Lukas Biewald, former founder and CEO of Figure Eight, and current founder and CEO of Weights and Biases, sits down with Cindy Moehring to discuss his experience and efforts to better the future of AI and machine learning. The pair discusses Figure Eight’s improvements of training data, along with Weights and Biases advancements of human-in-the-loop systems and versioning models to build models faster and better. They rounded out their discussion with a brief talk of inclusion and women in STEM.

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Links from episode:

• Read more about Appen acquiring Figure Eight here: https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/10/appen-acquires-figure-eight/
• Weights & Biases raises $135M Series C to keep building MLOps software: https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/13/weights-biases-raises-new-capital-as-developer-tools-remain-a-venture-focus-ml-matures/
• Learn more about Lukas Biewald’s podcast, Gradient Dissent here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gradient-dissent/id1504567418
• Listen to “Daphne Koller - Digital Biology and the Next Epoch of Science” on the Gradient Dissent podcast here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/daphne-koller-digital-biology-and-the-next-epoch-of-science/id1504567418?i=1000509701513
• Listen to “Emily M. Bender - Language Models and Linguistics” on the Gradient Dissent podcast here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/emily-m-bender-language-models-and-linguistics/id1504567418?i=1000534822471
• Listen to the Lex Fridman Podcast here: https://lexfridman.com/podcast/
• Take free courses at fast.ai here: https://www.fast.ai