AI Business Podcast

This week, we will look at the potential of artificial intelligence to revolutionize financial planning and analysis (FP&A) - the budgeting, forecasting and analytical processes that support an organization's financial health and business strategy. Guiding us on this journey is Amaresh Tripathy – senior vice president and Analytics Business Leader at Genpact, and expert on data science for enterprise applications.

This week we look at the major scientific breakthrough achieved by DeepMind’s AlphaFold, consider some of the some of the first commercial use cases for neuromorphic computing, and learn the secrets of dataset creation with Aristotelis Kostopoulos, VP for AI product solutions at Lionbridge. Also in this episode: Zombies! Queen’s Gambit! Detecting COVID-19 by smell!

Welcome to another episode of the AI Business podcast, in which we anxiously await the news of a vaccine, and continue to slander robots in the workplace. We are cranky, but maybe that’s because the pubs in the UK are closed. And a robot once broke Sebastian’s arm, but that’s a story for another time... We also cover: Lockdown! Nice drugs! Retail therapy! Minimum wage! The gig economy!

Welcome to another episode of the AI Business podcast, in which we are not going to talk about the US election. But we are going to discuss the accuracy of the polls, the power of advertising, and QAnon. Meanwhile, in our ongoing Chip Wars segment, we talk about the recently announced mega-deal in which AMD is buying FPGA chip designer Xilinx, bringing its decades-old rivalry with Intel to a brand new arena – since Intel owns Altera, the only other major FPGA vendor.

Welcome to another episode of the AI Business podcast, with your (almost) weekly dose of AI news and editorial chaos. This time, we discuss defense contractors, cyber security of chastity belts, and the challenge of keeping up with the robots in the workplace. And finally, we reveal our favorite depictions of AI in movies – the line-up includes War Games, Alien, and… Terminator: Salvation?

Some AI models are trained on great works of art. Others are trained on images of violence. If they were people, which one would you like to meet? Today we're talking about the different kinds of data that can be used to train an AI model. Covering the story of Facebook’s Red Team, tasked with hacking the company’s AI systems in order to make them more resilient, why we hope AI will take the jobs of content mods, and a positive story about Saint George on a Bike! PS: You might have noticed that the latest episode doesn’t seem to include any of the latest news – the reason being it was recorded in early September. We promise we will return to our regular schedule next week.

After a brief hiatus caused by a certain baby, Max, Tien and Sebastian are once again ready to share their cynical take on the lastest AI news. Including an essay by a robot, Cavanue – an ambitious organization hoping to build intelligent, connected roads for autonomous cars and two stories AI Summit London: Rolls-Royce (the engine people) giving away their ethics framework for AI; and GSK predicting a major genomic breakthrough within two years, driven by AI, and opening a new AI research hub in London. We also cover: Baby stories! Public transport! Short shorts! Missing Steve Ballmer!

This week we're taking pleasure in misfortunes of others; discussing Intel’s technical difficulties, Elon Musk encroaching on our turf, and robot poetry. We start with Intel, which is having problems with the 7nm process that are causing delays across its lineup and could put an end to a long tradition of self-reliance in silicon printing. Then Elon Musk we don’t like, for a whole assortment of business-related reasons. Last week, the living legend made some dubious claims about AI – likely intended to drum up interest in his equally dubious startup Neuralink, a developer of brain-machine interfaces which has raised $158 million to date with nothing but a launch video and a white paper to show the public. Plus, we talk about the story Tesla apparently doesn’t want you to see.

This week's episode looks at robot workers, the reasons why Nvidia is worth the big bucks, and virtual personalities in China. Helping us on this mission is special guest Tate Cantrell, CTO at Verne Global, an expert on data centers, HPC, renewable energy, and all matters related to Iceland.

This week we discuss AI in space, spacesuits, Amazon ASS, and space as a billionaire hobby. It used to be the US versus USSR, now it’s Musk versus Bezos - we know who’s got the most phallic rockets. And for the first time ever, the podcast features “A machine says whaaaat?!” - our very own game show where Max and Seb go head-to-head, trying to guess whether a quote belongs to a human, or an AI system. Find out whether we can tell the difference between InspoiroBot and Adolph Hitler. We also discuss a story from The Reg on a racist, sexist image dataset that has been doing the rounds for years, without anyone checking whether it labeled people with the C-word and the N-word. Turns out it did – the offending resources have now been pulled by the MIT, and the organization has apologized.