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Talking Machines
by Tote Bag Productions
Talking Machines is your window into the world of machine learning. Your hosts, Katherine Gorman and Neil Lawrence, bring you clear conversations with experts in the field, insightful discussions of industry news, and useful answers to your questions. Machine learning is changing the questions we can ask of the world around us, here we explore how to ask the best questions and what to do with the answers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
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Gods and Robots
In this episode of the podcast we shake things up! Neil is on the guest side of the table with his partner Rabbi Laura Janner-Klausner to discuss their upcoming project Gods and Robots. Katherine is joined on the host side by friend of the show professor Michael Littman. See…
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Responsibility, Risk, and Publishing
On this episode we feature an interview with Madhulika Shrikumar of the Partnership on AI about their recent work Managing Risk and Responsible Publication See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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ICML 2021: Test of Time(ly) Award
Neil and Katherine chat about ICML and the timely award winner of this years test of time award! Bayesian Learning via Stochastic Gradient Langevin Dynamics See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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S7 Ep1: Learning with Less, Invisible Labor and Combating Anti-Blackness
Devin Guillory of UC Berkeley, is our guest on this episode. We talk about his love of robotics, working at the center of a new hype (learning with less labels) and his paper Combatting Anti-Blackness in the AI Community. He recently gave a talk on the subject the University of Toronto See...
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Let's Reflect
We're not bringing you an episode this week. We're taking some time to think about the systems we take part in and how those perpetuate anti black racism and the effects of that on the work in this field. We'd like to bring you meaningful conversations around those systems and how we can change...
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S6 Ep9: Predicting Floods and Really Doing Good
In this episode of Talking Machines we talk with Sella Nevo of Google Research about the Google Flood Forecasting Project, what they've been doing, and what is means to really move the needle on AI for Good.
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S6 Ep8: ICLR: accessible, inclusive, virtual
In episode eight of season six we talk with Alexander Rush and Shakir Mohamed about their work on ICLR this year which was first to take place in Ethiopia and then became totally virtual!
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Humans in the Loop and Outside of the Classroom
In episode nine of season six we talk with Michael Littman about his work in reinforcement learning, on scientific communication, and in the classroom.
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S6 Ep8: TM_Andersson_041520_mixdown
In episode eight of season six we chat with Professor Terry Sejnowski about his work, the evolution of the field, and the development of the NeurIPS conference. We taped this episode live and took questions from the audience. Want to join our "studio audience"? Check out @tlkngmchns on Twitter.
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S6 Ep2: Talking Machines Live and Understanding Modeling Viruses
Episode seven of season six is our first live episode! We talk with Elaine Nsoesie of Boston University about modeling disease and Covid 19 in the African context. plus we take listen questions live! Want to join our "studio audience" check out our twitter feed for how to sign up!
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S6 Ep4: Prioritizing Problems and 100 episodes
Episode four of season six is our 100th episode! (Well it's Katherine's). We take a break from our regular format for Neil and Katherine to chat about the current situation around Covid-19, understanding exponentials, and what impact this might have on how problems get prioritized.
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S6: The Great AI Fallacy
In this episode we talk about the Great AI Fallacy, take a listener question about Federated Learning, and catch up with Ross Goodwin and Oscar Sharp
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S6 Ep2: If a Machine Could Predict Your Death, Should it?
in episode two of season six we hear Ziad Obermeyer's talk from TedX Boston entitled If a Machine Could Predict Your Death, Should it?
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S6 Ep1: Predicting the Decade and Distributing Conferences
In episode one of season six we make some predictions about what will happen in the field in the next decade and talk with Margot Gerritsen about her work and WiDS
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S5 Ep23: Debating Project Debater and Hello NeurIPS
In our last episode for season five Katherine and Neil debate his debating project debater and talk about whats coming up at NeurIPS. Hope to see you there!
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S5 Ep22: De-Enchanting AI with the Law
in episode twenty two of season five we hear a talk from Kenneth Anderson on how the field of AI and the law can work together to form regulation from TedX Boston
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S5 Ep21: How to Ask an Actionable Question
In Episode 21 of Season five we sit down with Marzyeah Ghassemi to talk about her work and how she's refined her focus.
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S5 Ep20: Children are the Future and Ada Lovelace Day
In episode twenty of season five we talk with Neil about a discussion he had about the impact of ML tools on children talk about the new Diversity Dashboard from the Turing Institute in response to a question about cool things for Ada Lovelace day plus we sit down with Corinna Cortes of Google AI
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S5 Ep19: News from Neil and Updates from DALI
In episode eighteen of season five we talk about DALI, get some big news about the next thing for Neil and talk with Benjamin Akera.
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S5 Ep18: A Cooperative Path to Artificial Intelligence
In episode eighteen of season five we hear Michael Littman's talk A Cooperative Path to Artificial Intelligence
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S5 Ep17: What Does Red Sound Like
In episode seventeen of season five we talk about Why Red Doesn't Sound Like a Bell, take a listener question about our Turing brackets (and Invent the Very Good Sort Awards) and listen to a chat with Tewodros Abebe
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S5 Ep16: Not What But Why
In this episode of Talking Machines we take a listen to Professor Engelhardt's TedX Boston talk, Not What But Why: Machine Learning for Understanding Genomics
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S5 Ep15: Idea Pandemics and Workshop Walkthrough
in episode 15 of season five of Talking Machines we' chat about the recently announced workshops at NeurIPS 2019, find ourselves in the middle of an I Love Lucy Episode about technical term usage and talk with Randy Goebel of the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute
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S5 Ep14: PosterSession.ai and Deep Quaggles
In episode 14 of season five we talk about On the marginal likelihood and cross-validation, Katherine is STILL excited about PosterSession.ai, we invent Deep Quaggles and listen to a conversation with professor Elaine Nsoesie of BU
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S5 Ep13: The View from Addis Ababa
In episode thirteen of season five we bring you a the rest of our conversation with Michael Melese from Addis Ababa University and Charles Saidu of Baze University Abuja
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S5 Ep12: DSA Addis Ababa and ICML Los Angeles
In episode twelve of season five we bring you a rundown of Data Science Africa's latest workshop answer a listener question about what got us excited at ICML and hear the first part of our conversation with Michael Melese from Addis Ababa University and Charles Saidu of Baze University Abuja
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S5 Ep11: Data Trusts and Citation Trends
In episode eleven of season five, we dig in to just what a data trust actually is, take a look at citation trends and other places (PMLR) you can dig up data to understand the field and talk with Raia Hadsell of DeepMind.
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S5 Ep10: Reproducibly and Revisiting History
In episode ten of season five we talk about reproducibility, take a listener question on re understanding the history of the field given where we are now and how other fields are reviewing their own history and listen to a conversation with Graham Taylor of the Vector Institute.
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S5 Ep9: May 9th Episode
In episode nine of season five we talk about some interesting work from AISTATS, dive into unbiased implicit variational inference, and chat with John McAuliffe CIO of Voleon
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S5 Ep8: The Deep End of Deep Learning
In this episode as we prep for ICLR we take a break from our usual format to bring you a talk from Hugo LaRochelle at TedX Boston on Deep Learning.
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S5 Ep7: Exploring MARS and Getting back to Bayesics
In episode seven of season five of we chat about MARS and Re: MARS OpenAI's status changes and We talk with Jasper Snoek of Google Brain
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S5 Ep6: The Sweetness of a Bitter Lesson and Bringing ML and Healthcare Closer
In episode six of season five we talk about Richard Sutton's A Bitter Lesson. Chat about IEEE's new Ethical Guidelines and talk with Andrew Beam Senior Fellownn at Flagship Pioneering, Head of Machine Learning for Flagship VL57 and Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H.…
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S5 Ep5: Slowed Down Conferences and Even More Summer Schools
In episode five of season five we talk about the Stu Hunter conference, Summer schools options (DLRLSS!) and chat with Adrian Weller of the Alan Turing Institute
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S5 Ep4: Jupyter Notebooks and Modern Model Distribution
In episode four of season five we talk about Jupyter Notebooks and Neil's dream of a world craft software and devices, we take a listener question about the conversation surrounding Open AI's GPT-2 its announcement and the coverage and we hear an interview with Brooks Paige of the Alan Turing...
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S5 Ep3: Real World Real Time and Five Papers for Mike Tipping
In season five episode three we chat about take a listener question about Five Papers for Mike Tipping, take a listener question on AIAI and chat with Eoin O'Mahony of Uber Here are Neil's five papers. What are yours? Stochastic variational inference by Hoffman, Wang, Blei and Paisley...
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S5 Ep2: The Bezos Paradox and Machine Learning Languages
In episode two of season five we unpack the Bezos Paradox (TM Neil Lawrence) take a listener question about best papers and chat with Dougal Maclaurin of Google Brain.
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S4 Ep21: Neural Information Processing Systems and Distributed Internal Intelligence Systems
In episode twenty one of season four we talk about distributed intelligence systems (mainly those internal to humans), talk about what were excited to see at the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems and in advance of our trek to Canada we chat with Garth Gibson president and CEO of...
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S4 Ep20: Data Driven Ideas and Actionable Privacy
In episode twenty of season four we talk about the importance of crediting your data, answer a listener question about internships vs salaried positions and talk with Matt Kusner of the Alan Turing institute the UK’s national institute for data science and AI.
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S4 Ep19: AI for Good and The Real World
In episode nineteen of season four we talk about causality in the real world, take a question about being surprised by the elephant in the room and talk with Kush Varshney of IBM.
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S4 Ep18: Systems Design and Tools for Transparency
In episode 18 of season four we talk about systems design, (remember the 3 d's!), tools for transparency and fairness and we talk with Adria Gascon of The Alan Turing Institute, the UK’s national institute for data science and AI.
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S4 Ep16: Troubling Trends and Climbing Mountains
In this episode we talk about an article Troubling Trends in Machine learning Scholarship the difference between engineering and science (and the mountains you climb to span the distance) plus we talk with David Duvenaud of the University of Toronto
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S4 Ep13: Simulated Learning and Real World Ethics
In episode thirteen of season four we chat about simulations, reinforcement learning, and Philippa Foot. We take a listener question about the update to the ACM code of ethics (first time since 1992!) and We talk with professor Mike Jordan.
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S4 Ep12: ICML 2018 with Jennifer Dy
Season four episode twelve finds us at ICML! We bring you a special episode with Jennifer Dy, co-program chair of the conference.
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S4 Ep11: Aspirational Asimov and How to Survive a Conference
In season four episode eleven we talk about the possibility of the NIPS conference changing its name, what to do at ICML, And we talk with Bernhard Schölkopf.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Talking Machines is your window into the world of machine learning. Your hosts, Katherine Gorman and Neil Lawrence, bring you clear conversations with experts in the field, insightful discussions of industry news, and useful answers to your questions. Machine learning is changing the questions we can ask of the world around us, here we explore how to ask the best questions and what to do with the answers.
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