AI Stories
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Science and Deep Learning are completely changing the world we live in today. Companies around the world start to make sensible use of big data to influence business decisions and create our future. From video recommendations to autonomous driving, from stock prediction to weather forecasting, the AI revolution is everywhere. The AI stories podcast brings together some of the best Data Scientists, Machine Learning Engineers, Business leaders and researchers that are at the front of this revolution. They are here to talk about their career, how they arrive where they are, give advice and share their vision. They explain how they make use of AI in their daily routine, how they use algorithms to solve business problems and make the world a better place. They are here to share their stories: their AI stories. Hosted by Neil Leiser, Data Scientist at Iwoca. Follow Neil to learn more about career, Data Science, AI and Machine Learning. Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leiserneil/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/LeiserNeil
Episodes
53 episodes
TimeGPT, Nixtla & Forecasting with Max Mergenthaler #53
Our guest today is Max Mergenthaler, Co-Founder and CEO of Nixtla: one of the most popular libraries for time series forecasting. In this conversation, Max first explains how he got into AI and the lessons he learned from building a cou...
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Season 4
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Episode 4
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Build LLMs From Scratch with Sebastian Raschka #52
Our guest today is Sebastian Raschka, Senior Staff Research Engineer at Lightning AI and bestselling book author.In our conversation, we first talk about Sebastian's role at Lightning AI and what the platform provides. We also dive into...
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Season 4
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Episode 3
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1:06:03
Code Generation & Synthetic Data With Loubna Ben Allal #51
Our guest today is Loubna Ben Allal, Machine Learning Engineer at Hugging Face 🤗 . In our conversation, Loubna first explains how she built two impressive code generation models: StarCoder and StarCoder2. We dig into the importance of d...
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Season 4
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Episode 2
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47:06
He Built an AI Football Coach Assistant & Google Maps Algorithm with Petar Veličković #50
Our guest today is Petar Veličković, Staff Research Scientist at Google DeepMind and Affiliated Lecturer at University of Cambridge.In our conversation, we first dive into how Petar got into Graph ML and discuss his most cited paper: Gr...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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1:06:54
Fine-Tuning LLMs, Hugging Face & Open Source with Lewis Tunstall #49
Our guest today is Lewis Tunstall, LLM Engineer and researcher at Hugging Face and book author of "Natural Language Processing with Transformers". In our conversation, we dive into topological machine learning and talk about giotto-tda,...
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Season 3
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Episode 15
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1:20:40
MLOps Engineering & Coding Best Practices with Maria Vechtomova #48
Our guest today is Maria Vecthomova, ML Engineering Manager at Ahold Delhaize and Co-Founder of Marvelous MLOps.In our conversation, we first talk about code best practices for Data Scientists. We then dive into MLOps, discuss the main ...
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Season 3
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Episode 14
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59:51
OpenAI, AGI, LLMs Eval & Applied ML with Reah Miyara #47
Our guest today is Reah Miyara. Reah is currently working on LLMs evaluation at OpenAI and previously worked at Google and IBM. In our conversation, Reah shares his experience working as a product lead for Google's graph-based machine l...
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Season 3
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Episode 13
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1:04:21
Google, Gemini, Cloud & LLMOps with Erwin Huizenga #46
Our guest today is Erwin Huizenga, Machine Learning Lead at Google and expert in Applied AI and LLMOps. In our conversation, Erwin first discusses how he got into the field and his previous experiences at SAS and IBM. We then talk about...
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Season 3
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Episode 12
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1:03:32
Deep Learning for Autonomous Driving with Andras Palffy #45
Our guest today is Andras Palffy, Co-Founder of Perciv AI: a startup offering AI based software solutions to build robust and affordable autonomous systems. In our conversation, we first talk about Andras' PhD focusing on road users det...
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Season 3
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Episode 11
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58:12
Launching 7-Figures AI Products With Franziska Kirschner #44
Our guest today is Franziska Kirschner, Co-Founder of Intropy AI and ex AI & Product Lead at Tractable: the world’s first computer vision unicorn. In our conversation, we dive into Franziska's PhD, her career at Tractable and her ex...
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Season 3
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Episode 10
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1:05:28
How He Built The Best 7B Params LLM with Maxime Labonne #43
Our guest today is Maxime Labonne, GenAI Expert, book author and developer of NeuralBeagle14-7B, one of the best performing 7B params model on the open LLM leaderboard. In our conversation, we dive deep into the world of GenAI. We start...
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Season 3
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Episode 9
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53:46
From Biostatistician to DevRel at Deci AI with Harpreet Sahota #42
Our guest today is Harpreet Sahota, Deep Learning Developer Relations Manager at Deci AI. In our conversation, we first talk about Harpreet’s work as a Biostatistician and dive into A/B testing. We then talk about Deci AI and Neural...
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Season 3
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Episode 8
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59:24
Building AI Startups & Raising Funds with Ryan Shannon #41
Our guest today is Ryan Shannon, AI Investor at Radical Ventures, a world-known venture capital firm investing exclusively in AI. Radical's portfolio includes hot startups like Cohere, Covariant, V7 and many more. In our conversat...
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Season 3
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Episode 7
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1:11:22
Interpreting Black Box Models with Christoph Molnar #40
Our guest today is Christoph Molnar, expert in Interpretable Machine Learning and book author. In our conversation, we dive into the field of Interpretable ML. Christoph explains the difference between post hoc and model agnostic ap...
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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55:18
From English Teacher to MLOps Leader with Demetrios Brinkmann #39
Our guest today is Demetrios Brinkmann, Founder and CEO of the MLOps Community. In our conversation, Demetrios first explains how he transitioned from being an English teacher to working in sales and then founding the MLOps community. H...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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44:39
MLOps & LLMOps with Noah Gift #38
Our guest today is Noah Gift, MLOps Leader and award winning book author. Noah has over 30 years of experience in the field and has taught to hundreds of thousands of students online. In our conversation, we first talk about Noah's expe...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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1:11:21
Building Over 1000 Models for Uber with Marianne Ducournau #37
Our guest today is Marianne Ducournau, Head of Data Science at Qonto and ex Data Scientist at Amazon and Uber.In our conversation, we first discuss Marianne's first job in Data Science working in the public sector and managing a 10-15 p...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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1:07:29
World Number 1 on Kaggle with Christof Henkel #36
Our guest today is Christof Henkel, Senior Deep Learning Data Scientist at NVIDIA and world number 1 on Kaggle: a competitive machine learning platform.In our conversation, we first discuss Christof's PhD in mathematics and talk about t...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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1:08:12
The Story Behind Mosaic ML's $1.3 Billion Acquisition with Davis Blalock #35
Our guest today is Davis Blalock, Research Scientist and first employee of Mosaic ML; a startup which got recently acquired by Databricks for an astonishing $1.3 billion. In our conversation, we first talk about Davis' PhD at MIT and hi...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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1:05:45
Kellin Pelrine - How He Crushed A Superhuman Go-Playing AI 14 Games To 1 #34
Our guest today is Kellin Pelrine, Research Scientist at FAR AI and Doctoral Researcher at the Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute (MILA). In our conversation, Kellin first explains how he defeated a superhuman Go-playing AI engine...
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Season 2
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Episode 16
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1:09:56
Chanuki Seresinhe - Head of Data Science at Zoopla - Generative AI & AI for happiness #33
Our guest today is Chanuki Seresinhe, head of Data Science at Zoopla, a company which provides millions of users with access to properties for sale and for rent. In our conversation, we first talk about Chanuki’s PhD where ...
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Season 2
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Episode 15
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57:13
Rémi Ounadjela - Data Science at TikTok, Google, Amazon & How to get into Big Tech #32
Our guest today is Rémi Ounadjela, Senior Data Science Manager at TikTok and ex-Data Scientist at Google and Amazon. During the first part of our conversation, Rémi talks about his experience working on shipment optimisation at Amaz...
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Season 2
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Episode 14
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1:04:41
Barr Moses - CEO of Monte Carlo - DataOps & Data Observability #31
Our guest today is Barr Moses, Co-Founder & CEO of Monte Carlo, the first end-to-end data observability platform. In our conversation, we first talk about how Barr got into the field and the early influence of her parents. Barr ...
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Season 2
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Episode 13
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56:16
Parul Pandey - Kaggle Grandmaster & ML for High Risk Applications #30
Our guest today is Parul Pandey, Principal Data Scientist at H2O.ai, Kaggle Grandmaster (notebooks) & book author of “Machine Learning for High Risk Applications”. In our conversation, we first dig into Kaggle. Parul explains ho...
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Season 2
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Episode 12
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1:07:37
Marijn Markus - Managing Data Scientist at Capgemini #29
Our guest today is Marijn Markus, Managing Data Scientist at Capgemini. In our conversation, we first talk about data analysis to model and visualise the spread of Ebola. We then dig into crime analysis back to when Marijn worked wi...
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Season 2
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Episode 11
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