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

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Panel: Advancing Your Data Science Career During the Pandemic - #380 Jun 04, 2020

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Today we’re joined by Ana Maria Echeverri, Caroline Chavier, Hilary Mason, and Jacqueline Nolis, our guests for the recent Advancing Your Data Science Career During the Pandemic panel. In this conversation, we explore ways that Data Scientists and ML/AI practitioners can continue to advance their careers despite current challenges. Our panelists provide concrete tips, advice, and direction for those just starting out, those affected by layoffs, and those just wanting to move forward in their careers.

On George Floyd, Empathy, and the Road Ahead Jun 02, 2020

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Visit twimlai.com/blacklivesmatter for resources to support organizations pushing for social equity like Black Lives Matter, and groups offering relief for those jailed for exercising their rights to peaceful protest.

Engineering a Less Artificial Intelligence with Andreas Tolias - #379 May 28, 2020

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Today we’re joined by Andreas Tolias, Professor of Neuroscience at Baylor College of Medicine. We caught up with Andreas to discuss his recent perspective piece, “Engineering a Less Artificial Intelligence,” which explores the shortcomings of state-of-the-art learning algorithms in comparison to the brain. The paper also offers several ideas about how neuroscience can lead the quest for better inductive biases by providing useful constraints on representations and network architecture.

Rethinking Model Size: Train Large, Then Compress with Joseph Gonzalez - #378 May 25, 2020

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Today we’re joined by Joseph Gonzalez, Assistant Professor in the EECS department at UC Berkeley. In our conversation, we explore Joseph’s paper “Train Large, Then Compress: Rethinking Model Size for Efficient Training and Inference of Transformers,” which looks at compute-efficient training strategies for models. We discuss the two main problems being solved; 1) How can we rapidly iterate on variations in architecture? And 2) If we make models bigger, is it really improving any efficiency?

The Physics of Data with Alpha Lee - #377 May 21, 2020

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Today we’re joined by Alpha Lee, Winton Advanced Fellow in the Department of Physics at the University of Cambridge. Our conversation centers around Alpha’s research which can be broken down into three main categories: data-driven drug discovery, material discovery, and physical analysis of machine learning. We discuss the similarities and differences between drug discovery and material science, his startup, PostEra which offers medicinal chemistry as a service powered by machine learning, and much more

Is Linguistics Missing from NLP Research? w/ Emily M. Bender - #376 🦜 May 18, 2020

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Today we’re joined by Emily M. Bender, Professor of Linguistics at the University of Washington. Our discussion covers a lot of ground, but centers on the question, "Is Linguistics Missing from NLP Research?" We explore if we would be making more progress, on more solid foundations, if more linguists were involved in NLP research, or is the progress we're making (e.g. with deep learning models like Transformers) just fine?

Disrupting DeepFakes: Adversarial Attacks Against Conditional Image Translation Networks with Nataniel Ruiz - #375 May 14, 2020

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Today we’re joined by Nataniel Ruiz, a PhD Student at Boston University. We caught up with Nataniel to discuss his paper “Disrupting DeepFakes: Adversarial Attacks Against Conditional Image Translation Networks and Facial Manipulation Systems.” In our conversation, we discuss the concept of this work, as well as some of the challenging parts of implementing this work, potential scenarios in which this could be deployed, and the broader contributions that went into this work.

Understanding the COVID-19 Data Quality Problem with Sherri Rose - #374 May 11, 2020

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Today we’re joined by Sherri Rose, Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School. We cover a lot of ground in our conversation, including the intersection of her research with the current COVID-19 pandemic, the importance of quality in datasets and rigor when publishing papers, and the pitfalls of using causal inference. We also touch on Sherri’s work in algorithmic fairness, the shift she’s seen in fairness conferences covering these issues in relation to healthcare research, and a few recent pape

The Whys and Hows of Managing Machine Learning Artifacts with Lukas Biewald - #373 May 07, 2020

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Today we’re joined by Lukas Biewald, founder and CEO of Weights & Biases, to discuss their new tool Artifacts, an end to end pipeline tracker. In our conversation, we explore Artifacts’ place in the broader machine learning tooling ecosystem through the lens of our eBook “The definitive guide to ML Platforms” and how it fits with the W&B model management platform. We discuss also discuss what exactly “Artifacts” are, what the tool is tracking, and take a look at the onboarding process for users.

Language Modeling and Protein Generation at Salesforce with Richard Socher - #372 May 04, 2020

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Today we’re joined Richard Socher, Chief Scientist and Executive VP at Salesforce. Richard and his team have published quite a few great projects lately, including CTRL: A Conditional Transformer Language Model for Controllable Generation, and ProGen, an AI Protein Generator, both of which we cover in-depth in this conversation. We also explore the balancing act between investments, product requirement research and otherwise at a large product-focused company like Salesforce.

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