With the widespread news of tech company layoffs, it looks like the industry is entering the inevitable downward phase in the economic cycle. This is the second-and-a-half time I’ve experienced this in my career. The first was the dot-com bust in the early 2000s. The second was the global financial crisis of 2007-2008. The “half”...
Guess what? TWIMLcon: AI Platforms is just a few days away and our virtual conference platform opens TODAY! If you’ve been procrastinating with your registration, now is the time! We’ve got a great lineup of sessions, workshops, panels, and fun networking events in store for attendees. Last year at TWIMLcon we launched TWIMLconnect, our attendee networking program, which is back again this...
TWIMLcon: AI Platforms starts NEXT WEEK 🎉🎊🙌! I’m obviously super excited for the conference, and I think you should be too! Here are the top 10 reasons why I think you should register for TWIMLcon today! 1. Great Sessions: We’ve got an incredible session line-up for this year’s TWIMLcon. If you care about real-world ML or MLOps, you’ll...
You may know Intuit as the public company (INTU) behind Quickbooks and Turbotax but thanks to $20B of recent acquisitions, they are also the new owners of the Mailchimp marketing automation company and Credit Karma – a personal finance application. The company invests heavily in machine learning and AI as a way to deliver new...
Check out this demo of Qualcomm Technologies’ AIMET, the AI Model Efficiency Toolkit. AIMET is a library that provides users with advanced quantization and compression techniques from Qualcomm AI Research for trained neural network models. In this video, Sam is joined by Abhijit Khobare, director of software engineering at Qualcomm Technologies. The two explore why AIMET is an important tool...
Earlier this year, we rolled out a major update to the TWIML website designed to make it easier for you to discover, use, and share podcast episodes and other TWIML content. Here are our top 10 favorite features of the new site: All of TWIML’s content together at last More FREE content With the release...
Back in the fall of 2018, we conducted a series of interviews with some of the people behind the large-scale ML platforms at organizations like Facebook, Airbnb, LinkedIn, OpenAI and more. That series of interviews turned into the first volume of our AI Platforms podcast series, led to the publication of the The Definitive Guide...
A conversation with Ziad Asghar Qualcomm Technologies provides connectivity and intelligence for a wide variety of devices, spanning mobile to vehicles to robotics and beyond. The company launched its first AI project in 2007 and has since launched 15 platforms and systems with AI on board. To support this innovation, the company invests in fundamental...
There are few things I love more than cuddling up with an exciting new book. There are always more things I want to learn than time I have in the day, and I think books are such a fun, long-form way of engaging (one where I won’t be tempted to check Twitter partway through). This...
Running out of gift ideas and need a little inspiration? The TWIML team has you covered! We put together a 2021 Holiday Gift Guide featuring some of our favorite new AI products. This is just a small sampling of some of the nifty gadgets and services that caught our attention this holiday season. This year,...
A couple of days ago was #GivingTuesday, a “global generosity movement” that aims to harness some of the energy of Black Friday and Cyber Monday in support of charitable organizations. Hopefully you took advantage of the opportunity to donate to organizations you believe in. While you’re in the giving spirit, don’t forget those organizations working...
MLOps at Redfin Redfin is a real estate brokerage founded by software developers that makes the process of buying and selling houses more efficient. They are the biggest real estate brokerage site on the web. When Akshat initially joined the company, the machine learning team at Redfin was a separate unit that focused on both...
Who is Edward Raff? Edward Raff works as a head scientist at the consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton (BAH). As Edward describes it, their business model is “renting out people’s brains” to business and government organizations. Edward sees BAH research as both a way to establish expertise in their field and a way to train...
Getting to know Andrea Banino Andrea’s background as a neuroscientist informed his work in deep learning. At DeepMind, Andrea’s research falls in the realm of Artificial General Intelligence, specifically memory, along with investigating ways to shape deep learning systems so they better mimic the human brain. “I think for us, we have a different sort...
Who is Tim Rocktäschel? Tim Rocktäschel got his start in NLP research, earning a PhD from University College London. Initially, his research focused on knowledge representation and textual entailment, until he became disillusioned with the static nature of the data sets and tired of “chasing scores on a leaderboard.” Tim’s transition to the field of...
Getting to Know Kanaka Rajan Kanaka Rajan had a circuitous route into computational neuroscience. Initially trained in biomedical engineering, she switched to experimental neuroscience in graduate school at Columbia University. While she enjoyed the challenge of the experiments, she felt impeded by experiment design, and ended up following some of her more mathematical training to...
A quick note: While they’re still early in their ML/AI journey, Stack Overflow is a company that is well-known and beloved in technical communities, and often one of the first places we look to solve problems big or small. For that reason I’m excited to share the conversation with you. That said, if you’re looking...
“Speech is the most natural way to communicate, so using voice to interact with machines has always been one of the top scenarios associated with AI.” Getting to know Li Jiang Li Jiang, now a distinguished engineer at Microsoft Speech, was introduced to speech recognition while doing research as an undergraduate student in the mid-1980’s....
It’s common to think of creativity as conceiving new ideas from nothing, but some of the best examples of creativity come in the form of bringing together previously unconnected ideas. Peanut butter cups provide one tasty example—sorry, I’m writing this at lunchtime—but so do many Tiktok videos, which combine published music with user-created videos to...
Hey everyone! I’m excited to share that show you’re listening to at this very moment in episode 500 of the TWIML AI Podcast! It’s been so amazing having the opportunity to explore, learn about, and chronicle the work of so many amazing people in machine learning and AI over the past five years, and it...