Activeloop, the dataset optimization company, is excited to be a part of CVPR 2021!

For this edition of CVPR, Activeloop is proud to host two panels. Listen to the first panel on the future of datasets. Tune in to the conversation of leading experts from Google (Jianing Wei), Princeton (Olga Russakovsky), Microsoft (Siddhartha Sen), RISELab at UC Berkeley (Joseph Gonzalez), and HuggingFace (Jeff Boudier).

Next guest of Humans in the Loop podcast is Onno Faber. Onno is a serial entrepreneur, speaker, investor and a possibility thinker. Onno is currently the founder two companies in the Health and BioTech space – Rarebase and AllStripes. To me, Onno’s superpower is his multidisciplinary approach to a passion his: drive to build things that solve problems. In his early teens, he even patented a solution to a problem that caused minor fallouts with his mom. Onno developed an app that attracted the attention of Sillicon Valley and even Ashton Kutcher, but his path was inadvertently affected by a rare disease called “Neurofibromatosis 2”, or NF2 for short.

Today we are featuring a Luxembourg based company and one of the leading startups in the field of AI music composition - AIVA technologies, and their CEO Pierre Barreau as well as Denis Shtefan, the CTO of the company. They are working on transforming the way people make music with AI. Their creation, AIVA, short for Artificial Intelligence Virtual Artist, composes music for film directors, advertising agencies, and even game studios. In fact, AIVA is so good, it has passed several makeshift Turing tests. 

In this episode, Black Mirror becomes a reality, because we’re featuring an intelligent chatbot serving as a companion, mentor and even lover. Today’s human in the loop is Artem Rodichev, Head of AI at Replika. Born in Kazakhstan, he’s worked in all major Russian tech companies, and ultimately, moved to Y-Combinator Alum startup Replika and somehow managed to get on the Forbes 30 under 30 list twice. Replika’s a company born out of its founder trying to revive her tragically deceased friend by utilizing his personal messages with the help of natural language processing and conversational AI.

Our second guest is Rudradeb Mitra, founding CEO of Omdena. Omdena is a bottom-up collaborative platform that brings together engineers from all over the world to build impactful AI solutions. In 20 months, over 1700 engineers from 88 countries have collaborated on projects like preventing online violence against children or eradicating malaria. In the podcast, Ru shares his extremely inspiring life story with us, and how this experience shaped him and his life’s mission: using AI for good.

In this episode, we dive into how culture shapes entrepreneurship, how causality affects machine learning practices and if human superpowers like intuition or empathy can be translated into AI. We also talk about building intelligent products, as well as self-reliant and efficient teams. Rudradeb is a book author, mentor for Google for Startups and Seedstars and an amazing podcast guest. Tune in and enjoy. 

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The first guest of our podcast is Ignacio Tartavull, CEO of Tiny Mile. 

In the second half of the podcast we discussed how AI has started shaping the future of logistics, delivery in particular. We learned how humanizing robots will solve the last mile delivery problem, and what role data science has in it. Lastly, we cover the true nature of competition in Silicon Valley and reasons why startups really fail. 

Humans in the Loop sheds a light on thought leaders in various verticals of data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. Once every two weeks, we share our interviews with leading experts from around the world, where we explore how solving a machine and deep learning problem helps achieve business goals and foster innovation. Tune in to stay in the loop with the latest groundbreaking ideas on the AI/ML landscape.