The Pulse of AI

On this podcast I am joined by Tim Kraska, MIT professor and co-founder of hot AI start-up Einblick.  Einblick describes itself as a visual data computing platform that provides the fastest way for organizations to understand the past, predict the future and make the best data-drive decisions for their business via a collaborative whiteboard that allows people from across the organization to work on the data together in real time. 

On this podcast I sit down with the founders of Halla which calls itself “the taste intelligence company”. Halla claims it has developed the only technology on the market that can accurately predict shopper intent and then recommend the grocery item a person will want to buy next. This of course provides grocers with the capability to offer personalization on a truly 1:1 level.

On this podcast I am joined by Krishna Gade, Founder and CEO of Fiddler.ai. In this wide ranging conversation we do a deep dive into the challenges, and opportunities, around the ability to make AI trustworth, explainable and unbiased because failure to properly address these issues will impede the adoption of AI.

Richard Socher is one of the smartest minds in Artificial Intelligence. His pioneering work in neural nets and NLP set the stage for much of what is driving AI today. He has been cited over 100,000 times in the field. Past adjunct professor at Stanford, Founder and CEO of MetaMind, Chief Scientist and EVP at Salesforce and now CEO and Founder of You.com, his influence and work in AI in general, and NLP specifically, is truly incredible. On this podcast we talk about his new venture You.com, and dig down into other related areas in AI.

Latest Podcast: Richard Socher is one of the smartest minds in Artificial Intelligence. His pioneering work in neural nets and NLP set the stage for much of what is driving AI today. He has been cited over 100,000 times in the field! Adjunct professor at Stanford, Founder and CEO of MetaMind, Chief Scientist and EVP at Salesforce and now CEO and Founder of You.com his influence and work in AI is truly incredible.  On this podcast we talk about his new venture You.com, a privacy focused search engine, and dig down into other related areas in AI.  I hope you enjoy this podcast as much as I did. 

As adoption of AI increases so do the concerns around potential bias in the systems. But what do we mean when we talk about bias in AI? And how do we know if our algorithms exhibit bias? And perhaps most importantly, how do we eliminate bias from our AI systems?  On my latest podcast I dig down into all of these issues with one of the foremost authorities on bias in AI, co-founder and Chief Scientist at hot AI start-up Truera, and Carnegie Mellon professor Annupam Datta. TruEra provides the first suite of AI Quality solutions that help enterprises analyze machine learning, improve and monitor model quality, and build trust. In many ways the future of AI depends on opening its blackbox and understanding how to make the systems fair and transparent. Failure to do this will put the brakes on AI adoption.  I believe that TruEra is positioned to be a leader in this space.  In addition, Annupam is a really smart and interesting person and I hope you enjoy this discussion as much as I did!

This is my latest podcast with one of Cohere’s Co-Founders, Nick Frosst. Cohere is one of the most exciting companies in the NLP space today.  The company recently emerged from stealth mode with $40 million in Series A funding to pursue their mission to build machines that understand the world and to make them safely accessible for all.  In addition to being backed by top flight vc’s other investors in the company include AI luminaries Geoffrey Hinton and Fei-Fei Li.  It is a hot space, they have a great bunch of people on board, they have a desire to advance AI in a very thoughtful way and they are growing fast. In my opinion this is one of the most exciting companies in the space today. We dig down into a wide range of topics including the challenges inherent in NLP, the opportunities it presents to business leaders, how companies should look at implementing and deploying AI in their company, where NLP is going and more.  As usual I ask Nick to give us the “pitch” on why you, my hard to recruit audience, should consider applying for some of their open roles! I hope you enjoy the podcast. 

On today’s podcast I sit down with Founder and CEO of Vyasa Analytics Dr. Chris Bouton. When we talk about life sciences and healthcare it really is the tale of two cities. Life sciences was an early adopter of AI and analytics and the results have been fantastic. But healthcare has been slower to the game for a number of reasons that we will talk about in this podcast.  The reality is that once AI in all of its forms is deployed across the entire healthcare ecosystem we will see lower costs, better patient outcomes and an ability to treat more people at scale. So it is important that those in AI help drive these changes as quickly as possible….for the good of society  I hope you enjoy this podcast as much I did. Let’s get to it!

On this episode of The Pulse of AI podcast I am joined by Steven (“Captain Hoff”) Hoffman to talk about his new book The Five Forces That Change Everything. Steven is an entrepreneur, investor and the founder of Founders Space which is one of the leading start-up accelerators in the world.  The five forces that Steven identifies are mass connectivity, bio convergence, human expansion into space, deep automation and the intelligence explosion (AGI). We talk about the advances in each of these areas that are driving their adoption as well as the potential social, psychological and economic impacts each might (will?) have on us as individuals and on the world writ large.  Steven has some great insights into the coming future. I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I did.

Sean Gourley, CEO and Founder of Primer, joins to share his thoughts and insights about the threat disinformation poses to western democracies, as well as how to define it, identify it and combat it. His passion combined with his deep experience in the space, the unique perch that he sits on today which allows him to view the full landscape and the work that Primer has done in the space gives him incredible insights that he shares during this conversation. If you are concerned about how malevolent actors are using the latest technologies to sow discord through disinformation then this podcast is for you.