Data Science at Home
Episodes
Sunday Oct 21, 2018
Episode 48: Coffee, Machine Learning and Blockchain
Sunday Oct 21, 2018
Sunday Oct 21, 2018
In this episode - which I advise to consume at night, in a quite place - I speak about private machine learning and blockchain, while I sip a cup of coffee in my home office.There are several reasons why I believe we should start thinking about private machine learning...It doesn't really matter what approach becomes successful and gets adopted, as long as it makes private machine learning possible. If people own their data, they should also own the by-product of such data.
Decentralized machine learning makes this scenario possible.
Tuesday Jul 17, 2018
Episode 38: Collective intelligence (Part 2)
Tuesday Jul 17, 2018
Tuesday Jul 17, 2018
In the second part of this episode I am interviewing Johannes Castner from CollectiWise, a platform for collective intelligence. I am moving the conversation towards the more practical aspects of the project, asking about the centralised AGI and blockchain components that are essential part of the platform.
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Tuesday Jul 03, 2018
Episode 36: The dangers of machine learning and medicine
Tuesday Jul 03, 2018
Tuesday Jul 03, 2018
Humans seem to have reached a cross-point, where they are asked to choose between functionality and privacy. But not both. Not both at all. No data, no service. That’s what companies building personal finance services say. The same applies to marketing companies, social media companies, search engine companies, and healthcare institutions.
In this episode I speak about the reasons to aggregate data for precision medicine, the consequences of such strategies and how can researchers and organizations provide services to individuals while respecting their privacy.
Friday Jun 29, 2018
Episode 35: Attacking deep learning models
Friday Jun 29, 2018
Friday Jun 29, 2018
Attacking deep learning models
Compromising AI for fun and profit
Deep learning models have shown very promising results in computer vision and sound recognition. As more and more deep learning based systems get integrated in disparate domains, they will keep affecting the life of people. Autonomous vehicles, medical imaging and banking applications, surveillance cameras and drones, digital assistants, are only a few real applications where deep learning plays a fundamental role. A malfunction in any of these applications will affect the quality of such integrated systems and compromise the security of the individuals who directly or indirectly use them.
In this episode, we explain how machine learning models can be attacked and what we can do to protect intelligent systems from being compromised.
Monday Jun 11, 2018
Episode 33: Decentralized Machine Learning and the proof-of-train
Monday Jun 11, 2018
Monday Jun 11, 2018
In the attempt of democratizing machine learning, data scientists should have the possibility to train their models on data they do not necessarily own, nor see. A model that is privately trained should be verified and uniquely identified across its entire life cycle, from its random initialization to setting the optimal values of its parameters.How does blockchain allow all this? Fitchain is the decentralized machine learning platform that provides models an identity and a certification of their training procedure, the proof-of-train
Monday Jun 04, 2018
Episode 32: I am back. I have been building fitchain
Monday Jun 04, 2018
Monday Jun 04, 2018
I know, I have been away too long without publishing much in the last 3 months. But, there's a reason for that. I have been building a platform that combines machine learning with blockchain technology. Let me introduce you to fitchain and tell you more in this episode.
If you want to collaborate on the project or just think it's interesting, drop me a line on the contact page at fitchain.io
Thursday May 24, 2018
Founder Interview – Francesco Gadaleta of Fitchain
Thursday May 24, 2018
Thursday May 24, 2018
Cross-posting from Cryptoradio.io
Overview
Francesco Gadaleta introduces Fitchain, a decentralized machine learning platform that combines blockchain technology and AI to solve the data manipulation problem in restrictive environments such as healthcare or financial institutions.Francesco Gadaleta is the founder of Fitchain.io and senior advisor to Abe AI. Fitchain is a platform that officially started in October 2017, which allows data scientists to write machine learning models on data they cannot see and access due to restrictions imposed in healthcare or financial environments. In the Fitchain platform, there are two actors, the data owner and the data scientist. They both run the Fitchain POD, which orchestrates the relationship between these two sides. The idea behind Fitchain is summarized in the thesis “do not move the data, move the model – bring the model where the data is stored.”
The Fitchain team has also coined a new term called “proof of train” – a way to guarantee that the model is truly trained at the organization, and that it becomes traceable on the blockchain. To develop the complex technological aspects of the platform, Fitchain has partnered up with BigChainDB, the project we have recently featured on Crypto Radio.
Roadmap
Fitchain team is currently validating the assumptions and increasing the security of the platform. In the next few months, they will extend the portfolio of machine learning libraries and are planning to move from a B2B product towards a Fitchain for consumers.
By June 2018 they plan to start the Internet of PODs. They will also design the Fitchain token – FitCoin, which will be a utility token to enable operating on the Fitchain platform.