In this episode, Byron and Bryan talk about sentience, transfer learning, speech recognition, autonomous vehicles, and economic growth. In this episode, Byron and Bryan talk about sentience, transfer learning, speech recognition, autonomous vehicles, and economic growth. Guest Bryan Catanzaro is vice president of Applied Deep Learning Research at NVIDIA, where he leads a team solving problems in fields ranging from video games to chip design. Catanzaro initially worked at NVIDIA …
Episode 12: A Conversation with Scott Clark
In this episode, Byron and Scott talk about algorithms, transfer learning, human intelligence, and pain and suffering. In this episode, Byron and Scott talk about algorithms, transfer learning, human intelligence, and pain and suffering. Guest Scott is co-founder and CEO of SigOpt, a YC and a16z backed “Optimization as a Service” startup in San Francisco that helps firms tune their ML and AI pipelines. Scott has been applying optimal learning …
Episode 11: A Conversation with Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro
In this episode, Byron and Gregory talk about consciousness, jobs, data science, transfer learning. In this episode, Byron and Gregory talk about consciousness, jobs, data science, transfer learning. Guest Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro is a data scientist, co-founder of KDD conferences and ACM SIGKDD association for Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. Transcript Byron Reese: This is “Voices in AI”, brought to you by Gigaom. I’m Byron Reese. Today our guest is Gregory Piatetsky. He’s a leading voice in Business …
Episode 10: A Conversation with Suchi Saria
In this episode, Byron and Suchi talk about understanding, data, medicine, and waste. In this episode, Byron and Suchi talk about understanding, data, medicine, and waste. Guest Suchi Saria is an Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins. Her interests include machine learning, computational statistics and its applications. Transcript Byron Reese: This is “Voices in AI” brought to you by Gigaom. I am Byron Reese. Today, my guest is Suchi Saria. Where …
Episode 9: A Conversation with Soumith Chintala
In this episode, Byron and Soumith talk about transfer learning, child development, pain, neural networks, and adversarial networks. In this episode, Byron and Soumith talk about transfer learning, child development, pain, neural networks, and adversarial networks. Guest Soumith Chintala is a Researcher at Facebook AI Research, where he works on deep learning, reinforcement learning, generative image models, agents for video games and large-scale high-performance deep learning. Prior to joining Facebook …
Episode 8: A Conversation with Esther Dyson
In this episode Byron and Esther talk about intelligence, jobs, her experience in being a backup cosmonaut and more. In this episode Byron and Esther talk about intelligence, jobs, her experience in being a backup cosmonaut and more. Guest Esther Dyson is a journalist, author, investor and philanthropist. She is the Chairman of EDventure Holdings. She invests in startups with a focus on healthcare, human capital and aerospace. Transcript Byron …