Join hosts Ashley Oldacre and Christinia Warren as they kick off Season 5 of the People of AI podcast with their first guest, Clement Farabet, VP of Research at Google DeepMind. They discuss the evolution of AI, from early neural networks to the latest advancements in large language models and AI agents. Learn how research and product teams work together to bring developers the best tools to build with and are setting the stage for an agentic future. Resources: Clement Farabet → https://goo.gle/...
Jul 24, 2025•53 min•Season 5Ep. 1
Meet Ovetta Sampson, Director of UX for AI compute enablement at Google. She shares her unique path from journalism to AI, including her work on groundbreaking projects prioritizing human-centered design principles. Discover valuable insights into making AI more accessible, the importance of responsible development, and more in this episode of People of AI. Resources: Generative AI and creative arms race → https://goo.gle/4jdALHg Lessons Learned from Mixing Data Science and Design Research Metho...
Jan 17, 2025•58 min
Join Ashley Oldacre as she hosts a conversation with artist Douglas Edrick Stanley and Dean of Research at Geneva University of Art and Design Anthony Masure. They discuss their origin stories, the role of AI in creative fields, and the value of critical thinking in a technology-driven world. Resources: Geneva School of Art and Design: https://goo.gle/4fNLYvh Anthony Masure: https://goo.gle/3PsxiqH Douglas Edric Stanley: https://goo.gle/4gJRu3f Artificial Design: Creation Versus Machine Learning...
Jan 14, 2025•47 min
Discover the fascinating world of digital health innovation with a leading expert in vascular surgery and digital health innovation, Dr. Oliver Aalami. In this insightful People of AI episode, Dr. Aalami shares his path to medicine, his passion for integrating technology in patient care, and his role as director of Stanford’s Biodesign for Digital Health program. Explore the groundbreaking projects and initiatives shaping the future of healthcare. Resources: Stanford profile → https://goo.gle/49...
Dec 05, 2024•46 min
Explore the fascinating world of AI and its potential to transform how we work, learn, and create with NotebookLM. Join guests Steven Johnson, Editorial Director of Notebook LM, and Raiza Martin, Senior Product Manager at Google Labs, leading Notebook LM for a deep dive into the inspiration, development, practical use cases, and more in this People of AI episode. Resouces: A.I. Is Mastering Language. Should We Trust What It Says? → https://goo.gle/3Cub1Wd NotebookLM website→ https://goo.gle/3UZO...
Nov 21, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Season 4Ep. 4
Join People of AI host Ashley Oldacre as she moderates a panel on Responsible AI at DevFest Silicon Valley. Ashley teams up with four industry experts to discuss their personal journeys in technology and explore the future of AI. Learn how these experts keep responsible AI at the forefront of emerging technologies. Resources: Learn more about the amazing panelists: Jigyasa Grover, Lead, AI & Research at Bordo AI → https://goo.gle/3Z42QJb Deepa Subramanian, Google Developer Expert → https://g...
Nov 14, 2024•46 min
Meet Fergus Hurley and Nia Castelly, co-funders of Checks, Google's AI-powered compliance platform. Fergus Hurley, Product Management Director at Google Cloud in addition to General Manager and Co-founder of Checks, and Nia Castelly, Co-Founder and Head of Legal at Checks, share the inner workings of Checks. Discover how they built Checks initially leveraging natural language processing (NLP) and, now Gemini, to review and analyze privacy policies at scale. Learn about their three-step approach ...
Nov 07, 2024•1 hr
Meet today’s guests Sam Sepah and Thad Starner. Sam Sepah, an AI/ML Research Manager at Google, drives innovation in accessibility technology for users with deafness and other disabilities. Thad Starner is a Georgia Tech Professor, wearable computing pioneer, and staff research scientist at Google working on sign language recognition. Explore the transformative impact of AI on sign language recognition and accessibility from the Kaggle competition to Pop Sign AI, and much more! Resources: Kaggle...
Oct 24, 2024•1 hr 16 min•Season 4Ep. 2
Join hosts Ashley Oldacre and Gus Martins as they kick off Season 4 of the People of AI podcast! In this episode, enjoy a conversation about how much has changed in the AI landscape the past 2 years, how it is impacting us and what that means to be a person of AI today. Listen to the conversation as the hosts explore the different ways people are using and interacting with AI, from researchers to developers, and the everyday person, how to become a person of AI and how to stay up-to-date with th...
Oct 17, 2024•23 min•Season 4Ep. 1
Join host Ashley Oldacre and guest Sachin Kotwani, Google’s On-Device ML Lead for a second special Google I/O episode. This interview dives deep into the world of Edge AI. Learn about the value, advantages and the future of on-device AI, and how it’s already making waves through initiatives like Project Game Face, and much more. Resources: Andrew Ng’s DeepLearning.AI course → https://goo.gle/3xS1Z3j ML Kit → https://goo.gle/3XIwqne Sachin on Google AI Edge at Google I/O → https://goo.gle/3VMC3hE...
Jul 08, 2024•40 min
Resources: Top AI developer news from Google IO 2024 → https://goo.gle/3VZhwry Google I/O 2024 recap → https://goo.gle/3RL8Pyi Project Astr →: https://goo.gle/3W2rloI Google AI Studio → https://goo.gle/4eCP6e5 Colab → https://goo.gle/3VJ421P Kaggle → https://goo.gle/3RKKZ65 Anders Hejlsberg → https://goo.gle/3VYolcE The Culture Code by Daniel Coyle → https://goo.gle/45IWbWh Jaron Lanier → https://goo.gle/3xpjW9r Range by David Epstein → https://goo.gle/45J3zkP Games: Flappy Bird Game → https://g...
Jun 26, 2024•1 hr
Meet François Chollet, creator of Keras, software engineer, and AI researcher at Google. Join François and hosts Ashley Oldacre and Gus Martins as they discuss how Keras 3 was created, integrating Keras 3 with Gemma and Kaggle, artificial general intelligence (AGI), and much more! Resources: François Chollet research → https://goo.gle/443V3vG Deep Learning With Python, Second Edition → https://goo.gle/3UnpdH1 Intelligence: On Intelligence: How a New Understanding of the Brain Will Lead to the Cr...
Apr 18, 2024•1 hr 6 min•Season 3Ep. 6
Meet Tina Huang, a YouTuber and the Founder of Lonely Octopus, a program that teaches students AI skills and then matches them with real companies to work on developing AI solutions. Ashley Oldacre and Tina Huang discuss how to incorporate AI into your career, unfair advantages and identity capital, if AI will steal our jobs, and much more on this podcast People of AI episode. Resources: Tina Huang's YouTube Channel → https://goo.gle/3VW2O50 Which jobs will survive AI → https://goo.gle/3xz0BlT L...
Apr 11, 2024•52 min•Season 3Ep. 6
Meet Tris Warkentin, Product Management lead for Google DeepMind’s next-generation AI research, working to achieve Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). Learn about the Gemini ecosystem and Google’s newest family of open models, Gemma! Discover what it can do and why this is a monumental step for the developer community. Unpack the power and exciting new capabilities this will unleash in the hands of developers and how this has been a long tradition in Google history. Dive into what it means to...
Apr 04, 2024•58 min•Season 3Ep. 4
Meet Kathleen Kenealy, a Software Engineer at Google DeepMind, working on the next generation of large language models (LLMs) and open models. In the episode we talk about Gemma, Google’s newest family of lightweight, state-of-the-art open models built from the same research and technology used to create the Gemini models. Join us as we unpack the history and the importance of open technology at Google and the advantages and risks of sharing cutting edge technology with the world. We learn how t...
Mar 28, 2024•55 min•Season 3Ep. 4
Meet Jeanine Banks, VP and GM of the Developer X and Developer Relations Business at Google. In this role, she empowers millions of developers to build AI enabled businesses and applications for billions of users worldwide. Hear about the latest Google AI ecosystem of tools from Gemini and Gemma to Projet IDX. Learn about her journey into the tech industry, solving real-world problems with AI, and how she is growing, connecting and supporting developer communities through multiple channels and e...
Mar 21, 2024•57 min•Season 3Ep. 3
Meet Indira Negi, who leads efforts at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to improve maternal and newborn health by investing in innovative tools to help with early diagnosis and reduce risk during pregnancy and labor. This People of AI podcast episode, we cover Indira’s background as an electrical engineer, her past experiences at Intel, leading the sensor engineering team for wearable devices, and how those adventures led her to the Bill and the Melinda Gates Foundation. Learn about the adv...
Feb 15, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Season 3Ep. 2
Meet Adrit Rao, a high school student, app developer, and research intern at Stanford University. During elementary school lunch time he would develop games, it's no surprise he has launched 5 iOS apps at 12! This People of AI podcast episode explores how Adrit built his confidence through building apps, learning from the online community, cold calling for opportunities and landing a research internship to build an app with AI to diagnose and treat cardiovascular health issues. He shares his pas...
Feb 08, 2024•47 min•Season 3Ep. 1
Meet Simon Tokumine, a Director of Product Management at Google leading teams for large language and multimodal model AI tools. On this episode of People of AI, hosts Ashely Oldacre, Luiz Gustavo Martins, and guest Simon chat about Gemini, Google’s latest AI multimodal model. Join us as we discuss the impacts of this new technology on product development and how this will impact human and machine interactions. Learn about Simon’s introduction to tech career from a background of environmental con...
Dec 12, 2023•48 min•Season 2Ep. 8
Meet Tulsee Doshi, Head of Product for Google’s Responsible AI and Human Centered Technology. She leads development of Google wide improvements, resources, and best practices for developing more inclusive and ethical products. She shares her journey from starting as an intern product manager through Google’s APM program to finding a career that allows her to mix her interdisciplinary interests to benefit users. Learn about adopting ethical and responsible technology principles to protect users a...
Dec 04, 2023•52 min•Season 2Ep. 7
Meet the co-founders of Muse System Enterprises, Anne Simonds and Brian Gary, on this episode of People of AI, hosted by Ashely Oldacre. Learn about Muse, the first intelligent system that synergizes domain expertise with cutting-edge ML and leverages a proprietary data science that unlocks, assists, and amplifies human creativity at scale. Muse empowers creators by delivering commercial content production from concepts to brainstorming, drafting, and more! Resources: Muse → https://goo.gle/3G5V...
Nov 16, 2023•48 min•Season 2Ep. 6
Meet Joyce Shen, a venture investor focused on emerging technology and AI companies. Learn about startups, acquisitions, and mergers on this episode of People of AI. Joyce shares her career journey in statistics and economics and how she brought her unique experience into building a model for IBM to apply to acquisitions and evaluate startups. Ashley, Gus, and Joyce talk about challenges that businesses are currently facing to integrate or acquire other AI businesses, building trust amongst cust...
Nov 09, 2023•49 min•Season 2Ep. 5
Meet Crispin Velez, an AI Architect at Google Cloud and leader of Vertex AI. Find out how he works with clients, partners and sales teams to adopt ML/AI using Google Cloud. Ashley, Gus and Crispin talk about Google Cloud, the history of cloud computing, creation of Vertex AI, and more. Crispin shares his experience expanding the SpaLatam TensorFlow community in Columbia and mentoring startups on behalf of Google’s Startup initiative. Discover how you can grow a local AI/ML community. Resources: ...
Nov 02, 2023•51 min•Season 2Ep. 4
Meet Sayak Paul, a Machine Learning Engineer specializing in diffusion models at Hugging Face and GDE for ML and Google Cloud. He shares how his community contributions led him towards getting his current dream job at Hugging Face. Join Ashley, Gus, and Sayak for a chat about resources for developers to get into machine learning, how diffusion models have exploded in the past year, the role of responsible AI and much more. Resources mentioned: Google Developer Expert Program → https://goo.gle/3S...
Oct 26, 2023•45 min•Season 2Ep. 3
Meet Sunita Verma, the Vice President of Engineering at Google Core Labs. She shares her experience in tech from her start of loving problem solving in college to finding a passion for computer science, learning lessons in leadership, and working at Google over the past 16 years. Ashley, Gus, and Sunita talk about how generative AI will transform the way we work, how Google Core Labs accelerates the prototyping of research ideas, and the evolution of Ai in the past few years. Resources: Google L...
Oct 19, 2023•49 min•Season 2Ep. 2
Meet Ashley & Gus, your hosts for season 2 of People of AI. In this episode, Luis Gustavo Martins, also known as Gus, shares his personal and professional path from playing video games as a young child in Brazil to becoming a Developer Advocate at Google. (For Ashley’s story, check out episode 1) Ashley and Gus also talk about the explosive growth of Generative AI tools and the major technology shift that has happened in recent months, Google’s conversational AI, Bard, and much moreI! Resour...
Oct 17, 2023•42 min•Season 2Ep. 1
Meet Michelle Carney, a Machine Learning User Experience Researcher at Google. Join us as we learn how her careers in music, neuroscience, teaching, and machine learning have informed her ability to understand how people use Machine Learning tools, and provide better feedback to help make these tools more useful, helpful, kind, and inclusive of all types of user experiences. Resources: Visual Blocks for ML: https://goo.gle/3OfanzO Tone Transfer: https://goo.gle/3On9xku PAIR Guidebook: https://go...
May 18, 2023•29 min•Season 1Ep. 8
There is a whole team at Google dedicated to designing AI best practices. They are committed to making progress in the responsible development of AI and share reliable, effective user-centered research, tools, datasets, and other resources with users. Meet one of the members of the team, Christina Greer, as she shares the in’s and out’s of working in the field of Responsible AI and how her personal experience and values make her a key player in this space! Resources: AI Principles: https://goo.g...
May 04, 2023•27 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Meet Joana Carrasqueira as she talks about her amazing ability to grow community in the field of machine learning. Join us as we hear about her extraordinary journey from the non-profit sector to business and most recently into tech and how she leverages her superpower of bringing people together and fostering a culture of belonging. Resources: WiML → https://goo.gle/3GRW939 WiML Blog post → https://goo.gle/3GS19Fi Watch all the WiML 2022 sessions → https://goo.gle/3Ld11mb Favorite book: The Adv...
Apr 20, 2023•33 min•Season 1Ep. 6
From developing programs on a Pentium computer as a kid and programming in Visual Basic 6 to becoming a leader in software development for Machine Learning on the Web, join us as we learn about Gant’s journey to where he is today. And the secret sauce to all this? Gant’s creativity and curiosity that he mixes into his work, creating fun and amazing experiences for developers around the world. Learn more about how to be a Google Developer Expert → https://goo.gle/3oaXxr7 Resources: Website: https...
Apr 13, 2023•31 min•Season 1Ep. 5
