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Talking Machines

Tote Bag Productionswww.thetalkingmachines.com
Talking Machines is your window into the world of machine learning. Your hosts, Katherine Gorman and Neil Lawrence, bring you clear conversations with experts in the field, insightful discussions of industry news, and useful answers to your questions. Machine learning is changing the questions we can ask of the world around us, here we explore how to ask the best questions and what to do with the answers.

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Episodes

Gods and Robots

In this episode of the podcast we shake things up! Neil is on the guest side of the table with his partner Rabbi Laura Janner-Klausner to discuss their upcoming project Gods and Robots. Katherine is joined on the host side by friend of the show professor Michael Littman .  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Sep 09, 202140 min

Responsibility, Risk, and Publishing

On this episode we feature an interview with Madhulika Shrikumar of the Partnership on AI about their recent work Managing Risk and Responsible Publication See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Aug 19, 202126 min

ICML 2021: Test of Time(ly) Award

Neil and Katherine chat about ICML and the timely award winner of this years test of time award! Bayesian Learning via Stochastic Gradient Langevin Dynamics See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Jul 24, 202119 min

Learning with Less, Invisible Labor and Combating Anti-Blackness

Devin Guillory of UC Berkeley , is our guest on this episode. We talk about his love of robotics, working at the center of a new hype (learning with less labels) and his paper Combatting Anti-Blackness in the AI Community . He recently gave a talk on the subject the University of Toronto   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Jul 09, 202137 minSeason 7Ep. 1

Let's Reflect

We're not bringing you an episode this week. We're taking some time to think about the systems we take part in and how those perpetuate anti black racism and the effects of that on the work in this field. We'd like to bring you meaningful conversations around those systems and how we can change them and ourselves.  We encourage everyone to explore the amazing work of Black in AI, Data Science Africa and Shut Down STEM.  Take care of yourselves, take care of each other, and st...

Jun 13, 202029 sec

Predicting Floods and Really Doing Good

In this episode of Talking Machines we talk with Sella Nevo of Google Research about the Google Flood Forecasting Project, what they've been doing , and what is means to really move the needle on AI for Good.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

May 29, 202039 minSeason 6Ep. 9

ICLR: accessible, inclusive, virtual

In episode eight of season six we talk with Alexander Rush and Shakir Mohamed about their work on ICLR this year which was first to take place in Ethiopia and then became totally virtual!  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

May 14, 202039 minSeason 6Ep. 8

Humans in the Loop and Outside of the Classroom

In episode seven of season six we talk with Michael Littman about his work in reinforcement learning, on scientific communication, and in the classroom.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

May 01, 202038 minSeason 6Ep. 7

The Evolution of ML and Furry Little Animals

In episode six of season six we chat with Professor Terry Sejnowski about his work, the evolution of the field, and the development of the NeurIPS conference. We taped this episode live and took questions from the audience. Want to join our "studio audience"? Check out @tlkngmchns on Twitter. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Apr 16, 202048 minSeason 6Ep. 6

Talking Machines Live and Understanding Modeling Viruses

Episode five of season six is our first live episode! We talk with Elaine Nsoesie of Boston University about modeling disease and Covid 19 in the African context. plus we take listen questions live! Want to join our "studio audience" check out our twitter feed for how to sign up!  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Apr 03, 202040 minSeason 6Ep. 5

Prioritizing Problems and 100 episodes

Episode four of season six is our 100th episode! (Well it's Katherine's). We take a break from our regular format for Neil and Katherine to chat about the current situation around Covid-19 , understanding exponentials, and what impact this might have on how problems get prioritized.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Mar 20, 202031 minSeason 6Ep. 4

The Great AI Fallacy

In this episode we talk about the Great AI Fallacy, take a listener question about Federated Learning, and catch up with Ross Goodwin and Oscar Sharp   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Mar 05, 202048 minSeason 6Ep. 3

If a Machine Could Predict Your Death, Should it?

in episode two of season six we hear Ziad Obermeyer's talk from TedX Boston entitled If a Machine Could Predict Your Death, Should it? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Feb 20, 202018 minSeason 6Ep. 2

Predicting the Decade and Distributing Conferences

In episode one of season six we make some predictions about what will happen in the field in the next decade and talk with Margot Gerritsen about her work and WiDS  You can listen to the WiDS podcast here! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Feb 06, 20201 hr 7 minSeason 6Ep. 1

Debating Project Debater and Hello NeurIPS

In our last episode for season five Katherine and Neil debate his debating project debater and talk about whats coming up at NeurIPS. Hope to see you there! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nov 21, 201942 minSeason 5Ep. 23

De-Enchanting AI with the Law

in episode twenty two of season five we hear a talk from Kenneth Anderson on how the field of AI and the law can work together to form regulation from TedX Boston See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Nov 07, 201920 minSeason 5Ep. 22

How to Ask an Actionable Question

In Episode 21 of Season five we sit down with Marzyeh Ghassemi to talk about her work and how she's refined her focus. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Oct 25, 201939 minSeason 5Ep. 21

Children are the Future and Ada Lovelace Day

In episode twenty of season five we talk with Neil about a discussion he had about the impact of ML tools on children talk about the new Diversity Dashboard from the Turing Institute in response to a question about cool things for Ada Lovelace day plus we sit down with Corinna Cortes of Google AI See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Oct 10, 201955 minSeason 5Ep. 20

News from Neil and Updates from DALI

In episode eighteen of season five we talk about DALI, get some big news about the next thing for Neil and talk with Benjamin Akera . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Sep 26, 20191 hr 9 minSeason 5Ep. 19

A Cooperative Path to Artificial Intelligence

In episode eighteen of season five we hear Michael Littman's talk A Cooperative Path to Artificial Intelligence See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Sep 13, 201918 minSeason 5Ep. 18

What Does Red Sound Like

In episode seventeen of season five we talk about Why Red Doesn't Sound Like a Bell, take a listener question about our Turing brackets (and Invent the Very Good Sort Awards) and listen to a chat with Tewodros Abebe See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Aug 30, 201950 minSeason 5Ep. 17

Not What But Why

In this episode of Talking Machines we take a listen to Professor Engelhardt's TedX Boston talk, Not What But Why: Machine Learning for Understanding Genomics See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Aug 15, 201920 minSeason 5Ep. 16

Idea Pandemics and Workshop Walkthrough

in episode 15 of season five of Talking Machines we' chat about the recently announced workshops at NeurIPS 2019, find ourselves in the middle of an I Love Lucy Episode about technical term usage and talk with Randy Goebel of the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Aug 01, 201959 minSeason 5Ep. 15

PosterSession.ai and Deep Quaggles

In episode 14 of season five we talk about On the marginal likelihood and cross-validation , Katherine is STILL excited about PosterSession.ai , we invent Deep Quaggles and listen to a conversation with professor Elaine Nsoesie of BU See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Jul 18, 201945 minSeason 5Ep. 14

The View from Addis Ababa

In episode thirteen of season five we bring you a the rest of our conversation with Michael Melese from Addis Ababa University and Charles Saidu of Baze University Abuja See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Jul 04, 201923 minSeason 5Ep. 13

DSA Addis Ababa and ICML Los Angeles

In episode twelve of season five we bring you a rundown of Data Science Africa's latest workshop answer a listener question about what got us excited at ICML and hear the first part of our conversation with Michael Melese from Addis Ababa University and Charles Saidu of Baze University Abuja See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Jun 21, 201956 minSeason 5Ep. 12

Data Trusts and Citation Trends

In episode eleven of season five, we dig in to just what a data trust actually is, take a look at citation trends and other places (PMLR) you can dig up data to understand the field and talk with Raia Hadsell of DeepMind . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Jun 06, 201954 minSeason 5Ep. 11

Reproducibly and Revisiting History

In episode ten of season five we talk about reproducibility , take a listener question on re understanding the history of the field given where we are now and how other fields are reviewing their own history and listen to a conversation with Graham Taylor of the Vector Institute. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

May 23, 201946 minSeason 5Ep. 10

Insights from AISTATS

In episode nine of season five we talk about some interesting work from AISTATS , dive into unbiased implicit variational inference , and chat with Jon McAuliffe CIO of Voleon See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

May 10, 201952 minSeason 5Ep. 9

The Deep End of Deep Learning

In this episode as we prep for ICLR we take a break from our usual format to bring you a talk from Hugo LaRochelle at TedX Boston on Deep Learning . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Apr 25, 201919 minSeason 5Ep. 8