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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Jul 2, 2019 • 24min
Talking Trucks with TuSimple's Chuck Price - Ep. 90
We’re all aware of the race to deliver self driving cars that will allow consumers to sit back and be chauffeured wherever they wish. But the implications of self-driving trucks might actually be bigger, in the short term. Our guest today is Chuck Price, Chief Product Officer of TuSimple, which is developing commercially ready level four fully autonomous driving solutions for the logistics industry: self-driving trucks. So let’s talk trucks.
Jun 26, 2019 • 21min
Anthem Could Have Healthcare Industry Singing a New Tune - Ep. 89
AI is bringing convenience to your healthcare experience. Health insurance company Anthem helps patients personalize and better understand their healthcare information through AI. We spoke with
Rajeev Ronanki, senior vice president and chief digital officer at Anthem, about how AI makes data "meaningful and useful," for the healthcare giant.
Jun 4, 2019 • 17min
SAS Chief Operating Officer Oliver Schabenberger - Ep. 88
SAS Chief Operating Officer Oliver Schabenberger spoke with us about how organizations can use AI and related technologies.
May 29, 2019 • 21min
AutoX's Professor X on the State of Automotive Autonomy - Ep. 87
The path to self driving vehicles is usually marked by six milestones, or levels, from level 0, or no automation, to level 5, or full autonomy. Jianxiong Xiao, CEO of of startup AutoX, has his sights set on level 4, defined by the National Highway Traffic Administration as “a car capable of performing all driving functions under certain conditions."
May 21, 2019 • 28min
A-High: How Grownetics Automates Cannabis Cultivation with Deep Learning - Ep. 86
Sticky. Kind. Chronic. Reefer. Forget the dated slang. These days the word is ‘opportunity.’ The market for legal cannabis in the United States was estimated at $12 billion last year, up 30% year over year from 2017, and it’s projected to grow to $44 billion by 2020. Our guests this episode is Vincent Harkiewicz, is CEO and co-founder of Boulder, Colorado-based Grownetics, a startup that sits at the intersection of agtech, marjijuana, data analytics and artificial intelligence.
May 16, 2019 • 30min
Teaching Families to Embrace AI - Ep. 85
Tara Chklovski is CEO and founder of Iridescent, a non-profit that provides access to hands on learning opportunities to prepare underrepresented children and adults for the future of work. She’s been called everything from the “pioneer empowering the incredible tech girls of the future,” to a “CEO science superstar hero.” Tara is here to talk about a bunch of things, including the UN’s AI for Good Global Summit this May in Geneva, and the AI World Championship, part of the AI Family Challenge, May 18 in Silicon Valley.
May 1, 2019 • 22min
Astronomers Turn to AI as New Telescopes Come Online - Ep. 84
Good news: astronomers are getting new tools to let them see further, better than ever before. The bad news: they’ll soon be getting more data than humans can handle. To turn the vast quantities of data that will be pouring out of these instruments into world-changing scientific discoveries, Brant Robertson, a visiting professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and an associate professor of astronomy at UC Santa Cruz, is turning to AI.
Apr 21, 2019 • 31min
Primer's Sean Gourley on Bots, Propaganda and Fake News - Ep. 83
In 2015 today's guest penned an article called "Robot Propaganda" for Wired magazine. It contained this then bold prediction: "we are likely to see versions of these bots deployed on U.S. audiences as part of the 2016 presidential election campaigns." Well we all know how that turned out. Sean Gourley, founder and CEO of Primer, joined us to talk about bots, propaganda and fake news and how they relate to the work his own company is doing in natural language understanding and generation.
Apr 11, 2019 • 24min
UC Berkeley’s Pieter Abbeel on How Deep Learning Will Help Robots Learn - Ep. 82
Robots can do amazing things. Compare even the most advanced robots to a three-year old, however, and they can come up short. UC Berkeley Professor Pieter Abbeel has pioneered the idea that deep learning could be the key to bridging that gap: creating robots that can learn how move through the world more fluidly and naturally. We caught up with Abbeel, who is director of the Berkeley Robot Learning Lab and cofounder of Covariant AI, a Bay Area company developing AI software that makes it easy to teach robots new and complex skills, at GTC 2019.
Mar 27, 2019 • 19min
How the Breakthrough Listen Harnessed AI in the Search for Aliens - Ep. 81
UC Berkeley's Gerry Zhang talks about his work using deep learning to analyze signals from space for signs of intelligent extraterrestrial civilizations. And while we haven't found aliens, yet, the doctoral student has already made some extraordinary discoveries.
