E273 Elliot Branson, Director of Machine Learning & Engineering at Scale AI
The Alldus Podcast - AI in Action
English - October 22, 2021 11:00 - 19 minutes - 18.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsTechnology Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Today's guest is Elliot Branson, Director of Machine Learning & Engineering at Scale AI in San Francisco, CA. Founded in 2016, Scale accelerates the development of AI applications by helping machine learning teams generate high-quality ground truth data. Their advanced LiDAR, image, video and NLP annotation APIs allow machine learning teams at companies like OpenAI, Lyft, Pinterest and Airbnb focus on building differentiated models versus labeling data.
In the episode, Elliot will chat about:
The great work they do at Scale AI,
An insight into the ML team & projects they are working on,
Why Data Science projects fail,
What he looks for when hiring into the team,
Why Scale AI are a great place to work and
Plans for growth and what the future holds for Scale AI