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, 2019•1 hr 9 min•Ep 7•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2019•51 min•Ep 6•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2019•43 min•Ep 5•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2019•37 min•Ep 4•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2019•1 hr 2 min•Ep 3•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2019•41 min•Ep 2•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2019•49 min•Ep 1•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2018•18 min•Ep 22•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2018•37 min•Ep 21•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2018•45 min•Ep 20•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2018•33 min•Ep 19•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2018•40 min•Ep 18•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2018•37 min•Ep 17•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2018•40 min•Ep 16•Transcript available on Metacast See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Aug 23, 2018•44 min•Ep 15•Transcript available on Metacast See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Aug 09, 2018•29 min•Ep 14•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2018•58 min•Ep 13•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2018•20 min•Ep 12•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2018•45 min•Ep 11•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2018•24 min•Ep 10•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2018•27 min•Ep 9•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2018•37 min•Ep 8•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2018•43 min•Ep 7•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2018•44 min•Ep 6•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2018•52 min•Ep 5•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2018•44 min•Ep 4•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2018•58 min•Ep 3•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2018•38 min•Ep 2•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2018•35 min•Ep 1•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2017•40 min•Ep 10•Transcript available on Metacast