The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence)
Episodes
Nexus Lab Cohort 2 - Second Mind - TWiML Talk #66
09 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The podcast you’re about to hear is the fourth of a series of shows recorded at the NYU Future Labs AI Summit last week in New York City. In this sh...
Nexus Lab Cohort 2 - Bite.ai - TWiML Talk #65
08 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The podcast you’re about to hear is the second of a series of shows recorded at the NYU Future Labs AI Summit last week in New York City.In this epi...
Nexus Lab Cohort 2 - Bowtie - TWiML Talk #64
07 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The podcast you’re about to hear is the second of a series of shows recorded at the NYU Future Labs AI Summit last week in New York City. In this ep...
AI Nexus Lab Cohort 2 - Mt. Cleverest - TWiML Talk #63
06 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The podcast you’re about to hear is the first of a series of shows recorded at the NYU Future Labs AI Summit last week in New York City. My guests t...
Learning to Learn, and other Opportunities in Machine Learning with Graham Taylor - TWiML Talk #62
03 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The podcast you’re about to hear is the third of a series of shows recorded at the Georgian Partners Portfolio Conference last week in Toronto. My g...
Building Conversational Application for Financial Services with Kenneth Conroy - TWiML Talk #61
01 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The podcast you’re about to hear is the second of a series of shows recorded at the Georgian Partners Portfolio Conference last week in Toronto. My ...
Fighting Fraud with Machine Learning at Shopify with Solmaz Shahalizadeh - TWiML Talk #60
30 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The podcast you’re about to hear is the first of a series of shows recorded at the Georgian Partners Portfolio Conference last week in Toronto. My g...
Modeling Human Drivers for Autonomous Vehicles with Katie Driggs-Campbell - TWiML Talk #59
27 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
We are back with our third show this week, episode 3 of our Autonomous Vehicles Series. My guest this time is Katie Driggs-Campbell, PostDoc in the In...
Perception Models for Self-Driving Cars with Jianxiong Xiao - TWiML Talk #58
25 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
We are back with our second show this week, episode 2 of our Autonomous Vehicles Series. This time around we are joined by Jianxiong Xiao of AutoX, a ...
Training Data for Autonomous Vehicles - Daryn Nakhuda - TWiML Talk #57
23 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The episode you are about to hear is the first of a new series of shows on Autonomous Vehicles. We all know that self-driving cars is one of the hotte...
Human Factors in Machine Intelligence with James Guszcza - TWiML Talk #56
16 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
As you all know, a few weeks ago, I spent some time in SF at the Artificial Intelligence Conference. I sat down with James Guszcza, US Chief Data Scie...
ML Use Cases at Think Big Analytics with Mo Patel and Laura Frølich - TWiML Talk #54
06 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The show you’re about to hear is part of a series of shows recorded in San Francisco at the Artificial Intelligence Conference. This time around, I ...
Intel Nervana Devcloud with Naveen Rao & Scott Apeland - TWiML Talk #51
06 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I talk to Naveen Rao, VP and GM of Intel’s AI Products Group, and Scott Apeland, director of Intel’s Developer Network. It's been...
AI-Powered Conversational Interfaces with Paul Tepper - TWiML Talk #52
06 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The show you’re about to hear is part of a series of shows recorded in San Francisco at the Artificial Intelligence Conference. My guest for this sh...
Ray: A Distributed Computing Platform for Reinforcement Learning with Ion Stoica - TWiML Talk #55
05 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The show you’re about to hear is part of a series of shows recorded in San Francisco at the Artificial Intelligence Conference. In this episode, I t...
Topological Data Analysis with Gunnar Carlsson - TWiML Talk #53
03 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The show you’re about to hear is part of a series of shows recorded in San Francisco at the Artificial Intelligence Conference. My guest for this sh...
Bayesian Optimization for Hyperparameter Tuning with Scott Clark - TWiML Talk #50
02 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
As you all know, a few weeks ago, I spent some time in SF at the Artificial Intelligence Conference. While I was there, I had just enough time to snea...
Symbolic and Sub-Symbolic Natural Language Processing with Jonathan Mugan - TWiML Talk #49
25 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Like last week’s interview with Bruno Goncalves, this week’s interview was also recorded at the last O’Reilly AI Conference back in New York in ...
Word2Vec & Friends with Bruno Gonçalves - TWiML Talk #48
19 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week i'm bringing you an interview from Bruno Goncalves, a Moore-Sloan Data Science Fellow at NYU. As you’ll hear in the interview, Bruno is a ...
Evolutionary Algorithms in Machine Learning with Risto Miikkulainen - TWiML Talk #47
11 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
My guest this week is Risto Miikkulainen, professor of computer science at UT-Austin and vice president of Research at Sentient Technologies. Risto ca...
Agile Machine Learning with Jennifer Prendki - TWiML Talk #46
05 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
My guest this week is Jennifer Prendki. That name might sound familiar, as she was one of the great speakers from my Future of Data Summit back in May...
LSTMs, Plus a Deep Learning History Lesson with Jürgen Schmidhuber - TWiML Talk #44
28 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week we have a very special interview to share with you! Those of you who’ve been receiving my newsletter for a while might remember that while...
Machine Teaching for Better Machine Learning with Mark Hammond - TWiML Talk #43
21 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s show, which concludes the first season of the Industrial AI Series, features my interview with Bonsai co-founder and CEO Mark Hammond. I sat...
Marrying Physics-Based and Data-Driven ML Models with Josh Bloom - TWiML Talk #42
14 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Recently I had a chance to catch up with a friend and friend of the show, Josh Bloom, vice president of data & analytics at GE Digital. If you’ve be...
Cognitive Biases in Data Science with Drew Conway - TWiML Talk #39
05 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This show features my interview with Drew Conway, whose Wrangle keynote could have been called “Confessions of a CIA Data Scientist.” The focus of...
Data Pipelines at Zymergen with Airflow with Erin Shellman - TWiML Talk #41
05 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The show you’re listening to features my interview with Erin Shellman. Erin is a statistician and data science manager with Zymergen, a company usin...
Web Scale Engineering for Machine Learning with Sharath Rao - TWiML Talk #40
04 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The show you’re about to listen to features my interview with Sharath Rao, Tech Lead Manager & Machine Learning Engineer at Instacart I reached out ...
Deep Learning for Warehouse Operations with Calvin Seward - TWiML Talk #38
31 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week, I’m happy to bring you my interview with Calvin Seward, a research scientist with Berlin, Germany based Zalando. While our American liste...
Deep Robotic Learning with Sergey Levine - TWiML Talk #37
24 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week we continue our Industrial AI series with Sergey Levine, an Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley whose research focus is Deep Robotic Learning...
Smart Buildings & IoT with Yodit Stanton - TWiML Talk #36
17 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
After a brief hiatus, the Industrial AI Series is making its triumphant return! Our guest this week is Yodit Stanton, a self-described Data Nerd, and ...
Enhancing Customer Experiences With Emotional AI with Rana El Kaliouby - TWiML Talk #35
05 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
My guest for this show is Rana el Kaliouby. Rana is co-founder and CEO of Affectiva. Affectiva, as Rana puts it, "is on a mission to humanize technolo...
Intel Nervana Update + Productizing AI Research with Naveen Rao And Hanlin Tang - TWiML Talk #31
05 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
I talked about Intel’s acquisition of Nervana Systems on the podcast when it happened almost a year ago, so I was super excited to have an opportuni...
Video Object Detection At Scale with Reza Zadeh - TWiML Talk #34
05 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
My guest for the fourth show in the O'Reilly AI Series is Reza Zadeh. Reza is an adjunct professor of computational mathematics at Stanford University...
Expressive AI - Generated Music With Google's Performance RNN - Doug Eck - TWiML Talk #32
05 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
My guest for this second show in our O’Reilly AI series is Doug Eck of Google Brain. Doug did a keynote at the O’Reilly conference on Magenta, Goo...
The Power Of Probabilistic Programming with Ben Vigoda - TWiML Talk #33
05 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
My guest for this third episode in the O'Reilly AI series is Ben Vigoda. Ben is the founder and CEO of Gamalon, a DARPA-funded startup working on Baye...
Natural Language Understanding for Amazon Alexa with Zornitsa Kozareva - TWiML Talk #30
29 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest this week is Zornitsa Kozareva, Manager of Machine Learning with Amazon Web Services Deep Learning, where she leads a group focused on natur...
Robotic Perception and Control with Chelsea Finn - TWiML Talk #29
23 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week we continue our series on industrial applications of machine learning and AI with a conversation with Chelsea Finn, a PhD student at UC Berk...
Reinforcement Learning Deep Dive with Pieter Abbeel - TWiML Talk #28
17 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week our guest is Pieter Abbeel, Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley, Research Scientist at OpenAI, and Cofounder of Gradescope. Pieter has an ext...
Intelligent Autonomous Robots with Ilia Baranov - TWiML Talk #27
09 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Our first guest in the Industrial AI series is Ilia Baranov, engineering manager at Clearpath Robotics. Ilia is responsible for setting the engineerin...
Global AI Trends with Ben Lorica - TWiML Talk #26
02 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week I’ve invited my friend Ben Lorica onto the show. Ben is Chief Data Scientist for O’Reilly Media, and Program Director of Strata Data & t...
Offensive vs Defensive Data Science with Deep Varma - TWiML Talk #25
26 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the show my guest is Deep Varma, Vice President of Data Engineering at real estate startup Trulia. Deep has run data engineering teams in...
Reinforcement Learning: The Next Frontier of Gaming with Danny Lange - TWiML Talk #24
20 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
My guest on the show this week is Danny Lange, VP for Machine Learning & AI at video game technology developer Unity Technologies. Danny is well trave...
Integrating Psycholinguistics into AI with Dominique Simmons - TWiML Talk #23
12 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
I think you’re really going to enjoy today’s show. Our guest this week is Dominique Simmons, Applied research Scientist at AI tools vendor Dimensi...
Deep Neural Nets for Visual Recognition with Matt Zeiler - TWiML Talk #22
05 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Today we bring you our final interview from backstage at the NYU FutureLabs AI Summit. Our guest this week is Matt Zeiler. Matt graduated from the Uni...
Engineering the Future of AI with Ruchir Puri - TWiML Talk #21
28 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Today we bring you the second of three interviews we did backstage from the NYU FutureLabs AI Summit, this time with Ruchir Puri. Ruchir is the Chief ...
Selling AI to the Enterprise with Kathryn Hume - TWiML Talk #20
21 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week's guest is Kathryn Hume. Kathryn is the President of Fast Forward Labs, which is an independent machine intelligence research company that h...
From Particle Physics to Audio AI with Scott Stephenson - TWiML Talk #19
14 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week my guest is Scott Stephenson. Scott is co-Founder & CEO of Deepgram, which has developed an AI-based platform for indexing and searching aud...
(5/5) AlphaVertex - Creating a Worldwide Financial Knowledge Graph - TWiML Talk #18
07 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week I'm on location at NYU/ffVC AI NexusLab startup accelerator, speaking with founders from the 5 companies in the program's inaugural batch. T...
(4/5) Behold.ai - Increasing Efficiency of Healthcare Insurance Billing with NLP - TWiML Talk #18
07 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week I'm on location at NYU/ffVC AI NexusLab startup accelerator, speaking with founders from the 5 companies in the program's inaugural batch. T...
(3/5) Cambrian Intelligence - Using AI to Simplify the Programming of Robots - TWiML Talk #18
07 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week I'm on location at NYU/ffVC AI NexusLab startup accelerator, speaking with founders from the 5 companies in the program's inaugural batch. T...
(2/5) Klustera - Location-Based Intelligence for Smarter Marketing - TWiML Talk #18
07 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week I'm on location at NYU/ffVC AI NexusLab startup accelerator, speaking with founders from the 5 companies in the program's inaugural batch. T...
(1/5) HelloVera - AI-Powered Customer Support - TWiML Talk #18
07 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week I'm on location at NYU/ffVC AI NexusLab startup accelerator, speaking with founders from the 5 companies in the program's inaugural batch. T...
Interactive Machine Learning Systems with Alekh Agarwal - TWiML Talk #17
31 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week my guest is Alekh Agarwal. Alekh is a researcher with Microsoft Research whose research is focused on Interactive Machine Learning. In our d...
Machine Learning in Cybersecurity with Evan Wright - TWiML Talk #16
24 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week my guest is Evan Wright, principal data scientist at cybersecurity startup Anomali. In my interview with Evan, he and I discussed about a nu...
Domain Knowledge in Machine Learning Models for Sustainability with Stefano Ermon - TWiML Talk #15
17 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
My guest this week is Stefano Ermon, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, and Fellow at Stanford’s Woods Institute for th...
Scaling Deep Learning: Systems Challenges & More with Shubho Sengupta — TWiML Talk #14
10 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week my guest is Shubho Sengupta, Research Scientist at Baidu. I had the pleasure of meeting Shubho at the Rework Deep Learning Summit earlier th...
Understanding Deep Neural Nets with Dr. James McCaffrey - TWiML Talk #13
03 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
My guest this week is Dr. James McCaffrey, research engineer at Microsoft Research. James and I cover a ton of ground in this conversation, including ...
Brendan Frey - Reprogramming the Human Genome with AI - TWiML Talk #12
24 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
My guest this week is Brendan Frey, Professor of Engineering and Medicine at the University of Toronto and Co-Founder and CEO of the startup Deep Geno...
Hilary Mason - Building AI Products - TWiML Talk #11
25 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
My guest this time is Hilary Mason. Hilary was one of the first “famous” data scientists. I remember hearing her speak back in 2011 at the Strange...
Francisco Webber - Statistics vs Semantics for Natural Language Processing - TWiML Talk #10
03 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
My guest this time is Francisco Webber, founder and General Manager of artificial intelligence startup Cortical.io. Francisco presented at the O’Rei...
Pascale Fung - Emotional AI: Teaching Computers Empathy - TWiML Talk #9
08 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
My guest this time is Pascale Fung, professor of electrical & computer engineering at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Pascale delivere...
Diogo Almeida - Deep Learning: Modular in Theory, Inflexible in Practice - TWiML Talk #8
23 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
My guest this time is Diogo Almeida, senior data scientist at healthcare startup Enlitic. Diogo and I met at the O'Reilly AI conference, where he deli...
Carlos Guestrin - Explaining the Predictions of Machine Learning Models - TWiML Talk #7
09 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
My guest this time is Carlos Guestrin, the Amazon professor of Machine Learning at the University of Washington. Carlos and I recorded this podcast at...
Angie Hugeback - Generating Training Data for Your ML Models - TWiML Talk #6
29 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
My guest this time is Angie Hugeback, who is principal data scientist at Spare5. Spare5 helps customers generate the high-quality labeled training dat...
Joshua Bloom - Machine Learning for the Stars & Productizing AI - TWiML Talk #5
22 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
My guest this time is Joshua Bloom. Josh is professor of astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley and co-founder and Chief Technology Offic...
Charles Isbell - Interactive AI, Plus Improving ML Education - TWiML Talk #4
10 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
My guest this time is Charles Isbell, Jr., Professor and Senior Associate Dean in the College of Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology. Charles...
Xavier Amatriain - Engineering Practical Machine Learning Systems - TWiML Talk #3
28 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
My guest this time is Xavier Amatriain. Xavier is a former researcher who went on to lead the machine learning recommendations team at Netflix, and is...
Siraj Raval - How to Build Confidence as an ML Developer - TWiML Talk #2
21 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Siraj Raval is a machine learning hacker and teacher whose machine learning for hackers and fresh machine learning youtube series are fun, informative...
This Week in ML & AI – 8/12/16: Another huge machine learning acquisition + AI in the Olympics
15 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This Week in Machine Learning & AI brings you the week’s most interesting and important stories from the world of machine learning and artificial in...
This Week in ML & AI – 8/5/16: Apple Acquires Turi, the DARPA Hacker-Bot Challenge and More
06 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This Week in Machine Learning & AI brings you the week’s most interesting and important stories from the world of machine learning and artificial in...
Clare Corthell - Open Source Data Science Masters, Hybrid AI, Algorithmic Ethics - TWiML Talk #1
31 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This Week in Machine Learning & AI brings you the week’s most interesting and important stories from the world of machine learning and artificial in...
This Week in ML & AI - 7/22/16: ML to Optimize Datacenters, Crazy New GPU from NVIDIA, Faster RNNs
24 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This Week in Machine Learning & AI brings you the week’s most interesting and important stories from the world of machine learning and artificial in...
This Week in ML & AI - 7/15/16: A Wingman AI for Pokémon Go and Wide & Deep Learning at Google
17 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This Week in Machine Learning & AI brings you the week’s most interesting and important stories from the world of machine learning and artificial in...
This Week in ML & AI - 7/8/16: A BS Meter for AI, Retrieval Models for Chatbots & Predatory Robots
10 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This Week in Machine Learning & AI brings you the week’s most interesting and important stories from the world of machine learning and artificial in...
This Week in ML & AI - 7/1/16: Fatal Tesla Autopilot Crash, EU Outlawing Machine Learning & CVPR
03 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This Week in Machine Learning & AI brings you the week’s most interesting and important stories from the world of machine learning and artificial in...
This Week in ML & AI - 6/24/16: Dueling Neural Networks at ICML, Plus Training a Robotic Housekeeper
25 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This Week in Machine Learning & AI brings you the week’s most interesting and important stories from the world of machine learning and artificial in...
This Week in Machine Learning & AI - 6/17/16: Apple's New ML APIs, IBM Brings Deep Learning Thunder
18 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This Week in Machine Learning & AI brings you the week’s most interesting and important stories from the world of machine learning and artificial in...
This Week In Machine Learning & AI - 6/10/16: Self-Motivated AI, Plus A Kill-Switch for Rogue Bots
11 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This Week in Machine Learning & AI brings you the week’s most interesting and important stories from the world of machine learning and artificial in...
This Week In Machine Learning & AI - 6/3/16: Facebook's DeepText, ML & Art, Artificial Assistants
04 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This Week in Machine Learning & AI brings you the week’s most interesting and important stories from the world of machine learning and artificial in...
This Week In Machine Learning & AI - 5/27/16: The White House on AI & Aggressive Self-Driving Cars
28 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This Week in Machine Learning & AI brings you the week's most interesting and important stories from the world of machine learning and artificial inte...
This Week In Machine Learning & AI - 5/20/16: AI at Google I/O, Amazon's Deep Learning DSSTNE
21 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This Week In Machine Learning & AI - May 20, 2016. Google I/O, deep learning hardware and an AI to save you from conference call hell.