AI Rising Podcast

Ever wondered how technology is transforming the traditional real estate landscape? Join Leslie D’Monte and Jayanth N Kolla in this riveting episode o 'Real Estate Innovators', where they delve into the disruptive world of NoBroker with its co-founder and CTO, Akhil Gupta. Discover how this innovative platform is shaking up the property market by eliminating middlemen and leveraging AI to streamli...

Ever wondered what's cooking behind the scenes of Google’s Gemini Project? In the newest episode of AI Rising, hosts Leslie D’Monte and Jayanth N Kolla discuss how this revolutionary multi-modal AI pushes the boundaries of innovation. They dive deep into the comparison of Gemini with OpenAI's GPT models, the underlying technology, the use of transformers, and the game-changing features that Gemini...

Join hosts Leslie D’Monte and Jayanth N Kolla as they celebrate ChatGPT's one-year milestone, reflecting on its astounding success, the shocking turn of events in November with Sam Altman’s firing and rehiring, the contradictory ways in which the board acted, Microsoft’s role in OpenAI and how all this brought to fore the debate on AI for profit vs responsible AI. Find out, how OpenAI has affe...

Dive into a captivating episode with podcast host, Leslie D’monte and guest, Andrew Ng as they addresses pressing questions surrounding the ever-evolving realm of artificial intelligence. Andrew provides insightful perspectives on the aftermath of the Sam Altman and OpenAI controversy, shedding light on its impact on the AI sector and investor sentiment. Tune in as Andrew Ng explores the nuanced c...

In the latest episode of AI Rising, our host is in conversation with Susanna Sjoberg, an Organizational Mental Health Expert and registered Counselor based in Geneva, Switzerland. With a background in business, Susanna is a subject matter expert in psychosocial safety and health, neuroscience, and workplace mental wellness. She's also a nervous system regulation specialist, a member of WHO&#39...

Step into an intimate conversation with hosts - Leslie D'Monte, and Jayanth N Kolla and their guest - Deepti Ahuja, Content Head at HT Smartcast and the producer of AI Rising. Join the exploration of how millennials like Deepti find the allure of the AI ecosystem non-threatening. Delve into discussions about AI-powered CEOs and the impact of deepfakes on mental health. Discover how humanity can co...

Join hosts Leslie and Jayanth in this episode of AI Rising as they dive into the AGI debate, exploring the perspectives of tech visionaries like Elon Musk, Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, Andrew Ng, and Yann LeCun. Discover the incident that sparked the debate and gain valuable insights into the real issues that matter to AI enthusiasts. From the US AI Executive Order to global AI policy debates,...

When it comes to the auto industry, the rest of the world is so advanced that cities like California are halting operations of self-driven level-5 cars whereas, India is still dealing with levels 2 & 3 of autonomous driving. Will India ever catch up and how will such technological adoption be different in our country? This is the note on which hosts, Leslie D’Monte and Jayanth N Kolla begin th...

In this episode of AI Rising, hosts Leslie D'monte and Jayanth N Kolla take a closer look at the Isreal-Palestine conflict, shining light on the formerly impenetrable Iron Dome, how Hamas managed to penetrate it using low-tech, and how this situation has led to funds drying up for the AI Industry. Referring to the 60-Minute interview with Geoffery Hinton, the godfather of Artificial intelligen...

‘Law is glacial. Nothing happens in a tearing hurry.’, says N.S. Nappinai - Advocate, Supreme Court and Founder, Cyber Saathi, So how does it keep up with the compound effects of AI and emerging technologies today? What could become of the class-action suit filed against OpenAI by Authors Guild & authors like John Grisham for plagiarism? How will the definitions of copyright, licensing, etc.,...

From FAANG to MATANA, one can't bet on any one company as the AI race carries on at a breakneck speed. But, why does Nvidia have the potential to win? Why are billion-dollar companies - like Tesla - facing FOMO? How are the Cloud Server companies getting the most out of VC investments in AI startups? Can LLMs truly be judged on the existing benchmarks or it's better to judge them by comput...

Dr. Raheel Sayeed is a physician of internal medicine and an informatics researcher focused on personalized digital health tools and their inherent role in clinical decision-making. Under the mentorship of Dr. Kenneth Mendl and Dr. Isaac Kohane, he did his post-doctoral at the Boston Children’s Hospital Computational Health Program and is currently a research scientist at the dept of Biomedical In...

Debjani Ghosh, President of nasscom has many firsts to her credit including being the 1st woman to head India's IT industry body to enable digital transformation in the country. She was facilitated by the president of India, in 2018, under the auspices of the First Ladies Program which honors exceptional women pioneers in their respective fields. And now Debjani is at the forefront of pushing...

Step into the future of investment with hosts, Leslie D'monte and Jayanth Kolla as they speak to Debashish Bose, partner at OAKS Asset Management and a core team member of India's 1st AI-based investment fund, IDFC Neo. Explore the dynamic intersection of artificial intelligence and the financial world as they delve deep into data mining, predictive modeling, and market sentiment analysis. Discove...

Explore the evolving landscape of multilingual AI models in India, where giants like Meta's Seamless M4T clash with startups like yellow.ai, all vying for dominance in translation and transcription. Discover whether they'll compete or collaborate. Dive into the aftermath of Samsung's ChatGPT ban, leading OpenAI to develop ChatGPT for enterprises, with Meta and Google hot on their heels...

If you have your eyes set on becoming an entrepreneur in the field of Artificial Intelligence, now is the time, and this is your blueprint. In this episode, host Leslie D'monte speaks to Aakrit Vaish, the co-founder and CEO of the conversational AI Startup, Haptik. Haptik is also famously curated as one of the Jio platforms owned by Mukesh Ambani. Together, Leslie and Aakrit decode the AI company...

In this episode, co-hosts Jayanth and Leslie compare notes on AI 1.0 vs AI 2.0 namely Generative AI. They talk about how Gen AI is already breaking the Guinness World Records by powering Formula E electric cars like GENBETA; how startups like Dukaan and Zerodha are already automating a significant part of their businesses; and what Jensen Huang - CEO of NVIDIA, Gartner Hype Cycles and World Econom...

What is AI? Why is it a concept and not a technology? Why does the vision of artificial intelligence sound apocalyptic? What do LK 99 superconductors have to do with AI? What are its different applications? What is AI 1.0 and what can it do well right now? How is AI now connected to human emotionality? What is the reason behind the success of Generative AI that Sam Altman's OpenAI brought to the f...