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Meet Tulsee Doshi, Head of Product for Google’s Responsible AI and Human Centered Technology. She leads development of Google wide improvements, resources, and best practices for developing more inclusive and ethical products. She shares her journey from starting as an intern product manager through Google’s APM program to finding a career that allows her to mix her interdisciplinary interests to benefit users. Learn about adopting ethical and responsible technology principles to protect users and build better products on this episode of People of AI. Discover how easy it is to incorporate AI principles into products through a forward thinking mindset, Google’s Responsible AI Toolkit in TensorFlow and more.   Resources: Google Associate Product Manager Program → https://goo.gle/46An65L  Responsible AI Toolkit → https://goo.gle/4a0z3EE  PAIR Guidebook → https://goo.gle/4830hc5  Monk Skin Tone Scale → https://goo.gle/46HLdPZ  Get started → https://goo.gle/3N6RehW   

Meet the co-founders of Muse System Enterprises, Anne Simonds and Brian Gary, on this episode of People of AI, hosted by Ashely Oldacre. Learn about Muse, the first intelligent system that synergizes domain expertise with cutting-edge ML and leverages a proprietary data science that unlocks, assists, and amplifies human creativity at scale. Muse empowers creators by delivering commercial content production from concepts to brainstorming, drafting, and more!  Resources: Muse → https://goo.gle/3G5Vj2d

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

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   

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   

Meet Sunita Verma, the Vice President of Engineering at Google Core Labs. She shares her experience in tech from her start of loving problem solving in college to finding a passion for computer science, learning lessons in leadership, and working at Google over the past 16 years. Ashley, Gus, and Sunita talk about how generative AI will transform the way we work, how Google Core Labs accelerates the prototyping of research ideas, and the evolution of Ai in the past few years.     Resources: Google Labs → https://goo.gle/46D7hvI Google Research → https://goo.gle/48Wi2e9 Google Ads → https://goo.gle/3Qoy0GT AI for Anyone series on Google for Developers → https://goo.gle/46CNlsP     

Meet Ashley & Gus, your hosts for season 2 of People of AI. In this episode, Luis Gustavo Martins, also known as Gus, shares his personal and professional path from playing video games as a young child in Brazil to becoming a Developer Advocate at Google. (For Ashley’s story, check out episode 1) Ashley and Gus also talk about the explosive growth of Generative AI tools and the major technology shift that has happened in recent months, Google’s conversational AI, Bard, and much moreI! Resources:  Bard → https://goo.gle/3PSvkjb TensorFlow → https://goo.gle/3ZQWgnY Firebase → https://goo.gle/3PPXGuj Simple ML for Sheets → https://goo.gle/3F9dyU1 Stability → https://goo.gle/3RPm02d 

Meet Michelle Carney, a Machine Learning User Experience Researcher at Google. Join us as we learn how her careers in music, neuroscience, teaching, and machine learning have informed her ability to understand how people use Machine Learning tools, and provide better feedback to help make these tools more useful, helpful, kind, and inclusive of all types of user experiences.    Resources: Visual Blocks for ML: https://goo.gle/3OfanzO  Tone Transfer: https://goo.gle/3On9xku  PAIR Guidebook: https://goo.gle/3Mx4Gff  Machine Learning and UX (MLUX) Meetup Resource: https://goo.gle/mluxresources  What is Machine Learning + UX?: https://goo.gle/42KWHB3  Stanford d.school on Designing Machine Learning: https://goo.gle/3OeRaOJ  TensorFlow website → https://goo.gle/3BwLZSN    Michelle Carney Links Twitter: https://goo.gle/3WfxMDc  Linkedin: https://goo.gle/432u0PG    Machine Learning and UX (MLUX) Meetup Resources: https://goo.gle/mluxresources What is MLUX?: https://goo.gle/42KWHB3 MLUX twitter (@mluxeetup):  https://goo.gle/436wGMo MLUX meetup (you can see all of our past talks here!):  https://goo.gle/41QpMts MLUX youtube (all of our past recordings!): https://goo.gle/42Ipt5a MLUX linkedin company page:  https://goo.gle/45c5oWM    Guest bio:  Michelle Carney is a Computational Neuroscientist turned User Experience (UX) Researcher, whose practice focuses on the intersection of Data Science and UX. Currently a Senior UX Researcher on Google’s Tensorflow Team, Michelle's projects focus on combining Machine Learning and UX. Her work includes Magenta’s latest Tone Transfer project and People + AI Research team. Outside of work, Michelle organizes the Machine Learning and UX Meetup, and teaches at the Stanford d.school on Designing Machine Learning.

There is a whole team at Google dedicated to designing AI best practices. They are committed to making progress in the responsible development of AI and share reliable, effective user-centered research, tools, datasets, and other resources with users. Meet one of the members of the team, Christina Greer, as she shares the in’s and out’s of working in the field of Responsible AI and how her personal experience and values make her a key player in this space! Resources: AI Principles: https://goo.gle/3VrCpJP  Responsible AI practices: https://goo.gle/41XVeqI Guest bio: Christina Greer is a software engineer at Google Research. A veteran of a variety of efforts across the company including ads, data processing pipelines, and Google Assistant, she joined Google Research in 2018 to focus on bias and fairness in ML. Since then, she has built both teams and software to support measuring and mitigating ML models for bias, and consults with products across Google to support building safer products that work for everyone. In her spare time, Christina is a creative writer and a mom of 2 great kids.    #AI #ML

Meet Joana Carrasqueira as she talks about her amazing ability to grow community in the field of machine learning. Join us as we hear about her extraordinary journey from the non-profit sector to business and most recently into tech and how she leverages her superpower of bringing people together and fostering a culture of belonging. Resources: WiML → https://goo.gle/3GRW939  WiML Blog post → https://goo.gle/3GS19Fi  Watch all the WiML 2022 sessions → https://goo.gle/3Ld11mb  Favorite book: The Adventures of Women in Tech: How We Got Here and Why We Stay → https://goo.gle/3UM5sHV  Simple ML for Sheets → https://goo.gle/3mMhN29    Guest bio:  Joana Carrasqueira is the Developer Relations Lead at Google for the TensorFlow Community. She is committed to fostering healthy open source communities and to enable developers to solve impactful problems at scale. Prior to Google, she worked on innovation consulting for Forbes top 500 and served as Education Manager at the International Pharmaceutical Federation, working closely with WHO, UNESCO and the United Nations. Joana holds an MBA from IE Business School and a Master in Pharmaceutical Sciences.   #AI #ML