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Jules Anh Tuan Nguyen Explains How AI Lets Amputee Control Prosthetic Hand, Video Games - Ep. 149
Path-breaking work that translates an amputee’s thoughts into finger motions, and even commands in video games, holds open the possibility of humans controlling just about anything digital with their…
Published on 4 years, 4 months ago
Matt Ginsberg Built a GPU-Powered Crossword Solver to Take on Top Word Nerds - Ep. 148
Following a long string of victories for computers in other games — chess in 1997, go in 2016 and Texas hold’em poker in 2019 — a GPU-powered AI has beaten some of the world’s most competitive word n…
Published on 4 years, 5 months ago
NVIDIA’s Liila Torabi Talks the New Era of Robotics Through Isaac Sim - Ep. 147
Robots are not just limited to the assembly line. At NVIDIA, Liila Torabi works on making the next generation of robotics possible. Torabi is the senior product manager for Isaac Sim, a robotics and …
Published on 4 years, 5 months ago
NVIDIA's Simon Yuen Talks About the Future Horizon of Digital Humans - Ep. 146
We all know about the applications for digital humans for films and video games, but at NVIDIA, Simon Yuen has discovered the vast need and potential for digital humans beyond the entertainment indus…
Published on 4 years, 6 months ago
Waste Not, Want Not: AI Startup Opseyes Revolutionizes Wastewater Analysis - Ep. 145
What do radiology and wastewater have in common? Hopefully, not much. But at startup Opseyes, founder Bryan Arndt and data scientist Robin Schlenga are putting the AI that’s revolutionizing medical …
Published on 4 years, 6 months ago
Getting Clever with Kaolin: Researchers Accelerate 3D Deep Learning with New Tools - Ep. 144
3D deep learning holds the potential to accelerate progress in everything from robotics to medical imaging. But until now, researchers haven’t had the right tools to easily manage and visualize diffe…
Published on 4 years, 6 months ago
AI Researcher James Kahn Explains Deep Learning’s Collision Course with Particle Physics - Ep. 143
For a particle physicist, the world’s biggest questions — how did the universe originate and what’s beyond it — can only be answered with help from the world’s smallest building blocks. James Kahn, a…
Published on 4 years, 7 months ago
Walmart’s Grant Gelvin on Prediction Analytics at Supercenter Scale - Ep. 142
With only one U.S. state without a Walmart supercenter — and over 4,600 stores across the country — the retail giant’s prediction analytics work with data on an enormous scale. Grant Gelven, a machin…
Published on 4 years, 7 months ago
NVIDIA’s Julie Bernauer Talks Setting Up One of World’s Fastest Supercomputers - Ep. 141
Julie Bernauer — senior solutions architect for machine learning and deep learning at NVIDIA — led the small team that successfully built Selene, the world’s fifth-fastest supercomputer. Adding to an…
Published on 4 years, 8 months ago
NVIDIA’s Shalini De Mello Talks Self-Supervised AI, NeurIPS Successes - Ep. 140
Shalini De Mello, a principal research scientist at NVIDIA who’s made her mark inventing computer vision technology that contributes to driver safety, finished 2020 with a bang — presenting two poste…
Published on 4 years, 8 months ago