The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence)

Automating Complex Internal Processes w/ AI with Alexander Chukovski - TWiML Talk #161

05 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, I'm joined by Alexander Chukovski, Director of Data Services at Munich, Germany based career platform, Experteer. In our conversation...

Designing Better Sequence Models with RNNs with Adji Bousso Dieng - TWiML Talk #160

02 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, I'm joined by Adji Bousso Dieng, PhD Student in the Department of Statistics at Columbia University to discuss two of her recent pape...

Love Love: AI and ML in Tennis with Stephanie Kovalchik - TWiML Talk #159

29 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In the final show in our AI in Sports series, I’m joined by Stephanie Kovalchik, Research Fellow at Victoria University and Senior Sports Scientist ...

Growth Hacking Sports w/ Machine Learning with Noah Gift - TWiML Talk #158

28 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of our AI in Sports series I'm joined by Noah Gift, Founder and Consulting CTO at Pragmatic Labs and professor at UC Davis. Noah and I...

Fine-Grained Player Prediction in Sports with Jennifer Hobbs - TWiML Talk #157

27 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of our AI in Sports series, I'm joined by Jennifer Hobbs, Senior Data Scientist at STATS, a collector and distributor of sports data, ...

Targeted Ticket Sales Using Azure ML with the Trail Blazers w/ Mike Schumacher & Chenhui Hu - TWiML Talk #156

26 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In today’s episode of our AI in Sports series I'm joined by Mike Schumacher, director of business analytics for the Portland Trail Blazers, and Chen...

AI for Athlete Optimization with Sinead Flahive - TWiML Talk #155

25 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week we’re excited to kick off a series of shows on AI in sports. In this episode I'm joined by Sinead Flahive, data scientist at Dublin, Irela...

Omni-Channel Customer Experiences with Vince Jeffs - TWiML Talk #154

21 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In this, the final episode of our PegaWorld series I’m joined by Vince Jeffs, Senior Director of Product Strategy for AI and Decisioning at Pegasyst...

Workforce Intelligence for Automation & Productivity with Michael Kempe - TWiML Talk #153

20 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of our PegaWorld series, I’m joined by Michael Kempe, chief operating officer at global share registry and financial services provid...

Data Platforms for Decision Automation at Scotiabank with Jim Saleh - TWiML Talk #152

19 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In this show, part of our PegaWorld 18 series, I'm joined by Jim Saleh, Senior Director of process and decision automation at Scotiabank. Jim is taske...

Towards the Self-Driving Enterprise with Kirk Borne - TWiML Talk #151

18 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In this show, the first of our PegaWorld 18 series, I'm joined by Kirk Borne, Principal Data Scientist at management consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilt...

How a Global Energy Company Adopts ML & AI with Nicholas Osborn - TWiML Talk #150

14 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

On today’s show I’m excited to share this interview with Nick Osborn, a longtime listener of the show and Leader of the Global Machine Learning Pr...

Problem Formulation for Machine Learning with Romer Rosales - TWiML Talk #149

11 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, i'm joined by Romer Rosales, Director of AI at LinkedIn. We begin with a discussion of graphical models and approximate probability i...

AI for Materials Discovery with Greg Mulholland - TWiML Talk #148

07 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode I’m joined by Greg Mulholland, Founder and CEO of Citrine Informatics, which is applying AI to the discovery and development of new ...

Data Innovation & AI at Capital One with Adam Wenchel - TWiML Talk #147

04 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode I’m joined by Adam Wenchel, vice president of AI and Data Innovation at Capital One, to discuss how Machine Learning & AI are being ...

Deep Gradient Compression for Distributed Training with Song Han - TWiML Talk #146

31 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

On today’s show I chat with Song Han, assistant professor in MIT’s EECS department, about his research on Deep Gradient Compression. In our conver...

Masked Autoregressive Flow for Density Estimation with George Papamakarios - TWiML Talk #145

28 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, University of Edinburgh Phd student George Papamakarios and I discuss his paper “Masked Autoregressive Flow for Density Estimation....

Training Data for Computer Vision at Figure Eight with Qazaleh Mirsharif - TWiML Talk #144

25 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

For today’s show, the last in our TrainAI series, I'm joined by Qazaleh Mirsharif, a machine learning scientist working on computer vision at Figure...

Agile Data Science with Sarah Aerni - TWiML Talk #143

24 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Today we continue our TrainAI series with Sarah Aerni, Director of Data Science at Salesforce Einstein. Sarah and I sat down at the TrainAI conference...

Tensor Operations for Machine Learning with Anima Anandkumar - TWiML Talk #142

23 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of our TrainAI series, I sit down with Anima Anandkumar, Bren Professor at Caltech and Principal Scientist with Amazon Web Services. A...

Deep Learning for Live-Cell Imaging with David Van Valen - TWiML Talk #141

22 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In today’s show, I sit down with David Van Valen, assistant professor of Bioengineering & Biology at Caltech. David joined me after his talk at the ...

Checking in with the Master w/ Garry Kasparov - TWiML Talk #140

21 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode I’m joined by legendary chess champion, author, and fellow at the Oxford Martin School, Garry Kasparov. Garry and I sat down after h...

Exploring AI-Generated Music with Taryn Southern - TWiML Talk #139

17 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode I’m joined by Taryn Southern - a singer, digital storyteller and Youtuber, whose upcoming album I AM AI will be produced completely ...

Practical Deep Learning with Rachel Thomas - TWiML Talk #138

14 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, i'm joined by Rachel Thomas, founder and researcher at Fast AI. If you’re not familiar with Fast AI, the company offers a series of...

Kinds of Intelligence w/ Jose Hernandez-Orallo - TWiML Talk #137

10 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, I'm joined by Jose Hernandez-Orallo, professor in the department of information systems and computing at Universitat Politècnica de ...

Taming arXiv with Natural Language Processing w/ John Bohannon - TWiML Talk #136

07 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode i'm joined by John Bohannan, Director of Science at AI startup Primer. As you all may know, a few weeks ago we released my interview w...

Epsilon Software for Private Machine Learning with Chang Liu - TWiML Talk #135

04 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, our final episode in the Differential Privacy series, I speak with Chang Liu, applied research scientist at Georgian Partners, a vent...

Scalable Differential Privacy for Deep Learning with Nicolas Papernot - TWiML Talk #134

03 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of our Differential Privacy series, I'm joined by Nicolas Papernot, Google PhD Fellow in Security and graduate student in the departme...

Differential Privacy at Bluecore with Zahi Karam - TWiML Talk #133

01 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of our Differential Privacy series, I'm joined by Zahi Karam, Director of Data Science at Bluecore, whose retail marketing platform sp...

Differential Privacy Theory & Practice with Aaron Roth - TWiML Talk #132

30 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In the first episode of our Differential Privacy series, I'm joined by Aaron Roth, associate professor of computer science and information science at ...

Optimal Transport and Machine Learning with Marco Cuturi - TWiML Talk #131

26 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, i’m joined by Marco Cuturi, professor of statistics at Université Paris-Saclay. Marco and I spent some time discussing his work on...

Collecting and Annotating Data for AI with Kiran Vajapey - TWiML Talk #130

23 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, I’m joined by Kiran Vajapey, a human-computer interaction developer at Figure Eight. In this interview, Kiran shares some of what h...

Autonomous Aerial Guidance, Navigation and Control Systems with Christopher Lum - TWiML Talk #129

19 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Ok, In this episode, I'm joined by Christopher Lum, Research Assistant Professor in the University of Washington’s Department of Aeronautics and Ast...

Infrastructure for Autonomous Vehicles with Missy Cummings - TWiML Talk #128

16 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, I’m joined by Missy Cummings, head of Duke University’s Humans and Autonomy Lab and professor in the department of mechanical eng...

Hyper-Personalizing the Customer Experience w/ AI with Rob Walker - TWiML Talk #127

12 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we're joined by Rob Walker, Vice President of decision management and analytics at Pegasystems, a leading provider of software for cu...

Information Extraction from Natural Document Formats with David Rosenberg - TWiML Talk #126

09 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, I’m joined by David Rosenberg, data scientist in the office of the CTO at financial publisher Bloomberg, to discuss his work on “...

Human-in-the-Loop AI for Emergency Response & More w/ Robert Munro - TWiML Talk #125

05 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, I chat with Rob Munro, CTO of the newly branded Figure Eight, formerly known as CrowdFlower. Figure Eight’s Human-in-the-Loop AI pl...

Systems and Software for Machine Learning at Scale with Jeff Dean - TWiML Talk #124

02 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode I’m joined by Jeff Dean, Google Senior Fellow and head of the company’s deep learning research team Google Brain, who I had a chan...

Semantic Segmentation of 3D Point Clouds with Lyne Tchapmi - TWiML Talk #123

29 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode I’m joined by Lyne Tchapmi, PhD student in the Stanford Computational Vision and Geometry Lab, to discuss her paper, “SEGCloud: Se...

Predicting Cardiovascular Risk Factors from Eye Images with Ryan Poplin - TWiML Talk #122

26 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, I'm joined by Google Research Scientist Ryan Poplin, who recently co-authored the paper “Prediction of cardiovascular risk factors ...

Reproducibility and the Philosophy of Data with Clare Gollnick - TWiML Talk #121

22 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, i'm joined by Clare Gollnick, CTO of Terbium Labs, to discuss her thoughts on the “reproducibility crisis” currently haunting the...

Surveying the Connected Car Landscape with GK Senthil - TWiML Talk #120

19 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, I’m joined by GK Senthil, director & chief product owner for innovation at Toyota Connected. GK and I spoke about some of the poten...

Adversarial Attacks Against Reinforcement Learning Agents with Ian Goodfellow & Sandy Huang

15 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, I’m joined by Ian Goodfellow, Staff Research Scientist at Google Brain and Sandy Huang, Phd Student in the EECS department at UC Be...

Towards Abstract Robotic Understanding with Raja Chatila - TWiML Talk #118

12 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we're joined by Raja Chatila, director of Intelligent Systems and Robotics at Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris, and executi...

Discovering Exoplanets w/ Deep Learning with Chris Shallue - TWiML Talk #117

08 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Earlier this week, I had a chance to speak with Chris Shallue, Senior Software Engineer on the Google Brain Team, about his project and paper on “Ex...

Learning Active Learning with Ksenia Konyushkova - TWiML Talk #116

05 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, I speak with Ksenia Konyushkova, Ph.D. student in the CVLab at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne in Switzerland. Ksenia and I ...

Machine Learning Platforms at Uber with Mike Del Balso - TWiML Talk #115

01 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

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 Pa...

Inverse Programming for Deeper AI with Zenna Tavares - TWiML Talk #114

26 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

For today’s show, the final episode of our Black in AI Series, I’m joined by Zenna Tavares, a PhD student in the both the department of Brain and ...

Statistical Relational Artificial Intelligence with Sriraam Natarajan - TWiML Talk #113

23 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, I speak with Sriraam Natarajan, Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at UT Dallas. While at NIPS a few months ba...

Classical Machine Learning for Infant Medical Diagnosis with Charles Onu - TWiML Talk #112

20 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, part 4 in our Black in AI series, i'm joined by Charles Onu, Phd Student at McGill University in Montreal & Founder of Ubenwa, a star...

Learning "Common Sense" and Physical Concepts with Roland Memisevic - TWiML Talk #111

15 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In today’s episode, I’m joined by Roland Memisevic, co-founder, CEO, and chief scientist at Twenty Billion Neurons. Roland joined me at the RE•W...

Trust in Human-Robot/AI Interactions with Ayanna Howard - TWiML Talk #110

13 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, the third in our Black in AI series, I speak with Ayanna Howard, Chair of the Interactive School of Computing at Georgia Tech. Ayanna...

Data Science for Poaching Prevention and Disease Treatment with Nyalleng Moorosi - TWiML Talk #109

08 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

For today’s show, I'm joined by Nyalleng Moorosi, Senior Data Science Researcher at The Council for Scientific & Industrial Research or CSIR, in Pre...

Security and Safety in AI: Adversarial Examples, Bias and Trust w/ Moustapha Cissé - TWiML Talk #108

06 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode I’m joined by Moustapha Cissé, Research Scientist at Facebook AI Research Lab (or FAIR) Paris. Moustapha’s broad research interes...

Peering into the Home w/ Aerial.ai's Wifi Motion Analytics - TWiML Talk #107

02 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode I’m joined by Michel Allegue and Negar Ghourchian of Aerial.ai. Aerial is doing some really interesting things in the home automatio...

Physiology-Based Models for Fitness and Training w/ Firstbeat with Ilkka Korhonen - TWiML Talk #106

02 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode i'm joined by Ilkka Korhonen, Vice President of Technology at Firstbeat, a company whose algorithms are embedded in fitness watches fr...

Machine Learning for Signal Processing Applications w/ Stuart Feffer & Brady Tsai - TWiML Talk #105

01 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, I'm joined by Stuart Feffer, co-founder and CEO of Reality AI, which provides tools and services for engineers working with sensors a...

Personalizing the Ferrari Challenge Experience w/ Intel AI - TWiML Talk #104

31 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, I'm joined by Andy Keller and Emile Chin-Dickey to discuss Intel's partnership with the Ferrari Challenge North American Series. Andy...

Deep Learning for 3D Sensors and Cameras in Lighthouse with Alex Teichman - TWiML Talk #103

30 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, I sit down with Alex Teichman, CEO and Co-Founder of Lighthouse, a company taking a new approach to the in-home smart camera. Alex an...

Computer Vision for Cozmo, the Cutest Toy Robot Everrrrr! with Andrew Stein - TWiML Talk #102

30 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, I'm joined by Andrew Stein, computer vision engineer at consumer robotics company Anki, and his partner in crime Cozmo, a toy robot w...

Expectation Maximization, Gaussian Mixtures & Belief Propagation, OH MY! w/ Inmar Givoni - Talk #101

26 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode i'm joined by Inmar Givoni, Autonomy Engineering Manager at Uber ATG, to discuss her work on the paper Min-Max Propagation, which was ...

A Linear-Time Kernel Goodness-of-Fit Test - NIPS Best Paper '17 - TWiML Talk #100

24 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, I speak with Arthur Gretton, Wittawat Jitkrittum, Zoltan Szabo and Kenji Fukumizu, who, alongside Wenkai Xu authored the 2017 NIPS Be...

Solving Imperfect-Information Games with Tuomas Sandholm - NIPS ’17 Best Paper - TWiML Talk #99

22 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode I speak with Tuomas Sandholm, Carnegie Mellon University Professor and Founder and CEO of startups Optimized Markets and Strategic Mac...

Separating Vocals in Recorded Music at Spotify with Eric Humphrey - TWiML Talk #98

19 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In today’s show, I sit down with Eric Humphrey, Research Scientist in the music understanding group at Spotify. Eric was at the Deep Learning Summit...

Accelerating Deep Learning with Mixed Precision Arithmetic with Greg Diamos - TWiML Talk #97

17 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In this show I speak with Greg Diamos, senior computer systems researcher at Baidu. Greg joined me before his talk at the Deep Learning Summit, where ...

Composing Graphical Models With Neural Networks with David Duvenaud - TWiML Talk #96

15 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we hear from David Duvenaud, assistant professor in the Computer Science and Statistics departments at the University of Toronto. Dav...

Embedded Deep Learning at Deep Vision with Siddha Ganju - TWiML Talk #95

12 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode we hear from Siddha Ganju, data scientist at computer vision startup Deep Vision. Siddha joined me at the AI Conference a while back t...

Neuroevolution: Evolving Novel Neural Network Architectures with Kenneth Stanley - TWiML Talk #94

11 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Today, I'm joined by Kenneth Stanley, Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Central Florida and senior research scienti...

A Quantum Computing Primer and Implications for AI with Davide Venturelli - TWiML Talk #93

08 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Today, I'm joined by Davide Venturelli, science operations manager and quantum computing team lead for the Universities Space Research Association’s...

Learning State Representations with Yael Niv - TWiML Talk #92

22 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the podcast we’re featuring a series of conversations from the NIPs conference in Long Beach, California. I attended a bunch of talks a...

Philosophy of Intelligence with Matthew Crosby - TWiML Talk #91

21 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the podcast we’re featuring a series of conversations from the NIPs conference in Long Beach, California. I attended a bunch of talks a...

Geometric Deep Learning with Joan Bruna & Michael Bronstein - TWiML Talk #90

20 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the podcast we’re featuring a series of conversations from the NIPs conference in Long Beach, California. I attended a bunch of talks a...

AI at the NASA Frontier Development Lab with Sara Jennings, Timothy Seabrook and Andres Rodriguez

19 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the podcast we’re featuring a series of conversations from the NIPs conference in Long Beach, California. I attended a bunch of talks a...

Using Deep Learning and Google Street View to Estimate Demographics with Timnit Gebru

19 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the podcast we’re featuring a series of conversations from the NIPs conference in Long Beach, California. I attended a bunch of talks a...

Integrative Learning for Robotic Systems with Aaron Ames - TWiML Talk #87

15 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the podcast we’re featuring a series of conversations from the AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas. I had a great time at this event ...

Visual Recognition in the Cloud for Law Enforcement with Chris Adzima - TWiML Talk #86

14 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the podcast we’re featuring a series of conversations from the AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas. I had a great time at this event ...

Embodied Visual Learning with Kristen Grauman - TWiML Talk #85

13 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the podcast we’re featuring a series of conversations from the AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas. I had a great time at this event ...

Real-Time Machine Learning in the Database with Nikita Shamgunov - TWiML Talk #84

12 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the podcast we’re featuring a series of conversations from the AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas. I had a great time at this event ...

re:Invent Roundup Roundtable - TWiML Talk # 83

11 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the podcast we’re featuring a series of conversations from the AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas. I had a great time at this event ...

Driving Customer Loyalty with Predictive and Conversational AI with Sherif Mityas - TWiML Talk #82

08 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the podcast we’re running a series of shows consisting of conversations with some of the impressive speakers from an event called the A...

Innovation Factories for AI in FInancial Services with Thierry Derungs - TWiML Talk #81

07 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the podcast we’re running a series of shows consisting of conversations with some of the impressive speakers from an event called the A...

Block-Sparse Kernels for Deep Neural Networks with Durk Kingma - TWiML Talk #80

07 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

The show is part of a series that I’m really excited about, in part because I’ve been working to bring them to you for quite a while now. The focu...

AI for Customer Service and Marketing at Aeromexico with Brian Gross - TWiML Talk #79

06 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the podcast we’re running a series of shows consisting of conversations with some of the impressive speakers from an event called the A...

Scaling AI for the Enterprise with Mazin Gilbert - TWiML Talk #78

05 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the podcast we’re running a series of shows consisting of conversations with some of the impressive speakers from an event called the A...

Scalable Distributed Deep Learning with Hillery Hunter - TWiML Talk #77

04 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the podcast we’re running a series of shows consisting of conversations with some of the impressive speakers from an event called the A...

Robotics at OpenAI with Jonas Schneider - TWiML Talk #76

01 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

The show is part of a series that I’m really excited about, in part because I’ve been working to bring them to you for quite a while now. The focu...

AI Robustness and Safety with Dario Amodei - TWiML Talk #75

30 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

The show is part of a series that I’m really excited about, in part because I’ve been working to bring them to you for quite a while now. The focu...

Towards Artificial General Intelligence with Greg Brockman - TWiML Talk #74

28 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

The show is part of a series that I’m really excited about, in part because I’ve been working to bring them to you for quite a while now. The focu...