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Indira Negi - Investing in AI hardware for health Feb 15, 2024

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Meet Indira Negi, who leads efforts at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to improve maternal and newborn health by investing in innovative tools to help with early diagnosis and reduce risk during pregnancy and labor. This People of AI podcast episode, we cover Indira's background as an electrical engineer, her past experiences at Intel, leading the sensor engineering team for wearable devices, and how those adventures led her to the Bill and the Melinda Gates Foundation. Learn about the advantages and disadvantages of having chatbots in the medical field, projects she's working on, and much more!

Resources: GDG Silicon Valley Devfest presentation - AI in Health Tech by Indira Negi, Senior Advisor - Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation → https://goo.gle/3OIzcDv AI-enabled ultrasound → https://goo.gle/3OEqyG3

Maternal, Newborn & Child Health Discovery & Tools at the gates Foundation → https://goo.gle/48ny1Al

Adrit Rao - AI student, app developer, and researcher Feb 08, 2024

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Meet Adrit Rao, a high school student, app developer, and research intern at Stanford University. During elementary school lunch time he would develop games, it's no surprise he has launched 5 iOS apps at 12! This People of AI podcast episode explores how Adrit built his confidence through building apps, learning from the online community, cold calling for opportunities and landing a research internship to build an app with AI to diagnose and treat cardiovascular health issues. He shares his passion by teaching a coding camp for kids as young as elementary students, called Learn 2 Code 4 kids run by his non-profit Aretech in support of his local community.

Resources: TensorFlow Blog → https://goo.gle/TF-blog Scratch → https://goo.gle/3SkYJnp AutoABI App → https://goo.gle/3unSIOH Signer - AI Sign Translator → https://goo.gle/3SoheHr L2 Code 4 Kids → https://goo.gle/3ufsazk Get involved Foundation → https://goo.gle/49iDsBO

Watch more People of AI → https://goo.gle/PAI Subscribe to the TensorFlow channel → https://goo.gle/TensorFlow

Simon Tokumine - Gemini and the future of Generative AI tools Dec 12, 2023

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Meet Simon Tokumine, a Director of Product Management at Google leading teams for large language and multimodal model AI tools. On this episode of People of AI, hosts Ashely Oldacre, Luiz Gustavo Martins, and guest Simon chat about Gemini, Google's latest AI multimodal model. Join us as we discuss the impacts of this new technology on product development and how this will impact human and machine interactions. Learn about Simon's introduction to tech career from a background of environmental conservation, Product development, and much more!

Resources: Gemini: https://goo.gle/3NmN068 United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre: https://goo.gle/41k9Alz Carto: https://goo.gle/3uQNg6Z Google Labs: https://goo.gle/487pTUU

Tulsee Doshi - Responsible AI and human centered technology Dec 04, 2023

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Meet Tulsee Doshi, Head of Product for Google's Responsible AI and Human Centered Technology. She leads development of Google wide improvements, resources, and best practices for developing more inclusive and ethical products. She shares her journey from starting as an intern product manager through Google's APM program to finding a career that allows her to mix her interdisciplinary interests to benefit users. Learn about adopting ethical and responsible technology principles to protect users and build better products on this episode of People of AI. Discover how easy it is to incorporate AI principles into products through a forward thinking mindset, Google's Responsible AI Toolkit in TensorFlow and more.

Resources: Google Associate Product Manager Program → https://goo.gle/46An65L

Responsible AI Toolkit → https://goo.gle/4a0z3EE

PAIR Guidebook → https://goo.gle/4830hc5

Monk Skin Tone Scale → https://goo.gle/46HLdPZ

Get started → https://goo.gle/3N6RehW

Anne Simonds and Brian Gary - Introducing Muse Nov 16, 2023

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Meet the co-founders of Muse System Enterprises, Anne Simonds and Brian Gary, on this episode of People of AI, hosted by Ashely Oldacre. Learn about Muse, the first intelligent system that synergizes domain expertise with cutting-edge ML and leverages a proprietary data science that unlocks, assists, and amplifies human creativity at scale. Muse empowers creators by delivering commercial content production from concepts to brainstorming, drafting, and more!

Resources: Muse → https://goo.gle/3G5Vj2d

Joyce Shen - AI innovation, acquisition, and responsibility in business Nov 09, 2023

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Meet Joyce Shen, a venture investor focused on emerging technology and AI companies. Learn about startups, acquisitions, and mergers on this episode of People of AI. Joyce shares her career journey in statistics and economics and how she brought her unique experience into building a model for IBM to apply to acquisitions and evaluate startups. Ashley, Gus, and Joyce talk about challenges that businesses are currently facing to integrate or acquire other AI businesses, building trust amongst customers and consumers, and much more.

Resources: Joyce's picks: readings in ML/AI → https://goo.gle/3MzNwxi Berkley courses → https://goo.gle/47lLXef

Books: From Talking to Doing: A Short Guide to Corporate Innovation Success Check it out Amazon → https://goo.gle/40tnaT8 Check it out on Barnes & Noble → https://goo.gle/3MButCz

Blockchain in Financial Markets and Beyond: The Promises and Limitations of Blockchain: Taking Stock and Lessons Learned Check it out Amazon → https://goo.gle/3SACPhE Check it out on Risk→ https://goo.gle/3udEL5r

Crispin Velez - Cloud, community, and computing Nov 02, 2023

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Meet Crispin Velez, an AI Architect at Google Cloud and leader of Vertex AI. Find out how he works with clients, partners and sales teams to adopt ML/AI using Google Cloud. Ashley, Gus and Crispin talk about Google Cloud, the history of cloud computing, creation of Vertex AI, and more. Crispin shares his experience expanding the SpaLatam TensorFlow community in Columbia and mentoring startups on behalf of Google's Startup initiative. Discover how you can grow a local AI/ML community.

Resources: Google Cloud Platforms → https://goo.gle/47jW9nD Vertex AI → https://goo.gle/3tZSX27 Introduction to Vertex AI → https://goo.gle/3QlgOki

Five generative AI use cases for the financial services industry → https://goo.gle/47amAMZ

Vertex AI Foundations for secure and compliant ML/AI deployment → https://goo.gle/45YbclQ

Sayak Paul - Getting started with community contributions, diffusion models, and more Oct 26, 2023

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Meet Sayak Paul, a Machine Learning Engineer specializing in diffusion models at Hugging Face and GDE for ML and Google Cloud. He shares how his community contributions led him towards getting his current dream job at Hugging Face. Join Ashley, Gus, and Sayak for a chat about resources for developers to get into machine learning, how diffusion models have exploded in the past year, the role of responsible AI and much more.

Resources mentioned: Google Developer Expert Program → https://goo.gle/3S6IVGo TF Hub → https://goo.gle/3S5t9LY Hugging Face →https://goo.gle/45KyBXC Sayak bio and website → https://goo.gle/3Mas9Cv Sayak's Twitter → https://goo.gle/3QtxEO7

Courses: Google Summer of Code→ https://goo.gle/3Fv2CA4 fast.ai course → https://goo.gle/45HRLxp Coursera Deep Learning specialization → https://goo.gle/3S8Kljx CS 231N - Stanford → https://goo.gle/3QvIt3o

Books: Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (Information Science and Statistics) by Christopher M. Bishop (Author) → https://goo.gle/493iJm3 Grokking Deep Learning First Edition, by Andrew Trask (Author) → https://goo.gle/40fNX5y

Sunita Verma - How Generative AI will transform the way we work Oct 19, 2023

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Meet Sunita Verma, the Vice President of Engineering at Google Core Labs. She shares her experience in tech from her start of loving problem solving in college to finding a passion for computer science, learning lessons in leadership, and working at Google over the past 16 years. Ashley, Gus, and Sunita talk about how generative AI will transform the way we work, how Google Core Labs accelerates the prototyping of research ideas, and the evolution of Ai in the past few years.

Resources: Google Labs → https://goo.gle/46D7hvI Google Research → https://goo.gle/48Wi2e9 Google Ads → https://goo.gle/3Qoy0GT AI for Anyone series on Google for Developers → https://goo.gle/46CNlsP

Season 2 - Gus and Ashley talk Generative AI Oct 17, 2023

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Meet Ashley & Gus, your hosts for season 2 of People of AI. In this episode, Luis Gustavo Martins, also known as Gus, shares his personal and professional path from playing video games as a young child in Brazil to becoming a Developer Advocate at Google. (For Ashley's story, check out episode 1) Ashley and Gus also talk about the explosive growth of Generative AI tools and the major technology shift that has happened in recent months, Google's conversational AI, Bard, and much moreI!

Resources: Bard → https://goo.gle/3PSvkjb TensorFlow → https://goo.gle/3ZQWgnY Firebase → https://goo.gle/3PPXGuj Simple ML for Sheets → https://goo.gle/3F9dyU1 Stability → https://goo.gle/3RPm02d

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