Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI


Latest Episodes

Jehan Wickramasuriya — AI in High-Stress Scenarios
October 06, 2022

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
September 15, 2022

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
August 26, 2022

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
August 04, 2022

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
July 14, 2022

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
July 07, 2022

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
June 17, 2022

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
June 09, 2022

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
May 12, 2022

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
April 21, 2022

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