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The AI Wizards Show

The AI Wizards Show

By Ivan Goncharov

Striving to have deep and interesting conversations on AI and all sorts of excitings things going from there!
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AI to Save the Planet, School of AI & Intelligence with Beril Sirmacek || The AI Wizards Show #8

The AI Wizards ShowOct 09, 2019

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AI to Save the Planet, School of AI & Intelligence with Beril Sirmacek || The AI Wizards Show #8

AI to Save the Planet, School of AI & Intelligence with Beril Sirmacek || The AI Wizards Show #8

Really enjoyed having this conversation with Beril on how AI can be used to help fight climate change, some philosophy on intelligence, the app she built to help farmers using space images from ESA & AR. Hope you enjoy! 


Video version: https://youtu.be/snqU75ocV3A


Beril on Twitter: https://twitter.com/berilsirmacek

Beril on LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/beril-sirmacek-8ba1328/

Her personal website: http://berilsirmacek.com/


Hit me up on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Ivangrov (+ cool updates on what I'm up to there)


Contact me directly: fiddlerivan@gmail.com (currently available for paid work and consultations)


Thanks for watching!


Oct 09, 201959:23
AI in Diagnosing Diseases of Livestock in Africa with Mustapha Diyaol Haqq | The AI Wizards Show #7

AI in Diagnosing Diseases of Livestock in Africa with Mustapha Diyaol Haqq | The AI Wizards Show #7

Really loved having this conversation with Mustapha who is an AI wizard from Ghana and CTO of Okuafo Foundation where they're trying to develop a computer vision AI application for smartphones that could allow many VERY rural farmers of Ghana, and potentially Africa as a whole, diagnose diseases of their livestock, deal with the lack of available medical animal specialists in those regions, and, thus, do all the good things that come along with having happy farmers and healthy livestock in the communities. However, building something like this is hard, but making it easy-to-use for many farmers who can't even read in the regions is the whole task of its own. Hope you enjoy! 


Video version: https://youtu.be/0eY_Qh9o7ug


Mustapha on Twitter: https://twitter.com/blackarchitech

Okuafo Foundation: http://www.okuafofoundation.org/

Hit me up on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Ivangrov (+ cool updates on what I'm up to there)


Contact me directly: fiddlerivan@gmail.com


Jul 07, 201937:15
GANs, CNN Architectures, Deep Learning on Graphs and Henry AI Labs with Connor Shorten || TAIWS #6

GANs, CNN Architectures, Deep Learning on Graphs and Henry AI Labs with Connor Shorten || TAIWS #6

Loved loved loved chatting with Connor Shorten who is a PhD at Florida Atlantic University in AI and a real gangster when it comes to GANs and Deep Learning in general. Connor writes for Towards Data Science and creates his awesome videos explaining cutting edge Deep Learning papers on YouTube at his Henry AI Labs YouTube channel. We're gonna be diving deep into GANs, Conv Net Architectures, why Deep Learning on graphs is cool and the most exciting projects he does with AI. And you can give it a listen wherever you get your podcast by searching The AI Wizards Show and I'll also put some links below! Hope you enjoy! :)


Subscribe to Henry AI Labs to learn more about cutting edge deep learning research from Connor: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHB9VepY6kYvZjj0Bgxnpbw 


YouTube version: https://youtu.be/cznHWopQZns


Give it a listen here

iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-ai-wizards-show/id1447813271?mt=2

Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/1AstqJiKjbda5XXJiW9k0Q

Anchor: https://anchor.fm/TheAIWizardsShow

Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/anchor-podcasts/the-ai-wizards-show

CastBox: https://castbox.fm/channel/The-AI-Wizards-Show%7D-id1912309?country=ru

(and everywhere else simply by searching "The AI Wizards Show")


Time stamps: 

Intro: 1:17

GANs: 1:59

Can GANs augment training data now? 13:34 

Deep Learning on graphs: 16:54

Henry AI Labs: 28:15 

How Connor started out in deep learning? 30:56

Conv net architectures: 34:20

The most complex and the most hard and exciting problems Connor took on with DL: 42:57


Connor on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CShorten30

Hit me up on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Ivangrov (cool updates on what I'm up to there)


Things we've talked about: 

Henry AI Labs: https://www.henryailabs.com/

Connor on Towards Data Science: https://towardsdatascience.com/@connorshorten300

Henry AI Labs on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHB9VepY6kYvZjj0Bgxnpbw 


Contact me directly: fiddlerivan@gmail.com


May 22, 201947:32
Cofounding a Small Tech Company 22 Years Ago and AI at Bus Stations with David Ibañez || TAIWS #5

Cofounding a Small Tech Company 22 Years Ago and AI at Bus Stations with David Ibañez || TAIWS #5

Really enjoyed chatting with David on how he cofounded a company that does LED displays in Spain 22 years ago, his early experience with tech, a LOT, LOT of us jumping back and forth on our experiences with AI at bus stations, David's journey into AI and him telling a lot of interesting stories on The AI WIzards Show! Hope you enjoy! 


Watch it on YouTube: https://youtu.be/eUlmk5-H0ME


Give it a listen here

iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-ai-wizards-show/id1447813271?mt=2

Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/1AstqJiKjbda5XXJiW9k0Q

Anchor: https://anchor.fm/TheAIWizardsShow

Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/anchor-podcasts/the-ai-wizards-show

(and everywhere else)


Time stamps: 

David's company: 2:22

Computers in the 80s: 8:04

What David's business does at bus stations and how AI can be used there: 45:18

Our experiences with AI at bus stations: 1:02:16

David tells strories: 2:40:06


David on Twitter: https://twitter.com/dav_ibanez

Hit me up on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Ivangrov


Things we've talked about: 

Laforja Sistemas: https://sistemas.laforja.com/en/

David's blog: http://blog.ibanyez.info/

May 11, 201903:13:38
Antwerp University Lab Tour, Autonomous Vehicles and The AI Parrot w/ Thomas Huybrechts|| TAIWS #4

Antwerp University Lab Tour, Autonomous Vehicles and The AI Parrot w/ Thomas Huybrechts|| TAIWS #4

Really loved having this conversation with Thomas Huybrechts! Thomas is an engineering PhD student at Antwerp University, Belgium. Aside from teaching students, he's also involved in the University's lab that develops autonomous vehicles, runs his own engineering club for the students, involved in a logistics-for-trucking-companies startup, researching worst-case execution time for time-sensible software and a lot more! Hope you enjoy! 


Time stamps: 

The talking parrot: 1:26:29

The lab tour: 25:52 

Thomas' experience (on crushing it) with dyslexia: 2:37:37

The logistics startup: 2:06:24


View the episode here: https://youtu.be/sRcGT0LkJTM


Thomas on Twitter: https://twitter.com/huybthomas

Hit me up on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Ivangrov


Things we've talked about: 

The logistics startup: https://www.digitrans.io

The Antwerp University: https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/

The news coverage of the vehicles (in Dutch): https://vimeo.com/329057233

Thomas' research: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Thomas_Huybrechts

Apr 18, 201903:29:03
Building an Internet Tech Company in 1999-2014 & The Future of AI with John | The AI Wizards Show #3

Building an Internet Tech Company in 1999-2014 & The Future of AI with John | The AI Wizards Show #3

Really loved having this amazingly interesting and insightful conversation with my friend John with whom I've been exchanging the experiences in Computer Vision for many months now) John has been in tech for over 30 years building companies as a CTO and now diving into Deep Learning with a lot of excitement.I have learned a lot from him over the course of our conversation. Hope you enjoy it! 


John on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jlwebuser

Hit me up on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Ivangrov

Video Version: https://youtu.be/PkAw20iEIHo


Things we've talked about:

YOLOv3: https://pjreddie.com/darknet/yolo/

MXNET: https://mxnet.apache.org

Concur Travel: https://www.concur.com/

Deep Lenses: https://aws.amazon.com/deeplens/

Mar 13, 201901:55:32
IoT, School of AI Antwerp, Traffic, and Belgian Beer with Stig Bosmans || #2

IoT, School of AI Antwerp, Traffic, and Belgian Beer with Stig Bosmans || #2

Really enjoyed talking with my guy Stig Bosmans who's doing his PhD at University of Antwerp and really passionate about building and testing  Internet of Things applications and finding ways to make them decentralize and scale. We jump from real high-tech research papers on simulating IoT to Belgian beer and challenges of wife approval in the life on an engineer! Hope your enjoy!


Stig Bosmans on Twitter: https://twitter.com/stigbosmans

Hit me up on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Ivangrov


Things we've talked about:

School of AI Antwerp: https://twitter.com/AiAntwerp

School of AI: https://www.theschool.ai/

Stig's research papers: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Stig_Bosmans




Dec 23, 201802:08:01
AGI, Sofia the Robot, Social Media and UBI with Carlo Lepelaars || #1

AGI, Sofia the Robot, Social Media and UBI with Carlo Lepelaars || #1

Loved getting really deep with Carlo in many AI-related topics as well as into other stuff :)  There's nothing I love more than having deep and meaningful conversation on exciting topics, like AGI, Education and many more,  and I value those moments tremendously, and this episode was one of those moments!   


Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/uy_MPJOx2O4


Carlo on Twitter: https://twitter.com/carlolepelaars 

You can also hit me up on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Ivangrov 


Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/uy_MPJOx2O4


Things we've talked about (by Carlo):  

Hanson Robotics: https://www.hansonrobotics.com  

Sofia The Robot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophia_(robot)

Einstein The Robot:  https://professoreinstein.com/ 

YouTube Conspiracy Theories: https://medium.com/@guillaumechaslot/how-algorithms-can-learn-to-discredit-the-media-d1360157c4fa

Feynman Technique: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_f-qkGJBPts

Richard Feynman Lectures: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/tuva-richard-feynman/

 Stanford house numbers dataset: http://ufldl.stanford.edu/housenumbers  



Dec 23, 201803:00:13