Talking Machines: Human Conversation about Machine Learning. Episode 1: Hello World.
From the webpage:
In the first episode of Talking Machines we meet our hosts, Katherine Gorman (nerd, journalist) and Ryan Adams (nerd, Harvard computer science professor), and explore some of the interviews you’ll be able to hear this season. Today we hear some short clips on big issues, we’ll get technical, but the today is all about introductions.
We start with Kevin Murphy of Google talking about his textbook that has become a standard in the field. Then we turn to Hanna Wallach of Microsoft Research NYC and UMass Amherst and hear about the founding of WiML (Women in Machine Learning). Next we discuss academia’s relationship with business with Max Welling from the University of Amsterdam, program co-chair of the 2013 NIPS conference (Neural Information Processing Systems). Finally, we sit down with three pillars of the field Yann LeCun, Yoshua Bengio, and Geoff Hinton to hear about where the field has been and where it might be headed.
If you are trying to attract students into machine learning, this podcast series has a lot of potential. Machine learning isn’t a dry as some texts make it appear. 😉
Episodes are promised every two weeks.
I first saw this in tweet from Hanna Wallach.