Oxford Saïd Voices - AI at Google, Episode 2
From Saïd Business School, University of Oxford by Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
May 13, 2026 · 6 min
About this episode
Peter Morgan interviews Google data scientist Wiesner Vos about the application of machine learning at Google.
Peter Morgan speaks with Google data scientist Wiesner Vos about his journey from applied statistics to Google, and how machine learning is used to improve reliability across Google Cloud and other services. They discuss hardware failure detection, software rollout testing, canarying, TPUs, and the evolving role of statistics in modern AI systems.
People in this episode
Host: Peter Morgan
Guest: Wiesner Vos
Topics covered
- machine learning
- Google Cloud
- hardware failure detection
- software testing
- statistics in AI
Keywords
- machine learning
- data scientist
- statistics
- AI systems
- hardware failure
- software rollout
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Google, Google Cloud
Products: TPUs
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