The Pulse of AI

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.

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.

Anupam Datta, co-founder and Chief Scientist at TruEra and a renowned professor at Carnegie Mellon University, dives deep into the pressing issue of AI bias. He discusses the various forms of bias in AI systems and their implications for businesses. Anupam emphasizes the need for fairness and transparency in AI to foster trust. He also highlights the evolving regulatory landscape and the importance of external audits. With practical examples, he sheds light on how corporations can hold vendors accountable, ensuring a fairer AI-driven future.

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.