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Talking Machines is your window into the world of machine learning. Your hosts, Katherine Gorman and Neil Lawrence, bring you clear conversations with experts in the field, insightful discussions of industry news, and useful answers to your questions. Machine learning is changing the questions we can ask of the world around us, here we explore how to ask the best questions and what to do with the answers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

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Talking Machines is your window into the world of machine learning. Your hosts, Katherine Gorman and Neil Lawrence, bring you clear conversations with experts in the field, insightful discussions of industry news, and useful answers to your questions. Machine learning is changing the questions we can ask of the world around us, here we explore how to ask the best questions and what to do with the answers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Twitter:

@TlkngMchns

Language:

English


Episodes
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Gods and Robots

9/9/2021
In this episode of the podcast we shake things up! Neil is on the guest side of the table with his partner Rabbi Laura Janner-Klausner to discuss their upcoming project Gods and Robots. Katherine is joined on the host side by friend of the show professor Michael Littman. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Duration:00:40:05

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Responsibility, Risk, and Publishing

8/19/2021
On this episode we feature an interview with Madhulika Shrikumar of the Partnership on AI about their recent work Managing Risk and Responsible Publication See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Duration:00:25:39

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ICML 2021: Test of Time(ly) Award

7/24/2021
Neil and Katherine chat about ICML and the timely award winner of this years test of time award! Bayesian Learning via Stochastic Gradient Langevin Dynamics See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Duration:00:19:18

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Learning with Less, Invisible Labor and Combating Anti-Blackness

7/9/2021
Devin Guillory of UC Berkeley, is our guest on this episode. We talk about his love of robotics, working at the center of a new hype (learning with less labels) and his paper Combatting Anti-Blackness in the AI Community. He recently gave a talk on the subject the University of Toronto See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Duration:00:36:33

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Let's Reflect

6/13/2020
We're not bringing you an episode this week. We're taking some time to think about the systems we take part in and how those perpetuate anti black racism and the effects of that on the work in this field. We'd like to bring you meaningful conversations around those systems and how we can change them and ourselves. We encourage everyone to explore the amazing work of Black in AI, Data Science Africa and Shut Down STEM. Take care of yourselves, take care of each other, and stay tuned. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Duration:00:00:29

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Predicting Floods and Really Doing Good

5/29/2020
In this episode of Talking Machines we talk with Sella Nevo of Google Research about the Google Flood Forecasting Project, what they've been doing, and what is means to really move the needle on AI for Good. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Duration:00:39:11

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ICLR: accessible, inclusive, virtual

5/14/2020
In episode eight of season six we talk with Alexander Rush and Shakir Mohamed about their work on ICLR this year which was first to take place in Ethiopia and then became totally virtual! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Duration:00:38:41

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Humans in the Loop and Outside of the Classroom

5/1/2020
In episode seven of season six we talk with Michael Littman about his work in reinforcement learning, on scientific communication, and in the classroom. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Duration:00:38:04

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The Evolution of ML and Furry Little Animals

4/16/2020
In episode six of season six we chat with Professor Terry Sejnowski about his work, the evolution of the field, and the development of the NeurIPS conference. We taped this episode live and took questions from the audience. Want to join our "studio audience"? Check out @tlkngmchns on Twitter. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Duration:00:48:29

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Talking Machines Live and Understanding Modeling Viruses

4/3/2020
Episode five of season six is our first live episode! We talk with Elaine Nsoesie of Boston University about modeling disease and Covid 19 in the African context. plus we take listen questions live! Want to join our "studio audience" check out our twitter feed for how to sign up! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Duration:00:41:03

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Prioritizing Problems and 100 episodes

3/20/2020
Episode four of season six is our 100th episode! (Well it's Katherine's). We take a break from our regular format for Neil and Katherine to chat about the current situation around Covid-19, understanding exponentials, and what impact this might have on how problems get prioritized. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Duration:00:32:35

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The Great AI Fallacy

3/5/2020
In this episode we talk about the Great AI Fallacy, take a listener question about Federated Learning, and catch up with Ross Goodwin and Oscar Sharp See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Duration:00:49:12

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If a Machine Could Predict Your Death, Should it?

2/20/2020
in episode two of season six we hear Ziad Obermeyer's talk from TedX Boston entitled If a Machine Could Predict Your Death, Should it? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Duration:00:18:07

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Predicting the Decade and Distributing Conferences

2/6/2020
In episode one of season six we make some predictions about what will happen in the field in the next decade and talk with Margot Gerritsen about her work and WiDS You can listen to the WiDS podcast here! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Duration:01:07:52

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Debating Project Debater and Hello NeurIPS

11/21/2019
In our last episode for season five Katherine and Neil debate his debating project debater and talk about whats coming up at NeurIPS. Hope to see you there! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Duration:00:41:50

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De-Enchanting AI with the Law

11/8/2019
in episode twenty two of season five we hear a talk from Kenneth Anderson on how the field of AI and the law can work together to form regulation from TedX Boston See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Duration:00:20:10

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How to Ask an Actionable Question

10/25/2019
In Episode 21 of Season five we sit down with Marzyeh Ghassemi to talk about her work and how she's refined her focus. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Duration:00:39:30

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Children are the Future and Ada Lovelace Day

10/10/2019
In episode twenty of season five we talk with Neil about a discussion he had about the impact of ML tools on children talk about the new Diversity Dashboard from the Turing Institute in response to a question about cool things for Ada Lovelace day plus we sit down with Corinna Cortes of Google AI See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Duration:00:54:50

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News from Neil and Updates from DALI

9/26/2019
In episode eighteen of season five we talk about DALI, get some big news about the next thing for Neil and talk with Benjamin Akera. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Duration:01:10:32

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A Cooperative Path to Artificial Intelligence

9/13/2019
In episode eighteen of season five we hear Michael Littman's talk A Cooperative Path to Artificial Intelligence See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Duration:00:19:50