Welcome to the InfoQ podcast Annual Trends Report in AI, ML and data engineering topics. I am joined today by the InfoQ editorial team, and also an external panelist. There have been a lot of innovations and developments happening in AI and ML space. Before we jump into the main part of this podcast, let's start with the introductions of our panelists. Rags, can you please introduce yourself? Rags Srinivas: Glad to be here. I was here for the previous podcast last year as well. So, things have changed quite a bit, but I focus really mainly on the big data infrastructure and the confluence of that. So quite a few developments happening there that I'd love to talk about when we get there. Myself, I work for DataStax as a developer advocate, and essentially, again, it's all about data, AI, infrastructure and how to manage your costs and how to do it efficiently. And hopefully, we'll cover all that. I'm Roland, I'm a machine learning engineer, and I hope to talk a lot about transformer models and large-scale foundational models. For InfoQ, I like to write about some of the latest innovations in deep learning, and definitely want to talk about NLP and some of the multi-modal text and image models. Srini Penchikala: Next is Daniel Dominguez. Thank you for the invitation. I like to write about the metaverse, new technologies, deep learning.

Want to ensure your app developers can create secure and smooth login experiences for your customers? With Curity you can protect user identities, secure apps and websites, and manage API access. Welcome to the InfoQ podcast. My name is Roland Meertens and today, I am interviewing Cassie Breviu. She is a senior program manager at Microsoft and hosted the innovations in machine learning systems track at QCon London. I am actually speaking to her in person at the venue of QCon London Conference. In this interview, I will talk with her on how she got started with AI and what machine learning tools can accelerate your work when deploying models on a wide range of devices. We will also talk about GitHub Copilot and how AI can help you be a better programmer. If you want to see her talk on how to operationalize transformer models on the edge, at the moment of recording this, you can still register for the QCon Plus Conference or see if the recording is already uploaded on infoq.com. Welcome, Cassie to QCon London. I'm very glad to see you here. I hope you're happy to be at this conference. I heard that you actually got into AI by being at the conference. I am thoroughly enjoying this conference. It's really put together really well and I really enjoy it. So what happened was I was at a developer conference. I was a full stack C# engineer and I'd always been really interested in AI and machine learning, but it always seemed scary and out of reach. I had even tried to read some books on it and I thought, "Well, this might be just too much for me or too complicated or I just can't do this." So I went to this talk by Jennifer Marsman and she did this amazing talk on, Would You Survive the Titanic Sinking? She used this product that's called Azure Machine Learning Designer.

You want to find network errors fast and need a reliable tool. You are not alone, try Fiddler Everywhere free for 30-days and let this all in one web debugging solution deliver the successful outcomes you expect. My name is Roland Meertens, editor for AI and machine learning at InfoQ and product manager at Annotell. Today I will host the podcast and I will be talking with Joe, Sebastian, and Florian about the Indy Autonomous Challenge and how they managed to win it. Could you maybe introduce yourself to the listeners and tell them about what the Indy Autonomous Challenge is? Joe Speed: Sure, happy to. I'm a technical advisor for the Indy Autonomous Challenge, which is an amazing university challenge for autonomous racing. I was part of the TUM Autonomous Motorsport team. We managed to win the challenge in the end, and my main responsibilities were the mapping and localization part. And my main responsibility in our team was the perception, mainly the object detection. Roland Meertens: All right, maybe we can get started with you Joe. Maybe you can say that about what this Indy Autonomous Challenge is. Joe Speed: It's an amazing program. So, a lot of this is anecdotal. So Sebastian Thrun, who is very much like the godfather of modern autonomous driving, he had won the DARPA Grand Challenge. He was out at Indy and had commented something like, "Some of the things happening autonomy are not that exciting to me anymore, but if this, if the Indy 500 was autonomous, that would be interesting.