People of AI
People of AI is a podcast that highlights inspiring individuals with compelling stories in the fields of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. Each episode features interviews with leaders, practitioners, researchers, and learners who discuss their projects, the lessons they've learned, and their excitement for the industry. The show aims to showcase the human side of AI and ML, offering insights into the people driving innovation in these fields.
Episodes
Conversation with Bibo Xu: How agent conversations are evolving with Google AI
Bibo Xu is a Product Manager at Google DeepMind and leads Gemini's multimodal modeling. This video dives into Google AI's journey from basic voice commands to advanced dialogue systems that comprehend not just what is said, but also tone, emotion, and visual context. Check out this conversation to gain a deeper understanding of the challenges and opportunities in integrating diverse AI capabilitie
What is Vets Who Code: Teaching veterans and leveraging AI
Learn about Jerome Hardaway's incredible journey from military service to self-taught software engineer and founder of Vets Who Code. This video delves into how he built a thriving community, teaching veterans to code and secure jobs in tech. Discover his unique "crawl, walk, run" learning methodology and how he integrates modern AI tools like Gemini and JetBrains into his curriculum, preparing d
Creative storytelling with AI: The making of Ancestra
In this episode of People of AI , we take you behind the scenes of "ANCESTRA," a groundbreaking film that integrates generative artificial intelligence into its core. Hear from the director Eliza McNitt and key collaborators from the Google DeepMind team about how they leveraged AI as a new creative tool, navigated its capabilities and limitations, and ultimately shaped a unique cinematic experie
The evolved developer with Muhammad Farooq
Meet Muhammad Farooq, a machine learning engineer and a YouTuber on the channel @engineerprompt, where he explains AI concepts and builds his own projects. In this episode of People of AI, hosts Ashley and Christina chat with Muhammad about his journey in tech, his open source project localGPT, and how he's helping organizations deploy scalable AI solutions. Chapters: 0:00 Intro 3:15 From Ph.D t
Season 5 - Shaping the agentic future with Clement Farabet
Join hosts Ashley Oldacre and Christinia Warren as they kick off Season 5 of the People of AI podcast with their first guest, Clement Farabet, VP of Research at Google DeepMind. They discuss the evolution of AI, from early neural networks to the latest advancements in large language models and AI agents. Learn how research and product teams work together to bring developers the best tools to buil
Building human-centered AI products with Ovetta Sampson
Meet Ovetta Sampson, Director of UX for AI compute enablement at Google. She shares her unique path from journalism to AI, including her work on groundbreaking projects prioritizing human-centered design principles. Discover valuable insights into making AI more accessible, the importance of responsible development, and more in this episode of People of AI. Resources: Generative AI and creative
The intersection of AI, art, and design with Douglas Edric Stanley and Anthony Masure
Join Ashley Oldacre as she hosts a conversation with artist Douglas Edrick Stanley and Dean of Research at Geneva University of Art and Design Anthony Masure. They discuss their origin stories, the role of AI in creative fields, and the value of critical thinking in a technology-driven world. Resources: Geneva School of Art and Design: https://goo.gle/4fNLYvh Anthony Masure: https://goo.gle/3Psx
Digital health with Dr. Oliver Aalami
Discover the fascinating world of digital health innovation with a leading expert in vascular surgery and digital health innovation, Dr. Oliver Aalami. In this insightful People of AI episode, Dr. Aalami shares his path to medicine, his passion for integrating technology in patient care, and his role as director of Stanford's Biodesign for Digital Health program. Explore the groundbreaking projec
NotebookLM with Steven Johnson and Raiza Martin
Explore the fascinating world of AI and its potential to transform how we work, learn, and create with NotebookLM. Join guests Steven Johnson, Editorial Director of Notebook LM, and Raiza Martin, Senior Product Manager at Google Labs, leading Notebook LM for a deep dive into the inspiration, development, practical use cases, and more in this People of AI episode. Resouces: A.I. Is Masteri
Responsible AI panel at DevFest Silicon Valley 2024
Join People of AI host Ashley Oldacre as she moderates a panel on Responsible AI at DevFest Silicon Valley. Ashley teams up with four industry experts to discuss their personal journeys in technology and explore the future of AI. Learn how these experts keep responsible AI at the forefront of emerging technologies. Resources: Learn more about the amazing panelists: Jigyasa Grover, Lead, AI & Re
3-step approach to mobile app compliance with Checks co-founders Fergus Hurley and Nia Castelly
Meet Fergus Hurley and Nia Castelly, co-funders of Checks, Google's AI-powered compliance platform. Fergus Hurley, Product Management Director at Google Cloud in addition to General Manager and Co-founder of Checks, and Nia Castelly, Co-Founder and Head of Legal at Checks, share the inner workings of Checks. Discover how they built Checks initially leveraging natural language processing (NLP) and
How AI is revolutionizing sign language recognition with Sam Sepah and Thad Starner
Meet today's guests Sam Sepah and Thad Starner. Sam Sepah, an AI/ML Research Manager at Google, drives innovation in accessibility technology for users with deafness and other disabilities. Thad Starner is a Georgia Tech Professor, wearable computing pioneer, and staff research scientist at Google working on sign language recognition. Explore the transformative impact of AI on sign language recog
Gus and Ashley talk AI visionaries, developers, and consumers - Season 4
Join hosts Ashley Oldacre and Gus Martins as they kick off Season 4 of the People of AI podcast! In this episode, enjoy a conversation about how much has changed in the AI landscape the past 2 years, how it is impacting us and what that means to be a person of AI today. Listen to the conversation as the hosts explore the different ways people are using and interacting with AI, from researchers to
Google I/O Special with Sachin Kotwani
Join host Ashley Oldacre and guest Sachin Kotwani, Google's On-Device ML Lead for a second special Google I/O episode. This interview dives deep into the world of Edge AI. Learn about the value, advantages and the future of on-device AI, and how it's already making waves through initiatives like Project Game Face, and much more. Resources: Andrew Ng's DeepLearning.AI course → https://goo.gle/3xS
Google I/O Special with Mat Velloso and Logan Kilpatrick
Resources: Top AI developer news from Google IO 2024 → https://goo.gle/3VZhwry Google I/O 2024 recap → https://goo.gle/3RL8Pyi Project Astr →: https://goo.gle/3W2rloI Google AI Studio → https://goo.gle/4eCP6e5 Colab → https://goo.gle/3VJ421P Kaggle → https://goo.gle/3RKKZ65 Anders Hejlsberg → https://goo.gle/3VYolcE The Culture Code by Daniel Coyle → https://goo.gle/45IWbWh Jaron Lanier → https:/
François Chollet - Creating Keras 3
Meet François Chollet, creator of Keras, software engineer, and AI researcher at Google. Join François and hosts Ashley Oldacre and Gus Martins as they discuss how Keras 3 was created, integrating Keras 3 with Gemma and Kaggle, artificial general intelligence (AGI), and much more! Resources: François Chollet research → https://goo.gle/443V3vG Deep Learning With Python, Second Edition → https://go
Upskill your career in AI
Meet Tina Huang, a YouTuber and the Founder of Lonely Octopus, a program that teaches students AI skills and then matches them with real companies to work on developing AI solutions. Ashley Oldacre and Tina Huang discuss how to incorporate AI into your career, unfair advantages and identity capital, if AI will steal our jobs, and much more on this podcast People of AI episode. Resources: Tina H
Tris Warkentin - Introducing Gemma, Google's family of open models
Meet Tris Warkentin, Product Management lead for Google DeepMind's next-generation AI research, working to achieve Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). Learn about the Gemini ecosystem and Google's newest family of open models, Gemma! Discover what it can do and why this is a monumental step for the developer community. Unpack the power and exciting new capabilities this will unleash in the han
Kathleen Kenealy - Creating, building, and releasing Gemma, Google's open model family
Meet Kathleen Kenealy, a Software Engineer at Google DeepMind, working on the next generation of large language models (LLMs) and open models. In the episode we talk about Gemma, Google's newest family of lightweight, state-of-the-art open models built from the same research and technology used to create the Gemini models. Join us as we unpack the history and the importance of open technolog
Jeanine Banks - Leveraging the power of the developer community
Meet Jeanine Banks, VP and GM of the Developer X and Developer Relations Business at Google. In this role, she empowers millions of developers to build AI enabled businesses and applications for billions of users worldwide. Hear about the latest Google AI ecosystem of tools from Gemini and Gemma to Projet IDX. Learn about her journey into the tech industry, solving real-world problems with AI, an
Indira Negi - Investing in AI hardware for health
Meet Indira Negi, who leads efforts at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to improve maternal and newborn health by investing in innovative tools to help with early diagnosis and reduce risk during pregnancy and labor. This People of AI podcast episode, we cover Indira's background as an electrical engineer, her past experiences at Intel, leading the sensor engineering team for wearable device
Adrit Rao - AI student, app developer, and researcher
Meet Adrit Rao, a high school student, app developer, and research intern at Stanford University. During elementary school lunch time he would develop games, it's no surprise he has launched 5 iOS apps at 12! This People of AI podcast episode explores how Adrit built his confidence through building apps, learning from the online community, cold calling for opportunities and landing a research int
Simon Tokumine - Gemini and the future of Generative AI tools
Meet Simon Tokumine, a Director of Product Management at Google leading teams for large language and multimodal model AI tools. On this episode of People of AI, hosts Ashely Oldacre, Luiz Gustavo Martins, and guest Simon chat about Gemini, Google's latest AI multimodal model. Join us as we discuss the impacts of this new technology on product development and how this will impact human and machine
Tulsee Doshi - Responsible AI and human centered technology
Meet Tulsee Doshi, Head of Product for Google's Responsible AI and Human Centered Technology. She leads development of Google wide improvements, resources, and best practices for developing more inclusive and ethical products. She shares her journey from starting as an intern product manager through Google's APM program to finding a career that allows her to mix her interdisciplinary interests to
Anne Simonds and Brian Gary - Introducing Muse
Meet the co-founders of Muse System Enterprises, Anne Simonds and Brian Gary, on this episode of People of AI, hosted by Ashely Oldacre. Learn about Muse, the first intelligent system that synergizes domain expertise with cutting-edge ML and leverages a proprietary data science that unlocks, assists, and amplifies human creativity at scale. Muse empowers creators by delivering commercial content p
Joyce Shen - AI innovation, acquisition, and responsibility in business
Meet Joyce Shen, a venture investor focused on emerging technology and AI companies. Learn about startups, acquisitions, and mergers on this episode of People of AI. Joyce shares her career journey in statistics and economics and how she brought her unique experience into building a model for IBM to apply to acquisitions and evaluate startups. Ashley, Gus, and Joyce talk about challenges that busi
Crispin Velez - Cloud, community, and computing
Meet Crispin Velez, an AI Architect at Google Cloud and leader of Vertex AI. Find out how he works with clients, partners and sales teams to adopt ML/AI using Google Cloud. Ashley, Gus and Crispin talk about Google Cloud, the history of cloud computing, creation of Vertex AI, and more. Crispin shares his experience expanding the SpaLatam TensorFlow community in Columbia and mentoring startups on
Sayak Paul - Getting started with community contributions, diffusion models, and more
Meet Sayak Paul, a Machine Learning Engineer specializing in diffusion models at Hugging Face and GDE for ML and Google Cloud. He shares how his community contributions led him towards getting his current dream job at Hugging Face. Join Ashley, Gus, and Sayak for a chat about resources for developers to get into machine learning, how diffusion models have exploded in the past year, the role of res
Sunita Verma - How Generative AI will transform the way we work
Meet Sunita Verma, the Vice President of Engineering at Google Core Labs. She shares her experience in tech from her start of loving problem solving in college to finding a passion for computer science, learning lessons in leadership, and working at Google over the past 16 years. Ashley, Gus, and Sunita talk about how generative AI will transform the way we work, how Google Core Labs accelerates t
Season 2 - Gus and Ashley talk Generative AI
Meet Ashley & Gus, your hosts for season 2 of People of AI. In this episode, Luis Gustavo Martins, also known as Gus, shares his personal and professional path from playing video games as a young child in Brazil to becoming a Developer Advocate at Google. (For Ashley's story, check out episode 1) Ashley and Gus also talk about the explosive growth of Generative AI tools and the major technology sh
Kind and helpful Machine Learning through UX research
Meet Michelle Carney, a Machine Learning User Experience Researcher at Google. Join us as we learn how her careers in music, neuroscience, teaching, and machine learning have informed her ability to understand how people use Machine Learning tools, and provide better feedback to help make these tools more useful, helpful, kind, and inclusive of all types of user experiences. Resources: Visual B
How to think about and build AI responsibly
There is a whole team at Google dedicated to designing AI best practices. They are committed to making progress in the responsible development of AI and share reliable, effective user-centered research, tools, datasets, and other resources with users. Meet one of the members of the team, Christina Greer, as she shares the in's and out's of working in the field of Responsible AI and how her persona
Building an inclusive community in the field of Machine Learning
Meet Joana Carrasqueira as she talks about her amazing ability to grow community in the field of machine learning. Join us as we hear about her extraordinary journey from the non-profit sector to business and most recently into tech and how she leverages her superpower of bringing people together and fostering a culture of belonging. Resources: WiML → https://goo.gle/3GRW939 WiML Blog post → ht
The secret sauce to creating amazing ML experiences for developers
From developing programs on a Pentium computer as a kid and programming in Visual Basic 6 to becoming a leader in software development for Machine Learning on the Web, join us as we learn about Gant's journey to where he is today. And the secret sauce to all this? Gant's creativity and curiosity that he mixes into his work, creating fun and amazing experiences for developers around the world. L
Rocks, data science, and breaking into Machine Learning
Meet Catherine Nelson, Principal Data Scientist at SAP Concur and author of the upcoming O'Reilly book "Software Engineering for Data Scientists". Join us as we talk about Catherine's amazing career journey as she pivoted from geophysicist to working on setting the standard for building machine learning pipelines. According to Catherine, it all starts with how you prepare and train your data!
Machine Learning on the web
Meet Jason Mayes, the public face of Web ML at Google and host of Made With TensorFlow.js. Join us as we talk about Jason's journey and mission to make machine learning easy, fun and accessible on the web and how getting into the field of machine learning has never been easier. Made With TensorFlow.js Playlist: http://goo.gle/made-with-tfjs Learn Web ML on Google Developers: https://goo.gle/
The language of Machine Learning
Meet Sharon Zhou, an adjunct faculty member at Stanford University and co-founder of Stealth Startup. Join us as we talk about the power and interconnectedness of language as we dive into generative AI models, stable diffusion, large language models, and learn how every problem – according to Sharon – is just a translation problem. Check out Sharon's startup here: https://goo.gle/3TENTJk Lea
What it means to be a person of AI
Meet your hosts, Ashley Oldacre and Laurence Moroney, as we uncover what it means to be a person of AI. We talk about personal and professional journeys, lessons learned along the way, and how to get started in Artificial intelligence and Machine Learning. We share resources to get started and where we see the field going. Learn about the TensorFlow Certificate Program → https://goo.gle/TF-dev-ce
People of AI podcast coming soon!
Join Ashley Oldacre, ML program manager at Google, and Laurence Moroney, ML Developer Advocate at Google, to hear the stories of some incredible people behind machine learning and artificial intelligence. Whether you're just getting started in AI/ML, or looking to expand your established experience, these stories are for you. We hope you will tune in!
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