People of AI

People of AI is a podcast showcasing inspiring people with interesting stories in the world of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its subset, Machine Learning (ML). The podcast will interview leaders, practitioners, researchers and learners in the field of AI/ML and invite them to share their stories, what they are building, lessons learned along the way, and excitement for the AI/ML industry.

This podcast is sponsored by Google. Any remarks made by the speakers are their own and are not endorsed by Google.

Anne Simonds and Brian Gary - Introducing Muse

Nov 16, 2023

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...

Joyce Shen - AI innovation, acquisition, and responsibility in business

Nov 9, 2023

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...

Crispin Velez - Cloud, community, and computing

Nov 2, 2023

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...

Sayak Paul - Getting started with community contributions, diffusion models, and more

Oct 26, 2023

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...

Sunita Verma - How Generative AI will transform the way we work

Oct 19, 2023

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...