People of AI – Détails, épisodes et analyse

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 recognition and accessibility from the Kaggle competition to Pop Sign AI, and much more!

Resources:
Kaggle → https://goo.gle/3YCcjau
Kaggle Competitions → https://goo.gle/3NDqzcz
PopSign Game → https://goo.gle/3UinxhJ
Precious PopSign Kaggle Competition → https://goo.gle/3Ui5s3q 

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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/3xS1Z3j 

ML Kit → https://goo.gle/3XIwqne 

Sachin on Google AI Edge at Google I/O → https://goo.gle/3VMC3hE 

Google AI Edge website → https://goo.gle/3xuSmHW 

Project Gameface → https://goo.gle/4cBeLlE  

AI Edge Torch → https://goo.gle/3XMsule 

LLM On-Device with MediaPipe and TensorFlow Lite → https://goo.gle/3La0KQa

Model Explorer → https://goo.gle/3RRqapE 

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 conservation, Product development, and much more! 

Resources:
Gemini: https://goo.gle/3NmN068
United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre: https://goo.gle/41k9Alz
Carto: https://goo.gle/3uQNg6Z
Google Labs: https://goo.gle/487pTUU 

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 users and build better products on this episode of People of AI. Discover how easy it is to incorporate AI principles into products through a forward thinking mindset, Google's Responsible AI Toolkit in TensorFlow and more.

Resources:
Google Associate Product Manager Program → https://goo.gle/46An65L 

Responsible AI Toolkit → https://goo.gle/4a0z3EE 

PAIR Guidebook → https://goo.gle/4830hc5 

Monk Skin Tone Scale → https://goo.gle/46HLdPZ 

Get started → https://goo.gle/3N6RehW 

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 → https://goo.gle/3G5Vj2d

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 customers and consumers, and much more. 

Resources:
Joyce's picks: readings in ML/AI →  https://goo.gle/3MzNwxi
Berkley courses → https://goo.gle/47lLXef 

Books:
From Talking to Doing: A Short Guide to Corporate Innovation Success
Check it out Amazon → https://goo.gle/40tnaT8 
Check it out on Barnes & Noble → https://goo.gle/3MButCz

Blockchain in Financial Markets and Beyond: The Promises and Limitations of Blockchain: Taking Stock and Lessons Learned
Check it out Amazon → https://goo.gle/3SACPhE
Check it out on Risk→ https://goo.gle/3udEL5r

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.

Resources:
Google Cloud Platforms → https://goo.gle/47jW9nD
Vertex AI → https://goo.gle/3tZSX27
Introduction to Vertex AI → https://goo.gle/3QlgOki 

Five generative AI use cases for the financial services industry → https://goo.gle/47amAMZ 

Vertex AI Foundations for secure and compliant ML/AI deployment → https://goo.gle/45YbclQ 

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 → https://goo.gle/3S6IVGo
TF Hub → https://goo.gle/3S5t9LY
Hugging Face →https://goo.gle/45KyBXC
Sayak bio and website → https://goo.gle/3Mas9Cv
Sayak's Twitter → https://goo.gle/3QtxEO7 

Courses:
Google Summer of Code→ https://goo.gle/3Fv2CA4
fast.ai course → https://goo.gle/45HRLxp
Coursera Deep Learning specialization → https://goo.gle/3S8Kljx CS 231N - Stanford → https://goo.gle/3QvIt3o

Books:
Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (Information Science and Statistics) by Christopher M. Bishop (Author) → https://goo.gle/493iJm3
Grokking Deep Learning First Edition, by Andrew Trask (Author) → https://goo.gle/40fNX5y 

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.  

Resources:
Google Labs → https://goo.gle/46D7hvI
Google Research → https://goo.gle/48Wi2e9
Google Ads → https://goo.gle/3Qoy0GT
AI for Anyone series on Google for Developers → https://goo.gle/46CNlsP 

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!

Resources: 
Bard → https://goo.gle/3PSvkjb
TensorFlow → https://goo.gle/3ZQWgnY
Firebase → https://goo.gle/3PPXGuj
Simple ML for Sheets → https://goo.gle/3F9dyU1
Stability → https://goo.gle/3RPm02d