In this episode of the ARCHITECHT Show, Hashicorp CEO Dave McJannet discusses his company's recent $40 million funding round, a result he credits to a maniacal focus on building specific products and making users happy. McJannet, who previously led marketing efforts at companies including SpringSource and Hortonworks, also shares his thoughts on evolving open source business models over the last decade, and on what it's like to both compete with and capitalize on the growing excitement around Kubernetes.

In this episode of the ARCHITECHT AI Show, co-host Signe Brewster speaks with Carnegie Mellon robotics researcher Aaron Steinfeld on the intricacies of human-machine interaction. Steinfeld's work covers a wide range of areas, from autonomous cars to robots that assign blame and credit when working alongside people. In the news segment, co-hosts Brewster, Derrick Harris and Chris Albrecht discuss DeepMind's new AlphaGo Zero system, San Francisco's ban on robot deliveries, and Blade Runner 2049. If your Roomba looked like Ryan Gosling, would you treat if differently?

In this episode of the ARCHITECHT Show, Confluent co-founder and CTO Neha Narkhede talks about the Apache Kafka's evolution from a scalable message bus into a critical component of modern application architectures. This includes everything from feeding data into machine learning pipelines to analyzing streaming data using the new KSQL feature. Narkhede also discusses the importance of cloud-native architectures and how platforms from AWS to Kubernetes are influencing how Confluent thinks about its business.

In this episode of the ARCHITECHT AI Show, co-host Derrick Harris speaks with Naveen Rao, VP and GM of the AI Products Group at Intel. Rao, who previously co-founded Nervana Systems, discusses Intel's broad base of AI business lines -- from driverless cars to data centers -- and where the company sees the biggest opportunities to capitalize on the technology. If you're into the nitty gritty of chip architectures and AI frameworks, Rao also drops a lot of knowledge on how they've changed and where they're headed.

In this episode of the ARCHITECHT Show, Alluvium co-founder and CEO Drew Conway shares his thoughts on the state of AI in industrial settings, and how his company is tackling that opportunity. Conway, who was also an early voice in the data science movement after starting his career in the intelligence community, also discusses: the the importance of utilizing experts and build trust in AI; the growth of data science as a profession; and the evolution of data technologies over the past decade.

In this episode of the ARCHITECHT AI Show, co-host Signe Brewster speaks with Nahid Sidki, head of SRI's Robotics Center, about the state of the art in military robots. Sidki explains the potential benefits of robots for everything from bomb removal to situational intelligence, and from logistics to the battlefield. While machines are already being deployed in some areas, there's still a lot of AI between today's capabilities and real autonomy.

In this episode of the ARCHITECHT Show, Malong Technologies co-founder and CTO Matt Scott discusses path from Microsoft Research to starting a computer vision startup in China. Among other topics, he shares some of the cutting-edge (weakly supervised) techniques his company is using to do product recognition at scale, and the power of practicality when it comes to putting deep learning into production. In the news segment, co-hosts Derrick Harris and Barb Darrow talk Oracle's new cloud products (and swagger), Google's nested VMs, and the impact of a recent Microsoft Azure outage.

In this episode of the ARCHITECHT AI Show, Signe Brewster speaks with Andra Keay, managing director of Silicon Valley Robotics, about the current state of, well, robotics. Keay shares some deep insights into the question of what it really means to be a "robot" in 2017, as well as the trickier aspects of robotics economics (fundraising and monetizing) and the relationship between robotics research and the broader field of artificial intelligence. In the news segment, co-hosts Brewster, Derrick Harris and Chris Albrecht discuss the recent O'Reilly AI conference; the potential for Slack to streamline communications (or test privacy boundaries) using AI; the responsibility of Facebook's humans to fix their algorithms; Intel's move into neuromorhpic processors; and the creepy effectiveness of robots that can get up after being pushed down.

In this cross-continental discussion, brothers Ryan and Sam Kroonenberg speak with Derrick Harris about A Cloud Guru, the online AWS training platform they launched in 2015 that has now served more than 300,000 people. It's an interesting tale of job hunting, learning AWS from scratch, starting a business, and becoming so enamored with the idea of serverless computing that you launch the popular series of Serverlessconf events, as well.  In the news segment, co-hosts Derrick Harris and Barb Darrow (Fortune) talk all about cloud computing—including the tit for tat of features and pricing among AWS, Microsoft and Google, and the rise of Alibaba Cloud.

In this episode of the ARCHITECHT AI Show, Hillery Hunter—IBM Fellow and director of the Accelerated Cognitive Infrastructure group at IBM Research—speaks about the state of the art in deep learning systems design. She discusses some record-breaking results that IBM recently achieved in distributed deep learning; ideal use cases for state-of-the-art image recognition; andthe pros, cons and advancements in everything from GPUs to cloud-specific hardware such as Google's TPUs. In the news segment, co-hosts Signe Brewster and Chris Albrecht discuss the benefits of using drone for disaster recovery, Knightscope's new ATV security robot, and whether nanorobots are really robots at all.