How AI Happens Watsonx.ai with IBM VP Data & AI Tarun Chopra
Tarun dives into the game-changing components of Watsonx, before delivering some noteworthy advice for those who are eager to forge a career in AI and machine learning.
Key Points From This Episode:
- Introducing Tarun Chopra and a brief look at his professional background.
- His intellectual diet: what Tarun is consuming to stay up to date with technological trends.
- Common challenges in technology and AI that he encounters daily.
- The importance of fully understating what problem you want your new technology to solve.
- IBM’s role in AI and how the company is helping to accelerate change in the space.
- Exploring IBM’s decision to remove facial recognition from its endeavors in biometrics.
- The development of IBM’s Watsonx and how it’s helping business tell their unique AI stories.
- Why IBM’s consultative approach to introducing their customers to AI is so effective.
- Tarun’s thoughts on computer power and all related costs.
- Diving deeper into the three components of Watsonx.
- Our guest’s words of advice to those looking to forge a career in AI and ML.
Tweetables:
“One of the first things I tell clients is, ‘If you don’t know what problems we are solving, then we’re on the wrong path.’” — @tc20640n [05:14]
“A lot of our customers have adopted AI — but if the workflow is, let’s say 10 steps, they have applied AI to only one or two steps. They don’t get to realize the full value of that innovation.” — @tc20640n [05:24]
“Every client that I talk to, they’re all looking to build their own unique story; their own unique point of view with their own unique data and their own unique customer pain points. So, I look at Watsonx as a vehicle to help customers build their own unique AI story.” — @tc20640n [14:16]
“The most important thing you need is curiosity. [And] be strong-hearted, because this [industry] is not for the weak-hearted.” — @tc20640n [27:41]
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