In episode four of season three Neil introduces us to the ideas behind the bias variance dilemma (and how how we can think about it in our daily lives). Plus, we answer a listener question about how to make sure your neural networks don't get f

Hello World!

Jan 1st, 2015 41m 28s

In the first episode of Talking Machines we meet our hosts, Katherine Gorman (nerd, journalist) and Ryan Adams (nerd, Harvard computer science professor), and explore some of the interviews you'll be able to hear this season. Today we hear some

Gods and Robots

Sep 9th, 2021 40m 5s

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

Responsibility, Risk, and Publishing

Aug 19th, 2021 25m 40s

On this episode we feature an interview with Madhulika Shrikumar of the Partnership on AI about their recent work Managing Risk and Responsible PublicationSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/priva

ICML 2021: Test of Time(ly) Award

Jul 24th, 2021 19m 18s

Neil and Katherine chat about ICML and the timely award winner of this years test of time award! Bayesian Learning via Stochastic Gradient Langevin DynamicsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/priv

Learning with Less, Invisible Labor and Combating Anti-Blackness

Jul 9th, 2021 36m 33s

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 tal

Let's Reflect

Jun 13th, 2020 29s

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 conve

Predicting Floods and Really Doing Good

May 29th, 2020 39m 11s

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. See omnystudio.com/listener for priv

ICLR: accessible, inclusive, virtual

May 14th, 2020 38m 41s

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! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hos

Humans in the Loop and Outside of the Classroom

May 1st, 2020 38m 4s

In episode seven of season six we talk with Michael Littman about his work in reinforcement learning, on scientific communication, and in the classroom. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy

The Evolution of ML and Furry Little Animals

Apr 16th, 2020 47m 58s

In episode six 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 "st

Talking Machines Live and Understanding Modeling Viruses

Apr 3rd, 2020 39m 53s

Episode five 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

Prioritizing Problems and 100 episodes

Mar 20th, 2020 30m 55s

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

The Great AI Fallacy

Mar 5th, 2020 48m 3s

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 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy fo

If a Machine Could Predict Your Death, Should it?

Feb 20th, 2020 18m 7s

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?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informati

Predicting the Decade and Distributing Conferences

Feb 6th, 2020 1h 6m

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 You can listen to the WiDS podcast here!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy

Debating Project Debater and Hello NeurIPS

Nov 21st, 2019 41m 50s

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! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/pri

De-Enchanting AI with the Law

Nov 7th, 2019 20m 10s

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 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.c

How to Ask an Actionable Question

Oct 25th, 2019 38m 57s

In Episode 21 of Season five we sit down with Marzyeh Ghassemi to talk about her work and how she's refined her focus.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Children are the Future and Ada Lovelace Day

Oct 10th, 2019 54m 50s

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 Lovelac

News from Neil and Updates from DALI

Sep 26th, 2019 1h 8m

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.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information

A Cooperative Path to Artificial Intelligence

Sep 13th, 2019 17m 50s

In episode eighteen of season five we hear Michael Littman's talk A Cooperative Path to Artificial IntelligenceSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What Does Red Sound Like

Aug 30th, 2019 49m 58s

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 AbebeSee omnystudio.com/listener f

Not What But Why

Aug 15th, 2019 19m 57s

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 GenomicsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/p

Idea Pandemics and Workshop Walkthrough

Aug 1st, 2019 59m 16s

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 Machin