Crispin Velez - Cloud, community, and computing

11/02/23 • 50 min

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 expanding the SpaLatam TensorFlow community in Columbia and mentoring startups on behalf of Google’s Startup initiative. Discover how you can grow a local AI/ML community.

Resources: Google Cloud Platforms → https://goo.gle/47jW9nD Vertex AI → https://goo.gle/3tZSX27 Introduction to Vertex AI → https://goo.gle/3QlgOki

Five generative AI use cases for the financial services industry → https://goo.gle/47amAMZ

Vertex AI Foundations for secure and compliant ML/AI deployment → https://goo.gle/45YbclQ

Resources: Google Cloud Platforms → https://goo.gle/47jW9nD Vertex AI → https://goo.gle/3tZSX27 Introduction to Vertex AI → https://goo.gle/3QlgOki

Five generative AI use cases for the financial services industry → https://goo.gle/47amAMZ

Vertex AI Foundations for secure and compliant ML/AI deployment → https://goo.gle/45YbclQ

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

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 learning, how diffusion models have exploded in the past year, the role of responsible AI and much more.

Resources mentioned: Google Developer Expert Program → https://goo.gle/3S6IVGo TF Hub → https://goo.gle/3S5t9LY Hugging Face →https://goo.gle/45KyBXC Sayak bio and website → https://goo.gle/3Mas9Cv Sayak’s Twitter → https://goo.gle/3QtxEO7

Courses: Google Summer of Code→ https://goo.gle/3Fv2CA4 fast.ai course → https://goo.gle/45HRLxp Coursera Deep Learning specialization → https://goo.gle/3S8Kljx CS 231N - Stanford → https://goo.gle/3QvIt3o

Books: Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (Information Science and Statistics) by Christopher M. Bishop (Author) → https://goo.gle/493iJm3 Grokking Deep Learning First Edition, by Andrew Trask (Author) → https://goo.gle/40fNX5y

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

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 acquisitions and evaluate startups. Ashley, Gus, and Joyce talk about challenges that businesses are currently facing to integrate or acquire other AI businesses, building trust amongst customers and consumers, and much more.

Resources: Joyce’s picks: readings in ML/AI → https://goo.gle/3MzNwxi Berkley courses → https://goo.gle/47lLXef

Books: From Talking to Doing: A Short Guide to Corporate Innovation Success Check it out Amazon → https://goo.gle/40tnaT8 Check it out on Barnes & Noble → https://goo.gle/3MButCz

Blockchain in Financial Markets and Beyond: The Promises and Limitations of Blockchain: Taking Stock and Lessons Learned Check it out Amazon → https://goo.gle/3SACPhE Check it out on Risk→ https://goo.gle/3udEL5r