Akrovatis Podcasts

Podcast: Practical AI ​ ▼

Episodes:

• The AI engineer skills gap​ (Dec 10th)
• Technical advances in document understanding​ (Dec 2nd)
• Chris on AI, autonomous swarming, home automation and Rust!​ (Nov 26th)
• Beyond note-taking with Fireflies​ (Nov 19th)
• Autonomous Vehicle Research at Waymo​ (Nov 13th)
• Are we in an AI bubble?​ (Nov 10th)
• While loops with tool calls​ (Oct 30th)
• Tiny Recursive Networks​ (Oct 24th)
• Dealing with increasingly complicated agents ​ (Oct 16th)
• The impact of AI on the workforce: A state-level case study​ (Oct 9th)
• We've all done RAG, now what?​ (Sep 29th)
• Creating a private AI assistant in Thunderbird​ (Sep 23rd)
• Cracking the code of failed AI pilots​ (Sep 11th)
• GenAI risks and global adoption​ (Aug 27th)
• Inside America’s AI Action Plan​ (Aug 19th)
• Confident, strategic AI leadership​ (Aug 12th)
• Educating a data-literate generation​ (Aug 8th)
• Workforce dynamics in an AI-assisted world​ (Aug 1st)
• Reimagining actuarial science with AI​ (Jul 25th)
• Agentic AI for Drone & Robotic Swarming​ (Jul 15th)
• AI in the shadows: From hallucinations to blackmail​ (Jul 7th)
• Finding Nemotron​ (Jul 2nd)
• AI hot takes and debates: Autonomy​ (Jun 27th)
• Behind-the-Scenes: VC Funding for AI Startups​ (Jun 18th)
• AI-Automated Film Making​ (Jun 12th)
• Federated learning in production (part 2)​ (Jun 4th)
• Federated learning in production (part 1)​ (May 30th)
• Emailing like a superhuman​ (May 20th)
• Model Context Protocol Deep Dive​ (May 8th)
• Seeing beyond the scan in neuroimaging​ (Apr 30th)
• Open source AI to tackle your backlog​ (Apr 17th)
• Orchestrating agents, APIs, and MCP servers​ (Apr 14th)
• Software and hardware acceleration with Groq​ (Apr 2nd)
• AI-assisted coding with GitHub's COO​ (Mar 21st)
• Optimizing for efficiency with IBM’s Granite​ (Mar 14th)
• Build a workspace of AI agents​ (Mar 8th)
• GenAI hot takes and bad use cases​ (Feb 24th)
• Tool calling and agents​ (Feb 14th)
• Deep-dive into DeepSeek​ (Jan 31st)
• Video generation with realistic motion​ (Jan 23rd)
• Mozart to Megadeth at CHRP​ (Dec 19th, 2024)
• Sidekick is an AI Shopify expert​ (Dec 11th, 2024)
• Full-duplex, real-time dialogue with Kyutai​ (Dec 4th, 2024)
• Clones, commerce & campaigns​ (Nov 29th, 2024)
• scikit-learn & data science you own​ (Nov 19th, 2024)
• Creating tested, reliable AI applications​ (Nov 13th, 2024)
• AI is changing the cybersecurity threat landscape​ (Nov 5th, 2024)
• The path towards trustworthy AI​ (Oct 29th, 2024)
• Big data is dead, analytics is alive​ (Oct 24th, 2024)
• Practical workflow orchestration​ (Oct 15th, 2024)
• Towards high-quality (maybe synthetic) datasets​ (Oct 9th, 2024)
• Understanding what's possible, doable & scalable​ (Oct 3rd, 2024)
• GraphRAG (beyond the hype)​ (Sep 25th, 2024)
• Pausing to think about scikit-learn & OpenAI o1​ (Sep 17th, 2024)
• Cybersecurity in the GenAI age​ (Sep 11th, 2024)
• AI is more than GenAI​ (Sep 5th, 2024)
• Metrics Driven Development​ (Aug 29th, 2024)
• Threat modeling LLM apps​ (Aug 22nd, 2024)
• Only as good as the data​ (Aug 14th, 2024)
• Gaudi processors & Intel's AI portfolio​ (Aug 7th, 2024)
• Broccoli AI at its best 🥦​ (Jul 31st, 2024)
• Hyperventilating over the Gartner AI Hype Cycle​ (Jul 24th, 2024)
• The first real-time voice assistant​ (Jul 18th, 2024)
• Vectoring in on Pinecone​ (Jul 10th, 2024)
• Stanford's AI Index Report 2024​ (Jul 2nd, 2024)
• Apple Intelligence & Advanced RAG​ (Jun 25th, 2024)
• The perplexities of information retrieval​ (Jun 19th, 2024)
• Using edge models to find sensitive data​ (Jun 13th, 2024)
• Rise of the AI PC & local LLMs​ (Jun 4th, 2024)
• AI in the U.S. Congress​ (May 29th, 2024)
• First impressions of GPT-4o​ (May 22nd, 2024)
• Full-stack approach for effective AI agents​ (May 15th, 2024)
• Autonomous fighter jets?!​ (May 8th, 2024)
• Private, open source chat UIs​ (Apr 30th, 2024)
• Mamba & Jamba​ (Apr 24th, 2024)
• Udio & the age of multi-modal AI​ (Apr 16th, 2024)
• RAG continues to rise​ (Apr 10th, 2024)
• Should kids still learn to code?​ (Apr 2nd, 2024)
• AI vs software devs​ (Mar 26th, 2024)
• Prompting the future​ (Mar 20th, 2024)
• Generating the future of art & entertainment​ (Mar 12th, 2024)
• YOLOv9: Computer vision is alive and well​ (Mar 6th, 2024)
• Representation Engineering (Activation Hacking)​ (Feb 28th, 2024)
• Leading the charge on AI in National Security​ (Feb 20th, 2024)
• Gemini vs OpenAI​ (Feb 14th, 2024)
• Data synthesis for SOTA LLMs​ (Feb 6th, 2024)
• Large Action Models (LAMs) & Rabbits 🐇​ (Jan 30th, 2024)
• Collaboration & evaluation for LLM apps​ (Jan 23rd, 2024)
• Advent of GenAI Hackathon recap​ (Jan 17th, 2024)
• AI predictions for 2024​ (Jan 10th, 2024)
• Open source, on-disk vector search with LanceDB​ (Dec 19th, 2023)
• The state of open source AI​ (Dec 12th, 2023)
• Suspicion machines ⚙️​ (Dec 5th, 2023)
• The OpenAI debacle (a retrospective)​ (Nov 29th, 2023)
• Generating product imagery at Shopify​ (Nov 21st, 2023)
• AI trailblazers putting people first​ (Nov 14th, 2023)
• Government regulation of AI has arrived​ (Nov 7th, 2023)
• Self-hosting & scaling models​ (Oct 31st, 2023)
• Deep learning in Rust with Burn 🔥​ (Oct 24th, 2023)
• AI's impact on developers​ (Oct 20th, 2023)
• Generative models: exploration to deployment​ (Oct 3rd, 2023)
• Automate all the UIs!​ (Sep 20th, 2023)
• Fine-tuning vs RAG​ (Sep 6th, 2023)
• Automating code optimization with LLMs​ (Aug 29th, 2023)
• The new AI app stack​ (Aug 23rd, 2023)
• Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights​ (Aug 9th, 2023)
• Vector databases (beyond the hype)​ (Aug 1st, 2023)
• There's a new Llama in town​ (Jul 25th, 2023)
• Legal consequences of generated content​ (Jul 18th, 2023)
• A developer's toolkit for SOTA AI​ (Jul 12th, 2023)
• Cambrian explosion of generative models​ (Jul 6th, 2023)
• Automated cartography using AI​ (Jun 28th, 2023)
• From ML to AI to Generative AI​ (Jun 21st, 2023)
• AI trends: a Latent Space crossover​ (Jun 14th, 2023)
• Accidentally building SOTA AI​ (Jun 6th, 2023)
• Controlled and compliant AI applications​ (May 31st, 2023)
• Data augmentation with LlamaIndex​ (May 23rd, 2023)
• Creating instruction tuned models​ (May 16th, 2023)
• The last mile of AI app development​ (May 11th, 2023)
• Large models on CPUs​ (May 2nd, 2023)
• Causal inference​ (Apr 25th, 2023)
• Capabilities of LLMs 🤯​ (Apr 19th, 2023)
• Computer scientists as rogue art historians​ (Apr 12th, 2023)
• Accelerated data science with a Kaggle grandmaster​ (Apr 4th, 2023)
• Explainable AI that is accessible for all humans​ (Mar 28th, 2023)
• AI search at You.com​ (Mar 15th, 2023)
• End-to-end cloud compute for AI/ML​ (Mar 7th, 2023)
• Success (and failure) in prompting​ (Feb 28th, 2023)
• Applied NLP solutions & AI education​ (Feb 22nd, 2023)
• Serverless GPUs​ (Feb 14th, 2023)
• MLOps is alive and well​ (Feb 7th, 2023)
• 3D assets & simulation at NVIDIA​ (Jan 31st, 2023)
• GPU dev environments that just work​ (Jan 24th, 2023)
• Machine learning at small organizations​ (Jan 17th, 2023)
• ChatGPT goes prime time!​ (Jan 10th, 2023)
• NLP research by & for local communities​ (Jan 3rd, 2023)
• SOTA machine translation at Unbabel​ (Dec 13th, 2022)
• AI competitions & cloud resources​ (Dec 7th, 2022)
• Copilot lawsuits & Galactica "science"​ (Nov 29th, 2022)
• Protecting us with the Database of Evil​ (Nov 16th, 2022)
• Hybrid computing with quantum processors​ (Nov 8th, 2022)
• The practicalities of releasing models​ (Nov 1st, 2022)
• AI adoption in large, well-established companies​ (Oct 26th, 2022)
• Data for All​ (Oct 18th, 2022)
• What's up, DocQuery?​ (Oct 12th, 2022)
• Production data labeling workflows​ (Sep 27th, 2022)
• Evaluating models without test data​ (Sep 20th, 2022)
• Stable Diffusion​ (Sep 13th, 2022)
• Licensing & automating creativity​ (Sep 6th, 2022)
• Privacy in the age of AI​ (Aug 30th, 2022)
• Practical, positive uses for deep fakes​ (Aug 24th, 2022)
• CMU's AI pilot lands in the news 🗞​ (Aug 16th, 2022)
• AlphaFold is revolutionizing biology​ (Aug 9th, 2022)
• AI IRL & Mozilla's Internet Health Report​ (Aug 2nd, 2022)
• The geopolitics of artificial intelligence​ (Jul 26th, 2022)
• DALL-E is one giant leap for raccoons! 🔭​ (Jul 19th, 2022)
• Cloning voices with Coqui​ (Jul 12th, 2022)
• AI's role in reprogramming immunity​ (Jun 28th, 2022)
• Machine learning in your database​ (Jun 22nd, 2022)
• Digital humans & detecting emotions​ (Jun 14th, 2022)
• Generalist models & Iceman's voice​ (Jun 7th, 2022)
• 🤗 The AI community building the future​ (May 31st, 2022)
• Active learning & endangered languages​ (May 17th, 2022)
• Learning the language of life​ (May 3rd, 2022)
• MLOps is NOT Real​ (Apr 26th, 2022)
• 🌍 AI in Africa - Agriculture​ (Apr 19th, 2022)
• Quick, beautiful web UIs for ML apps​ (Apr 5th, 2022)
• It's been a BIG week in AI news 🗞​ (Mar 29th, 2022)
• "Foundation" models​ (Mar 23rd, 2022)
• Clothing AI in a data fabric​ (Mar 16th, 2022)
• Creating a culture of innovation​ (Mar 8th, 2022)
• Deploying models (to tractors 🚜)​ (Mar 1st, 2022)
• One algorithm to rule them all?​ (Feb 15th, 2022)
• 🌍 AI in Africa - Voice & language tools​ (Feb 9th, 2022)
• Exploring deep reinforcement learning​ (Feb 1st, 2022)
• The world needs an AI superhero​ (Jan 25th, 2022)
• Democratizing ML for speech​ (Jan 19th, 2022)
• Eliminate AI failures​ (Jan 11th, 2022)
• 🌍 AI in Africa - Radiant Earth​ (Jan 5th, 2022)
• OpenAI and Hugging Face tooling​ (Dec 14th, 2021)
• Friendly federated learning 🌼​ (Dec 7th, 2021)
• Technology as a force for good​ (Dec 2nd, 2021)
• AI-generated code with OpenAI Codex​ (Nov 30th, 2021)
• Zero-shot multitask learning​ (Nov 24th, 2021)
• Analyzing the 2021 AI Index Report​ (Nov 10th, 2021)
• Photonic computing for AI acceleration​ (Nov 2nd, 2021)
• Eureka moments with natural language processing​ (Oct 26th, 2021)
• 🌍 AI in Africa - Makerere AI Lab​ (Oct 19th, 2021)
• Federated Learning 📱​ (Oct 12th, 2021)
• The mathematics of machine learning​ (Oct 5th, 2021)
• Balancing human intelligence with AI​ (Sep 28th, 2021)
• From notebooks to Netflix scale with Metaflow​ (Sep 21st, 2021)
• Trends in data labeling​ (Sep 14th, 2021)
• Stellar inference speed via AutoNAS​ (Sep 7th, 2021)
• Anaconda + Pyston and more​ (Sep 1st, 2021)
• Exploring a new AI lexicon​ (Aug 24th, 2021)
• NLP to help pregnant mothers in Kenya​ (Aug 17th, 2021)
• SLICED - will you make the (data science) cut?​ (Aug 10th, 2021)
• AI is creating never before heard sounds! 🎵​ (Aug 3rd, 2021)
• Building a data team​ (Jul 27th, 2021)
• Towards stability and robustness​ (Jul 20th, 2021)
• From symbols to AI pair programmers 💻​ (Jul 13th, 2021)
• Vector databases for machine learning​ (Jun 22nd, 2021)
• Multi-GPU training is hard (without PyTorch Lightning)​ (Jun 15th, 2021)
• Learning to learn deep learning 📖​ (Jun 8th, 2021)
• The fastest way to build ML-powered apps​ (Jun 1st, 2021)
• Elixir meets machine learning​ (May 26th, 2021)
• Apache TVM and OctoML​ (May 18th, 2021)
• 25 years of speech technology innovation​ (May 11th, 2021)
• Generating "hunches" using smart home data 🏠​ (May 4th, 2021)
• Mapping the world​ (Apr 27th, 2021)
• Data science for intuitive user experiences​ (Apr 20th, 2021)
• Going full bore with Graphcore!​ (Apr 13th, 2021)
• Next-gen voice assistants​ (Apr 6th, 2021)
• Women in Data Science (WiDS)​ (Mar 30th, 2021)
• Recommender systems and high-frequency trading​ (Mar 23rd, 2021)
• Deep learning technology for drug discovery​ (Mar 9th, 2021)
• Green AI 🌲​ (Mar 2nd, 2021)
• Low code, no code, accelerated code, & failing code​ (Feb 23rd, 2021)
• The AI doc will see you now​ (Feb 16th, 2021)
• Cooking up synthetic data with Gretel​ (Feb 2nd, 2021)
• The nose knows​ (Jan 26th, 2021)
• Accelerating ML innovation at MLCommons​ (Jan 19th, 2021)
• The $1 trillion dollar ML model 💵​ (Jan 11th, 2021)
• Getting in the Flow with Snorkel AI​ (Dec 21st, 2020)
• Engaging with governments on AI for good​ (Dec 14th, 2020)
• From research to product at Azure AI​ (Dec 7th, 2020)
• The world's largest open library dataset​ (Dec 1st, 2020)
• A casual conversation concerning causal inference​ (Nov 24th, 2020)
• Building a deep learning workstation​ (Nov 17th, 2020)
• Killer developer tools for machine learning​ (Nov 9th, 2020)
• Reinforcement Learning for search​ (Oct 26th, 2020)
• When data leakage turns into a flood of trouble​ (Oct 20th, 2020)
• Productionizing AI at LinkedIn​ (Oct 13th, 2020)
• R, Data Science, & Computational Biology​ (Oct 6th, 2020)
• Learning about (Deep) Learning​ (Sep 21st, 2020)
• When AI goes wrong​ (Sep 14th, 2020)
• Speech tech and Common Voice at Mozilla​ (Sep 9th, 2020)
• Getting Waymo into autonomous driving​ (Sep 1st, 2020)
• Hidden Door and so much more​ (Aug 24th, 2020)
• Building the world's most popular data science platform​ (Aug 17th, 2020)
• Practical AI turns 100!!! 🎉​ (Aug 11th, 2020)
• Attack of the C̶l̶o̶n̶e̶s̶ Text!​ (Aug 3rd, 2020)
• 🤗 All things transformers with Hugging Face​ (Jul 27th, 2020)
• MLOps and tracking experiments with Allegro AI​ (Jul 20th, 2020)
• Practical AI Ethics​ (Jul 14th, 2020)
• The ins and outs of open source for AI​ (Jul 7th, 2020)
• Operationalizing ML/AI with MemSQL​ (Jun 29th, 2020)
• Roles to play in the AI dev workflow​ (Jun 22nd, 2020)
• The long road to AGI​ (Jun 15th, 2020)
• Explaining AI explainability​ (Jun 8th, 2020)
• Exploring NVIDIA's Ampere & the A100 GPU​ (May 26th, 2020)
• AI for Good: clean water access in Africa​ (May 11th, 2020)
• Ask us anything (about AI)​ (May 4th, 2020)
• Reinforcement learning for chip design​ (Apr 27th, 2020)
• Exploring the COVID-19 Open Research Dataset​ (Apr 20th, 2020)
• Achieving provably beneficial, human-compatible AI​ (Apr 13th, 2020)
• COVID-19 Q&A and CORD-19​ (Apr 6th, 2020)
• Mapping the intersection of AI and GIS​ (Mar 30th, 2020)
• Welcome to Practical AI​ (Mar 25th, 2020)
• Speech recognition to say it just right​ (Mar 23rd, 2020)
• Building a career in Data Science​ (Mar 16th, 2020)
• What exactly is "data science" these days?​ (Mar 9th, 2020)
• TensorFlow in the cloud​ (Mar 2nd, 2020)
• NLP for the world's 7000+ languages​ (Feb 24th, 2020)
• Real-time conversational insights from phone call data​ (Feb 17th, 2020)
• AI-powered scientific exploration and discovery​ (Feb 10th, 2020)
• Insights from the AI Index 2019 Annual Report​ (Feb 3rd, 2020)
• Testing ML systems​ (Jan 27th, 2020)
• AI-driven automation in manufacturing​ (Jan 20th, 2020)
• How the U.S. military thinks about AI​ (Jan 13th, 2020)
• 2019's AI top 5​ (Jan 6th, 2020)
• AI for search at Etsy​ (Dec 23rd, 2019)
• Escaping the "dark ages" of AI infrastructure​ (Dec 16th, 2019)
• Modern NLP with spaCy​ (Dec 9th, 2019)
• Making GANs practical​ (Dec 2nd, 2019)
• Build custom ML tools with Streamlit​ (Nov 25th, 2019)
• Intelligent systems and knowledge graphs​ (Nov 18th, 2019)
• Robot hands solving Rubik's cubes​ (Nov 11th, 2019)
• Open source data labeling tools​ (Nov 5th, 2019)
• It's time to talk time series​ (Oct 28th, 2019)
• AI in the browser​ (Oct 21st, 2019)
• Blacklisted facial recognition and surveillance companies​ (Oct 15th, 2019)
• Flying high with AI drone racing at AlphaPilot​ (Oct 7th, 2019)
• AI in the majority world and model distillation​ (Sep 30th, 2019)
• The influence of open source on AI development​ (Sep 25th, 2019)
• Worlds are colliding - AI and HPC​ (Sep 17th, 2019)
• AutoML and AI at Google​ (Sep 9th, 2019)
• On being humAIn​ (Aug 26th, 2019)
• Serving deep learning models with RedisAI​ (Aug 12th, 2019)
• AI-driven studies of the ancient world and good GANs​ (Jul 30th, 2019)
• AI code that facilitates good science​ (Jul 19th, 2019)
• Celebrating episode 50 and the neural net!​ (Jul 3rd, 2019)
• Exposing the deception of DeepFakes​ (Jun 25th, 2019)
• Model inspection and interpretation at Seldon​ (Jun 17th, 2019)
• GANs, RL, and transfer learning oh my!​ (Jun 11th, 2019)
• Visualizing and understanding RNNs​ (Jun 4th, 2019)
• How to get plugged into the AI community​ (May 28th, 2019)
• AI adoption in the enterprise​ (May 21st, 2019)
• When AI meets quantum mechanics​ (May 14th, 2019)
• TensorFlow Dev Summit 2019​ (May 7th, 2019)
• CTRL-labs lets you control machines with your mind​ (Apr 30th, 2019)
• Deep Reinforcement Learning​ (Apr 23rd, 2019)
• Making the world a better place at the AI for Good Foundation​ (Apr 15th, 2019)
• GIPHY's celebrity detector​ (Apr 8th, 2019)
• The landscape of AI infrastructure​ (Apr 2nd, 2019)
• Growing up to become a world-class AI expert​ (Mar 25th, 2019)
• Social AI with Hugging Face​ (Mar 18th, 2019)
• The White House Executive Order on AI​ (Mar 11th, 2019)
• Staving off disaster through AI safety research​ (Mar 4th, 2019)
• OpenAI's new "dangerous" GPT-2 language model​ (Feb 25th, 2019)
• AI for social good at Intel​ (Feb 20th, 2019)
• GirlsCoding.org empowers young women to embrace computer science​ (Feb 13th, 2019)
• How Microsoft is using AI to help the Earth​ (Feb 4th, 2019)
• New year’s resolution: dive into deep learning!​ (Jan 28th, 2019)
• IBM's AI for detecting neurological state​ (Jan 21st, 2019)
• 2018 in review and bold predictions for 2019​ (Jan 14th, 2019)
• Finding success with AI in the enterprise​ (Dec 17th, 2018)
• So you have an AI model, now what?​ (Dec 10th, 2018)
• Pachyderm's Kubernetes-based infrastructure for AI​ (Dec 3rd, 2018)
• BERT: one NLP model to rule them all​ (Nov 27th, 2018)
• UBER and Intel’s Machine Learning platforms​ (Nov 19th, 2018)
• Analyzing AI's impact on society through art and film​ (Nov 12th, 2018)
• Getting into data science and AI​ (Nov 5th, 2018)
• AIs that look human and create portraits of humans​ (Oct 31st, 2018)
• Fighting bias in AI (and in hiring)​ (Oct 22nd, 2018)
• PyTorch 1.0 vs TensorFlow 2.0​ (Oct 15th, 2018)
• Artificial intelligence at NVIDIA​ (Oct 8th, 2018)
• OpenAI, reinforcement learning, robots, safety​ (Oct 1st, 2018)
• Answering recent AI questions from Quora​ (Sep 18th, 2018)
• AI in healthcare, synthesizing dance moves, hardware acceleration​ (Sep 3rd, 2018)
• Robot Perception and Mask R-CNN​ (Aug 27th, 2018)
• Open source tools, AI for Dota, and enterprise ML adoption​ (Aug 21st, 2018)
• Behavioral economics and AI-driven decision making​ (Aug 13th, 2018)
• Eye tracking, Henry Kissinger on AI, Vim​ (Aug 6th, 2018)
• Understanding the landscape of AI techniques​ (Jul 30th, 2018)
• Government use of facial recognition and AI at Google​ (Jul 23rd, 2018)
• Detecting planets with deep learning​ (Jul 16th, 2018)
• Data management, regulation, the future of AI​ (Jul 9th, 2018)
• Helping African farmers with TensorFlow​ (Jul 2nd, 2018)
• Putting AI in a box at MachineBox​ (Jul 2nd, 2018)
• Meet your Practical AI hosts​ (Jul 2nd, 2018)