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

Today we’re joined by Karen Levy, assistant professor in the department of information science at Cornell University. Karen’s research focuses on how rules and technologies interact to regulate behavior, especially the legal, organizational, and social aspects of surveillance and monitoring. In our conversation, we discuss how data tracking and surveillance can be used in ways that can be abusive...

Today we’re joined by Matt Adereth, managing director of investments at Two Sigma, and return guest Scott Clark, co-founder and CEO of SigOpt, to discuss: • The end to end modeling platform at Two Sigma, who it serves, and challenges faced in production and modeling. • How Two Sigma has attacked the experimentation challenge with their platform. • What motivates companies that aren’t already heavi...

Today we’re joined by Kelley Rivoire, engineering manager working on machine learning infrastructure at Stripe. Kelley and I caught up at a recent Strata Data conference to discuss: • Her talk "Scaling model training: From flexible training APIs to resource management with Kubernetes." • Stripe’s machine learning infrastructure journey, including their start from a production focus. • Internal too...

Today we continue our AI Platforms series joined by Yi Zhuang, Senior Staff Engineer at Twitter. In our conversation, we cover:  • The machine learning landscape at Twitter, including with the history of the Cortex team • Deepbird v2, which is used for model training and evaluation solutions, and it's integration with Tensorflow 2.0. • The newly assembled “Meta” team, that is tasked with exploring...

Today we’re joined by Alex Ratner, Ph. D. student at Stanford, to discuss: • Snorkel, the open source framework that is the successor to Stanford's Deep Dive project. • How Snorkel is used as a framework for creating training data with weak supervised learning techniques. • Multiple use cases for Snorkel, including how it is used by companies like Google.  The complete show notes can be found at t...

In this, the kickoff episode of AI Platforms Vol. 2, we're joined by Adrien Gaidon, Machine Learning Lead at Toyota Research Institute. Adrien and I caught up to discuss his team’s work on deploying distributed deep learning in the cloud, at scale. In our conversation, we discuss:  • The beginning and gradual scaling up of TRI's platform. • Their distributed deep learning methods, including their...

Today we’re joined by David Ferrucci, Founder, CEO, and Chief Scientist at Elemental Cognition, a company focused on building natural learning systems that understand the world the way people do, to discuss: • The role of “understanding” in the context of AI systems, and the types of commitments and investments needed to achieve even modest levels of understanding. • His thoughts on the power of d...

Today we’re joined by Max Welling, research chair in machine learning at the University of Amsterdam, and VP of Technologies at Qualcomm, to discuss:  • Max’s research at Qualcomm AI Research and the University of Amsterdam, including his work on Bayesian deep learning, Graph CNNs and Gauge Equivariant CNNs, power efficiency for AI via compression, quantization, and compilation. • Max’s thoughts o...

Today we’re joined by Genevera Allen, associate professor of statistics in the EECS Department at Rice University. Genevera caused quite the stir at the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting earlier this year with her presentation “Can We Trust Data-Driven Discoveries?" In our conversation, we discuss the goal of Genevera's talk, the issues surrounding reproducibility in Mach...

Today we’re joined by Ahmed Elgammal, a professor in the department of computer science at Rutgers, and director of The Art and Artificial Intelligence Lab. We discuss his work on AICAN, a creative adversarial network that produces original portraits, trained with over 500 years of European canonical art. The complete show notes for this episode can be found at twimlai.com/talk/265.

Today we close out our PyDataSci series joined by Rebecca Bilbro, head of data science at ICX media and co-creator of the popular open-source visualization library YellowBrick. In our conversation, Rebecca details: • Her relationship with toolmaking, which led to the eventual creation of YellowBrick. • Popular tools within YellowBrick, including a summary of their unit testing approach. • Interest...

Today we continue our PyDataSci series joined by Brian McFee, assistant professor of music technology and data science at NYU, and creator of LibROSA, a python package for music and audio analysis. Brian walks us through his experience building LibROSA, including: • Detailing the core functions provided in the library  • His experience working in Jupyter Notebook • We explore a typical LibROSA wor...

In this episode of PyDataSci, we’re joined by Ines Montani, Cofounder of Explosion, Co-developer of SpaCy and lead developer of Prodigy. Ines and I caught up to discuss her various projects, including the aforementioned SpaCy, an open-source NLP library built with a focus on industry and production use cases. The complete show notes for this episode can be found at twimlai.com/talk/262. Check out...

Today we're joined by Luciano Resende, an Open Source AI Platform Architect at IBM, to discuss his work on Jupyter Enterprise Gateway. In our conversation, we address challenges that arise while using Jupyter Notebooks at scale and the role of open source projects like Jupyter Hub and Enterprise Gateway. We also explore some common requests like tighter integration with git repositories, as well a...

Today we’re joined by Delip Rao, vice president of research at the AI Foundation, co-author of the book Natural Language Processing with PyTorch, and creator of the Fake News Challenge. In our conversation, we discuss the generation and detection of artificial content, including “fake news” and “deep fakes,” the state of generation and detection for text, video, and audio, the key challenges in ea...

Today we’re joined by Joanna Bryson, Reader at the University of Bath. I was fortunate to catch up with Joanna at the conference, where she presented on “Maintaining Human Control of Artificial Intelligence." In our conversation, we explore our current understanding of “natural intelligence” and how it can inform the development of AI, the context in which she uses the term “human control” and its...

Today we're joined by Pankaj Goyal and Rochna Dhand, to discuss HPE InfoSight. In our conversation, Pankaj gives a look into how HPE as a company views AI, from their customers to the future of AI at HPE through investment. Rocha details the role of HPE’s Infosight in deploying AI operations at an enterprise level, including a look at where it fits into the infrastructure for their current custome...

Today we’re joined by Eric Colson, Chief Algorithms Officer at Stitch Fix, whose presentation at the Strata Data conference explored “How to make fewer bad decisions.” Our discussion focuses in on the three key organizational principles for data science teams that he’s developed while at Stitch Fix. Along the way, we also talk through various roles data science plays, exploring a few of the 800+ a...

In this episode of our Strata Data conference series, we’re joined by Burcu Baran, Senior Data Scientist at LinkedIn. At Strata, Burcu, along with a few members of her team, delivered the presentation “Using the full spectrum of data science to drive business decisions,” which outlines how LinkedIn manages their entire machine learning production process. In our conversation, Burcu details each ph...

Today we’re joined by Shioulin Sam, Research Engineer with Cloudera Fast Forward Labs. Shioulin and I caught up to discuss the newest report to come out of CFFL, “Learning with Limited Label Data,” which explores active learning as a means to build applications requiring only a relatively small set of labeled data. We start our conversation with a review of active learning and some of the reasons...

Today we're joined by Paul Mahler, senior data scientist and technical product manager for ML at NVIDIA. In our conversation, Paul and I discuss NVIDIA's RAPIDS open source project, which aims to bring GPU acceleration to traditional data science workflows and ML tasks. We dig into the various subprojects like cuDF and cuML that make up the RAPIDS ecosystem, as well as the role of lower-level libr...

Today we’re joined by Trista Chen, chief scientist of machine learning at Inventec, who spoke on “Edge AI in Smart Manufacturing: Defect Detection and Beyond” at GTC. In our conversation, we discuss the challenges that Industry 4.0 initiatives aim to address and dig into a few of the various use cases she’s worked on, such as the deployment of ML in an industrial setting to perform various tasks....

Today we’re joined by Nicole Nichols, a senior research scientist at the Pacific Northwest National Lab. We discuss her recent presentation at GTC, which was titled “Machine Learning for Security, and Security for Machine Learning.” We explore two use cases, insider threat detection, and software fuzz testing, discussing the effectiveness of standard and bidirectional RNN language models for detec...

Today we’re joined by Gerald Quon, assistant professor at UC Davis. Gerald presented his work on Deep Domain Adaptation and Generative Models for Single Cell Genomics at GTC this year, which explores single cell genomics as a means of disease identification for treatment. In our conversation, we discuss how he uses deep learning to generate novel insights across diseases, the different types of da...

Today we’re joined by Yashar Hezaveh, Assistant Professor at the University of Montreal. Yashar and I caught up to discuss his work on gravitational lensing, which is the bending of light from distant sources due to the effects of gravity. In our conversation, Yashar and I discuss how ML can be applied to undistort images, the intertwined roles of simulation and ML in generating images, incorporat...