The Gradient: Perspectives on AI

In episode 98 of The Gradient Podcast, Daniel Bashir speaks to Laurence Liew. Laurence is the Director for AI Innovation at AI Singapore. He is driving the adoption of AI by the Singapore ecosystem through the 100 Experiments, AI Apprenticeship Programmes and the Generational AI Talent Development initiative. He is the current Co-Chair of the Innovations and Commercialisation working group and Co-...

In episode 97 of The Gradient Podcast, Daniel Bashir speaks to Professor Michael Levin and Adam Goldstein . Professor Levin is a Distinguished Professor and Vannevar Bush Chair in the Biology Department at Tufts University. He also directs the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts. His group, the Levin Lab, focuses on understanding the biophysical mechanisms that implement decision-making during complex...

In episode 96 of The Gradient Podcast, Daniel Bashir speaks to Jonathan Frankle . Jonathan is the Chief Scientist at MosaicML and (as of release). Jonathan completed his PhD at MIT, where he investigated the properties of sparse neural networks that allow them to train effectively through his lottery ticket hypothesis. He also spends a portion of his time working on technology policy, and currentl...

In episode 95 of The Gradient Podcast, Daniel Bashir speaks to Nao Tokui . Nao Tokui is an artist/DJ and researcher based in Tokyo. While pursuing his Ph. D. at The University of Tokyo, he produced his first music album and singles using AI, including a 12-inch record with Nujabes, a legendary Japanese hip-hop producer. After completing his Ph. D. research, he founded Qosmo, AI Creativity and Musi...

In episode 94 of The Gradient Podcast, Daniel Bashir speaks to Divyansh Kaushik . Divyansh is the Associate Director for Emerging Technologies and National Security at the Federation of American Scientists where his focus areas include, amongst other things, AI policy, STEM immigration, and US-China strategic competition. He holds a PhD from Carnegie Mellon University, where he focused on designin...

In episode 93 of The Gradient Podcast, Daniel Bashir speaks to Professor Tal Linzen . Professor Linzen is an Associate Professor of Linguistics and Data Science at New York University and a Research Scientist at Google. He directs the Computation and Psycholinguistics Lab, where he and his collaborators use behavioral experiments and computational methods to study how people learn and understand l...

In episode 92 of The Gradient Podcast, Daniel Bashir speaks to Kevin K. Yang . Kevin is a senior researcher at Microsoft Research (MSR) who works on problems at the intersection of machine learning and biology, with an emphasis on protein engineering. He completed his PhD at Caltech with Frances Arnold on applying machine learning to protein engineering. Before joining MSR, he was a machine learni...

In episode 91 of The Gradient Podcast, Daniel Bashir speaks to Arjun Ramani and Zhengdong Wang . Arjun is the global business and economics correspondent at The Economist. Zhengdong is a research engineer at Google DeepMind. Have suggestions for future podcast guests (or other feedback)? Let us know here or reach us at editor@thegradient.pub Subscribe to The Gradient Podcast:   Apple Podcasts  | S...

In episode 90 of The Gradient Podcast, Daniel Bashir speaks to Miles Grimshaw . Miles is General Partner at Benchmark. He was previously a General Partner at Thrive Capital, where he helped the firm raise its fourth and fifth funds, and sourced deals in Lattice, Mapbox, Benchling, and Airtable, among others. Have suggestions for future podcast guests (or other feedback)? Let us know here or reach...

In episode 89 of The Gradient Podcast, Daniel Bashir speaks to Shreya Shankar . Shreya is a computer scientist pursuing her PhD in databases at UC Berkeley. Her research interest is in building end-to-end systems for people to develop production-grade machine learning applications. She was previously the first ML engineer at Viaduct, did research at Google Brain, and software engineering at Facebo...

In episode 88 of The Gradient Podcast, Daniel Bashir speaks to Professor Stevan Harnad. Stevan Harnad is professor of psychology and cognitive science at Université du Québec à Montréal, adjunct professor of cognitive science at McGill University, and professor emeritus of cognitive science at the University of Southampton. His research is on category learning, categorical perception, symbol groun...

In episode 87 of The Gradient Podcast, Daniel Bashir speaks to Professor Terry Winograd. Professor Winograd is Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at Stanford University. His research focuses on human-computer interaction design and the design of technologies for development. He founded the Stanford Human-Computer Interaction Group, where he directed the teaching programs and HCI research. He i...

In episode 86 of The Gradient Podcast, Daniel Bashir speaks to Professor Gil Strang. Professor Strang is one of the world’s foremost mathematics educators and a mathematician with contributions to finite element theory, the calculus of variations, wavelet analysis, and linear algebra. He has spent six decades teaching mathematics at MIT, where he was the MathWorks Professor of Mathematics. He was...

In episode 85 of The Gradient Podcast, Andrey Kurenkov speaks to Anant Agarwal Anant Agarwal is the chief platform officer of 2U, and founder of edX. Anant taught the first edX course on circuits and electronics from MIT, which drew 155,000 students from 162 countries. He has served as the director of CSAIL, MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and is a professor of elect...

In episode 84 of The Gradient Podcast, Daniel Bashir speaks to Professor Raphaël Millière . Professor Millière is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. Previously, he was the 2020 Robert A. Burt Presidential Scholar in Society and Neuroscience in Columbia University’s Center for Science and Society, and completed...

In episode 83 of The Gradient Podcast, Daniel Bashir speaks to Peli Grietzer . Peli is a scholar whose work borrows mathematical ideas from machine learning theory to think through “ambient” and ineffable phenomena like moods, vibes, cultural logics, and structures of feeling. He is working on a book titled Big Mood: A Transcendental-Computational Essay in Art and contributes to the experimental l...

In episode 82 of The Gradient Podcast, Daniel Bashir speaks to Ryan Drapeau . Ryan is a Staff Software Engineer at Stripe and technical lead for Stripe’s Payment Fraud organization, which uses machine learning to help prevent billions of dollars of credit card and payments fraud for business every year. Have suggestions for future podcast guests (or other feedback)? Let us know here or reach us at...

In episode 81 of The Gradient Podcast, Daniel Bashir speaks to Shiv Rao . Shiv Rao, MD is the co-founder and CEO of Abridge, a healthcare conversation company that uses cutting-edge NLP and generative AI to bring context and understanding to every medical conversation. Shiv previously served as an Executive Vice President at UPMC Enterprises, managing the provider-facing portfolio of technology in...

In episode 80 of The Gradient Podcast, Daniel Bashir speaks to Professor Hugo Larochelle . Professor Larochelle leads the Montreal Google DeepMind team and is adjunct professor at Université de Montréal and a Canada CIFAR Chair. His research focuses on the study and development of deep learning algorithms. Have suggestions for future podcast guests (or other feedback)? Let us know here or reach us...

In episode 79 of The Gradient Podcast, Daniel Bashir speaks to Jeremie Harris . Jeremie is co-founder of Gladstone AI, author of the book Quantum Physics Made Me Do It, and co-host of the Last Week in AI Podcast. Jeremy previously hosted the Towards Data Science podcast and worked on a number of other startups after leaving a PhD in physics. Have suggestions for future podcast guests (or other fee...

In episode 78 of The Gradient Podcast, Daniel Bashir speaks to Antoine Blondeau. Antoine is a serial AI entrepreneur and Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Alpha Intelligence Capital. He was chief executive at Dejima when the firm worked on CALO, one of the biggest AI projects in US history and precursor to Apple’s Siri. Later, he co-founded Sentient Technologies, which boasted the title of world’...

In episode 77 of The Gradient Podcast, Daniel Bashir speaks to Joon Park . Joon is a third-year PhD student at Stanford, advised by Professors Michael Bernstein and Percy Liang. He designs, builds, and evaluates interactive systems that support new forms of human-computer interaction by leveraging state-of-the-art advances in natural language processing such as large language models. His research...

In episode 76 of The Gradient Podcast, Andrey Kurenkov speaks to Dr Christoffer Holmgård Dr. Holmgård is a co-founder and the CEO of Modl.ai, which is building AI Engine for game development. Before starting the company, Christoffer was director of the indie game studio Die Gute Fabrik (which is German for "The Good Factory"), and has also done extensive research as an assistant professor in AI an...

In episode 75 of The Gradient Podcast, Daniel Bashir speaks to Riley Goodside . Riley is a Staff Prompt Engineer at Scale AI. Riley began posting GPT-3 prompt examples and screenshot demonstrations in 2022. He previously worked as a data scientist at OkCupid, Grindr, and CopyAI. Have suggestions for future podcast guests (or other feedback)? Let us know here or reach us at editor@thegradient.pub S...

In episode 74 of The Gradient Podcast, Daniel Bashir speaks to Professor Talia Ringer. Professor Ringer is an Assistant Professor with the Programming Languages, Formal Methods, and Software Engineering group at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. Their research leverages proof engineering to allow programmers to more easily build formally verified software systems. Have suggestions fo...