The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence)
Machine Learning Platforms at Uber with Mike Del Balso - TWiML Talk #115
01 Mar 2018
In this episode, I speak with Mike Del Balso, Product Manager for Machine Learning Platforms at Uber. Mike and I sat down last fall at the Georgian Partners Portfolio conference to discuss his presentation “Finding success with machine learning in your company.” In our discussion, Mike shares some great advice for organizations looking to get value out of machine learning. He also details some of the pitfalls companies run into, such as not have proper infrastructure in place for maintenance and monitoring, not managing their expectations, and not putting the right tools in place for data science and development teams. On this last point, we touch on the Michelangelo platform, which Uber uses internally to build, deploy and maintain ML systems at scale, and the open source distributed TensorFlow system they’ve created, Horovod. This was a very insightful interview, so get your notepad ready! Vote on our #MyAI Contest! Over the past few weeks, you’ve heard us talk quite a bit about our #MyAI Contest, which explores the role we see for AI in our personal lives! We received some outstanding entries, and now it’s your turn to check them out and vote for a winner. Do this by visiting our contest page at https://twimlai.com/myai. Voting remains open until Sunday, March 4th at 11:59 PM Eastern time. Be sure to check out some of the great names that will be at the AI Conference in New York, Apr 29–May 2, where you'll join the leading minds in AI, Peter Norvig, George Church, Olga Russakovsky, Manuela Veloso, and Zoubin Ghahramani. Explore AI's latest developments, separate what's hype and what's really game-changing, and learn how to apply AI in your organization right now. Save 20% on most passes with discount code PCTWIML at twimlai.com/ainy2018. The notes for this show can be found at twimlai.com/talk/115.
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