Applied AI Pod
35 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 years ago -Real AI talks with real people. Startup founders, startup engineers, AI community leaders, research scientists, innovation leaders, product builders, passionate AI practitioners - we talk to everyone! Grab a rounded perspective on how AI is used, tradeoffs for specific AI tools or methods, challenges in the space of AI technologies, and its future.
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AI for Real Estate Customer Goals, E33
February 14, 2022 11:45 - 25 minutes - 23.8 MBEpisode highlights: 01:00 - Conversational AI for the future of marketing and sales, focus on the real estate industry. 04:00 - How Structurely works and what it solves. 06:50 - Benefits to businesses utilizing AI within their companies. 10:55 - The future of real estate by use of machine learning. 16:10 - Creating a more promising future for AI as a tool for positive outcomes. E.g. Zillow. 23:00 - Conversational AI's next big challenges. References: Nate's LinkedIn profile Nate's T...
Scalable Reliance on AI for e-Invoicing, and AI Principles, E32
December 27, 2021 01:59 - 47 minutes - 43.7 MB02:00 - Ada's performance, stories and metrics around. Size of the impact AI has in this space, as covered by Tradeshift. 05:35 - Working with AI/ML teams. 14:40 - Assessing how much data is needed for an AI project. 18:45 - Data risks. 24:25 - Is Agile good for AI teams? 27:30 - How much does UX matter in e-Invoicing and ML/Data projects? 36:35 - How can projects get derailed or fail? What should we watch out for. 40:05 - Funny fails. 41:50 - AI principles. References: Lloyd's Li...
Voice AI from the space of VoiceSearch and VoiceServices, E31
November 16, 2021 05:25 - 49 minutes - 45.4 MB02:35 - Why hasn’t voice AI taken off already? 22:50 - Can we fulfil an end to end new purchase naturally? 32:20 - How can we resolve the disambiguation problem in NLU? 37:20 - Context and memory perspectives. 43:20 - How do we make conversations natural? References: Dustin's VUX World Podcast Dustin's Linkedin profile Hannes' LinkedIn profile Speechly's Twitter profile Speechly product search and checkout demo Speechly's Interspeech Research Paper 2021
NLP, Speech Tech, Transformer Models, w/ Marc von Wyl, Algolia, E30
October 22, 2021 15:41 - 56 minutes - 51.6 MB01:15 - How does NLP work? 04:05 - How do Transformer-based NLP models work? 08:20 - How to look at unstructured data to take advantage of it more. 12:00 - How to leverage ML to bring more to unstructured data? 15:25 - Approach for low resources languages. 23:25 - Word embeddings for common reasoning needs. 26:55 - Techniques to follow to improve error and ambiguity in training data or for a model in general. 30:10 - Are GPTs leading effort in the field in a wrong direction? 34:15 -...
AI/ML Projects, Methodologies, Best Practices, E29
October 05, 2021 06:15 - 54 minutes - 49.7 MB12:50 - Is the Turing test still relevant? 21:30 - Why it's important to use methodologies in AI projects and what are some best practices out there fit for AI projects. 28:00 - Falsehoods of methodologies in AI projects. 35:00 - Is Agile a good framework for AI/ML projects/products? 40:10 - How can projects get derailed or fail if you don't have a plan in place. 44:20 - The best compliment one can get after building an AI project or system. 47:25 - Is DL the end of AI? References: ...
Developing Creativity with AI & DL for Sound & Audio, with Valerio Velardo, E28
July 29, 2021 03:45 - 57 minutes - 52.9 MB2:10 - Using AI to augment and reshape creativity in a modern world. Psychological creativity and story creativity - can an AI model help AI music artists, today, get off their creative blocks? 12:15 - Attempt to define ‘good’ music, using a cognitive music literature background. 17:00 - Are we better or worse off, for AI in audio/music? Is it sustainable for the effort input and cost, impact and efficiency output? 22:35 - ‘Deep Nostalgia” from myheritage initiative, and GPT-J - looking ...
Green AI: by and for AI, with Kordel France - AI startup founder, E27
June 30, 2021 13:36 - 46 minutes - 42.7 MB1:50 - Using AI for the environment 6:55 - AI spices for agriculture 12:15 - AI in outdoor uses 15:15 - Green AI in Seekar's work 22:15 - Training AI models for a green AI approach 27:10 - Seekar in the medical space, and covid19 opportunities 39:15 - NLP tradeoffs and takeaways 43:10 - Similarities in practicing jiu-jitsu and AI References: Building AI models to be greener, and Seekar's Research Gate paper. This paper gives more insight into how Seekar was able to compress a large...
Drive CX and Revenue with NLP in marketing and ecommerce, E26
March 18, 2021 09:47 - 44 minutes - 40.9 MB01:25 - Do NLP models need someone that is not completely monolingual? 05:20 - Types of NLP in marketing and/or e-commerce. 11:30 - Challenges in the e-commerce space: Behavioural data gathered by cookies has disappeared. 16:00 - Every 40 seconds, our attention breaks. Is that fact taken into account in NLP modeling for personalization? 18:20 - Models like GPT-3 open a whole new commercialization avenue in the marketing world, specifically for content creation. Impact of the wave. 21:...
Deep tech startups, VC investments, and deep problems, E25
March 11, 2021 11:04 - 1 hour - 59.8 MB01:35 - Why did you decide to continue bootstrapping and decided to not opt for an investment. 06:50 - In the age of the million dollar supremacy how much money is a VC ready to invest. 08:56 Open source AI, good or bad idea? - VC and deep tech founder perspective. 14:15 - What’s the ideal shareholder split? 20:40 - Should one opt for Europe instead of Silicon Valley to raise capital faster? 23:10 - Effects of the pandemic on the deep tech investment space. 29:10 - Do VCs run their du...
World’s #1 AI MOOC w/ creator Prof. Teemu Roos: AI Course, AI Perception, Finland, Education & Learning
February 18, 2021 11:04 - 44 minutes - 41 MB02:43 - Motivation behind building a scaled MOOC AI course 06:40 - Effort behind an AI course to educate 1% of EU citizens 10:45 - Finland's heritage in education, and AI takeaways for course takers 20:55 - AI Challenge, or how are companies joining the AI education movement 25:45 - Digital spending priority: digital skills & education OR upgrading our health systems - Opinion 30:13 - Feels of a creator after building a popular AI course 36:55 - Ethics of AI course, and Elements of AI...
World’s #1 AI MOOC w/ creator Prof. Teemu Roos: AI Course, AI Perception, Finland, Education & Learning, E24
February 18, 2021 11:04 - 44 minutes - 41 MB02:43 - Motivation behind building a scaled MOOC AI course 06:40 - Effort behind an AI course to educate 1% of EU citizens 10:45 - Finland's heritage in education, and AI takeaways for course takers 20:55 - AI Challenge, or how are companies joining the AI education movement 25:45 - Digital spending priority: digital skills & education OR upgrading our health systems - Opinion 30:13 - Feels of a creator after building a popular AI course 36:55 - Ethics of AI course, and Elements of AI...
AI in game development & UX for gamers, w/ Unity ML-Agents' PM, Jeffrey Shih, E23
February 02, 2021 11:11 - 41 minutes - 38 MB02:10 - Brief history of game development in relation to AI advancements 10:15 - Games driving advances in AI research: PR or reality? 15:50 - Latest AI technique popular in game development 20:55 - The role of Unity Game Simulation to reduce time & cost with games pre-launch testing 26:45 - What’s fancy in the games world 31:35 - Streaming a game vs. traditional edge processing, gamer’s lens 37:55 - What's next for games & AI References: Unity ML-Agents Toolkit GitHub Jeff's Twitt...
Game up: AI models, GPT, and Cyberpunk 2077, with former AI teacher, Virgil Ilian, E22
January 20, 2021 10:20 - 55 minutes - 50.6 MB2:00 - Hottest AI trends for 2021 5:35 - Open source for AI - paradigm shift 11:30 - AI model supremacy 21:10 - Authorship rights when AI contributes 31:00 - GPT encapsulating knowledge? 34:00 - Human consciousness replicable as computation 41:50 - Are we in a matrix? 42:30 - Cyberpunk 2077 50:50 - Can AI create emotion the way we cannot tell it is AI? Conversation references: Book: "You look like a thing and I love you" - Janelle Shane Book: "Shadows of the Mind", Roger Penrose ...
#BeAIStartup: WIYO - matches recommendation for professionals, E21
December 02, 2020 14:13 - 19 minutes - 17.4 MBWhy do you do what you do? Using big data and AI to connect big groups - how is that going and what are you current challenges? How does a customer journey usually go. Take the example of the BeAI community, what would the journey look for us? “Share your travel plans with your whole network or just a few selected friends and see if any of your plans match”, do you find it hard to resonate with people given the pandemic and limitation of travels? Have you pivoted on this USP? Reference ...
Product research teams, AI in Finance, and D&I with Wendy Tay - scientist-turned-PM @BorealisAI, E20
November 23, 2020 09:51 - 23 minutes - 21.5 MBNotes: The role of a PM in a research environment Recurring skills needed for an AI PM to have successful products built and good communication with both researchers and business types AI model governance and why is important in banking Where can AI help in the banking industry What is responsible AI Borealis and RBC initiatives to help with social good causes and women in AI Diversity and Inclusion - what it means and why it matters for product management Top things for a PM in a re...
#BeAIStartup: EVAAI - replicate personalities as AI assistants for mental health, E19
November 17, 2020 08:13 - 18 minutes - 16.6 MB5000+ likes on Facebook, that is a good crowd for a startup, how did you build this? Current tech stack and challenges. Current increased online consumption and trends versus your solution - how do you see everything evolving? What are the languages covered? Reference links: EVAAI Website EVAAI Facebook Page
#BeAIStartup: Factide - insights from dark and clear web, E18
November 16, 2020 08:35 - 15 minutes - 14.3 MBWhy do you do what you do? Are you a cybersec company? Current AI used. Problems addressed & industries targeted. AI regulations - where to stand. Reference links Factide Website Factide Facebook Page Factide LinkedIn Page Factide Twitter Page
#BeAIStartup: Emoface - help autistic spectrum w/ AI-driven emotional avatars, E17
November 09, 2020 14:13 - 15 minutes - 14.2 MBWhy do you do what you do? Where and what do you use AI for? How does it feel, for a computer science researcher, to build a research spin off startup in France? What do you struggle most with? Who are your customers and users? How does a customer journey feels like? Reference links: Emoface Website Sign up for beta
Accelerate Revenue, Positioning, and Growth, with Tudor Goicea | CRO @TypingDNA, E16
November 02, 2020 10:05 - 22 minutes - 20.6 MBNotes: Industries most interested during these times, and the ones taking a step back Road to product market fit Communicating with potential clients Sales & growth team profile
Reinforcement Learning, Intelligent vehicles & Acquiring Data, with Praveen Palanisamy - AI Engineer Microsoft AI + Research, E15
October 26, 2020 12:42 - 41 minutes - 38.1 MBNotes: Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL or DeepRL) applied to the automotive industry Simulation platforms and the role of simulators in training agents Obtaining data to prepare the autonomous vehicle Methods to evaluate robustness of the solution Deploying in real world Startups to use DL or be at the forefront of DL Techcrunch Disrupt Hackathon win & engineers at hackathons as a practice
#BeAI - Typing Biometrics, TypingDNA: hindsight CEO view with Raul Popa, E14
September 29, 2020 17:36 - 16 minutes - 14.9 MBWe discuss: Can twins have identical typing patterns? Advantages and opportunities offered from early beginnings in Oradea, Romania Nailing a direction The generalist role Mixing behavioural biometrics with the AI technology
#BeAI - AI Chatbots, Druid: Growth view with Raluca Tătărușanu, E13
September 29, 2020 17:35 - 16 minutes - 15.4 MBWe discuss: Skills salespeople need, in the presence of AI products Why Druid is relevant for the future How hard is to find a way to monetize Ownership of data and data responsabilities AI is getting ready for business, are businesses ready for AI? Apply to the #BeAI Pre-Accelerator: https://bucharest.ai/community/beai-pre-accelerator/
#BeAI - RPA Decacorn, UiPath: Policy & Regulations view with Margareta Chesaru, E12
September 29, 2020 17:34 - 16 minutes - 14.7 MBWe discuss: RPA's impact across cultures UiPath's agriculture sector use-case How can AI help the public and private sector Digital capacity brought by the RPA technology use EU-level support for startups and bureaucracy Read more on the main challenges and opportunities needed on the policy side to encourage adoption of AI across economies, in the Emerging Europe article Margareta recently published: https://emerging-europe.com/voices/the-rise-of-ai-and-ai-policies/ Apply to the #BeA...
AGI, ethical and epistemological challenges, Ep. 11
August 24, 2020 10:53 - 35 minutes - 32.4 MBDifference between AI and AGI. - 1:00 What will AGI solve. - 4:30 Problems with AI-research and how to fix them. - 8:35 Progress with truly intelligent machines, the evolution of creativity. - 14:10 Why aren't animals intelligent or conscious? - 17:45 reference to Lex Fridman & Roger Penrose podcast #85: Physics of Consciousness and the Infinite Universe How does evolution work and why does it matter for AGI? - 22:00 reference to Karl Popper's philosophy How did people evolve from...
AutoDrive, AI Ethics, Religion & AGI, with a Transylvanian Research Scientist, Ep. 10
June 26, 2020 10:01 - 49 minutes - 45.6 MBSelf-driving cars and the setup of an Auto-Drive project for a Dacia without technology built-in - a cost effective positioned car The use and role of Simulation data and techniques Vatican joining tech companies to build ethical AI Religion and tech (AI) AI Ethics Can AI be an Inventor? Can AI fill for patents? Exploring potential new applications of AI in real-world consumption Artificial General Intelligence algorithms exploration
CodvidHack Challenge, a Hackathon for Covid-19 Pandemic Solutions - The AI View, Ep. 9
May 11, 2020 12:59 - 16 minutes - 14.8 MB✓ Solutions of the teams mentored ✓ Technology focus ✓ Role of ML and DL during the pandemic ✓ Sourcing datasets ✓ Adversarial attacks in PoCs *Kiril's reference in the conversation, for the Secure and Explainable Machine Learning library, is for Battista Biggio & his work in the Security field for ML: https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.10013
CodvidHack Challenge, a Hackathon for Covid-19 Pandemic Solutions - The AI View
May 11, 2020 12:59 - 16 minutes - 14.8 MB✓ Solutions of the teams mentored ✓ Technology focus ✓ Role of ML and DL during the pandemic ✓ Sourcing datasets ✓ Adversarial attacks in PoCs *Kiril's reference in the conversation, for the Secure and Explainable Machine Learning library, is for Battista Biggio & his work in the Security field for ML: https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.10013
AI patents, Emotion Recognition, Affectiva, and Girl Decoded w/ Dr Rana el Kaliouby, Ep. 8
April 27, 2020 13:26 - 39 minutes - 36.6 MBTopics we discuss today: ✓ AI patents ✓ Emotion Recognition ✓ Affectiva’s 9M face videos global data set ✓ How this period of social distancing may account for an extra stress ‘bias’ in dealing with human emotions, and ✓ Girl Decoded - Rana’s recent book, on her remarkable life story in understanding this new technological frontier: machines with emotional intelligence
Deep Learning, NLP & AI Engineers w/ Pujaa Rajan, Ep. 7
April 13, 2020 15:55 - 26 minutes - 24.7 MBYou will find about: ✓ Contribution to covid19 datasets ✓ How can machines make meaning out of language ✓ Some metrics used to test an NLP model ✓ Deep Learning’s popularity ✓ Balancing quantity vs quality ✓ Relevant traits of people working in AI ✓ The next game or thing to beat a human at
AI for Business, Articulate an AI project, Ep. 6
March 23, 2020 17:27 - 47 minutes - 43.3 MBAlexandra Petrus does a deep-dive into connecting the dots between data, AI, and creating value for your business. You will be exposed to: ✓ How to use the 7 factors in the AI Canvas to gain clarity ✓ Learn about the 4 layers of an AI-first company ✓ Useful criteria to apply when selecting an AI project ✓ The 3 types of diligence that precede an AI business project ✓ How to strategically set up your first AI project
Psychology of AI - Philosophers Turn, Ep.5
February 27, 2020 08:25 - 23 minutes - 21.3 MBCan psychology tell you if something is right or wrong? How do we not lose control trusting providers and trusting technology? Let’s find out! This podcast was originally developed for Daimler Mobility Worldwide. It is used for an internal digital Learning platfrom developed by the Innovation, IT and HR Department. The main goal is to gain a basic understanding of digital transformation and to develop new leadership skills. Tune in and let’s walk together as the tone of the conversation move...
Championing AI Product Management, Ep. 4
February 17, 2020 11:40 - 35 minutes - 32.2 MBThere are around 13 millions product managers globally. And alone 5 millions in the US. As AI shifts to a general purpose technology, so will product managers. How do you handle failure when an AI model gets its prediction incorrect? How can PMs use AI as a tactic to solve problems? These are questions we ask an AI Product Manager. We talk solid data, model and problem understanding with Adnan Boz. Adnan is founder of the AI Product Institute in Silicon Valley, a Sr. Manager, AV AI Products @...
AI for Good through Collaboration, Ep. 3
February 10, 2020 08:52 - 43 minutes - 39.9 MBIn an inspiring talk, Rudradeb Mitra, founder of Omdena - global platform to build AI-based solutions to humanity's toughest problems - shares from the social problems worked on, his view of life and what his next book will be about. Omdena is also an Innovation Partner of the United Nations AI for Good Global Summit 2020, with over 700 AI enthusiasts (AI experts, engaged citizens, and aspiring data scientists from diverse backgrounds), from 70 countries that come together to solve social pro...
Ethical Tech Design for AI, Ep. 2
February 02, 2020 18:00 - 13 minutes - 9.02 MBData collection, privacy and ownership, unbiased train data and auditing algos. Ethics ties in everywhere and that’s why it’s always a good investment to make. In a lightning talk, Elizabeth M. Adams, a Race and Technology Stanford University Fellow and IEEE P70XX Series on AI Ethics board fellow, shares her views on ethical tech design.
Human-in-the-Loop ML to Tackle Cyberbullying, Ep.1
January 13, 2020 08:00 - 42 minutes - 29.4 MBOnline abuse is a rapidly growing problem. Using AI for social benefit is an opportunity to provide access to justice to all social media users who have been cyberbullied, harassed or otherwise offended online. Eikku Koponen is the AI Lead of SomeBuddy, a Finish startup using technology to enable access to justice for all social media users. We talk about Finland, Human-in-the-Loop ML models and cyberbullying.