Episodes

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...

In this episode of Talking Machines we talk with Sella Nevo of Google Research about the Google Flood Forecasting Project,what they'vebeen doing, and what is means to really move the needle on AI for Good. 

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! 

In episode seven of season six we talk with Michael Littman about his work in reinforcement learning, on scientific communication, and in the classroom. 

In episode eight 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.

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.

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! 

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. 

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 

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?