The Pulse of AI

Podcast Season 6 Episode 126 with Augment AI. Twitter @thepulseofai Many would agree that the holy grail of AI is to build a truly amazing personal assistant that acts as our highly competent Chief of Staff and that supercharges our output and eases the pain points across our entire personal and professional ecosystem. And because it is the holy grail many are working towards this goal. Augment AI is one of these companies but is taking a unique approach that I think has a real chance of becoming something important. They have a founder in Jordan Ritter (yes, of Napster fame) who is a proven founder and CEO and the rest of the team is really impressive as well. They are growing fast and if you want to jump on a potential rocket ship this is a company to check. Listen to the podcast to hear what they are doing, how they are doing it, how they think the market will shake out and what the future could/should look like.   

Podcast: Jason Stoughton speaks with Yash Sheth, Co-Founder of hot AI start-up Galileo. Galileo is building the first ML data intelligence platform for data scientists working with unstructured data. If you are working with unstructured data, or want to join a company that is seeking to define and own the space, then check out Galileo. They have a great team and a great product. Jason and Yash have a substantive conversation about the challenges and opportunities in the industry, the state of AI, ideas about the future and much more. Subscribe to the podcast where you get your podcasts and follow Jason @thepulseofai . 

Latest Season 6 Pulse of AI Podcast = Full Length version Udi Cohen, Co-Founder and CEO, of hot AI start-up Vendict joins Jason Stoughton to talk about his start-up, the new buzz around AI, why regulation is important and how we should approach it, and much more. To keep up with the latest subscribe to the podcast and follow Jason Stoughton @thepulseofai 

New Pulse of AI Podcast (season 6)! Ashray Malhotra, Co-Founder and CEO, of hot AI start-up Rephrase AI joins Pulse of AI podcast host Jason Stoughton to talk about his start-up. Rephrase AI creates avatars and hyper-personalized videos at scale to businesses.  The Pulse of AI is in its 6th season and host Jason Stoughton interviews insiders in the AI industry including founders, AI scientists, thought leaders, vc's, enteprise c-suite leaders and more.  To keep up with the latest subscribe to the podcast and follow Jason Stoughton on twitter @thepulseofai 

Astrophysicist, Wall Street quant, data scientist and now Founder and CEO of Seek AI, Sarah Nagy founded Seek AI to solve the core pain point that she, and thousands of other data scientists, experience everyday and is now focused on revolutionizing how employees across the organization interact with, and benefit from, data.  Seek AI is a hot early stage AI start-up, pursuing a huge opportunity, they have a great team and are hiring. Check them out.   If you like the podcast subscribe where you get your podcasts and follow me on twitter @thepulseofai   

Podcast Season 6! Josh Tobin joins me on this podcast to talk about the really interesting stuff they are doing at Gantry. In addition, as on every Pulse of AI podcast, we talk about numerous topics in AI and especially Generative AI since it is the topic de jour, but mostly because Josh spent critical time working at OpenAI so he has some interesting thoughts about where we are and where we are going.  Gantry is a really exciting seed stage AI company that has a unique approach to helping improve your ML products through analytics, alerting and human feedback. They are hiring and Josh would be a great CEO to work for, and if you want to try out the product reach out to them and they will get you set up.  If you like what you hear subscribe to the podcast wherever you get your podcasts and follow me on Twitter @thepulseofai

Dr. Yoav Shoham, computere scientist, Professor Emeritus at Stanford and Co-founder of AI21 Labs, joins host Jason Stoughton on The Pulse of AI podcast to talk about his career journey, the really powerful and neat things that his company AI21 is going using NLP, and a wide range of topics around AI and philosophy and ethics and much more. Yoav's research spans artificial intelligence, logic and game theory. He has been the co-founder of several companies, including his latest AI21 which is an Israeli company aiming to change the way people read and write using AI. He also initiated the AI index out of Stanford. But beyond all of that he is just a really fascinating and interesting person with great insights into AI, its future and its potential impact on society and during this conversation we cover a lot of ground. If you like what you hear subscribe to the podcast and follow Jason on Twitter @thepulseofai   

The Pulse of AI podcast: Joining host Jason Stoughton on this podcast is Yonatan Geifman, CEO and co-founder, of Deci AI. Deci recently raised $25 million in a series B to support their ongoing R&D and go to market efforts. As AI becomes more ubiquitous across companies systems there are two big elephants in the room: One is the black box and bias issue, which we talk about a lot on this show, and the other is the big cost of training AI models. Solving the cost problem is a billion dollar business, which is why I had Yonatan on the show, because he believes that his company has the answer. I love what they are doing and I think you will as well. 

As crypto has fallen from its previous perch high up in the atmosphere where the air gets a little thin back down here to earth where us mere mortals live it is an interesting time to say the least. Everyone is trying to figure out where we go from here. In a lot of ways this reminds me of the dotcom crash where afterwards many people walked away and said “well that whole internet thing was fun but time to get back to reality”, while others kept working at it and well we know the rest of the story, right?  So the existential question is whether or not we will look back in 5, 10 or 20 years and see this as just the beginning of a multi trillion dollar market with applications for every area of our lives, or if there is something to it, which there obviously is, but maybe the opportunity isn't as big as the hype has suggested?  To talk about and unpack all of this I invited Brad Newman from Baker McKenzie back onto the show. If you are interested in this topic than you are going to really enjoy Brad's insights.  And don’t forget, if you like what you here subscribe to the podcast, follow me on twitter @thepulseofai , and ping me on linkedin.

On this podcast I am joined by Byron Reese, to talk about his latest book that just hit the bookshelves titled “Stories, dice and rocks that think: How humans learned to see the future”.  Byron is a successful entrepreneur, CEO, futurist and award winning author. If you are like me and believe the saying that history doesn’t necessarily repeat, but it does rhyme, and so you spend a lot of time studying history in order to get a better understanding of what might happen in the future, then you will love this book.  It’s a tour de force that explores three leaps in history that Byron has identified that he claims made us who we are and that by really understanding these it will change how we think about our future. In this wide ranging conversation we talk about the book, his career, technology in general, transformation and even about how he writes so prolifically.  Dont forget if you like what you hear subscribe to the podcast, follow me on twitter @thepulseofai or ping me on linkedin.  I hope you enjoy the conversation as much as I did!