The AI Artifacts Podcast

Researcher and Lanfrica founder Chris Emezue joins the season finale of the podcast to discuss the potential for AI to improve translation across low-resource languages — especially in Africa. Brian and Sarah talk about what’s next for the podcast, as well as where AI has been showing up in earnings reports for GAMMA companies over the past week. Listen for more on those stories and a content-them...

Sarah Jaquette Ray, a professor at Cal Poly Humboldt, joins Sarah and Brian to talk about dealing with anxiety. As the author of "A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet,” she discusses some takeaways from her work that can be useful in other contexts, including AI, where major changes are already in progress across industries and careers. In news, several follo...

Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Apple, and Microsoft each entered 2024 with their own AI strategies, strengths, and weaknesses. In this special episode, Brian and Sarah break down why each company is in a unique position and discuss which of the former GAFAM — now GAMMA (or GAMAM) — is in the strongest place. In news, attention turns to Samsung’s Galaxy S24 announcements, controversy about AI-generated co...

Brian and Sarah talk to David Talbot, part of the founding team at the startup Inceptive, which is using artificial intelligence to synthesize RNA molecules. It’s a fascinating discussion about AI’s use in biotech and how these two important fields are coming together to introduce new possibilities. In news, enterprise AI use comes up again, as we get some new numbers from OpenAI detailing how man...

To kick off 2024, Brian and Sarah welcome guest Karin Golde, the founder of West Valley AI and an AWS alum to talk about how she advises companies getting started when they deploy artificial intelligence. What are best practices? What should be avoided? And what needs to be defined going in? In this week’s news, funding gets the spotlight as Perplexity raises $73.6 million and Anthropic’s reported...

In the final episode of 2023, Brian and Sarah go into forecast mode, laying out their AI predictions for 2024. Will the hype keep growing? What will the next phase of adoption look like? This New Year’s episode gets into all of it. Meanwhile, in the week’s biggest news, the discussion looks at The New York Times lawsuit against OpenAI, Jony Ive’s latest hire for some ChatGPT-powered hardware, and...

This week’s episode brings another startup founder to the show with Pulze.ai CEO Fabian Baier. He talks with Brian and Sarah about creating a product for enterprise companies and what he has learned about working with multiple large language models in a year when so many debuted. In news, the discussion turns to Rite Aid’s issues using facial recognition technology, Apple’s reported talks with med...

The podcast returns this week as Brian and Sarah interview Kurt Bollacker, a director of engineering at MLCommons. Ever wonder how to begin testing an AI model? What standards matter? The discussion spans history and model types, with a quick look at recent work out of Stanford. In this week’s news, we get into OpenAI’s relevance for media and wearables with its new Axel Springer deal and reported...

ChatGPT marked its first birthday on Nov. 30 with OpenAI entering a whole new era filled with familiar faces and few new ones. Brian and Sarah keep things casual on this episode, welcoming friend of (and off) the pod Mason Del Rio, a data scientist and analyst with media production experience, to discuss ChatGPT's impact in its first year. [Editor’s note: Mason also helped us with editing this epi...

Rob Salkowitz joins Brian and Sarah to talk about the expectations and limitations of AI tools in entertainment and comic books. In the interview, he explains what he has seen in his work as a consultant in technology and digital media, as well as covering AI at Forbes and ICv2. This week’s news returns to OpenAI (where it was reported late Tuesday that Sam Altman will return as CEO). The conversa...

This week’s episode of "The AI Artifacts Podcast" kicks off with fresh news that Sam Altman was ousted as CEO at OpenAI on Nov. 17. Brian and Sarah get into the known details and review other stories, including Ed Newton-Rex leaving Stability AI and Sundar Pichai’s comparison of AI to climate change. Then, the podcast welcomes Jade Newton, an AI data expert who has worked at large-scale companies...

Brian and Sarah welcome David Hojah, the founder and CEO of Parrots , along with CBO Erin Janklow. Their startup focuses on medical assistive AI for patients with ALS and Parkinson’s disease, using a smart assistant called Polly, which is designed to speed up communication loops and enable people experiencing cognitive problems to engage with their caregivers and the world around them. That interv...

The second episode of "The AI Artifacts Podcast" welcomes Thomas Huitric as a guest. Thomas is a data science practitioner with experience in AI infrastructure across advertising, media, gaming, and the metaverse. He joins the podcast to talk about what’s going on behind the screen for users as AI scales up and its resource, infrastructure, and data needs grow. In addition, co-hosts Brian and Sara...

Welcome to the first episode of "The AI Artifacts Podcast." Meet the co-hosts, Brian Warmoth and Sarah Luger, who break down what this podcast will explore, who will be appearing on the show, and what else to expect. Also, find out if you can tell the difference between real news and news and AI-dreamed news about AI. Respond on AIArtifacts.net to let Brian and Sarah know what you think: * What ar...

Join co-hosts Brian Warmoth and Sarah Luger in a new series of interviews with founders, technical experts, and practitioners to put AI’s rise into context. Season 1 will bring on guests with a range of perspectives to discuss sectors, use cases, and big-picture context that makes today’s AI trends easier to understand. Then, see if you can pass each episode’s test to tell the real AI news from th...