The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence)

The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence)


Latest Episodes

Supercharging Developer Productivity with ChatGPT and Claude with Simon Willison - #701
September 16, 2024

Today, we're joined by Simon Willison, independent researcher and creator of Datasette to discuss the many ways software developers and engineers can take advantage of large language models (LLMs) to boost their productivity. We dig into Simon’s own workf

Automated Design of Agentic Systems with Shengran Hu - #700
September 02, 2024

Today, we're joined by Shengran Hu, a PhD student at the University of British Columbia, to discuss Automated Design of Agentic Systems (ADAS), an approach focused on automatically creating agentic system designs. We explore the spectrum of agentic behavi

The EU AI Act and Mitigating Bias in Automated Decisioning with Peter van der Putten - #699
August 26, 2024

Today, we're joined by Peter van der Putten, director of the AI Lab at Pega and assistant professor of AI at Leiden University. We discuss the newly adopted European AI Act and the challenges of applying academic fairness metrics in real-world AI applicat

The Building Blocks of Agentic Systems with Harrison Chase - #698
August 19, 2024

Today, we're joined by Harrison Chase, co-founder and CEO of LangChain to discuss LLM frameworks, agentic systems, RAG, evaluation, and more. We dig into the elements of a modern LLM framework, including the most productive developer experiences and appro

Simplifying On-Device AI for Developers with Siddhika Nevrekar - #697
August 12, 2024

Today, we're joined by Siddhika Nevrekar, AI Hub head at Qualcomm Technologies, to discuss on-device AI and how to make it easier for developers to take advantage of device capabilities. We unpack the motivations for AI engineers to move model inference f

Genie: Generative Interactive Environments with Ashley Edwards - #696
August 05, 2024

Today, we're joined by Ashley Edwards, a member of technical staff at Runway, to discuss Genie: Generative Interactive Environments, a system for creating playable video environments for training deep reinforcement learning (RL) agents at scale in a com

Bridging the Sim2real Gap in Robotics with Marius Memmel - #695
July 30, 2024

Today, we're joined by Marius Memmel, a PhD student at the University of Washington, to discuss his research on sim-to-real transfer approaches for developing autonomous robotic agents in unstructured environments. Our conversation focuses on his recent A

Building Real-World LLM Products with Fine-Tuning and More with Hamel Husain - #694
July 23, 2024

Today, we're joined by Hamel Husain, founder of Parlance Labs, to discuss the ins and outs of building real-world products using large language models (LLMs). We kick things off discussing novel applications of LLMs and how to think about modern AI user e

Mamba, Mamba-2 and Post-Transformer Architectures for Generative AI with Albert Gu - #693
July 17, 2024

Today, we're joined by Albert Gu, assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University, to discuss his research on post-transformer architectures for multi-modal foundation models, with a focus on state-space models in general and Albert’s recent Mamba and M

Decoding Animal Behavior to Train Robots with EgoPet with Amir Bar - #692
July 09, 2024

Today, we're joined by Amir Bar, a PhD candidate at Tel Aviv University and UC Berkeley to discuss his research on visual-based learning, including his recent paper, EgoPet: Egomotion and Interaction Data from an Animals Perspective. Amir shares his re