Natural vs Artificial Intelligence and Doing Unexpected Work
In season four episode three of Talking Machines we chat about Neil’s recent thinking (definitely not work) on the core differences between natural intelligence and machine intelligence, he recently w...
8 Mar 201858min
Scientific Rigor and Turning Information into Action
In episode two of season four we're proud to bring you the second annual "Hosts of Talking Machine's Episode"! Ryan and Neil chat about Ali Rahimi's speech at NIPS-17, Kate Crawford's talk The Trouble...
22 Feb 201838min
Code Review for Community Change
On this episode of Talking Machines we take a break from our regular format to talk about the “code review of community culture” that the AI, ML, Stats and Computer Science fields in general need to u...
8 Feb 201835min
The Pace of Change and The Public View of ML
In episode ten of season three we talk about the rate of change (prompted by Tim Harford), take a listener question about the power of kernels, and talk with Peter Donnelly in his capacity with the Ro...
5 Okt 201740min
The Long View and Learning in Person
In episode nine of season three we chat about the difference between models and algorithms, take a listener question about summer schools and learning in person as opposed to learning digitally, and w...
21 Sep 20171h 5min
Machine Learning in the Field and Bayesian Baked Goods
In episode eight of season three we return to the epic (or maybe not so epic) clash between frequentists and bayesians, take a listener question about the ethical questions generators of machine learn...
8 Sep 201759min
Data Science Africa with Dina Machuve
In episode seven of season three we take a minute to break way from our regular format and feature a conversation with Dina Machuve of the Nelson Mandela African Institute of Science and Technology we...
10 Aug 201748min
The Church of Bayes and Collecting Data
In episode six of season three we chat about the difference between frequentists and Bayesians, take a listener question about techniques for panel data, and have an interview with Katherine Heller of...
28 Jul 201749min
