
McGill AI Podcast
There are very few places in the world like Montreal and McGill which have such a concentration of talent in the field of AI/ML. MAIS primarily serves to build a community with a shared passion for the field, spreading knowledge and resources to help aid people trying to enter the AI ecosystem. Our podcast aims to promote the research and share the experiences of people who are making remarkable contributions to the development of AI across disciplines and to allow others to use that information to break into the field while being more aware of the challenges and opportunities. We hope to foster an accessible, holistic resource to understand how AI is evolving and continuously changing the world around us.
Episodes
14 episodes
Pierre-Philippe Ste-Marie: Navigating Randomness & The Monte Carlo of Financial Markets
In this episode, we discuss with Pierre-Philippe Ste-Marie, a seasoned practitioner with over 25 years of experience in quantitative finance. We start by tracing his educational path and early career moves in fixed income trading, including his...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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43:09

Yves Hilpisch: How AI is Shaping the Future of Computational Finance
The podcast team is excited to announce the McGill Artificial Intelligence Society’s 3rd podcast episode of the 2023-2024 school year featuring Yves Hilpisch. Yves is the founder and CEO of The Python Quants and has written several...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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1:05:14

Ignacio Cofone: Redrawing Privacy Lines with AI Regulation
The podcast team is excited to announce the McGill Artificial Intelligence Society’s 2nd podcast episode of the 2023-2024 school year featuring Ignacio Cofone. Ignacio Cofone is a professor at McGill’s Faculty of Law and is the Can...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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44:58

Artem Kirsanov: Perspectives on the Intersection Between AI and Neuroscience
Artem Kirsanov is a graduate student in neuroscience at New York University Center for Neural Science and a YouTuber with a following of over 100k subscribers. In this episode, we talk about modelling the human brain with artificial intelligenc...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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54:49

Doina Precup: Exploring Frontiers of Reinforcement Learning
Embark on an enlightening journey into the world of reinforcement learning with Prof. Doina Precup in this captivating podcast episode. As a distinguished professor at McGill University and the Head of DeepMind Montreal, Prof. Precup brings a w...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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1:09:02

Chloë Ryan, Katherine Beaulieu & Kussil Oumedjbeur: Generative AI & Art
The advent of powerful generative AI models - particularly in the art space - has enabled limitless creative opportunities. In this episode, we discuss both the usage benefits and the importance of regulating generative AI in this space from a ...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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1:04:36

Su Lin Blodgett & Fenwick McKelvey: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on AI Ethics
What does it mean for an artificial intelligence model to do the right thing? What are researchers and governments doing to ensure that the use of AI technologies does not infringe on human rights? These are two of the questions that we touch o...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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1:11:29

Yoshua Bengio: Towards Achieving Human-Level AI
Yoshua Bengio, co-laureate of the 2018 ACM AM Turing Award for his pioneering contributions in deep learning and recognized worldwide as one of the leading experts in artificial intelligence, joins us on the McGill AI Podcast to discuss his exp...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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57:04

Dan Cervone: Machine Learning in Sports
Dr. Dan Cervone is the principal data scientist at Zelus Analytics where they are building the world leading sports analytics platform. Prior to this, Dan spent three seasons with the Los Angeles Dodgers, most recently as Director of Quantitati...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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47:23

Guillaume Lajoie: Interfacing the Brain
Guillaume is an assistant professor at Université de Montréal, Canada CIFAR AI Chair, Core Academic Member at Mila, is a research scholar at FRQS (Fonds de recherche du Québec), and has research center affiliations with UNIQUE (Unifying Neurosc...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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1:03:56

Jackie CK Cheung: AI & Language
Jackie Cheung is an associate professor at McGill, Canada CIFAR AI Chair, researching with Mila, the Reasoning and Learning Lab, Centre for Research on Brain, Language and Music and the Centre for Intelligent Machines. He sits down with...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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53:27

Blake Richards: Parallels Between the Brain & AI
Professor Blake Richards is a leading researcher at the intersection of neuroscience and AI. He is an assistant professor at McGill, a Canada CIFAR AI Chair, and a core faculty member at Mila. His research explores the general principles of lea...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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43:17

David Rolnick: AI for Climate Change
Professor David Rolnick is an assistant professor at McGill, Canada CIFAR AI Chair, Mila researcher and a member of MIT Technology Review’s 35 Innovators Under 35. He joins the podcast to talk about how machine learning can be applied to tackli...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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1:02:59
