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Feb 2023
1h 15m

Louis Bouchard - Founder of What's AI & ...

Neil Leiser
About this episode

Our guest today is Louis Bouchard, founder of the What’s AI Youtube channel & Towards AI. Louis is also a PhD student at the Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute (Mila) founded by Yoshua Bengio.

In our conversation, Louis first talks about What’s AI and explains how and why he launched his own Youtube channel. We then explore the world of Research and AI Algorithms. We discuss some of the latest techniques, chat about what intelligence actually means and debate on whether AI algorithms are actually intelligent or not. We also dive into research papers where Louis shares advice on how to easily read and understand technical content. Finally, Louis explains how he got into the field, talks about his PhD and shares more about applying computer vision for medical images.

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Follow Louis on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/whats-ai/

What's AI Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@WhatsAI

Towards AI: https://towardsai.net/

Follow Neil on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leiserneil/  

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(00:00) : Intro
(02:16) : What’s AI Youtube Channel

(08:11) : AI Algorithms

(12:10) : AI & Intelligence

(18:58) : How to read research papers

(35:47) : Latent Diffusion

(41:06) : How Louis got into the field

(54:25) : Master’s research project

(01:00:37) : Computer vision for medical imaging

(01:12:24) : Career Advice

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