Practical AI
Episodes
Worlds are colliding - AI and HPC
17 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this very special fully-connected episode of Practical AI, Daniel interviews Chris. They discuss High Performance Computing (HPC) and how it is col...
AutoML and AI at Google
09 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We’re talking with Sherol Chen, a machine learning developer, about AI at Google and AutoML methods. Sherol explains how the various AI groups withi...
On being humAIn
26 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
David Yakobovitch joins the show to talk about the evolution of data science tools and techniques, the work he’s doing to teach these things at Galv...
Serving deep learning models with RedisAI
12 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Redis is a an open source, in-memory data structure store, widely used as a database, cache and message broker. It now also support tensor data types ...
AI-driven studies of the ancient world and good GANs
30 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Chris and Daniel take the opportunity to catch up on some recent AI news. Among other things, they discuss the increasing impact of AI on studies of t...
AI code that facilitates good science
19 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We’re talking with Joel Grus, author of Data Science from Scratch, 2nd Edition, senior research engineer at the Allen Institute for AI (AI2), and ma...
Celebrating episode 50 and the neural net!
03 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Woo hoo! As we celebrate reaching episode 50, we come full circle to discuss the basics of neural networks. If you are just jumping into AI, then th...
Exposing the deception of DeepFakes
25 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week we bend reality to expose the deceptions of deepfake videos. We talk about what they are, why they are so dangerous, and what you can do to...
Model inspection and interpretation at Seldon
17 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Interpreting complicated models is a hot topic. How can we trust and manage AI models that we can’t explain? In this episode, Janis Klaise, a data s...
GANs, RL, and transfer learning oh my!
11 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Daniel and Chris explore three potentially confusing topics - generative adversarial networks (GANs), deep reinforcement learning (DRL), and transfer ...
Visualizing and understanding RNNs
04 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Andreas Madsen, a freelance ML/AI engineer and Distill.pub author, joins us to discuss his work visualizing neural networks and recurrent neural units...
How to get plugged into the AI community
28 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Chris and Daniel take you on a tour of local and global AI events, and discuss how to get the most out of your experiences. From access to experts to...
AI adoption in the enterprise
21 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
At the recent O’Reilly AI Conference in New York City, Chris met up with O’Reilly Chief Data Scientist Ben Lorica, the Program Chair for Strata Da...
When AI meets quantum mechanics
14 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Can AI help quantum physicists? Can quantum physicists help the AI community? The answers are yes and yes! Dr. Shohini Ghose from Wilfrid Laurier Univ...
TensorFlow Dev Summit 2019
07 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week Daniel and Chris discuss the announcements made recently at TensorFlow Dev Summit 2019. They kick it off with the alpha release of TensorFl...
CTRL-labs lets you control machines with your mind
30 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
No, this isn’t science fiction! CTRL-labs is using neural signals and AI to build neural interfaces. Adam Berenzweig, from CTRL-labs R&D, joins ...
Deep Reinforcement Learning
23 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
While attending the NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference in Silicon Valley, Chris met up with Adam Stooke, a speaker and PhD student at UC Berkeley who is...
Making the world a better place at the AI for Good Foundation
15 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Longtime listeners know that we’re always advocating for ‘AI for good’, but this week we have taken it to a whole new level. We had the privile...
GIPHY's celebrity detector
08 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
GIPHY’s head of R&D, Nick Hasty, joins us to discuss their recently released celebrity detector project. He gives us all of the details about th...
The landscape of AI infrastructure
02 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Being that this is “practical” AI, we decided that it would be good to take time to discuss various aspects of AI infrastructure. In this full-con...
Growing up to become a world-class AI expert
25 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
While at the NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference 2019 in Silicon Valley, Chris enjoyed an inspiring conversation with Anima Anandkumar. Clearly a role m...
Social AI with Hugging Face
18 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Clément Delangue, the co-founder & CEO of Hugging Face, joined us to discuss fun, social, and conversational AI. Clem explained why social AI is ...
The White House Executive Order on AI
11 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The White House recently published an “Executive Order on Maintaining American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence.” In this fully connected epi...
Staving off disaster through AI safety research
04 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
While covering Applied Machine Learning Days in Switzerland, Chris met El Mahdi El Mhamdi by chance, and was fascinated with his work doing AI safety ...
OpenAI's new "dangerous" GPT-2 language model
25 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week we discuss GPT-2, a new transformer-based language model from OpenAI that has everyone talking. It’s capable of generating incredibly real...
AI for social good at Intel
20 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
While at Applied Machine Learning Days in Lausanne, Switzerland, Chris had an inspiring conversation with Anna Bethke, Head of AI for Social Good at I...
GirlsCoding.org empowers young women to embrace computer science
13 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Chris sat down with Marta Martinez-Cámara and Miranda Kreković to learn how GirlsCoding.org is inspiring 9–16-year-old girls to learn about comput...
How Microsoft is using AI to help the Earth
04 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Chris caught up with Jennifer Marsman, Principal Engineer on the AI for Earth team at Microsoft, right before her speech at Applied Machine Learning D...
New year’s resolution: dive into deep learning!
28 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Fully Connected – a series where Chris and Daniel keep you up to date with everything that’s happening in the AI community. If you’re anything l...
IBM's AI for detecting neurological state
21 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Ajay Royyuru and Guillermo Cecchi from IBM Healthcare join Chris and Daniel to discuss the emerging field of computational psychiatry. They talk about...
2018 in review and bold predictions for 2019
14 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Fully Connected – a series where Chris and Daniel keep you up to date with everything that’s happening in the AI community. This week we look back...
Finding success with AI in the enterprise
17 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Susan Etlinger, an Industry Analyst at Altimeter, a Prophet company, joins us to discuss The AI Maturity Playbook: Five Pillars of Enterprise Success....
So you have an AI model, now what?
10 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Fully Connected – a series where Chris and Daniel keep you up to date with everything that’s happening in the AI community. This week we discuss a...
Pachyderm's Kubernetes-based infrastructure for AI
03 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Joe Doliner (JD) joined the show to talk about productionizing ML/AI with Pachyderm, an open source data science platform built on Kubernetes (k8s). W...
BERT: one NLP model to rule them all
27 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Fully Connected – a series where Chris and Daniel keep you up to date with everything that’s happening in the AI community. This week we discuss B...
UBER and Intel’s Machine Learning platforms
19 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
We recently met up with Cormac Brick (Intel) and Mike Del Balso (Uber) at O’Reilly AI in SF. As the director of machine intelligence in Intel’s Mo...
Analyzing AI's impact on society through art and film
12 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Brett Gaylor joins Chris and Daniel to chat about the recently announced winners of Mozilla’s creative media awards, which focuses on exposing the i...
Getting into data science and AI
05 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Himani Agrawal joins Daniel and Chris to talk about how she got into data science and artificial intelligence, and offers advice to others getting int...
AIs that look human and create portraits of humans
31 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this new and updates show, Daniel and Chris discuss, among other things, efforts to use AI in art and efforts to make AI interfaces look human. The...
Fighting bias in AI (and in hiring)
22 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Lindsey Zuloaga joins us to discuss bias in hiring, bias in AI, and how we can fight bias in hiring with AI. Lindsey tells us about her experiences fi...
PyTorch 1.0 vs TensorFlow 2.0
15 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Chris and Daniel are back together in another news/updates show. They discuss PyTorch v1.0, some disturbing uses of AI for tracking social credit, and...
Artificial intelligence at NVIDIA
08 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
NVIDIA Chief Scientist Bill Dally joins Daniel Whitenack and Chris Benson for an in-depth conversation about ‘everything AI’ at NVIDIA. As the le...
OpenAI, reinforcement learning, robots, safety
01 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
We met up with Wojciech Zaremba at the O’Reilly AI conference in SF. He took some time to talk to us about some of his recent research related to re...
Answering recent AI questions from Quora
18 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
An amazing panel of AI innovators joined us at the O’Reilly AI conference to answer the most pressing AI questions from Quora. We also discussed tre...
AI in healthcare, synthesizing dance moves, hardware acceleration
03 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Chris and Daniel discuss new advances in AI research (including a creepy dancing video), how AI is creating opportunity for new chip startups, and use...
Robot Perception and Mask R-CNN
27 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Chris DeBellis, a lead AI data scientist at Honeywell, helps us understand what Mask R-CNN is and why it’s useful for robot perception. We also expl...
Open source tools, AI for Dota, and enterprise ML adoption
21 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Daniel and Chris talk about playing Dota at OpenAI, O’Reilly’s machine learning survey, AI-oriented open source (Julia, AutoKeras, Netr...
Behavioral economics and AI-driven decision making
13 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Mike Bugembe teaches us how to build a culture of data-driven decision making within a company, leverage behavioral economics, and identify high value...
Eye tracking, Henry Kissinger on AI, Vim
06 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Chris and Daniel help us wade through the week’s AI news, including open ML challenges from Intel and National Geographic, Henry Kissinger’s views...
Understanding the landscape of AI techniques
30 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Jared Lander, the organizer of NYHackR and general data science guru, joined us to talk about the landscape of AI techniques, how deep learning fits i...
Government use of facial recognition and AI at Google
23 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Chris and Daniel discuss the latest news, including an article about Google’s AI principles, and they highlight some useful resourc...
Detecting planets with deep learning
16 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew Vanderburg of UT Austin and Christ Shallue of Google Brain join us to talk about their deep learning collaboration, which involved searching th...
Data management, regulation, the future of AI
09 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Matthew Carroll and Andrew Burt of Immuta talked with Daniel and Chris about data management for AI, how data regulation will impact AI, and schooled ...
Helping African farmers with TensorFlow
02 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Amanda Ramcharan, Latifa Mrisho, and Peter McCloskey joined Daniel and Chris to talk about how Penn State University are collaborating to help African...
Putting AI in a box at MachineBox
02 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Mat Ryer and David Hernandez joined Daniel and Chris to talk about MachineBox, building a company around AI, and democratizing AI. Join the discussion...
Meet your Practical AI hosts
02 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this inaugural episode of Practical AI — Adam Stacoviak and Jerod Santo sit down with Daniel Whitenack and Chris Benson to discuss their experien...