The Pulse of AI

NEW PODCAST! The Pulse of AI Podcast: Season 7 Episode 149 Jason Stoughton, the Host of The Pulse of AI Podcast, is joined on this episode with distinguished technologist Lutz Finger to discuss the current and future state of AI. Lutz has over 20 years of experience building AI driven products at companies like google, Linkedin and Snap. He is currently building a new company around generative AI tools for ecommerce and also teaches a popular eCornell certificate program called "Designing and Building AI Solutions:.      

New Pulse of AI Podcast! Season 6, Ep. 147 Pulse of AI host Jason Stoughton is joined by Dheeraj Pandey for a lively discussion about Dheeraj's new AI unicorn and all things AI, AI Agents and the importance of design in the deployment and implementation process of AI Agents.  Dheeraj Pandey is the CEO and co-founder of DevRev, a unicorn startup backed by Khosla and Mayfield that introduces AI agents that work alongside teams to handle the routine tasks so everyone can spend more time on what really matters. After turning Nutanix into a $16 billion success story, Dheeraj launched DevRev and recently led a $100 million Series A for the company. His vision of AI as the ultimate teamplayer comes to life through AgentOS, an operating system that integrates human and AI agents to unify all aspects of customer and product interactions. DevRev's platform moves beyond the daily grind, paving the way for a work-life balance that energizes teams for creative thinking, meaningful challenges and big-picture initiatives.    

Great news - Season 6 Episode 146 Pulse of AI Podcast is live!  Luma AI's founding team member Sam Sinha joins podcast host Jason Stoughton to talk about Luma AI's growth from a team of 5 to the juggernaut behind the Dream Machine video creativity tool, the essence and future of creativity in an AI powered and co-piloted world, the types of people they are looking to hire and so much more! To be notified about future conversations with the leaders of the AI revolution sign up for our newsletter at www.thepulseofai.com   

New Pulse of AI podcast is live! Season 6, episode 145. To be notified about future conversations with the leaders of the AI revolution sign up for our newsletter at www.thepulseofai.com  AI Pioneers: Andrew Maas on Pioneering Retrieval Systems and Deep Learning Join host Jason Stoughton in this exciting episode as he welcomes Andrew Maas, the visionary co-founder and CEO of Pointable. Andrew shares his journey through the world of artificial intelligence, from his groundbreaking work on data-centric deep learning at Apple to his pivotal role in founding roam Analytics, a natural language extraction platform acquired by Parexel. In this episode, Andrew delves into the innovative technologies behind Pointable, a startup revolutionizing retrieval systems for RAG-LLM workflows. He offers valuable insights for AI practitioners and founders, drawing from his extensive experience and academic background, including his PhD from Stanford University under the mentorship of Andrew Ng and Dan Jurafsky. Tune in to hear about Andrew's transformative work in AI, the future of retrieval systems, and what's next for Pointable. Whether you're an AI enthusiast or an aspiring entrepreneur, this conversation is packed with knowledge and inspiration!

In Season 6, Episode 144, our host Jason Stoughton is thrilled to welcome Vu Tran, Co-Founder and CEO of Butterflies AI.

New The Pulse of AI Podcast! Season 6, Episode 143. Sign up for my newsletter at www.thepulseofai.com Join podcast host Jason Stoughton and special guest Ben Lerner, Co-Founder and CEO of Espresso AI, as they talk about key trends in the AI industry, how Espresso AI helps companies save serious money by using AI to optimize their Snowflake data warehouse, where Espresso AI goes from here and the types of people they are looking to hire.  If you use Snowflake, Espressor AI is the easiest way for you to save $100,000. Listen to the podcast to find out more.  

New The Pulse of AI podcast, Season 6, Episode 142! Sign-up for our newsletter at www.thepulseofai.com  Podcast host Jason Stoughton is joined by Vice President of Intelligent Applications at Elemental Cognition, Erdem Ozcan. With a Phd in Computer Science and over 20 years of experience, including as co-founder of Automat.ai, which developed Conversational AI that revolutionized customer engagement and sales, Erdem is an interesting voice and strong technologist in the field of AI. Elemental Cognition (EC) is the next wave of enterprise AI that delivers the reliability, accuracy, and transparency businesses need. EC combines the fluency of large language models with the rigor of formal reasoning to create a neuro-symbolic AI architecture that can solve complex problems when businesses can't afford to be wrong. EC's approach combines different AI strategies in a novel architecture that acquires and reasons over human-readable knowledge to solve problems collaboratively and dynamically. The result is more transparent and cost- effective delivery of expert problem-solving intelligence into conversational and discovery applications. EC was founded in 2015 by Dr. David Ferrucci, the renowned AI researcher and inventor of IBM's breakthrough Watson technology, to build more holistic AI that thinks before it talks. EC technology can be used across industries and use cases. Primary targets are Healthcare / Life Science, Investment Management, Intelligence, Logistics & Scheduling, and Contact Centers.

New Pulse of AI podcast, Season 6, Episode 141. On this podcast I am joined by Gaurab Bansal, executive director of Responsible Innovation Labs, an industry coalition making it easy for founders to lead and win with responsible innovation. I wanted to have him on the podcast because as AI accelerates it is important for founders, and all of us in the industry, to think responsibly about AI as we drive the technology forward  Sign up for The Pulse of AI newsletter at www.thepulseofai.com     

Pulse of AI Podcast Season 6 Episode 140 On this podcast, one of the last episodes of season 6, I am joined by Subutai Ahmad, CEO of Numenta. Numenta is in many ways a uniquely Silicon Valley company. It was founded by tech luminaries and has spent the last 17 years doing deep neuroscience research with the goal of better understanding the brain so that those principles could be applied to AI. This work underpins and acts as a platform for their products, the first of which was just recently released.  Follow me on x @thepulseofai and go to our website and sign up for our newsletter at www.thepulseofai.com  In this podcast, Subutai shares: Shares the story of his journey and discusses: What Numenta has been focusing on for the last 17 years. Why AI needs neuroscience. The challenges companies/Numenta customers are facing. Generative and non-generative AI, and when to use which. Why CPUs are ideally suited for accelerating inference. How Numenta and Intel are shaping the future of AI. Where AI is going. Subutai Ahmad - CEO, Numenta Bio Subutai is passionate about neuroscience, deep learning, and building intelligent systems. An accomplished technologist, he has been instrumental in driving Numenta's research, technology and business since 2005. He previously served as VP Engineering at YesVideo where he helped grow the company from a three-person start-up to a leader in automated digital media authoring. In 1997, Subutai co-founded ePlanet Interactive which developed the IntelPlay Me2Cam, the first computer vision product developed for consumers. Subutai holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Cornell University, and a Ph.D in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  

The Pulse of AI New Podcast Episode, Season 6, Episode 139.  Follow at www.thepulseofai.com. Podcast host Jason Stoughton is joined by Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Akkio, Jon Reilly, to talk about how Artificial Intelligence is changing the digital marketing landscape and how AKKIO empowers digital marketers. Using GPT-4 Akkio allows teams to clean datasets, uncover insights and generate charts and reports by simply typing in prompts in their natural language.   

The Pulse of AI New Podcast Season 6 Episode 138  Jason Stoughton is joined by Founder and CEO Will Falcon of Lightning AI to talk about their new flagship product called Lightning AI Studios. Lightning AI is the company behind popular PyTorch Lightning and they describe their new flagship product as an "operating system" for AI development and is an enteprise grade platform that allows AI developers to code on cloud GPU's from their browsers or their laptops with zero set-up.  We talk about Will's interesting journey that led him to launch Lightning AI, his management and product philosophy, AI related topics and all of the really cool things you can do with Lightning AI Studios. Sign up for Jason's newsletter at www.thepulseofai.com and follow him on X @thepulseofai  

Season 6 Episode 137 CEO of Revsure AI, Deepinder Singh Dhingra, joins podcast host Jason Stoughton to talk about how Revsure AI is applying AI to help companies accelerate and improve pipeline generation to both increase revenue and to deliver better revenue predictability. Revsure AI has raised a seed round and is growing fast. To get the latest AI industry insights and access to hot AI start-ups at their earliest stages sign up for our newsletter at www.thepulseofai.com and follow Jason Stoughton @thepulseofai on X.     

Season 6 Episode 136 Voiceflow CEO Braden Ream joins host Jason Stoughton to talk about the current state of AI Agents and how Voiceflow is challenging the status quo and upending the industry. Recently off a Series A Voiceflow is doing some really work in the space. Follow Jason Stoughton as he talks to leaders in the AI industry, start-up founders, executives in the enterprise and leading AI scientists. Newsletter sign up at www.thepulseofai.com and X handle @thepulseofai 

Season 6 Ep: 135 Join Jason Stoughton as he sits down with exciting start-up Axelera AI's CEO and Co-Founder Fabrizio Del Maffeo and talk about why Edge AI is so hot, what the future looks like and why the industry loves Axelera's Metis™ AI platform – a holistic hardware and software solution for AI interference at the edge – enables computer vision applications to become more accessible, powerful and user friendly than ever before. Sign up for our newsletter at www.thepulseofai.com for insights from AI industry insiders and follow Jason Stoughton on X @thepulseofai   

New Podcast Season Six Episode 134! Scale by the Bay is a conference for developers and a place to network with industry leaders and AI insiders and to roll up your sleeves and dig deep into topics. Dr. Alexy Khrabrov joins host Jason Stoughton to talk about this years event, the state of AI, some of the cutting edge workshops they will host (i.e. building production ready LLM apps, etc.) and more. Scale by the Bay has launched a number of great companies. Don't miss it! I asked them if they could provide a discount to some of my listeners because I think it would be so beneficial for you. They agreed. Click on the link below and get 20% off (note: I do not make anything and am not getting paid - but find me there and say hi!). Register at  https://www.scale.bythebay.io/register and use PulseOfAI for the discount. If you have any questions or issues reach out directly to the conference. Sign up for our newsletter at www.thepulseofai.com and follow Jason Stoughton on X @thepulseofai

New Podcast Episode Season 6 #133! Rochan Sankar, Founder, CEO and President of Enfabrica joins podcast host Jason Stoughton to talk about their Accelerated Compute Fabric Solutions, the challenges and opportunities in the AI market today and why they were able to raise $125 million in a Series B with Nvidia as part of the investment group.  Sign up for The Pulse of AI newsletter to get the latest conversations with the leaders who are making AI a reality and building the future. Sign up at www.thepulseofai.com and follow us on X @thepulseofai   

New podcast Season 6 EP. 132   Nina Schuyler, author of Afterword, joins host Jason Stoughton to talk about her new book and how AI is impacting the the writing process today and how it might impact writing in the future.   With Hollywood writers on strike, in large part due to their concern that AI might replace them, there is no better time to cut through the noise and talk about the writing process itself, what AI can do today, what it will most likely be able to do in the near future, and how writers can position themselves to thrive in this brave new world powered by AI.   Follow Jason on X @thepulseofai and sign up for his newsletter at www.thepulseofai.com

New Podcast Episode, Season 6, Episode 131 Mark Gorenberg, Founder and Managing Director of Zetta Venture Partners and current Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Corporation and a member of the MIT Executive Committee, joins host Jason Stoughton to talk about his path to becoming a VC almost 30 years ago and the lessons he has learned along the way and which he shares with founders to enable their success.  Zetta is the original AI-first early stage venture fund focused solely on AI for enterprises and Mark talks about the moment of time we are in with AI right now, the opportunities he sees in the market and why AI makes it such an amazing time to be an entrepeneur. He is hosting an event on September 7th with thought leaders in AI, leaders from enterprise companies and founders from his portfolio. Jason encourages you to listen to this podcast and then to visit www.zettavp.com to register for the virtual event.    I hope you enjoy the conversation and don't forget if you like what you hear subscribe to the podcast and my newsletter at www.thepulseofai.com and follow me on x (formerly Twitter) @thepulseofai.    

New podcast episode season six episode 131. Jason Stoughton is joined by Dr. Thomas Fuchs, Department Chair of Artificial Intelligence and Human Health at Mt. Sinai and Founder of Paige, to talk about AI in medicine and healthcare and the amazing things Paige is doing to empower pathologists and transform oncology. AI holds the promise of transforming healthcare across the entire ecosystem. Thomas and Jason talk about the challenges and opportunities today and what the industry might look like in the near future. After years of slow going things are moving fast. Sign up for The Pulse of AI newsletter at www.thepulseofai.com and follow Jason on X (formerly twitter) @thepulseofai  

Latest Season Six Pulse of AI Podcast Episode 130. On this podcast I am joined by Paul Allen. Paul has founded 8 companies in his career, including Ancestry.com. Paul's current company, Soar.com is building a personal AI assistant for each person who wants to make more good decisions and maximize their time on earth.  The foundation for this AI system is Soar's search engine that transcribes and indexes millions of hours of video and audio content as well as important documents in many fields, including education, faith and family, workplace, government, health, financial, medical and legal. It is a big, bold exciting vision and on this podcast we dig down into the genesis of the vision, the market need for this type of technology and how he plans to make it happen.  It is going to be fun watching him and his team execute against his vision.  For the latest AI news and insights follow us @thepulseofai   

New Pulse of AI Season Six Podcast Episode! On this podcast Host Jason Stoughton is joined by hot AI start-up Crossing Minds founder and CEO Alexandre Robicquet to talk about their breakthrough in behavior-based recommendations, which enable businesses to provide highly relevant recommendations to each user within a couple of clicks - all without using personal data!  Crossing Minds was started by world-renowned AI pioneers, including Dr. Sebastian Thrun, Dr. Emile Contal and Alexandre Robicquet. Get insights and the latest news by following Jason Stoughton on Twitter (x) @thepulseofai   

Podcast Season 6 Episode 126 with Augment AI. Twitter @thepulseofai Many would agree that the holy grail of AI is to build a truly amazing personal assistant that acts as our highly competent Chief of Staff and that supercharges our output and eases the pain points across our entire personal and professional ecosystem. And because it is the holy grail many are working towards this goal. Augment AI is one of these companies but is taking a unique approach that I think has a real chance of becoming something important. They have a founder in Jordan Ritter (yes, of Napster fame) who is a proven founder and CEO and the rest of the team is really impressive as well. They are growing fast and if you want to jump on a potential rocket ship this is a company to check. Listen to the podcast to hear what they are doing, how they are doing it, how they think the market will shake out and what the future could/should look like.   

Podcast: Jason Stoughton speaks with Yash Sheth, Co-Founder of hot AI start-up Galileo. Galileo is building the first ML data intelligence platform for data scientists working with unstructured data. If you are working with unstructured data, or want to join a company that is seeking to define and own the space, then check out Galileo. They have a great team and a great product. Jason and Yash have a substantive conversation about the challenges and opportunities in the industry, the state of AI, ideas about the future and much more. Subscribe to the podcast where you get your podcasts and follow Jason @thepulseofai . 

Latest Season 6 Pulse of AI Podcast = Full Length version Udi Cohen, Co-Founder and CEO, of hot AI start-up Vendict joins Jason Stoughton to talk about his start-up, the new buzz around AI, why regulation is important and how we should approach it, and much more. To keep up with the latest subscribe to the podcast and follow Jason Stoughton @thepulseofai 

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 podcast and follow Jason Stoughton on twitter @thepulseofai 

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 your podcasts and follow me on twitter @thepulseofai   

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 improve your ML products through analytics, alerting and human feedback. They are hiring and Josh would be a great CEO to work for, and if you want to try out the product reach out to them and they will get you set up.  If you like what you hear subscribe to the podcast wherever you get your podcasts and follow me on Twitter @thepulseofai

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 Israeli company aiming to change the way people read and write using AI. He also initiated the AI index out of Stanford. But beyond all of that he is just a really fascinating and interesting person with great insights into AI, its future and its potential impact on society and during this conversation we cover a lot of ground. If you like what you hear subscribe to the podcast and follow Jason on Twitter @thepulseofai   

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 business, which is why I had Yonatan on the show, because he believes that his company has the answer. I love what they are doing and I think you will as well. 

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 story, right?  So the existential question is whether or not we will look back in 5, 10 or 20 years and see this as just the beginning of a multi trillion dollar market with applications for every area of our lives, or if there is something to it, which there obviously is, but maybe the opportunity isn't as big as the hype has suggested?  To talk about and unpack all of this I invited Brad Newman from Baker McKenzie back onto the show. If you are interested in this topic than you are going to really enjoy Brad's insights.  And don't forget, if you like what you here subscribe to the podcast, follow me on twitter @thepulseofai , and ping me on linkedin.

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 will love this book.  It's a tour de force that explores three leaps in history that Byron has identified that he claims made us who we are and that by really understanding these it will change how we think about our future. In this wide ranging conversation we talk about the book, his career, technology in general, transformation and even about how he writes so prolifically.  Dont forget if you like what you hear subscribe to the podcast, follow me on twitter @thepulseofai or ping me on linkedin.  I hope you enjoy the conversation as much as I did!

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 at the intersection of geospatial data, AI/ML and climate.  If you like what you hear subscribe to the podcast and follow me on Twitter @thepulseofai 

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 putting themselves at legal risk by using these systems because bias is sometimes unintentionally built into the algorithms.  And in fact, regulatory agencies have announced that they will be taking a hard look at these practices going forward.  But interestingly, Baker McKenzie recently sponsored a survey of C-suite leaders and few felt that there was a significant risk involved with their practices around AI in recruiting and HR. So obviously there is a disconnect in the marketplace. We unpack all of this and more in the podcast. And I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. Don't forget, if you like what you hear subscribe to my podcast, follow me on twitter @ the pulse of AI and reach out on linkedin.

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 the way in advancing AI's capabilities in this area but is also leading the way in ensuring that AI  should service human well being above all else. If you like what you hear subscribe to my podcast, follow me on twitter @thepulseofai or reach out on linkedin.

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. 

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 product usage, to predict LTV with around 90% accuracy.   If you like what you hear subscribe to the podcast and follow me on twitter at the pulse of ai. I hope you enjoy the podcast!

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. 

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 suite of AI Quality solutions that help enterprises analyze machine learning, improve and monitor model quality, and build trust. In many ways the future of AI depends on opening its blackbox and understanding how to make the systems fair and transparent. Failure to do this will put the brakes on AI adoption.  I believe that TruEra is positioned to be a leader in this space.  In addition, Annupam is a really smart and interesting person and I hope you enjoy this discussion as much as I did!

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.

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 malevolent actors are using the latest technologies to sow discord through disinformation then this podcast is for you. 

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 companies like Primer begin to release powerful yet easy to use tools that bring NLP out of the research department and place them in the hands of business users. Primer recently released a new product line called Primer Engines. These are pre-trained engines that can be layered over your data allowing you to do the types of things that just a few years ago were plot lines in Hollywood movies.   And just as importantly, or maybe even more so, they are designed so that even non-technical business users can easily use them. What used to take months and a significant amount of investment in terms of people and money can now be done in a day. Literally. As Sean likes to say they are reducing the cost of curiosity. All of this makes his company, in my opinion, one of the most exciting players in the space.  I hope you enjoy the conversation as much as I did.  

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. ClosedLoop describes itself as “Healthcares data science platform”. Purpose build and dedicated to healthcare, ClosedLoop combines an intuitive end to end machine learning platform with a comprehensive library of healthcare specific features and model templates. They have taken a vertical approach and it is really paying off both for them and their customers.

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 efforts. Delivering both successfully will encourage companies to more fully embrace AI by removing some of the barriers and hassles that make “doing AI” so difficult.  On this podcast we talk about Braden's journey to entrepreneurship, the origin story of Snorkel, how their approach to data labeling works and how it helps unlock the power of AI in the enterprise, why SME's are the key to data labelling and why Snorkel's approach empowers them, why you should drop what you are doing and immediately send in a resume and much more. I am excited for this conversation because Snorkel AI is solving a real problem in the industry that has been holding back AI adoption and I am just really impressed with their team. In my opinion this is definitely a company to keep an eye on. Let's get to it!

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 Justin onto the show because I love what Spectrum Labs is doing but I also think that he has great insights into the problem and the range of approaches needed to solve it.  Podcast Transcript: Spectrum Labs elevator pitch (1:29) The professional journey of Justin Davis, Co-Founder/CEO, and why he started Spectrum Labs  (2:32) What is Contextual AI and how does it work? (4:47) Quantifying the size of the negative/violent/hateful/etc that Spectrum Labs is trying to solve (8:50) How does a company work with Spectrum Labs to address this problem?  (12:10) How many companies are taking this problem seriously? (16:42) Who are Spectrum Labs competitors? (20:29)