Lukas Biewald: Crowdsourcing at CrowdFlower and ML Tooling at Weights & Biases

In episode 33 of The Gradient Podcast, Andrey Kurenkov speaks to Lukas Biewald.

Lukas Biewald is a co-founder of Weights and Biases, a company that creates developer tools for machine learning. Prior to that he was a co-founder and CEO of Figure Eight Inc. (formerly CrowdFlower) — an Internet company that collects training data for machine learning, which was sold for 300 million dollars.

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Outline:

* (00:00) Intro

* (01:18) Start in AI

* (06:17) CrowdFlower / Crowdsourcing

* (21:06) Discovering Deep Learning 

* (25:10) Learning Deep Learning

* (32:50) Weights and Biases

* (37:30) State of Tooling for ML 

* (41:20) Exciting AI Trends

* (44:42) Interests outside of AI

* (45:40) Outro

Links:

* Lukas’s website

* Lukas’s GitHub

* Starting a Second Machine Learning Tools Company, Ten Years Later

* Confession of a so-called AI expert

* What I learned from looking at 200 machine learning tools

* CS 329S: Machine Learning Systems Design

* Designing Machine Learning Systems

Opportunity at Weights & Biases: