Latest Computer vision Podcast Episodes
Udio & the age of multi-modal AI
Practical AI: Machine Learning, Data Science - April 16, 2024 18:20 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratings2024 promises to be the year of multi-modal AI, and we are already seeing some amazing things. In this “fully connected” episode, Chris and Daniel explore the new Udio product/service for generating music. Then they dig into the differences between recent multi-modal efforts and more “traditional...
RAG continues to rise
Practical AI: Machine Learning, Data Science - April 10, 2024 14:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratingsDaniel & Chris delight in conversation with “the funniest guy in AI”, Demetrios Brinkmann. Together they explore the results of the MLOps Community’s latest survey. They also preview the upcoming AI Quality Conference.
Should kids still learn to code?
Practical AI: Machine Learning, Data Science - April 02, 2024 20:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratingsIn this fully connected episode, Daniel & Chris discuss NVIDIA GTC keynote comments from CEO Jensen Huang about teaching kids to code. Then they dive into the notion of “community” in the AI world, before discussing challenges in the adoption of generative AI by non-technical people. They finis...
StoneX Group Director of Data Science Elettra Damaggio
How AI Happens - March 28, 2024 20:33 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsAfter describing the work done at StoneX and her role at the organization, Elettra explains what drew her to neural networks, defines data science and how she overcame the challenges of learning something new on the job, breaks down what a data scientist needs to succeed, and shares her thoughts...
AI vs software devs
Practical AI: Machine Learning, Data Science - March 26, 2024 19:30 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratingsDaniel and Chris are out this week, so we’re bringing you conversations all about AI’s complicated relationship to software developers from other Changelog pods: JS Party, Go Time & The Changelog.
AWS Director of Product Management Mike Miller
How AI Happens - March 22, 2024 17:30 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsMike Miller is the Director of Project Management at AWS, and he joins us today to share about the inspirational AI-powered products and services that are making waves at Amazon, particularly those with generative prompt engineering capabilities. We discuss how Mike and his team choose which pr...
Prompting the future
Practical AI: Machine Learning, Data Science - March 20, 2024 13:45 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratingsDaniel & Chris explore the state of the art in prompt engineering with Jared Zoneraich, the founder of PromptLayer. PromptLayer is the first platform built specifically for prompt engineering. It can visually manage prompts, evaluate models, log LLM requests, search usage history, and help your ...
Carrier Head of AI Seth Walker
How AI Happens - March 15, 2024 18:39 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsKey Points From This Episode: Welcoming Seth Walker to the podcast. Why Seth jokes about being chaotic in his approach to machine learning. The importance of being agile in AI. All about Seth’s company, Carrier, and what they do. Seth tells us about his background and how he ended up at...
Generating the future of art & entertainment
Practical AI: Machine Learning, Data Science - March 12, 2024 17:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratingsRunway is an applied AI research company shaping the next era of art, entertainment & human creativity. Chris sat down with Runway co-founder / CTO, Anastasis Germanidis, to discuss their rise and how it’s defining the future of the creative landscape with its text & image to video models. We hop...
YOLOv9: Computer vision is alive and well
Practical AI: Machine Learning, Data Science - March 06, 2024 17:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratingsWhile everyone is super hyped about generative AI, computer vision researchers have been working in the background on significant advancements in deep learning architectures. YOLOv9 was just released with some noteworthy advancements relevant to parameter efficient models. In this episode, Chris ...
Google Cloud's VP Global AI Business Philip Moyer
How AI Happens - February 29, 2024 18:47 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsPhilip recently had the opportunity to speak with 371 customers from 15 different countries to hear their thoughts, fears, and hopes for AI. Tuning in you’ll hear Philip share his biggest takeaways from these conversations, his opinion on the current state of AI, and his hopes and predictions f...
Representation Engineering (Activation Hacking)
Practical AI: Machine Learning, Data Science - February 28, 2024 15:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratingsRecently, we briefly mentioned the concept of “Activation Hacking” in the episode with Karan from Nous Research. In this fully connected episode, Chris and Daniel dive into the details of this model control mechanism, also called “representation engineering”. Of course, they also take time to dis...
Leading the charge on AI in National Security
Practical AI: Machine Learning, Data Science - February 20, 2024 15:15 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratingsChris & Daniel explore AI in national security with Lt. General Jack Shanahan (USAF, Ret.). The conversation reflects Jack’s unique background as the only senior U.S. military officer responsible for standing up and leading two organizations in the United States Department of Defense (DoD) dedic...
Meta VP of AI Research Joelle Pineau
How AI Happens - February 16, 2024 22:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsJoelle further discusses the relationship between her work, AI, and the end users of her products as well as her summation of information modalities, world models versus word models, and the role of responsibility in the current high-stakes of technology development. Key Points From This Epis...
Gemini vs OpenAI
Practical AI: Machine Learning, Data Science - February 14, 2024 20:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratingsGoogle has been releasing a ton of new GenAI functionality under the name “Gemini”, and they’ve officially rebranded Bard as Gemini. We take some time to talk through Gemini compared with offerings from OpenAI, Anthropic, Cohere, etc. We also discuss the recent FCC decision to ban the use of AI v...
Data synthesis for SOTA LLMs
Practical AI: Machine Learning, Data Science - February 06, 2024 22:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratingsNous Research has been pumping out some of the best open access LLMs using SOTA data synthesis techniques. Their Hermes family of models is incredibly popular! In this episode, Karan from Nous talks about the origins of Nous as a distributed collective of LLM researchers. We also get into fine-tu...
Large Action Models (LAMs) & Rabbits 🐇
Practical AI: Machine Learning, Data Science - January 30, 2024 21:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratingsRecently the release of the rabbit r1 device resulted in huge interest in both the device and “Large Action Models” (or LAMs). What is an LAM? Is this something new? Did these models come out of nowhere, or are they related to other things we are already using? Chris and Daniel dig into LAMs in t...
Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute Product Owner Mara Cairo
How AI Happens - January 24, 2024 18:18 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsKey Points From This Episode: Amii’s machine learning project management tool: MLPL. Amii’s ultimate goal of building capacity and how it differs from an agency model. Asking the right questions to ascertain the appropriate use for AI. Instances where AI is not a relevant solution. Commo...
Collaboration & evaluation for LLM apps
Practical AI: Machine Learning, Data Science - January 23, 2024 22:30 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratingsSmall changes in prompts can create large changes in the output behavior of generative AI models. Add to that the confusion around proper evaluation of LLM applications, and you have a recipe for confusion and frustration. Raza and the Humanloop team have been diving into these problems, and, in ...
Advent of GenAI Hackathon recap
Practical AI: Machine Learning, Data Science - January 17, 2024 20:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratingsRecently, Intel’s Liftoff program for startups and Prediction Guard hosted the first ever “Advent of GenAI” hackathon. 2,000 people from all around the world participated in Generate AI related challenges over 7 days. In this episode, we discuss the hackathon, some of the creative solutions, the ...
AI predictions for 2024
Practical AI: Machine Learning, Data Science - January 10, 2024 19:30 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratingsWe scoured the internet to find all the AI related predictions for 2024 (at least from people that might know what they are talking about), and, in this episode, we talk about some of the common themes. We also take a moment to look back at 2023 commenting with some distance on a crazy AI year.
Open source, on-disk vector search with LanceDB
Practical AI: Machine Learning, Data Science - December 19, 2023 19:40 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratingsPrashanth Rao mentioned LanceDB as a stand out amongst the many vector DB options in episode #234. Now, Chang She (co-founder and CEO of LanceDB) joins us to talk through the specifics of their open source, on-disk, embedded vector search offering. We talk about how their unique columnar database...
The state of open source AI
Practical AI: Machine Learning, Data Science - December 12, 2023 19:45 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratingsThe new open source AI book from PremAI starts with “As a data scientist/ML engineer/developer with a 9 to 5 job, it’s difficult to keep track of all the innovations.” We couldn’t agree more, and we are so happy that this week’s guest Casper (among other contributors) have created this resource f...
10 Years of FAIR at Meta with Sama Director of ML Jerome Pasquero
How AI Happens - December 08, 2023 00:07 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsJerome discusses Meta's Segment Anything Model, Ego Exo 4D, the nature of Self Supervised Learning, and what it would mean to have a non-language based approach to machine teaching. For more, including quotes from Meta Researchers, check out the Sama Blog
Suspicion machines ⚙️
Practical AI: Machine Learning, Data Science - December 05, 2023 21:45 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratingsIn this enlightening episode, we delve deeper than the usual buzz surrounding AI’s perils, focusing instead on the tangible problems emerging from the use of machine learning algorithms across Europe. We explore “suspicion machines” — systems that assign scores to welfare program participants, es...
RoviSys Director of Industrial AI Bryan DeBois
How AI Happens - December 05, 2023 19:19 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsBryan discusses what constitutes industrial AI, its applications, and how it differs from standard AI processes. We explore the innovative process of deep reinforcement learning (DRL), replicating human expertise with machines, and the types of AI approaches available. Gain insights into the cur...
The OpenAI debacle (a retrospective)
Practical AI: Machine Learning, Data Science - November 29, 2023 18:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratingsDaniel & Chris conduct a retrospective analysis of the recent OpenAI debacle in which CEO Sam Altman was sacked by the OpenAI board, only to return days later with a new supportive board. The events and people involved are discussed from start to finish along with the potential impact of these e...
ML Pulse Report with Voxel51 CSO Jason Corso and Sama VP Duncan Curtis
How AI Happens - November 22, 2023 17:55 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratings2023 ML Pulse Report Joining us today are our panelists, Duncan Curtis, SVP of AI products and technology at Sama, and Jason Corso, a professor of robotics, electrical engineering, and computer science at the University of Michigan. Jason is also the chief science officer at Voxel51, an AI s...
Generating product imagery at Shopify
Practical AI: Machine Learning, Data Science - November 21, 2023 18:45 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratingsShopify recently released a Hugging Face space demonstrating very impressive results for replacing background scenes in product imagery. In this episode, we hear the backstory technical details about this work from Shopify’s Russ Maschmeyer. Along the way we discuss how to come up with clever AI ...
AI trailblazers putting people first
Practical AI: Machine Learning, Data Science - November 14, 2023 17:45 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratingsAccording to Solana Larsen: “Too often, it feels like we have lost control of the internet to the interests of Big Tech, Big Data — and now Big AI.” In the latest season of Mozilla’s IRL podcast (edited by Solana), a number of stories are featured to highlight the trailblazers who are reclaiming ...
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