Azamat Beknazarov is a solutions engineer at Google. He has been in the IT industry for the past 7 years working on web development, advertisement technology, and most recently machine learning (or predictive modeling), which is one of the many subfields within AI.

Topics of Discussion with Azamat Beknazarov

• The difference between machine learning and artificial intelligence
• The software, hardware, and programming languages of machine learning
• The Google Translate app
• Amazon Mechanical Turk
• Captcha and visual computing technology
• How machine learning is being used today
• The importance of good and ethical data sets
• The future of machine learning
• The dangers of machine learning and AI

Links from the Discussion

• Youtube Video: What is machine learning?
• Youtube Video: But what *is* a Neural Network?
• Youtube Channel: 3Blue1Brown
• Book: Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom
• Book: The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World 
• TED Talk: The Quest for the Master Algorithm
• fast.ai - Making neural nets cool again
• Coursera - Online learning from the world’s best universities and companies
• Khan Academy - Online learning