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Practical AI Practical AI #25

Finding success with AI in the enterprise

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2018-12-17T12:00:00Z #ai 🎧 7,575

Susan Etlinger, an Industry Analyst at Altimeter, a Prophet company, joins us to discuss The AI Maturity Playbook: Five Pillars of Enterprise Success. This playbook covers trends affecting AI, and offers a maturity model that practitioners can use within their own organizations - addressing everything from strategy and product development, to culture and ethics.

Practical AI Practical AI #24

So you have an AI model, now what?

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2018-12-10T12:00:00Z #ai +1 🎧 6,851

Fully Connected – a series where Chris and Daniel keep you up to date with everything that’s happening in the AI community.

This week we discuss all things inference, which involves utilizing an already trained AI model and integrating it into the software stack. First, we focus on some new hardware from Amazon for inference and NVIDIA’s open sourcing of TensorRT for GPU-optimized inference. Then we talk about performing inference at the edge and in the browser with things like the recently announced ONNX JS.

Practical AI Practical AI #23

Pachyderm's Kubernetes-based infrastructure for AI

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2018-12-03T15:59:15Z #ai +1 🎧 6,175

Joe Doliner (JD) joined the show to talk about productionizing ML/AI with Pachyderm, an open source data science platform built on Kubernetes (k8s). We talked through the origins of Pachyderm, challenges associated with creating infrastructure for machine learning, and data and model versioning/provenance. He also walked us through a process for going from a Jupyter notebook to a production data pipeline.

Practical AI Practical AI #22

BERT: one NLP model to rule them all

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2018-11-27T16:11:57Z #ai +3 🎧 8,443

Fully Connected – a series where Chris and Daniel keep you up to date with everything that’s happening in the AI community.

This week we discuss BERT, a new method of pre-training language representations from Google for natural language processing (NLP) tasks. Then we tackle Facebook’s Horizon, the first open source reinforcement learning platform for large-scale products and services. We also address synthetic data, and suggest a few learning resources.

Practical AI Practical AI #21

UBER and Intel’s Machine Learning platforms

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2018-11-19T12:00:00Z #ai +1 🎧 6,404

We recently met up with Cormac Brick (Intel) and Mike Del Balso (Uber) at O’Reilly AI in SF. As the director of machine intelligence in Intel’s Movidius group, Cormac is an expert in porting deep learning models to all sorts of embedded devices (cameras, robots, drones, etc.). He helped us understand some of the techniques for developing portable networks to maximize performance on different compute architectures.

In our discussion with Mike, we talked about the ins and outs of Michelangelo, Uber’s machine learning platform, which he manages. He also described why it was necessary for Uber to build out a machine learning platform and some of the new features they are exploring.

Practical AI Practical AI #17

Fighting bias in AI (and in hiring)

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2018-10-22T11:00:00Z #ai 🎧 6,144

Lindsey Zuloaga joins us to discuss bias in hiring, bias in AI, and how we can fight bias in hiring with AI. Lindsey tells us about her experiences fighting bias at HireVue, where she is director of data science, and she gives some practical advice to AI practitioners about fairness in models and data.

Practical AI Practical AI #15

Artificial intelligence at NVIDIA

NVIDIA Chief Scientist Bill Dally joins Daniel Whitenack and Chris Benson for an in-depth conversation about ‘everything AI’ at NVIDIA. As the leader of NVIDIA Research, Bill schools us on GPUs, and then goes on to address everything from AI-enabled robots and self-driving vehicles, to new AI research innovations in algorithm development and model architectures. This episode is so packed with information, you may want to listen to it multiple times.

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