Oxbotica is a vehicle software company at the forefront of autonomous technology, and today we have a fascinating chat with Ben Upcroft, the Vice President of Technology. Ben explains Oxbotica's mission of enabling industries to make the most of autonomy, and how their technological progress affects real-world situations. We also get into some of the challenges that Oxbotica and the autonomy space, in general, are currently facing, before drilling down on the important concepts of user trust, fu...
Mar 24, 2022•33 min•Ep. 31
Key Points From This Episode: Jerome’s background, interest in AI, and how he landed his role at Sama. Social initiatives, training data, and what attracted Jerome to Sama. The shift from focusing on AI models to the importance of data quality. Why academia requires the use of a foundational dataset to compare models. The reason for the early focus on building new AI models. Whether datasets will become open source in the future as models have. The role of annotation in making data meaningful an...
Mar 17, 2022•34 min•Ep. 30
Dr. Daimler is an authority in Artificial Intelligence with over 20 years of experience in the field as an entrepreneur, executive, investor, technologist, and policy advisor. He is also the founder of data integration firm Conexus, and we kick our conversation off with the work he is doing to integrate large heterogeneous data infrastructures. This leads us into an exploration of the concept of compositionality, a structural feature that enables systems to scale, which Dr. Daimler argues is the...
Mar 03, 2022•41 min•Ep. 29
Irrespective of the application or the technology, a common problem among AI professionals always seems to be data. Is there enough of it? What do we prioritize? Is it clean? How do we annotate it? Today’s guest, however, believes that AI is not data-limited but compute-limited. Joining us to share some very interesting insights on the subject matter is Slater Victoroff, Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Indico, an unstructured data platform that enables users to build innovative, mission-...
Feb 24, 2022•31 min•Ep. 28
The innovations that drive space exploration not only aid us in discovering other worlds, but they also benefit us right here on earth. Today’s guest is Shelli Brunswick, who joins us to talk about the role of AI in space exploration and how the ‘space ecosystem’ can create jobs and career opportunities on Earth. Shelli is the COO at the Space Foundation and was selected as the 2020 Diversity and Inclusion Officer and Role Model of the Year by WomenTech Network and a Woman of Influence by the Co...
Feb 17, 2022•29 min•Ep. 27
A future filled with autonomous vehicles promises to be a driving utopia. Maximum efficiency navigation decreasing traffic and congestion, safety features that drastically reduce collisions with other cars, bikes, or pedestrians, and an electric-first approach that lowers greenhouse gas emissions. But as today’s guest asserts, on the back of her extensive research the implications of a huge increase in autonomous vehicles on our streets aren’t rosy by default. Sarah Barnes works on the micro-mob...
Feb 10, 2022•34 min•Ep. 26
Arria is a Natural Language Generation company that replicates the human process of expertly analyzing and communicating data insights. We caught up with their CTO, Neil Burnett, to learn more about how Arria's technology goes beyond the standard rules-based NLP approach, as well as how the technology develops and grows once it's placed in the hands of the consumer. Neil explains the huge opportunity within NLG, and how solving for seamless language based communication between humans and machine...
Feb 03, 2022•27 min•Ep. 25
Traditional LiDAR systems require moving parts to operate, making them less cost-effective, robust, and safe. Cibby Pulikkaseril is the Founder and CTO of Baraja, a company that has reinvented LiDAR for self-driving vehicles by using a color-changing laser routed by a prism. After his Ph.D. in lasers and fiber optic communications, Cibby got a job at a telecom equipment company, and that is when he discovered that a laser used in DWDM networks could be used to reinvent LiDAR. By joining this con...
Dec 20, 2021•24 min•Ep. 24
Academic turned entrepreneur Michel Valstar joins How AI Happens to explain how his behaviomedics company, Blueskeye AI, prioritizes building trust with their users. Much of the approach features data opt-ins and on-device processing, which necessarily results in less data collection. Michel explains how his team is able to continue gleaning meaningful insight from smaller portions of data than your average AI practitioner is used to. Michel Valstar on LinkedIn Blueskeye AI...
Nov 11, 2021•23 min•Ep. 23
Joining us today is Senior Director at Facebook AI, Manohar Paluri. Mano discusses the biggest challenges facing the field of computer vision, and the commonalities and differences between first and third-person perception. Manohar dives into the complexity of detecting first-person perception, and how to overcome the privacy and ethical issues of egocentric technology. Manohar breaks down the mechanism underlying AI based on decision trees compared to those based on real-world data, and how the...
Nov 05, 2021•42 min•Ep. 22
In recent years, the focus of AI developers has been to implement technologies that replace basic human labor. Talking to us today about why this is the wrong application for AI (right now), is Katya Klinova, the Head of AI, Labor, and the Economy at The Partnership on AI. Tune in to find out why replacing human labor doesn't benefit the whole of humanity, and what our focus should be instead. We delve into the threat of "so-so technologies" and what the developer's role should be in approaching...
Oct 28, 2021•29 min•Ep. 21
In this episode, we talk to Stefan Scherer (CTO of Embodied) about why he decided to focus on the more nuanced challenge of developing children’s social-emotional skills. Stefan takes us through how encouraging children to mentor Moxie (a friendly robot) through social interaction helps them develop their interpersonal relationships. We dive into the relevance of scripted versus unscripted conversation in different AI technologies, and how Embodied taught Moxie to define abstract concepts such a...
Oct 21, 2021•30 min•Ep. 20
Today we talk to Celtra Founder and CPO, Matevž Klanjšek, about how AI can be used to accelerate creativity, and what would happen if it eventually replaces humans in the creative space. We discuss the limitations of the tools currently available, why Matevž isn’t interested in teaching AI variance, and how humans and AI need to work together in advertising. Tune in to hear what the future of advertising looks like, and why the human-AI feedback loop is essential. Matevž tells us about the bizar...
Oct 14, 2021•20 min•Ep. 19
Joining us today is Dr. Bill Porto, Redpoint Senior Analytics Engineer and storied AI researcher, academic, and developer. Bill shares all his current projects, including pattern recognition and optimization models, and he reveals what it was like to work with the father of Evolutionary Programming, Dr. Larry Fogel. We touch on a new definition for computational intelligence, and talk about where evolutionary programming is in use today, before exploring the fact that evolution is not simply sur...
Oct 07, 2021•25 min•Ep. 18
CEO Shahan Lilja joins to explain how Mavenoid is able to deploy custom chat bots in a matter of minutes, the processes by which these tools get better over time, and how the ability to automatically turn technical expertise into an algorithm that can be utilized at scale is amplifying human intelligence.
Sep 30, 2021•26 min•Ep. 17
Rob Carpenter is the founder and CEO of Valyant AI, which is on a journey to solve the complex problem of conversational AI in the food service industry. In today’s episode, Rob explains the three main components of AI speech processing (and the challenges that arise at each of these nodes), how conversational AI has the capacity to improve conditions for human workers in the food service industry, and what this technology is going to be like in the future. After this episode, you’ll understand ...
Sep 23, 2021•28 min•Ep. 16
Dr. John Kane, Head of Signal Processing & Machine Learning at Cogito, explains the challenges brought on by the oft-repeated truism "speech is more than text", and how Cogito addresses these challenges to deliver real-time conversational insight to their users. Later, John explains the holistic approach to ensuring machine learning technology is created in a bias-free environment.
Sep 16, 2021•31 min•Ep. 15
Data & AI Solution Specialist for Microsoft, Priyanka Roy, explains how Design Thinking is a crucial approach in the development of any AI technology, and how it's proper utilization results in better products and more effective teams. Priyanka also outlines the key pillars of a successful data governance approach, and the utility of "thick" data.
Sep 09, 2021•25 min•Ep. 14
Walmart's SVP of Global Technology Anshu Bhardwaj and VP of Emerging Technology Desirée Gosby join Sama CEO Wendy Gonzalez for a roundtable discussion about representation in AI, explainable & ethical AI, and how representative teams are a key way to reduce biases in AI technology.
Sep 02, 2021•28 min•Ep. 13
Theresa Benson, Product Storyteller for InRule Technology, explains the opportunity of combining declarative AI with predictive AI, and how InRule Technology is using predictive AI to empower non AI experts to develop algorithms from their existing domain knowledge.
Aug 26, 2021•33 min•Ep. 12
LeanTaas CEO Mohan Giridharadas explains how his team is solving the Supply & Demand challenge within healthcare, how the algorithms are stress tested in order to handle extreme edge cases, as well as how drift is defined, detected, and resolved in a customer-centric fashion.
Aug 19, 2021•26 min•Ep. 11
Anna Susmelj explains her research at Facebook AI developing optimal drug combinations for the treatment of complex diseases, as well as her background in causality research. Anna's Facebook Research: AI predicts effective drug combinations to fight complex diseases faster
Aug 12, 2021•26 min•Ep. 10
Laurence Moroney is an industry veteran who has authored several books on AI development, taught a series of AI/ML MooCs, and even advises British Parliament on their AI approach. His mission at google is to evangelize the opportunity of AI and work towards democratizing access to the development of this technology. Laurence joined the podcast to discuss the nature of AI hype cycles, how AI practitioners can navigate them within their own organizations, and some of the amazing opportunities comi...
Aug 05, 2021•36 min•Ep. 9
Kelvin Wursten, leader of PointClickCare's Data Science team, explains how they are utilizing AI to help solve complicated supply vs. demand calculations in hospital emergency departments, as well as the challenge of balancing building awesome technology while still prioritizing the user's needs.
Jul 30, 2021•20 min•Ep. 8
Igor Susmelj, Co-Founder of Lightly.ai, explains how most companies don't have a problem of too little data, but rather of far too much irrelevant data. He details Lightly's approach of utilizing self-supervised learning to pare down massive data sets into something that can be useful to a supervised learning approach.
Jul 22, 2021•27 min•Ep. 7
Hyperscience co-founder and CEO Peter Brodsky explains why standards are fundamentally at odds with innovation, and how making technology that is backwards compatible with reality is Hyperscience's approach. Key topics: The future of Human-in-the-loop processes Using synthetic data to train deep learning algorithms Why the solution to data entry automation will prove to be the solution to automation as a whole
Jul 09, 2021•22 min•Ep. 6
Director of AI Research Ram explains how ManageEngine's tools predict anomalies, the long term utility of Human-in-the-Loop AI, and how they've used sentiment analysis & transfer learning to overcome a lack of data.
Jul 01, 2021•22 min•Ep. 5
Gyant CEO & Co-Founder Stefan Behrens explains the challenges inherent in creating datasets for healthcare purposes, as well as the importance of building interpretability into their AI tools.
Jun 24, 2021•26 min•Ep. 4
Sama CEO Wendy Gonzalez explains how the Sama Digital Basics program teaches AI skills to individuals in Africa's largest slum, and reflects on the findings of MIT's 6 year study measuring the program's effect. RCT Results from MIT: Evaluating the Impact of Sama’s Training and Job Programs
Jun 17, 2021•18 min•Ep. 3
CTO George Corugedo explains how the relationship between physics and math is a model for the relationship between business questions and artificial intelligence, as well as Redpoint Global's ensemble approach to optimization.
Jun 10, 2021•27 min•Ep. 2
