AI Business Podcast
103 episodes - English - Latest episode: 14 days ago -The AI Business Podcast features interviews and insights with some of the AI industry's biggest names. Presented by seasoned technology journalists, the podcast includes conversations regarding some of the most cutting-edge applications of artificial intelligence.
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AT&T's CDO: How democratizing AI can boost business value
October 12, 2022 11:00 - 26 minutes - 24.4 MBAT&T's chief data officer Andy Markus joins Deborah Yao to discuss how the telecom giant uses AI to manage petabytes of data across its global network and deliver key insights for business managers. He also talks about the rise of AT&T’s citizen data scientists as enabling the democratization of AI across the company, which can boost business value by 5x or more – and reveals whether he thinks AI can ever be sentient.
AT&T's CDO: How Democratizing AI Can Boost Business Value
October 12, 2022 11:00 - 26 minutes - 24.4 MBAT&T's chief data officer Andy Markus joins AI Business Editor Deborah Yao to discuss how the telecom giant uses AI to manage petabytes of data across its global network and deliver key insights for business managers. He also talks about the rise of AT&T’s citizen data scientists as enabling the democratization of AI across the company, which can boost business value by 5x or more – and reveals whether he thinks AI can ever be sentient.
McKinsey global semiconductors expert: When will the chip shortage end?
October 05, 2022 15:46 - 27 minutes - 25 MBIn this episode, Ondrej Burkacky, global co-lead of McKinsey's semiconductors practice, joins Ben Wodecki to discuss the ongoing chip shortage. Two years on is the end in sight? Is the crisis over? Will we ever be able to purchase a PlayStation 5?
McKinsey global chips expert: When will the semiconductor shortage end?
October 05, 2022 15:46 - 27 minutes - 25 MBIn this episode, Ondrej Burkacky, global co-lead of McKinsey's semiconductors practice, joins Ben Wodecki to discuss the ongoing chip shortage. Two years on is the end in sight? Is the crisis over? Will we ever be able to purchase a PlayStation 5?
McKinsey Global Chips Expert: When Will the Semiconductor Shortage End?
October 05, 2022 15:46 - 27 minutes - 25 MBIn this episode, Ondrej Burkacky, global co-lead of McKinsey's semiconductors practice, joins AI Business Assistant Editor Ben Wodecki to discuss the ongoing chip shortage. Two years on is the end in sight? Is the crisis over? Will we ever be able to purchase a PlayStation 5?
McKinsey global co-lead for semiconductors: Is the chip shortage end in sight?
October 05, 2022 15:46 - 27 minutes - 25 MBIn this episode, Ondrej Burkacky, global co-lead of McKinsey's semiconductors practice, joins Ben Wodecki to discuss the ongoing chip shortage. Two years on is the end in sight? Is the crisis over? Will we ever be able to purchase a PlayStation 5?
McKinsey global co-lead for semiconductors talks chip shortage: Is the end in sight?
October 05, 2022 15:46 - 27 minutes - 25 MBIn this episode, Ondrej Burkacky, global co-lead of McKinsey's semiconductors practice, joins Ben Wodecki to discuss the ongoing chip shortage. Two years on is the end in sight? Is the crisis over? Will we ever be able to purchase a PlayStation 5?
Sony AI's executive director on robots that can beat gamers
September 28, 2022 06:35 - 29 minutes - 42.8 MBIn this episode, Peter Stone, executive director of Sony AI, joins Ben Wodecki to discuss this year's RoboCup and the AI that can beat you at Gran Turismo.
Sony AI's Executive Director on Robots That Can Beat Gamers
September 28, 2022 06:35 - 29 minutes - 42.8 MBIn this episode, Peter Stone, executive director of Sony AI, joins AI Business Assistant Editor Ben Wodecki to discuss this year's RoboCup and the AI that can beat you at Gran Turismo.
Dell UK's CTO on AI model accuracy and performance
September 28, 2022 06:30 - 49 minutes - 46.2 MBDell UK CTO Elliott Young talks to Deborah Yao about keeping AI models accurate by avoiding AI drift, what measures to put in place for proactive prevention and why avoiding it is key to AI performance. Also, he reveals what keeps him up at night.
Dell UK's CTO on AI Model Accuracy and Performance
September 28, 2022 06:30 - 49 minutes - 46.2 MBDell UK CTO Elliott Young talks to AI Business Editor Deborah Yao about keeping AI models accurate by avoiding AI drift, what measures to put in place for proactive prevention and why avoiding it is key to AI performance. Also, he reveals what keeps him up at night.
And we're back!
May 12, 2022 15:27 - 43 seconds - 893 KBThe AI Business Podcast returns - with a new lineup! AIB stalwart Ben Wodecki gets a new title and some new friends - visionary business and tech journalists Deborah Yao and Mukul Pandya join the pod's roster to bring you some insightful and engaging conversations about AI, machine learning, data, business intelligence and much, more more — new episodes coming every other week!
End of an era
November 11, 2021 19:59 - 42 minutes - 79.7 MBThis week, the editorial team shares the most profound things we have learned about AI over the past 37 episodes. The reason is simple: Tien is departing for pastures new, Max is making a lateral move to Data Center Knowledge, and Sebastian… Is doing Sebastian things. Which means this will be the last time the podcast will feature the current cast. Ben is not going anywhere, by the way; the podcast is in his hands, and you can look forward to many more episodes following a short break! I...
Meta morphosis
November 03, 2021 19:20 - 36 minutes - 68.1 MBThis week, we couldn’t resist talking about Meta Platforms Inc. – and all the dumb things Facebook has done before. We also look into carbon-neutral AI: Northern Europe might be a cold, dark and unforgiving place to live, but it’s a perfect location for hot and power-hungry data centers that run AI training workloads. We start with Meta – a new name for a holding company that owns Facebook, along with Instagram, WhatsApp, and a bunch of other tech subsidiaries. With its flagship platform ...
Shiny orbs for fun and profit
October 26, 2021 17:12 - 32 minutes - 60.6 MBWe delve into the irrational world of WorldCoin – the unlikely enterprise backed by child prodigy Sam Altman that wants your eyeballs. To scan them. Using a shiny metal orb. In exchange for some virtual currency. This is not an elaborate joke – investors have reportedly valued WorldCoin at $1 billion, and the eyeball harvesting operation is in full swing. There are 30 prototype orbs in the field, according to TechCrunch, scanning up to 700 eyeballs per week. They want thousands of orbs, and...
Facebook is not in trouble
October 13, 2021 17:59 - 47 minutes - 88.2 MBThis week, the editorial team at AI Business is looking at Facebook, suffering the fallout from both its massive service outage and the testimony of Frances Haugen before the US Congress, which gave us a glimpse of the dark science taking place inside the company’s software development labs. And it sure ain’t pretty. There’s a stunning lack of morals at the core of Facebook – these guys can be linked to destructive social trends just as surely as tobacco companies can be linked to lung can...
Winners don’t use cheats
October 05, 2021 17:21 - 31 minutes - 29.2 MBThis week, the editorial team at AI Business looks at the latest developments in video games – which are making more money than movies and music combined, but remain something of a second-class citizen of the entertainment industry. Machine learning is coming to video games, and while this brings plenty of positive developments, we are going to discuss something unpleasant: the treat it poses to competitive online multiplayer. With computer vision tools now easily accessible, a new generat...
The summer of tech
September 21, 2021 13:05 - 34 minutes - 63.7 MBThis week, the editorial team at AI Business looks at the most important stories of the summer – and attempts to predict which will make the biggest impact on the AI landscape. We start with the idea of a metaverse/omniverse that is gaining serious traction, with Nvidia now offering businesses tools to create detailed 3D copies of their real-world assets that operate based on real-world data. Virtualize all the things! Next on the agenda are Facebook’s smart glasses – produced in collabora...
Superpowers are gonna superpower
June 25, 2021 17:37 - 37 minutes - 70.9 MBThis week, we look at the technological race between the US and China, and its implications. The latest development in what is shaping up to be a proper, old-fashioned cold war is the US Innovation and Competition Act, which was passed by the senate earlier this month. The set of legal measures is clearly designed to combat China’s growing technological might, as well as addressing the ongoing global chip shortage. It includes increased funding for AI research, and a further $50 billion to...
People will get hurt, so who shall be held responsible?
June 08, 2021 15:50 - 31 minutes - 58.9 MBThis week, we discuss ethics, government regulation, and similarities between AI and cars in the 1910s with Natalia Modjeska, research director for AI and intelligent automation at analyst firm Omdia. Natalia joined Omdia just a few months ago, having spent years implementing and benchmarking AI and analytics projects across organizations like PwC and Info-Tech Research Group – you can find some of her observations on Towards Data Science. We start with ethics in AI – which is shaping up a...
Voice as a service
June 01, 2021 19:23 - 34 minutes - 63.9 MBThis week, we cover the chaotic developments around synthetic voices, their generation, and ownership. We start with the news about Marvel.ai, the new service from American AI vendor Veritone that promises to enable celebrities to monetize their voices. The company calls this Voice-as-a-Service, or VAAS. The main problem with synthetic voices is it’s currently challenging (well, pretty much impossible) to enforce copyright for an AI model based on voice recordings of a real person. Cue c...
The week of the robo-taxi
May 20, 2021 18:38 - 26 minutes - 49.4 MBWe talk about the rapid uptake of self-driving vehicles in China, the climate impact of video streaming, and the English town of Milton Keynes, which has emerged as one of the primary hubs for autonomous vehicle tech in the UK. All of this, and more, is discussed in What’s the News With Wodecki, a segment in which Ben takes us through the stories of the week, with the podcast team deciding whether – in hindsight – they were worthy of coverage. This is an editorial bootcamp, and there’s a ti...
The pipeline blues
May 17, 2021 18:01 - 18 minutes - 35.4 MBThis week, we share some thoughts on the ransomware attack against the Colonial Pipeline – which will be discussed for years to come as one of the first notable examples of a successful cyber attack against physical infrastructure. This is nightmare fuel for the CISO. This is not a story about AI – but it goes to show the dangers of indiscriminate data collection, and once again highlights the pitfalls of putting every device on the Internet. Digital transformation cannot be stopped! So th...
Robocops versus robo-chefs
May 11, 2021 12:06 - 29 minutes - 55.6 MBThis week, we mourn the death of the Digidog and descend into the greasy, fragrant world of robot-powered kitchens. Miso Robotics, the company responsible for Flippy, the burger-flipping robot, has launched a commercial service for restaurants that uses computer vision and AI to automatically identify and track ingredients, dishes and tasks. But would you pay more for robot-made food, or would you pay less? We start with the untimely demise of the Digidog, a version of the Boston Dynamics’...
Autonomous driving is hard
May 04, 2021 19:19 - 32 minutes - 60.9 MBThis week, we observe how lofty ambitions are crushed against the jagged rocks of reality: Lyft is selling Level 5, its self-driving car business, to Toyota, just a few months after Uber announced it would offload its autonomous vehicle lab to Aurora. Where does this leave the autonomous car dream? According to Sebastian, the reasons are likely financial, rather than technological: you can only be involved one loss-making, hyped-up enterprise at a time, and ride-hailing is yet to make any ...
Stuck in the middle with EU
April 26, 2021 17:37 - 31 minutes - 59.3 MBThis week on the AI Business podcast, we look at the draft European Regulation on artificial intelligence, a.k.a. the Artificial Intelligence Act. This long-expected piece of legislation will be the first attempt to regulate AI on a super-national level – but does it go far enough to meet the aim of stopping AI systems that pose a ‘clear threat’ to citizens’ rights and livelihoods? Is not just a draft, but a declaration of intent – the proposed policy offers a vision that’s very different ...
The battle for the soul of AI
April 20, 2021 12:21 - 30 minutes - 56.7 MBWe discuss the announcements from last week’s GPU Technology Conference, along with AI hardware news from elsewhere, and look at Microsoft’s proposed acquisition of language AI specialist Nuance for $16 billion – actually closer to $20bn once you account for debt. We start with our regular segment chronicling the revolution in hardware for AI – it’s Chip Wars! When Joe Biden is waving around silicon wafers, you know interesting things are going to happen. Nvidia is busy building its first ...
AI Business Podcast 25: The battle for the soul of AI
April 20, 2021 12:21 - 30 minutes - 56.7 MBWe discuss the announcements from last week’s GPU Technology Conference, along with AI hardware news from elsewhere, and look at Microsoft’s proposed acquisition of language AI specialist Nuance for $16 billion – actually closer to $20bn once you account for debt. We start with our regular segment chronicling the revolution in hardware for AI – it’s Chip Wars! When Joe Biden is waving around silicon wafers, you know interesting things are going to happen. Nvidia is busy building its first ...
The killer feature is killing
April 12, 2021 16:43 - 31 minutes - 59.1 MBThis week, we welcome our new reporter Ben Wodecki – and make him defend his favorite news stories of the week in a public forum. Because we’re nice like that. We also discuss Microsoft, after the company’s early bet on augmented reality finally paid off in a military hardware contract with the US Army worth up to $22 billion. A lot to unpack here. We start with the epic story of super-helmets for American super-soldiers. The US Army is going to have 120,000 of these, courtesy of Microsoft...
Where's Spot?
April 07, 2021 16:01 - 28 minutes - 52.8 MBThis week, we look at Boston Dynamics as it faces the dreary task of commercializing its incredible robot tech, and the amazing career of Eric Emerson Schmidt – who has just donated $150 million to fund a center dedicated to AI for biological research. We begin by the latest from Boston Dynamics: having recently charged ownership, the robotics wunderkinder have launched what could be considered their first true commercial product – Stretch the warehouse robot. Next we talk about a brand ne...
Intel goes large
March 29, 2021 19:07 - 31 minutes - 59.6 MBThis week, we talk massive shifts at at Intel, poke gentle fun at Peloton, and explore the not-so-wonderful world of robot poetry. Peloton has purchased three AI-powered startups, namely voice assistant developer Aiqudo, smartwatch company Atlas Wearables, and interactive workout mat startup Otari. But will it be enough to keep the company competitive? Can Peloton hang on to the market niche it created? Dramatic stuff.
Chips should work smarter, not harder
March 25, 2021 13:00 - 28 minutes - 51.7 MBWelcome to yet another episode of the AI Business podcast in which we discuss the chip shortage and new AI hardware with special guest Rodrigo Liang, co-founder and CEO of silicon design startup SambaNova. We start by talking about the ongoing chip supply crisis which has sent server component prices skyrocketing, and saw American auto-makers having to idle plants as tech-heavy cars have been stuck on production lines. Scaling chip production is an extremely capital-intensive process ...
Feelings and Thiel-ings
March 16, 2021 20:09 - 28 minutes - 53.1 MBWe return after a short break, to talk about empathy, advertising, and Palantir, an AI company that built a business worth $15 billion with 30 salespeople – now featuring in its very own drinking game! We begin by talking about Moods, a service from Vevo, the company that owns and manages most music videos on the Internet. Moods now uses AI to identify the tone and emotion of music in order to help advertisers more effectively target their campaigns – initial options include ‘fun,’ ‘heartfe...
The battle for a clean Internet
February 15, 2021 19:45 - 30 minutes - 56.4 MBThis week, we ask whether automated moderation tools can help recover the toxic wastelands of the Internet, and debut a new segment called ‘Fast & Autonomous.’ We look into the origins of Google’s Jigsaw, analyze some of the social implications of moderation tech, and remember how an AI-based system once tried its best to prevent Sebastian from joining ISIS. We also cover: The Iraq war! Virtual driving! Jared Cohen! Corporate culture! As always, you can find more stories about AI and busi...
The king is dead, long live the king
February 08, 2021 20:50 - 25 minutes - 48.9 MBWe talk Jeff Bezos and the Breakfast Octopus philosophy We talk about Jeffrey Preston Bezos – the man who has reshaped the world to an extent preciously reserved for empires and great military leaders. Bezos is leaving the CEO post at Amazon, the company he founded, and will instead become executive chairman. What better time to look back at his career, the importance of Amazon Web Services, and the potential impact of the new CEO, Andy Jassy, formerly in charge of AWS? We start with the...
Google, ethics, and engineers
February 04, 2021 09:32 - 31 minutes - 58.8 MBThis week, we talk about Google: one of the world’s largest IT companies is frequently in the news, and not always for the right reasons. We find out what happens behind the scenes from our guest Roland Szabo, a software engineer who started his career by developing machine learning services at Google, before striking out on his own as an ML consultant. Also in this episode: Reasons to like Google+! Unexpected benefits of GitHub! The horrors of Terms of Service!
Crimes in AI
January 26, 2021 09:24 - 26 minutes - 49.1 MBMachine learning has its sinners, and its saints... This week, we look at surprising crimes of machine learning experts, investigate the role of AI in manufacturing, and ask whether Pat Gelsinger can save Intel (from itself). We also mention: Inauguration! The new administration! Taiwan! Regulation!
Riding Into The Sunset
January 20, 2021 10:52 - 28 minutes - 52.9 MBA failed coup is a godsend to journalists: this week we discuss civil liberties, digital dissent, online publishing, and the surprising artificial intelligence legacy of Donald Trump. We also mention all the good stuff: Gab! Hate Mail! Deplatforming! Censorship! Alex Jones! Vint Cerf! (Even job openings at AI Business).
Using AI for financial planning and analysis
January 11, 2021 09:55 - 12 minutes - 23.8 MBThis week, we will look at the potential of artificial intelligence to revolutionize financial planning and analysis (FP&A) - the budgeting, forecasting and analytical processes that support an organization's financial health and business strategy. Guiding us on this journey is Amaresh Tripathy – senior vice president and Analytics Business Leader at Genpact, and expert on data science for enterprise applications.
Data for science, and the science of data
December 08, 2020 22:43 - 27 minutes - 51.4 MBThis week we look at the major scientific breakthrough achieved by DeepMind’s AlphaFold, consider some of the some of the first commercial use cases for neuromorphic computing, and learn the secrets of dataset creation with Aristotelis Kostopoulos, VP for AI product solutions at Lionbridge. Also in this episode: Zombies! Queen’s Gambit! Detecting COVID-19 by smell!
When robots get fired
November 24, 2020 16:47 - 26 minutes - 49.5 MBWelcome to another episode of the AI Business podcast, in which we anxiously await the news of a vaccine, and continue to slander robots in the workplace. We are cranky, but maybe that’s because the pubs in the UK are closed. And a robot once broke Sebastian’s arm, but that’s a story for another time... We also cover: Lockdown! Nice drugs! Retail therapy! Minimum wage! The gig economy!
AI and politics
November 13, 2020 09:05 - 25 minutes - 47.8 MBWelcome to another episode of the AI Business podcast, in which we are not going to talk about the US election. But we are going to discuss the accuracy of the polls, the power of advertising, and QAnon. Meanwhile, in our ongoing Chip Wars segment, we talk about the recently announced mega-deal in which AMD is buying FPGA chip designer Xilinx, bringing its decades-old rivalry with Intel to a brand new arena – since Intel owns Altera, the only other major FPGA vendor.
Unintended consequences of progress
November 02, 2020 14:37 - 26 minutes - 49.6 MBWelcome to another episode of the AI Business podcast, with your (almost) weekly dose of AI news and editorial chaos. This time, we discuss defense contractors, cyber security of chastity belts, and the challenge of keeping up with the robots in the workplace. And finally, we reveal our favorite depictions of AI in movies – the line-up includes War Games, Alien, and… Terminator: Salvation?
AI doesn’t get PTSD
October 08, 2020 15:08 - 25 minutes - 23.6 MBSome AI models are trained on great works of art. Others are trained on images of violence. If they were people, which one would you like to meet? Today we're talking about the different kinds of data that can be used to train an AI model. Covering the story of Facebook’s Red Team, tasked with hacking the company’s AI systems in order to make them more resilient, why we hope AI will take the jobs of content mods, and a positive story about Saint George on a Bike! PS: You might have noticed...
Back with a vengeance
September 21, 2020 16:00 - 26 minutes - 49.4 MBAfter a brief hiatus caused by a certain baby, Max, Tien and Sebastian are once again ready to share their cynical take on the lastest AI news. Including an essay by a robot, Cavanue – an ambitious organization hoping to build intelligent, connected roads for autonomous cars and two stories AI Summit London: Rolls-Royce (the engine people) giving away their ethics framework for AI; and GSK predicting a major genomic breakthrough within two years, driven by AI, and opening a new AI research ...
Schadenfreude
August 05, 2020 15:47 - 27 minutes - 25.6 MBThis week we're taking pleasure in misfortunes of others; discussing Intel’s technical difficulties, Elon Musk encroaching on our turf, and robot poetry. We start with Intel, which is having problems with the 7nm process that are causing delays across its lineup and could put an end to a long tradition of self-reliance in silicon printing. Then Elon Musk we don’t like, for a whole assortment of business-related reasons. Last week, the living legend made some dubious claims about AI – likel...
Burgers, Chips, and Virtual Girlfriends
July 23, 2020 16:07 - 28 minutes - 52.6 MBThis week's episode looks at robot workers, the reasons why Nvidia is worth the big bucks, and virtual personalities in China. Helping us on this mission is special guest Tate Cantrell, CTO at Verne Global, an expert on data centers, HPC, renewable energy, and all matters related to Iceland.
AI in Space
July 08, 2020 14:07 - 30 minutes - 57.8 MBThis week we discuss AI in space, spacesuits, Amazon ASS, and space as a billionaire hobby. It used to be the US versus USSR, now it’s Musk versus Bezos - we know who’s got the most phallic rockets. And for the first time ever, the podcast features “A machine says whaaaat?!” - our very own game show where Max and Seb go head-to-head, trying to guess whether a quote belongs to a human, or an AI system. Find out whether we can tell the difference between InspoiroBot and Adolph Hitler. We als...
Surveillance and Protest: Part 2 (Education and Governance)
July 01, 2020 16:09 - 11 minutes - 10.9 MBIn the second part of this episode, the AI Business editorial team talks to Katie King, CEO of AI in Business; founder and MD of Zoodikers Consulting; and member of the UK’s All-Party Parliamentary Group Taskforce on AI. We chat about educating the next generation of AI professionals, artificial intelligence through the eyes of politicians, the impact of Brexit, and the importance of international partnerships on AI. We also find out what the House of Lords, the second chamber of UK Parlia...
Surveillance and Protest: Part 1
June 24, 2020 17:51 - 23 minutes - 43.3 MBThis week, we focus on facial recognition. The AI Business team takes a look at the embodiment of futuristic evil that is Clearview AI, and the efforts by companies like Microsoft, Amazon and IBM to limit the sales of facial recognition to police – at least for a while. Remember Enemy of the State, the 1998 film with Will Smith? They built that space camera. They named it Gorgon Stare, and it’s out there, somewhere, hovering above our heads. With a 40 gigapixel camera. And it’s now startin...