One of my all-time favorite A.I. researchers, Dr. Jason Yosinski, is my guest today! He details how his startup is using ML to collect wind energy more efficiently and digs into visualizing/understanding deep neural networks.
Jason:
• Is Co-Founder and CEO of Windscape AI, a startup using ML to increase the efficiency of energy generation via wind turbines.
• Is Co-Founder and President of the ML Collective, a research group that’s open to ML researchers anywhere.
• Was a Co-Founder of the A.I. Lab at the ride-share company Uber.
• Holds a PhD in Computer Science from Cornell, during which he worked at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Google DeepMind and with the eminent Yoshua Bengio in Montreal.
• His work has been featured in The Economist, on the BBC and, coolest of all, in an XKCD comic!
Today’s episode gets fairly technical in parts so may be of greatest interest to hands-on practitioners like data scientists and ML engineers, although there are also parts that will appeal to anyone keen to hear how ML is being used to produce more clean energy.
In today’s episode, Jason details:
• How ML can make wind direction more predictable, thereby making wind turbines and power grids in general more efficient.
• How to infer what individual neurons in a deep learning model are doing by using visualizations.
• Why freezing a particular layer of a neural net prior to doing any training at all can lead to better results.
• How you can get involved in a cutting-edge research community no matter where you are in the world.
• What traits make for successful A.I. entrepreneurs.
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