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Scaling Deep Learning on Kubernetes at OpenAI w...
In this episode of our AI Platforms series we’re joined by OpenAI’s Head of Infrastructure, Christopher Berner. Chris has played a key role in overhauling OpenAI’s deep learning infrastructure of the course of his two years with the company. In...
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Bighead: Airbnb's Machine Learning Platform wit...
In this episode of our AI Platforms series, we’re joined by Atul Kale, Engineering Manager on the machine learning infrastructure team at Airbnb. Atul and I met at the Strata Data conference a while back to discuss Airbnb’s internal machine...
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Facebook's FBLearner Platform with Aditya Kalro...
In this, the kickoff episode of our AI Platforms series, we’re joined by Aditya Kalro, Engineering Manager at Facebook, to discuss their internal machine learning platform FBLearner Flow. Introduced in May of 2016, FBLearner Flow is the workflow...
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Geometric Statistics in Machine Learning w/ geo...
In this episode we’re joined by Nina Miolane, researcher and lecturer at Stanford University. Nina and I recently spoke about her work in the field of geometric statistics in machine learning. Specifically, we discuss the application of Riemannian...
42 min
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Milestones in Neural Natural Language Processin...
In this episode, we’re joined by Sebastian Ruder, a PhD student studying natural language processing at the National University of Ireland and a Research Scientist at text analysis startup Aylien. In our conversation, Sebastian and I discuss recent...
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Natural Language Processing at StockTwits with ...
In this episode, we’re joined by Garrett Hoffman, Director of Data Science at Stocktwits. Garrett and I caught up at last month’s Strata Data conference, where he presented a tutorial on “Deep Learning Methods for NLP with Emphasis on Financial...
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Advanced Reinforcement Learning & Data Science ...
In this, the final show of our Deep Learning Indaba Series, we speak with Vukosi Marivate, Chair of Data Science at the University of Pretoria and a co-organizer of the Indaba. My conversation with Vukosi fell into two distinct parts. The first part...
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AI Ethics, Strategic Decisioning and Game Theor...
In this episode of our Deep Learning Indaba Series, we’re joined by Osonde Osoba, Engineer at RAND Corporation and Professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. Osonde and I spoke on the heels of the Indaba, where he presented on AI Ethics and...
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Acoustic Word Embeddings for Low Resource Speec...
In this episode of our Deep Learning Indaba Series, we’re joined by Herman Kamper, Lecturer in the electrical and electronics engineering department at Stellenbosch University in SA and a co-organizer of the Indaba. Herman and I discuss his work on...
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Learning Representations for Visual Search with...
In this episode of our Deep Learning Indaba series, we’re joined by Naila Murray, Senior Research Scientist and Group Lead in the computer vision group at Naver Labs Europe. Naila presented at the Indaba on computer vision, and in this discussion we...
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Evaluating Model Explainability Methods with Sa...
In this, the first episode of the Deep Learning Indaba series, we’re joined by Sara Hooker, AI Resident at Google Brain. I had the pleasure of speaking with Sara in the run-up to the Indaba about her work on interpretability in deep neural networks....
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Graph Analytic Systems with Zachary Hanif - TWi...
In this, the final episode of our Strata Data Conference series, we’re joined by Zachary Hanif, Director of Machine Learning at Capital One’s Center for Machine Learning. Zach led a session at Strata called “Network effects: Working with modern...
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Diversification in Recommender Systems with Ahs...
In this episode of our Strata Data conference series, we’re joined by Ahsan Ashraf, data scientist at Pinterest. In our conversation, Ahsan and I discuss his presentation from the conference, “Diversification in recommender systems: Using topical...
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The Fastai v1 Deep Learning Framework with Jere...
In today's episode we’ll be taking a break from our and presenting a special conversation with Jeremy Howard, founder and researcher at Fast.ai. Fast.ai is a company many of our listeners are quite familiar with due to their popular deep learning...
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Federated ML for Edge Applications with Justin ...
In this episode of our Strata Data conference series, we’re joined by Justin Norman, Director of Research and Data Science Services at Cloudera Fast Forward Labs. Fast Forward Labs was an Applied AI research firm and consultancy founded by Hilary...
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Exploring Dark Energy & Star Formation w/ ML wi...
In today’s episode of our Strata Data series, we’re joined by Viviana Acquaviva, Associate Professor at City Tech, the New York City College of Technology. Viviana led a tutorial at the conference, titled “Learning Machine Learning using...
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Document Vectors in the Wild with James Dreiss ...
In this episode of our Strata Data series we’re joined by James Dreiss, Senior Data Scientist at international news syndicate Reuters. James and I sat down to discuss his talk from the conference “Document vectors in the wild, building a content...
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Applied Machine Learning for Publishers with Na...
In today’s episode we’re joined by Naveed Ahmad, Senior Director of data engineering and machine learning at Hearst Newspapers. A few months ago, Naveed gave a talk at the Google Cloud Next Conference on “How Publishers Can Take Advantage of...
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Anticipating Superintelligence with Nick Bostro...
In this episode, we’re joined by Nick Bostrom, professor in the faculty of philosophy at the University of Oxford, where he also heads the Future of Humanity Institute, a multidisciplinary institute focused on answering big-picture questions for...
43 min