The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence)

In this TWIML Democast, we're joined by SigOpt Co-Founder and CEO Scott Clark. Scott details the SigOpt platform, and gives us a live demo! This episode is best consumed by watching the corresponding video demo, which you can find at twimlai.com/talk/324. 

Today we’re joined by Erez Barak, Partner Group Manager of Azure ML at Microsoft. In our conversation, Erez gives us a full breakdown of his AutoML philosophy, and his take on the AutoML space, its role, and its importance. We also discuss the application of AutoML as a contributor to the end-to-end data science process, which Erez breaks down into 3 key areas; Featurization, Learner/Model Selecti...

Today we continue our Azure ML at Microsoft Ignite series joined by Sarah Bird, Principal Program Manager at Microsoft. At Ignite, Microsoft released new tools focused on responsible machine learning, which fall under the umbrella of the Azure ML 'Machine Learning Interpretability Toolkit.’ In our conversation, Sarah walks us this toolkit, detailing use cases and the user experience. We also discu...

Today we’re joined by Jordan Edwards, Principal Program Manager for MLOps on Azure ML at Microsoft. In our conversation, Jordan details how Azure ML accelerates model lifecycle management with MLOps, which enables data scientists to collaborate with IT teams to increase the pace of model development and deployment. We discuss various problems associated with generalizing ML at scale at Microsoft,...

Today we’re joined by Luke Marsden, Founder and CEO of Dotscience. Luke walks us through the Dotscience platform and their manifesto on DevOps for ML. Thanks to Luke and Dotscience for their sponsorship of this Democast and their continued support of TWIML.   Head to https://twimlai.com/democast/dotscience to watch the full democast!

Today we’re joined by Mike Tung, Founder, and CEO of Diffbot. In our conversation, we discuss Diffbot’s Knowledge Graph, including how it differs from more mainstream use cases like Google Search and MSFT Bing. We also discuss the developer experience with the knowledge graph and other tools, like Extraction API and Crawlbot, challenges like knowledge fusion, balancing being a research company tha...

Today we’re joined by our youngest guest ever (by far), Aaron Ma, an 11-year-old middle school student and machine learning engineer in training. Aaron has completed over 80(!) Coursera courses and is the recipient of 3 Udacity nano-degrees. In our conversation, we discuss Aaron’s research interests in reinforcement learning and self-driving cars, his journey from programmer to ML engineer, his ex...

On today’s episode, we’re joined by Terrence Sejnowski, to discuss the ins and outs of spiking neural networks, including brain architecture, the relationship between neuroscience and machine learning, and ways to make NN’s more efficient through spiking. Terry also gives us some insight into hardware used in this field, characterizes the major research problems currently being undertaken, and the...

Today we’re joined by return guest Xavier Amatriain, Co-founder and CTO of Curai, whose goal is to make healthcare accessible and scaleable while bringing down costs. In our conversation, we touch on the shortcomings of traditional primary care, and how Curai fills that role, and some of the unique challenges his team faces in applying ML in the healthcare space. We also discuss the use of expert...

Today we have the pleasure of being joined by Tom Dietterich, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Oregon State University. Tom recently wrote a blog post titled "What does it mean for a machine to “understand”, and in our conversation, he goes into great detail on his thoughts. We cover a lot of ground, including Tom’s position in the debate, his thoughts on the role of systems like deep learning...

Today we’re joined by Jonathan Hung, Sr. Software Engineer at LinkedIn. Jonathan presented at TensorFlow world last week, titled Scaling TensorFlow at LinkedIn. In our conversation, we discuss their motivation for using TensorFlow on their pre-existing Hadoop clusters infrastructure, TonY, or TensorFlow on Yard, LinkedIn’s framework that natively runs deep learning jobs on Hadoop, and its relation...

Today we’re joined by Omoju Miller, a Sr. machine learning engineer at GitHub. In our conversation, we discuss: • Her dissertation, Hiphopathy, A Socio-Curricular Study of Introductory Computer Science,  • Her work as an inaugural member of the Github machine learning team • Her two presentations at Tensorflow World, “Why is machine learning seeing exponential growth in its communities” and “Autom...

Today we’re joined by Archana Venkataraman, John C. Malone Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. Archana’s research at the Neural Systems Analysis Laboratory focuses on developing tools, frameworks, and algorithms to better understand, and treat neurological and psychiatric disorders, including autism, epilepsy, and others. We explore her work appl...

Today we are joined by Phoebe DeVries, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard and Brendan Meade, Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard. Phoebe and Brendan’s work is focused on discovering as much as possible about earthquakes before they happen, and by measuring how the earth’s surface moves, predicting future movement location, as seen in t...

An often forgotten about topic garnered high praise at TWIMLcon this month: operationalizing responsible and ethical AI. This important topic was combined with an impressive panel of speakers, including: Rachel Thomas, Director, Center for Applied Data Ethics at the USF Data Institute, Guillaume Saint-Jacques, Head of Computational Science at LinkedIn, and Parinaz Sobahni, Director of Machine Lear...

Machine learning and AI is finding a place in the traditional enterprise - although the path to get there is different. In this episode, our panel analyzes the state and future of larger, more established brands. Hear from Amr Awadallah, Founder and Global CTO of Cloudera, Pallav Agrawal, Director of Data Science at Levi Strauss & Co., and Jürgen Weichenberger, Data Science Senior Principal & Glob...

TWIMLcon brought together so many in the ML/AI community to discuss the unique challenges to building and scaling machine learning platforms. In this episode, hear about changing the way companies think about machine learning from a diverse set of panelists including Pardis Noorzad, Data Science Manager at Twitter, Eric Colson, Chief Algorithms Officer Emeritus at Stitch Fix, and Jennifer Prendki,...

Today we're Franziska Bell, Ph. D., the Director of Data Science Platforms at Uber, who joined Sam on stage at TWIMLcon last week. Fran provided a look into the cutting edge data science available company-wide at the push of a button. Since joining Uber, Fran has developed a portfolio of platforms, ranging from forecasting to conversational AI. Hear how use cases can strategically guide platform d...

The live interviews from TWIMLcon continue with Hussein Mehanna, Head of ML and AI at Cruise. From his start at Facebook to his current work at Cruise, Hussein has seen first hand what it takes to scale and sustain machine learning programs. Hear him discuss the challenges (and joys) of working in the industry, his insight into analyzing scale when innovation is happening in parallel with developm...

In this episode, Sam is joined by Deepak Agarwal, VP of Engineering at LinkedIn, who graced the stage at TWIMLcon: AI Platforms for a keynote interview. Deepak shares the impact that standardizing processes and tools have on a company’s culture and productivity levels, and best practices to increasing ML ROI. He also details the Pro-ML initiative for delivering machine learning systems at scale, s...

Earlier today, Andrew Ng joined us onstage at TWIMLcon - as the Founder and CEO of Landing AI and founding lead of Google Brain, Andrew is no stranger to knowing what it takes for AI and machine learning to be successful. Hear about the work that Landing AI is doing to help organizations adopt modern AI, his experience in overcoming challenges for large companies, how enterprises can get the most...

Today we are joined by Alexandre Bayen, Director of the Institute for Transportation Studies and Professor at UC Berkeley. Alex's current research is in mixed-autonomy traffic to understand how the growing automation in self-driving vehicles can be used to improve mobility and flow of traffic. At the AWS re:Invent conference last year, Alex presented on the future of mixed-autonomy traffic and the...

Today we are joined by Karim Beguir, Co-Founder and CEO of InstaDeep, a company focusing on building advanced decision-making systems for the enterprise. In this episode, we focus on logistical problems that require decision-making in complex environments using deep learning and reinforcement learning. Karim explains the InstaDeep process and mindset, where they get their data sets, the efficiency...

Today we're joined by Mark Ryan, author of the upcoming book Deep Learning with Structured Data. Working on the support team at IBM Data and AI, he saw a lack of general structured data sets people could apply their models to. Using the streetcar network in Toronto, Mark gathered an open data set that started the research for his latest book. In this episode, Mark shares the benefits of applying d...

Today we're joined by Kalai Ramea, Data Scientist at PARC, a Xerox Company. In this episode we discuss her journey buying a hydrogen car and the subsequent journey and paper that followed assessing fueling stations. In her next paper, Kalai looked at fuel consumption at hydrogen stations and used temporal clustering to identify signatures of usage over time. As the number of fueling stations is pl...