NVIDIA AI Podcast
Episodes 306 total
AutoX's Professor X on the State of Automotive Autonomy - Ep. 87
The path to self driving vehicles is usually marked by six milestones, or levels, from level 0, or no automation, to level 5, or full autonomy. Jianxiong Xiao…
A-High: How Grownetics Automates Cannabis Cultivation with Deep Learning - Ep. 86
Sticky. Kind. Chronic. Reefer. Forget the dated slang. These days the word is ‘opportunity.’ The market for legal cannabis in the United States was estimated at…
Teaching Families to Embrace AI - Ep. 85
Tara Chklovski is CEO and founder of Iridescent, a non-profit that provides access to hands on learning opportunities to prepare underrepresented children and a…
Astronomers Turn to AI as New Telescopes Come Online - Ep. 84
Good news: astronomers are getting new tools to let them see further, better than ever before. The bad news: they’ll soon be getting more data than humans can h…
Primer's Sean Gourley on Bots, Propaganda and Fake News - Ep. 83
In 2015 today's guest penned an article called "Robot Propaganda" for Wired magazine. It contained this then bold prediction: "we are likely to see versions of…
UC Berkeley’s Pieter Abbeel on How Deep Learning Will Help Robots Learn - Ep. 82
Robots can do amazing things. Compare even the most advanced robots to a three-year old, however, and they can come up short. UC Berkeley Professor Pieter Abbee…
How the Breakthrough Listen Harnessed AI in the Search for Aliens - Ep. 81
UC Berkeley's Gerry Zhang talks about his work using deep learning to analyze signals from space for signs of intelligent extraterrestrial civilizations. And wh…
Ready for the Playoffs? Swish Analytics Can Help You Clean Up - Ep. 80
Not sure who will win the NBA playoffs? Looking for coaching when putting together your fantasy football team? Swish Analytics uses AI to help you pick winners…
How AI Helps GOAT Keep Sneakerheads a Step Ahead - Ep. 79
GOAT Group helps sneaker enthusiasts get their hands on authentic Air Jordans, Yeezys and a variety of old-school kicks with the help of AI. Michael Hall, direc…
How Nuance Brings AI to Healthcare - Ep. 78
You probably recognize the name Nuance from their work with speech recognition and virtual assistant technology. They’re one of the pioneers of voice recognitio…
Sort Circuit: How GPUs Helped One Man Conquer His Lego Pile - Ep. 77
At some point in life, every man faces the same great challenge: sorting out his children's Lego pile. Thanks to GPU-driven deep learning, Francisco "Paco" Garc…
A Man, a GAN, and a 1080 Ti: How Jason Antic Created 'De-Oldify' - Ep. 76
You don't need to be an an academic or to work for a big company to get into deep learning. You can just be a guy with a NVIDIA GeForce 1080 Ti and a Generative…
How SoundHound Uses AI to Bring Voice and Music Recognition to Any Platform - Ep. 75
SoundHound made its name as music identification service. Since then, SoundHound has become much more. It's leveraged its 10 plus years in data analytics to cre…
Good News About Fake News: AI Can Now Help Detect False Information - Ep. 74
With “Fake News” embedding itself into, well, our news, it’s become more important than ever to distinguish between content that is fake or authentic. That’s wh…
A Conversation with the Entrepreneur Behind the World's Most Realistic Artificial Voices - Ep. 73
Voice recognition is one thing, creating natural sounding artificial voices is quite another. Lyrebird - a member of NVIDIA’s Inception startup program - uses d…
Investor, AI Pioneer Kai-Fu Lee on the Future of AI in the US, China - Ep. 72
Dr. Kai-Fu Lee has been at the center of artificial intelligence for decades. dr. Lee developed the world's first speaker independent continuous speech recognit…
How Intuit Uses Deep Learning to Help You with Your Taxes - Ep. 71
Intuit Senior Vice President and Chief Data Officer Ashok Srivastava on how the personal finance giant is using AI to help make us all smarter about our finance…
What's in Your Wallet? For Capital One, the Answer Is AI - Ep. 70
When you hear of AI and machine learning, it’s easy to think of technology companies leading the charge. Capital One is determined to change that. In a conversa…
Cycle of DOOM Now Complete: Researchers Use AI to Generate New Levels for Seminal Videogame - Ep. 69
DOOM, of course, is foundational to 3D gaming. 3D gaming, of course, is foundational to GPUs. GPUs, of course, are foundational to deep learning, which is, now…
This Astrophysics Grad Student Doesn't Always Make Memes... But When He Does, He Uses Deep Learning
What's a meme? And what makes a meme, dank? Today's guest is Lawrence Pierson, a PhD student in theoretical astrophysics at Stanford University, will answer the…