What Does it Mean for a Machine to "Understand"? with Thomas Dietterich - #315
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 in potentially getting us to AGI, the “hype engine” around AI advancements, and so much more.
7 Nov 201938min
Scaling TensorFlow at LinkedIn with Jonathan Hung - #314
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 relationship with Pro-ML, LinkedIn’s internal AI Platform, and their foray into using Kubernetes for research.
4 Nov 201935min
Machine Learning at GitHub with Omoju Miller - #313
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 “Automating your developer workflow on GitHub with Tensorflow.”
31 Okt 201943min
Using AI to Diagnose and Treat Neurological Disorders with Archana Venkataraman - #312
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 applying machine learning to these problems, including biomarker discovery, disorder severity prediction and mor
28 Okt 201946min
Deep Learning for Earthquake Aftershock Patterns with Phoebe DeVries & Brendan Meade - #311
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 their paper: ‘Deep learning of aftershock patterns following large earthquakes'.
25 Okt 201936min
Live from TWIMLcon! Operationalizing Responsible AI - #310
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 Learning at Georgian Partners, moderated by Khari Johnson, Senior AI Staff Writer at VentureBeat.
22 Okt 201930min
Live from TWIMLcon! Scaling ML in the Traditional Enterprise - #309
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 & Global AI Lead at Accenture, moderated by Josh Bloom, Professor at UC Berkeley.
18 Okt 201933min
Live from TWIMLcon! Culture & Organization for Effective ML at Scale (Panel) - #308
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, Founder & CEO at Alectio, moderated by Maribel Lopez, Founder & Principal Analyst at Lopez Research.
15 Okt 201927min
