In episode 86 of The Gradient Podcast, Daniel Bashir speaks to Professor Gil Strang. Professor Strang is one of the world’s foremost mathematics educators and a mathematician with contributions to finite element theory, the calculus of variations, wavelet analysis, and linear algebra. He has spent six decades teaching mathematics at MIT, where he was the MathWorks Professor of Mathematics. He was among the first MIT faculty members to publish a course on MIT’s OpenCourseware and has since champi...
Aug 17, 2023•1 hr 1 min
In episode 85 of The Gradient Podcast, Andrey Kurenkov speaks to Anant Agarwal Anant Agarwal is the chief platform officer of 2U, and founder of edX. Anant taught the first edX course on circuits and electronics from MIT, which drew 155,000 students from 162 countries. He has served as the director of CSAIL, MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and is a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT. He is a successful serial entrepreneur, having co-fou...
Aug 10, 2023•48 min
In episode 84 of The Gradient Podcast, Daniel Bashir speaks to Professor Raphaël Millière . Professor Millière is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. Previously, he was the 2020 Robert A. Burt Presidential Scholar in Society and Neuroscience in Columbia University’s Center for Science and Society, and completed his DPhil in philosophy at the University of Oxford, where he focused on self-consciousness. Have s...
Aug 04, 2023•2 hr 5 min
In episode 83 of The Gradient Podcast, Daniel Bashir speaks to Peli Grietzer . Peli is a scholar whose work borrows mathematical ideas from machine learning theory to think through “ambient” and ineffable phenomena like moods, vibes, cultural logics, and structures of feeling. He is working on a book titled Big Mood: A Transcendental-Computational Essay in Art and contributes to the experimental literature collective Gauss PDF. Peli has a PhD in mathematically informed literary theory from Harva...
Jul 27, 2023•2 hr 34 min
In episode 82 of The Gradient Podcast, Daniel Bashir speaks to Ryan Drapeau . Ryan is a Staff Software Engineer at Stripe and technical lead for Stripe’s Payment Fraud organization, which uses machine learning to help prevent billions of dollars of credit card and payments fraud for business every year. Have suggestions for future podcast guests (or other feedback)? Let us know here or reach us at editor@thegradient.pub Subscribe to The Gradient Podcast: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Pocket Casts |...
Jul 20, 2023•1 hr 7 min
In episode 81 of The Gradient Podcast, Daniel Bashir speaks to Shiv Rao . Shiv Rao, MD is the co-founder and CEO of Abridge, a healthcare conversation company that uses cutting-edge NLP and generative AI to bring context and understanding to every medical conversation. Shiv previously served as an Executive Vice President at UPMC Enterprises, managing the provider-facing portfolio of technology investments and R&D. He is a practicing cardiologist in UPMC's Heart and Vascular Institute. Have ...
Jul 13, 2023•1 hr 1 min
In episode 80 of The Gradient Podcast, Daniel Bashir speaks to Professor Hugo Larochelle . Professor Larochelle leads the Montreal Google DeepMind team and is adjunct professor at Université de Montréal and a Canada CIFAR Chair. His research focuses on the study and development of deep learning algorithms. Have suggestions for future podcast guests (or other feedback)? Let us know here or reach us at editor@thegradient.pub Subscribe to The Gradient Podcast: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Pocket Cast...
Jul 06, 2023•1 hr 48 min
In episode 79 of The Gradient Podcast, Daniel Bashir speaks to Jeremie Harris . Jeremie is co-founder of Gladstone AI, author of the book Quantum Physics Made Me Do It, and co-host of the Last Week in AI Podcast. Jeremy previously hosted the Towards Data Science podcast and worked on a number of other startups after leaving a PhD in physics. Have suggestions for future podcast guests (or other feedback)? Let us know here or reach us at editor@thegradient.pub Subscribe to The Gradient Podcast: Ap...
Jun 29, 2023•1 hr 31 min
In episode 78 of The Gradient Podcast, Daniel Bashir speaks to Antoine Blondeau. Antoine is a serial AI entrepreneur and Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Alpha Intelligence Capital. He was chief executive at Dejima when the firm worked on CALO, one of the biggest AI projects in US history and precursor to Apple’s Siri. Later, he co-founded Sentient Technologies, which boasted the title of world’s highest funded AI company in 2016. In 2018, he founded Alpha Intelligence Capital to support futur...
Jun 22, 2023•1 hr
In episode 77 of The Gradient Podcast, Daniel Bashir speaks to Joon Park . Joon is a third-year PhD student at Stanford, advised by Professors Michael Bernstein and Percy Liang. He designs, builds, and evaluates interactive systems that support new forms of human-computer interaction by leveraging state-of-the-art advances in natural language processing such as large language models. His research introduced the concept of, and the techniques for building generative agents—computational software ...
Jun 15, 2023•2 hr 21 min
In episode 76 of The Gradient Podcast, Andrey Kurenkov speaks to Dr Christoffer Holmgård Dr. Holmgård is a co-founder and the CEO of Modl.ai, which is building AI Engine for game development. Before starting the company, Christoffer was director of the indie game studio Die Gute Fabrik (which is German for "The Good Factory"), and has also done extensive research as an assistant professor in AI and Machine Learning for Games at Northeastern University. Have suggestions for future podcast guests ...
Jun 08, 2023•1 hr 9 min
In episode 75 of The Gradient Podcast, Daniel Bashir speaks to Riley Goodside . Riley is a Staff Prompt Engineer at Scale AI. Riley began posting GPT-3 prompt examples and screenshot demonstrations in 2022. He previously worked as a data scientist at OkCupid, Grindr, and CopyAI. Have suggestions for future podcast guests (or other feedback)? Let us know here or reach us at editor@thegradient.pub Subscribe to The Gradient Podcast: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Pocket Casts | RSS Follow The Gradient ...
Jun 01, 2023•1 hr
In episode 74 of The Gradient Podcast, Daniel Bashir speaks to Professor Talia Ringer. Professor Ringer is an Assistant Professor with the Programming Languages, Formal Methods, and Software Engineering group at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. Their research leverages proof engineering to allow programmers to more easily build formally verified software systems. Have suggestions for future podcast guests (or other feedback)? Let us know here or reach us at editor@thegradient.pub ...
May 25, 2023•1 hr 46 min
In episode 72 of The Gradient Podcast, Daniel Bashir speaks to Brigham Hyde. Brigham is Co-Founder and CEO of Atropos Health. Prior to Atropos, he served as President of Data and Analytics at Eversana, a life sciences commercialization service provider. He led the investment in Concert AI in the oncology real-world data space at Symphony AI. Brigham has also held research faculty positions at Tufts University and the MIT Media Lab. Have suggestions for future podcast guests (or other feedback)? ...
May 18, 2023•42 min
In episode 72 of The Gradient Podcast, Daniel Bashir speaks to Professor Scott Aaronson. Scott is the Schlumberger Centennial Chair of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin and director of its Quantum Information Center. His research interests focus on the capabilities and limits of quantum computers and computational complexity theory more broadly. He has recently been on leave to work at OpenAI, where he is researching theoretical foundations of AI safety. Have suggestions for ...
May 11, 2023•1 hr 10 min
In episode 71 of The Gradient Podcast, Daniel Bashir speaks to Ted Underwood . Ted is a professor in the School of Information Sciences with an appointment in the Department of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. Trained in English literary history, he turned his research focus to applying machine learning to large digital collections. His work explores literary patterns that become visible across long timelines when we consider many works at once—often, his work involves ...
May 04, 2023•1 hr 44 min
In episode 70 of The Gradient Podcast, Daniel Bashir speaks to Irene Solaiman . Irene is an expert in AI safety and policy and the Policy Director at HuggingFace, where she conducts social impact research and develops public policy. In her former role at OpenAI, she initiated and led bias and social impact research at OpenAI in addition to leading public policy. She built AI policy at Zillow group and advised poilcymakers on responsible autonomous decision-making and privacy as a fellow at Harva...
Apr 27, 2023•1 hr 12 min
In episode 69 of The Gradient Podcast, Daniel Bashir speaks to Drago Anguelov . Drago is currently a Distinguished Scientist and Head of Research at Waymo, where he joined in 2018. Earlier, he spent eight years at Google working on 3D vision and pose estimation for StreetView, then leading a research team that developed computer vision systems for annotating Google Photos. He has been involved in developing popular neural network methods such as the Inception architecture and the SSD detector. B...
Apr 20, 2023•1 hr 5 min
In episode 68 of The Gradient Podcast, Daniel Bashir speaks to Professor Joanna Bryson . Professor Bryson is Professor of Ethics and Technology at the Hertie School, where her research focuses on the impact of technology on human cooperation and AI/ICT governance. Professor Bryson has advised companies, governments, transnational agencies, and NGOs, particularly in AI policy. She is one of the few people doing this sort of work who actually has a PhD and work experience in AI, but also advanced ...
Apr 13, 2023•1 hr 13 min
In episode 67 of The Gradient Podcast, Daniel Bashir speaks to Daniel Situnayake . Daniel is head of Machine Learning at Edge Impulse. He is co-author of the O’Reilly books "AI at the Edge" and "TinyML". Previously, he’s worked on the Tensorflow Lite team at Google AI and co-founded Tiny Farms, an insect farming company. Daniel has also lectured in AIDC technologies at Birmingham City University. Have suggestions for future podcast guests (or other feedback)? Let us know here ! Subscribe to The ...
Apr 06, 2023•1 hr 58 min
In episode 66 of The Gradient Podcast, Daniel Bashir speaks to Soumith Chintala . Soumith is a Research Engineer at Meta AI Research in NYC. He is the co-creator and lead of Pytorch, and maintains a number of other open-source ML projects including Torch-7 and EBLearn. Soumith has previously worked on robotics, object and human detection, generative modeling, AI for video games, and ML systems research. Have suggestions for future podcast guests (or other feedback)? Let us know here ! Subscribe ...
Mar 30, 2023•1 hr 8 min
In episode 65 of The Gradient Podcast, Daniel Bashir speaks to Sewon Min . Sewon is a fifth-year PhD student in the NLP group at the University of Washington, advised by Hannaneh Hajishirzi and Luke Zettlemoyer. She is a part-time visiting researcher at Meta AI and a recipient of the JP Morgan PhD Fellowship. She has previously spent time at Google Research and Salesforce research. Have suggestions for future podcast guests (or other feedback)? Let us know here ! Subscribe to The Gradient Podcas...
Mar 23, 2023•1 hr 43 min
In episode 64 of The Gradient Podcast, Daniel Bashir speaks to Richard Socher . Richard is founder and CEO of you.com, a new search engine that lets you personalize your search workflow and eschews tracking and invasive ads. Richard was previously Chief Scientist at Salesforce where he led work on fundamental and applied research, product incubation, CRM search, customer service automation and a cross-product AI platform. He was an adjunct professor at Stanford’s CS department as well as founder...
Mar 16, 2023•1 hr 38 min
In episode 63 of The Gradient Podcast, Daniel Bashir speaks to Joe Edelman . Joe developed the meaning-based organizational metrics at Couchsurfing.com , then co-founded the Center for Humane Technology with Tristan Harris, and coined the term “Time Well Spent” for a family of metrics adopted by teams at Facebook, Google, and Apple. Since then, he's worked on the philosophical underpinnings for new business metrics, design methods, and political movements. The central idea is to make people's so...
Mar 09, 2023•1 hr 6 min
In episode 62 of The Gradient Podcast, Daniel Bashir speaks to Ed Grefenstette . Ed is Head of Machine Learning at Cohere and an Honorary Professor at University College London. He previously held research scientist positions at Facebook AI Research and DeepMind, following a stint as co-founder and CTO of Dark Blue Labs. Before his time in industry, Ed worked at Oxford’s Department of Computer Science as a lecturer and Fulford Junior Research Fellow at Somerville College. Ed also received his MS...
Mar 02, 2023•1 hr 14 min
In episode 61 of The Gradient Podcast, Daniel Bashir speaks to Ken Liu . Ken is an author of speculative fiction. A winner of the Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy awards, he is the author of silkpunk epic fantasy series Dandelion Dynasty and short story collections The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories and The Hidden Girl and Other Stories . Prior to writing full-time, Ken worked as a software engineer, corporate lawyer, and litigation consultant. Have suggestions for future podcast guests (or ot...
Feb 23, 2023•2 hr 3 min
In episode 60 of The Gradient Podcast, Daniel Bashir speaks to Hattie Zhou . Hattie is a PhD student at the Université de Montréal and Mila. Her research focuses on understanding how and why neural networks work, based on the belief that the performance of modern neural networks exceeds our understanding and that building more capable and trustworthy models requires bridging this gap. Prior to Mila, she spent time as a data scientist at Uber and did research with Uber AI Labs. Have suggestions f...
Feb 16, 2023•1 hr 43 min
In episode 59 of The Gradient Podcast, Daniel Bashir speaks to Professor Kyunghyun Cho . Professor Cho is an associate professor of computer science and data science at New York University and CIFAR Fellow of Learning in Machines & Brains. He is also a senior director of frontier research at the Prescient Design team within Genentech Research & Early Development. He was a research scientist at Facebook AI Research from 2017-2020 and a postdoctoral fellow at University of Montreal under t...
Feb 09, 2023•2 hr 8 min
In episode 58 of The Gradient Podcast, Daniel Bashir speaks to Professor Steve Miller. Steve is a Professor Emeritus of Information Systems at Singapore Management University. Steve served as Founding Dean for the SMU School of Information Systems, and established and developed the technology core of SIS research and project capabilities in Cybersecurity, Data Management & Analytics, Intelligent Systems & Decision Analytics, and Software & Cyber-Physical Systems, as well as the manag...
Feb 02, 2023•1 hr 10 min
In episode 57 of The Gradient Podcast, Andrey Kurenkov speaks to Blair Attard-Frost. Note : this interview was recorded 8 months ago, and some aspects of Canada’s AI strategy have changed since then. It is still a good overview of AI governance and other topics, however. Blair is a PhD Candidate at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Information who researches the governance and management of artificial intelligence. More specifically, they are interested in the social construction of intelli...
Jan 26, 2023•58 min
