How AI Happens
95 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsHow AI Happens is a podcast featuring experts and practitioners explaining their work at the cutting edge of Artificial Intelligence. Tune in to hear AI Researchers, Data Scientists, ML Engineers, and the leaders of today’s most exciting AI companies explain the newest and most challenging facets of their field. Powered by Sama.
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Unity SVP of AI Danny Lange: The Industrial Metaverse
June 16, 2022 11:05 - 29 minutes - 26.9 MBLeading AI companies are adopting simulation, synthetic data and other aspects of the metaverse at an incredibly fast rate, and the opportunities for AI/machine learning practitioners are endless. Tune in today for a fascinating conversation about how the real world and the virtual world can be blended in what Danny refers to as “the real metaverse.” Key Points From This Episode: The career path that led Danny to his current role as Senior Vice President of AI at Unity. Data; the machine ...
CarbonChain Head of Data & Machine Learning Archy De Berker
June 09, 2022 18:56 - 26 minutes - 24.4 MBIn today’s episode, Archy De Berker, Head of Data and Machine learning at CarbonChain, explains how he and his team calculate carbon footprints, some of the challenges that they face in this line of work, the most valuable use of machine learning in their business (and for climate change solutions as a whole), and some important lessons that he has learned throughout his diverse career so far! Key Points From This Episode: An overview of Archy’s career trajectory, from academic neuroscien...
Privacy in AI with MATR Ventures Partner Hessie Jones
June 03, 2022 19:11 - 33 minutes - 31 MBMATR Ventures Partner, Hessie Jones, is dedicated to solving issues around AI ethics as well as diversity & representation in the space. In our conversation with her, she breaks down how she came to beleive something was wrong with the way companies harvest & use data, and the steps she has taken towards solving the privacy problem. We discuss the danger of intentionally convoluted terms and conditions and the problem with synthetic data. Tune in to hear about the future of biometrics and da...
Qualcomm Head of AI & ML Product Management Dr. Vinesh Sukumar
May 26, 2022 22:46 - 27 minutes - 25.2 MBDuring Vinesh Sukumar’s colorful career he has worked at NASA, Apple, Intel, and a variety of other companies, before finding his way to Qualcomm where he is currently the Head of AI/ML Product Management. In today’s conversation, Vinesh shares his experience of developing the camera for the very first iPhone and one of the biggest lessons he learned from working with Steve Jobs. We then discuss what his current role entails and the biggest challenge that he has with it, Qualcomm’s approach ...
AI in the Metaverse with Dr. Mark Rijmenam
May 19, 2022 22:28 - 35 minutes - 32.9 MBJoining us on this episode of How AI Happens is four-time author, entrepreneur, future tech strategist, and The Digital Speaker himself, Dr. Mark van Rijmenam. Mark explainsthe extraordinary opportunities and challenges facing business leaders, consumers, regulators, policymakers, and other metaverse stakeholders trying to navigate the future of the internet; the important role that AI will play in the metaverse; why he believes we need to enable what he calls ‘anonymous accountability’; and...
IBM Master Inventor & AI Advisor to the UN Neil Sahota
May 12, 2022 20:34 - 31 minutes - 28.6 MBNeil Sahota is an AI Advisor to the UN, co-founder of the UN’s AI for Good initiative, IBM Master Inventor, and author of Own the AI Revolution. In today’s episode, Neil shares some of the valuable lessons he learned during his first experience working in the AI world, which involved training the Watson computer system. We then dive into a number of different topics, ranging from Neil’s thoughts on synthetic data and to the language learning capacity of AI versus a human child, to an overvie...
Prospitalia Group CEO Dr. Marcell Vollmer
May 05, 2022 20:25 - 22 minutes - 20.2 MBDr. Marcell Vollmer is the CEO of Prospitalia Group, formerly Chief Innovation Officer at Celonis and Chief Digital Officer at SAP. He joins to discuss Machine Learning advances in MedTech and how practitioners can be thoughtful about when it is appropriate to deploy ML.
AI Safety Engineering - Dr. Roman Yampolskiy
April 28, 2022 17:26 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MBToday’s guest has committed many years of his life to trying to understand Artificial Superintelligence and the security concerns associated with it. Dr. Roman Yampolskiy is a computer scientist (with a Ph.D. in behavioral biometrics), and an Associate Professor at the University of Louisville. He is also the author of the book Artificial Superintelligence: A Futuristic Approach. Today he joins us to discuss AI safety engineering. You’ll hear about some of the safety problems he has disco...
GRID.ai's Lead AI Educator Sebastian Raschka
April 21, 2022 19:24 - 31 minutes - 25.7 MBJoining us today on How AI Happens is Sebastian Raschka, Lead AI educator at GRID.ai and Assistant Professor of Statistics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Sebastian fills us in on the coursework he’s creating in his role at GRID.ai, and we find out what can be attributed to the crossover of machine learning in academia and the private sector. We speculate on the pros and cons of the commodification of deep learning models and which machine learning framework is better: PyTorch or Te...
Edge Computing & AI Readiness with Antonio Grasso
April 14, 2022 21:46 - 24 minutes - 21.2 MBAntonio Grasso joins us to explain how he empowers some of the biggest companies in the world to use AI in a meaningful way and explains the two ways his company goes about this. You’ll hear about what Antonio believes is coming down the pipeline in terms of the Internet of Things, especially when it comes to edge computing, and why network traffic has become a huge concern. We discuss where edge computing begins and ends with regards to the difference between the device and its computationa...
The Future of NLP with AI Professor, Vice Rector, & Researcher Aleksandra Przegalinska
April 07, 2022 17:36 - 38 minutes - 25.4 MBToday's guest is Aleksandra Przegalinska PhD, Vice-Rector at Kozminski University, research associate, and Polish futurist. From studying pure philosophy, Aleksandra moved into AI when she started researching natural language processing in the virtual space. We kickstart our discussion with her account of how she ended up where she is now, and how she transferred her skills from philosophy to AI. We hear how Second Life was common in Asia centuries ago, why we are seeing a return to anonymiz...
Unpacking Facial Recognition Technology at CyberLink
March 31, 2022 17:36 - 32 minutes - 24.6 MBCyberLink's facial recognition technology routinely registers best-in-class accuracy. But how do developers deal with masks, glasses, headphones, or changes in faces over time? How can they prevent spoofing in order to protect identities? And where does computer vision & object detection stop and FRT truly begin? CyberLink Senior Vice President of Global Marketing and US General Manager Richard Carriere and Head of Sales Engineering Craig Campbell join to discuss the endless use cases for fa...
Universal Autonomy with Oxbotica VP of Technology Ben Upcroft
March 24, 2022 18:32 - 33 minutes - 26.7 MBOxbotica is a vehicle software company at the forefront of autonomous technology, and today we have a fascinating chat with Ben Upcroft, the Vice President of Technology. Ben explains Oxbotica's mission of enabling industries to make the most of autonomy, and how their technological progress affects real-world situations. We also get into some of the challenges that Oxbotica and the autonomy space, in general, are currently facing, before drilling down on the important concepts of user trust...
Upleveling Data Labeling with Sama's Jerome Pasquero
March 17, 2022 18:24 - 33 minutes - 29.6 MBKey Points From This Episode: Jerome’s background, interest in AI, and how he landed his role at Sama. Social initiatives, training data, and what attracted Jerome to Sama. The shift from focusing on AI models to the importance of data quality. Why academia requires the use of a foundational dataset to compare models. The reason for the early focus on building new AI models. Whether datasets will become open source in the future as models have. The role of annotation in making data...
A Highly Compositional Future with Dr. Eric Daimler
March 03, 2022 19:07 - 40 minutes - 35.9 MBDr. Daimler is an authority in Artificial Intelligence with over 20 years of experience in the field as an entrepreneur, executive, investor, technologist, and policy advisor. He is also the founder of data integration firm Conexus, and we kick our conversation off with the work he is doing to integrate large heterogeneous data infrastructures. This leads us into an exploration of the concept of compositionality, a structural feature that enables systems to scale, which Dr. Daimler argues is...
Transfer Learning & Solving Unstructured Data with Indico Data CTO Slater Victoroff
February 24, 2022 18:40 - 31 minutes - 27.4 MBIrrespective of the application or the technology, a common problem among AI professionals always seems to be data. Is there enough of it? What do we prioritize? Is it clean? How do we annotate it? Today’s guest, however, believes that AI is not data-limited but compute-limited. Joining us to share some very interesting insights on the subject matter is Slater Victoroff, Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Indico, an unstructured data platform that enables users to build innovative, miss...
AI Opportunity in the Space Ecosystem with Space Foundation COO Shelli Brunswick
February 17, 2022 07:00 - 28 minutes - 26.5 MBThe innovations that drive space exploration not only aid us in discovering other worlds, but they also benefit us right here on earth. Today’s guest is Shelli Brunswick, who joins us to talk about the role of AI in space exploration and how the ‘space ecosystem’ can create jobs and career opportunities on Earth. Shelli is the COO at the Space Foundation and was selected as the 2020 Diversity and Inclusion Officer and Role Model of the Year by WomenTech Network and a Woman of Influence by th...
Autonomous Vehicles' Impact on Cities with Lyft's Sarah Barnes
February 10, 2022 07:00 - 34 minutes - 31.5 MBA future filled with autonomous vehicles promises to be a driving utopia. Maximum efficiency navigation decreasing traffic and congestion, safety features that drastically reduce collisions with other cars, bikes, or pedestrians, and an electric-first approach that lowers greenhouse gas emissions. But as today’s guest asserts, on the back of her extensive research the implications of a huge increase in autonomous vehicles on our streets aren’t rosy by default. Sarah Barnes works on the m...
The Opportunity of NLG with Arria CTO Neil Burnett
February 03, 2022 07:00 - 27 minutes - 24.8 MBArria is a Natural Language Generation company that replicates the human process of expertly analyzing and communicating data insights. We caught up with their CTO, Neil Burnett, to learn more about how Arria's technology goes beyond the standard rules-based NLP approach, as well as how the technology develops and grows once it's placed in the hands of the consumer. Neil explains the huge opportunity within NLG, and how solving for seamless language based communication between humans and mac...
Developing Solid State LiDAR with Baraja CTO Cibby Pulikkaseril
December 20, 2021 07:00 - 23 minutes - 21.6 MBTraditional LiDAR systems require moving parts to operate, making them less cost-effective, robust, and safe. Cibby Pulikkaseril is the Founder and CTO of Baraja, a company that has reinvented LiDAR for self-driving vehicles by using a color-changing laser routed by a prism. After his Ph.D. in lasers and fiber optic communications, Cibby got a job at a telecom equipment company, and that is when he discovered that a laser used in DWDM networks could be used to reinvent LiDAR. By joining this...
Building Trustworthy Behaviomedics with Blueskeye CEO Michel Valstar
November 11, 2021 07:00 - 22 minutes - 15.6 MBAcademic turned entrepreneur Michel Valstar joins How AI Happens to explain how his behaviomedics company, Blueskeye AI, prioritizes building trust with their users. Much of the approach features data opt-ins and on-device processing, which necessarily results in less data collection. Michel explains how his team is able to continue gleaning meaningful insight from smaller portions of data than your average AI practitioner is used to. Michel Valstar on LinkedIn Blueskeye AI
Egocentric Perception with Facebook's Manohar Paluri
November 05, 2021 06:00 - 42 minutes - 36.8 MBJoining us today is Senior Director at Facebook AI, Manohar Paluri. Mano discusses the biggest challenges facing the field of computer vision, and the commonalities and differences between first and third-person perception. Manohar dives into the complexity of detecting first-person perception, and how to overcome the privacy and ethical issues of egocentric technology. Manohar breaks down the mechanism underlying AI based on decision trees compared to those based on real-world data, and how...
Responsible AI Economics with Katya Klinova & The Partnership on AI
October 28, 2021 06:00 - 29 minutes - 24 MBIn recent years, the focus of AI developers has been to implement technologies that replace basic human labor. Talking to us today about why this is the wrong application for AI (right now), is Katya Klinova, the Head of AI, Labor, and the Economy at The Partnership on AI. Tune in to find out why replacing human labor doesn't benefit the whole of humanity, and what our focus should be instead. We delve into the threat of "so-so technologies" and what the developer's role should be in approa...
Moxie the Robot & Embodied CTO Stefan Scherer
October 21, 2021 11:00 - 30 minutes - 27.5 MBIn this episode, we talk to Stefan Scherer (CTO of Embodied) about why he decided to focus on the more nuanced challenge of developing children’s social-emotional skills. Stefan takes us through how encouraging children to mentor Moxie (a friendly robot) through social interaction helps them develop their interpersonal relationships. We dive into the relevance of scripted versus unscripted conversation in different AI technologies, and how Embodied taught Moxie to define abstract concepts su...
Using AI to Accelerate Creativity with Matevž Klanjšek
October 14, 2021 06:00 - 19 minutes - 16.7 MBToday we talk to Celtra Founder and CPO, Matevž Klanjšek, about how AI can be used to accelerate creativity, and what would happen if it eventually replaces humans in the creative space. We discuss the limitations of the tools currently available, why Matevž isn’t interested in teaching AI variance, and how humans and AI need to work together in advertising. Tune in to hear what the future of advertising looks like, and why the human-AI feedback loop is essential. Matevž tells us about the b...
Evolutionary Programming with Dr. Bill Porto
October 07, 2021 06:00 - 24 minutes - 19.7 MBJoining us today is Dr. Bill Porto, Redpoint Senior Analytics Engineer and storied AI researcher, academic, and developer. Bill shares all his current projects, including pattern recognition and optimization models, and he reveals what it was like to work with the father of Evolutionary Programming, Dr. Larry Fogel. We touch on a new definition for computational intelligence, and talk about where evolutionary programming is in use today, before exploring the fact that evolution is not simpl...
Turning Expertise into Algorithms with Mavenoid CEO Shahan Lilja
September 30, 2021 06:00 - 25 minutes - 23.8 MBCEO Shahan Lilja joins to explain how Mavenoid is able to deploy custom chat bots in a matter of minutes, the processes by which these tools get better over time, and how the ability to automatically turn technical expertise into an algorithm that can be utilized at scale is amplifying human intelligence.
Solving Conversational AI with Valyant AI CEO Rob Carpenter
September 23, 2021 06:00 - 27 minutes - 25.1 MBRob Carpenter is the founder and CEO of Valyant AI, which is on a journey to solve the complex problem of conversational AI in the food service industry. In today’s episode, Rob explains the three main components of AI speech processing (and the challenges that arise at each of these nodes), how conversational AI has the capacity to improve conditions for human workers in the food service industry, and what this technology is going to be like in the future. After this episode, you’ll underst...
Nuances of Speech Recognition with Cogito's Dr. John Kane
September 16, 2021 06:00 - 30 minutes - 26.8 MBDr. John Kane, Head of Signal Processing & Machine Learning at Cogito, explains the challenges brought on by the oft-repeated truism "speech is more than text", and how Cogito addresses these challenges to deliver real-time conversational insight to their users. Later, John explains the holistic approach to ensuring machine learning technology is created in a bias-free environment.
Microsoft's Priyanka Roy on Design Thinking & Data Governance
September 09, 2021 06:00 - 24 minutes - 19.5 MBData & AI Solution Specialist for Microsoft, Priyanka Roy, explains how Design Thinking is a crucial approach in the development of any AI technology, and how it's proper utilization results in better products and more effective teams. Priyanka also outlines the key pillars of a successful data governance approach, and the utility of "thick" data.
Representation in AI with Walmart Global Tech Leaders Anshu Bhardwaj & Desirée Gosby
September 02, 2021 16:00 - 28 minutes - 24.7 MBWalmart's SVP of Global Technology Anshu Bhardwaj and VP of Emerging Technology Desirée Gosby join Sama CEO Wendy Gonzalez for a roundtable discussion about representation in AI, explainable & ethical AI, and how representative teams are a key way to reduce biases in AI technology.
Predictive & Declarative AI with Theresa Benson
August 26, 2021 11:00 - 33 minutes - 30.4 MBTheresa Benson, Product Storyteller for InRule Technology, explains the opportunity of combining declarative AI with predictive AI, and how InRule Technology is using predictive AI to empower non AI experts to develop algorithms from their existing domain knowledge.
Solving Supply & Demand in Healthcare with LeanTaaS CEO Mohan Giridharadas
August 19, 2021 11:00 - 26 minutes - 22.3 MBLeanTaas CEO Mohan Giridharadas explains how his team is solving the Supply & Demand challenge within healthcare, how the algorithms are stress tested in order to handle extreme edge cases, as well as how drift is defined, detected, and resolved in a customer-centric fashion.
Anna Susmelj: Latent Space, Causality, and Computational Biology
August 12, 2021 06:00 - 26 minutes - 18.6 MBAnna Susmelj explains her research at Facebook AI developing optimal drug combinations for the treatment of complex diseases, as well as her background in causality research. Anna's Facebook Research: AI predicts effective drug combinations to fight complex diseases faster
Laurence Moroney: Google's Lead AI Advocate
August 05, 2021 06:00 - 36 minutes - 28.1 MBLaurence Moroney is an industry veteran who has authored several books on AI development, taught a series of AI/ML MooCs, and even advises British Parliament on their AI approach. His mission at google is to evangelize the opportunity of AI and work towards democratizing access to the development of this technology. Laurence joined the podcast to discuss the nature of AI hype cycles, how AI practitioners can navigate them within their own organizations, and some of the amazing opportunities...
Kelvin Wursten: Tensor Flow Models in Healthcare
July 30, 2021 06:00 - 19 minutes - 14.2 MBKelvin Wursten, leader of PointClickCare's Data Science team, explains how they are utilizing AI to help solve complicated supply vs. demand calculations in hospital emergency departments, as well as the challenge of balancing building awesome technology while still prioritizing the user's needs.
Igor Susmelj: More Data is Not The Answer
July 22, 2021 06:00 - 27 minutes - 23.1 MBIgor Susmelj, Co-Founder of Lightly.ai, explains how most companies don't have a problem of too little data, but rather of far too much irrelevant data. He details Lightly's approach of utilizing self-supervised learning to pare down massive data sets into something that can be useful to a supervised learning approach.
Hyperscience CEO Peter Brodsky: Making AI Backwards Compatible with Reality
July 09, 2021 12:00 - 22 minutes - 16.2 MBHyperscience co-founder and CEO Peter Brodsky explains why standards are fundamentally at odds with innovation, and how making technology that is backwards compatible with reality is Hyperscience's approach. Key topics: The future of Human-in-the-loop processes Using synthetic data to train deep learning algorithms Why the solution to data entry automation will prove to be the solution to automation as a whole
Director of AI Research Ram: AI in the Enterprise
July 01, 2021 11:00 - 21 minutes - 17.9 MBDirector of AI Research Ram explains how ManageEngine's tools predict anomalies, the long term utility of Human-in-the-Loop AI, and how they've used sentiment analysis & transfer learning to overcome a lack of data.
Gyant CEO Stefan Behrens: Building Datasets & Ensuring Interpretability
June 24, 2021 12:00 - 25 minutes - 21.2 MBGyant CEO & Co-Founder Stefan Behrens explains the challenges inherent in creating datasets for healthcare purposes, as well as the importance of building interpretability into their AI tools.
Sama CEO Wendy Gonzalez: Upskilling Talent in Developing Nations
June 17, 2021 12:00 - 17 minutes - 16.1 MBSama CEO Wendy Gonzalez explains how the Sama Digital Basics program teaches AI skills to individuals in Africa's largest slum, and reflects on the findings of MIT's 6 year study measuring the program's effect. RCT Results from MIT: Evaluating the Impact of Sama’s Training and Job Programs
Sama CEO Wendy Gonzalez: Upskilling Third World Talent
June 17, 2021 12:00 - 17 minutes - 16.1 MBSama CEO Wendy Gonzalez explains how the Sama Digital Basics program teaches AI skills to individuals in Africa's largest slum, and reflects on the findings of MIT's 6 year study measuring the program's effect. RCT Results from MIT: Evaluating the Impact of Sama’s Training and Job Programs
An Ensemble Approach to Optimization with George Corugedo
June 10, 2021 12:00 - 27 minutes - 24.7 MBCTO George Corugedo explains how the relationship between physics and math is a model for the relationship between business questions and artificial intelligence, as well as Redpoint Global's ensemble approach to optimization.
Adnan Khaleel: Speed vs. Accuracy
May 27, 2021 12:00 - 26 minutes - 18.3 MBAdnan Khaleel, Sr. Director of Global Sales Strategy for HPC & AI at Dell, explains how companies are using HPC and containerization to scale their AI implementations, as well as how Dell parallelized a radiology algorithm, drastically improving both speed and accuracy. ChexNet Parallelization Study
Trailer: Introducing How AI Happens
May 20, 2021 08:30 - 1 minute - 1.19 MBHow AI Happens is a podcast featuring experts and practitioners explaining their work at the cutting edge of Artificial Intelligence. Tune in to hear AI Researchers, Data Scientists, ML Engineers, and the leaders of today’s most exciting AI companies explain the newest and most challenging facets of their field. Powered by Sama.