Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI


Latest Episodes

Scaling LLMs and Accelerating Adoption with Aidan Gomez at Cohere
April 20, 2023

On this episode, were joined by Aidan Gomez, Co-Founder and CEO at Cohere. Cohere develops and releases a range of innovative AI-powered tools and solutions for a variety of NLP use cases.We discuss:- What attention means in the context of ML.- Aidans

Neural Network Pruning and Training with Jonathan Frankle at MosaicML
April 04, 2023

Jonathan Frankle, Chief Scientist at MosaicML and Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University, joins us on this episode. With comprehensive infrastructure and software tools, MosaicML aims to help businesses train complex machine-learnin

Shreya Shankar — Operationalizing Machine Learning
March 02, 2023

About This EpisodeShreya Shankar is a computer scientist, PhD student in databases at UC Berkeley, and co-author of "Operationalizing Machine Learning: An Interview Study", an ethnographic interview study with 18 machine learning engineers across a variet

Jasper AI's Dave Rogenmoser & Saad Ansari on Growing & Maintaining an LLM-Based Company
February 16, 2023

About this episodeIn this episode of Gradient Dissent, Lukas interviews Dave Rogenmoser (CEO & Co-Founder) and Saad Ansari (Director of AI) of Jasper AI, a generative AI company with a focus on text generation for content like blog posts, articles, an

Sarah Catanzaro — Remembering the Lessons of the Last AI Renaissance
February 02, 2023

Sarah Catanzaro is a General Partner at Amplify Partners, and one of the leading investors in AI and ML. Her investments include RunwayML, OctoML, and Gantry.Sarah and Lukas discuss lessons learned from the "AI renaissance" of the mid 2010s and compare th

Cristóbal Valenzuela — The Next Generation of Content Creation and AI
January 18, 2023

Cristbal Valenzuela is co-founder and CEO of Runway ML, a startup that's building the future of AI-powered content creation tools. Runway's research areas include diffusion systems for image generation.Cris gives a demo of Runway's video editing platform

Jeremy Howard — The Simple but Profound Insight Behind Diffusion
January 05, 2023

Jeremy Howard is a co-founder of fast.ai, the non-profit research group behind the popular massive open online course "Practical Deep Learning for Coders", and the open source deep learning library "fastai".Jeremy is also a co-founder of #Masks4All, a glo

Jerome Pesenti — Large Language Models, PyTorch, and Meta
December 22, 2022

Jerome Pesenti is the former VP of AI at Meta, a tech conglomerate that includes Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram, and one of the most exciting places where AI research is happening today.Jerome shares his thoughts on Transformers-based large language mo

D. Sculley — Technical Debt, Trade-offs, and Kaggle
December 01, 2022

D. Sculley is CEO of Kaggle, the beloved and well-known data science and machine learning community.D. discusses his influential 2015 paper "Machine Learning: The High Interest Credit Card of Technical Debt" and what the current challenges of deploying mo

Emad Mostaque — Stable Diffusion, Stability AI, and What’s Next
November 15, 2022

Emad Mostaque is CEO and co-founder of Stability AI, a startup and network of decentralized developer communities building open AI tools. Stability AI is the company behind Stable Diffusion, the well-known, open source, text-to-image generation model.Emad