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

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Simulation and Synthetic Data for Computer Vision with Batu Arisoy - TWiML Talk #281 Jul 09, 2019

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Today we’re joined by Batu Arisoy, Research Manager with the Vision Technologies & Solutions team at Siemens Corporate Technology. Batu’s research focus is solving limited-data computer vision problems, providing R&D for business units throughout the company. In our conversation, Batu details his group's ongoing projects, like an activity recognition project with the ONR, and their many CVPR submissions, which include an emulation of a teacher teaching students information without the use of memorizatio

Spiking Neural Nets and ML as a Systems Challenge with Jeff Gehlhaar - TWIML Talk #280 Jul 08, 2019

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Today we’re joined by Jeff Gehlhaar, VP of Technology and Head of AI Software Platforms at Qualcomm. Qualcomm has a hand in tons of machine learning research and hardware, and in our conversation with Jeff we discuss: • How the various training frameworks fit into the developer experience when working with their chipsets. • Examples of federated learning in the wild. • The role inference will play in data center devices and much more.

Transforming Oil & Gas with AI with Adi Bhashyam and Daniel Jeavons - TWIML Talk #279 Jul 01, 2019

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Today we’re joined by return guest Daniel Jeavons, GM of Data Science at Shell, and Adi Bhashyam, GM of Data Science at C3, who we had the pleasure of speaking to at this years C3 Transform Conference. In our conversation, we discuss: • The progress that Dan and his team has made since our last conversation, including an overview of their data platform. • Adi gives us an overview of the evolution of C3 and their platform, along with a breakdown of a few Shell-specific use cases.

Fast Radio Burst Pulse Detection with Gerry Zhang - TWIML Talk #278 Jun 27, 2019

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Today we’re joined by Yunfan Gerry Zhang, a PhD student at UC Berkely, and an affiliate of Berkeley’s SETI research center. In our conversation, we discuss: • Gerry's research on applying machine learning techniques to astrophysics and astronomy. • His paper “Fast Radio Burst 121102 Pulse Detection and Periodicity: A Machine Learning Approach”. • We explore the types of data sources used for this project, challenges Gerry encountered along the way, the role of GANs and much more.

Tracking CO2 Emissions with Machine Learning with Laurence Watson - TWIML Talk #277 Jun 24, 2019

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Today we’re joined by Laurence Watson, Co-Founder and CTO of Plentiful Energy and a former data scientist at Carbon Tracker. In our conversation, we discuss: • Carbon Tracker's goals, and their report “Nowhere to hide: Using satellite imagery to estimate the utilisation of fossil fuel power plants”. • How they are using computer vision to process satellite images of coal plants, including how the images are labeled. •Various challenges with the scope and scale of this project.

Topic Modeling for Customer Insights at USAA with William Fehlman - TWIML Talk #276 Jun 20, 2019

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Today we’re joined by William Fehlman, director of data science at USAA, to discuss: • His work on topic modeling, which USAA uses in various scenarios, including member chat channels. • How their datasets are generated. • Explored methodologies of topic modeling, including latent semantic indexing, latent Dirichlet allocation, and non-negative matrix factorization. • We also explore how terms are represented via a document-term matrix, and how they are scored based on coherence.

Phronesis of AI in Radiology with Judy Gichoya - TWIML Talk #275 Jun 18, 2019

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Today we’re joined by Judy Gichoya an interventional radiology fellow at the Dotter Institute at Oregon Health and Science University. In our conversation, we discuss: • Judy's research on the paper “Phronesis of AI in Radiology: Superhuman meets Natural Stupidy,” reviewing the claims of “superhuman” AI performance in radiology. • Potential roles in which AI can have success in radiology, along with some of the different types of biases that can manifest themselves across multiple use c

The Ethics of AI-Enabled Surveillance with Karen Levy - TWIML Talk #274 Jun 14, 2019

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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 to various marginalized groups, including detailing her extensive research into truck driver surveillance.

Supporting Rapid Model Development at Two Sigma with Matt Adereth & Scott Clark - TWIML Talk #273 Jun 11, 2019

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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 heavily invested in platforms, optimization or automation, to do so, and much more!

Scaling Model Training with Kubernetes at Stripe with Kelley Rivoire - TWIML Talk #272 Jun 06, 2019

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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 tools used at Stripe, including Railyard, an API built to manage model training at scale & more!

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