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Big A.I. R&D Risks Reap Big Societal Rewards, with Meta’s Dr. Laurens van der Maaten

Added on August 29, 2023 by Jon Krohn.

By making big research bets, the prolific Meta Senior Research Director Dr. Laurens van der Maaten has devised or supported countless world-changing machine-learning innovations across healthcare, climate change, privacy and more.

Laurens:
• Is a Senior Research Director at Meta, overseeing swathes of their high-risk, high-reward A.I. projects with application areas as diverse as augmented reality, biological protein synthesis and tackling climate change.
• Developed the "CrypTen" privacy-preserving ML framework.
• Pioneered web-scale weakly supervised training of image-recognition models.
• Along with the iconic Geoff Hinton, created the t-SNE dimensionality reduction technique (this paper alone has been cited over 36,000 times).
• In aggregate, his works have been cited nearly 100,000 times!
• Holds a PhD in machine learning from Tilburg University in the Netherlands.

Today’s episode will probably appeal primarily to hands-on data science practitioners, but there is tons of content in this episode for anyone who’d like to appreciate the state of the art in A.I. across a broad range of socially impactful, super-cool applications.

In this episode, Laurens details: 
• How he pioneered learning across billions of weakly labeled images to create a state-of-the-art machine-vision model.
• How A.I. can be applied to the synthesis of new biological proteins with implications for both medicine and agriculture.
• Specific ways A.I. is being used to tackle climate change as well as to simulate wearable materials for enhancing augmented-reality interactivity.
• A library just like PyTorch but where all the computations are encrypted.
• The wide range of applications of his ubiquitous dimensionality-reduction approach.
• His vision for the impact of A.I. on society in the coming decades.

The SuperDataScience podcast is available on all major podcasting platforms, YouTube, and at SuperDataScience.com.

In Data Science, Podcast, SuperDataScience, YouTube Tags Ai, Meta, PyTorch, R&D, ML
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