Today, we're joined by Aydogan Ozcan, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UCLA, where his research group focuses on photonics and its applications to nano- and biotechnology. In our conversation, we explore his group's research into the intersection of deep learning and optics, holography and computational imaging. We specifically look at a really interesting project to create all-optical neural networks which work based on diffraction, where the printed pixels of the network are analogous to neurons. We also explore some of the practical applications for their research and other areas of interest for their group. "More On That Later" by Lee Rosevere licensed under CC By 4.0

In this show, the first of our PegaWorld 18 series, I'm joined by Kirk Borne, Principal Data Scientist at management consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton. In our conversation, Kirk shares his views on automation as it applies to enterprises and their customers. We discuss his experiences evangelizing data science within the context of a large organization, and the role of AI in helping organizations achieve automation. Along the way Kirk, shares a great analogy for intelligent automation, comparing it to an autonomous vehicle . We covered a ton of ground in this chat, which I think you'll get a kick out of.

Today we're joined by Hanna Wallach, a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research. We discuss the role that human biases, even those that are inadvertent, play in tainting data, and whether deployment of "fair" ML models can actually be achieved in practice, and much more. Along the way, Hanna points us to a TON of papers and resources to further explore the topic of fairness in ML. You'll definitely want to check out the notes page for this episode, which you'll find at twimlai.com/talk/232. We'd like to thank Microsoft for their support and their sponsorship of this series.

Anima joins us to discuss her take on trends in the broader Machine Learning field in 2018 and beyond. In our conversation, we cover not only technical breakthroughs in the field but also those around inclusivity and diversity. "More On That Later" by Lee Rosevere licensed under CC By 4.0

In this episode of our AI Platforms series, we're joined by Daniel Jeavons, General Manager of Data Science at Shell. In our conversation, Daniel and I explore the evolution of analytics and data science at Shell, and cover a ton of interesting machine learning use cases that the company is pursuing, such as well drilling and charging smart cars. A good bit of our conversation centers around IoT-related applications and issues, such as inference at the edge, federated machine learning, and digital twins, all key considerations for the way they apply ML. We also talk about the data science process at Shell and the importance of platform technologies to Daniel's organization and the company as a whole and we discuss some of the technologies he and his team are excited about introducing to the company. As many of you know, part of my work involves understanding the way large companies are adopting machine learning, deep learning and AI.

In this, the first episode of the Deep Learning Indaba series, we're joined by Sara Hooker, AI Resident at Google Brain. I had the pleasure of speaking with Sara in the run-up to the Indaba about her work on interpretability in deep neural networks. We discuss what interpretability means and when it's important, and explore some nuances like the distinction between interpreting model decisions vs model function. We also dig into her paper Evaluating Feature Importance Estimates and look at the relationship between this work and interpretability approaches like LIME. We also talk a bit about Google, in particular, the relationship between Brain and the rest of the Google AI landscape and the significance of the recently announced Google AI Lab in Accra, Ghana, being led by friend of the show Moustapha Cisse.

A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to spend some time at the Strata Data Conference, presented by O'Reilly and Cloudera, in New York. While on site, I was able to meet with some of the speakers from the conference. In this series, you'll hear a few of those great conversations. Cloudera's modern platform for machine learning and analytics, optimized for the cloud, lets you build and deploy AI solutions at scale, efficiently and securely, anywhere you want. In addition, Cloudera Fast Forward Lab's expert guidance helps you realize your AI future, faster.

This week on the podcast we're running a series of shows consisting of conversations with some of the impressive speakers from an event called the AI Summit in New York City. The theme of the conference, and the series, is AI in the Enterprise, and I think you'll find it really interesting in that it includes a mix of both technical and case-study-oriented discussions. My guest for this first show in the series is, Hillery Hunter, IBM Fellow & Director of the Accelerated Cognitive Infrastructure group at IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center. Hillery and I met a few weeks back in New York and I'm really glad that we were able to get her on the show. Hillery joins us to discuss her team's research into distributed deep learning, which was recently released as the PowerAI Distributed Deep Learning Communication Library or DDL.