New Pulse of AI Podcast (season 6)! Ashray Malhotra, Co-Founder and CEO, of hot AI start-up Rephrase AI joins Pulse of AI podcast host Jason Stoughton to talk about his start-up. Rephrase AI creates avatars and hyper-personalized videos at scale to businesses. The Pulse of AI is in its 6th season and host Jason Stoughton interviews insiders in the AI industry including founders, AI scientists, thought leaders, vc's, enteprise c-suite leaders and more. To keep up with the latest subscribe to the ...
May 11, 2023•30 min
Astrophysicist, Wall Street quant, data scientist and now Founder and CEO of Seek AI, Sarah Nagy founded Seek AI to solve the core pain point that she, and thousands of other data scientists, experience everyday and is now focused on revolutionizing how employees across the organization interact with, and benefit from, data. Seek AI is a hot early stage AI start-up, pursuing a huge opportunity, they have a great team and are hiring. Check them out. If you like the podcast subscribe where you get...
May 10, 2023•40 min
Podcast Season 6! Josh Tobin joins me on this podcast to talk about the really interesting stuff they are doing at Gantry. In addition, as on every Pulse of AI podcast, we talk about numerous topics in AI and especially Generative AI since it is the topic de jour, but mostly because Josh spent critical time working at OpenAI so he has some interesting thoughts about where we are and where we are going. Gantry is a really exciting seed stage AI company that has a unique approach to helping improv...
May 09, 2023•36 min
Dr. Yoav Shoham, computere scientist, Professor Emeritus at Stanford and Co-founder of AI21 Labs, joins host Jason Stoughton on The Pulse of AI podcast to talk about his career journey, the really powerful and neat things that his company AI21 is going using NLP, and a wide range of topics around AI and philosophy and ethics and much more. Yoav's research spans artificial intelligence, logic and game theory. He has been the co-founder of several companies, including his latest AI21 which is an I...
Nov 07, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Season 6Ep. 120
The Pulse of AI podcast: Joining host Jason Stoughton on this podcast is Yonatan Geifman, CEO and co-founder, of Deci AI. Deci recently raised $25 million in a series B to support their ongoing R&D and go to market efforts. As AI becomes more ubiquitous across companies systems there are two big elephants in the room: One is the black box and bias issue, which we talk about a lot on this show, and the other is the big cost of training AI models. Solving the cost problem is a billion dollar b...
Oct 06, 2022•20 min•Season 6Ep. 119
As crypto has fallen from its previous perch high up in the atmosphere where the air gets a little thin back down here to earth where us mere mortals live it is an interesting time to say the least. Everyone is trying to figure out where we go from here. In a lot of ways this reminds me of the dotcom crash where afterwards many people walked away and said “well that whole internet thing was fun but time to get back to reality”, while others kept working at it and well we know the rest of the sto...
Sep 22, 2022•40 min•Season 6Ep. 118
On this podcast I am joined by Byron Reese, to talk about his latest book that just hit the bookshelves titled “Stories, dice and rocks that think: How humans learned to see the future”. Byron is a successful entrepreneur, CEO, futurist and award winning author. If you are like me and believe the saying that history doesn’t necessarily repeat, but it does rhyme, and so you spend a lot of time studying history in order to get a better understanding of what might happen in the future, then you wil...
Aug 26, 2022•48 min•Season 6Ep. 117
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...
May 24, 2022•28 min•Season 5Ep. 115
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 put...
May 18, 2022•38 min•Season 5Ep. 113
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 ...
May 10, 2022•47 min•Season 5Ep. 113
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.
Apr 28, 2022•23 min
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 p...
Apr 14, 2022•34 min•Season 5Ep. 110
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!
Apr 06, 2022•42 min•Season 5Ep. 110
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.
Mar 25, 2022•24 min•Season 5Ep. 109
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.
Mar 16, 2022•28 min•Season 5Ep. 108
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.
Mar 11, 2022•34 min•Season 5Ep. 106
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 ...
Mar 02, 2022•48 min•Season 5Ep. 106
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 eng...
Feb 23, 2022•49 min
As adoption of AI increases so do the concerns around potential bias in the systems. But what do we mean when we talk about bias in AI? And how do we know if our algorithms exhibit bias? And perhaps most importantly, how do we eliminate bias from our AI systems? On my latest podcast I dig down into all of these issues with one of the foremost authorities on bias in AI, co-founder and Chief Scientist at hot AI start-up Truera, and Carnegie Mellon professor Annupam Datta. TruEra provides the first...
Dec 03, 2021•41 min
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...
Nov 16, 2021•26 min
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, bet...
Sep 23, 2021•29 min
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 are...
Sep 09, 2021•49 min
Sean Gourley, CEO and Founder of Primer, joins to share his thoughts and insights about the threat disinformation poses to western democracies, as well as how to define it, identify it and combat it. His passion combined with his deep experience in the space, the unique perch that he sits on today which allows him to view the full landscape and the work that Primer has done in the space gives him incredible insights that he shares during this conversation. If you are concerned about how malevole...
Aug 26, 2021•47 min
LATEST PODCAST: My guest is Sean Gourley, Founder and CEO of Primer AI. Joining me on this podcast is CEO and Co-Founder of Primer, Sean Gourley. As you know I cover AI in all of its various forms and for me NLP is and always has been one of the most exciting areas within the field of AI. And over the past several years the advances we have seen in NLP have been phenomenal and yet business leaders are just now beginning to see the potential that NLP represents. But this is quickly changing as co...
Aug 20, 2021•34 min
This is the first in a four part series exploring how data and AI are set to really disrupt healthcare through conversations with the disruptors themselves including entrepreneurs, founders and AI experts. My goal is to discover exactly how AI and data are being used now, the barriers holding back innovation and what these experts think healthcare will look like in 10 years. On today’s podcast, the first in the series, I am joined by Andrew Eye who is the founder and CEO of ClosedLoop AI. Closed...
Jul 28, 2021•32 min
On this podcast I am joined by Braden Hancock who is a co-founder and Head of Technology at Snorkel AI. Snorkel AI is unlocking a better, faster way to build applications With Snorkel Flow, the first truly data-centric AI platform. To date they have raised over $50 million from top VC firms such as Greylock, Lightspeed, GV and others. Snorkel AI is solving a real problem that has been holding back AI adoption by simplifying data labeling and making AI projects look more like software development...
Jun 18, 2021•24 min
Online platforms are overwhelmed with speech that is harmful. Companies are trying to get their hands around the problem in order to solve it, because it is driving people off their platforms in droves. But it is a difficult problem to solve. Companies need to establish policies, set up governance committees and protocols, find technical solutions and hire moderators. Justin Dave, Co-Founder and CEO of Spectrum Systems, founded his company to attack this problem with Contextual AI. I invited Jus...
Jun 07, 2021•28 min
On this podcast I am joined by Risto Miikkulainen from Cognizant and by Dr. Nuria Oliver from Valencia Spain who led her team to victory in the Cognizant sponsored Xprize Pandemic Response Challenge which was a four month, $500k challenge that focused on the development of data-driven AI systems to predict Covid-19 infection rates and prescribe intervention plans that regional governments, communities and organizations can implement to minimize harm when reopening their economies. Dr. Oliver's t...
May 11, 2021•36 min
On this podcast I am joined by Risto Miikulainen, a professor at the University of Texas in Austin and Associate VP of Evolutionary AI at Cognizant, and Mitja Lustrek, who is the head of the Ambient Intelligence Group at the Josef Stefan Institute located in Slovenia, to talk about the recently completed Xprize Covid Challenge where Mitja and his team came in an impressive second. Podcast Outline : :19 - Risto explains the genesis of this Xprize 3:50 - Mitja introduces us to his institute and te...
May 04, 2021•36 min
Coming off a recent $30 million Series B funding I am joined on this podcast by Victor Kushch, Co-Founder and CTO of Fairmarkit. Fairmarkit is an exciting venture backed company that has created an intelligent sourcing platform that empowers organizations to more efficiently purchase the goods and services they need. Basically by equipping procurement and supply-chain teams with automation and data, Fairmarkit promotes competitive bidding while reducing manual work within existing processes. It ...
Mar 31, 2021•20 min
