Utilizing Tech Season 6 - Utilizing AI
139 episodes - English - Latest episode: 10 days ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThis is Utilizing Tech, the podcast about emerging Technology from Gestalt IT hosted by Stephen Foskett, Organizer of the Tech Field Day event series, part of The Futurum Group. In Season 6, we are returning to the topic of artificial intelligence where we will explore the practical applications and impact AI on technological innovations in enterprise IT.
Season 6: Utilizing AI
Season 5: Utilizing Edge Computing
Season 4: Utilizing CXL
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4x09: Looking Forward to CXL in Production in 2023
January 02, 2023 12:00 - 41 minutes - 76.6 MBAs 2023 arrives, so do two server platforms that support CXL, along with associated chipsets, software, and memory expansion cards. This special episode of Utilizing Tech features the three hosts of this season, Stephen Foskett, Craig Rodgers, and Nathan Bennett, discussing the prospects for CXL in 2023. AMD recently introduced Genoa Epyc, featuring CXL and PCIe 5, and it is widely expected that Intel will introduce Sapphire Rapids Xeon very soon with similar support. We expect these new ser...
4x08: CXL Brings Flexibility to Server Configurations with Astera Labs
December 19, 2022 12:00 - 27 minutes - 50.7 MBThe key to building an ideal server is balance, and this is why CXL is important, since it helps overcome the inflexible nature of modern server architectures. In this episode of Utilizing CXL, Stephen Foskett and Craig Rodgers talk with Ahmad Danesh of Astera Labs about the company's CXL-based memory expansion technology. Although there are many CXL memory expansion chips coming to market, the industry is keen on interoperability testing to make sure everything works as expected. These prod...
4x07: AMD Brings CXL to Servers with Genoa Epyc
December 12, 2022 12:00 - 36 minutes - 67.7 MBCXL couldn't be utilized until there was a server platform that supported it, so we're very excited to see AMD launch their next-generation Epyc server platform, code-name Genoa. In this episode of Utilizing CXL, Stephen Foskett and Craig Rodgers talk with Mahesh Wagh of AMD and the CXL Consortium about this important release. The first step to bring CXL to market is to prove it is functional and performs well with a mainstream platform like AMD 4th-generation Epyc. AMD is bringing CXL to ma...
4x06: Enabling CXL with VMware with Arvind Jagannath of VMware
December 05, 2022 12:00 - 33 minutes - 63 MBA lot of VMware’s initiatives are in the same sphere as CXL, and now everybody is wondering if VMware is officially camp CXL. In this episode of Utilizing CXL, Stephen Foskett and co-host Craig Rodgers join Arvind Jagannath from VMware to hear it straight from the horse’s mouth. Learn if CXL is on the horizon for VMware as it is for a lot of IT companies of its stature, and what VMware’s role is in the enablement of the technology. Watch the full episode to find out how VMware is participati...
4x5: How CXL Can Optimize Infrastructure for Machine Learning with Gerry Fan of Xconn Technology
November 28, 2022 12:00 - 31 minutes - 58.1 MBToday's AI and ML systems use proprietary interconnects, which limits the choices available to customers. CXL technology promises to enable greater interoperability, and this is the focus for Xconn Technology. In this episode of Utilizing CXL, Gerry Fan of Xconn joins Stephen Foskett and Craig Rodgers to discuss the ways that CXL can improve machine learning processing. The CXL Consortium is working with nearly every company in the IT industry to bring this promise to life, but we need hardw...
4x4: Implementing CXL with George Apostol of Elastics.cloud
November 14, 2022 12:00 - 32 minutes - 59.9 MBExperts call CXL the lifeblood of composable datacenter infrastructure, and for good reason. It has unlocked tremendous possibilities and is reshaping the server architecture for good. Over 190 companies including some of the biggest names in the industry are involved in it, and as new versions of CXL are rolling out, the technology is clearly taking steps towards maturity. But the market needs more CXL-based technologies to kick-start its evolution. In this episode of Utilizing CXL, host...
4x3: How CXL Can Right-Size Server Memory with Ryan Baxter of Micron
November 07, 2022 12:00 - 35 minutes - 65.8 MBAlthough x86 servers have some configuration and expansion options, they are increasingly monolithic, putting customers at the whim of the system vendor. CXL promises to change this, allowing customers to configure, and reconfigure, servers according to their needs. On this episode of Utilizing CXL, Ryan Baxter of Micron Technology joins Stephen Foskett and Nathan Bennett to talk about the options that CXL brings to the table. One of the first benefits of CXL technology is memory expansion, ...
4x2: Using CXL in Software with MemVerge
October 31, 2022 11:00 - 36 minutes - 68 MBData throughput has grown in leaps and bounds with the advent of AI. But as COVID-era digital transformation left the existing systems stressed out, CXL arrived at the heels of that. The newest memory solution that has got everybody talking, CXL is full of promises for AI computing. With the release of v3.0, CXL has started to gather more steam. More companies are now dipping their toes in CXL water bringing to the market their own brand of CXL products making the technology reachable for en...
4x1: What's Next for CXL after Memory Expansion?
October 24, 2022 11:00 - 24 minutes - 45.9 MBThe first CXL products have emerged, with Samsung delivering memory and storage expanders and MemVerge supporting big memory with their software. Stephen Foskett discusses these products with Julie Choi of Samsung, Steve Scargall of MemVerge, Shalesh Thusoo of Marvell, and George Apostol of Elastics.cloud to discuss current and emerging CXL products. This special episode of Utilizing CXL was recorded live at CXL Forum in New York, with the entire industry watching. Once memory expansion is d...
4x0: Introducing Utilizing CXL
October 17, 2022 11:00 - 16 minutes - 30.1 MBThe emerging CXL standard is making waves, promising big memory, new system architecture, and maybe even rack-scale computing. Utilizing Tech is switching focus from AI and ML to CXL for Season 4, and that means new companies, new technology and new hosts! Join Stephen Foskett as he introduces Utilizing CXL along with co-hosts Nathan Bennett and Craig Rodgers. Look for new episodes of Utilizing CXL every Monday! Links UtilizingTech.com Utilizing Tech on Twitter Guest and Hosts Stephen...
3x28: Revisiting Utilizing AI Season 3
April 25, 2022 13:12 - 28 minutes - 52.7 MBFrederic Van Haren and Stephen Foskett look back on all the subjects covered during Season 3 of Utilizing AI. The podcast covered many topics, from religious and ethical implications of AI to the technology that enables machine learning, but one topic that stands out is data science. If data is the key to AI, then the collection, management, organization, and sharing of data is a critical element of making AI projects possible. We also continue our “three questions” tradition by bringing in ...
3x27: Benchmarking AI with MLPerf
April 12, 2022 13:00 - 43 minutes - 49.7 MBHow fast is your machine learning infrastructure, and how do you measure it? That's the topic of this episode, featuring David Kanter of MLCommons, Frederic Van Haren, and Stephen Foskett. MLCommons is focused on making machine learning better for everyone through metrics, datasets, and enablement. The goal for MLPerf is to come up with a fair and representative benchmark to allow the makers of ML systems to demonstrate the performance of their solutions. They focus on real data from a refer...
3x26: DataOps - Putting the Data in Data Science
March 29, 2022 13:00 - 37 minutes - 42.6 MBThe quality of an AI application depends on the quality of the data that feeds it. Sunil Samel joins Frederic Van Haren and Stephen Foskett to discuss DataOps and the importance of data quality. When we consider data-centric AI, we must consider all aspects of the data pipeline, from storing, transporting, and understanding to controlling access and cost. We must look at the data needed to train our models, think about the desired outcomes, and consider the sources and pipeline needed to get...
3x25: The Unique Challenges of ML Training Data with Bin Fan
March 15, 2022 13:00 - 35 minutes - 40.7 MBMachine learning is unlike any other enterprise application, demanding massive datasets from distributed sources. In this episode, Bin Fan of Alluxio discusses the unique challenges of distributed heterogeneous data to support ML workloads with Frederic Van Haren and Stephen Foskett. The systems supporting AI training are unique, with GPUs and other AI accelerators distributed across multiple machines, each accessing the same massive set of small files. Conventional storage solutions are no...
3x24: Challenges of Building Successful ML Programs
March 01, 2022 14:00 - 38 minutes - 44 MBWith so many AI tools available, it can be a challenge to integrate everything into a productive platform. Orly Amsalem of cnvrg.io joins Frederic Van Haren and Stephen Foskett to discuss the challenges of managing data and resources for AI training, development, management, and deployment. Orly discusses her journey from software development to AI and the challenges people face. Many in the AI community are following the same path, and are looking for tools like cnvrg to help them bring AI ...
3x23: How Algorithmic Bias in ML Affects Marketing
February 21, 2022 14:00 - 39 minutes - 45.1 MBAs machine learning is used to market and sell, we must consider how biases in models and data can impact society. Arizona State University Professor Katina Michael joins Frederic Van Haren and Stephen Foskett to discuss the many ways in which algorithms are skewed. Even a perfect model will produce biased answers when fed input data with inherent biases. How can we test and correct this? Awareness is important, but companies and governments should take active interest in detecting bias in m...
3x22: The State of AI and the Enterprise
February 15, 2022 14:00 - 41 minutes - 47.4 MBWith AI technology changing so quickly, we often need to step back and take a big picture look at the market. In this episode, Manoj Suvarna of Deloitte joins Frederic Van Haren and Stephen Foskett to discuss the many products and applications of AI in the enterprise. It is important for business executives to survey the many ways that AI and data science are being applied across the enterprise and try to find ways to leverage this work in other areas. Deloitte recently conducted a survey of...
3x21: Under the Hood of the Data Engine with Speedb
February 08, 2022 14:00 - 36 minutes - 41.8 MBData is the most important element of artificial intelligence, but how is that data managed and stored? In this episode of Utilizing AI, Adi Gelvan of Speedb goes deep under the hood to take a look at the data engine along with Frederic Van Haren and Stephen Foskett. Facebook's RocksDB provides the basic storage for many webscale projects, managing metadata in a massive scale. Because of the inherent limits of RocksDB, most cloud applications shard data across many data engines. But Speedb t...
3x20: GPUs and AI accelerators - What is the difference?
February 01, 2022 14:00 - 42 minutes - 48.5 MBAI is everywhere, and so are AI accelerators, from CPU to GPU to special-purpose hardware. Eitan Medina, Chief Operating Officer of Habana Labs, an Intel Company, joins Frederic Van Haren and Stephen Foskett to discuss the various specialized AI processors being developed today. Habana Labs has created a special-purpose AI training and inferencing processor with many unique features. Since deep learning is done at scale today, it makes sense to integrate enterprise networking with an acceler...
3x20: GPU's and AI accelerators - What is the difference?
February 01, 2022 14:00 - 42 minutes - 48.5 MBAI is everywhere, and so are AI accelerators, from CPU to GPU to special-purpose hardware. Eitan Medina, Chief Operating Officer of Habana Labs, an Intel Company, joins Frederic Van Haren and Stephen Foskett to discuss the various specialized AI processors being developed today. Habana Labs has created a special-purpose AI training and inferencing processor with many unique features. Since deep learning is done at scale today, it makes sense to integrate enterprise networking with an acceler...
3x19: How AI Can Help in Medical Care and Pain Management with Sara E. Berger
January 25, 2022 14:00 - 40 minutes - 46.8 MBAmong many surprising applications, AI can be used for pain management and medical care. Neuroscientist Sara E. Berger of IBM joins Chris Grundemann and Stephen Foskett to discuss applications of machine learning in medical care. Pain management is a deeply personal field, but there are so many different data points that it can be difficult to see patterns that lead to positive outcomes. Machine learning can assist in sorting and selecting treatments, bringing in different sensors and data t...
3x18: AI Everywhere, Even in Surprising Places with BrainChip
January 18, 2022 13:27 - 37 minutes - 42.8 MBBrainChip's neuromorphic AI technology has long been the talk of the industry, and now the Akida processor is available for purchase. We invited Rob Telson, VP of Worldwide Sales for BrainChip, to return to the Utilizing AI podcast to give Chris Grundemann and Stephen Foskett an update on the Akida processor. As of today, Akida is available for use by developers and hobbyists to explore neuromorphic compute at the edge. BrainChip enables five sensor modalities: Vision, hearing, touch, olfact...
3x17: Why the Heck Even Use Deep Learning?
January 11, 2022 14:00 - 41 minutes - 47.3 MBAlthough it’s a powerful tool, deep learning is perhaps over-used in modern applications. In this episode of the Utilizing AI podcast, Rich Harang joins Chris Grundemann and Stephen Foskett to discuss the various reasons people use AI, both good and bad. In a November Twitter thread, Rich posited that the following conditions were required to use AI for real: The cost of errors must be extremely low, the decision needs to be possible but expensive, there needs to be the same kind of decision...
3x16: Utilizing AI in 2022 with Chris Grundemann and Frederic Van Haren
January 04, 2022 14:00 - 35 minutes - 40.3 MBAI is now widespread, and companies are starting to look at the real-world impact of machine learning. In this special episode of the Utilizing AI podcast, the three hosts look forward to AI in 2022 and revisit some of our guest questions from season three. First, we turn to the specific markets and verticals served by AI applications. We feel that datasets and models will increasingly be focused on specific business uses instead of being general-purpose tools. Next, we consider how the AI i...
3x15: Utilization of Shadow AI with Run: AI
December 21, 2021 14:00 - 40 minutes - 46.6 MBShadow IT is as old as our profession, so it's no surprise that shadow AI is becoming a major issue. In this episode of Utilizing AI, Ronen Dar and Gijsbert Janssen van Doorn join Frederic Van Haren and Stephen Foskett to discuss resource utilization and shadow AI. One of the biggest issues with shadow IT is the low utilization of these resources that can come when they are purchased and used by a single corporate group or application. This is true both on-premises and in the cloud. But even...
3x14: What Scares InfoSec About AI? With Girard Kavelines
December 14, 2021 14:00 - 34 minutes - 39.3 MBAI is coming fast to the information security world, both in terms of tools and threats. In this episode, InfoSec professional Girard Kavelines discusses the reality of AI in security with Chris Grundemann and Stephen Foskett. With AI assistance on both sides of the security divide, will we see an escalation of attack and defense? On the defense side, threats have evolved to advanced attacks that look like system processes and legitimate connections, and machine learning can help process mor...
3x13: AI is a Creativity Maximizer with Ben Taylor of DataRobot
December 07, 2021 14:00 - 39 minutes - 44.7 MBMany of the tasks we perform on a daily basis are beneath our abilities, and these are the ideal targets for AI. In this episode, Ben Taylor of DataRobot joins Frederic Van Haren and Stephen Foskett to talk about AI as a creativity maximizer. Business people too often get stuck in a process rather than innovating, from office work to manufacturing to R&D, and all of these can be augmented by AI-based tools. The most successful companies have hundreds or thousands of AI initiatives across the...
3x12: Democratizing Unstructured Data at Scale with Edward Cui of Graviti
November 30, 2021 14:00 - 38 minutes - 44.2 MBMachine learning applications require massive datasets, but it can be challenging to build and store large amounts of unstructured data. In this episode of Utilizing AI, Edward Cui of Graviti discusses his creation of an open repository for unstructured data with Frederic Van Haren and Stephen Foskett. Coming from Uber's self-driving organization, Cui realized the value of data and the challenge of storing massive amounts of unstructured data, so he created the Graviti platform and made it a...
3x11: Putting Data Science Into Everyone's Hands with Amanda Kelly of Streamlit
November 16, 2021 14:00 - 37 minutes - 43.5 MBData science and machine learning developments can't have an impact if they don't get into everyone's hands. In this episode, Amanda Kelly of Streamlit joins Chris Grundemann and Stephen Foskett to talk about the challenges and opportunities in bringing data science to everyone's hands. How can we enable marketing, sales, marketing, and other elements of the business to access data and make informed decisions themselves? Data science teams have to meet business people where they are to bette...
3x10: Democratizing Data Infrastructure for ML with Melisa Tokmak of Scale AI
November 09, 2021 14:00 - 44 minutes - 51.4 MBData is the most important component of AI implementation, but most companies neglect data infrastructure and focus too much on the ML models. In this episode of the Utilizing AI podcast, Melisa Tokmak of Scale AI joins Frederic Van Haren and Stephen Foskett to discuss the democratization of data infrastructure to support machine learning projects. Enterprises often don't have a good understanding of their data, and this can undermine the success of an AI project, and this must be addressed ...
3x09: Focusing MLOps on the Data Scientist with Adam Probst of ZenML
November 02, 2021 13:00 - 37 minutes - 43.2 MBMany data scientists and ML engineers have faced the challenge of putting AI models into production, and this is the core of MLOps. In this episode, Adam Probst, Co-Founder of ZenML, joins Frederic Van Haren and Stephen Foskett to discuss the challenges of putting ML models into production. Machine learning pipelines are inherently complex and fragile and require feedback and tuning, and this requires a new approach with continuous improvement and tight integration. Although reminiscent of ...
3X08: The Invisible Workers Behind the AI Algorithms with Alexandrine Royer
October 26, 2021 13:00 - 35 minutes - 40.4 MBAI is spreading around the world, both in terms of technology and workforces. Many tasks that support artificial intelligence are being outsourced globally, with many workers exploited or mistreated as they take up the opportunities offered by the information economy. In this episode, Alexandrine Royer, Student Fellow at the Leverhulme Center for the Future of Intelligence, joins Chris Grundemann and Stephen Foskett to discuss the prospects for global AI workers. The situation is akin to glo...
3X07: The Trillion-Parameter ML Model with Cerebras Systems
October 19, 2021 13:00 - 40 minutes - 46.1 MBDemand for AI compute is growing faster than conventional systems architecture can match, so companies like Cerebras Systems are building massive special-purpose processing units. In this episode, Andy Hock, VP of Product for Cerebras Systems, joins Frederic Van Haren and Stephen Foskett to discuss this new class of hardware. The Cerebras Wafer-Scale Engine (WSE-2) has 850,000 processors on a single chip the size of a dinner plate, along with 40 GB of SRAM and supporting interconnects. But C...
3x06: Fighting Nightmare Bacteria Using AI with Sriram Chandrasekaran
October 12, 2021 13:00 - 35 minutes - 40.6 MBIt is sometimes hard to see how AI technology benefits society, but applications like drug discovery really bring the power home. Sriram Chandrasekaran, Assistant Professor of Biochemical Engineering at the University of Michigan, is using machine learning to assess the properties of drug candidates to fight antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Presented with millions of different potential drugs, machine learning can identify the few most useful to be tested clinically. Because it tries everythin...
3x05: The Philosophical and Religious Aspects of AI
October 05, 2021 13:00 - 39 minutes - 45.5 MBIn this episode, we consider the moral and ethical dimensions of artificial intelligence. Leon Adato, host of the Technically Religious podcast, joins Frederic Van Haren and Stephen Foskett to consider the boundaries of technology and the choices we make. Leon suggests that the unintentional, unconscious, and undetectable impact of AI is the key consideration, not the science fiction questions of AI and religion. Many religions seek to apply the lessons of the past to new technologies and si...
3x04: How AI and ML are used in Network Management with Tom Hollingsworth of Gestalt IT
September 28, 2021 13:00 - 35 minutes - 40.3 MBLocal and wide-area networks can get complex very quickly, so it's no surprise that AI-powered network management is making a huge impact in the enterprise. In this episode, Tom Hollingsworth, who runs Networking Field Day for Gestalt IT, joins Chris Grundemann and Stephen Foskett to discuss applications of AI in network monitoring and management. Solutions like Mist from Juniper Networks give network administrators the ability to ask questions get insight using the power of machine learning...
3x03: Platform Considerations For Deploying AI At Scale with Tony Paikeday of NVIDIA
September 21, 2021 13:00 - 41 minutes - 47.9 MBEnterprises are working to simplify the process of deploying and managing systems to support AI applications. That's what NVIDIA's DGX architecture is designed to do, and what we'll talk about on this episode. Frederic Van Haren and Stephen Foskett are joined by Tony Paikeday, Senior Director, AI Systems at NVIDIA, to discuss the tools needed to operationalize AI at scale. Although many NVIDIA DGX systems have been purchased by data scientists or directly by lines of business, it is also a s...
3x02: Using AI to Assess Risk with Mike O'Malley of SenecaGlobal
September 14, 2021 13:00 - 29 minutes - 33.7 MBMachine learning excels at finding needles in haystacks, even unexpected ones, and this helps organizations to assess risks. In this first episode of season 3, Utilizing AI hosts Stephen Foskett and Chris Grundemann discuss risk analysis with Mike O'Malley of SenecaGlobal. ML is extremely good at detecting outliers and adapting to changing patterns, and this can yield excellent results in applications like financial pattern recognition. But AI lacks real understanding, and this can limit the...
3x01: A Look Back at Season 2
September 07, 2021 13:00 - 42 minutes - 49 MBWelcome back to another season of Utilizing AI! In this first episode of season 3, we are taking a look at some of the most memorable moments of season 2. We started season 2 by talking about AI as a co-pilot in the first few episodes and this theme continued throughout the season. AI making our jobs easier was a common discussion we had through the course of the season. Another common discussion had throughout the season was how to make implementing AI easier through tools and platforms. We...
2x31: Taking Artificial Intelligence on the Road with Christophe Couvreur of Cerence
August 03, 2021 13:00 - 40 minutes - 46.7 MBMost people think AI in vehicles means autonomous driving, but there are a lot of other applications for the technology. Ever since Mercedes-Benz introduced Linguatronic voice response in the 1990s, vehicles have included verbal control and feedback mechanisms. In this episode, Christophe Couvreur discusses the lessons of bringing AI to vehicles based on his experience at Nuance spin-off, Cerence. As these systems have improved, they have reached the so-called uncanny valley, where people be...
2x30: Bringing AI to the Executive Suite with Josh Epstein of AtScale
July 27, 2021 13:00 - 37 minutes - 42.4 MBBusinesses have long tried to use data to drive decisions, but over the last few years new big data and AI capabilities have appeared. In this episode, Josh Epstein of AtScale discusses the opportunities that enterprise AI brings to drive business decisions. Although executives might not know the details of AI models, they can certainly benefit from the forecasts and recommendations these tools deliver. One benefit of these systems is that they can bring in more diverse data to uncover real ...
2x29: How AI Can Help Displaced Workers with Saiph Savage
July 20, 2021 13:00 - 39 minutes - 45.2 MBAlthough we usually focus on the ways AI can displace workers, this technology can also create new jobs and help them. In this episode, Saiph Savage joins Chris Grundemann and Stephen Foskett to discuss the many ways AI can help displaced workers. One new type of job created by AI is in the area of model training, and this can help develop digital skills and improve the lives of workers. Digital labor platforms tend to be opaque, however, and we must audit them to understand the wages paid, ...
2x28: Offloading ML Processing to Storage Devices with NGD Systems
July 13, 2021 13:00 - 37 minutes - 43.4 MBToday’s storage devices (disks and SSDs) have processors and memory already, and this is the concept of computational storage. If drives can process data locally, they can relieve the burden of communication and processing and help reduce the amount of data that gets to the CPU or GPU. In this episode, Vladimir Alves and Scott Shadley join Chris Grundemann and Stephen Foskett to discuss the AI implications of computational storage. Modern SSDs already process data, including encryption and c...
2x27: How the ML Community Has Evolved in 2021 with Demetrios Brinkmann and David Aponte
July 06, 2021 13:00 - 51 minutes - 59.3 MBThe MLOps community has grown dramatically recently, with security, a data-centric approach, ethical implications, and a growing and diverse community rising in 2021. In this episode, MLOps Community managers Demetrios Brinkmann and David Aponte join Steph Locke and Stephen Foskett to discuss what has changed over the last year. It seems that a new ML company is launching every week, and the MLOps Community provides a great way to learn about these. We are also seeing a push and pull between...
2x26: The Global Imbalance of AI Investment with Sofia Trejo
June 29, 2021 13:00 - 37 minutes - 42.5 MBLook at a list of the top companies in the world, and most are focused in the United States, China, and Europe, and this causes an imbalance of investment in AI. With most companies building AI infrastructure and applications located in Silicon Valley and similar areas, how will the rest of the world catch up? Sofia Trejo joins Chris Grundemann and Stephen Foskett to discuss the implications of this imbalance, which causes an AI divide. Companies like Facebook, Google, and Amazon increasingl...
2x25: AI Is Going to Be Everywhere and in Everything With David Klee
June 22, 2021 13:00 - 31 minutes - 36.4 MBAI is everywhere these days, powering applications from the enterprise to industrial, medical, education, and mobility. In this episode, David Klee joins Chris Grundemann and Stephen Foskett to discuss the ubiquity of AI technology today. Although not all applications of machine learning have been compelling, we are starting to see novel uses that allow us to do things we could never do before. One exciting application is in root cause analysis across the entire application stack, which has ...
2x24: MLOps Is About Quality Not Technology with Steph Locke
June 15, 2021 13:00 - 31 minutes - 35.7 MBMLOps is similar to DevOps but focused on ML, and focuses on improving quality of delivery for artificial intelligence applications. In this episode, Stephen Foskett discusses MLOps with Steph Locke, CEO of Nightingale HQ. DevOps is very much a cultural shift for software development, while MLOps in practice tends to be more of a team sport, with software developers, data scientists, machine learning experts, and IT infrastructure and operations. Another benefit of MLOps is the improvement o...
2x23: Overcoming the Obstacles of AI Application Development with Snorkel AI
June 08, 2021 13:00 - 34 minutes - 32.2 MBDevelopers of AI applications face many obstacles, but the chief challenge is simply that these are different from traditional software development projects. 85% of businesses say they are looking to adopt AI but a similar percentage of data science projects never reach production. Too many organizations approach AI application development similarly to other software projects. Another issue is focusing on the machine learning model rather than the data set that will be used. Devang Sachdev o...
2x22: Microsoft is Democratizing AI with Steph Locke
June 01, 2021 13:00 - 40 minutes - 45.9 MBMicrosoft plays a large role in enterprise IT applications, from the desktop to the datacenter to the Azure cloud, and the company is active in the world of AI as well. But most of Microsoft’s work has gone unnoticed, with high-profile cloud AI and ML applications at companies like Google and Uber getting all the press. In this episode, Steph Locke joins Chris Grundemann and Stephen Foskett to discuss the place of AI inside the Microsoft ecosystem. Microsoft has built AI into search and Cort...
2x21: The Intersection of 5G and AI with EdgeQ
May 25, 2021 13:00 - 37 minutes - 42.9 MBYou might think that 5G and AI are completely unrelated, but these new technologies support each other. Both are expressions of information theory, and both use similar mathematics under the hood. Both 5G and AI are also disruptive to existing business models and enable new applications. EdgeQ develops processors that leverage machine learning to improve customer experience in 5G and enable customers to develop their own AI solutions on-chip. 5G is bringing the edge closer to the cloud and i...