Tech Seeking Human

Working from home, remote working, back to the city, back to the grind, hybrid, virtual, deep breaths people. The way we worked was defined in the industrial revolution, where it was deemed we should roll our sleeves up 40 hours a week, Monday to Friday. And whilst we humans have argued one way or another for 4 day weeks and working from home, it tended to be an exception rather than a norm. And i...

Fancy having a movie made about how you transformed the way sport was played. Ari Kaplan is the inspiration behind the movie Moneyball. Today Ari is an evangelist for a leading AI platform - DataRobot, and in this podcast he sits down to discuss; - The infamous story behind the analytics revolution he started in MBL. - How he became a critical decision maker in player recruitment, team tactics, an...

Libby Trickett is an Australian Swimming Champion. With 4 Olympic Gold Medals to her name, across 3 Olympic games, the last games in London in 2012, Libby is simply ‘elite’. But life after the pool wasn’t so easy on her. She has openly discussed her mental struggles in her transition from the pool to a working life, and again in this podcast, goes into quite a bit of detail on her struggles. This...

Every company is a software company. Every company needs to transform, to continuously innovate, drive efficiency blah blah blah blah. That's what you think when you think digital transformation right? blah blah. But Rich Nanda brings a fresh perspective because he is a believer in continuous change. He is a principle at Deloitte Consulting and the co-author of the "The Transformation Myth". I swo...

Why are we trying to fly to Mars, when outside our window there is an amazing ecosystem of everything that we know next to nothing about? What happens when you turn your most powerful machines and minds to understanding the genetic make up of everything? This conversation is, just like the study of our planet, will make you stare in amazement, laugh uncontrollably and sit in awe at what we have re...

Sean Plankey is a cybersecurity consultant working for Boston based AI firm DataRobot. In his past, he has worked under the Trump Administration as a cybersecurity expert, helping shape US foreign policy on both defensive and offensive cyber initiatives. Some of his policies formed in his time in government, exist to this day. In this podcast we delve into all forms of interesting commentary inclu...

t’s David vs Goliath. They say take care to take on Goliath, but in the tech world that’s just what companies have been doing, differentiating their service offering through superior CX/UX, agile delivery and AI. This story is a cool one, where we are joined my Co-Managing Director Matt Heine. What did and didn’t surprise me, was that Matt naturally found himself talking about AI and Microservices...

Jana is the CEO of AI company Nara Logics. Having worked in software dev and AI for more years than she cares to admit, this is an extremely insightful conversation around the why behind AI, how to approach it, and the value that AI brings. Importantly the difference between explainability and understandability. Jana brings a simple methodology to a complex topic.

Gene Kim is the co-author of the Phoenix Project and the Unicorn Project. Anyone involved in software development has read his books, or have heard him speak. Those that haven't, probably haven't fully appreciated the effort it takes to ship quality software that we use everyday. In this podcast Gene talks about the evolution of DevOps, his favourite inspirations, how enterprises are evolving into...

Cade Metz is a New York Time Journalist and author of Genius Makers, which details the modern history of AI. This conversation covers a number of interesting topics; The ethical ideology of AI leaders including Google, Microsoft and Facebook. How they acquired AI, what they've done with it, what they might do with it. Why did everyone choose to sell their AI to Google? Ethics? Facebook - Ethical A...

Ellen Broad joins the Tech Seeking Human Podcast to talk about elements of her book "Made by Humans, the AI Condition", including the future of AI, the limitations of AI, bias, explainability, and electric vehicles that are not yet ready for Kangaroos. She is an advisor on the Australian Governments Data Advisory Council, hails from Perth, Western Australia, and despite nearly giving birth on the...

Your personal data is safe and sound. Protected by ethical companies with no real reason to sell it, manipulate it, and extract it. It's grouped into categories, for which ads are served, decisions are made, benefits are realized and options are offered. These companies are governed by ethical foundations, with principles around what should and shouldn't be done with your information. Leveraging A...

BBC Presenter, Podcaster, Author, Mathematician, and self confessed geek, Hannah Fry joins the podcast to talk about renovations, super computers, 5G connected cows and whether scientists (or farmers) can predict the sex of calves. Eventually we move onto serious topics topics like tracking cookies, facial recognition, and the future of AI. There just always seems to be a touch of class when Hanna...

The world knows Siri. It revolutionised how we interact with AI. Adam Cheyer is the co-founder of Siri. In this conversation, Adam shares his story on being approached by Steve Jobs, turning down and offer to join Apple, and eventually partnering to bring Siri to the world. He shares the origins of Siri, his vision for it, and more generally his thinking around open AI, and the future of AI. Many...

The future of life - AI could be the best thing or the worst thing that can happen to humanity. We have less than 50% probability of society surviving the next 50 years. Max Tegmark, a leading scientist and authority on AI, is adamant that the future we want, is the future we need to design. This isn't science fiction. Max founded the 'Future of Life Institute, which counts Elon Musk and Larry Pag...

“We’ve been told a lie.” Analysis of quantitive data will tell you what you already know. ‘Humanising data’, shifting from data collection to data understanding, and finding meaning, could make or break your company. Tricia Wang is a tech ethnographer, studying the behaviour of how people analyze data using technology, and in this podcast she shares some critical stories and best practic...