December 19, 2018

Episode 49: The promises of Artificial Intelligence

It's always good to put in perspective all the findings in AI, in order to clear some of the most common misunderstandings and promises. In this episode I make a list of some of the most misleading statements about what artificial intelligence can achiev...
October 21, 2018

Episode 48: Coffee, Machine Learning and Blockchain

In this episode - which I advise to consume at night, in a quite place - I speak about private machine learning and blockchain, while I sip a cup of coffee in my home office.There are several reasons why I believe we should start thinking about private m...
September 11, 2018

Episode 47: Are you ready for AI winter? [Rebroadcast]

Today I am having a conversation with Filip Piękniewski, researcher working on computer vision and AI at Koh Young Research America. His adventure with AI started in the 90s and since then a long list of experiences at the intersection of computer scienc...
September 4, 2018

Episode 46: why do machine learning models fail? (Part 2)

In this episode I continue the conversation from the previous one, about failing machine learning models. When data scientists have access to the distributions of training and testing datasets it becomes relatively easy to assess if a model will perform ...
August 28, 2018

Episode 45: why do machine learning models fail?

The success of a machine learning model depends on several factors and events. True generalization to data that the model has never seen before is more a chimera than a reality. But under specific conditions a well trained machine learning model can gene...
August 21, 2018

Episode 44: The predictive power of metadata

In this episode I don't talk about data. In fact, I talk about metadata. While many machine learning models rely on certain amounts of data eg. text, images, audio and video, it has been proved how powerful is the signal carried by metadata, that is all ...
August 7, 2018

Episode 42: Attacking deep learning models (rebroadcast)

Attacking deep learning models Compromising AI for fun and profit   Deep learning models have shown very promising results in computer vision and sound recognition. As more and more deep learning based systems get integrated in disparate domains, they w...
July 31, 2018

Episode 41: How can deep neural networks reason

Today’s episode  will be about deep learning and reasoning. There has been a lot of discussion about the effectiveness of deep learning models and their capability to generalize, not only across domains but also on data that such models have never seen. ...
July 24, 2018

Episode 40: Deep learning and image compression

Today’s episode  will be about deep learning and compression of data, and in particular compressing images. We all know how important compressing data is, reducing the size of digital objects without affecting the quality. As a very general rule, the mor...