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Talking Machines

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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

Exploring MARS and Getting back to Bayesics

In episode seven of season five of we chat about MARS and Re: MARS OpenAI's status changes and We talk with Jasper Snoek of Google Brain See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Apr 11, 20191 hr 9 minSeason 5Ep. 7

The Sweetness of a Bitter Lesson and Bringing ML and Healthcare Closer

In episode six of season five we talk about Richard Sutton's A Bitter Lesson . Chat about IEEE's new Ethical Guidelines and talk with Andrew Beam Senior Fellownn at Flagship Pioneering, Head of Machine Learning for Flagship VL57 and Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Here are some of the papers we got to chat about! Also, VL57 is hiring! Adversarial attacks on Medical ML Science paper Finlayson, S.G., Bowers, J.D., Ito, J., Zittrain, J.L.,...

Mar 28, 201951 minSeason 5Ep. 6

Slowed Down Conferences and Even More Summer Schools

In episode five of season five we talk about the Stu Hunter conference , Summer schools options (DLRLSS!) and chat with Adrian Weller of the Alan Turing Institute See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Mar 14, 201943 minSeason 5Ep. 5

Jupyter Notebooks and Modern Model Distribution

In episode four of season five we talk about Jupyter Notebooks and Neil's dream of a world craft software and devices, we take a listener question about the conversation surrounding Open AI's GPT-2 i ts announcement and the coverage and we hear an interview with Brooks Paige of the Alan Turing Ins tiute See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Feb 28, 201937 minSeason 5Ep. 4

Real World Real Time and Five Papers for Mike Tipping

In season five episode three we chat about take a listener question about Five Papers for Mike Tipping, take a listener question on AIAI and chat with Eoin O'Mahony of Uber Here are Neil's five papers. What are yours? Stochastic variational inference by Hoffman, Wang, Blei and Paisley http://arxiv.org/abs/1206.7051 A way of doing approximate inference for probabilistic models with potentially billions of data ... need I say more? Austerity in MCMC Land: Cutting the Metropolis Hastings by Koratti...

Feb 15, 20191 hr 2 minSeason 5Ep. 3

The Bezos Paradox and Machine Learning Languages

In episode two of season five we unpack the Bezos Paradox (TM Neil Lawrence) take a listener question about best papers and chat with Dougal Maclaurin of Google Brain . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Feb 01, 201941 minSeason 5Ep. 2

Being Global Bit by Bit

In episode one of season five we talk about Bit by Bit, take a listener question on machine learning gatherings on the African continent ( Deep Learning INDABA! DSA! ) and hear an interview with Daphne Koller recorded at ODSC West See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Jan 17, 201949 minSeason 5Ep. 1

The Possibility Of Explanation and The End of Season Four

For the end of season four we take a break from our regular format and bring you a talk from Professor Finale Doshi Velez of Harvard University on the possibility of explanation Tune in next season! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Nov 29, 201818 minSeason 4Ep. 22

Neural Information Processing Systems and Distributed Internal Intelligence Systems

In episode twenty one of season four we talk about distributed intelligence systems (mainly those internal to humans), talk about what were excited to see at t he Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems and in advance of our trek to Canada we chat with Garth Gibson president and CEO of the Vector Institute . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Nov 16, 201837 minSeason 4Ep. 21

Data Driven Ideas and Actionable Privacy

In episode twenty of season four we talk about the importance of crediting your data, answer a listener question about internships vs salaried positions and talk with Matt Kusner of the Alan Turing institute the UK’s national institute for data science and AI. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Nov 01, 201845 minSeason 4Ep. 20

AI for Good and The Real World

In episode nineteen of season four we talk about causality in the real world, take a question about being surprised by the elephant in the room and talk with Kush Varshney of IBM. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Oct 18, 201833 minSeason 4Ep. 19

Systems Design and Tools for Transparency

In episode 18 of season four we talk about systems design, (remember the 3 d's!), tools for transparency and fairness and we talk with Adria Gascon of The Alan Turing Institute, the UK’s national institute for data science and AI. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Oct 05, 201840 minSeason 4Ep. 18

How to Research in Hype and CIFAR's Strategy

In episode 17 of season four we talk about how to research in a time of hype (and other lessons from Tom Griffiths book ) Neil's love of variational methods, and with Chat with Elissa Strome director of the Pan-Canadian AI Strategy for CIFAR See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Sep 20, 201837 minSeason 4Ep. 17

Troubling Trends and Climbing Mountains

In this episode we talk about an article Troubling Trends in Machine learning Scholarship the difference between engineering and science ( and the mountains you climb to span the distance ) plus we talk with David Duvenaud of the University of Toronto See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Sep 07, 201840 minSeason 4Ep. 16

Long Term Fairness

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Aug 09, 201829 minSeason 4Ep. 14

Simulated Learning and Real World Ethics

In episode thirteen of season four we chat about simulations, reinforcement learning , and Philippa Foot . We take a listener question about the update to the ACM code of ethics (first time since 1992!) and We talk with professor Mike Jordan . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Jul 27, 201858 minSeason 4Ep. 13

ICML 2018 with Jennifer Dy

Season four episode twelve finds us at ICML ! We bring you a special episode with Jennifer Dy , co-program chair of the conference. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Jul 12, 201820 minSeason 4Ep. 12

Aspirational Asimov and How to Survive a Conference

In season four episode eleven we talk about the possibility of the NIPS conference changing its name , what to do at ICML , And we talk with Bernhard Schölkopf . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Jun 28, 201845 minSeason 4Ep. 11

Explanations and Reviews

In episode 10 of season 4 we chat about C ounterfactual Explanations without Opening the Black Box: Automated Decisions and the GDPR , take a listener question about how reviews of papers work at NIPS and we hear from Sven Strohband, CTO of Khosla Ventures. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Jun 14, 201824 minSeason 4Ep. 10

Statements on Statements

In episode 9 of season 4 we talk about the Statement on Nature Machine Intelligence . We reached out to Nature for a statement on the statement and received the following: “At Springer Nature we are very clear in our mission to advance discovery and help researchers share their work. Having an extensive, and growing, open access portfolio is one important way we do this but it is important to remember that while open access has been around for 20 years now it still only accounts for a small perc...

May 31, 201827 minSeason 4Ep. 9

The Futility of Artificial Carpenters and Further Reading

In episode eight of season four we review some recently published articles by Michael Jordan and Rodney Brooks (for more reading along these lines, Tom Dettriech is a great person to follow), we recommend some further reading, and talk with Arthur Gretton who was part of the team behind one of the Best Papers at NIPS 2017 For more reading we recommend Machine Learning Yearning , Talking Nets , The Mechanical Mind in History , and Colossus . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Ho...

May 17, 201837 minSeason 4Ep. 8

Economies, Work and AI

In episode seven of season four we chat about Ellis and the UK AI Sector Deal , we take a listener question about the next AI winter and if/when it is coming, plus we hear from Christina Colclough Director of Platform and Agency Workers, Digitalization and Trade UNI Global Union. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

May 03, 201843 minSeason 4Ep. 7

Explainability and the Inexplicable

In episode six of season four we chat about AI and religion, we take a listener question about personal bias checking and we hear from Been Kim of Google Brain. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Apr 19, 201844 minSeason 4Ep. 6

Good Data Practice Rules

In episode five of season four we talk about the GDPR or as we like to think of it Good Data Practice Rules. (If you actually read it, you move to expert level! ) We take a listener question about the power of approximate inference, and we hear from our guest Andrew Blake of The Alan Turing Institute . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Apr 05, 201852 minSeason 4Ep. 5

Can an AI Practitioner Fix a Radio?

In episode four of season four we talk more about natural an artificial intelligences and thinking about diversity in systems. Reading Can a Biologist Fix a Radio is a great paper around these ideas. We take a listener question about moving into machine learning after having advanced training in a different program. Our guest on this episode is our second second time guest Peter Donnelly, Professor of Statistical Science at the University of Oxford , Director of the Wellcome Trust Center for Hum...

Mar 22, 201844 minSeason 4Ep. 4

Natural vs Artificial Intelligence and Doing Unexpected Work

In season four episode three of Talking Machines we chat about Neil’s recent thinking (definitely not work) on the core differences between natural intelligence and machine intelligence, he recently wrote blog post on the subject and in the fall of 2017 he gave a TedX talk about the topic.  We also take a listener question about what maths you should take to get into building ML tools. Our guests this week are Moshe Vardi, Karen Ostrum George Distinguished Service Professor in Computational...

Mar 08, 201858 minSeason 4Ep. 3

Scientific Rigor and Turning Information into Action

In episode two of season four we're proud to bring you the second annual "Hosts of Talking Machine's Episode"! Ryan and Neil chat about Ali Rahimi's speech at NIPS-17 , Kate Crawford's talk The Trouble with Bias , and much more. We also get to hear a conversation with Ciira wa Maina, lecturer in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Dedan Kimathi University of Technology in Nyeri Kenya See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy f...

Feb 22, 201838 minSeason 4Ep. 2

Code Review for Community Change

On this episode of Talking Machines we take a break from our regular format to talk about the “code review of community culture” that the AI, ML, Stats and Computer Science fields in general need to undergo.  In a blog post, that was put up shortly after NIPS , researcher Kristian Lum outlined several instances of sexual harassment and abuse of power. In her post she mentioned Brad Carlin and a person who she referred to as S. We learned in reporting done by Bloomberg that S was Steven Scot...

Feb 08, 201835 minSeason 4Ep. 1

The Pace of Change and The Public View of ML

In episode ten of season three we talk about the rate of change (prompted by Tim Harford) , take a listener question about the power of kernels, and talk with Peter Donnelly in his capacity with the Royal Society's Machine Learning Working Group about the work they've done on the public's views on AI and ML . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Oct 05, 201740 minEp. 10