
Yannic Kilcher on Being an AI Researcher and Educator
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In episode 8 of The Gradient Podcast, we interview Yannic Kilcher, an AI researcher and educator.
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Yannic graduated with his PhD from ETH Zurich’s data analytics lab and is now the Chief Technology Officer of DeepJudge, a company building the next-generation AI-powered context-sensitive legal document processing platform. He famously produces videos on his very popular Youtube channel, which cover machine learning research papers, programming, and issues of the AI community, and the broader impact of AI in society.
Check out his Youtube channel here and follow him on Twitter here
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