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How AI Happens

How AI Happens features experts and practitioners explaining their work at the cutting edge of Artificial Intelligence. Tune in to hear AI Researchers, Data Scientists, ML Engineers, and the leaders of today’s most exciting AI companies explain the newest and most challenging facets of their field. Powered by Sama.

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00:33:50

Privacy in AI with MATR Ventures Partner Hessie Jones

How AI Happens ·

2022/06/03

MATR Ventures Partner, Hessie Jones, is dedicated to solving issues around AI ethics as well as diversity & representation in the space. In our conversation with her, she breaks down how she came to beleive something was wrong with the way companies harvest & use data, and the steps she has taken towards solving the privacy problem. We discuss the danger of intentionally convoluted terms and conditions and the problem with synthetic data. Tune in to hear about the future of biometrics and data

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00:27:28

Qualcomm Head of AI & ML Product Management Dr....

How AI Happens ·

2022/05/26

During Vinesh Sukumar’s colorful career he has worked at NASA, Apple, Intel, and a variety of other companies, before finding his way to Qualcomm where he is currently the Head of AI/ML Product Management. In today’s conversation, Vinesh shares his experience of developing the camera for the very first iPhone and one of the biggest lessons he learned from working with Steve Jobs. We then discuss what his current role entails and the biggest challenge that he has with it, Qualcomm’s approach to

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00:35:55

AI in the Metaverse with Dr. Mark Rijmenam

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2022/05/19

Joining us on this episode of How AI Happens is four-time author, entrepreneur, future tech strategist, and The Digital Speaker himself, Dr. Mark van Rijmenam. Mark explainsthe extraordinary opportunities and challenges facing business leaders, consumers, regulators, policymakers, and other metaverse stakeholders trying to navigate the future of the internet; the important role that AI will play in the metaverse; why he believes we need to enable what he calls ‘anonymous accountability’; and how you

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00:31:11

IBM Master Inventor & AI Advisor to the UN Neil Sahota

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2022/05/12

Neil Sahota is an AI Advisor to the UN, co-founder of the UN’s AI for Good initiative, IBM Master Inventor, and author of Own the AI Revolution. In today’s episode, Neil shares some of the valuable lessons he learned during his first experience working in the AI world, which involved training the Watson computer system. We then dive into a number of different topics, ranging from Neil’s thoughts on synthetic data and to the language learning capacity of AI versus a human child, to an overview of the

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00:22:04

Prospitalia Group CEO Dr. Marcell Vollmer

How AI Happens ·

2022/05/05

Dr. Marcell Vollmer is the CEO of Prospitalia Group, formerly Chief Innovation Officer at Celonis and Chief Digital Officer at SAP. He joins to discuss Machine Learning advances in MedTech and how practitioners can be thoughtful about when it is appropriate to deploy ML.

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00:25:13

AI Safety Engineering - Dr. Roman Yampolskiy

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2022/04/28

Today’s guest has committed many years of his life to trying to understand Artificial Superintelligence and the security concerns associated with it. Dr. Roman Yampolskiy is a computer scientist (with a Ph.D. in behavioral biometrics), and an Associate Professor at the University of Louisville. He is also the author of the book Artificial Superintelligence: A Futuristic Approach. Today he joins us to discuss AI safety engineering. You’ll hear about some of the safety problems he has discovered in

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00:31:08

GRID.ai's Lead AI Educator Sebastian Raschka

How AI Happens ·

2022/04/21

Joining us today on How AI Happens is Sebastian Raschka, Lead AI educator at GRID.ai and Assistant Professor of Statistics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Sebastian fills us in on the coursework he’s creating in his role at GRID.ai, and we find out what can be attributed to the crossover of machine learning in academia and the private sector. We speculate on the pros and cons of the commodification of deep learning models and which machine learning framework is better: PyTorch or

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00:24:04

Edge Computing & AI Readiness with Antonio Grasso

How AI Happens ·

2022/04/14

Antonio Grasso joins us to explain how he empowers some of the biggest companies in the world to use AI in a meaningful way and explains the two ways his company goes about this. You’ll hear about what Antonio believes is coming down the pipeline in terms of the Internet of Things, especially when it comes to edge computing, and why network traffic has become a huge concern. We discuss where edge computing begins and ends with regards to the difference between the device and its computational

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00:38:15

The Future of NLP with AI Professor, Vice Rector, &...

How AI Happens ·

2022/04/07

Today's guest is Aleksandra Przegalinska PhD, Vice-Rector at Kozminski University, research associate, and Polish futurist. From studying pure philosophy, Aleksandra moved into AI when she started researching natural language processing in the virtual space. We kickstart our discussion with her account of how she ended up where she is now, and how she transferred her skills from philosophy to AI. We hear how Second Life was common in Asia centuries ago, why we are seeing a return to anonymization

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00:32:48

Unpacking Facial Recognition Technology at CyberLink

How AI Happens ·

2022/03/31

CyberLink's facial recognition technology routinely registers best-in-class accuracy. But how do developers deal with masks, glasses, headphones, or changes in faces over time? How can they prevent spoofing in order to protect identities? And where does computer vision & object detection stop and FRT truly begin? CyberLink Senior Vice President of Global Marketing and US General Manager Richard Carriere and Head of Sales Engineering Craig Campbell join to discuss the endless use cases for facial

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00:33:27

Universal Autonomy with Oxbotica VP of Technology Ben...

How AI Happens ·

2022/03/24

Oxbotica is a vehicle software company at the forefront of autonomous technology, and today we have a fascinating chat with Ben Upcroft, the Vice President of Technology. Ben explains Oxbotica's mission of enabling industries to make the most of autonomy, and how their technological progress affects real-world situations. We also get into some of the challenges that Oxbotica and the autonomy space, in general, are currently facing, before drilling down on the important concepts of user trust, future

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00:33:46

Upleveling Data Labeling with Sama's Jerome Pasquero

How AI Happens ·

2022/03/17

Key Points From This Episode:Jerome’s background, interest in AI, and how he landed his role at Sama.Social initiatives, training data, and what attracted Jerome to Sama.The shift from focusing on AI models to the importance of data quality.Why academia requires the use of a foundational dataset to compare models.The reason for the early focus on building new AI models.Whether datasets will become open source in the future as models have.The role of annotation in making data meaningful and

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00:40:51

A Highly Compositional Future with Dr. Eric Daimler

How AI Happens ·

2022/03/03

Dr. Daimler is an authority in Artificial Intelligence with over 20 years of experience in the field as an entrepreneur, executive, investor, technologist, and policy advisor. He is also the founder of data integration firm Conexus, and we kick our conversation off with the work he is doing to integrate large heterogeneous data infrastructures. This leads us into an exploration of the concept of compositionality, a structural feature that enables systems to scale, which Dr. Daimler argues is the

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00:31:09

Transfer Learning & Solving Unstructured Data with...

How AI Happens ·

2022/02/24

Irrespective of the application or the technology, a common problem among AI professionals always seems to be data. Is there enough of it? What do we prioritize? Is it clean? How do we annotate it? Today’s guest, however, believes that AI is not data-limited but compute-limited. Joining us to share some very interesting insights on the subject matter is Slater Victoroff, Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Indico, an unstructured data platform that enables users to build innovative,

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00:28:58

AI Opportunity in the Space Ecosystem with Space...

How AI Happens ·

2022/02/17

The innovations that drive space exploration not only aid us in discovering other worlds, but they also benefit us right here on earth. Today’s guest is Shelli Brunswick, who joins us to talk about the role of AI in space exploration and how the ‘space ecosystem’ can create jobs and career opportunities on Earth. Shelli is the COO at the Space Foundation and was selected as the 2020 Diversity and Inclusion Officer and Role Model of the Year by WomenTech Network and a Woman of Influence by the

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00:34:26

Autonomous Vehicles' Impact on Cities with Lyft's...

How AI Happens ·

2022/02/10

A future filled with autonomous vehicles promises to be a driving utopia. Maximum efficiency navigation decreasing traffic and congestion, safety features that drastically reduce collisions with other cars, bikes, or pedestrians, and an electric-first approach that lowers greenhouse gas emissions. But as today’s guest asserts, on the back of her extensive research the implications of a huge increase in autonomous vehicles on our streets aren’t rosy by default. Sarah Barnes works on the

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00:27:29

The Opportunity of NLG with Arria CTO Neil Burnett

How AI Happens ·

2022/02/03

Arria is a Natural Language Generation company that replicates the human process of expertly analyzing and communicating data insights. We caught up with their CTO, Neil Burnett, to learn more about how Arria's technology goes beyond the standard rules-based NLP approach, as well as how the technology develops and grows once it's placed in the hands of the consumer. Neil explains the huge opportunity within NLG, and how solving for seamless language based communication between humans and machines

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00:23:35

Developing Solid State LiDAR with Baraja CTO Cibby...

How AI Happens ·

2021/12/20

Traditional LiDAR systems require moving parts to operate, making them less cost-effective, robust, and safe. Cibby Pulikkaseril is the Founder and CTO of Baraja, a company that has reinvented LiDAR for self-driving vehicles by using a color-changing laser routed by a prism. After his Ph.D. in lasers and fiber optic communications, Cibby got a job at a telecom equipment company, and that is when he discovered that a laser used in DWDM networks could be used to reinvent LiDAR. By joining this

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00:22:35

Building Trustworthy Behaviomedics with Blueskeye CEO...

How AI Happens ·

2021/11/11

Academic turned entrepreneur Michel Valstar joins How AI Happens to explain how his behaviomedics company, Blueskeye AI, prioritizes building trust with their users. Much of the approach features data opt-ins and on-device processing, which necessarily results in less data collection. Michel explains how his team is able to continue gleaning meaningful insight from smaller portions of data than your average AI practitioner is used to. Michel Valstar on LinkedInBlueskeye AI

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00:42:24

Egocentric Perception with Facebook's Manohar Paluri

How AI Happens ·

2021/11/05

Joining us today is Senior Director at Facebook AI, Manohar Paluri. Mano discusses the biggest challenges facing the field of computer vision, and the commonalities and differences between first and third-person perception. Manohar dives into the complexity of detecting first-person perception, and how to overcome the privacy and ethical issues of egocentric technology. Manohar breaks down the mechanism underlying AI based on decision trees compared to those based on real-world data, and how they

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