Chris Padwick — Smart Machines for More Sustainable Farming
Chris Padwick is Director of Computer Vision Machine Learning at Blue River Technology, a subsidiary of John Deere. Their core product, See & Spray, is a weeding robot that identifies crops and weeds ...
23 Dec 20211h
Kathryn Hume — Financial Models, ML, and 17th-Century Philosophy
Kathryn Hume is Vice President Digital Investments Technology at the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC). At the time of recording, she was Interim Head of Borealis AI, RBC's research institute for machine lea...
16 Dec 202152min
Sean & Greg — Biology and ML for Drug Discovery
Sean McClain is the founder and CEO, and Gregory Hannum is the VP of AI Research at Absci, a biotech company that's using deep learning to expedite drug discovery and development.Lukas, Sean, and Greg...
2 Dec 202155min
Chris, Shawn, and Lukas — The Weights & Biases Journey
You might know him as the host of Gradient Dissent, but Lukas is also the CEO of Weights & Biases, a developer-first ML tools platform!In this special episode, the three W&B co-founders — Chris (CVP),...
5 Nov 202149min
Pete Warden — Practical Applications of TinyML
Pete is the Technical Lead of the TensorFlow Micro team, which works on deep learning for mobile and embedded devices.Lukas and Pete talk about hacking a Raspberry Pi to run AlexNet, the power and siz...
21 Okt 202153min
Pieter Abbeel — Robotics, Startups, and Robotics Startups
Pieter is the Chief Scientist and Co-founder at Covariant, where his team is building universal AI for robotic manipulation. Pieter also hosts The Robot Brains Podcast, in which he explores how far hu...
7 Okt 202157min
Chris Albon — ML Models and Infrastructure at Wikimedia
In this episode we're joined by Chris Albon, Director of Machine Learning at the Wikimedia Foundation.Lukas and Chris talk about Wikimedia's approach to content moderation, what it's like to work in a...
23 Sep 202156min
Emily M. Bender — Language Models and Linguistics
In this episode, Emily and Lukas dive into the problems with bigger and bigger language models, the difference between form and meaning, the limits of benchmarks, and why it's important to name the la...
9 Sep 20211h 12min
