AI-podden

In this episode, Ather interviews Ramprakash Ramamoorthy, AI director at ManageEngine, who clarifies AI's role as a practical tool for pattern recognition and productivity in IT management, rather than a threat to human jobs. Ram discusses how ManageEngine has integrated AI across their product suite since 2011 to optimize IT operations and customer service, enabling proactive management decisions...

This week our guest host, Sifted's Mimi Billing and Ather discuss March's AI developments, including; Elon Musk has sued OpenAI, alleging violation of their nonprofit agreement through a Microsoft collaboration and deviation from open-source values. Concurrently, Musk introduced his open-source language model, GROK. Meanwhile, Anthropic's new AI, Cloud 3, reportedly surpasses ChatGPT and Google's...

This week our guest host, Sifted's Mimi Billing and Ather discuss February's AI developments, including OpenAI's new video tool, Sora, and its careful release strategy amidst ethical concerns. They explore the bias issues in Google's Gemini AI and contrast different AI philosophies, highlighting the debate between practical AI applications and the pursuit of genuine intelligence. The conversation...

Salman Avestimehr, USC professor and FedML co-founder, discusses AI, federated learning, and large language models. This week's topics include; AI definition, distributed and federated systems research, current challenges in generative AI, and trustworthiness in ML. Ather and Salman explore the future of accessible LLMs on personal devices, stress the importance of data, and discuss challenges lik...

In this episode of the AI Podcast, host Ather Gattami interviews Michal Sustr, co-founder of EquiLibre, a company that uses game theory and reinforcement learning for trading. Michal discusses the company's approach to trading, which is based on the idea that markets can be modelled as games. He explains that EquiLibre uses game theory to develop algorithms which can predict the behaviour of other...

Reinforcement learning is a type of machine learning that allows agents to learn by interacting with their environment. DeepMind researcher, David Abel is interested in using reinforcement learning to understand and build intelligent agents. One of the big questions in AI is what exactly "intelligence" is. Another big question is how to build intelligent agents that can reason and solve problems....

In this episode, Mimi and Ather delve into the impact of AI on elections and political communication as well as deepfakes and cybercrime. They address OpenAI's suspension of a developer for creating a politician-impersonating chatbot and an AI-generated robocall falsely imitating President Biden, demonstrating AI's potential misuse in politics. They also discuss McAfee's Project Mockingbird, an AI...

Edward Hu, Researcher at OpenAI, known for his invention of LoRA, a widely used machine learning method to fine-tune Large Language Models (LLMs) which he co-invented at Microsoft, shares his views on LoRa. Together with Ather he also discusses the development of GFlowNets as a promising tool for the development of reasoning and planning AI systems.  Don't forget to subscribe  and follow us on Lin...

Mimi Billing, European editor at Shifted and Ather highlight the latest news in AI in December and take a look back at 2023. In this episode, you will hear the latest on the release of Google DeepMind's Gemini in its Ultra, Pro, and Nano versions. How European Union policymakers have reached a provisional agreement on AI rules under the EU AI ACT. Additionally, the episode also cover developments...

Andy Karvonen, Prof. of Urban Design and Planning at Lund University talks of  the "Urban Brain", where we have some kind of smart city control room managing all aspects, from traffic to transportation and the management of facilities. Andy and Ather discuss the pros and cons of such a future, delving into the hard but important questions of privacy, surveillance, and so on. Andy and Ather also di...

Mika Gustafsson, Prof., and David Martinez, PhD student, both at Linköping University conduct research in Bioinformatics and precision medicine. They are exploring how to use complex patient data, both clinical and environmental (such as the lifestyle) to develop personalized treatments and to help understand diseases more in depth in order to take preventive measures. David and Mika explain why b...

Let's start with the company behind chatGPT, OpenAI. No one has missed the last couple of weeks' happenings at OpenAI, where the CEO and cofounder Sam Altman was fired on Friday the 17th and then on Monday evening reinstated as CEO. There have been a lot of rumours of why he was fired in the first place but I think we need to focus on something different. Usually, when you kick out your CEO and co...

Agnes Lindell, Head of Data Driven Business at Elvenite shares her experience in building data driven tools in the food industry, all from some of their most successful use cases to how they managed to do it. She mentioned the biggest challenges and how they managed to tackle them. A few examples include inventory optimization with over 10% of savings, to using AI to efficiently grow various types...

Kye Andersson, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at Canucci and also author of the recently published Sifted article on the technological, and especially AI gap, between the EU and the US and China. Kye argues that we have too much focus on regulations, especially on less likely scenarios, and we are making the innovation in the EU more difficult. He underlines the fact that there are more urge...

In this special episode of AI-podden, we have the pleasure to introduce Mimi Billing from Sifted who will be co-hosting AI-podden in this special format where we get updates of the recent AI developments. In this episode, we are discussing why Nvidia is using AI to train a robot how to spin a pen between its fingers, China's claim that they have built an LLM as good as Chat GPT4 and the newest dev...

The AI Swede of the year (2023) is Max Gordon, and he is also our (returning) guest in this episode of AI-podden! Max is an orthopedic surgeon and Associate professor at Karolinska Institute. Max Gordon shares with us his story of applying AI in Healthcare, how he got into it, where he started, and how he dealt with acquiring data, testing, building the user interface, and having a prototype trans...

Nastaran Baleng-Soultani, co-founder of Space Academy and RadCap Ventures shares with us her thoughts about the "AI hype" and the trends of AI startup investments. She describes the ultimate startup settings where she would be interested in investing. In particular, Nastaran expresses her interest in ideas where AI could help us solve climate challenges and be more sustainable, and she provides a...

Ather's guest in this episode is Eva Fors, Managing Director of Google Cloud Nordics. Eva and Ather discuss the most recent developments in the AI services provided by Google Cloud and how Google Cloud is feeling the sentiment around AI developments. Eva shares her thoughts on the balance between AI developments and regulations. She provides examples of what she sees as the biggest challenges with...

 Carl-Axel Wahlström, AI Artist and Creator of the AI fashion magazine Copy hares with us his experience and journey of using AI in his creative work, where he describes the AI tools he is using as "friends" that he enjoys working with. He tells us how he came about to create Copy and the journey that led him to create a magazine that is the first of its kind, with really fascinating images that l...

Lars Albertsson, founder of Scling and one of Scandinavia's most skilled data engineers, with experience from Google and Spotify shares his experience as a pioneer in the data engineering field, what his learnings has been, and the approach he takes in solving data architecture and engineering problems. Don't forget to subscribe  and follow us on Linkedin.

We have great pleasure of hosting Mert Pilanci, Professor at Stanford University. Mert Pilanci shares with us his recent research breakthroughs in machine learning. Mert and his group discovered that the training of shallow neural networks can be transformed into super-efficient algorithms that always achieve the best accuracy possible on the first shot. Read more: https://ai-podden.se/

We are excited to host Anders Arpteg this week, Data Science Director of the Swedish Security Service. Anders shares with us the very important role he and his team play in protecting Sweden from bad actors with the help of data and AI! Find more: https://ai-podden.se/

Our guest in this episode of AI-podden is Milan Kordestani, Entrepreneur, Investor, and Author. Milan, who is a serial entrepreneur, tells us about how a couple of his startups apply AI to help people prepare for interviews and provide training and mentorship to help them choose individualized career paths. Milan puts his investor hat on and explains his view on the investment market. He believes...

In this episode, we are hosting two great guests, Reggie Townsend, Vice President, Data Ethics Practice. Member of the Biden AI Advisory Committee, and Josefin Rosén, Head of AI at the SAS Institute. We discussed broadly how we can benefit from the technology of artificial intelligence and at the same time make sure that it's used for the benefit of mankind, as well as what measures we should take...

AI-podden with Stephanie Ora and Mark Thundercliffe, SAS Institute. Stephanie and Mark discuss the role of AI, data, and analytics for risk management. We get some examples of how AI could be used to mitigate risks such as fraud and money laundering in financial services. Read more: https://ai-podden.se/