Balaraman Ravindran's guest appearances

Balaraman Ravindran

Outliers

DataHack Radio

ML India Podcast

Naval Ravikant

Rahul Vohra

Jyoti Bansal

Ryan Hoover

Sebastian Ruder

Ines Montani

Paige Bailey

Melanie Mitchell

Amit Agarwal

Anthony Goldbloom

Sebastian Thrun

Camille Ricketts

Matthew Honnibal

Cassie Kozyrkov

Sarah Lacy

OwlTail

We spoke with Prof. Balaraman Ravindran from IIT Madras. He is a worldwide authority on Reinforcement learning. Our conversations span from Reinforcement learning to Graphs to Grad school in India.

We spoke with Prof. Balaraman Ravindran from IIT Madras. He is a worldwide authority on Reinforcement learning. Our conversations span from Reinforcement learning to Graphs to Grad school in India.

Charting Paths: Reinforcement Learning and Grad School | Prof. Balaraman Ravindran

In this podcast, Kunal speaks to Professor Ravi about his background, his interest and research in reinforcement learning, and the intricacies and nuances of this field.Professor B. Ravindran has an incredibly rich background in academic research, headlined by his work in reinforcement learning. His Google Scholar profile shows his research papers have been cited over 2,200+ times! Read the podcast notes here: https://www.analyticsvidhya.com/blog/2019/02/datahack-radio-reinforcement-learning-professor-balaraman-ravindran/

In this podcast, Kunal speaks to Professor Ravi about his background, his interest and research in reinforcement learning, and the intricacies and nuances of this field. Professor B. Ravindran has an incredibly rich background in academic research, headlined by his work in reinforcement learning. His Google Scholar profile shows his research papers have been cited over 2,200+ times! Read the podcast notes here: <a href="https://www.analyticsvidhya.com/blog/2019/02/datahack-radio-reinforcement-learning-professor-balaraman-ravindran/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.analyticsvidhya.com/blog/2019/02/datahack-radio-reinforcement-learning-professor-balaraman-ravindran/</a>

Episode #17: Reinforcement Learning with Professor Balaraman Ravindran

I first learned about IIT Madras professor Balaraman Ravindran when my colleague wrote this profile story titled “Wizard of AI: Meet India’s foremost reinforcement learning expert.”Since then, I’ve met him a few times. It’s fascinating how conversations with AI researchers go beyond technologies and tools shaping AI. It quickly becomes philosophical and even ideological while discussing the ills of machine learning systems making decisions impacting humans and society.And this is where professor Balaraman starts making sense in the over-hyped and often “skin deep AI” ecosystem in India. AI is the new buzzword for policymakers, startups, VCs and individual job seekers.So what questions to ask while trying to make sense of AI in our lives and work? Here are some pointers from my recent chat with him.“The right answer to any question is, it depends. What you’re learning throughout your life is what it depends on,” he says. I know it’s a very philosophical answer. But knowledge is evolving.”“India is the destination where most of the repetitive jobs are outsourced. And AI is mostly applied wherever there’s repetition.”“It’s not like we aren’t going to need programmers. But we might need more app developers, those writing codes for the cloud and so on. “There are problems to be solved within AI too.“By and large, the biggest problem in AI is performance tuning. Many of my students are calling it “the performance tuning hell.”Listen in to this podcast to make sense of AI in India.

I first learned about IIT Madras professor Balaraman Ravindran when my colleague wrote this profile story titled “Wizard of AI: Meet India’s foremost reinforcement learning expert.” Since then, I’ve met him a few times. It’s fascinating how conversations with AI researchers go beyond technologies and tools shaping AI. It quickly becomes philosophical and even ideological while discussing the ills of machine learning systems making decisions impacting humans and society. And this is where professor Balaraman starts making sense in the over-hyped and often “skin deep AI” ecosystem in India. AI is the new buzzword for policymakers, startups, VCs and individual job seekers. So what questions to ask while trying to make sense of AI in our lives and work? Here are some pointers from my recent chat with him. “The right answer to any question is, it depends. What you’re learning throughout your life is what it depends on,” he says. I know it’s a very philosophical answer. But knowledge is evolving.” “India is the destination where most of the repetitive jobs are outsourced. And AI is mostly applied wherever there’s repetition.” “It’s not like we aren’t going to need programmers. But we might need more app developers, those writing codes for the cloud and so on. “ There are problems to be solved within AI too. “By and large, the biggest problem in AI is performance tuning. Many of my students are calling it “the performance tuning hell.” Listen in to this podcast to make sense of AI in India.

Ep 74: Balaraman Ravindran on what AI really means for India