Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI
Latest Episodes
Jehan Wickramasuriya — AI in High-Stress Scenarios
Jehan Wickramasuriya is the Vice President of AI, Platform & Data Services at Motorola Solutions, a global leader in public safety and enterprise security.In this episode, Jehan discusses how Motorola Solutions uses AI to simplify data streams to help
Will Falcon — Making Lightning the Apple of ML
Will Falcon is the CEO and co-founder of Lightning AI, a platform that enables users to quickly build and publish ML models.In this episode, Will explains how Lightning addresses the challenges of a fragmented AI ecosystem and reveals which framework PyTo
Aaron Colak — ML and NLP in Experience Management
Aaron Colak is the Leader of Core Machine Learning at Qualtrics, an experiment management company that takes large language models and applies them to real-world, B2B use cases.In this episode, Aaron describes mixing classical linguistic analysis with dee
Jordan Fisher — Skipping the Line with Autonomous Checkout
Jordan Fisher is the CEO and co-founder of Standard AI, an autonomous checkout company thats pushing the boundaries of computer vision.In this episode, Jordan discusses the Wild West of the MLOps stack and tells Lukas why Rust beats Python. He also exp
Drago Anguelov — Robustness, Safety, and Scalability at Waymo
Drago Anguelov is a Distinguished Scientist and Head of Research at Waymo, an autonomous driving technology company and subsidiary of Alphabet Inc.We begin by discussing Drago's work on the original Inception architecture, winner of the 2014 ImageNet chal
James Cham — Investing in the Intersection of Business and Technology
James Cham is a co-founder and partner at Bloomberg Beta, an early-stage venture firm that invests in machine learning and the future of work, the intersection between business and technology.James explains how his approach to investing in AI has develope
Boris Dayma — The Story Behind DALL·E mini, the Viral Phenomenon
Check out this report by Boris about DALL-E mini:https://wandb.ai/dalle-mini/dalle-mini/reports/DALL-E-mini-Generate-images-from-any-text-prompt--VmlldzoyMDE4NDAyhttps://wandb.ai/_scott/wandb_example/reports/Collaboration-in-ML-made-easy-with-W-B-Teams--V
Tristan Handy — The Work Behind the Data Work
Tristan Handy is CEO and founder of dbt Labs. dbt (data build tool) simplifies the data transformation workflow and helps organizations make better decisions.Lukas and Tristan dive into the history of the modern data stack and the subsequent challenges th
Johannes Otterbach — Unlocking ML for Traditional Companies
Johannes Otterbach is VP of Machine Learning Research at Merantix Momentum, an ML consulting studio that helps their clients build AI solutions.Johannes and Lukas talk about Johannes' background in physics and applications of ML to quantum computing, why
Mircea Neagovici — Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and ML
Mircea Neagovici is VP, AI and Research at UiPath, where his team works on task mining and other ways of combining robotic process automation (RPA) with machine learning for their B2B products. Mircea and Lukas talk about the challenges of allowing custom