Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI


Latest Episodes

Jensen Huang — NVIDIA's CEO on the Next Generation of AI and MLOps
March 03, 2022

Jensen Huang is founder and CEO of NVIDIA, whose GPUs sit at the heart of the majority of machine learning models today. Jensen shares the story behind NVIDIA's expansion from gaming to deep learning acceleration, leadership lessons that he's learned over

Peter & Boris — Fine-tuning OpenAI's GPT-3
February 10, 2022

Peter Welinder is VP of Product and Partnerships at OpenAI, where he runs product and commercialization efforts of GPT-3, Codex, GitHub Copilot, and more. Boris Dayma is Machine Learning Engineer at Weights and Biases, and works on integrations and large

Ion Stoica — Spark, Ray, and Enterprise Open Source
January 20, 2022

Ion Stoica is co-creator of the distributed computing frameworks Spark and Ray, and co-founder and Executive Chairman of Databricks and Anyscale. He is also a Professor of computer science at UC Berkeley and Principal Investigator of RISELab, a five-year

Stephan Fabel — Efficient Supercomputing with NVIDIA's Base Command Platform
January 06, 2022

Stephan Fabel is Senior Director of Infrastructure Systems and Software at NVIDIA, where he works on Base Command, a software platform to coordinate access to NVIDIA's DGX SuperPOD infrastructure. Lukas and Stephan talk about why having a supercomputer is

Chris Padwick — Smart Machines for More Sustainable Farming
December 23, 2021

Chris Padwick is Director of Computer Vision Machine Learning at Blue River Technology, a subsidiary of John Deere. Their core product, See and Spray, is a weeding robot that identifies crops and weeds in order to spray only the weeds with herbicide. Chri

Kathryn Hume — Financial Models, ML, and 17th-Century Philosophy
December 16, 2021

Kathryn Hume is Vice President Digital Investments Technology at the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC). At the time of recording, she was Interim Head of Borealis AI, RBC's research institute for machine learning. Kathryn and Lukas talk about ML applications in

Sean & Greg — Biology and ML for Drug Discovery
December 02, 2021

Sean McClain is the founder and CEO, and Gregory Hannum is the VP of AI Research at Absci, a biotech company that's using deep learning to expedite drug discovery and development. Lukas, Sean, and Greg talk about why Absci started investing so heavily in

Chris, Shawn, and Lukas — The Weights & Biases Journey
November 04, 2021

You might know him as the host of Gradient Dissent, but Lukas is also the CEO of Weights and Biases, a developer-first ML tools platform! In this special episode, the three WandB co-founders — Chris (CVP), Shawn (CTO), and Lukas (CEO) — sit down to tell t

Pete Warden — Practical Applications of TinyML
October 21, 2021

Pete is the Technical Lead of the TensorFlow Micro team, which works on deep learning for mobile and embedded devices. Lukas and Pete talk about hacking a Raspberry Pi to run AlexNet, the power and size constraints of embedded devices, and techniques to r

Pieter Abbeel — Robotics, Startups, and Robotics Startups
October 07, 2021

Pieter is the Chief Scientist and Co-founder at Covariant, where his team is building universal AI for robotic manipulation. Pieter also hosts The Robot Brains Podcast, in which he explores how far humanity has come in its mission to create conscious comp