Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI
Episodes
Chris Mattmann — ML Applications on Earth, Mars, and Beyond
08 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Chris shares some of the incredible work and innovations behind deep space exploration at NASA JPL and reflects on the past, present, and future of ma...
Vladlen Koltun — The Power of Simulation and Abstraction
01 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
From legged locomotion to autonomous driving, Vladlen explains how simulation and abstraction help us understand embodied intelligence. --- Vladlen ...
Dominik Moritz — Building Intuitive Data Visualization Tools
25 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dominik shares the story and principles behind Vega and Vega-Lite, and explains how visualization and machine learning help each other. --- Dominik is...
Cade Metz — The Stories Behind the Rise of AI
18 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How Cade got access to the stories behind some of the biggest advancements in AI, and the dynamic playing out between leaders at companies like Google...
Dave Selinger — AI and the Next Generation of Security Systems
11 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Learn why traditional home security systems tend to fail and how Dave’s love of tinkering and deep learning are helping him and the team at Deep Sen...
Tim & Heinrich — Democraticizing Reinforcement Learning Research
04 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Since reinforcement learning requires hefty compute resources, it can be tough to keep up without a serious budget of your own. Find out how the team ...
Daphne Koller — Digital Biology and the Next Epoch of Science
18 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
From teaching at Stanford to co-founding Coursera, insitro, and Engageli, Daphne Koller reflects on the importance of education, giving back, and cros...
Piero Molino — The Secret Behind Building Successful Open Source Projects
11 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Piero shares the story of how Ludwig was created, as well as the ins and outs of how Ludwig works and the future of machine learning with no code. Pi...
Rosanne Liu — Conducting Fundamental ML Research as a Nonprofit
05 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How Rosanne is working to democratize AI research and improve diversity and fairness in the field through starting a non-profit after being a founding...
Sean Gourley — NLP, National Defense, and Establishing Ground Truth
28 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Gradient Dissent, Primer CEO Sean Gourley and Lukas Biewald sit down to talk about NLP, working with vast amounts of information, a...
Peter Wang — Anaconda, Python, and Scientific Computing
22 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Wang talks about his journey of being the CEO of and co-founding Anaconda, his perspective on the Python programming language, and its use for s...
Chris Anderson — Robocars, Drones, and WIRED Magazine
14 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Chris shares his journey starting from playing in R.E.M, becoming interested in physics to leading WIRED Magazine for 11 years. His robot fascination ...
Adrien Treuille — Building Blazingly Fast Tools That People Love
04 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Adrien shares his journey from making games that advance science (Eterna, Foldit) to creating a Streamlit, an open-source app framework enabling ML/Da...
Peter Norvig – Singularity Is in the Eye of the Beholder
20 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We're thrilled to have Peter Norvig join us to talk about the evolution of deep learning, his industry-defining book, his work at Google, and what he ...
Robert Nishihara — The State of Distributed Computing in ML
13 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The story of Ray and what lead Robert to go from reinforcement learning researcher to creating open-source tools for machine learning and beyond Robe...
Ines & Sofie — Building Industrial-Strength NLP Pipelines
29 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Sofie and Ines walk us through how the new spaCy library helps build end to end SOTA natural language processing workflows. Ines Montani is the co-fo...
Daeil Kim — The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Synthetic Data
16 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Supercharging computer vision model performance by generating years of training data in minutes. Daeil Kim is the co-founder and CEO of AI.Reverie(ht...
Joaquin Candela — Definitions of Fairness
01 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Joaquin chats about scaling and democratizing AI at Facebook, while understanding fairness and algorithmic bias. --- Joaquin Quiñonero Candela is D...
Richard Socher — The Challenges of Making ML Work in the Real World
29 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Richard Socher, ex-Chief Scientist at Salesforce, joins us to talk about The AI Economist, NLP protein generation and biggest challenge in making ML w...
Zack Chase Lipton — The Medical Machine Learning Landscape
17 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How Zack went from being a musician to professor, how medical applications of Machine Learning are developing, and the challenges of counteracting bia...
Anthony Goldbloom — How to Win Kaggle Competitions
09 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Anthony Goldbloom is the founder and CEO of Kaggle. In 2011 & 2012, Forbes Magazine named Anthony as one of the 30 under 30 in technology. In 2011, Fa...
Suzana Ilić — Cultivating Machine Learning Communities
02 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
👩💻Today our guest is Suzanah Ilić! Suzanah is a founder of Machine Learning Tokyo which is a nonprofit organization dedicated to democratizi...
Jeremy Howard — The Story of fast.ai and Why Python Is Not the Future of ML
25 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jeremy Howard is a founding researcher at fast.ai, a research institute dedicated to making Deep Learning more accessible. Previously, he was the CEO ...
Anantha Kancherla — Building Level 5 Autonomous Vehicles
12 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As Lyft’s VP of Engineering, Software at Level 5, Autonomous Vehicle Program, Anantha Kancherla has a birds-eye view on what it takes to make self-d...
Bharath Ramsundar — Deep Learning for Molecules and Medicine Discovery
05 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Bharath created the deepchem.io open-source project to grow the deep drug discovery open source community, co-created the moleculenet.ai benchmark sui...
Chip Huyen — ML Research and Production Pipelines
29 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Chip Huyen is a writer and computer scientist currently working at a startup that focuses on machine learning production pipelines. Previously, she’...
Peter Skomoroch — Product Management for AI
22 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
👨🏻💻Our guest on this episode of Gradient Dissent is Peter Skomoroch! Peter is the former head of data products at Workday and LinkedIn. Pr...
Josh Tobin — Productionizing ML Models
08 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Josh Tobin is a researcher working at the intersection of machine learning and robotics. His research focuses on applying deep reinforcement learning,...
Miles Brundage — Societal Impacts of Artificial Intelligence
01 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Miles Brundage researches the societal impacts of artificial intelligence and how to make sure they go well. In 2018, he joined OpenAI, as a Research ...
Hamel Husain — Building Machine Learning Tools
24 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hamel Husain is a Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Github. He has extensive experience building data analytics and predictive modeling solutions for...
Peter Welinder — Deep Reinforcement Learning and Robotics
17 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Welinder is a research scientist and roboticist at OpenAI. Before that, he was an engineer at Dropbox and ran the machine learning team, and bef...
Vicki Boykis — Machine Learning Across Industries
04 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
👩💻Today our guest is Vicki Boykis! Vicki is a senior consultant in machine learning and engineering and works with clients to build holistic ...
Angela & Danielle — Designing ML Models for Millions of Consumer Robots
06 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
👩💻👩💻On this episode of Gradient Dissent our guests are Angela Bassa and Danielle Dean! Angela is an expert in building and leading ...
Jack Clark — Building Trustworthy AI Systems
22 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jack Clark is the Strategy and Communications Director at OpenAI and formerly worked as the world’s only neural network reporter at Bloomberg. Lukas...
Rachael Tatman — Conversational AI and Linguistics
07 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
🏅 See how W&B is your secret weapon to make it onto the Kaggle leaderboards - https://www.wandb.com/kaggle 👩💻Rachael Tatman is a develope...
Nicolas Koumchatzky — Machine Learning in Production for Self-Driving Cars
21 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
👨🏻💻Nicolas Koumchatzky is the Director of AI infrastructure at NVIDIA, where he's responsible for MagLev, the production-grade machine lea...
Brandon Rohrer — Machine Learning in Production for Robots
11 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
👨🏻💻Brandon Rohrer is a Mechanical Engineer turned Data Scientist. He’s currently a Principal Data Scientist at iRobot and has an incredi...