Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

Peter Welinder is a research scientist and roboticist at OpenAI. Before that, he was an engineer at Dropbox and ran the machine learning team, and before that, he co-founded Anchovi Labs a startup using Computer Vision to organize photos that was acquired by Dropbox in 2012. In this episode of our podcast, Peter shares his experiences and the challenges associated with building a robotic hand that can solve a rubix cube. Read some of Peter’s Articles: https://openai.com/blog/authors/peter/ Follow Peter on Twitter: https://twitter.com/npew Check out our podcasts homepage for transcripts and more episodes! www.wandb.com/podcast 🔊 Get our podcast on Apple, and Spotify! Apple Podcasts: https://bit.ly/2WdrUvI Spotify: https://bit.ly/2SqtadF We started Weights and Biases to build tools for Machine Learning practitioners because we care a lot about the impact that Machine Learning can have in the world and we love working in the trenches with the people building these models. One of the most fun things about these building tools has been the conversations with these ML practitioners and learning about the interesting things they’re working on. This process has been so fun that we wanted to open it up to the world in the form of our new podcast. We hope you have as much fun listening to it as we had making it. 👩🏼‍🚀Weights and Biases: We’re always free for academics and open source projects. Email carey@wandb.com with any questions or feature suggestions. - Blog: https://www.wandb.com/articles - Gallery: See what you can create with W&B - https://app.wandb.ai/gallery - Continue the conversation on our slack community - http://bit.ly/wandb-forum 🎙Host: Lukas Biewald - https://twitter.com/l2k 👩🏼‍💻Producer: Lavanya Shukla - https://twitter.com/lavanyaai 📹Editor: Cayla Sharp - http://caylasharp.com/

👩‍💻Today our guest is Vicki Boykis! Vicki is a senior consultant in machine learning and engineering and works with clients to build holistic data products used for decision-making. She's previously spoken at PyData, taught SQL for GirlDevelopIt, and blogs about data pipelines and open internet. Follow her on her website: vickiboykis.com On twitter: https://twitter.com/vboykis and subscribe to her newsletter: vicki.substack.com Check out our podcasts homepage for transcripts and more episodes! www.wandb.com/podcast 🔊 Get our podcast on Apple and Spotify! Apple Podcasts: https://bit.ly/2WdrUvI Spotify: https://bit.ly/2SqtadF We started Weights and Biases to build tools for Machine Learning practitioners because we care a lot about the impact that Machine Learning can have in the world and we love working in the trenches with the people building these models. One of the most fun things about these building tools has been the conversations with these ML practitioners and learning about the interesting things they’re working on. This process has been so fun that we wanted to open it up to the world in the form of our new podcast. We hope you have as much fun listening to it as we had making it. 👩🏼‍🚀Weights and Biases: We’re always free for academics and open source projects. Email carey@wandb.com with any questions or feature suggestions. - Blog: https://www.wandb.com/articles - Gallery: See what you can create with W&B - https://app.wandb.ai/gallery - Continue the conversation on our slack community - http://bit.ly/wandb-forum 🎙Host: Lukas Biewald - https://twitter.com/l2k 👩🏼‍💻Producer: Lavanya Shukla - https://twitter.com/lavanyaai 📹Editor: Cayla Sharp - http://caylasharp.com/

👩‍💻👩‍💻On this episode of Gradient Dissent our guests are Angela Bassa and Danielle Dean! Angela is an expert in building and leading data teams. An MIT-trained and Edelman-award-winning mathematician, she has over 15 years of experience across industries—spanning finance, life sciences, agriculture, marketing, energy, software, and robotics. Angela heads Data Science and Machine Learning at iRobot, where her teams help bring intelligence to a global fleet of millions of consumer robots. She is also a renowned keynote speaker and author, with credits including the Wall Street Journal and Harvard Business Review. Follow Angela on twitter: https://twitter.com/angebassa And on her website: https://www.angelabassa.com/ Danielle Dean, PhD is the Technical Director of Machine Learning at iRobot where she is helping lead the intelligence revolution for robots. She leads a team that leverages machine learning, reinforcement learning, and software engineering to build algorithms that will result in massive improvements in our robots. Before iRobot, Danielle was a Principal Data Scientist Lead at Microsoft Corp. in AzureCAT Engineering within the Cloud AI Platform division. Follow Danielle on Twitter: https://twitter.com/danielleodean Check out our podcasts homepage for transcripts and more episodes! www.wandb.com/podcast 🔊 Get our podcast on Apple and Spotify! Apple Podcasts: https://bit.ly/2WdrUvI Spotify: https://bit.ly/2SqtadF We started Weights and Biases to build tools for Machine Learning practitioners because we care a lot about the impact that Machine Learning can have in the world and we love working in the trenches with the people building these models. One of the most fun things about these building tools has been the conversations with these ML practitioners and learning about the interesting things they’re working on. This process has been so fun that we wanted to open it up to the world in the form of our new podcast. We hope you have as much fun listening to it as we had making it. 👩🏼‍🚀Weights and Biases: We’re always free for academics and open source projects. Email carey@wandb.com with any questions or feature suggestions. - Blog: https://www.wandb.com/articles - Gallery: See what you can create with W&B - https://app.wandb.ai/gallery - Continue the conversation on our slack community - http://bit.ly/wandb-forum 🎙Host: Lukas Biewald - https://twitter.com/l2k 👩🏼‍💻Producer: Lavanya Shukla - https://twitter.com/lavanyaai 📹Editor: Cayla Sharp - http://caylasharp.com/

Jack Clark is the Strategy and Communications Director at OpenAI and formerly worked as the world’s only neural network reporter at Bloomberg. Lukas and Jack discuss AI policy, ethics, and the responsibilities of AI researchers. Toward Trustworthy AI Development: Mechanisms for Supporting Verifiable Claims by OpenAI: https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.07213 Follow Jack Clark on Twitter: twitter.com/jackclarkSF Read more posts by Jack on his website: https://jack-clark.net/ Get our podcast on Apple and Spotify! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gradient-dissent-weights-biases/id1504567418 https://open.spotify.com/show/7o9r3fFig3MhTJwehXDbXm 🤖Gradient Dissent by Weights and Biases Get a behind-the-scenes look at how industry leaders are using machine learning in the real world. While building experiment tracking tools, we’ve had the opportunity to learn about how different teams are building and deploying models. In this podcast, we share some of the insights and stories we’ve heard along the way. Follow Gradient Dissent for weekly machine learning updates, and be part of the conversation. 👩🏼‍🚀Weights and Biases: We’re always free for academics and open source projects. Email carey@wandb.com with any questions or feature suggestions. - Blog: https://www.wandb.com/articles - Gallery: See what you can create with W&B - https://app.wandb.ai/gallery - Continue the conversation on our slack community - http://bit.ly/wandb-forum 🎙Host: Lukas Biewald - https://twitter.com/l2k 👩🏼‍💻Producer: Lavanya Shukla - https://twitter.com/lavanyaai 📹Editor: Cayla Sharp - http://caylasharp.com/

🏅 See how W&B is your secret weapon to make it onto the Kaggle leaderboards - https://www.wandb.com/kaggle 👩‍💻Rachael Tatman is a developer advocate for Rasa, where she helps developers build and deploy conversational AI applications using their open source framework. 🤖💬 She has a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Washington where she researched computational sociolinguistics, or how our social identity affects the way we use language in computational contexts. Previously she was a data scientist at Kaggle where she’s still a Grandmaster. 💻Keep up with Rachael on her website: http://www.rctatman.com/ 🐦Follow Rachael on twitter: https://twitter.com/rctatman Get our podcast on Apple and Spotify! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gradient-dissent-weights-biases/id1504567418 https://open.spotify.com/show/7o9r3fFig3MhTJwehXDbXm 🤖Gradient Dissent by Weights and Biases We started Weights and Biases to build tools for Machine Learning practitioners because we care a lot about the impact that Machine Learning can have in the world and we love working in the trenches with the people building these models. One of the most fun things about these building tools has been the conversations with these ML practitioners and learning about the interesting things they’re working on. This process has been so fun that we wanted to open it up to the world in the form of our new podcast. We hope you have as much fun listening to it as we had making it. 👩🏼‍🚀Weights and Biases: We’re always free for academics and open source projects. Email carey@wandb.com with any questions or feature suggestions. - Blog: https://www.wandb.com/articles - Gallery: See what you can create with W&B - https://app.wandb.ai/gallery - Continue the conversation on our slack community - http://bit.ly/wandb-forum 🎙Host: Lukas Biewald - https://twitter.com/l2k 👩🏼‍💻Producer: Lavanya Shukla - https://twitter.com/lavanyaai 📹Editor: Cayla Sharp - http://caylasharp.com/

👨🏻‍💻Nicolas Koumchatzky is the Director of AI infrastructure at NVIDIA, where he's responsible for MagLev, the production-grade machine learning platform by NVIDIA. His team supports diverse ML use cases: autonomous vehicles, medical imaging, super resolution, predictive analytics, cyber security, robotics. He started as a Quant in Paris, then joined Madbits, a startup specialized on using deep learning for content understanding. When Madbits was acquired by Twitter in 2014, he joined as a deep learning expert and led a few projects in Cortex, include a real-time live video classification product for Periscope. In 2016, he focused on building an scalable AI platform for the company. Early 2017, he became the lead for the Cortex team. He joined NVIDIA in 2018. 🐦Follow Nicolas on twitter: https://twitter.com/nkoumchatzky 🛠Maglev: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2018/09/13/how-maglev-speeds-autonomous-vehicles-to-superhuman-levels-of-safety/ ✍️Scalable Active Learning for Autonomous Driving: https://medium.com/nvidia-ai/scalable-active-learning-for-autonomous-driving-a-practical-implementation-and-a-b-test-4d315ed04b5f ✍️Active Learning – Finding the right self-driving training data doesn’t have to take a swarm of human labelers: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2020/01/16/what-is-active-learning/ 👫Continue the conversation on our slack community - http://bit.ly/wandb-forum 🤖Gradient Dissent by Weights and Biases We started Weights and Biases to build tools for Machine Learning practitioners because we care a lot about the impact that Machine Learning can have in the world and we love working in the trenches with the people building these models. One of the most fun things about these building tools has been the conversations with these ML practitioners and learning about the interesting things they’re working on. This process has been so fun that we wanted to open it up to the world in the form of our new podcast. We hope you have as much fun listening to it as we had making it. 👩🏼‍🚀Weights and Biases: We’re always free for academics and open source projects. Email carey@wandb.com with any questions or feature suggestions. * Visualize your Scikit model performance with W&B - https://app.wandb.ai/lavanyashukla/visualize-sklearn/reports/Visualizing-Sklearn-With-Weights-and-Biases--Vmlldzo0ODIzNg * Blog: https://www.wandb.com/articles * Gallery: See what you can create with W&B - https://app.wandb.ai/gallery 🎙Host: Lukas Biewald - https://twitter.com/l2k 👩🏼‍💻Producer: Lavanya Shukla - https://twitter.com/lavanyaai 📹Editor: Cayla Sharp - http://caylasharp.com/

👨🏻‍💻Brandon Rohrer is a Mechanical Engineer turned Data Scientist. He’s currently a Principal Data Scientist at iRobot and has an incredibly popular Machine Learning course at e2eML where he’s made some wildly popular videos on convolutional neural networks and deep learning. His fascination with robots began after watching Luke Skywalker’s prosthetic hand in the Empire Strikes Back. He turned this fascination into a PhD from MIT and subsequently found his way to building some incredible data science products at Facebook, Microsoft and now at iRobot. ✍️Brandon’s brilliant machine learning course: http://e2eml.school/ 🐦Follow Brandon on twitter: https://twitter.com/_brohrer_ 👫Continue the conversation on our slack community - http://bit.ly/wandb-forum 🤖Gradient Dissent by Weights and Biases - http://wandb.com We started Weights and Biases to build tools for Machine Learning practitioners because we care a lot about the impact that Machine Learning can have in the world and we love working in the trenches with the people building these models. One of the most fun things about these building tools has been the conversations with these ML practitioners and learning about the interesting things they’re working on. This process has been so fun that we wanted to open it up to the world in the form of our new podcast. We hope you have as much fun listening to it as we had making it. Today our guest is Brandon Rohrer. 👩🏼‍🚀Weights and Biases: We’re always free for academics and open source projects. Email carey@wandb.com with any questions or feature suggestions. • Visualize your Scikit model performance with W&B - https://app.wandb.ai/lavanyashukla/visualize-sklearn/reports/Visualizing-Sklearn-With-Weights-and-Biases--Vmlldzo0ODIzNg • Blog: https://www.wandb.com/articles • Gallery: See what you can create with W&B - https://app.wandb.ai/gallery