Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI


Latest Episodes

Chris Albon — ML Models and Infrastructure at Wikimedia
September 23, 2021

In this episode we're joined by Chris Albon, Director of Machine Learning at the Wikimedia Foundation. Lukas and Chris talk about Wikimedia's approach to content moderation, what it's like to work in a place so transparent that even internal chats are pub

Emily M. Bender — Language Models and Linguistics
September 09, 2021

In this episode, Emily and Lukas dive into the problems with bigger and bigger language models, the difference between form and meaning, the limits of benchmarks, and why it's important to name the languages we study. Show notes (links to papers and trans

Jeff Hammerbacher — From data science to biomedicine
August 26, 2021

Jeff talks about building Facebook's early data team, founding Cloudera, and transitioning into biomedicine with Hammer Lab and Related Sciences.

Josh Bloom, Chair of Astronomy at UC Berkeley — The Link Between Astronomy and ML
August 20, 2021

Josh explains how astronomy and machine learning have informed each other, their current limitations, and where their intersection goes from here.

Building AI-powered primary care with Curai's CTO, Xavier Amatriain
July 30, 2021

Xavier shares his experience deploying healthcare models, augmenting primary care with AI, the challenges of "ground truth" in medicine, and robustness in ML. --- Xavier Amatriain is co-founder and CTO of Curai, an ML-based primary care chat system. Pre

Enterprise-scale machine translation with Spence Green, CEO of Lilt
July 16, 2021

Spence shares his experience creating a product around human-in-the-loop machine translation, and explains how machine translation has evolved over the years. --- Spence Green is co-founder and CEO of Lilt, an AI-powered language translation platform. L

The rise of big data and responding to COVID-19 with Roger and DJ
July 08, 2021

Roger and DJ share some of the history behind data science as we know it today, and reflect on their experiences working on California's COVID-19 response. --- Roger Magoulas is Senior Director of Data Strategy at Astronomer, where he works on data infr

How Pandora deploys machine learning models into production with Amelia and Filip
July 01, 2021

Amelia and Filip give insights into the recommender systems powering Pandora, from developing models to balancing effectiveness and efficiency in production. --- Amelia Nybakke is a Software Engineer at Pandora. Her team is responsible for the productio

OctoML CEO Luis Ceze on accelerating machine learning systems
June 24, 2021

From Apache TVM to OctoML, Luis gives direct insight into the world of ML hardware optimization, and where systems optimization is heading. --- Luis Ceze is co-founder and CEO of OctoML, co-author of the Apache TVM Project, and Professor of Computer Sci

Bringing genetic insights to everyone with Invitae's Head of AI, Matthew Davis
June 17, 2021

Matthew explains how combining machine learning and computational biology can provide mainstream medicine with better diagnostics and insights. --- Matthew Davis is Head of AI at Invitae, the largest and fastest growing genetic testing company in the wo