The AI in Business Podcast
848 episodes - English - Latest episode: 11 days ago - ★★★★ - 101 ratingsThe AI in Business Podcast is for non-technical business leaders who need to find AI opportunities, align AI capabilities with strategy, and deliver ROI.
Each week, Emerj Artificial Intelligence Research CEO Daniel Faggella interviews top AI executives from Fortune 500 firms and unicorn startups - to uncover trends, use-cases, and best practices for practical AI adoption.
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Practical AI Procurement Advice - With Shane Zabel of Raytheon
January 14, 2020 15:00 - 19 minutes - 18.1 MBWe continue our theme this month on buying and procuring AI in the enterprise with this week's guest: Shane Zabel, Head of AI at Raytheon. Shane has seen plenty of internal AI applications and heard plenty of AI vendor pitches. As such, he has some simple and succinct advice for picking an AI vendor that he shares with us on this episode of AI in Industry. If you haven't already, download our free PDF guide: 5 Keys to Selecting the Right AI Vendor at emerj.com/buy1
How to Buy Enterprise AI the Right Way - With Pranay Agrawal of Fractal Analytics
January 07, 2020 18:11 - 24 minutes - 22.6 MBIt's our first AI in Industry episode of the decade. January's theme is on buying and procuring AI in the enterprise. Many of our readers at Emerj want to know which vendors and use-cases are legitimate and which are riding the hype. When it comes to picking an AI vendor, that knowledge is critical. Our guest this week is Pranay Agrawal, CEO of Fractal Analytics. Pranay shares some of his advice on the technical and cultural considerations for finding the right vendor partner. If you'...
Build a Data Moat Around Your AI Initiative - With Adam Oliner of Slack
December 31, 2019 16:49 - 23 minutes - 21.2 MBWe've touched on a lot of different kinds of expertise in this month-long series on using AI for competitive advantage. We end things by speaking with someone from the startup world: Adam Oliner, Head of Machine Learning at Slack. He speaks with us about building a data moat around your business when it comes to building AI solutions in-house. He puts the overall theme for leveraging AI for competitive advantage very succinctly. If you're just getting started with AI in your business, be ...
Developing a "Data Flywheel" for an AI Solution - With Ylan Kazi of UnitedHealth Group
December 24, 2019 17:33 - 23 minutes - 21.7 MBThis week, we speak with Ylan Kazi, VP of Data Science and Machine Learning at UnitedHealth Group. Ylan speaks with us about his take on how AI can be leveraged for competitive advantage, including how to build a "flywheel" of data and build on critical capabilities for adopting AI in the enterprise. If you're at an existing business and looking to get started with AI, be sure to download our free report, Beginning With AI, at emerj.com/beg1.
Leveraging AI's Strengths to Get an Edge in Business - With Abigail Hing Wen
December 17, 2019 19:58 - 22 minutes - 52.3 MBThis week, we speak with Abigail Hing Wen, Co-Chair of the Fairness, Transparency, and Accountability Expert Group, Machine Learning Transparency. We discuss which AI capabilities actually have the most traction in terms of the science. Most importantly, Abigail talks about how business leaders can wield these promising capabilities in their industries. If you're interested in getting started with AI capabilities, be sure to download ur free Beginning with AI report at emerj.com/beg1.
How to Identify Critical AI Decision-Points in Business - with Babak Hodjat of Cognizant
December 10, 2019 05:22 - 22 minutes - 20.4 MBThis week on AI in Industry we continue our theme of focusing on "The Competitive Advantage of AI." Babak Hodjat shares his insights about critical decision-points within a business, and how to leverage them to find high-ROI AI opportunities. Download our free PDF report titled "3 Ways to Discovery AI Trends in Any Sector": emerj.com/t3
Starting with AI the Right Way - With Monika Wilczak of EY
December 03, 2019 18:58 - 24 minutes - 22.2 MBThis month's theme is on using AI for a competitive advantage. We speak first with Monika Wilczak, Managing Director of AI at EY. Monika speaks to us about how large companies can start to get an edge over the competition by leveraging AI, emphasizing how companies can get started with gaining that advantage. If you're looking for areas of AI opportunity, be sure to download our "3 Ways to Discover AI Trends in Any Sector" report by going to emerj.com/t3.
The Phases of Building an AI Strategy - With Shane Zabel of Raytheon
November 26, 2019 20:11 - 21 minutes - 48.6 MBIt's the final week of our month-long series on planning your corporate AI strategy. This week we speak with Shane Zabel, Head of AI at Raytheon. Shane talks to us about the phases of building an AI strategy. What are the steps? He discusses the importance of finding an AI pioneer at a company who can build some initial ideas of what AI use-cases could be viable at the company. If you're in the process of analyzing AI use-cases for your company or clients, we created a guide for this exact...
Bonus Episode: The Critical AI Capabilities for Nontechnical Professionals - With Scott Nowson of PWC
November 21, 2019 20:08 - 26 minutes - 24.8 MBThis week, we speak with Scott Nowson, AI Lead at PWC Middle East, about the critical capabilities nontechnical business people need to understand to be able to advance their career and apply AI in their industry even if their company hasn't started with AI yet. Scott has an uncanny ability to convey business lessons on AI, and he's one of the few people who got our full Getting Started with AI report before today's formal launch. The report is finally open, and in it, listeners can find...
Assess Your Data to Find AI ROI Opportunity - With Adam Bonnifield of Airbus
November 19, 2019 18:00 - 24 minutes - 22.1 MBIn this episode, we speak with Adam Bonnifield, VP of AI at Airbus, one of the youngest executives at the firm. He talks about how to think about starting a corporate AI strategy, which for him entails beginning with the data assets. Adam thinks through how to take account of those assets and what kinds of people need to be part of the conversation to unlock the most fruitful AI applications in an established company.
Bonus Episode: How to Level Up Your AI Skill Set Without Learning to Code
November 14, 2019 19:02 - 20 minutes - 19.3 MBThis is a special bonus episode of AI in Industry about advancing your career in the era of AI, specifically for non-technical professionals. If you don't want to learn to code but still make yourself tremendously valuable in the era of AI, this episode is for you. We put together a report on this topic that will be coming out this month, all about getting started with AI in business for nontechnical professionals. Interested listeners can go to emerj.com/c1 to learn more. This week, we ...
A Pragmatists Approach to Finding AI Opportunities - With Carlos Escapa of Amazon Web Services
November 12, 2019 22:29 - 20 minutes - 18.8 MBThis week, we speak with Carlos Escapa, Global AI and ML Practice Leader for Amazon Web Services. Carlos speaks with us this week about starting an AI strategy with a more practical approach. Instead of thinking about how to radically reshape a key part of your business with AI or use AI for AI's sake, Carlos talks about instead thinking about where AI fits in with what your business is already doing. He provides some thought experiments to run through for thinking through this and how to ...
How to Begin Planning an AI Strategy - With Ian Wilson
November 05, 2019 19:10 - 28 minutes - 26.1 MBLast month, we focused on advancing your career in the age of AI, and this month we have a new theme: building your corporate AI strategy. At Emerj, much of our work in the public and private sector is in building an AI strategy and giving organizations data on where the ROI is in the AI world. This week, we speak with Ian Wilson, former Head of AI at HSBC and a research advisor for our banking work. He has rare experience applying AI strategically at one of the largest banks in the world,...
Three AI-Related Career Roles That Involve No Coding - With Emerj CEO Daniel Faggella
October 29, 2019 19:45 - 16 minutes - 15 MBThis is our final episode in our series on advancing your career in the era of AI this month. We had more Linkedin messages on this theme than any we've done before, and it got me excited to think about what we could do with this kind of series in the future. In this episode, we distill the insights from this month's series with insights from our broad catalog of interviews with AI-minded executives throughout the many years doing this podcast. We also cover three AI-related career roles...
Three AI-Related Career Roles That Involve No Coding - With Emerj CEO Daniel Faggella
October 29, 2019 19:45 - 16 minutes - 15 MBThis is our final episode in our series on advancing your career in the era of AI this month. We had more Linkedin messages on this theme than any we've done before, and it got me excited to think about what we could do with this kind of series in the future. In this episode, we distill the insights from this month's series with insights from our broad catalog of interviews with AI-minded executives throughout the many years doing this podcast. We also cover three AI-related career roles...
How to Think About and Lead AI Projects in Business - With Bret Greenstein of Cognizant
October 24, 2019 00:00 - 26 minutes - 24.1 MBWe continue our theme on advancing your career in the era of AI. This week, we speak with another AI lead from a gigantic IT services firm: Cognizant. Bret Greenstein is Head of AI at Cognizant, and he talks about what folks who think about AI in terms of strategic direction, project management, etc., have in common. Brett also discusses how non-technical folks can think about AI in order to take on leadership roles in AI projects, including having a firm understanding of what is possible ...
The Important Nontechnical Roles in Making AI Work in the Enterprise - With Sriram Ramanathan, CTO at Genpact
October 16, 2019 23:30 - 20 minutes - 47 MBThis week, we speak with Sriram Ramanathan, CTO at Genpact, about what the important non-technical roles exist for making AI work in the enterprise. Everything from project management to quality control and beyond, Sriram lists out areas where nontechnical experts play a critical role in bringing AI to life.
How to Turn an AI Interest Into a Career Path (Without Learning How to Code) - With Muriël Serrurier Schepper
October 09, 2019 00:07 - 21 minutes - 50 MBIf you're listening to this podcast, you at least have an interest in leveraging AI in the enterprise. But how do you take that interest and use it to move up in your company and advance your career? In this week's episode, we speak with Muriël Serrurier Schepper, who worked with AI at Rabobank and Shell managing advanced analytics projects. She now has her own AI consulting firm. Muriël speaks with us about her experience using her prior skillset to enter the world of AI, take the rei...
The Strengths Non-Technical Employees Bring to AI Projects - With Wijay Wijayakumaran of IBM
October 01, 2019 20:50 - 24 minutes - 23 MBIn October, we're focusing on how non-technical employees can still gain an edge in the era of AI even if they've never learned any code. I can't think of a better guest off the bat than our quest this week: Wijay Wijayakumaran, Chief Architect of Machine Learning and AI at IBM Australia. Wijay emphasizes how much stock he places in the critical importance of subject-matter experts and business leaders with domain knowledge. He also runs through possible career opportunities that non-tech...
AI's Strategic Value is the Anchor for ROI - With Daniel Faggella of Emerj
September 23, 2019 16:57 - 16 minutes - 15 MBThis is the final episode of our series on the ROI of AI. This week is the monthly analyst call, in which Emerj CEO Daniel Faggella breaks down some of the key themes from this month's interviews. In particular, Daniel puts a large emphasis on connecting the dots between near-term and long-term ROI. A lot of these themes and core questions are discussed and answered for clients of our AI Product Development Roadmap services.
A Framework for Long-Term and Near-Term AI ROI - With David Carmona of Microsoft
September 17, 2019 21:42 - 27 minutes - 25.5 MBThis week, we spoke with David Carmona, the GM of Artificial Intelligence at Microsoft, about his approach to AI ROI with the enterprise clients of Microsoft. The biggest takeaway from this episode comes right at the beginning. David talks about how to think about artificial intelligence ROI in the long-term and the near-term. That is to say, how are we going to see a relatively near-term return with AI that might be able to improve our condition while keeping in mind the longer-term disru...
Bonus Episode: Electrical Considerations for Artificial Intelligence Solutions - With Robert Gendron of Vicor
September 12, 2019 16:32 - 16 minutes - 15 MBIt's clear that there's a revolution in how artificial intelligence is done with neural networks as opposed to the old school systems of the '80s and the '90s. It's clear that hardware is beginning to evolve, and it's also quite clear that the way that we power these hardware systems is going to have to change. GPUs and AI hardware are tremendously power-intensive, and this week we speak with Robert Gendron of Vicor Corporation, a company focused on powering AI systems. Vicor is in partner...
Bonus Episode: Software Defined Compute - Possibilities and Advantages in Machine Learning - With Jonathan Ross, CEO and Founder at Groq
September 11, 2019 20:37 - 22 minutes - 21.1 MBThis week, we have a bonus episode. We spoke with Jonathan Ross, CEO and Founder of Groq, an AI hardware company, about software-defined computing. Groq is in partnership with the AI Hardware Summit happening in Mountain View, California on September 17 and 18. Software-defined computing is a way of thinking about how computing can be optimized for machine learning functions. Ross talks about some of the pros and cons of GPUs and where software-defined computing might make its way into...
Pitfalls to Avoid for the ROI of AI - With Dr. Charles Martin of Calculation Consulting
September 10, 2019 20:37 - 45 minutes - 41.8 MBThis week, we speak with Dr. Charles Martin of Calculation Consulting. He's a bit of a mentor of mine when it comes to AI knowledge. Charles speaks to us about the pitfalls in getting to ROI, particularly the cultural elements within enterprises that make it so hard to get a return from AI projects. Charles and I tend to go off in a variety of directions when we talk—he's an animated guy—so be prepared for that. But I think this is an awfully fun episode of the podcast. For more on the f...
Bonus Episode: Processing AI at the Edge - Use-Cases and AI Hardware Considerations - With Moe Tanabian of Microsoft
September 06, 2019 22:20 - 24 minutes - 23 MBWe have a bonus episode this week. We spoke to Moe Tanabian, General Manager of Intelligent Devices at Microsoft, who is speaking at the AI Hardware Summit in Mountain View, California on September 17 and 18. Tanabian discusses how to think about and reframe business problems to make them more accessible for AI, as well as AI at the edge, which involves doing AI processing on individual devices rather than in the cloud. The edge could open up new potential for business problems to be sol...
How to Measure the ROI of AI - With Sankar Narayanan of Fractal Analytics
September 03, 2019 14:13 - 28 minutes - 26.5 MBThis month, we focus on the ROI of AI, and our guest this week is Sankar Narayanan, Chief Practice Officer at Fractal Analytics, a global AI & Analytics firm headquartered in New York City. In this episode, Narayanan discusses how to measure the ROI of AI in ways that aren't just financial return. In addition, he provides examples from his hands-on experience implementing AI to provide business leaders with ways of thinking about success when it comes to AI projects. For more on measurin...
Getting Started with AI, Best-Practices - With Daniel Faggella of Emerj
August 29, 2019 21:20 - 22 minutes - 21.1 MBThis is the final episode in the month-long series on getting started with AI. In this episode, Emerj CEO Daniel Faggella breaks down the key insights from all four of this month's interviews, distilling them into core best-practices for getting started with artificial intelligence in business. In addition, Daniel discusses insights from our newest report: Getting Started with AI: Proven Best-Practices for AI Adoption
Misconceptions About AI Adoption, and How to Overcome Them - with Jan Kautz of NVIDIA
August 26, 2019 16:56 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MBThis week we interview Jan Kautz, Vice President of Learning and Perception Research at NVIDIA. Kautz talks about what people underestimate when they start an AI initiative. In addition, he emphasizes the critical value of data storage. Kautz dives into the importance of getting started with an AI project when you already have a barometer of success. Essentially, he talks about why it's important to select a first AI project in an area where you already have a way of measuring success. L...
Scaling AI Best-Practices in the Enterprise - with Jan Neumann of Comcast
August 20, 2019 20:00 - 34 minutes - 31.3 MBThis week, we speak with Jan Neumann, Senior Director of Applied AI Research at Comcast. Comcast is an enormous company; it has lots of data, lots of application areas for AI, and a lot of opportunity for confusion about AI. As such, Neumann speaks with us about scaling AI expertise in the enterprise. Neumann talks about a very strong distinction between software and AI and how to think through problems to determine whether or not it's a software problem or an AI problem. He also talks a...
Critical Questions to Ask Before Adopting Artificial Intelligence - With David Carmona of Microsoft
August 13, 2019 14:00 - 27 minutes - 25.7 MBThis week we speak with David Carmona, General Manager of AI at Microsoft. Carmona discusses how redefining a business process is a very different kind of AI adoption project than working on something that is horizontal. He discusses how to attack both of these scenarios, which to handle first, and why. In addition, Carmona talks about proprietary data and things that are close to your own IP. How do you take advantage of the real strategic data value within your own organization? How s...
Table Stakes AI Insights for the Enterprise - with Vlad Sejnoha of Glasswing Ventures
August 06, 2019 18:33 - 29 minutes - 26.8 MBIt's the first episode of the new style of AI in Industry, in which we spend a month at a time on a specific theme. This month is AI adoption. This week we speak with Vlad Sejnoha at Glasswing Ventures, an AI-focused VC firm. Sejnoha spent many years as the CTO at Nuance Communications. He talks to us about the table stakes AI insights the C-suite have to know and the dangers of relying entirely on consulting firms and vendor companies for these insights. In addition, Sejnoha discusses t...
Where AI is Driving Value in Insurance (and Where It's Not) - With Jerry Overton, Head of AI and Fellow at DXC Technology
August 02, 2019 14:59 - 29 minutes - 27.6 MBThis episode of the AI in industry podcast is all about where the rubber meets the road for AI in Insurance. We interview Jerry Overton, Head of AI and a Fellow at DXC Technology. He speaks to us about his experience implementing AI in insurance, about where there's real traction with AI in insurance, and where there's only hype. In particular, Overton discusses how anomaly detection technology is a natural fit for AI in the insurance sector. This is the last episode of its kind on AI in I...
What's the Difference Between Business Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence? - With Elif Tutuk, Senior Director at Qlik Research
July 25, 2019 19:45 - 21 minutes - 19.5 MBWhen we polled our audience about what they were interested in, the most selected response was "business intelligence." As a follow-up, we asked them what business intelligence meant to them, and their responses boiled down to anything about understanding the data businesses are already collecting. That kind of broad definition gets to the heart of the confusion surrounding the differences between business intelligence and artificial intelligence. The line is starting to get blurry. Our...
How Lenders Can Win More Business with Machine Learning
July 18, 2019 18:10 - 26 minutes - 24.6 MBThis week, we interview Jay Budzik, CTO at ZestFinance, about where AI applies to the world of auto-lending. We speak with Budzik about how underwriting and credit scoring is evolving as a result of advances in machine learning. In addition, we talk about how companies might solve the "black box" of machine learning in finance, particularly how ZestFinance is focusing on transparent models. The financial sector has to contend with complex regulations that prevent certain information from b...
China's AI Education Initiatives and What It Means for the US
July 12, 2019 14:00 - 21 minutes - 19.5 MBSome say that the competitive dynamics between the US and China in terms of AI are overblown, but there's a lot of truth to them. The US has access to more of the base research, but China can orchestrate various organizations (corporations, government bodies) and secure government funding. That said, very few people talk about K-12 education and what countries are doing to prepare their future workforce for AI. David Touretzky talks to us about just that. He is a research professor in the ...
How to Maximize ROI From AI in Finance: Banking, Investing, and Insurance
July 05, 2019 23:19 - 30 minutes - 28.3 MBWhile AI is certainly finding its footing in finance, we still find most of our subscribers are in a phase where they're trying to catch up in terms of data and data infrastructure and figure out where there's real traction with AI in finance: in banking, investing, or insurance. In this episode, we explore AI use-cases in a number of these areas of the financial industry. We interview Carlos Pazos and Anwar Ghauche at Spark Cognition about how to maximize a smaller data science team at a ...
How to Get Started With an Effective AI Strategy
June 28, 2019 19:27 - 1 hour - 57.5 MBBuilding an AI strategy - there's hardly anything more vague and open-ended than that. Business leaders have probably gotten the idea that they should develop one, but where should they start? That's what we talk about this week with Charles Martin, PhD. Martin talks about how to go about starting an AI strategy, what to avoid, and the challenges and struggles of applying AI at existing businesses. Also, Martin discusses what business leaders should ignore and what business leaders should ...
AI Business Strategy Basics - Critical Insights on AI Adoption
June 21, 2019 19:10 - 36 minutes - 33.7 MBOne of the best conversations I ever had on the topic of AI business strategy on the podcast was with the guest I've brought back this week: Madhu Shekar, Head of Digital Innovation for Amazon Internet Services in Bangalore. I wanted to do a deeper session with Madhu, who has seen a lot of companies go from no AI to beginning with AI, about where to start with AI adoption. How do companies build the expertise and experience with AI that lets them scale it to their organization? He also tal...
Five AI and Data Science Terms People Get Wrong
June 14, 2019 20:53 - 42 minutes - 39.1 MBAs it turns out, often times terms like predictive analytics and data science are used incorrectly. By the end of this podcast, you'll have greater clarity on five potentially vague AI and data science terms that are sometimes overused in conversations about AI in the enterprise. This week, I introduce you to German Sanches, who focused his PhD on NLP and has done a lot of AI work in business. He also helps us with our research projects. This episode is all about addressing use-cases in refe...
AI Enterprise Adoption Lessons From Building a National AI Strategy
June 06, 2019 22:47 - 31 minutes - 29 MBThis week, we interview Arnab Kumar, Founding Manager, Frontier Technologies for the NITI Aayog, the wing of the Indian government focused on rolling out AI into areas like healthcare and agriculture. In this episode, we talk about critical factors for applying AI at the national level, such as where to begin applying AI and what the low-hanging fruit is for gaining traction, leverage, and data assets that are going to transfer elsewhere. We also talk about how governments, much like ent...
Adopting AI at the Department of Homeland Security
May 31, 2019 16:05 - 18 minutes - 17.3 MBErin Knealy is the portfolio manager of the cybersecurity division of the Us Department of Homeland Security. She is the interface between the US government and the startup and tech ecosystems. We speak with her about transferable lessons from the AI use-cases in the public sector into the private sector. How does an existing organization pick the right first AI project? How should look through a lens of opportunity when it comes to AI? In this episode, we discuss how these lessons learned i...
How to get an ROI from AI Internet of Things Solutions
May 24, 2019 21:47 - 27 minutes - 25.4 MBIt's curious to see how much more there is of sensor tech and internet of things than there was 18 months ago. This week, we speak with Cormac Driver, PhD and Head of Product Engineering at Temboo, an IoT vendor. We talk about how to spot AI and IoT opportunity where sensors and equipment in the physical world can actually deliver ROI and drive value for an enterprise. In addition, Cormac discusses how to get the most out of an IoT project and what's involved in terms of data and infrastru...
AI Search Applications for Compliance, Contracts, and Human Resources
May 17, 2019 22:09 - 36 minutes - 33.4 MBThere's an entire artificial intelligence ecosystem for enterprise search. Most of this is in a purely digital world. Most vendors help with a layer of AI-enabled search that understands terms or phrases and is able to return the results or answers to questions that someone types in. But the problem is compounded when it comes to searching the physical world. That is the topic of this week's episode of AI in Industry. Our guest is Anke Conzelmann, Director of Product Management at Iron Mou...
What It Looks Like to Adopt AI for Competitive Advantage
May 10, 2019 21:15 - 24 minutes - 22.3 MBThe AI in Industry podcast is all about transferrable lessons. Today we speak with Andrew Byrnes, an investment director at Comet Labs in San Francisco about the competitive edge with AI. What does it look like when companies adopt AI in a way that gives them a competitive advantage? Byrnes breaks down the idea into two categories: automation and augmentation.
AI Integration Challenges in Manufacturing
May 07, 2019 18:23 - 28 minutes - 26.4 MBWe did a lot of focus on healthcare for the World Bank, and we presented a lot of that research in South Africa. When I was there, I interviewed DataProft cofounder Frans Cronje about the intersection of AI and manufacturing. We talk about what's possible with AI in manufacturing today and just how instrumented and challenging it is to add a layer of AI insight into a manufacturing environment. This is much harder than a lot of other domains where data is maybe more accessible, and in some...
Adopting AI into Healthcare Workflows
April 26, 2019 19:08 - 21 minutes - 19.7 MBThis week we speak with founder and CEO of Aidoc, Elad Walach, about the challenges of adopting AI to become part of a workflow in healthcare. We speak to him about what it is that makes it so challenging to get these tools to become part of the process of treating patients.
How Machines and Robots Learn - the Progression of AI
April 17, 2019 18:12 - 26 minutes - 24 MBThis week, we speak with arguably one of the best-known folks in the domain of neural networks: Jurgen Schmidhuber. He's working on a lot of different applications now in heavy industry, self-driving cars, and other spaces. We talk to him about the future of manufacturing and more broadly, how machines and robots learn. Schmidhuber uses the analogy of a baby learning about the world around it. He has a lot of interesting perspectives on how the general progression of making machines mor...
Ensuring a Positive Posthuman Transition - Perspectives from Jaan Tallin
April 11, 2019 22:22 - 23 minutes - 21.8 MBThe AI In Industry podcast is often conducted over Skype, and this week's guest happens to be one of its early developers. Jaan Tallinn is recognized as sort of one of the technical leads behind Skype as a platform. I met Jaan while we were both doing round table sessions at the World Government Summit, and in this episode, I talk to Tallinn about a topic that we often don't get to cover on the podcast: the consequences of artificial general intelligence. Where's this going to take humanity ...
How Business Leaders Should Think About AI Hardware
April 04, 2019 15:50 - 22 minutes - 20.8 MBIn this episode of the AI in Industry podcast, we speak with Marshall Choy, VP of Product at SambaNova, an AI hardware firm based in the Bay Area. SambaNova was founded by a number of Oracle and Sun Micro Systems alumni. We speak with Choy on two fundamental questions: How will business models fundamentally change with respect to new AI hardware capabilities? How can business leaders think about their AI hardware needs? SambaNova is one of many firms that's going to be advertising at the...
Training Self-Driving Cars in Simulations – The Future of Automotive
March 30, 2019 16:01 - 25 minutes - 23.4 MBDanny Lange heads up the AI efforts at Unity, one of the better-known firms in terms of simulations and computer graphics. They work in several different industries, but this week we speak mostly about automotive. This is a man that has been in the AI game since before it was cool, and now he is working on some cutting-edge projects with Unity. In this interview, we speak with Danny about where simulated environments are becoming valuable. We hear about simulations mostly in the context...