AI & U

What YOU can do with AI

About the show

An AI podcast giving you the inside scoop on what's going on in the industry and what people are doing right now with this amazing technology, hosted by Jeff DeVerter from Rackspace Technology and Ben Blanquera from Foundry for AI by Rackspace (FAIR™).

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Episodes

  • 10: Evolving Safer Spaces: How AI is changing Smart Access

    October 27th, 2022  |  42 mins 21 secs
    ai, ai & u, ai&u, computer vision, data science, machine learning, ml, natural language processing, nlp, onica, rackspace technology, transfer learning, transformer architectures

    AI is transforming the smart access industry's approach to security. Smart safety may soon be self-evolving, given access to better data and adaptive systems.

  • 9: The co-evolution of AI and Humanity

    June 13th, 2022  |  1 hr 8 mins
    advanced systems integration, ai, ai ethics, artificial generalized intelligence, artificial intelligence, blockchain, data privacy, digital citizenship, digital minimalism, evolution technology, future technology

    Too often, conversations around AI are doomsday-related. But real conversations should include the impacts of AI innovations on what it means to be human.

  • 8: Best Practices for Adopting AI and Machine Learning

    April 25th, 2022  |  46 mins 5 secs
    ai, ai & u, ai&u, computer vision, data science, machine learning, ml, natural language processing, nlp, onica, rackspace technology, transfer learning, transformer architectures

    AI and machine learning aren’t just for large companies anymore. Here’s how any company of any size can get started using the leading-edge technologies.

  • 7: Giving Children the Gift of Lighter, Faster Bionic Arms

    March 24th, 2022  |  49 mins 41 secs
    ai, ai & u, ai&u, bionics, computer vision, data science, machine learning, ml, natural language processing, nlp, onica, rackspace technology, transfer learning, transformer architectures

    Fewer than one-third of the children who need a prosthetic arm get one. Nonprofit Limbitless Solutions is working to change that with leading-edge bionics.

  • 6: AI and Machine Learning Are Here to Empower People — Not Replace Them

    August 24th, 2021  |  46 mins 47 secs
    ai, ai & u, ai&u, computer vision, data science, machine learning, ml, natural language processing, nlp, onica, rackspace technology, transfer learning, transformer architectures

    AWS experts explain how success in AI and machine learning permeates everything from tech efficiency to bettering humanity as a whole.

  • 5: The AI Aesthetic: Building Beautiful Data Apps

    June 21st, 2021  |  32 mins 38 secs
    ai, ai & u, ai&u, computer vision, data science, machine learning, ml, natural language processing, nlp, onica, rackspace technology, transfer learning, transformer architectures

    The frontend often takes a backseat in the machine learning lifecycle. That’s why you need help to bring apps to life.

  • 4: Enabling the Computer Vision Revolution

    May 26th, 2021  |  45 mins 6 secs
    ai, ai & u, ai&u, data science, machine learning, ml, natural language processing, nlp, onica, rackspace technology, transfer learning, transformer architectures

    Startups are popping up to help innovators apply computer vision simply and without in-depth machine learning or deep learning expertise.

  • 3: The Chief Data Officer’s Perspective on AI

    April 29th, 2021  |  35 mins 53 secs
    ai, ai & u, ai&u, data science, machine learning, ml, natural language processing, nlp, onica, rackspace technology, transfer learning, transformer architectures

    The Chief Data Officer is responsible for making sense of data within an organization. What is their perspective on AI?

  • 2: Utilizing ML libraries in deep learning

    March 30th, 2021  |  43 mins 40 secs
    ai, ai & u, ai&u, data science, machine learning, ml, natural language processing, nlp, onica, rackspace technology, transfer learning, transformer architectures
  • 1: Deriving value from NLP and Transformers

    February 10th, 2021  |  41 mins 10 secs
    ai, auto nlp, bert, gpt, ml, natural language processing, nlp, transfer learning, transformer architectures

    For the inaugural episode of AI & U, Joe Davison, Research Engineer at Hugging Face, joins Mark McQuade, Practice Manager of Data Science & Engineering at Rackspace Technology, to chat about one of the hottest topics in AI: Natural Language Processing (NLP).