Uploaded October 2023 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Meet Sayak Paul, a Machine Learning Engineer specializing in diffusion models at Hugging Face and GDE for ML and Google Cloud. He shares how his community contributions led him towards getting his current dream job at Hugging Face. Join Ashley, Gus, and Sayak for a chat about resources for developers to get into machine learning, how diffusion models have exploded in the past year, the role of responsible AI and much more.

Resources mentioned:
Google Developer Expert Program → https://goo.gle/3S6IVGo
TF Hub → https://goo.gle/3S5t9LY
Hugging Face →https://goo.gle/45KyBXC
Sayak bio and website → https://goo.gle/3Mas9Cv
Sayak’s Twitter → https://goo.gle/3QtxEO7

Courses:
Google Summer of Code→ https://goo.gle/3Fv2CA4
fast.ai course → https://goo.gle/45HRLxp
Coursera Deep Learning specialization → https://goo.gle/3S8Kljx
CS 231N - Stanford → https://goo.gle/3QvIt3o

Books:
Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (Information Science and Statistics) by Christopher M. Bishop (Author) → https://goo.gle/493iJm3
Grokking Deep Learning First Edition, by Andrew Trask (Author) → https://goo.gle/40fNX5y

Watch more People of AI → https://goo.gle/PAI
Subscribe to the TensorFlow channel → https://goo.gle/TensorFlow

Chapters:
0:00 - Sayak's journey in AI
7:48 - Community contributions
12:16 - What is a Google Developer Expert (GDE)?
16:00 - Working hard
29:27 - Hugging Face
30:59 - Diffusion models
39:39 - Responsible AI

#AI #ML #TensorFlow