The Gradient: Perspectives on AI

In episode 7 of The Gradient Podcast, we interview founder and owner of Silero Alexander Veysov. You can find a transcript of our conversation here, and the repositories for Open Speech To Text and Silero Models here.Subscribe to The Gradient Podcast: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Pocket Casts | RSSAlexander Veysov is the founder / owner of Silero, a small company building Speech / NLP enabled products, and author of Open STT. Silero has recently shipped its own Russian STT engine. Previously he

In episode 6 of The Gradient Podcast, we interview Deep Learning pioneer Yann LeCun.Subscribe to The Gradient Podcast: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Pocket Casts | RSSFollow The Gradient on TwitterYann LeCun is the VP & Chief AI Scientist at Facebook and Silver Professor at NYU and he was also the founding Director of Facebook AI Research and of the NYU Center for Data Science. He famously pioneered the use of Convolutional Neural Nets for image processing in the 80s and 90s, and is generally

In episode 5 of The Gradient Podcast, we interview NLP researcher Anna Rogers.Subscribe to The Gradient Podcast: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Pocket Casts | RSSAnna Rogers is a post-doctoral associate at the University of Copenhagen, working with the research groups in the Center for Social Data Science and Machine Learning section. Her main research area is Natural Language Processing, with focus on interpretability and evaluation of deep learning models. She is also known for her work on improving

In episode 4 of The Gradient Podcast, we interview artist, engineer, and entrepreneur Joel Simon.Subscribe to The Gradient Podcast: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Pocket Casts | RSSJoel Simon is a multidisciplinary artist, toolmaker, and researcher. He studied computer science and art at Carnegie Mellon University, worked on bioinformatics at Rockefeller University, and most recently is the founder and director of Morphogen, a generative design company developing Artbreeder, a massively collaborative

Subscribe to The Gradient Podcast: iTunes | RSS | SpotifyIn episode 3 of The Gradient Podcast, we interview researcher and entrepreneur Abubakar Abid. Follow him on Twitter and check out the websites of his company Gradio and his side project the Fatima Fellowship.Abubakar is an entrepreneur and researcher focused on AI and its applications to medicine. He is currently running the company Gradio, which is developing a product to generate an easy-to-use UI for any ML model, function, or

In episode 2 of The Gradient Podcast, we interview AI artist Helana Sarin. Check out her work and follow her over at her Twitter @NeuralBricolage.Helena Sarin is a visual artist and software engineer and is among the most prominent artists utilizing AI for their work. After she discovered GANs (Generative Adversarial Networks) several years ago and then made generative models her primary medium. She is a frequent speaker at ML/AI conferences, for the past year delivering invited talks at MIT,

Hello world! After more than 3 years of publishing overviews and perspectives from the AI community on thegradient.pub, The Gradient now has a podcast. In this first episode our lead editors take a look back on how it all started, as well as a look ahead at where things are heading. Keep an eye out for our next episode, coming soon!Theme: “MusicVAE: Trio 16-bar Sample #2” from "MusicVAE: A Hierarchical Latent Vector Model for Learning Long-Term Structure in Music". Get full access to The Gradient