Podcasts about Sentient Technologies

Today's guest is Risto Miikkulainen, VP of AI Research at Cognizant Advanced AI Labs. Since 2013, the team has focused on research, innovation and the development of advanced AI technologies that further the application of AI to surface opportunities and make better decisions, serving clients and the society at large. Coming together as the Cognizant Advanced AI Lab, the team remains committed to bridging science and the pragmatic application of AI, to foster a better, more productive and innovative future for businesses and society alike. Risto's current research focuses on methods and applications of AI in decision-making, particularly those based on neuroevolution, as well as neural network models of natural language processing and vision. At Cognizant, and previously as a CTO of Sentient Technologies, he is scaling up these approaches to real-world problems. As an AAAI, IEEE and AAIA Fellow, Risto is an author of over 500 articles in these research areas, with his work on neuroevolution recently being recognized with multiple awards.  In this episode, Risto talks about: His journey from academia to AI deployment at Cognizant AI Labs, Empowering human decision-making through AI, Use Case: Winning an award for collaboration on improving Botox evaluation, Why AI implementation needs practical adaptation and broad collaboration, An insight into the team's work within research and development, The AI Labs focus on R&D, thought leadership and AI for good, His top advice to require strong fundamentals, critical thinking and adaptability

In episode 78 of The Gradient Podcast, Daniel Bashir speaks to Antoine Blondeau.Antoine is a serial AI entrepreneur and Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Alpha Intelligence Capital. He was chief executive at Dejima when the firm worked on CALO, one of the biggest AI projects in US history and precursor to Apple's Siri. Later, he co-founded Sentient Technologies, which boasted the title of world's highest funded AI company in 2016. In 2018, he founded Alpha Intelligence Capital to support future AI unicorns, and has raised more than $300 million, which has been deployed into 31 companies.Have suggestions for future podcast guests (or other feedback)? Let us know here or reach us at editor@thegradient.pubSubscribe to The Gradient Podcast:  Apple Podcasts  | Spotify | Pocket Casts | RSSFollow The Gradient on TwitterOutline:* (00:00) Intro* (01:30) Antoine's background* (04:00) Dejima and the CALO cognitive assistant (the precursor to Siri)* (07:35) More detail on CALO* (10:10) Sentient Technologies and entrepreneurship during the AlexNet moment* (14:35) Early predictions on scale* (17:15) Role of evolutionary computation and neuroevolution* (20:00) Antoine's motivations for becoming an investor* (22:30) Alpha Intelligence Capital's investment focus* (27:40) Safety and trust issues in fully automated systems* (37:00) Models of culture, discernment in the use of AI systems* (39:30) Antoine's experience as an investor in today's AI environment* (44:43) How modern LLMs impact standard advice regarding the appropriateness of cutting-edge technologies in business* (49:00) Data (and other) moats* (52:07) Application/research areas Antoine is watching* (55:00) Antoine's advice for people watching AI's current developments* (58:47) OutroLinks:* Alpha Intelligence Capital Homepage Get full access to The Gradient at thegradientpub.substack.com/subscribe

BRT Financial Review: Best of Investing 2022 Part 2 BRT S04 EP01 (163) 1-1-2023   Things We Learned This Week Why Does the Stock Market Go Up?– Everything You Should Have Been Taught About Investing In School, But Weren't Democratizing expertise around trading derivatives thru new tools & software. Reengineering the derivatives market, so we do not need to rely anymore on failed experts w/ outdated methods & tech. AZREIAis a Real Estate Association to learn, network, find support & contractors What is Your Investor Identity?Fix & Flip, Landlord, Lender ABI Multifamily is a brokerage and advisory services firm that focuses exclusively on apartment investment transactions. Types of Risk - Interest Rate, Inflation, Play it Safe Market Risk - Buffet Rule # 1 - Never Lose $, how Mkt losses affect your portfolio & timeline     Clip from 8/14/2022 – w/ Brian Feroldi                Replay Seg. 3 - on stock markets and exchanges FULL SHOW: HERE   Guest: Brian Feroldi Book: Why Does The Stock Market Go Up?: Everything You Should Have Been Taught About Investing In School, But Weren't, Paperback – April 5, 2022   by Brian Feroldi      Motley Fool Articles: https://www.fool.com/author/14471/ http://mindset.brianferoldi.com/ YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs60_Z83HU76uygzHRQl0kA Twitter: https://twitter.com/BrianFeroldi Website: https://www.brianferoldi.com/   Brian Feroldi is a financial educator, YouTuber, & author. He has been intensely interested in money, personal finance, and investing ever since he graduated from college. Brian started investing in 2004. In the beginning, he had no idea what he was doing and got his teeth kicked in. His returns improved dramatically over time as his experience and knowledge about the stock market grew. Brian's career mission statement is “to spread financial wellness.” He loves to help other people do better with their money, especially their investments. He has written more than 3,000 articles on stocks, investing, and personal finance for the Motley Fool. In 2022, Brian's book Why Does The Stock Market Go Up? was published. The mission of the book is “to demystify the stock market.” It was written to explain how the stock market works in plain English. Brian lives in New England with his wife and three kids.     Clip from 7/17/2022 – w/ Peter Harrigan Replay Seg. 3 – on derivatives and oprions FULL SHOW: HERE   Guest: Peter Harrigan – Co-Founder Outcome Trading https://www.linkedin.com/in/peterharrigan/ https://outcometrading.org/   Outcome Trading – old world: derivatives In today's world, risk transfer is achieved through derivatives, using highly specialized language, and opaque structures which pre-date modern information technology. Centralized financial institutions focus on high volume markets that ignore the long tail.   new world: outcome trading™ Hedgers simply draw a curve describing the monetary compensation they require if the price of an asset were to decline (or increase). Investors graphically describe the financial outcome they desire from price appreciation (or depreciation).   Democratizing expertise around derivatives through new tools and software. How failure by experts impacts us all Protecting oneself or one's business in high-volatility markets Reengineering the derivatives market, starting from a blank sheet of paper   Bio: Peter Harrigan   Peter is the Co-Founder of the game changing trading software, Outcome Trading.   Peter also has founded Grey Swan Digital which developed the technology behind PlastiCurv. PlastiCurv was developed to transform financial risks into opportunities - opportunities for return, diversification and social benefit. Peter's mission was to create an intuitive and visual platform that anyone can understand, re-engineering the $600T derivatives market and making its benefits available to anyone in the world.   Peter's long and successful career as a trader started when he developed a tradable arbitrage employed at the CME and CBOT. Peter later made markets in foreign exchange at Bank of America, currency options on the floor of the CME, and equity options on the floor of the Pacific Exchange. He also co-founded Sentient Technologies, a company developing commercial applications of a highly distributed evolutionary learning technology. After a successful exit from Sentient, Peter turned his attention to the crypto industry in 2014, attending the first ethereum meetups, & going on to participate in the Ethereum presale.       Clip from 8/21/2022 – w/ Mike DelPrete  of AZREIA       Replay Seg. 1 - on types of real estate investors FULL SHOW: HERE   Guest: Michael DelPrete, Executive Director, AZREIA https://azreia.org/ The mission of AZREIA is to provide its members the education, market information, support, and networking opportunities that will further the member's ability to successfully invest in Real Estate   Mike Del Prete has been a member of AZRERA for 12 years and has been running it for 1 year it's been teaching for 5 years need to have a team like contractors lenders realtors     Clip from 12/11/2022 – w/ John Kobierowski  of ABI Multifamily     Seg. 2 - on makeup of real estate deals FULL SHOW: HERE   Guest: John Kobierowski President and CEO ABI Multifamily  https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnkobierowski   https://abimultifamily.com/ ABI Multifamily is a brokerage and advisory services firm that focuses exclusively on apartment investment transactions. The experienced advisors at ABI Multifamily have completed billions of dollars in sales and thousands of individual multifamily transactions. ABI Multifamily incorporates a global approach with regional real estate expertise to successfully complete any multifamily transaction, regardless of size and complexity.   https://neighborhood.ventures/ Neighborhood Ventures is a real estate crowdfunding company that offers ALL the opportunity to be shareholders in our retail & apartment projects.       Clip from 11/6/2022 – w/ Denver Nowicz of Wealth for Life     Seg. 3 & Seg. 4  – on Risk FULL SHOW: HERE   Co-Host: Denver Nowicz, President - Wealth For Life https://wealthforlife.net/brt/ https://twitter.com/denvernowicz  Denver is an advisor with nearly 20 years experience working with clients in investments and insurance, designing retirement plans with a combo of both. He takes us through different strategies for clients to get the best allocations for their money over the long term. It is the Combo Strategy of both Offense and Defense, the synergy of the mix, not ‘All or Nothing'.   Risk Playing it safe and taking no chances is still risky inflation risk if you are just holding cash and putting your money in the mattress, inflation eats away at the value of the cash and your purchasing power Think of your business as an asset class whether it is a digital business or a traditional physical business, the old brick and mortar More Info on WFL and Tax Free Matching: HERE     Clip from 9/23/2022 – w/ Denver Nowicz of Wealth for Life     Seg. 1 – on Bonds and the 60/40 Split FULL SHOW: HERE https://brt-show.libsyn.com/does-the-6040-split-still-work-in-investing-bonds-portion-needs-help-brt-s03-ep47-146-9-23-2022-wealth-for-life   What is the 60/40 Split in Investing? Equities 60% for Growth/ Bonds 40% for Income Bonds Returns have been going down for 2 decades, hurting Retirements Sequence of Returns Risk – When you retire matters, if the Market is down, your income can take a big hit Annuities - Bonds Replacement for Income, w/ Inflation increases & Income for Life   Clip from 10/28/2022 – w/ Denver Nowicz of Wealth for Life     Seg. 1 – on Accumulation vs Distribution FULL SHOW: HERE   Accumulation - easier for Wall St to sell, just buy stocks in your 401K, Market goes up over time Distribution - income planning, market risk (Sequence of Returns Risk), and life all make this phase more complicated for advisors to talk about Avoid the ‘One Thing Retirement Plan' – if this one thing goes right (market goes up), I will be fine NEW 60/40 Split - Bonds out, Option Strategies in, adjust your portfolio with assets that produce income, and have no market risk Income Planning – setup long before retirement, to have income bucket grow with principal protection and option to lock in gains   For More Wealth for Life Clips & Shows: https://brt-show.libsyn.com/category/Wealth+For+Life+         ‘Best Of' Topic: https://brt-show.libsyn.com/category/Best+of+BRT   Investing Topic: https://brt-show.libsyn.com/category/Investing-Stocks-Bonds-Retirement More 'Best of Investing': Here   Real Estate Topic: https://brt-show.libsyn.com/category/Real+Estate-Construction-Land-Farming       Thanks for Listening. Please Subscribe to the BRT Podcast.      Business Roundtable with Matt Battaglia The show where Entrepreneurs, High Level Executives, Business Owners, and Investors come to share insight and ideas about the future of business. BRT 2.0 looks at the new trends in business, and how classic industries are evolving.  Common Topics Discussed: Business, Entrepreneurship, Investing, Stocks, Cannabis, Tech, Blockchain / Crypto, Real Estate, Legal, Sales, Charity, and more…  BRT Podcast Home Page: https://brt-show.libsyn.com/ ‘Best Of' BRT Podcast: Click Here BRT Podcast on Google: Click Here BRT Podcast on Spotify: Click Here                    More Info: https://www.economicknight.com/podcast-brt-home/ KFNX Info: https://1100kfnx.com/weekend-featured-shows/   Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this program are those of the Hosts, Guests and Speakers, and do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of any entities they represent (or affiliates, members, managers, employees or partners), or any Station, Podcast Platform, Website or Social Media that this show may air on. 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Old Trading Methods are Out-Dated, Now there's Outcome Trading w/ Peter Harrigan - BRT S03 EP33 (132) 7-17-2022   Things We Learned This Week Democratizing expertise around trading derivatives thru new tools & software. Reengineering the derivatives market, so we do not need to rely anymore on failed experts w/ outdated methods & tech. New World: Outcome Trading™- Hedgers simply graphically draw a curve describing the monetary compensation they require in a trade if the price of an asset were to decline (or increase). Trading Tech is an upgrade to traditional Commodities markets that are restricted, that will be available to everyone worldwide to use Crypto Trading of BTC & Ethereum to start. Quick setup of trades, use Crypto wallet to secure. No margin Calls – fully collateralized trades, using Stablecoins with asset backing Much of the world does not have access to derivatives markets (no hedging on investments), Hedging platform for businesses in places without good financial markets.       Guest: Peter Harrigan – Co-Founder Outcome Trading https://www.linkedin.com/in/peterharrigan/ https://outcometrading.org/   Outcome Trading – old world: derivatives In today's world, risk transfer is achieved through derivatives, using highly specialized language, and opaque structures which pre-date modern information technology. Centralized financial institutions focus on high volume markets that ignore the long tail.   new world: outcome trading™ Hedgers simply draw a curve describing the monetary compensation they require if the price of an asset were to decline (or increase). Investors graphically describe the financial outcome they desire from price appreciation (or depreciation).   Democratizing expertise around derivatives through new tools and software. How failure by experts impacts us all Protecting oneself or one's business in high-volatility markets Reengineering the derivatives market, starting from a blank sheet of paper   Bio: Peter Harrigan   Peter is the Co-Founder of the game changing trading software, Outcome Trading.   Peter also has founded Grey Swan Digital which developed the technology behind PlastiCurv. PlastiCurv was developed to transform financial risks into opportunities - opportunities for return, diversification and social benefit. Peter's mission was to create an intuitive and visual platform that anyone can understand, re-engineering the $600T derivatives market and making its benefits available to anyone in the world.   Peter's long and successful career as a trader started when he developed a tradable arbitrage employed at the CME and CBOT. Peter later made markets in foreign exchange at Bank of America, currency options on the floor of the CME, and equity options on the floor of the Pacific Exchange. He also co-founded Sentient Technologies, a company developing commercial applications of a highly distributed evolutionary learning technology. After a successful exit from Sentient, Peter turned his attention to the crypto industry in 2014, attending the first ethereum meetups, & going on to participate in the Ethereum presale.     Notes: Arbitrage strategy in 1980's Call broker and put in order Market squeezed our strategy B of A, work in pit CME High Frequency Trading – Outcome trading – drag and drop method – draw curves to get outcome Costs / profit and losses Crypto and wallets needed No margin call – fully collateralized. Stablecoins with asset backing Trade setup is quick Crypto BTC and Ethereum In long run – add to new indexes Less liquid markets Probably no options on smaller crypto ETFs of BTC and ETH based on futures, hot costs – not a pure ETF Nick Carter – Stablecoins Tether held, Luna decreased folded Analogy of subprime loans with Luna Stablecoin collapse / Terra People have to keep learning lessons. DAI Stablecoin Hedging USDC on chain – Movement of money in developing world – i.e., Africa U.S. has financial markets and banks, not the case worldwide. Spoiled. Derivatives markets started in mid-west with commodities for futures. Pre-sell your products Mid-west didn't have NY financial markets. Real estate largest asset class, but not good derivatives market. Non-linear and customizable derivative Developing countries still using dollars – use derivatives to hedge BTC with a wallet. Platform for people with less financial infrastructure – Adoption – jumps curves, like cell phones. Hedging platform for businesses in places without good financial markets. Who is other side of the trade – to finalize trade – both sides put in AMM (Automated Market Maker) Counter party risk No margin calls Manage risk Leverage built Wrecked – 20 or 50:1 lev. Depends on instruments used Stocks – 2:1 Real estate – 20:1 Crypto? Series of call or put spreads to cap loss Inflection points in curve 4#'s – Collateral for trade Premium If goes up If goes down Power of visual Model it and believe will not happen Every market has a limit     Replay Clip from: Options vs Stocks & Trading vs Investing w Tom Sosnoff of tastytrade   Things We Learned This Week Implied Volatility & Time Decay – options begins with volatility, on a clock so Mechanics (forget mind set) on how to setup a trade is key tastytrade is a media network based on Math (Probability & Statistics - Look at the Math), trading & focus on markets  Limited Profitability & Unlimited Risk when you Sell Puts w/ 80% chance of success - Be a Seller of Options – let Market beat you, slight edge Trade Small, Trade Often - Law of Large Numbers w/ 45 DTE Strike Price of 1 SD – Exit or Roll at 21 DTE Options Trading Teaches Life Lessons – Important to: take risks, learn to take risks, make quick decisions, be decisive about those decisions.   Guests: Tom Sosnoff, founder & CEO of tastytrade https://www.tastytrade.com/ https://twitter.com/tastytrade   FULL SHOW: HERE     Tech Topic: https://brt-show.libsyn.com/category/Tech-Startup-VC-Cybersecurity-Energy-Science   Crypto / Blockchain Topic: https://brt-show.libsyn.com/category/Crypto-Bitcoin-Blockchain   ‘Best Of' Topic: https://brt-show.libsyn.com/category/Best+of+BRT   Investing Topic: https://brt-show.libsyn.com/category/Investing-Stocks-Bonds-Retirement   More 'Best of Investing': Here     Thanks for Listening. Please Subscribe to the BRT Podcast.      Business Roundtable with Matt Battaglia The show where Entrepreneurs, High Level Executives, Business Owners, and Investors come to share insight and ideas about the future of business. BRT 2.0 looks at the new trends in business, and how classic industries are evolving.  Common Topics Discussed: Business, Entrepreneurship, Investing, Stocks, Cannabis, Tech, Blockchain / Crypto, Real Estate, Legal, Sales, Charity, and more…  BRT Podcast Home Page: https://brt-show.libsyn.com/ ‘Best Of' BRT Podcast: Click Here BRT Podcast on Google: Click Here BRT Podcast on Spotify: Click Here                    More Info: https://www.economicknight.com/podcast-brt-home/ KFNX Info: https://1100kfnx.com/weekend-featured-shows/   Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this program are those of the Hosts, Guests and Speakers, and do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of any entities they represent (or affiliates, members, managers, employees or partners), or any Station, Podcast Platform, Website or Social Media that this show may air on. 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Today I'm excited to welcome the return of one of our veteran guests, the great and brilliant Dr. Babak Hodjat, VP of Evolutionary AI at Cognizant, one of the world's most intelligent enterprise IT integration & service firms. Babak has 20+ years of AI experience, founding his first AI startup in 1998 in the SF Bay area and later founding Sentient Technologies, which raised $174 million to innovate with AI in trading. In this episode, Babak shares best practices for pilot projects, to set expectations for enterprise implementations. Want to learn more about how to get started with AI in your organization? Check out Emerj's guide: emerj.com/beg1

Today we interview Babak Hodjat, VP of Evolutionary AI at Cognizant, one of world's largest IT integration & service firms. Babak has 20+ years of AI experience, starting his first AI startup in 1998 in the SF Bay area, and later founding Sentient Technologies which raised $174 million to innovate with AI in trading. In this episode, Babak says "AI should be disruptive.", and leaders should "go big". Want to learn more about how to make the business case for AI? Check out Emerj Plus: emerj.com/p1

Show Notes:In this episode, we talk with voice legend, Adam Cheyer. Adam was the co-founder of Siri, Viv Labs, Change.org, and Sentient Technologies.We first talk about Change.org, how and why it was founded, and why this platform is an enabler for the social justice movements of today.Adam talks about his early work at SRI and how this lead to his vision for what an assistant can be. We talk about how Adam took the purely academic work at SRI and brought it to the masses with SiriAdam gives us a history of Siri, from its founding, to venture capital, to launching an app and the fateful phone call from Steve Jobs which eventually lead to Apple acquiring Siri.Adam discusses leaving Apple to further his vision and founding Viv Labs. He discusses how Viv Labs technology was focused on going beyond Siri and opening up the assistant to 3rd party development. We talk about the unique Viv Labs AI which uses AI to dynamically generate programs for developers. We discuss how this can be opened up to democratize development and let anyone create a unique assistant experience.Adam talks about Samsung's acquisition of Viv Labs and the Samsung vision for what an assistant can be.Finally, we talk about where assistants are today and where they can go to start achieving and fulfilling Adam's vision.Links from the show:Siri - Back to the Future Talk - https://youtu.be/UBHgj9TuHXMOpen Agent Architecture - http://www.ai.sri.com/~oaa/Demo of Viv Labs Tech - https://youtu.be/MI07aeZqecoSRI International - https://www.sri.com/Siri - Demo of original: https://youtu.be/MpjpVAB06O4Sentient - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentient_TechnologiesChange.org - https://www.change.org/Viv Labs - http://viv.ai/Adam's Twitter: https://twitter.com/acheyerAdam's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamcheyer/All Bixby Developers Chat Episodes available at:bixbydev.buzzsprout.com/Guests: Adam CheyerAdam Cheyer is the Co-founder and VP Engineering at Viv Labs and a Vice President of R&D at Samsung. Adam co-founded Viv Labs, Change.org, Sentient and SiriHost:Roger Kibbe (@rogerkibbe) is a senior developer evangelist for Viv Labs/SamsungMore about BixbySamsung Bixby is a next-generation, AI platform that enables developers to build rich voice and conversational AI experiences for the Bixby Marketplace, and Bixby devices including phones, watches, televisions, smart appliances, and more.Bixby Developers Homepage - https://bixbydevelopers.com/Bixby Developers Github - https://github.com/bixbydevelopersBixby Developers YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/c/bixbydevelopersBixby Developers Twitter - twitter.com/BixbyDevelopersBixby Developers Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/BixbyDevelopers/Bixby Developer News/Blogs - https://bixby.developer.samsung.com/Support the show (https://www.bixbydevelopers.com)

Tyler Foster is the Vice President of Engineering for Sentient Technologies. As both a senior individual contributor and executive, Tyler has spent more than 18 years delivering technical solutions to the worlds hardest problems.Tyler’s past-experience includes leading firmware and control system development for subglacial lake exploration ROVs deployed in Antarctica with the MSLED / Wissard project, front-end platform architecture and service design at Apollo Group, one of the world’s largest private education companies, and distributed systems deployed by many Fortune 500 companies to solve their most complex data problems at Cloudera. Most recently Tyler led a cloud infrastructure startup with operations in the US, UK, and Asia. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Artificial intelligence plays a role in the future of retail in terms of a deeper understanding of customers going beyond intuition. This week, we speak with Pedro Alves, CEO of a company called Ople, based in San Francisco. Alves was previously the Head of Data Science at a number of companies in addition to being Director of Data Science at Sentient Technologies, one of the best known AI firms in the Bay Area. Sentient has raised upwards of $200 million. We talk with Pedro about the future of retail, the future of understanding customers with artificial intelligence. Essentially asking under what circumstances would a retailer need to go beyond intuition in order to inform their understanding and their ability to influence the actions of their customers or their users. In addition to that, Alves talks with us about what has to happen to AI as a technology to become more accessible and within reach of existing enterprises. Knowing now all the points of friction for bringing AI into an existing business, he talks about the transition points that he thinks are going to have to happen over the course of the years ahead in order to make these technologies more accessible to companies.

AWS Lambda enables you to run code without provisioning or managing servers in an AWS Region. Lambda@Edge provides the same benefits, but runs closer to your end users, enabling you to assemble and deliver content, on-demand, to create low-latency web experiences. Come and join us for examples of how customers can move significant workloads they previously managed with server fleets to truly serverless website backends. Sentient Technologies, an artificial intelligence technology company, will share how they use Lambda@Edge for solving various use cases such as leveraging AI to improve customer engagement and uplift website conversions, and many more.

We are super pleased to announce the Growth Mindset Podcast is a one year old! Sam takes a look back across the year and showcases some of the absolute best stories and lessons from the podcast. A great episode if you are looking for where to start and to give you an idea of the different sorts of guests we have on the show. We hear from serial entrepreneurs to a real-life hitman about their stories starting businesses, amazing acts of kindness and what happens when you get pushed to the edge. GUESTS IN THE EPISODE TOMIWA ADEY A serial entrepreneur and digital nomad and old time friend. This was the first episode of the podcast and still a classic. 02 - Finding Your Hustle - Tomiwa Adey (https://growthmindset.fireside.fm/2017-tomiwa-adey) NICK MILLER CEO of Buzzhire and three Rocket internet startups as well as plenty of other hustles. A lifetime of entrepreneurship has made Nick into a gold-mine of information. A must listen to any aspiring entrepreneur, especially someone considering raising finance 08 - Raising Finance and CEO Lessons - Nick Miller (https://growthmindset.fireside.fm/2017-nick-miller) FELIX CHANDLER A nomad, yoga teacher and opportunistic entrepreneur. Felix is a great pracitioner of the 4 Hour Work Week book and used it to work remotely around the world before settling into running a business teaching kids chess. 15 - Living the 4-Hour-Work-Week - Felix Chandler (https://growthmindset.fireside.fm/2018-felix-chandler-4hour) ANTOINE BLONDEAU Antoine is the inventor of Siri and the Cofounder of Sentient Technologies a billion dollar AI business doing some amazing stuff. He has an incredible life story and great advice on how to make the most of opportunities. 18 - Sentient - The World’s Most Powerful Distributed AI - Antoine Blondeau (https://growthmindset.fireside.fm/2018-antoine-blondeau) ANONYMOUS GUEST - HITMAN Amazingly I managed to get hold of a real-life hitman and find out his story that lead to him living a life where he kills people for his profession. IT is a tragic and slightly disturbing episode at the same time as being one of the most insightful moments of my life. 30 - My Conversation with a Hitman - Sam Harris (https://growthmindset.fireside.fm/2018-sam-harris-hitman) ANONYMOUS GUEST - HACKER I interviewed a hacker who has done some very dangerous and high profile hacks before turning to a more ethical life of helping secure businesses from hackers. He tells some amazing stories as well as providing incredibly useful information in how to protect yourself online. 29 - Stealing Bitcoins and Hacking World Banks - Anonymous (https://growthmindset.fireside.fm/2018-anonymous) VIKTOR NEBAHAJ - FREETRADE.IO Viktor is the Head of Growth for FreeTrade.io. I interviewed him and the CEO Adam Dodds to talk all things tech startup and investing as they launch their new trading platform to provide free trading for UK investors. He also treats to some golden life advice. 19 - Launching a Trading Platform - Freetrade (https://growthmindset.fireside.fm/2018-adam-viktor) DEAN HUME Dean Hume was the CTO of Settled.co.uk and author of ‘How to Grow StartUp Teams’ and three software books. An overwhelmingly sound bloke who tells it like it is and has a great story. 03 - Growing Startup Teams - Dean Hume (https://growthmindset.fireside.fm/2017-dean-hume) BEN MARSHALL Ben is a body builder, a model and a vegan! A pretty inspiring combination and he is certainly doing it in style. He gives great advice on training regimes, the world of modelling and being a vegan. A great episode for the health conscious or those wanting to know more about modelling. 24 - The Vegans are Taking Over - Ben Marshall (https://growthmindset.fireside.fm/2018-ben-marshall) ROB PRICE Rob is a Philosopher and English Teacher who was just a lot of fun to talk to. He has some great viewpoints on what things really are and could be likened to an English version of Jordan Peterson. 25 - What is the Point of Anything - Rob Price (https://growthmindset.fireside.fm/2018-rob-price) BOB ASIM Bob works in the Pharmaceutical industry and is quite easily the kindest human being I have ever met. His philosophies on life are not just amazingly kind but also completely genius for living a more satisfied and happy life yourself. Everyone should listen to this episode! 21 - The Simple Art of Happiness (https://growthmindset.fireside.fm/2018-bob-asim) Contact Us You can find out more about us and chat about anything you like Sam: Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/samjamsnaps/) Quora (https://www.quora.com/profile/Sam-Harris-58) Twitter (https://twitter.com/samharristweets) LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharris48/) Sam's blog - SamWebsterHarris.com (https://samwebsterharris.com/) Support the Show - Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/growthmindset) Subscribe! If you enjoyed the podcast please subscribe and rate it. And of course, share with your friends! Special Guest: Sam Harris.

FROM GROWING A BUSINESS IN STEALTH MODE TO CULTIVATING AN ATTITUDE OF SELF IMPROVEMENT Antoine created the technology behind Siri which he sold to Apple. He is currently the founder of Sentient Technologies, one of the worlds leading AI businesses. In his spare time he is a mentor at Zeroth AI where he is a source of brilliant advice. We cover some awesome topics about the future and the past, dealing with problems at a personnel level to threats facing the whole of humanity. Some huge idea’s that made my head spin at the time and lead to me conducting some very rapid reading up on latest tech idea's. Anyone interested in Tech and the future or just being a better person will learn plenty from Antoine. TIPS GROWTH MINDSET You can literally achieve seriously big goals if you work for them. grandfather carried on with his life with a positive attitude and went on to do incredible things without giving up. Running a business and not giving u on his personal hobbies. I don’t think i’ll ever forget the story of Antoine playing chess with him, that is truly incredible. CHALLENGE YOURSELF AND DON'T BE AFRAID TO TAKE A PAY CUT Open yourself to interesting challenges and learning experiences at every point. America vs. Japan —> choose japan. Taking the next job up the chain vs a step down in a new avenue where you can learn loads more. ASK CANDIDATES WHAT OTHERS THINK OF THEM You can get a lot more insight into how a person actually functions by asking what others think of them rather than just asking for their strengths and weaknesses. BOOKS A huge fan of history and reading real books. I would love a chance to look into his personal library. but for now we have these books from him as his must reads. Get any of the books free on audible (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Audible-Free-Trial-Digital-Membership/dp/B00OPA2XFG?tag=samharris48%E2%80%9321) LOST ILLUSIONS (LA COMÉDIE HUMAINE #38) - HONORÉ DE BALZAC (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lost-Illusions-Classics-Honore-Balzac/dp/0140442510/ref=sr_1_5?crid=29T01OXRDFX70&keywords=honore+de+balzac&qid=1580442932&s=books&sprefix=honore%2Caudible%2C375&sr=1-5) I’d never heard of this book but on investigation it sounds amazing. It seems to be considered one of the Great french classics that is taught in school but much more appreciated as an adult and I really can’t wait to read it. It seems to be a coming of age novel about a french man who moves to Paris to seek love and glory and i’m hoping to get insights on life and France all in a beautiful novel. MEMOIRS: A TWENTIETH CENTURY JOURNEY IN SCIENCE AND POLITICS - EDWARD TELLER AUTOBIOGRAPHY (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Memoirs-Twentieth-century-Journey-Politics-2001-11-26/dp/B01K0TNNJK/ref=sr_1_1?crid=22NC5EPOCPVK7&keywords=edward+teller&qid=1580443005&s=books&sprefix=edward+te%2Cstripbooks%2C456&sr=1-1) It covers the story behind the H-bomb as well as The entire path of edward teller leading up to and after it. He also recounts the effects had on him from his relationships with great minds like einstein, von neuman, borr and fermi. So another book I”m excited to read. NOTHING TO ENVY - BY BARBARA DEMICK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Nothing-Envy-Lives-North-Korea/dp/184708141X/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=nothing+to+envy&qid=1580443033&s=books&sr=1-1) This book had a huge effect on me really learning how an entire society can be controlled by their rulers and that it’s actually still going on today just made it feel all the more real and worrying. So a truly great book that covers the story of several families in North Korea from the end of the war up until today. Possibly the best book I read last year. Contact Us You can find out more about us and chat about anything you like Antoine: LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/antoineblondeau/) Sam: Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/samjamsnaps/) Quora (https://www.quora.com/profile/Sam-Harris-58) Twitter (https://twitter.com/samharristweets) LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharris48/) Sam's blog - SamWebsterHarris.com (https://samwebsterharris.com/) Support the Show - Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/growthmindset) Subscribe! If you enjoyed the podcast please subscribe and rate it. And of course, share with your friends! Special Guest: Antoine Blondeau.

Silicon Valley legend Babak Hodjat is the founder of the original Siri team and builds neural networks for thirty years. He is the CEO of Sentient Technologies. Babak has extremely interesting insights into what machines can do and what he thinks they will never be able to do. We also talk about topics like explainability and how artificial intelligence can optimize marketing and communication processes in new ways.

Silicon Valley legend Babak Hodjat is the founder of the original Siri team and builds neural networks for thirty years. He is the CEO of Sentient Technologies. Babak has extremely interesting insights into what machines can do and what he thinks they will never be able to do. We also talk about topics like explainability and how artificial intelligence can optimize marketing and communication processes in new ways.

Silicon Valley legend Babak Hodjat is the founder of the original Siri team and builds neural networks for thirty years. He is the CEO of Sentient Technologies. Babak has extremely interesting insights into what machines can do and what he thinks they will never be able to do. We also talk about topics like explainability and how artificial intelligence can optimize marketing and communication processes in new ways.

In this week’s episode, Kyle is joined by Risto Miikkulainen, a professor of computer science and neuroscience at the University of Texas at Austin. They talk about evolutionary computation, its applications in deep learning, and how it’s inspired by biology. They also discuss some of the things Sentient Technologies is working on in stock and finances, retail, e-commerce and web design, as well as the technology behind it-- evolutionary algorithms.

My guest this week is Risto Miikkulainen, professor of computer science at UT-Austin and vice president of Research at Sentient Technologies. Risto came locked and loaded to discuss a topic that we've received a ton of requests for -- evolutionary algorithms. During our talk we discuss some of the things Sentient is working on in the financial services and retail fields, and we dig into the technology behind it, evolutionary algorithms, which is also the focus of Risto’s research at UT. I really enjoyed this interview and learned a ton, and I’m sure you will too! Notes for this show can be found at twimlai.com/talk/47.

"AI Powered Investing" with Mike Kane of Hedgeable and Jeff Holman of Sentient Technologies. Moderated by Sinisa Babcic of Ernst & Young. Artificial intelligence has started making significant headway into financial services; at LendIt USA 2017 we hosted a fireside chat moderated by Ernst & Young that featured a leading AI powered hedge fund in Sentient Technologies and a private banking platform run by AI in Hedgeable; the panel discussed the current state of AI in financial services and whether or not it has become overhyped; they touched upon the uses of AI within their firms as well as within the broader market; panelists talked about ensuring you have the correct infrastructure when implementing AI, specifically since you cannot just bolt on this technology to any firm; they also discussed some of the lessons learned from the past few years like the power of APIs and high frequency trading; additionally they talked about AI as a cost saver for companies and the ability it has to transform the repeatable tasks; as more firms are beginning to incorporate this technology it is helpful to understand how to use it correctly and these panelists laid out some good examples.

If you have an iPhone, you know Adam Cheyer's work. He was the Co-Founder of Siri, Inc. He's now the Co-Founder and VP of Engineering at Viv Labs.Their mission is to: Radically simplify the world by providing an intelligent interface for everything.He's also one of the founders of Sentient Technologies, which was founded in 2007 and has generated over $143 million in funding since its inception.In this conversation, we talked about having a vision for what you prioritize most (he has goals for his self, for the world, and financially). He thinks "at scale." For example, Change.org was inspired by his "for the world” goal.We talked about the inception of Siri, and where machine learning is headed next, and debated if it's good or bad for the future.We also discussed how he creates and approaches seemingly insurmountable challenges and achieves them.Oh -- and Adam is an author of 60 publications and 26 patents.Also, there are so many pearls of wisdom that are shared in these conversations. If you're looking for bite-sized gems, download the podcast - Minutes on Mastery.

Jonathan Epstein. He’s the current senior VP for international at Sentient Technologies, the maker of Sentient Ascend, the first conversion optimization solution that is powered by evolutionary artificial intelligence. Epstein has been in many companies at the forefront of technology and media including GameSpot, which he’s the founding CEO, and Omek which was sold to Intel and GameSpy which was eventually sold to IGN.   Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Hire With Your Head What CEO do you follow? – Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos Favorite online tool? — BuiltWith and SimilarWeb How many hours of sleep do you get? — 5-6 If you could let your 20-year old self, know one thing, what would it be? – “I wished I had stepped on entrepreneurship early”   Time Stamped Show Notes: 01:22 – Nathan introduces Jon to the show 02:18 – Jon’s good exit range is from tens of millions to the hundreds of million dollars 02:39 – Jon helped the founding CEO of Gamespot turn it around 03:18 – Jon has worked in an actual gaming company 03:29 – Jon started at IDG as magazine publisher 03:49 – GameSpot was the first professional online review site for games 03:56 – GameSpy had an editorial element and Jon published some of its software 04:35 – GameSpot was launched in 1995 04:45 – Jon launched the magazine Digital News and Multimedia World 04:53 – Jon was working for IDG when he launched the magazines under their brand 05:28 – Jon had great partners when he started GameSpot 05:55 – The initial idea came from the 2 co-founders 06:20 – It was clear that the internet thing was happening 06:30 – The problem, then, was that the release of the magazine came out way too late for newly released game reviews 06:55 – Having the magazine online is a better way to update the gamers 07:13 – GameSpot took in external investors 07:34 – GameSpot was sold for stock in ZDNet 08:09 – Jon had an international role and wanted to gain experience in dealing with other countries 08:16 – ZDNet had joint ventures and Jon had been with them for a while 08:34 – Jon had invested from ZDNet to GameSpy 09:04 – Jon had 8% of GameSpy 09:28 – Jon joined GameSpy in September 2001 09:32 – GameSpy was sold in March 2004 10:01 – Jon made around $61M cash from GameSpy’s exit 10:21 – Jon stayed with IGN after the exit and stayed there for a while 10:30 – Jon joined Double Fusion, which is a venture-backed startup 10:55 – Sentient had been around for 9 years and was one of the best funded companies 11:21 – Jon fell in love with Sentient because of their goals 11:29 – Sentient was built with a powerful AI platform 11:34 – It focuses on AI at scale and is able to run AI problems across millions of GPUs 11:58 – Sentient does multiple types of AI 12:00 – One is deep learning or neuron-network which is used for handwriting, voice recognition and image analysis 12:12 – Another product of Sentient is the evolutionary computation which is an AI that mimics natural selection 12:38 – Sentient ran a hedge fund using their products 12:51 – The fund size is growing rapidly 13:14 – Big investors invest to hedge funds in order to achieve stable, good returns 14:16 – Sentient is a SaaS business disrupting the world of AB testing 14:48 – Using the evolutionary AI approach speeds up AB testing 15:41 – Sentient currently has 25 paying customers 15:52 – Average contract price is $3K-30K a month 16:12 – Zero customer churn 16:24 – CAC 16:52 – Sentient is also doing paid advertising 16:56 – Sentient attends conversion conferences where they spend $5K-10K for sponsorship 17:40 – Sentient has raised a total of $143M 17:52 – Sentient has around 110 employees 17:58 – There are still 15-20 open positions 18:24 – Sentient was founded in 2007 18:57 – “We think it’s too early to sell” 19:15 – Mark Cuban said that the first trillionaires will come from AI 20:35 – The Famous Five   3 Key Points: Never be scared about exits – it just means new doors are opening for you. Be in a company that you’re really interested in—where you can align yourself with their goals. Start as early as you can when it comes to entrepreneurship.   Resources Mentioned: The Top Inbox – The site Nathan uses to schedule emails to be sent later, set reminders in inbox, track opens, and follow-up with email sequences Organifi – The juice was Nathan’s life saver during his trip in Southeast Asia Klipfolio – Track your business performance across all departments for FREE Acuity Scheduling – Nathan uses Acuity to schedule his podcast interviews and appointments Host Gator– The site Nathan uses to buy his domain names and hosting for the cheapest price possible Audible– Nathan uses Audible when he’s driving from Austin to San Antonio (1.5-hour drive) to listen to audio books Freshbooks – Nathan doesn’t waste time so he uses Freshbooks to send out invoices and collect his money. Get your free month NOW Show Notes provided by Mallard Creatives

MIDS graduate Ronald Cordell delivered the student speech at the UC Berkeley School of Information’s January 2017 commencement ceremony. Ron completed his MIDS degree in summer 2016. Ron also holds an MBA from Georgia State University and currently serves as staff software engineer at Sentient Technologies, which focuses on breakthrough artificial intelligence products.

Jonathan Epstein, CMO of Sentient Technologies, joins us to talk about the advancements in Artificial Intelligence and how assistive marketing and merchandising is just the very beginning of AI for Commerce.

In this interview, Antoine Blondeau, CEO of Sentient Technologies, discusses World Class IT Principle One, People, and Principle Two, Infrastructure. Some of the topics discussed include: The state of the artificial intelligence industry and his work over the past fifteen years How Sentient Technologies has applied there work to the retail and online shopping industry How the technology maps out the process of interaction to create a better user experience The large amount of capital currently held by Sentient Technologies and his plans for those funds The war for talent in Silicon Valley The balance between innovation and safety within the artificial intelligence industry How he thinks about artificial intelligence in his daily life The strategic planning process, and what he sees coming in the next five to ten years Why he chose to pursue his career in the United States as opposed to Europe