Our guest this episode is Alexander Schober, a data & AI project owner at Motius. He manages a diverse team of tech experts, focusing on Machine Learning, Knowledge Graphs, and Data Analysis. Alexander previously worked at Siemens Technology which involved pioneering research in Federated Learning and Self-Supervised Methods for anomaly detection. He used algorithms like Federated Averaging and SimCLR to address data privacy and label sparsity. Alexander joins Seth Earley and Chris Featherst...
Dec 15, 2023•49 min•Season 1Ep. 38
Today’s guest is Rachad Najjar, working the forefront of innovation in the fields of organizational learning and knowledge management for nearly a decade. Prior to this, he served as a knowledge management advisor for the Dubai Land Department, where he played a pivotal role in achieving the EFQM Excellence Award. Notably, he's also a co-author of a recent book on knowledge management and research innovation, alongside numerous scientific publications in prestigious journals. In his ground break...
Nov 29, 2023•50 min•Season 1Ep. 37
Today’s guest is Amar Goel, founder of Bito. Amar joins Seth Earley and Chris Featherstone to the discuss the increase in new A.I. tools, LLMs and the journey behind forming Bito! The A.I. assisted software developing tool. Takeaways: Converting AI prototypes into reliable, production-ready products is a non-trivial task, often requiring significant effort and expertise. AI has the potential to assist developers in various ways, from code refactoring to code migration, helping to address issues ...
Oct 30, 2023•54 min•Season 1Ep. 36
Today’s guest is Sanjay Mehta, Head of Industry Commerce for LucidWorks. Sanjay joins Seth Earley and Chris Featherstone to the discuss the rapidly evolving hype of generative AI and how it can be applied to your industry. Takeaways: Sanjay points out that emerging AI is "not turn key". Maybe from a consumer side but when it comes to B2B there are many hoops to jump through before it's easy and effective. Data is the lifeblood of modern businesses, and its true potential shines when we connect t...
Oct 16, 2023•43 min•Season 1Ep. 35
Today’s guest is Doug Kimball, Chief Marketing Officer for Ontotext . Doug joins Seth Earley and Chris Featherstone to the discuss the rapidly evolving world of knowledge graphs and AI. Takeaways: Doug Kimball's statement about knowledge graphs being an "add to" and an "enhancement of" data is spot on. In the world of modern data management and analytics, knowledge graphs are a game-changer. There is a proper way to ask the right questions when communicating with Generative AI models. It is impo...
Sep 22, 2023•52 min•Season 1Ep. 34
Today’s guest is Ben Clinch, Head of Information Architecture for BT Group . Ben joins Seth Earley and Chris Featherstone to the discuss the rapidly evolving world of data science in organization. Takeaways: An intriguing aspect is the common practice of Large Language Models (LLMs) utilizing generic data models Ben and Seth discuss more effective ways to harness the power of LLMs through specialized data models and organization. Companies will realize quickly that they cant do any sensible Gene...
Sep 08, 2023•41 min•Season 1Ep. 33
Today’s guest is Glenn Gow, CEO of Coaching at The Peak Performance CEO Coach. Glenn joins Seth Earley and shares how people should start leaning into what technology is advancing today. Glenn expresses the importance of learning these new materials to create opportunities for you and your company. Be sure to listen in on Glenn giving his advice on how larger companies should incorporate AI into their business! Takeaways: Glenn believes that the enhanced value that Predictive AI and Analytical A...
Jun 05, 2023•50 min•Season 1Ep. 32
Today’s guest is Kirk Marple, Technical Founder and CEO at Unstruk Data. Kirk joins Seth Earley and Chris Featherstone to discuss organizing historical data and long-term memory. Kirk emphasizes the importance of organizing data in a manner that allows for seamless integration with novel models and shares valuable advice on understanding data. Takeaways: The semantic web serves as a powerful tool for optimizing business applications and data organization. A prevalent misconception surrounding AI...
May 22, 2023•41 min•Season 1Ep. 31
Today’s guest is Alex Babin, Co-Founder and CEO at ZERO Systems. Alex joins Seth Earley and Chris Featherstone to share two of the biggest misconceptions of AI and a new AI metric data tool. Using AI to track data improves performance. Takeaways: The biggest misconceptions about AI are: AI can work out of the box. ChatGPT shows people what it can do but that doesn't mean that AI can do everything. You can throw data at AI and it will execute your needs perfectly. AI technology is changing, but i...
May 08, 2023•48 min
Today’s guest is Maxim Serebryakov, Co-Founder and CEO at Sanas. Max joins Seth Earley and Chris Featherstone and shares what influenced him to start his company. Max discusses what it was like to study artificial intelligence at Stanford and how it created a broad perspective on how things work. Max believes if you go above and beyond you can help anyone. Takeaways: Max was born in New York, moving back to Russia where his family is from as a child. When he returned to the United States, hearin...
Apr 24, 2023•46 min•Season 1Ep. 29
Today’s guest is Michael Todasco write extensively about Generative AI. Mike joins Seth Earley and Chris Featherstone to discuss all things generative AI and why people should embrace AI. He also shares valuable advice on how to build a better connection with your customers. Takeaways: While he was at PayPal, Mike was responsible for innovation and improving employee performance. Embrace AI. Working with AI will result in better solutions. It is important for everyone to know what their competit...
Apr 10, 2023•40 min•Season 1Ep. 28
Today’s guest is Gordon Hart, Co-Founder and Head of Product at Kolena. Gordon joins Seth Earley and Chris Featherstone and shares how machine learning algorithms are a challenge from different perspectives. Gordon also discusses the core problem in his company before they turned it around. Be sure to listen to Gordon's advice on how to validate models in order to have a successful product! Takeaways: Gordon noticed that developing algorithms internally or buying from other model vendors has r...
Mar 27, 2023•51 min•Season 1Ep. 27
Today’s guest is Daniel Faggella, Head of Research and CEO at Emerj Technology Research. Dan joins Seth Earley and Chris Featherstone and shares how martial arts influenced him to get into artificial intelligence. Dan also discusses what his experience was like with surveillance technology creation technology. Dan had a machine that could generate the next 10 slides of your desired moving picture. Be sure to listen in on Dan giving his advice on how you should properly use open AI! Takeaways: Da...
Mar 13, 2023•56 min•Season 1Ep. 26
Today’s guest is Michelle Zhou, Co-Founder and CEO at Juji, Inc. Michelle joins Seth Earley and Chris Featherstone and dives into what proprietary data is and how it can be used correctly. Michelle also discusses the one lesson she has learned is that you have to build a product that can help people. You want to achieve your customers' outcomes, not your outcomes. Be sure to listen in on Michelle giving her advice on how to pick out the golden nuggets in AI data to show a coherent and meaningful...
Feb 27, 2023•49 min•Season 1Ep. 25
Today’s guest is Juan Sequeda, Principal Scientist at data.world and Co-Host of the Catalog & Cocktails Podcast. Juan joins Seth Earley and Chris Featherstone and shares how to understand the problem that you are trying to solve. Juan also discusses how your company's success should be defined differently. Don’t focus on just on saving money to make money. Focus on solving a problem. Juan also shares valuable advice on how understanding who you report to helps you speak the same language. Ta...
Feb 13, 2023•52 min•Season 1Ep. 24
In this episode, our guest is Andy Fitzgerald and Information Architecture & Content Strategy Consultant. Highlights: 1:40 - Getting from Ph.D. in English and Literature in information architecture and knowledge graphs 9:23 - Schema.org 14:30 - How can we get search to be like "Google"? 19:00 - The trouble with self-organizing information 20:40 - The KFC debacle in Germany and case for keeping humans in the loop 22:15 - Knowledge graphs and AI 29:35 - Role of linguistics 33:00 - What happens...
Dec 05, 2022•56 min
In this episode, Seth and Chris talk with Peter Voss, Founder, CEO, and Chief Scientist at AGI Innovations & Aigo.ai. Highlights: 2:58 "Software is quite dumb" 3:51 "What is reality?" 5:00 Coining the phrase "Artificial General Intelligence" - what it means 9:00 On understanding cognition in the deepest terms 11:10 What is consciousness? 15:20 Difference between "Artificial Intelligence" and "Artificial General Intelligence" 19:00 The 3 waves of AI 29:45 What is cognitive architecture? 34:30...
Nov 17, 2022•56 min
In this episode, Seth and Chris talk with Dan Turchin, CEO & Founder of PeopleReign. Highlights: 4:30 What drives Dan's mission to impact a billion lives at work? 11:15 Disruption and the future of work 17:50 What will happen when people can have a day a week back from automation? 20:00 Work will change more in the next 30 years than in the previous 300 24:30 AI is really still in its infancy - how can we use it for good as it grows up? 29:00 What are the pre-requisites to success with AI? 3...
Nov 11, 2022•56 min
In this episode, Seth and Chris talk with Dr. Mark Maybury, former CTO with Stanley, Black & Decker. Highlights: 3:30 Mark's early influences 9:10 What he does with his "spare" time - it is planned 16:30 His experience at Stanley, Black & Decker - making the elephant dance 22:50 Transitioning from analog to mixed reality (physical and digital) 31:00 AI - doing the early foundational work without existing ML systems 40:00 Early development of sentiment and intent analytics 45:00 Future pr...
Nov 09, 2022•55 min
In this episode, Seth and Chris talk with Steve Stesney, Senior Product and Data Practice Lead at Predictive UX. Highlights: 3:30 What is predictive user experience and how did Steve get there? 5:30 Grasping disambiguation and the move to graph data 18:00 Building trust in the data 19:26 Explaining taxonomy, ontology and knowledge graph to executives 21:30 Connecting UX and knowledge graphs 28:00 Managing the open floodgates once users discover what knowledge graphs can do 36:30 What is "predict...
Nov 03, 2022•48 min
In this episode, Seth and Chris talk with Scott Taylor, the "Data Whisperer" about telling stories about data management. Highlights: 2:00 Data Whisperer origin story 9:30 Translating complex dry material into a story that resonates 11:30 Why master data is the most important data and how to help execs understand it 18:15 Bad data + AI = AS (Artificial Stupidity) 22:30 Every system demos perfectly 26:25 Don't say "data quality" 27:30 Definition of digital transformation 32:00 Ugly babies and the...
Sep 01, 2022•57 min
In this episode, Seth and Chris talk with Henrik Hahn about driving innovation and change in his role as Chief Digital Offer at global chemical specialty giant, Evonik. Highlights: 12:30 Organizational change and culture science 14:30 Augmented intelligence vs artificial intelligence 20:00 On deciding where to start 29:00 Using data to measure success 39:00 Organizational design 44:00 Dealing with information gatekeepers 48:30 What kinds of tools are getting best traction 52:00 Lessons learned w...
Aug 29, 2022•1 hr
In this episode, Seth and Chris talk with Jim Iyoob about using data and AI to deliver customer experience that matters. Highlights: 2:25: Our celebrity guest…Named top 20 influential people to follow on twitter and who has been inducted into the CX Hall Of Fame 8:10: Adding value & being a great person….Let’s look at the customer experience through the customer’s lens 17:10: AI as a plug and play solution….myth or reality? 19:10:…the insights and the understanding. The mechanisms and method...
Jun 22, 2022•1 hr
In this episode, Seth and Chris talk with Tom Davenport, author of The AI Advantage How to put the artificial intelligence revolution to work. 4:40 On getting started in this space 7:47 What is most important today for organizations that are trying to operationalize AI 16:05 How organizations are doing in the human collaboration space and knowledge space 21:26 What is slowing organizations down…is it infrastructure or understanding? 31:40 Do organizations need to get ahead of the curve for augme...
May 04, 2022•56 min
In this episode, Seth and Chris talk with Michael Schrage, Fellow at MIT Sloan School's Center for Digital Business and author of the book, "Recommendation Engines." Highlights: 3:44: checkered past 12:50: covering the overwhelming nature of technology 15:50: why do people make decisions 18:21: Perfect choice-what are the right choice architectures? 24:25 Recommendation engines: The hand you're delt - how the bluff matters 26:15: How do we use tools and technologies to come up with better and mo...
Apr 06, 2022•57 min
In this episode, Seth and Chris talk with Stephanie Lemieux, President of Dovecot Studio about the nuts and bolts of taxonomy and information architecture. Highlights: 1:42 - Stephanie Lemieux background & Relationship with IA & Taxonomy 7:30 - Complexities & Foundational Problems 15:05 - Graph data and knowledge graphing 22:15 - Dynamic roles within an organization 37:27 - Leveraging weak signals and solutions 48:48 -What's the "excuse case" 50:59 - Value difference between large gl...
Mar 29, 2022•1 hr 1 min
In this episode, Seth and Chris talk with Jeff Coyle about how AI is impacting content strategy. Highlights: 2:55 - Craft beer - on winning the award for a Mexican lager 10:00 - Jeff's path to a passion for SEO 14:30 - On using data to decide what to write about 20:00 - What does Google think you think is important on your site? 25:00 - Publishing low quality content is like a time bomb 36:00 - Existential risk of not using data to drive content decisions 39:00 - If you're not there at the top o...
Mar 18, 2022•1 hr 9 min
In this episode, Seth and Chris talk with Mark Anderson about the new field of pattern discovery and its impact on AI. Highlights: 11:45 Path to pattern discovery 17:15 Eliminating the hypothesis and focus on the data with a Y value 30:00 Solving the most challenging problems with pattern discovery 40:00 Making sure this technology is only used for good 42:15 Identifying a COVID test that is 98% effective within minutes 44:30 Pattern recognition processors 48:30 The importance of clean data and ...
Mar 02, 2022•56 min
In this episode, Seth and Chris talk with Tim Huckaby about the his experience as a software developer in the 90s and his take on the future of AI and computer vision. Highlights: 4:30 Developing software at Microsoft in the 90s 11:00 Hollywood stories 14:30 Leaving Microsoft and building an app dev firm 17:00 Building CNN's "Magic Wall" 22:30 Predictions gone wrong and right 29:00 Pace of change in ML - quantum computing 38:00 Augmented reality and computer vision 48:00 AI and ethics Contact Ti...
Mar 01, 2022•55 min
In this episode, Seth and Chris talk with Sean Martin about the development and practical applications of knowledge graphs. Highlights: 5:30 – First online sports scoring website launched 9:00 – First forays into semantics applications 13:00 – Getting through scaling issues 16:30 – On needing to build the entire stack for knowledge graphs 18:00 – The business problems that Cambridge Semantics solves 24:45 – Dealing with and making sense of unstructured content 29:30 – Data models for natural lan...
Feb 22, 2022•54 min
