The AI Podcast

By NVIDIA

Technology

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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Speaking the Same Language:...

11.21.2019

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 ...

The AI Podcast episodes:

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 ...
11.08.2018 Investor, AI Pioneer Kai-Fu Lee on the Future of AI in the US, China - Ep. 72 Dr. Kai-Fu Lee has been at the center of artificial intelligence for decades. Dr. Lee developed the world's first speaker independent continuous speech recognition system, selected as the most important innovation of the year by BusinessWeek, and that was back ...
10.24.2018 How Intuit Uses Deep Learning to Help You with Your Taxes - Ep. 71 Intuit Senior Vice President and Chief Data Officer Ashok Srivastava on how the personal finance giant is using AI to help make us all smarter about our finances.
10.10.2018 What's in Your Wallet? For Capital One, the Answer Is AI - Ep. 70 When you hear of AI and machine learning, it’s easy to think of technology companies leading the charge. Capital One is determined to change that. In a conversation with AI Podcast host Noah Kravitz, Nitzan Mekel, managing vice president of ...
09.17.2018 Cycle of DOOM Now Complete: Researchers Use AI to Generate New Levels for Seminal Videogame - Ep. 69 DOOM, of course, is foundational to 3D gaming. 3D gaming, of course, is foundational to GPUs. GPUs, of course, are foundational to deep learning, which is, now, thanks to a team of Italian researchers, two of whom we're bringing to ...
08.29.2018 This Astrophysics Grad Student Doesn't Always Make Memes... But When He Does, He Uses Deep Learning What's a meme? And what makes a meme, dank? Today's guest is Lawrence Pierson, a PhD student in theoretical astrophysics at Stanford University, will answer these questions, and more. He's the author a paper detailing how he and a classmate ...
08.22.2018 Teaching Bots Learn by Watching Human Behavior - Ep. 67 Robots following coded instructions to complete a task? Old school. Robots learning to do things by watching how humans do it? That’s the future. Earlier this year, Stanford’s Animesh Garg and Marynel Vázquez shared their research in a talk on ...
08.08.2018 Startup Uses Deep Learning to Understand Voice - Ep. 66 Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. As the years have passed what passed since the invention of the personal computer, what passes in the world of technology has changed dramatically. So what’s next? Voice computing is once answer. ...
07.18.2018 Startup Uses AI to Help Airports Work More Smoothly - Ep. 65 Airport control towers are icons of the aviation industry. But a Canadian startup wants to use artificial intelligence to make them a relic of the past. Searidge Technologies believes AI powered video systems can do a better job.
07.03.2018 Startup Uses AI to Give Consumers the Credit They Deserve - Ep. 64 Credit scores are a funny thing. Funny might not be the right word, but you know what we mean. You can't have a credit score unless you have a credit history. You have to use your credit to keep your ...
06.13.2018 NVIDIA Chief Scientist Bill Dally on Where AI Goes Next - Ep. 62 NVIDIA researchers are gearing up to present 19 accepted papers and posters, seven of them during speaking sessions, at the annual Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition conference next week in Salt Lake City, Utah. Joining us to discuss some of ...
06.07.2018 How AI's Storming the Fashion Industry - Ep. 61 Smarts are always in fashion, and our next guest has that in spades. Costa Colbert has been chasing down how brains — both real and artificial — work for 30 years. Dr. Colbert — who holds degrees in fields ranging ...
05.29.2018 Netflix's Justin Basilico on How Entertainment and AI Intersect - Ep. 60 NetFlix has changed the way we watch television for the better. The streaming video pioneer is much more than just an entertainment giant for the 21st century — it’s also a pioneer when it comes to using machine learning. While ...
05.22.2018 A USB Port for Your Body? Startup Uses AI to Connect Medical Devices to Nervous System - Ep. 59 Think of it as like a USB port for your body. Emil Hewage is the co-founder and CEO at Cambridge Bio-Augmentation Systems, a neural engineering startup. They UK startup is building interfaces that use AI to help plug medical devices ...
05.17.2018 The Long View on Big Data: Wayne Thompson, Chief Data Scientist, SAS Data Science Institute - Ep. 58 Wayne Thompson was into big data, before big data was cool. Now the world — even much of our GPU Technology Conference — revolves around the kinds of challenges the 25-year veteran of analytics software developer SAS Institute has made ...
05.10.2018 NVIDIA's Bryan Catanzaro on the Latest from NVIDIA Research - Ep. 57 This week's episode features Bryan Catanzaro, vice president of applied deep learning research at NVIDIA, and if you've been following the podcast for a while, you know that an earlier episode featuring Bryan is one of the most popular podcasts ...
05.02.2018 Grab and Go: Startup AiFi Using Deep Learning to Make Every Store Smarter - Ep. 56 Grab the goods and go. AiFi co-founder and CEO Steve Gu wants to give every store — from Mom and Pop bodegas to supermarket chains — the ability to let customers saunter out of the door without so much as ...
04.25.2018 How Deep Learning Can Accelerate the Quest for Cheap, Clean Fusion Energy - Ep. 55 Clean, cheap fusion energy would change everything for the better. Our next guest, William Tang, has spent a career at the forefront of that field, currently as principal research physicist at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. He’s also one of ...
04.20.2018 A Conversation About Go, Sci-Fi, Deep Learning and Computational Chemistry - Ep. 54 Deep learning has helped machines understand how to move pieces around a board to master, and win, Go, the most complicated game mankind has ever invented. Now it's helping a new generation of chemists better understand how to move molecules ...

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The AI Podcast episodes:

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

Investor, AI Pioneer Kai-Fu Lee on the Future of AI in the US, China - Ep. 72

How Intuit Uses Deep Learning to Help You with Your Taxes - Ep. 71

What's in Your Wallet? For Capital One, the Answer Is AI - Ep. 70

Cycle of DOOM Now Complete: Researchers Use AI to Generate New Levels for Seminal Videogame - Ep. 69

This Astrophysics Grad Student Doesn't Always Make Memes... But When He Does, He Uses Deep Learning

Teaching Bots Learn by Watching Human Behavior - Ep. 67

Startup Uses Deep Learning to Understand Voice - Ep. 66

Startup Uses AI to Help Airports Work More Smoothly - Ep. 65

Startup Uses AI to Give Consumers the Credit They Deserve - Ep. 64

NVIDIA Chief Scientist Bill Dally on Where AI Goes Next - Ep. 62

How AI's Storming the Fashion Industry - Ep. 61

Netflix's Justin Basilico on How Entertainment and AI Intersect - Ep. 60

A USB Port for Your Body? Startup Uses AI to Connect Medical Devices to Nervous System - Ep. 59

The Long View on Big Data: Wayne Thompson, Chief Data Scientist, SAS Data Science Institute - Ep. 58

NVIDIA's Bryan Catanzaro on the Latest from NVIDIA Research - Ep. 57

Grab and Go: Startup AiFi Using Deep Learning to Make Every Store Smarter - Ep. 56

How Deep Learning Can Accelerate the Quest for Cheap, Clean Fusion Energy - Ep. 55

A Conversation About Go, Sci-Fi, Deep Learning and Computational Chemistry - Ep. 54

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