NVIDIA AI Podcast
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Explore how the latest technologies are shaping our world, from groundbreaking discoveries to transformative sustainability efforts. The NVIDIA AI Podcast shines a light on the stories and solutions behind the most innovative changes, helping to inspire and educate listeners. Every week, we’ll bring you another tale, another 30-minute interview, as we build a real-time oral history of AI that’s already garnered nearly 6.5 million listens and been acclaimed as one of the best AI and machine learning podcasts. Listen in and get inspired. More information: https://ai-podcast.nvidia.com/
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Jan 5, 2022 • 26min
‘AI Dungeon’ Creator Nick Walton Uses AI to Generate Infinite Gaming Storylines - Ep. 159
What started as Nick Walton’s college hackathon project grew into AI Dungeon, a popular text adventure game with over 1.5 million users.
Walton is the co-founder and CEO of Latitude, a Utah-based startup that uses AI to create unique gaming storylines.
He spoke with NVIDIA AI Podcast host Noah Kravitz about how natural language processing methods can generate infinite open-ended adventure plots for interactive games like AI Dungeon, which draws an average of 150,000 new players each month.
https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2021/01/05/nick-walton-ai-podcast/
Dec 15, 2021 • 30min
AI Pioneer Kai-Fu Lee Discusses His New Work of Fiction - Ep. 158
One of AI’s greatest champions has turned to fiction to answer the question: how will technology shape our world in the next 20 years?
Kai-Fu Lee, CEO of Sinovation Ventures and a former president of Google China, spoke with NVIDIA AI Podcast host Noah Kravitz about AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future. The book, his fourth available in the U.S. and first work of fiction, was in collaboration with Chinese sci-fi writer Chen Qiufan, also known as Stanley Chan.
Lee and Chan blend their expertise in scientific forecasting and speculative fiction in this collection of short stories, which was published in September.
Among Lee’s books is the New York Times bestseller AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order, which he spoke about on a 2018 episode of the AI Podcast.
https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2021/12/15/kai-fu-lee-ai-2041/
Nov 30, 2021 • 41min
Real or Not Real? Attorney Steven Frank Uses Deep Learning to Authenticate Art - Ep. 157
Leonardo da Vinci’s portrait of Jesus, known as Salvator Mundi, was sold at a British auction for nearly half a billion dollars in 2017, making it the most expensive painting ever to change hands.
However, even art history experts were skeptical about whether the work was an original of the master rather than one of his many protégés.
Steven Frank is a partner at the law firm Morgan Lewis, specializing in intellectual property and commercial technology law. He’s also half of the husband-wife team that used convolutional neural networks to determine that this painting was likely an authentic da Vinci.
He spoke with NVIDIA AI Podcast host Noah Kravitz about working with his wife, Andrea Frank, a professional curator of art images, to authenticate artistic masterpieces with AI’s help.
https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2021/12/01/steven-frank-ai-art/
Nov 17, 2021 • 31min
AI of the Tiger: Conservation Biologist Jeremy Dertien - Ep. 156
Fewer than 4,000 tigers remain worldwide, according to Tigers United, a university consortium that recently began using AI to help save the species.
Jeremy Dertien is a conservation biologist with Tigers United and a Ph.D. candidate in wildlife biology and conservation planning at Clemson University.
He spoke with NVIDIA AI Podcast host Noah Kravitz about a project deploying AI-equipped cameras to monitor poaching in central India, where more than 70 percent of the remaining tiger populations reside.
https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2021/11/18/jeremy-dertien-tigers-united/
Nov 3, 2021 • 32min
Metaspectral’s Migel Tissera on AI-Based Data Management - Ep. 155
Moondust, minerals and soil types are just some of the materials that can be quickly identified and analyzed with AI, based on images of them.
Migel Tissera is co-founder and CTO of Metaspectral, a Vancouver-based startup that provides an AI-based data management and analysis platform for ultra-high-resolution images.
He spoke with NVIDIA AI Podcast host Noah Kravitz about how Metaspectral’s technologies help space explorers make quicker and better use of the massive amounts of image data they collect out in the cosmos.
In addition to space, the startup’s platform is used across industries such as agriculture, forensics and recycling.
Show notes: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2021/11/03/migel-tissera/
Oct 20, 2021 • 26min
Researchers Chris Downum and Leszek Pawlowicz Use Deep Learning to Accelerate Archaeology - Ep. 154
The more advanced modern technologies become, the more they can help us understand the past.
Chris Downum and Leszek Pawlowicz, researchers in the Department of Anthropology at Northern Arizona University, are using GPU-based deep learning algorithms to categorize sherds — tiny fragments of ancient pottery.
They spoke with NVIDIA AI Podcast host Noah Kravitz about analyzing sherds to learn more about American Southwest culture, circa 825 to 1300 A.D.
https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2021/10/20/ai-pottery-anthropology/
Oct 1, 2021 • 23min
Maya Ackerman on LyricStudio, an AI-Based Writing Songwriting Assistant - Ep. 153
Lennon and McCartney. Ashford and Simpson. Many of our all-time favorite tunes have come from songwriting duos. Now, anyone can find a snazzy compositional partner in AI.
Maya Ackerman is the CEO of WaveAI, a Silicon Valley startup using AI and machine learning to, as the company motto puts it, “unlock new heights of human creative expression.”
She spoke with NVIDIA AI Podcast host Noah Kravitz about WaveAI’s LyricStudio software, an AI-based lyric and poetry writing assistant.
https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2021/10/06/lyricstudio-ai-podcast/
Sep 20, 2021 • 21min
Wild Things: NVIDIA’s Sifei Liu Talks 3D Reconstructions of Endangered Species - Ep. 152
Endangered species can be difficult to study, as they are elusive, and the very act of observing them can disrupt their lives. Now, scientists can take a closer look at endangered species by studying AI-generated 3D representations of them.
Sifei Liu, a senior research scientist at NVIDIA, has worked with her team to create an algorithm that can reconstruct 3D meshes — graphics models used to display the edges, vertices and overall shape of an object — from 2D inputs like images and videos.
Liu spoke with NVIDIA AI Podcast host Noah Kravitz about her team’s project, called Online Adaptation for Consistent Mesh Reconstruction in the Wild. Liu and her team have presented the project at various prominent conferences, including NeurIPS 2020.
Sep 8, 2021 • 30min
GANTheftAuto: Harrison Kinsley on AI-Generated Gaming Environments - Ep. 151
Machines have long played games - think of Deep Blue or AlphaGo. Now they're building them. GANTheftAuto creator Harrison Kinsley talks about his creation on the latest episode of the AI Podcast.
https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2021/09/08/gantheftauto/
Aug 20, 2021 • 31min
GE's Danielle Merfeld and Arvind Rangarajan on AI and Renewable Energy - Ep. 150
At GE Renewable Energy, CTO Danielle Merfeld and technical leader Arvind Rangarajan are among those making advances throughout renewable energy.
Merfeld and Rangarajan spoke with NVIDIA AI Podcast host Noah Kravitz about how the company uses AI and a human-in-the-loop process to make renewable energy more widespread.
The International Energy Agency has set a goal to reach a net zero energy sector by 2050. To reach this goal, 88 percent of electricity needs to come from renewable sources.
Wind energy will account for 40 percent of that, but today only makes up 8 percent of renewable energy.
https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2021/08/25/ge-ai-energy/
