The Pulse of AI

On this podcast Jason Stoughton is joined by Gopal Erinjippurath, CTO and Head of Product for Sust Global. Climate analytics using geospatial data combined with AI and Machine Learning, delivered seamlessly through API’s, is one of the key building blocks that will help companies meet their climate goals. Sust Global seeks to be the leader in this space. I first met Gopal a few years ago when he was with Planet Labs and I have always been impressed with his passion around the possibilities found at the intersection of geospatial data, AI/ML and climate.  If you like what you hear subscribe to the podcast and follow me on Twitter @thepulseofai 

On this podcast Jason Stoughton is joined by Brad Newman. Brad is a litigation partner at Baker McKenzie and leads the firms North America Machine Learning and AI practice and is the Chair of the American Bar Association Business and Commercial Litigation AI subcommittee.  It is hard to find a company today that does not use AI within their recruitment, screening and hiring process. It has almost become ubiquitous within the hiring industry. However, brad argues that companies are potentially putting themselves at legal risk by using these systems because bias is sometimes unintentionally built into the algorithms.  And in fact, regulatory agencies have announced that they will be taking a hard look at these practices going forward.  But interestingly, Baker McKenzie recently sponsored a survey of C-suite leaders and few felt that there was a significant risk involved with their practices around AI in recruiting and HR. So obviously there is a disconnect in the marketplace. We unpack all of this and more in the podcast. And I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. Don’t forget, if you like what you hear subscribe to my podcast, follow me on twitter @ the pulse of AI and reach out on linkedin.

On this podcast Jason Stoughton is joined by Alan Cowen, CEO and Chief Scientist, at Hume AI. As AI progresses, both in terms of what it can do and how widely it is deployed, the ability for AI to understand and empathize with our emotions is still a glaring hole in AI’s capabilities. On this podcast Jason and Alan talk about the state of the technology, unpack the hopes and dreams and fears of an AI that understands, and can potentially manipulate, our emotions and how Hume is not only leading the way in advancing AI’s capabilities in this area but is also leading the way in ensuring that AI  should service human well being above all else. If you like what you hear subscribe to my podcast, follow me on twitter @thepulseofai or reach out on linkedin.

On this podcast I am joined by Alan Ringvald, CEO and Founder, of Relativity6. Relativity6 helps insurance companies limit risk in their commercial portfolios by analyzing and normalizing NAICS. It turns out that it is a pretty big business. 

On this podcast I am joined by Tobi Konitzer, Founder and CEO of Ocurate, to talk about the amazing things they are doing around LTV and how they help business leaders discover and understand who your company's most valuable customers truly are. His goal is to usher in a new era in which customer Lifetime Value, or LTV,  becomes the organizing principles for B2C businesses. His company uses a proprietary database on 260 million adult Americans, in conjunction with customer data on purchases and product usage, to predict LTV with around 90% accuracy.   If you like what you hear subscribe to the podcast and follow me on twitter at the pulse of ai. I hope you enjoy the podcast!

On this podcast I am joined by Ash Fontana, AI start-up investor with Zetta Venture Partners and technology industry thought leader, to talk about his new book: The AI First Company: How to compete and win with Artificial Intelligence. If you are focused on trying to transform your company into an AI powered leader in your industry, Ash's book is going to end up being a well worn and dog eared resource that you will return to again and again!

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.