Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI


Latest Episodes

Clément Delangue, CEO of Hugging Face, on the power of the open source community
June 10, 2021

Clem explains the virtuous cycles behind the creation and success of Hugging Face, and shares his thoughts on where NLP is heading. --- Clément Delangue is co-founder and CEO of Hugging Face, the AI community building the future. Hugging Face started as

What could make AI conscious? with Wojciech Zaremba, co-founder of OpenAI
June 03, 2021

Wojciech joins us to talk the principles behind OpenAI, the Fermi Paradox, and the future stages of developments in AGI. --- Wojciech Zaremba is a co-founder of OpenAI, a research company dedicated to discovering and enacting the path to safe artificial

Graphcore's Phil Brown on how IPUs are advancing machine intelligence
May 27, 2021

Phil shares some of the approaches, like sparsity and low precision, behind the breakthrough performance of Graphcore's Intelligence Processing Units (IPUs). --- Phil Brown leads the Applications team at Graphcore, where they're building high-performanc

Alyssa Simpson Rochwerger on responsible machine learning in the real world
May 20, 2021

From working on COVID-19 vaccine rollout to writi…

How Sean Taylor of Lyft Rideshare Labs thinks about business decision problems
May 13, 2021

Sean joins us to chat about ML models and tools a…

Stanford's Polly Fordyce on microfluidic platforms and machine learning
April 29, 2021

Polly explains how microfluidics allow bioenginee…

Toyota Research Institute's Adrien Gaidon on advancing ML research in autonomous vehicles
April 22, 2021

Adrien Gaidon shares his approach to building tea…

Nanit's Nimrod Shabtay on deployment and monitoring
April 15, 2021

A look at how Nimrod and the team at Nanit are bu…

NASA JPL's Chris Mattmann on ML applications on Earth, Mars, and beyond
April 08, 2021

Chris shares some of the incredible work and inno…

The power of simulation and abstraction with Intel's Vladlen Koltun
April 01, 2021

From legged locomotion to autonomous driving, Vla…