NVIDIA AI Podcast

In deep learning and machine learning, having a large enough dataset is key to training a system and getting it to produce results.

So what does a ML researcher do when there just isn’t enough publicly accessible data?

Enter the MLCommons Association, a global engineering consortium with the aim of making ML better for everyone.

MLCommons recently announced the general availability of the People’s Speech Dataset, a 30,000 hour English-language conversational speech dataset, and the Multilingual Spoken Words Corpus, an audio speech dataset with over 340,000 keywords in 50 languages, to help advance ML research.

On this episode of NVIDIA’s AI Podcast, host Noah Kravitz spoke with David Kanter, founder and executive director of MLCommons, and NVIDIA senior AI developer technology engineer Daniel Galvez, about the democratization of access to speech technology and how ML Commons is helping advance the research and development of machine learning for everyone.

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2022/04/13/mlcommons/

Polestar Chief Operating Officer Dennis Nobelius sees driving enjoyment and autonomous-driving capabilities complementing one another in sustainable vehicles that keep driving — and the driver — front and center.

NVIDIA’s Katie Washabaugh spoke with Nobelius for the latest episode of the AI Podcast about the role the performance brand will play as vehicles become greener and more autonomous.

Nobelius touched on the sustainable automaker’s plans to unveil its third vehicle, the Polestar 3, the tech inside it, and what the company’s racing heritage brings to the intersection of smarts and sustainability.

Sometimes AI models fail, just like everything else in the world fails sometimes. That's where today's guest comes in. Yaron Singer is co- founder and CEO of Robust Intelligence, a company founded in 2019, out of research Singer was doing in his other job, as the Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at Harvard University. Robust Intelligence, RI, for short, has developed a sort of AI firewall that wraps around a company's AI models to protects them from making mistakes, by constantly stress=testing these models. If you're not familiar with AI, stress walls and are wondering how an AI firewall can be a thing Yaron is here to tell us all about it.

The very thing that makes the internet so useful to so many people — the vast quantity of information that’s out there — can also make going online frustrating.

There’s so much available that the sheer volume of choices can be overwhelming. That’s where recommender systems come in, explains NVIDIA AI Podcast host Noah Kravitz.

To dig into how recommender systems work — and why these systems are being harnessed by companies in industries around the globe — Kravitz spoke to Even Oldridge, senior manager for the Merlin team at NVIDIA.

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2022/03/02/whats-a-recommender-system-2/

It would be an exaggeration to say you’ll never again read a news article overhyping a medical breakthrough. But, thanks to researchers at the University of Copenhagen, spotting hyperbole may one day get more manageable.

In a paper, Dustin Wright and Isabelle Augenstein explain how they used NVIDIA GPUs to train an “exaggeration detection system” to identify overenthusiastic claims in health science reporting.

The paper comes amid a pandemic that has fueled demand for understandable, accurate information. And social media has made health misinformation more widespread.

Research like Wright and Augenstein’s could speed more precise health sciences news to more people. We spoke with Wright about his work.

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2022/2/16/exaggeration-detector-podcast/

Autonomous driving has evolved from science fiction to technology that is actively deployed on roads today.

Sarah Tariq, vice president of autonomous driving software at NVIDIA, has been a key player in this transition. She worked on the ground floor of autonomous vehicle development at both NVIDIA and robotaxi company Zoox, and is now developing solutions for the coming generation of software-defined vehicles.

Tariq is working to redefine how the world views personal transportation, transforming it into an experience that surprises and delights. She spoke with NVIDIA AI Podcast host Katie Washabaugh about her decade in AV development, the many ways in which software can improve mobility and what’s on the road ahead for intelligent transportation.

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2022/02/09/sarah-tariq-software-defined-vehicles

From active noise cancellation to digital assistants that are always listening for your commands, audio is perhaps one of the most important but often overlooked aspects of modern technology in our daily lives.

Audio Analytic has been using machine learning that enables a vast array of devices to make sense of the world of sound.

We spoke with Dr. Chris Mitchell, CEO and founder of Audio Analytic about the challenges, and the fun, involved in teaching machines to listen.

Browse through MORF Gallery — virtually or at an in-person exhibition — and you’ll find robots that paint, digital dreamscape experiences, and fine art brought to life by visual effects.

The gallery showcases cutting-edge, one-of-a-kind artwork from award-winning artists who fuse their creative skills with AI, machine learning, robotics and neuroscience.

Scott Birnbaum, CEO and co-founder of MORF Gallery, a Silicon Valley startup, spoke with NVIDIA AI Podcast host Noah Kravitz about digital art, non-fungible tokens, as well as ArtStick, a plug-in device that turns any TV into a premium digital art gallery.

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2022/01/19/morf-gallery-ceo-scott-birnbaum/

What started as Nick Walton’s college hackathon project grew into AI Dungeon, a popular text adventure game with over 1.5 million users.

Walton is the co-founder and CEO of Latitude, a Utah-based startup that uses AI to create unique gaming storylines.

He spoke with NVIDIA AI Podcast host Noah Kravitz about how natural language processing methods can generate infinite open-ended adventure plots for interactive games like AI Dungeon, which draws an average of 150,000 new players each month.

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2021/01/05/nick-walton-ai-podcast/

One of AI’s greatest champions has turned to fiction to answer the question: how will technology shape our world in the next 20 years?

Kai-Fu Lee, CEO of Sinovation Ventures and a former president of Google China, spoke with NVIDIA AI Podcast host Noah Kravitz about AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future. The book, his fourth available in the U.S. and first work of fiction, was in collaboration with Chinese sci-fi writer Chen Qiufan, also known as Stanley Chan.

Lee and Chan blend their expertise in scientific forecasting and speculative fiction in this collection of short stories, which was published in September.

Among Lee’s books is the New York Times bestseller AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order, which he spoke about on a 2018 episode of the AI Podcast.

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2021/12/15/kai-fu-lee-ai-2041/