Practical AI
Episodes
Eureka moments with natural language processing
26 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When is the last time you had a eureka moment? Chris had a chat with Nicholas Mohnacky, CEO and Cofounder of bundleIQ, where they use natural language...
🌍 AI in Africa - Makerere AI Lab
19 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is the first episode in a special series we are calling the “Spotlight on AI in Africa”. To kick things off, Joyce and Mutembesa from Makerer...
Federated Learning 📱
12 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Federated learning is increasingly practical for machine learning developers because of the challenges we face with model and data privacy. In this fu...
The mathematics of machine learning
05 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Tivadar Danka is an educator and content creator in the machine learning space, and he is writing a book to help practitioners go from high school mat...
Balancing human intelligence with AI
28 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Polarity Mapping is a framework to “help problems be solved in a realistic and multidimensional manner” (see here for more info). In this week’s...
From notebooks to Netflix scale with Metaflow
21 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As you start developing an AI/ML based solution, you quickly figure out that you need to run workflows. Not only that, you might need to run those wor...
Trends in data labeling
14 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Any AI play that lacks an underlying data strategy is doomed to fail, and a big part of any data strategy is labeling. Michael, from Label Studio, joi...
Stellar inference speed via AutoNAS
07 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Yonatan Geifman of Deci makes Daniel and Chris buckle up, and takes them on a tour of the ideas behind his amazing new inference platform. It enables ...
Anaconda + Pyston and more
01 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Peter Wang from Anaconda joins us again to go over their latest “State of Data Science” survey. The updated results include some ...
Exploring a new AI lexicon
24 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We’re back with another Fully Connected episode – Daniel and Chris dive into a series of articles called ‘A New AI Lexicon’ that collectively ...
NLP to help pregnant mothers in Kenya
17 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Kenya, 33% of maternal deaths are caused by delays in seeking care, and 55% of maternal deaths are caused by delays in action or inadequate care by...
SLICED - will you make the (data science) cut?
10 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
SLICED is like the TV Show Chopped but for data science. Competitors get a never-before-seen dataset and two-hours to code a solution to a prediction ...
AI is creating never before heard sounds! 🎵
03 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
AI is being used to transform the most personal instrument we have, our voice, into something that can be “played.” This is fascinating in and of ...
Building a data team
27 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Inspired by a recent article from Erik Bernhardsson titled “Building a data team at a mid-stage startup: a short story”, Chris and Daniel discuss ...
Towards stability and robustness
20 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
9 out of 10 AI projects don’t end up creating value in production. Why? At least partly because these projects utilize unstable models and drifting ...
From symbols to AI pair programmers 💻
13 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How did we get from symbolic AI to deep learning models that help you write code (i.e., GitHub and OpenAI’s new Copilot)? That’s what Chris and Da...
Vector databases for machine learning
22 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Pinecone is the first vector database for machine learning. Edo Liberty explains to Chris how vector similarity search works, and its advantages over ...
Multi-GPU training is hard (without PyTorch Lightning)
15 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
William Falcon wants AI practitioners to spend more time on model development, and less time on engineering. PyTorch Lightning is a lightweight PyTorc...
Learning to learn deep learning 📖
08 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Chris and Daniel sit down to chat about some exciting new AI developments including wav2vec-u (an unsupervised speech recognition model) and meta-lear...
The fastest way to build ML-powered apps
01 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Tuhin Srivastava tells Daniel and Chris why BaseTen is the application development toolkit for data scientists. BaseTen’s goal is to make it simple ...
Elixir meets machine learning
26 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today we’re sharing a special crossover episode from The Changelog podcast here on Practical AI. Recently, Daniel Whitenack joined Jerod Santo to ta...
Apache TVM and OctoML
18 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
90% of AI / ML applications never make it to market, because fine tuning models for maximum performance across disparate ML software solutions and har...
25 years of speech technology innovation
11 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
To say that Jeff Adams is a trailblazer when it comes to speech technology is an understatement. Along with many other notable accomplishments, his te...
Generating "hunches" using smart home data 🏠
04 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Smart home data is complicated. There are all kinds of devices, and they are in many different combinations, geographies, configurations, etc. This co...
Mapping the world
27 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ro Gupta from CARMERA teaches Daniel and Chris all about road intelligence. CARMERA maintains the maps that move the world, from HD maps for automated...
Data science for intuitive user experiences
20 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Nhung Ho joins Daniel and Chris to discuss how data science creates insights into financial operations and economic conditions. They delve into topics...
Going full bore with Graphcore!
13 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dave Lacey takes Daniel and Chris on a journey that connects the user interfaces that we already know - TensorFlow and PyTorch - with the layers that ...
Next-gen voice assistants
06 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Nikola Mrkšić, CEO & Co-Founder of PolyAI, takes Daniel and Chris on a deep dive into conversational AI, describing the underlying technologies,...
Women in Data Science (WiDS)
30 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Chris has the privilege of talking with Stanford Professor Margot Gerritsen, who co-leads the Women in Data Science (WiDS) Worldwide Initiative. This ...
Recommender systems and high-frequency trading
23 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
David Sweet, author of “Tuning Up: From A/B testing to Bayesian optimization”, introduces Dan and Chris to system tuning, and takes them from A/B ...
Deep learning technology for drug discovery
09 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Our Slack community wanted to hear about AI-driven drug discovery, and we listened. Abraham Heifets from Atomwise joins us for a fascinating deep dive...
Green AI 🌲
02 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Empirical analysis from Roy Schwartz (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and Jesse Dodge (AI2) suggests the AI research community has paid relatively lit...
Low code, no code, accelerated code, & failing code
23 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this Fully-Connected episode, Chris and Daniel discuss low code / no code development, GPU jargon, plus more data leakage issues. They also share s...
The AI doc will see you now
16 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Elad Walach of Aidoc joins Chris to talk about the use of AI for medical imaging interpretation. Starting with the world’s largest annotated trainin...
Cooking up synthetic data with Gretel
02 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
John Myers of Gretel puts on his apron and rolls up his sleeves to show Dan and Chris how to cook up some synthetic data for automated data labeling, ...
The nose knows
26 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Daniel and Chris sniff out the secret ingredients for collecting, displaying, and analyzing odor data with Terri Jordan and Yanis Caritu of Aryballe. ...
Accelerating ML innovation at MLCommons
19 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
MLCommons launched in December 2020 as an open engineering consortium that seeks to accelerate machine learning innovation and broaden access to this ...
The $1 trillion dollar ML model 💵
11 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
American Express is running what is perhaps the largest commercial ML model in the world; a model that automates over 8 billion decisions, ingests dat...
Getting in the Flow with Snorkel AI
21 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Braden Hancock joins Chris to discuss Snorkel Flow and the Snorkel open source project. With Flow, users programmatically label, build, and augment tr...
Engaging with governments on AI for good
14 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
At this year’s Government & Public Sector R Conference (or R|Gov) our very own Daniel Whitenack moderated a panel on how AI practitioners can en...
From research to product at Azure AI
07 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Bharat Sandhu, Director of Azure AI and Mixed Reality at Microsoft, joins Chris and Daniel to talk about how Microsoft is making AI accessible and pro...
The world's largest open library dataset
01 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Unsplash has released the world’s largest open library dataset, which includes 2M+ high-quality Unsplash photos, 5M keywords, and over 250M searches...
A casual conversation concerning causal inference
24 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Lucy D’Agostino McGowan, cohost of the Casual Inference Podcast and a professor at Wake Forest University, joins Daniel and Chris for a deep dive in...
Building a deep learning workstation
17 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What’s it like to try and build your own deep learning workstation? Is it worth it in terms of money, effort, and maintenance? Then once built, what...
Killer developer tools for machine learning
09 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Weights & Biases is coming up with some awesome developer tools for AI practitioners! In this episode, Lukas Biewald describes how these tools wer...
Reinforcement Learning for search
26 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hamish from Sajari blows our mind with a great discussion about AI in search. In particular, he talks about Sajari’s quest for performant AI impleme...
When data leakage turns into a flood of trouble
20 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Rajiv Shah teaches Daniel and Chris about data leakage, and its major impact upon machine learning models. It’s the kind of topic that we don’t of...
Productionizing AI at LinkedIn
13 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Suju Rajan from LinkedIn joined us to talk about how they are operationalizing state-of-the-art AI at LinkedIn. She sheds light on how AI can and is b...
R, Data Science, & Computational Biology
06 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We’re partnering with the upcoming R Conference, because the R Conference is well… amazing! Tons of great AI content, and they were nice enough to...
Learning about (Deep) Learning
21 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In anticipation of the upcoming NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference (GTC), Will Ramey joins Daniel and Chris to talk about education for artificial intel...
When AI goes wrong
14 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
So, you trained a great AI model and deployed it in your app? It’s smooth sailing from there right? Well, not in most people’s experience. Sometim...
Speech tech and Common Voice at Mozilla
09 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Many people are excited about creating usable speech technology. However, most of the audio data used by large companies isn’t available to the majo...
Getting Waymo into autonomous driving
01 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Waymo’s mission is to make it safe and easy for people and things to get where they’re going. After describing the state of the industry, Drago A...
Hidden Door and so much more
24 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hilary Mason is building a new way for kids and families to create stories with AI. It’s called Hidden Door, and in her first interview since foundi...
Building the world's most popular data science platform
17 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Everyone working in data science and AI knows about Anaconda and has probably “conda” installed something. But how did Anaconda get started and wh...
Practical AI turns 100!!! 🎉
11 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We made it to 100 episodes of Practical AI! It has been a privilege to have had so many great guests and discussions about everything from AGI to GPUs...
Attack of the C̶l̶o̶n̶e̶s̶ Text!
03 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Come hang with the bad boys of natural language processing (NLP)! Jack Morris joins Daniel and Chris to talk about TextAttack, a Python framework for ...
🤗 All things transformers with Hugging Face
27 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Sash Rush, of Cornell Tech and Hugging Face, catches us up on all the things happening with Hugging Face and transformers. Last time we had Clem from ...
MLOps and tracking experiments with Allegro AI
20 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
DevOps for deep learning is well… different. You need to track both data and code, and you need to run multiple different versions of your code for ...
Practical AI Ethics
14 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The multidisciplinary field of AI Ethics is brand new, and is currently being pioneered by a relatively small number of leading AI organizations and a...
The ins and outs of open source for AI
07 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Daniel and Chris get you Fully-Connected with open source software for artificial intelligence. In addition to defining what open source is, they dis...
Operationalizing ML/AI with MemSQL
29 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A lot of effort is put into the training of AI models, but, for those of us that actually want to run AI models in production, performance and scaling...
Roles to play in the AI dev workflow
22 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This full connected has it all: news, updates on AI/ML tooling, discussions about AI workflow, and learning resources. Chris and Daniel breakdown the ...
The long road to AGI
15 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Daniel and Chris go beyond the current state of the art in deep learning to explore the next evolutions in artificial intelligence. From Yoshua Bengio...
Explaining AI explainability
08 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The CEO of Darwin AI, Sheldon Fernandez, joins Daniel to discuss generative synthesis and its connection to explainability. You might have heard of Au...
Exploring NVIDIA's Ampere & the A100 GPU
26 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On the heels of NVIDIA’s latest announcements, Daniel and Chris explore how the new NVIDIA Ampere architecture evolves the high-performance computin...
AI for Good: clean water access in Africa
11 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Chandler McCann tells Daniel and Chris about how DataRobot engaged in a project to develop sustainable water solutions with the Global Water Challenge...
Ask us anything (about AI)
04 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Daniel and Chris get you Fully-Connected with AI questions from listeners and online forums:What do you think is the next big thing?What are CNNs?How ...
Reinforcement learning for chip design
27 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Daniel and Chris have a fascinating discussion with Anna Goldie and Azalia Mirhoseini from Google Brain about the use of reinforcement learning for ch...
Exploring the COVID-19 Open Research Dataset
20 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Daniel and Chris have a timely conversation with Lucy Lu Wang of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligenc...
Achieving provably beneficial, human-compatible AI
13 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
AI legend Stuart Russell, the Berkeley professor who leads the Center for Human-Compatible AI, joins Chris to share his insights into the future of ar...
COVID-19 Q&A and CORD-19
06 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
So many AI developers are coming up with creative, useful COVID-19 applications during this time of crisis. Among those are Timo from Deepset-AI and T...
Mapping the intersection of AI and GIS
30 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Daniel Wilson and Rob Fletcher of ESRI hang with Chris and Daniel to chat about how AI powered modern geographic information systems (GIS) and locatio...
Welcome to Practical AI
25 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Practical AI is a weekly podcast that’s marking artificial intelligence practical, productive, and accessible to everyone. If world of AI affects yo...
Speech recognition to say it just right
23 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Catherine Breslin of Cobalt joins Daniel and Chris to do a deep dive on speech recognition. She also discusses how the technology is integrated into v...
Building a career in Data Science
16 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Emily Robinson, co-author of the book Build a Career in Data Science, gives us the inside scoop about optimizing the data science job search. From cr...
What exactly is "data science" these days?
09 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Matt Brems from General Assembly joins us to explain what “data science” actually means these days and how that has changed over time. He also giv...
TensorFlow in the cloud
02 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Craig Wiley, from Google Cloud, joins us to discuss various pieces of the TensorFlow ecosystem along with TensorFlow Enterprise. He sheds light on how...
NLP for the world's 7000+ languages
24 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Expanding AI technology to the local languages of emerging markets presents huge challenges. Good data is scarce or non-existent. Users often have ban...
Real-time conversational insights from phone call data
17 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Daniel and Chris hang out with Mike McCourt from Invoca to learn about the natural language processing model architectures underlying Signal AI. Mike ...
AI-powered scientific exploration and discovery
10 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Daniel and Chris explore Semantic Scholar with Doug Raymond of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence. Semantic Scholar is an AI-backed searc...
Insights from the AI Index 2019 Annual Report
03 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Daniel and Chris do a deep dive into The AI Index 2019 Annual Report, which provides unbiased rigorously-vetted data that one can use “to develop in...
Testing ML systems
27 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Production ML systems include more than just the model. In these complicated systems, how do you ensure quality over time, especially when you are con...
AI-driven automation in manufacturing
20 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
One of the things people most associate with AI is automation, but how is AI actually shaping automation in manufacturing? Costas Boulis from Bright M...
How the U.S. military thinks about AI
13 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Chris and Daniel talk with Greg Allen, Chief of Strategy and Communications at the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Joint Artificial Intelligence Cent...
2019's AI top 5
06 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Wow, 2019 was an amazing year for AI! In this fully connected episode, Chris and Daniel discuss their list of top 5 notable AI things from 2019. They ...
AI for search at Etsy
23 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We have all used web and product search technologies for quite some time, but how do they actually work and how is AI impacting search? Andrew Stanton...
Escaping the "dark ages" of AI infrastructure
16 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Evan Sparks, from Determined AI, helps us understand why many are still stuck in the “dark ages” of AI infrastructure. He then discusses how we ca...
Modern NLP with spaCy
09 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
SpaCy is awesome for NLP! It’s easy to use, has widespread adoption, is open source, and integrates the latest language models. Ines Montani and Mat...
Making GANs practical
02 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
GANs are at the center of AI hype. However, they are also starting to be extremely practical and be used to develop solutions to real problems. Jakub ...
Build custom ML tools with Streamlit
25 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Streamlit recently burst onto the scene with their intuitive, open source solution for building custom ML/AI tools. It allows data scientists and ML e...
Intelligent systems and knowledge graphs
18 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
There’s a lot of hype about knowledge graphs and AI-methods for building or using them, but what exactly is a knowledge graph? How is it different f...
Robot hands solving Rubik's cubes
11 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Everyone is talking about it. OpenAI trained a pair of neural nets that enable a robot hand to solve a Rubik’s cube. That is super dope! The results...
Open source data labeling tools
05 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
What’s the most practical of practical AI things? Data labeling of course! It’s also one of the most time consuming and error prone processes that...
It's time to talk time series
28 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Times series data is everywhere! I mean, seriously, try to think of some data that isn’t a time series. You have stock prices and weather data, whic...
AI in the browser
21 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We’ve mentioned ML/AI in the browser and in JS a bunch on this show, but we haven’t done a deep dive on the subject… until now! Victor Dibia hel...
Blacklisted facial recognition and surveillance companies
15 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The United States has blacklisted several Chinese AI companies working in facial recognition and surveillance. Why? What are these companies doing exa...
Flying high with AI drone racing at AlphaPilot
07 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Chris and Daniel talk with Keith Lynn, AlphaPilot Program Manager at Lockheed Martin. AlphaPilot is an open innovation challenge, developing artificia...
AI in the majority world and model distillation
30 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Chris and Daniel take some time to cover recent trends in AI and some noteworthy publications. In particular, they discuss the increasing AI momentum ...
The influence of open source on AI development
25 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The All Things Open conference is happening soon, and we snagged one of their speakers to discuss open source and AI. Samuel Taylor talks about the es...