The AI Podcast

By NVIDIA

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What's The AI Podcast about?

AI has been described as “Thor’s Hammer“ and “the new electricity.” But it’s also a bit of a mystery – even to those who know it best. We’ll connect with some of the world’s leading AI experts to explain how it works, how it’s evolving, and how it intersects with every facet of human endeavor. This podcast is produced by NVIDIA, the AI computing company. Multiple episodes are released every month.

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HP’s Jared Dame on How AI, ...

07.28.2020

Jared Dame, HP's director of business development and strategy for AI, data science and edge technologies, spoke to AI Podcast host Noah Kravitz about the role HP’s workstations play in cutting-edge AI and data science.

The AI Podcast episodes:

07.28.2020 HP’s Jared Dame on How AI, Data Science Driving Demand for Powerful New Workstations - Ep. 122 Jared Dame, HP's director of business development and strategy for AI, data science and edge technologies, spoke to AI Podcast host Noah Kravitz about the role HP’s workstations play in cutting-edge AI and data science.
07.08.2020 Not So Taxing: How Intuit Uses AI to Make Tax Day Easier - Ep. 121 Understanding the U.S. tax code can take years of study — it’s 80,000 pages long. Software company Intuit has decided that it’s a job for AI. Ashok Srivastava, its senior vice president and chief data officer, spoke to AI Podcast ...
05.27.2020 NVIDIA’s Jonah Alben Talks AI - Ep. 120 Imagine building an engine with 54 billion parts. Now imagine each piece is the size of a gnat’s eyelash. That gives you some idea of the scale Jonah Alben works at. Jonah is the co-leader of GPU engineering at Nvidia. ...
04.30.2020 NVIDIA’s Keith Strier Talks AI Nations - Ep. 119 As NVIDIA’s vice president of worldwide AI initiatives, Keith Strier is thinking on a global scale. He leads an initiative called AI Nations, a worldwide program that helps government leaders and stakeholders develop plans to implement AI to advance national ...
04.22.2020 Lenovo's Mike Leach on the Role of the Workstation in Modern AI - Ep. 118 Whether you're using the latest generation of AI enabled mobile apps or robust business systems powered on banks of powerful servers, chances are your technology was built, first, on a workstation. We spoke with Lenovo’s Mike Leach about how these ...
04.21.2020 Ford’s Nikita Jaipuria and Rohan Bhasin on Generating Synthetic Data - Ep. 117 Autonomous vehicles require a massive amount of data and computing power. Teaching a vehicle to see what’s on the road in front of it is a big part of the puzzle. Our guests today, Ford’s Nikita Jaipuria and Rohan Bhasin, ...
04.16.2020 Finding Trash in Sensitive Waterways with AI - Ep. 116 Cleaning up our oceans, rivers, and waterways have become a major environmental issue. Leaders in the field are now looking to begin harnessing modern AI and machine learning techniques to help tackle this immense challenge. We spoke with the San ...
04.14.2020 MIT’s Jonathan Frankle on “The Lottery Hypothesis” - Ep. 115 We spoke with Jonathan Frankle, a PhD student at MIT and coauthor of a seminal paper outlining a technique, known as the “The Lottery Ticket,” hypothesis that promises to help advance our understanding of why neural networks, and deep learning, ...
04.09.2020 Credit Check: Capital One’s Kyle Nicholson on Modern Machine Learning in Finance - Ep. 114 We spoke with Capital One Senior Software Engineer Kyle Nicholson on how modern machine learning techniques have become a key tool for financial and credit analysis.
04.03.2020 Demystifying AI with NVIDIA’s Will Ramey - Ep. 113 We brought back one of NVIDIA’s best explainers, Will Ramey, to provide an introduction to today’s AI boom and the key concepts behind it. Ramey, senior director and global head of developer programs at NVIDIA, led a webinar, "Deep Learning ...
04.03.2020 Speed of Light: SLAC’s Ryan Coffee Talks Ultrafast Science - Ep. 112 We spoke with a particle physicist Ryan Coffee, senior staff scientist at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory on how he — and others in his field — are putting deep learning to work. We include questions from friends, family and ...
03.29.2020 Stanford's Margot Gerritsen on Data Science and Women in Tech - Ep. 111 On this episode of the NVIDIA AI Podcast, we interview Stanford Professor Margot Gerritsen about what’s next in data science, the growing role of women in data science, and how data science intersects with modern AI. For more, tune into ...
03.24.2020 Keeping an Eye on AI: Building Ethical Technology at Salesforce - Ep. 110 Kathy Baxter, the architect of ethical AI practice at Salesforce, is helping her team and clients create more responsible technology. To do so, she supports employee education, the inclusion of safeguards in Salesforce technology, and collaboration with other companies to ...
02.17.2020 Nanotronics Brings Deep Learning to Precision Manufacturing - Ep. 109 Matthew Putman, this week’s guest on the AI Podcast, knows that the devil is in the details. That’s why he’s the co-founder and CEO of Nanotronics, a Brooklyn-based company providing precision manufacturing enhanced by AI, automation and 3D imaging.
02.04.2020 NVIDIA’s Neda Cvijetic Explains the Science Behind Self-Driving Cars - Ep. 108 What John Madden was to pro football, Neda Cvijetic is to autonomous vehicles. No one’s better at explaining the action, in real time, than Cvijetic. Cvijetic, senior manager of autonomous vehicles at NVIDIA, drives our NVIDIA DRIVE Labs series of ...
01.09.2020 AI’s Mild Ride: RoadBotics Puts AI on Pothole Patrol - Ep. 107 National Pothole Day is Jan. 15. Its timing is no accident. All over the Northern hemisphere, potholes are at their suspension-wrecking, spine-shaking worst this month. Thanks to AI, one startup is working all year long to alleviate this menace. Benjamin ...
12.18.2019 Serkan Piantino’s Company Makes AI for Everyone - Ep. 106 Spell, founded by Serkan Piantino, is making machine learning as easy as ABC. Piantino, CEO of the New York-based startup and former director of engineering for Facebook AI Research, explained to AI Podcast host Noah Kravitz how he’s bringing compute ...
12.04.2019 Pod Squad: Descript Uses AI to Make Managing Podcasts Quicker, Easier - Ep. 105 You can’t have an AI podcast and not interview someone using AI to make podcasts better. That’s why we reached out to serial entrepreneur Andrew Mason to talk to him about what he’s doing now. His company, Descript Podcast Studio, ...
11.21.2019 Speaking the Same Language: How Oracle’s Conversational AI Serves Customers - Ep. 104 At Oracle, customer service chatbots use conversational AI to respond to consumers with more speed and complexity. Suhas Uliyar, vice president of bots, AI and mobile product management at Oracle, stopped by to talk to AI Podcast host Noah Kravitz ...
11.13.2019 AI4Good: Canadian Lab Empowers Women in Computer Science - Ep. 103 Doina Precup is applying Romanian wisdom to the gender gap in the fields of AI and computer science. The associate professor at McGill University and research team lead at AI startup DeepMind spoke with AI Podcast host Noah Kravitz about ...
10.30.2019 AI Startup Brings Computer Vision to Customer Service - Ep. 102 When your appliances break, the last thing you want to do is spend an hour on the phone trying to reach a customer service representative. Using computer vision, Drishyam.AI is eliminating service lines to help consumers more quickly. Satish Mandalika, ...
10.21.2019 Clean Sweep: Tokyo Robotics Company Builds Tidying Robots - Ep. 101 Though creating an autonomous robot that can tidy a room seems like enough of an achievement, Tokyo-based Preferred Networks goes one step further. By integrating natural language processing (NLP) into their technology, their robots respond to commands and adjust their ...
10.16.2019 The Buck Starts Here: NVIDIA’s Ian Buck on What’s Next for AI - Ep. 100 AI is still young, but software is available to help even relatively unsophisticated users harness it. That’s according to Ian Buck, general manager of NVIDIA’s accelerated computing group, who shared his views in our latest AI Podcast. Buck, who helped ...
10.01.2019 GauGAN Rocket Man: Conceptual Artist Uses AI Tools for Sci-Fi Modeling - Ep. 99 Have you ever wondered what it takes to produce the complex imagery in films like Star Wars or Transformers? The man behind the magic, Colie Wertz, is here to explain. Wertz is a conceptual artist and modeler who works on ...
09.21.2019 Say Yes to the AI Dress: Entrepreneur Brings GPUs to Fashion - Ep. 98 In the future imagined by Pinar Yanardag, a postdoctoral research associate at MIT Media Lab, AI will collaborate with humans, not replace them. This is the concept behind her project, “How to Generate (Almost) Anything,” which she created with other ...
09.15.2019 Focal Systems Brings AI to Grocery Stores - Ep. 97 We’ve all chosen the self-checkout stand over the human cashier, thinking it’ll take less time. But somehow, things take a terrible turn. The barcodes aren’t scanning, there’s a pop-up scolding you for not placing the product in the bagging area ...
09.10.2019 Kiwibots Bring Sustenance to Students - Ep. 96 College students are many things — sleepy, overly caffeinated, stressed — but above all, they are hungry. Kiwi Campus is here to help. Co-founder and CEO of Kiwi Campus, Felipe Chávez, joined AI Podcast host Noah Kravitz to talk about ...
09.03.2019 Dial A for AI: Charter Boosts Customer Service with AI - Ep. 95 Charter Communications is working to make customer service smarter even before an operator picks up the phone. Charter Communications, also known as Spectrum, is using AI to improve their customer service and process data more intelligently. Senior Director of Wireless ...
08.18.2019 Doc.ai CEO Walter De Brouwer on How Federated Learning Can Help Keep Data Private- Ep. 94 Artificial intelligence thrives on data, the more the better. But when we’re talking about putting data in many industries, such as health care, to work, things can get very complicated, very quickly. Walter De Brouwer is CEO of Doc.ai, a ...
08.07.2019 Forget Storming Area 51, AI’s Helping Astronomers Scour the Skies for Habitable Planets - Ep. 93 Imagine staring into the high-beams of an oncoming car. Now imagine trying to pick out a speck of dust in the glare of the headlights. That’s the challenge Olivier Guyon and Damien Gratadour face as they try to find the ...
07.28.2019 Making "Iron Man" Interface Real: AI-Based Virtualitics Demystifies Data Science with VR - Ep. 92 The words “data science” often inspire feelings of dread or confusion. But Virtualitics, an AI-based analytics platform, is bringing creativity and excitement to the field through machine learning and immersive virtualization. In our latest episode of the AI Podcast, Virtualitics ...
07.09.2019 Get Your Fashion Fix: Stitch Fix Adds AI Flair to Your Closet - Ep. 91 Some say style never fades, and now with the help of AI, finding one’s fashion sense is about to get a whole lot easier. Fashion ecommerce startup Stitch Fix is piecing together a seamless balance between AI-powered decision making and ...
07.02.2019 Talking Trucks with TuSimple's Chuck Price - Ep. 90 We’re all aware of the race to deliver self driving cars that will allow consumers to sit back and be chauffeured wherever they wish. But the implications of self-driving trucks might actually be bigger, in the short term. Our guest ...
06.26.2019 Anthem Could Have Healthcare Industry Singing a New Tune - Ep. 89 AI is bringing convenience to your healthcare experience. Health insurance company Anthem helps patients personalize and better understand their healthcare information through AI. We spoke with Rajeev Ronanki, senior vice president and chief digital officer at Anthem, about how AI ...
06.04.2019 SAS Chief Operating Officer Oliver Schabenberger - Ep. 88 SAS Chief Operating Officer Oliver Schabenberger spoke with us about how organizations can use AI and related technologies.
05.29.2019 AutoX's Professor X on the State of Automotive Autonomy - Ep. 87 The path to self driving vehicles is usually marked by six milestones, or levels, from level 0, or no automation, to level 5, or full autonomy. Jianxiong Xiao, CEO of of startup AutoX, has his sights set on level 4, ...
05.21.2019 A-High: How Grownetics Automates Cannabis Cultivation with Deep Learning - Ep. 86 Sticky. Kind. Chronic. Reefer. Forget the dated slang. These days the word is ‘opportunity.’ The market for legal cannabis in the United States was estimated at $12 billion last year, up 30% year over year from 2017, and it’s projected ...
05.16.2019 Teaching Families to Embrace AI - Ep. 85 Tara Chklovski is CEO and founder of Iridescent, a non-profit that provides access to hands on learning opportunities to prepare underrepresented children and adults for the future of work. She’s been called everything from the “pioneer empowering the incredible tech ...
05.01.2019 Astronomers Turn to AI as New Telescopes Come Online - Ep. 84 Good news: astronomers are getting new tools to let them see further, better than ever before. The bad news: they’ll soon be getting more data than humans can handle. To turn the vast quantities of data that will be pouring ...
04.21.2019 Primer's Sean Gourley on Bots, Propaganda and Fake News - Ep. 83 In 2015 today's guest penned an article called "Robot Propaganda" for Wired magazine. It contained this then bold prediction: "we are likely to see versions of these bots deployed on U.S. audiences as part of the 2016 presidential election campaigns." ...
04.11.2019 UC Berkeley’s Pieter Abbeel on How Deep Learning Will Help Robots Learn - Ep. 82 Robots can do amazing things. Compare even the most advanced robots to a three-year old, however, and they can come up short. UC Berkeley Professor Pieter Abbeel has pioneered the idea that deep learning could be the key to bridging ...
03.27.2019 How the Breakthrough Listen Harnessed AI in the Search for Aliens - Ep. 81 UC Berkeley's Gerry Zhang talks about his work using deep learning to analyze signals from space for signs of intelligent extraterrestrial civilizations. And while we haven't found aliens, yet, the doctoral student has already made some extraordinary discoveries.
03.14.2019 Ready for the Playoffs? Swish Analytics Can Help You Clean Up - Ep. 80 Not sure who will win the NBA playoffs? Looking for coaching when putting together your fantasy football team? Swish Analytics uses AI to help you pick winners. Corey Beaumont, co-founder and head of engineering at the startup, explains how Swish ...
02.26.2019 How AI Helps GOAT Keep Sneakerheads a Step Ahead - Ep. 79 GOAT Group helps sneaker enthusiasts get their hands on authentic Air Jordans, Yeezys and a variety of old-school kicks with the help of AI. Michael Hall, director of data at GOAT Group explains how in a conversation with AI Podcast ...
02.11.2019 How Nuance Brings AI to Healthcare - Ep. 78 You probably recognize the name Nuance from their work with speech recognition and virtual assistant technology. They’re one of the pioneers of voice recognition technology. Of course Nuance Communications has gotten into AI, but what you might not know is ...
01.23.2019 Sort Circuit: How GPUs Helped One Man Conquer His Lego Pile - Ep. 77 At some point in life, every man faces the same great challenge: sorting out his children's Lego pile. Thanks to GPU-driven deep learning, Francisco "Paco" Garcia is one of the few men who can say they've conquered it. Here's how.
01.09.2019 A Man, a GAN, and a 1080 Ti: How Jason Antic Created 'De-Oldify' - Ep. 76 You don't need to be an an academic or to work for a big company to get into deep learning. You can just be a guy with a NVIDIA GeForce 1080 Ti and a Generative Adversarial network. Jason Antic, who ...
12.19.2018 How SoundHound Uses AI to Bring Voice and Music Recognition to Any Platform - Ep. 75 SoundHound made its name as music identification service. Since then, SoundHound has become much more. It's leveraged its 10 plus years in data analytics to create a voice recognition tool companies can bake into any product. Here to tell us ...
12.06.2018 Good News About Fake News: AI Can Now Help Detect False Information - Ep. 74 With “Fake News” embedding itself into, well, our news, it’s become more important than ever to distinguish between content that is fake or authentic. That’s why Vagelis Papalexakis, a professor of computer science at the University of California, Riverside, developed ...
11.21.2018 A Conversation with the Entrepreneur Behind the World's Most Realistic Artificial Voices - Ep. 73 Voice recognition is one thing, creating natural sounding artificial voices is quite another. Lyrebird - a member of NVIDIA’s Inception startup program - uses deep learning to take this a step further, with a system that's able to listen to ...

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What's The AI Podcast about?

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The AI Podcast episodes:

HP’s Jared Dame on How AI, Data Science Driving Demand for Powerful New Workstations - Ep. 122

Not So Taxing: How Intuit Uses AI to Make Tax Day Easier - Ep. 121

NVIDIA’s Jonah Alben Talks AI - Ep. 120

NVIDIA’s Keith Strier Talks AI Nations - Ep. 119

Lenovo's Mike Leach on the Role of the Workstation in Modern AI - Ep. 118

Ford’s Nikita Jaipuria and Rohan Bhasin on Generating Synthetic Data - Ep. 117

Finding Trash in Sensitive Waterways with AI - Ep. 116

MIT’s Jonathan Frankle on “The Lottery Hypothesis” - Ep. 115

Credit Check: Capital One’s Kyle Nicholson on Modern Machine Learning in Finance - Ep. 114

Demystifying AI with NVIDIA’s Will Ramey - Ep. 113

Speed of Light: SLAC’s Ryan Coffee Talks Ultrafast Science - Ep. 112

Stanford's Margot Gerritsen on Data Science and Women in Tech - Ep. 111

Keeping an Eye on AI: Building Ethical Technology at Salesforce - Ep. 110

Nanotronics Brings Deep Learning to Precision Manufacturing - Ep. 109

NVIDIA’s Neda Cvijetic Explains the Science Behind Self-Driving Cars - Ep. 108

AI’s Mild Ride: RoadBotics Puts AI on Pothole Patrol - Ep. 107

Serkan Piantino’s Company Makes AI for Everyone - Ep. 106

Pod Squad: Descript Uses AI to Make Managing Podcasts Quicker, Easier - Ep. 105

Speaking the Same Language: How Oracle’s Conversational AI Serves Customers - Ep. 104

AI4Good: Canadian Lab Empowers Women in Computer Science - Ep. 103

AI Startup Brings Computer Vision to Customer Service - Ep. 102

Clean Sweep: Tokyo Robotics Company Builds Tidying Robots - Ep. 101

The Buck Starts Here: NVIDIA’s Ian Buck on What’s Next for AI - Ep. 100

GauGAN Rocket Man: Conceptual Artist Uses AI Tools for Sci-Fi Modeling - Ep. 99

Say Yes to the AI Dress: Entrepreneur Brings GPUs to Fashion - Ep. 98

Focal Systems Brings AI to Grocery Stores - Ep. 97

Kiwibots Bring Sustenance to Students - Ep. 96

Dial A for AI: Charter Boosts Customer Service with AI - Ep. 95

Doc.ai CEO Walter De Brouwer on How Federated Learning Can Help Keep Data Private- Ep. 94

Forget Storming Area 51, AI’s Helping Astronomers Scour the Skies for Habitable Planets - Ep. 93

Making "Iron Man" Interface Real: AI-Based Virtualitics Demystifies Data Science with VR - Ep. 92

Get Your Fashion Fix: Stitch Fix Adds AI Flair to Your Closet - Ep. 91

Talking Trucks with TuSimple's Chuck Price - Ep. 90

Anthem Could Have Healthcare Industry Singing a New Tune - Ep. 89

SAS Chief Operating Officer Oliver Schabenberger - Ep. 88

AutoX's Professor X on the State of Automotive Autonomy - Ep. 87

A-High: How Grownetics Automates Cannabis Cultivation with Deep Learning - Ep. 86

Teaching Families to Embrace AI - Ep. 85

Astronomers Turn to AI as New Telescopes Come Online - Ep. 84

Primer's Sean Gourley on Bots, Propaganda and Fake News - Ep. 83

UC Berkeley’s Pieter Abbeel on How Deep Learning Will Help Robots Learn - Ep. 82

How the Breakthrough Listen Harnessed AI in the Search for Aliens - Ep. 81

Ready for the Playoffs? Swish Analytics Can Help You Clean Up - Ep. 80

How AI Helps GOAT Keep Sneakerheads a Step Ahead - Ep. 79

How Nuance Brings AI to Healthcare - Ep. 78

Sort Circuit: How GPUs Helped One Man Conquer His Lego Pile - Ep. 77

A Man, a GAN, and a 1080 Ti: How Jason Antic Created 'De-Oldify' - Ep. 76

How SoundHound Uses AI to Bring Voice and Music Recognition to Any Platform - Ep. 75

Good News About Fake News: AI Can Now Help Detect False Information - Ep. 74

A Conversation with the Entrepreneur Behind the World's Most Realistic Artificial Voices - Ep. 73

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