Pixels to Concepts with Backpropagation w/ Roland Memisevic - #427
Analysis
This podcast episode from Practical AI features Roland Memisevic, Co-Founder & CEO of Twenty Billion Neurons. The discussion centers around TwentyBN's progress in training deep neural networks to understand physical movement and exercise, a shift from their previous focus. The episode explores how they've applied their research on video context and awareness to their fitness app, Fitness Ally, including local deployment for privacy. The conversation also touches on the potential of merging language and video processing, highlighting the innovative application of AI in the fitness domain and the importance of privacy considerations in AI development.
Key Takeaways
“We also discuss how they’ve taken their research on understanding video context and awareness and applied it in their app, including how recent advancements have allowed them to deploy their neural net locally while preserving privacy, and Roland’s thoughts on the enormous opportunity that lies in the merging of language and video processing.”