{"podcast":{"title":"Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI","slug":"gradient-dissent","podcast_index_feed_id":1020509,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/gradient-dissent/","website_url":"https://wandb.ai/site/resources/podcast","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/25fd1181-b46e-459b-85a5-d397eec4cdcf/JDLDW81K-wlJoAWL7ZnxLdTp.jpg","author":"Lukas Biewald","episode_count":136,"summary":"Join Lukas Biewald on Gradient Dissent, an AI-focused podcast brought to you by Weights & Biases. Dive into fascinating conversations with industry giants from NVIDIA, Meta, Google, Lyft, OpenAI, and more. Explore the cutting-edge of AI and learn the intricacies of bringing models into production.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/gradient-dissent"},"episode":{"title":"Exploring PyTorch and Open-Source Communities with Soumith Chintala, VP/Fellow of Meta, Co-Creator of PyTorch","slug":"exploring-pytorch-and-open-source-communities-with-soumith-chintala-vp-fellow-of-meta-co-creator-of-pytorch","published_at":"2023-07-13T17:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/gradient-dissent/exploring-pytorch-and-open-source-communities-with-soumith-chintala-vp-fellow-of-meta-co-creator-of-pytorch","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/gradient-dissent","url":"https://wandb.ai/site/resources/podcast","audio_url":"https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/9a806bf5-2674-4de4-b8e5-be6b87d7e958/WEIGHTS-Soumith-Chintala-V1.mp3","summary":"On this episode, we’re joined by Soumith Chintala , VP/Fellow of Meta and Co-Creator of PyTorch. Soumith and his colleagues’ open-source framework impacted both the development process and the end-user experience of what would become PyTorch. We discuss: - The history of PyTorch’s development and TensorFlow’s impact on development decisions. - How a symbolic execution model affects the implementation speed of an ML compiler. - The strengths of different programming languages in various development stages. - The importance of customer engagement as a measure of success instead of hard metrics. - Why community-guided innovation offers an effective development roadmap. - How PyTorch’s open-source nature cultivates an efficient development ecosystem. - The role of community building in consolidating assets for more creative innovation. - How to protect community values in an open-source development environment. - The value of an intrinsic organizational motivation structure. - The ongoing debate between open-source and closed-source products, especially as it relates to AI and machine learning. Resources: - Soumith Chintala https://www.linkedin.com/in/soumith/ - Meta | LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/meta/ - Meta | Website https://about.meta.com/ - Pytorch https://pytorch.org/ Thanks for listening to the Gradient Dissent podcast, brought to you by Weights & Biases. If you enjoyed this episode, please leave a review to help get the word out about the show. And be sure to subscribe so you never miss another insightful conversation. #OCR #DeepLearning #AI #Modeling #ML","meta_description":"On this episode, we’re joined by Soumith Chintala , VP/Fellow of Meta and Co-Creator of PyTorch. Soumith and his colleagues’ open-source framework impacte…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4115,"processing_state":"failed","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/gradient-dissent/episodes/exploring-pytorch-and-open-source-communities-with-soumith-chintala-vp-fellow-of-meta-co-creator-of-pytorch/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/gradient-dissent/exploring-pytorch-and-open-source-communities-with-soumith-chintala-vp-fellow-of-meta-co-creator-of-pytorch.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}