AI Business Podcast

Aflac CIO Shelia Anderson joins AI Business Editor Deborah Yao to talk about the insurer’s AI journey from idea to deployment and what the company learned along the way. She said AI models are not a ‘set it and forget it’ endeavor and explains Aflac’s thinking on generative AI.

Shutterstock's Chief Product Officer Meghan Schoen talks to Ben Wodecki about the company's generative AI strategy, why partnerships are critical at this stage of innovation and also shares what's to come.

John Humphrey, head of data platform product at Mailchimp, talks to AI Business Editor Deborah Yao about how marketers can use AI to improve their email marketing. He also discusses skills modern marketers need to have in the AI age.

David Joosten, president and CEO of Vodafone US, joins AI Business Editor Deborah Yao to talk about how AI is enhancing processes externally with customer relations and also internally, by improving the workflow for employees.

Peter Shen, head of digital health - North America for Siemens Healthineers, talks to Omdia analyst Andrew Brosnan about the impact of AI on the health care sector, including digital twins, regulation, clinician concerns, and more.

Luc Julia, Renault’s chief scientific officer and co-creator of Siri, speaks to AI Business Editor Deborah Yao to rectify misconceptions about AI. He explains why ChatGPT should not be used in search, debunks Elon Musk’s claims that fully autonomous driving is achievable and expounds why even quantum computing cannot usher in artificial general intelligence − because humanity just has a certain je...

In this episode, Mounia Lalmas-Roelleke, Spotify's senior director of research, speaks to AI Business Assistant Editor Ben Wodecki about how reinforcement learning powers user personalization experiences. She also explored the streaming platform's approach to generative AI, teasing what's to come, and offered advice on dealing with research setbacks.

Chintan Mehta, EVP and group CIO of digital innovation and strategy at Wells Fargo, joins AI Business Editor Deborah Yao to discuss successful use cases of AI in finance, as well as lessons learned from a failed AI project. Mehta shared why Wells Fargo chose Google's LaMDA over OpenAI's GPT and explains how large language models will transform the customer experience.

Laurence Lee, second permanent secretary of the U.K. Ministry of Defence, talks to AI Business Assistant Editor Ben Wodecki about the future of AI in warfare. Lee explains why warfighting without AI means risking the U.K.'s military edge and ability to keep its citizens safe. He also describes what it's like to work with allies and what the U.K. is doing to develop its AI workforce.

In this episode, Omdia analyst Mark Beccue speaks with AI Business Assistant Editor Ben Wodecki to unearth the rapid rise of generative AI. The pair talk about text-to-image use cases, the issues around copyright and if an AI could generate good disco music. 

Danny Lange, senior vice president of AI at Unity, tells AI Business Assistant Editor Ben Wodecki why Meta's view of the metaverse is not broad enough and how gaming can play several roles in virtual and immersive worlds. He also recounts his time at Uber and believes generative AI is crossing a chasm.

Petrina Kamya, head of AI platforms at Insilico Medicine, talks to Andrew Brosnan, principal analyst in AI and Applied Intelligence at Omdia, to take a deep dive into the intricacies of AI-powered drug discovery.

In this episode, Dave Kang, Capital One's senior vice president and head of data insights, speaks to AI Business Assistant Editor Ben Wodecki about responsible machine learning and data governance in the financial services industry.

Jasmeet Singh, global head of manufacturing at Infosys, speaks to AI Business Editor Deborah Yao about getting businesses prepared to enter the metaverse. His company has launched a metaverse foundry that will pull together the technology and skillsets to enable enterprises to capitalize on this new way of working.

Robert Nestor, U.S. CEO of SoftBank-backed Qraft, joins AI Business Editor Deborah Yao to talk about how AI is changing the wealth management industry. A former executive from Vanguard and BlackRock, he discusses how AI can substantially change the industry -- and help advisors especially during volatile markets.

AT&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 re...

In 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?

In 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 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.

The 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!

This 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...

This 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...

We 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,...

This 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 lin...

This 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...