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AI Access and Inclusivity as a Technical Challenge with Prem Natarajan - #658
The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence) - December 04, 2023 20:08 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 323 ratingsToday we’re joined by Prem Natarajan, chief scientist and head of enterprise AI at Capital One. In our conversation, we discuss AI access and inclusivity as technical challenges and explore some of Prem and his team’s multidisciplinary approaches to tackling these complexities. We dive into the i...
Building LLM-Based Applications with Azure OpenAI with Jay Emery - #657
The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence) - November 28, 2023 21:24 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 323 ratingsToday we’re joined by Jay Emery, director of technical sales & architecture at Microsoft Azure. In our conversation with Jay, we discuss the challenges faced by organizations when building LLM-based applications, and we explore some of the techniques they are using to overcome them. We dive into ...
Visual Generative AI Ecosystem Challenges with Richard Zhang - #656
The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence) - November 20, 2023 17:27 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 323 ratingsToday we’re joined by Richard Zhang, senior research scientist at Adobe Research. In our conversation with Richard, we explore the research challenges that arise when regarding visual generative AI from an ecosystem perspective, considering the disparate needs of creators, consumers, and contribu...
Deploying Edge and Embedded AI Systems with Heather Gorr - #655
The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence) - November 13, 2023 18:56 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 323 ratingsToday we’re joined by Heather Gorr, principal MATLAB product marketing manager at MathWorks. In our conversation with Heather, we discuss the deployment of AI models to hardware devices and embedded AI systems. We explore factors to consider during data preparation, model development, and ultimat...
AI Sentience, Agency and Catastrophic Risk with Yoshua Bengio - #654
The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence) - November 06, 2023 20:50 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 323 ratingsToday we’re joined by Yoshua Bengio, professor at Université de Montréal. In our conversation with Yoshua, we discuss AI safety and the potentially catastrophic risks of its misuse. Yoshua highlights various risks and the dangers of AI being used to manipulate people, spread disinformation, cause...
Delivering AI Systems in Highly Regulated Environments with Miriam Friedel - #653
The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence) - October 30, 2023 18:27 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 323 ratingsToday we’re joined by Miriam Friedel, senior director of ML engineering at Capital One. In our conversation with Miriam, we discuss some of the challenges faced when delivering machine learning tools and systems in highly regulated enterprise environments, and some of the practices her teams have...
Mental Models for Advanced ChatGPT Prompting with Riley Goodside - #652
The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence) - October 23, 2023 19:44 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 323 ratingsToday we’re joined by Riley Goodside, staff prompt engineer at Scale AI. In our conversation with Riley, we explore LLM capabilities and limitations, prompt engineering, and the mental models required to apply advanced prompting techniques. We dive deep into understanding LLM behavior, discussing...
Multilingual LLMs and the Values Divide in AI with Sara Hooker - #651
The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence) - October 16, 2023 19:51 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 323 ratingsToday we’re joined by Sara Hooker, director at Cohere and head of Cohere For AI, Cohere’s research lab. In our conversation with Sara, we explore some of the challenges with multilingual models like poor data quality and tokenization, and how they rely on data augmentation and preference training...
Scaling Multi-Modal Generative AI with Luke Zettlemoyer - #650
The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence) - October 09, 2023 18:54 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 323 ratingsToday we’re joined by Luke Zettlemoyer, professor at University of Washington and a research manager at Meta. In our conversation with Luke, we cover multimodal generative AI, the effect of data on models, and the significance of open source and open science. We explore the grounding problem, the...
Pushing Back on AI Hype with Alex Hanna - #649
The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence) - October 02, 2023 20:37 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 323 ratingsToday we’re joined by Alex Hanna, the Director of Research at the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR). In our conversation with Alex, we discuss the topic of AI hype and the importance of tackling the issues and impacts it has on society. Alex highlights how the hype cycle started, concernin...
Personalization for Text-to-Image Generative AI with Nataniel Ruiz - #648
The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence) - September 25, 2023 16:24 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 323 ratingsToday we’re joined by Nataniel Ruiz, a research scientist at Google. In our conversation with Nataniel, we discuss his recent work around personalization for text-to-image AI models. Specifically, we dig into DreamBooth, an algorithm that enables “subject-driven generation,” that is, the creation...
Ensuring LLM Safety for Production Applications with Shreya Rajpal - #647
The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence) - September 18, 2023 18:17 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 323 ratingsToday we’re joined by Shreya Rajpal, founder and CEO of Guardrails AI. In our conversation with Shreya, we discuss ensuring the safety and reliability of language models for production applications. We explore the risks and challenges associated with these models, including different types of hal...
What’s Next in LLM Reasoning? with Roland Memisevic - #646
The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence) - September 11, 2023 18:38 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 323 ratingsToday we’re joined by Roland Memisevic, a senior director at Qualcomm AI Research. In our conversation with Roland, we discuss the significance of language in humanlike AI systems and the advantages and limitations of autoregressive models like Transformers in building them. We cover the current ...
Is ChatGPT Getting Worse? with James Zou - #645
The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence) - September 04, 2023 16:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 323 ratingsToday we’re joined by James Zou, an assistant professor at Stanford University. In our conversation with James, we explore the differences in ChatGPT’s behavior over the last few months. We discuss the issues that can arise from inconsistencies in generative AI models, how he tested ChatGPT’s per...
Why Deep Networks and Brains Learn Similar Features with Sophia Sanborn - #644
The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence) - August 28, 2023 18:13 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 323 ratingsToday we’re joined by Sophia Sanborn, a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In our conversation with Sophia, we explore the concept of universality between neural representations and deep neural networks, and how these principles of efficiency provide an ability t...
Inverse Reinforcement Learning Without RL with Gokul Swamy - #643
The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence) - August 21, 2023 17:59 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 323 ratingsToday we’re joined by Gokul Swamy, a Ph.D. Student at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. In the final conversation of our ICML 2023 series, we sat down with Gokul to discuss his accepted papers at the event, leading off with “Inverse Reinforcement Learning without Reinforcement...
Explainable AI for Biology and Medicine with Su-In Lee - #642
The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence) - August 14, 2023 17:36 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 323 ratingsToday we’re joined by Su-In Lee, a professor at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science And Engineering at the University Of Washington. In our conversation, Su-In details her talk from the ICML 2023 Workshop on Computational Biology which focuses on developing explainable AI techniques for ...
Transformers On Large-Scale Graphs with Bayan Bruss - #641
The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence) - August 07, 2023 16:15 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 323 ratingsToday we’re joined by Bayan Bruss, Vice President of Applied ML Research at Capital One. In our conversation with Bayan, we covered a pair of papers his team presented at this year’s ICML conference. We begin with the paper Interpretable Subspaces in Image Representations, where Bayan gives us a ...
The Enterprise LLM Landscape with Atul Deo - #640
The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence) - July 31, 2023 16:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 323 ratingsToday we’re joined by Atul Deo, General Manager of Amazon Bedrock. In our conversation with Atul, we discuss the process of training large language models in the enterprise, including the pain points of creating and training machine learning models, and the power of pre-trained models. We explore...
BloombergGPT - an LLM for Finance with David Rosenberg - #639
The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence) - July 24, 2023 17:36 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 323 ratingsToday we’re joined by David Rosenberg, head of the machine learning strategy team in the Office of the CTO at Bloomberg. In our conversation with David, we discuss the creation of BloombergGPT, a custom-built LLM focused on financial applications. We explore the model’s architecture, validation p...
Are LLMs Good at Causal Reasoning? with Robert Osazuwa Ness - #638
The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence) - July 17, 2023 17:24 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 323 ratingsToday we’re joined by Robert Osazuwa Ness, a senior researcher at Microsoft Research, Professor at Northeastern University, and Founder of Altdeep.ai. In our conversation with Robert, we explore whether large language models, specifically GPT-3, 3.5, and 4, are good at causal reasoning. We discus...
Privacy vs Fairness in Computer Vision with Alice Xiang - #637
The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence) - July 10, 2023 17:22 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 323 ratingsToday we’re joined by Alice Xiang, Lead Research Scientist at Sony AI, and Global Head of AI Ethics at Sony Group Corporation. In our conversation with Alice, we discuss the ongoing debate between privacy and fairness in computer vision, diving into the impact of data privacy laws on the AI space...
Unifying Vision and Language Models with Mohit Bansal - #636
The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence) - July 03, 2023 18:06 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 323 ratingsToday we're joined by Mohit Bansal, Parker Professor, and Director of the MURGe-Lab at UNC, Chapel Hill. In our conversation with Mohit, we explore the concept of unification in AI models, highlighting the advantages of shared knowledge and efficiency. He addresses the challenges of evaluation in...
Data Augmentation and Optimized Architectures for Computer Vision with Fatih Porikli - #635
The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence) - June 26, 2023 18:06 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 323 ratingsToday we kick off our coverage of the 2023 CVPR conference joined by Fatih Porikli, a Senior Director of Technology at Qualcomm. In our conversation with Fatih, we covered quite a bit of ground, touching on a total of 12 papers/demos, focusing on topics like data augmentation and optimized archit...
Mojo: A Supercharged Python for AI with Chris Lattner - #634
The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence) - June 19, 2023 17:31 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 323 ratingsToday we’re joined by Chris Lattner, Co-Founder and CEO of Modular. In our conversation with Chris, we discuss Mojo, a new programming language for AI developers. Mojo is unique in this space and simplifies things by making the entire stack accessible and understandable to people who are not comp...
Stable Diffusion and LLMs at the Edge with Jilei Hou - #633
The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence) - June 12, 2023 18:24 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 323 ratingsToday we’re joined by Jilei Hou, a VP of Engineering at Qualcomm Technologies. In our conversation with Jilei, we focus on the emergence of generative AI, and how they've worked towards providing these models for use on edge devices. We explore how the distribution of models on devices can help a...
Modeling Human Behavior with Generative Agents with Joon Sung Park - #632
The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence) - June 05, 2023 17:17 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 323 ratingsToday we’re joined by Joon Sung Park, a PhD Student at Stanford University. Joon shares his passion for creating AI systems that can solve human problems and his work on the recent paper Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior, which showcases generative agents that exhibit bel...
Towards Improved Transfer Learning with Hugo Larochelle - #631
The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence) - May 29, 2023 16:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 323 ratingsToday we’re joined by Hugo Larochelle, a research scientist at Google Deepmind. In our conversation with Hugo, we discuss his work on transfer learning, understanding the capabilities of deep learning models, and creating the Transactions on Machine Learning Research journal. We explore the use o...
Language Modeling With State Space Models with Dan Fu - #630
The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence) - May 22, 2023 18:10 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 323 ratingsToday we’re joined by Dan Fu, a PhD student at Stanford University. In our conversation with Dan, we discuss the limitations of state space models in language modeling and the search for alternative building blocks that can help increase context length without being computationally infeasible. Da...
Building Maps and Spatial Awareness in Blind AI Agents with Dhruv Batra - #629
The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence) - May 15, 2023 18:03 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 323 ratingsToday we continue our coverage of ICLR 2023 joined by Dhruv Batra, an associate professor at Georgia Tech and research director of the Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) team at META. In our conversation, we discuss Dhruv’s work on the paper Emergence of Maps in the Memories of Blind Navigation Agent...
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