How AI Happens

In recent years, the focus of AI developers has been to implement technologies that replace basic human labor. Talking to us today about why this is the wrong application for AI (right now), is Katya Klinova, the Head of AI, Labor, and the Economy at The Partnership on AI. Tune in to find out why replacing human labor doesn't benefit the whole of humanity, and what our focus should be instead.  We...

In this episode, we talk to Stefan Scherer (CTO of Embodied) about why he decided to focus on the more nuanced challenge of developing children’s social-emotional skills. Stefan takes us through how encouraging children to mentor Moxie (a friendly robot) through social interaction helps them develop their interpersonal relationships. We dive into the relevance of scripted versus unscripted convers...

Today we talk to Celtra Founder and CPO, Matevž Klanjšek, about how AI can be used to accelerate creativity, and what would happen if it eventually replaces humans in the creative space. We discuss the limitations of the tools currently available, why Matevž isn’t interested in teaching AI variance, and how humans and AI need to work together in advertising. Tune in to hear what the future of adve...

Joining us today is Dr. Bill Porto, Redpoint Senior Analytics Engineer and storied AI researcher, academic, and developer. Bill shares all his current projects,  including pattern recognition and optimization models, and he reveals what it was like to work with the father of Evolutionary Programming, Dr. Larry Fogel. We touch on a new definition for computational intelligence, and talk about where...

CEO Shahan Lilja joins to explain how Mavenoid is able to deploy custom chat bots in a matter of minutes, the processes by which these tools get better over time, and how the ability to automatically turn technical expertise into an algorithm that can be utilized at scale is amplifying human intelligence.  

Rob Carpenter is the founder and CEO of Valyant AI, which is on a journey to solve the complex problem of conversational AI in the food service industry. In today’s episode, Rob explains the three main components of AI speech processing (and the challenges that arise at each of these nodes), how conversational AI has the capacity to improve conditions for human workers in the food service industry...

Dr. John Kane, Head of Signal Processing & Machine Learning at Cogito, explains the challenges brought on by the oft-repeated truism "speech is more than text", and how Cogito addresses these challenges to deliver real-time conversational insight to their users. Later, John explains the holistic approach to ensuring machine learning technology is created in a bias-free environment.

Data & AI Solution Specialist for Microsoft, Priyanka Roy, explains how Design Thinking is a crucial approach in the development of any AI technology, and how it's proper utilization results in better products and more effective teams. Priyanka also outlines the key pillars of a successful data governance approach, and the utility of "thick" data.

Walmart's SVP of Global Technology Anshu Bhardwaj and VP of Emerging Technology Desirée Gosby join Sama CEO Wendy Gonzalez for a roundtable discussion about representation in AI, explainable & ethical AI, and how representative teams are a key way to reduce biases in AI technology.

Theresa Benson, Product Storyteller for InRule Technology, explains the opportunity of combining declarative AI with predictive AI, and how InRule Technology is using predictive AI to empower non AI experts to develop algorithms from their existing domain knowledge.

LeanTaas CEO Mohan Giridharadas explains how his team is solving the Supply & Demand challenge within healthcare, how the algorithms are stress tested in order to handle extreme edge cases, as well as how drift is defined, detected, and resolved in a customer-centric fashion.

Anna Susmelj explains her research at Facebook AI developing optimal drug combinations for the treatment of complex diseases, as well as her background in causality research. Anna's Facebook Research: AI predicts effective drug combinations to fight complex diseases faster

Laurence Moroney is an industry veteran who has authored several books on AI development, taught a series of AI/ML MooCs, and even advises British Parliament on their AI approach. His mission at google is to evangelize the opportunity of AI and work towards democratizing access to the development of this technology. Laurence joined the podcast to discuss the nature of AI hype cycles, how AI practi...

Kelvin Wursten, leader of PointClickCare's Data Science team, explains how they are utilizing AI to help solve complicated supply vs. demand calculations in hospital emergency departments, as well as the challenge of balancing building awesome technology while still prioritizing the user's needs.

Igor Susmelj, Co-Founder of Lightly.ai, explains how most companies don't have a problem of too little data, but rather of far too much irrelevant data. He details Lightly's approach of utilizing self-supervised learning to pare down massive data sets into something that can be useful to a supervised learning approach.

Hyperscience co-founder and CEO Peter Brodsky explains why standards are fundamentally at odds with innovation, and how making technology that is backwards compatible with reality is Hyperscience's approach. Key topics: The future of Human-in-the-loop processes Using synthetic data to train deep learning algorithms Why the solution to data entry automation will  prove to be the solution to automat...

Director of AI Research Ram explains how ManageEngine's tools predict anomalies, the long term utility of Human-in-the-Loop AI, and how they've used sentiment analysis & transfer learning to overcome a lack of data.

Gyant CEO & Co-Founder Stefan Behrens explains the challenges inherent in creating datasets for healthcare purposes, as well as the importance of building interpretability into their AI tools.

Sama CEO Wendy Gonzalez explains how the Sama Digital Basics program teaches AI skills to individuals in Africa's largest slum, and reflects on the findings of MIT's 6 year study measuring the program's effect. RCT Results from MIT: Evaluating the Impact of Sama’s Training and Job Programs

CTO George Corugedo explains how the  relationship between physics and math is a model for the relationship between business questions and artificial intelligence, as well as Redpoint Global's ensemble approach to optimization.

Adnan Khaleel, Sr. Director of Global Sales Strategy for HPC & AI at Dell, explains how companies are using HPC and containerization to scale their AI implementations, as well as how Dell parallelized a radiology algorithm, drastically improving both speed and accuracy. ChexNet Parallelization Study

How AI Happens is a podcast featuring experts and practitioners explaining their work at the cutting edge of Artificial Intelligence. Tune in to hear AI Researchers, Data Scientists, ML Engineers, and the leaders of today’s most exciting AI companies explain the newest and most challenging facets of their field. Powered by Sama.