AI winter is coming

Hype around AI can be extremely dangerous, because it raises expectations that cannot be satisfied. In this episode I have a conversation with an AI researcher who thinks that deeplearning is not sufficient to solve the problem of intelligence. He doesn’t seem to share the vision of folks like Elon Musk who claimed that we are going to see...

Posted on June 23, 2018

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(Long Story Short) Encrypt your Gmail

Gmail is great. Until they tell you that Google can read all your emails anytime they want. What if you needed confidentiality and your Gmail too?

Posted on April 25, 2018

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(Long Story Short) Productivity in a hyperconnected world

If you think that Slack, Messanger, WhatsApp, Telegram, Emails, etc. are doing good to you, it's time to watch this.

Posted on April 22, 2018

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(Long Story Short) A honest crypto and blockchain conversation

Let's have a honest conversation about cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. If we want blockchain to succeed and really make a difference we need to at least two of the three tasks I expand on here.

Posted on April 20, 2018

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What deep learning cannot do

After the AI winter of the 70s, the combination of data and hardware improvements have changed the way researchers tackle the hard computing problems of the century. It seems however...

Posted on March 13, 2018

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Parallelizing and distributing Stochastic Gradient Descent

Continuing the discussion of the last two episodes, there is one more aspect of deep learning that I would love to consider and therefore left as a full episode, that is parallelising and distributing deep learning on relatively large clusters.

Posted on October 3, 2017

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