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DeepMind's Nando de Freitas - "Why Deep Learning is Like Building with Legos" 2

DeepMind’s Nando de Freitas – “Why Deep Learning is Like Building with Legos”

Episode Summary: One of the most memorable moments from this interview is when our guest mentioned that Larry Page hired him to solve intelligence; very few people can say this, and this says something about today’s guest, Dr. Nando de Freitas - a senior researcher at Google and professor at Oxford - as well as the gravity of his present work. Today, I speak with Nando about a topic well known through his research at Google, deep learning. de Freitas gives his perspective on the basics of deep learning, the applications in conversational interfaces and recognizing images and videos, and what the future of this technology might look like in the nearer future.

How Cognitive Computing Can Change the Nature of Business Operations - A Conversation with Praful Krishna

How Cognitive Computing Can Change the Nature of Business Operations – A Conversation with Praful Krishna

Episode Summary: When you go to Harvard Business School and then to McKinsey company to work in private equity, there’s really only one thing left to do - go to Silicon Valley and launch an AI startup. At least, this is exactly what CEO Praful Krishna did when he moved to San Francisco to start Coseer, an AI company focused on understanding natural language and unstructured data. In this week’s episode, we speak about where unstructured data lives in a business, and how a business can be changed if the right data is unlocked. Krishna also discusses his experience in how executives are making decisions around how, or how not to, leverage AI in their companies.

The Rise of Neural Networks and Deep Learning in Our Everyday Lives - A Conversation with Yoshua Bengio

The Rise of Neural Networks and Deep Learning in Our Everyday Lives – A Conversation with Yoshua Bengio

[This interview has been revised and updated.]

Episode SummaryHow do neural networks affect your life? There’s the one that you walk around with in your head of course, but the one in your pocket is an almost constant presence as well. In this episode, we speak with Dr. Yoshua Bengio about how the neural nets in computer software have become more ubiquitous and powerful, with deep learning algorithms and neural nets permeating research and commercial applications over the past decade. He also discusses likely future opportunities for deep learning in areas such as natural language processing and individualized medicine. Bengio was a researcher at Bell Labs with Yann LeCun, now at Facebook, and was working on neural nets before they were the "cool" new AI technology as it's often perceived today.

The Pathway to "Precision Medicine" - with Tute Genomics CEO Reid Robison

The Pathway to “Precision Medicine” – with Tute Genomics CEO Reid Robison

Tute Genomics is part of a grand shift towards the leveraging of genetic information towards better health and better treatments. One of the "holy grails" of this transition from one to the other is the advent of