Luc Julia, Renault’s chief scientific officer and co-creator of Siri, speaks to AI Business Editor Deborah Yao to rectify misconceptions about AI. He explains why ChatGPT should not be used in search, debunks Elon Musk’s claims that fully autonomous driving is achievable and expounds why even quantum computing cannot usher in artificial general intelligence − because humanity just has a certain je ne sais quoi that machines cannot duplicate.
Mar 08, 2023•54 min•Season 2Ep. 14
In this episode, Mounia Lalmas-Roelleke, Spotify's senior director of research, speaks to AI Business Assistant Editor Ben Wodecki about how reinforcement learning powers user personalization experiences. She also explored the streaming platform's approach to generative AI, teasing what's to come, and offered advice on dealing with research setbacks.
Feb 22, 2023•25 min•Season 2Ep. 13
Chintan Mehta, EVP and group CIO of digital innovation and strategy at Wells Fargo, joins AI Business Editor Deborah Yao to discuss successful use cases of AI in finance, as well as lessons learned from a failed AI project. Mehta shared why Wells Fargo chose Google's LaMDA over OpenAI's GPT and explains how large language models will transform the customer experience.
Feb 01, 2023•31 min•Season 2Ep. 12
Laurence Lee, second permanent secretary of the U.K. Ministry of Defence, talks to AI Business Assistant Editor Ben Wodecki about the future of AI in warfare. Lee explains why warfighting without AI means risking the U.K.'s military edge and ability to keep its citizens safe. He also describes what it's like to work with allies and what the U.K. is doing to develop its AI workforce.
Jan 25, 2023•25 min•Season 2Ep. 11
In this episode, Omdia analyst Mark Beccue speaks with AI Business Assistant Editor Ben Wodecki to unearth the rapid rise of generative AI. The pair talk about text-to-image use cases, the issues around copyright and if an AI could generate good disco music.
Jan 05, 2023•35 min•Season 2Ep. 10
Danny Lange, senior vice president of AI at Unity, tells AI Business Assistant Editor Ben Wodecki why Meta's view of the metaverse is not broad enough and how gaming can play several roles in virtual and immersive worlds. He also recounts his time at Uber and believes generative AI is crossing a chasm.
Dec 20, 2022•28 min•Season 2Ep. 9
Petrina Kamya, head of AI platforms at Insilico Medicine, talks to Andrew Brosnan, principal analyst in AI and Applied Intelligence at Omdia, to take a deep dive into the intricacies of AI-powered drug discovery.
Dec 14, 2022•30 min•Season 2Ep. 8
In this episode, Dave Kang, Capital One's senior vice president and head of data insights, speaks to AI Business Assistant Editor Ben Wodecki about responsible machine learning and data governance in the financial services industry.
Nov 30, 2022•28 min•Season 2Ep. 7
Jasmeet Singh, global head of manufacturing at Infosys, speaks to AI Business Editor Deborah Yao about getting businesses prepared to enter the metaverse. His company has launched a metaverse foundry that will pull together the technology and skillsets to enable enterprises to capitalize on this new way of working.
Oct 28, 2022•31 min•Season 2Ep. 6
Robert Nestor, U.S. CEO of SoftBank-backed Qraft, joins AI Business Editor Deborah Yao to talk about how AI is changing the wealth management industry. A former executive from Vanguard and BlackRock, he discusses how AI can substantially change the industry -- and help advisors especially during volatile markets.
Oct 19, 2022•43 min•Season 2Ep. 5
AT&T's chief data officer Andy Markus joins AI Business Editor Deborah Yao to discuss how the telecom giant uses AI to manage petabytes of data across its global network and deliver key insights for business managers. He also talks about the rise of AT&T’s citizen data scientists as enabling the democratization of AI across the company, which can boost business value by 5x or more – and reveals whether he thinks AI can ever be sentient.
Oct 12, 2022•26 min•Season 2Ep. 4
In this episode, Ondrej Burkacky, global co-lead of McKinsey's semiconductors practice, joins AI Business Assistant Editor Ben Wodecki to discuss the ongoing chip shortage. Two years on is the end in sight? Is the crisis over? Will we ever be able to purchase a PlayStation 5?
Oct 05, 2022•27 min•Season 2Ep. 3
In this episode, Peter Stone, executive director of Sony AI, joins AI Business Assistant Editor Ben Wodecki to discuss this year's RoboCup and the AI that can beat you at Gran Turismo.
Sep 28, 2022•30 min•Season 2Ep. 2
Dell UK CTO Elliott Young talks to AI Business Editor Deborah Yao about keeping AI models accurate by avoiding AI drift, what measures to put in place for proactive prevention and why avoiding it is key to AI performance. Also, he reveals what keeps him up at night.
Sep 28, 2022•50 min•Season 2Ep. 1
The AI Business Podcast returns - with a new lineup! AIB stalwart Ben Wodecki gets a new title and some new friends - visionary business and tech journalists Deborah Yao and Mukul Pandya join the pod's roster to bring you some insightful and engaging conversations about AI, machine learning, data, business intelligence and much, more more — new episodes coming every other week!
May 12, 2022•43 sec
This week, the editorial team shares the most profound things we have learned about AI over the past 37 episodes. The reason is simple: Tien is departing for pastures new, Max is making a lateral move to Data Center Knowledge , and Sebastian… Is doing Sebastian things. Which means this will be the last time the podcast will feature the current cast. Ben is not going anywhere, by the way; the podcast is in his hands, and you can look forward to many more episodes following a short break! In this ...
Nov 11, 2021•43 min•Season 2Ep. 38
This week, we couldn’t resist talking about Meta Platforms Inc. – and all the dumb things Facebook has done before. We also look into carbon-neutral AI: Northern Europe might be a cold, dark and unforgiving place to live, but it’s a perfect location for hot and power-hungry data centers that run AI training workloads. We start with Meta – a new name for a holding company that owns Facebook, along with Instagram, WhatsApp, and a bunch of other tech subsidiaries. With its flagship platform facing ...
Nov 03, 2021•36 min•Season 2Ep. 37
We delve into the irrational world of WorldCoin – the unlikely enterprise backed by child prodigy Sam Altman that wants your eyeballs. To scan them. Using a shiny metal orb. In exchange for some virtual currency. This is not an elaborate joke – investors have reportedly valued WorldCoin at $1 billion, and the eyeball harvesting operation is in full swing. There are 30 prototype orbs in the field, according to TechCrunch , scanning up to 700 eyeballs per week. They want thousands of orbs, and eve...
Oct 26, 2021•33 min•Season 2Ep. 36
This week, the editorial team at AI Business is looking at Facebook, suffering the fallout from both its massive service outage and the testimony of Frances Haugen before the US Congress, which gave us a glimpse of the dark science taking place inside the company’s software development labs. And it sure ain’t pretty. There’s a stunning lack of morals at the core of Facebook – these guys can be linked to destructive social trends just as surely as tobacco companies can be linked to lung cancer. T...
Oct 13, 2021•47 min•Season 2Ep. 35
This week, the editorial team at AI Business looks at the latest developments in video games – which are making more money than movies and music combined , but remain something of a second-class citizen of the entertainment industry. Machine learning is coming to video games, and while this brings plenty of positive developments, we are going to discuss something unpleasant: the treat it poses to competitive online multiplayer. With computer vision tools now easily accessible, a new generation o...
Oct 05, 2021•32 min•Season 2Ep. 34
This week, the editorial team at AI Business looks at the most important stories of the summer – and attempts to predict which will make the biggest impact on the AI landscape. We start with the idea of a metaverse/omniverse that is gaining serious traction, with Nvidia now offering businesses tools to create detailed 3D copies of their real-world assets that operate based on real-world data. Virtualize all the things! Next on the agenda are Facebook’s smart glasses – produced in collaboration w...
Sep 21, 2021•34 min•Season 2Ep. 33
This week, we look at the technological race between the US and China, and its implications. The latest development in what is shaping up to be a proper, old-fashioned cold war is the US Innovation and Competition Act , which was passed by the senate earlier this month. The set of legal measures is clearly designed to combat China’s growing technological might, as well as addressing the ongoing global chip shortage . It includes increased funding for AI research, and a further $50 billion to sub...
Jun 25, 2021•38 min•Season 1Ep. 32
This week, we discuss ethics, government regulation, and similarities between AI and cars in the 1910s with Natalia Modjeska, research director for AI and intelligent automation at analyst firm Omdia. Natalia joined Omdia just a few months ago, having spent years implementing and benchmarking AI and analytics projects across organizations like PwC and Info-Tech Research Group – you can find some of her observations on Towards Data Science . We start with ethics in AI – which is shaping up as one...
Jun 08, 2021•31 min•Season 1Ep. 31
This week, we cover the chaotic developments around synthetic voices, their generation, and ownership. We start with the news about Marvel.ai, the new service from American AI vendor Veritone that promises to enable celebrities to monetize their voices . The company calls this Voice-as-a-Service, or VAAS. The main problem with synthetic voices is it’s currently challenging (well, pretty much impossible) to enforce copyright for an AI model based on voice recordings of a real person. Cue countles...
Jun 01, 2021•34 min•Season 1Ep. 30
We talk about the rapid uptake of self-driving vehicles in China, the climate impact of video streaming, and the English town of Milton Keynes, which has emerged as one of the primary hubs for autonomous vehicle tech in the UK. All of this, and more, is discussed in What’s the News With Wodecki, a segment in which Ben takes us through the stories of the week, with the podcast team deciding whether – in hindsight – they were worthy of coverage. This is an editorial bootcamp, and there’s a timer o...
May 20, 2021•26 min•Season 1Ep. 29
This week, we share some thoughts on the ransomware attack against the Colonial Pipeline – which will be discussed for years to come as one of the first notable examples of a successful cyber attack against physical infrastructure. This is nightmare fuel for the CISO. This is not a story about AI – but it goes to show the dangers of indiscriminate data collection, and once again highlights the pitfalls of putting every device on the Internet. Digital transformation cannot be stopped! So the only...
May 17, 2021•19 min•Season 1Ep. 29
This week, we mourn the death of the Digidog and descend into the greasy, fragrant world of robot-powered kitchens. Miso Robotics, the company responsible for Flippy, the burger-flipping robot , has launched a commercial service for restaurants that uses computer vision and AI to automatically identify and track ingredients, dishes and tasks. But would you pay more for robot-made food, or would you pay less? We start with the untimely demise of the Digidog, a version of the Boston Dynamics’ four...
May 11, 2021•30 min
This week, we observe how lofty ambitions are crushed against the jagged rocks of reality: Lyft is selling Level 5, its self-driving car business, to Toyota, just a few months after Uber announced it would offload its autonomous vehicle lab to Aurora. Where does this leave the autonomous car dream? According to Sebastian, the reasons are likely financial, rather than technological: you can only be involved one loss-making, hyped-up enterprise at a time, and ride-hailing is yet to make any money....
May 04, 2021•32 min•Season 1Ep. 27
This week on the AI Business podcast, we look at the draft European Regulation on artificial intelligence, a.k.a. the Artificial Intelligence Act. This long-expected piece of legislation will be the first attempt to regulate AI on a super-national level – but does it go far enough to meet the aim of stopping AI systems that pose a ‘clear threat’ to citizens’ rights and livelihoods? Is not just a draft, but a declaration of intent – the proposed policy offers a vision that’s very different from b...
Apr 26, 2021•32 min
We discuss the announcements from last week’s GPU Technology Conference, along with AI hardware news from elsewhere, and look at Microsoft’s proposed acquisition of language AI specialist Nuance for $16 billion – actually closer to $20bn once you account for debt. We start with our regular segment chronicling the revolution in hardware for AI – it’s Chip Wars! When Joe Biden is waving around silicon wafers , you know interesting things are going to happen. Nvidia is busy building its first ever ...
Apr 20, 2021•30 min
