In this episode of the ARCHITECHT AI Show, Derrick Harris speaks with Jeremy Howard and Rachel Thomas of Fast.ai, where they teach popular online courses aimed to get students up and running with deep learning. Among other things, Howard and Thomas discuss the promise of deep learning and early student successes (including Hot Dog, Not Hot Dog app from Silicon Valley), as well as the threat of job losses from AI and how seriously we should take Elon Musk's AI warnings. In the news segment, co-hosts Derrick Harris, Signe Brewster and Chris Albrecht tackle Andrew Ng's new deeplearning.ai course, OpenAI's "controversial" Dota 2 bot, Gartner's latest Hype Cycle, and some positive predictions about how many jobs will be lost to automation.

In this episode of the ARCHITECHT Show, Elastic founder and CEO Shay Banon talks about the evolution of Elasticsearch—from an open source side project (the first iteration was a recipe-search app for his wife) to popular big data tool to the core of a company worth nearly a billion dollars. He also shares his thoughts and strategies on the growth of Elastic, which, somewhat under the radar, has expanded to include multiple products and employ hundreds of people around the world. In the news segment, co-hosts Derrick Harris (ARCHITECHT) and Barb Darrow (Fortune) discuss Amazon Web Services joining the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, MongoDB filing for an IPO, and Microsoft buying cloud-HPC specialist Cycle Computing.

In this episode of the ARCHITECHT AI and Robot Show, Signe Brewster speaks with Brown University researcher Stefanie Tellex about the state of the art in human-robot interaction. Tellex explains recent advances in building robots that can better understand natural language and interact intelligently with people to accomplish tasks. She also shares a vision of a household-robot future, powered by current research in deep learning and robotic manipulation. In the news segment, co-hosts Brewster, Derrick Harris and Chris Albrecht discuss Elon Musk v. Mark Zuckerberg (aka Muskerberg), Roomba's plan to map your house and share your data, and the new Lego Boost build-your-own-robot kit.

In this episode of the ARCHITECHT Show, Ion Stoica talks about the promise of real-time data and machine learning he's pursuing with the new RISELab project he directs at UC-Berkeley, along with some other big names in big data. Stoica previously was director of the university's AMPLab, which created and helped to mature technologies such as Apache Spark, Apache Mesos and Alluxio. Stoica is also co-founder and executive chairman of Apache Spark startup Databricks, and he shares some insights into that company's business and the evolution of the big data ecosystem. In the news segment, co-hosts Derrick Harris (ARCHITECHT) and Barb Darrow (Fortune) discuss Microsoft (and possibly AWS) doubling down on Kubernetes, Google's cloudy cloud revenue, GoDaddy getting out of the cloud business, and the possibility of Meg Whitman as Uber CEO.

In this episode of the ARCHITECHT AI and Robot Show, Derrick Harris interviews Baidu Research engineer Sharan Narang about the state of deep learning hardware performance. Narang discusses Baidu's DeepBench framework for benchmarking various Nvidia, Intel and ARM-based platforms on various workloads, and shares insights on how Baidu buys hardware and where the space is headed. In the news segment, co-hosts Derrick Harris, Signe Brewster and Chris Albrecht talk about the pros and cons of automation, including Elon Musk's controversial comments, the return of Google Glass, a few useful new robots and one that drove itself into a water fountain.

In this episode of the ARCHITECHT Show, StackRox co-founders Sameer Bhalotra and Ali Golshan break down the state of container security and the new technology they have built to solve it. Bhalotra and Golshan have deep histories doing cybersecurity everywhere from startups to Google to the White House, which they draw on to discuss the security threats and opportunities that microservices present, as well as best practices for cybersecurity in general. This week, StackRox emerged from stealth mode after building the product and company for nearly 3 years. 

In this episode of the ARCHITECHT AI and Robot Show, Derrick Harris interviews Skymind co-founder and CTO Adam Gibson about selling artificial intelligence to large enterprises. Gibson, who's based in Japan, also discusses, among other things, the differences between doing AI business in Asia and the United States; the popularity of industrial data among Skymind's customers; the necessity of working with existing data technologies and business processes; and why automation could be a good thing for rural America. In the news segment, co-hosts Derrick Harris, Signe Brewster and Chris Albrecht discuss human-computer interaction and the science behind how people relate to robots and other types of AI, as well as the ongoing AI news coming out of Microsoft and Google.

In this episode of the ARCHITECHT Show, Buoyant co-founder and CEO William Morgan talks about reasons for building cloud-native applications and how the barriers to adopting those technologies have fallen away over the past few years. He also discusses Linkerd, Buoyant's flagship technology; the company's recent $10.5 million funding round; his time helping scale Twitter to overcome its infrastructure woes; and how Buoyant plans to monetize its open source foundation. In the news segment, co-hosts Derrick Harris (ARCHITECHT) and Barb Darrow (Fortune) discuss Microsoft's new AI group and collection of AI efforts; Intel's continued data center dominance; and IBM's new Watson-powered approach to managing data center networks.

In this episode of the ARCHITECHT AI and Robot Show, Signe Brewster speaks with Drone Racing League founder and CEO Nicholas Horbaczewski about the fast-growing sport he created, where pilots race drones at speeds up to 85 miles per hour. Among other things, Horbaczewski discusses the sport's evolution from idea to nationally televised event watched by 33 million people last year; how drone racing is pushing the industry to create better components for mainstream drones; and why he thinks the first iterations of drone package delivery and other commercial applications will actually be piloted by people. In the news segment, co-hosts Derrick Harris, Signe Brewster and Chris Albrecht talk about Baidu's new self-driving car project; commercial robots for helping hospital patients and playing bartender; and what DeepMind's new Canadian research center says about the dispersement of AI talent.

In this episode of the ARCHITECHT Show, IBM Fellow and Watson Data Platform CTO Adam Kocoloski talks about the evolution of big data—from his days as an MIT physicist and co-founding Cloudant, to the application design trends dictating today's cloud data platforms. In between, Kocoloski touches on a variety of topics, including the fate of Hadoop, the promise of quantum computing, the role of specialized hardware for AI and big data, and the effects of marketing on selling the Watson technologies. In the news segment, co-hosts Derrick Harris (ARCHITECHT) and Tom Krazit (GeekWire) talk about Baidu's rise in the cloud (and Nvidia's growing footprint), the cost-benefit analysis of data privacy re: DeepMind's recent troubles, and why any IPOing web company would still run on a single data center with no backup.