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

Meta's Senior Research Director, Dr. Laurens van der Maaten, takes center stage to unravel the captivating realm of AI innovation. Learn about his groundbreaking contributions, including pioneering the t-SNE dimensionality reduction technique and harnessing AI for novel protein synthesis, climate change mitigation, and wearable materials simulation. Join us to explore the transformative power of AI across diverse domains and gain a glimpse into its future societal implications.

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In this episode you will learn:
• Large-scale learning of image recognition models on web data [05:05]
• Evolutionary Scale Modeling protein models [16:45]
• Fighting climate change by building an A.I. model [29:49]
• The CrypTen privacy-preserving ML framework [38:36]
• Concerns about adversarial examples [53:25]
• Laurens’ t-SNE algorithm [58:56]
• How to make a big impact [1:07:25]

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