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://goo.gle/3UnpdH1  Intelligence: On Intelligence: How a New Understanding of the Brain Will Lead...

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 Huang's YouTube Channel → https://goo.gle/3VW2O50 Which jobs will survive AI →...

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 hands of developers and how this has been a long tradition in Google history. Dive into what it means...

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 technology at Google and the advantages and risks of sharing cutting edge technology with the world. We learn...

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, and how she is growing, connecting and supporting developer communities through multiple channels...

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 devices, and how those adventures led her to the Bill and the Melinda Gates Foundation. Learn about the...

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 internship to build an app with AI to diagnose and treat cardiovascular health issues. He shares his...

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 interactions. Learn about Simon’s introduction to tech career from a background of environmental...

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 benefit users. Learn about adopting ethical and responsible technology principles to protect...

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 production from concepts to brainstorming, drafting, and more!  Resources: Muse →...

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 businesses are currently facing to integrate or acquire other AI businesses, building trust amongst...

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 behalf of Google’s Startup initiative. Discover how you can grow a local AI/ML community.   ...

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 responsible AI and much more.  Resources mentioned: Google Developer Expert Program →...

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 the prototyping of research ideas, and the evolution of Ai in the past few years.     ...

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 shift that has happened in recent months, Google’s conversational AI, Bard, and much moreI! ...

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 Blocks for ML: https://goo.gle/3OfanzO  Tone Transfer: https://goo.gle/3On9xku  PAIR...

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 personal experience and values make her a key player in this space! Resources: AI Principles:...

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 → https://goo.gle/3GS19Fi  Watch all the WiML 2022 sessions → https://goo.gle/3Ld11mb  ...

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.    Learn more about how to be a Google Developer Expert → https://goo.gle/3oaXxr7    Resources: ...

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!     Resources: Building Machine Learning Pipelines → https://goo.gle/3nLBpDI  Software...

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/Learn-WebML  Connect with Jason on LinkedIn: https://goo.gle/3zcift1  Connect with Jason on...

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    Learn more about Sharon’s courses here: Build Basic Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) →...

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-certificate Watch the AI for Anyone YouTube video series → https://goo.gle/AIfAnyone All of the...

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!