The Pulse of AI

On this podcast Jason Stoughton is joined by Brad Newman. Brad is a litigation partner at Baker McKenzie and leads the firms North America Machine Learning and AI practice and is the Chair of the American Bar Association Business and Commercial Litigation AI subcommittee.  It is hard to find a company today that does not use AI within their recruitment, screening and hiring process. It has almost...

On this podcast Jason Stoughton is joined by Alan Cowen, CEO and Chief Scientist, at Hume AI. As AI progresses, both in terms of what it can do and how widely it is deployed, the ability for AI to understand and empathize with our emotions is still a glaring hole in AI's capabilities. On this podcast Jason and Alan talk about the state of the technology, unpack the hopes and dreams and fears of an...

On this podcast I am joined by Alan Ringvald, CEO and Founder, of Relativity6. Relativity6 helps insurance companies limit risk in their commercial portfolios by analyzing and normalizing NAICS. It turns out that it is a pretty big business. 

On this podcast I am joined by Tobi Konitzer, Founder and CEO of Ocurate, to talk about the amazing things they are doing around LTV and how they help business leaders discover and understand who your company's most valuable customers truly are. His goal is to usher in a new era in which customer Lifetime Value, or LTV,  becomes the organizing principles for B2C businesses. His company uses a prop...

On this podcast I am joined by Ash Fontana, AI start-up investor with Zetta Venture Partners and technology industry thought leader, to talk about his new book: The AI First Company: How to compete and win with Artificial Intelligence . If you are focused on trying to transform your company into an AI powered leader in your industry, Ash's book is going to end up being a well worn and dog eared re...

On this podcast I am joined by Tim Kraska, MIT professor and co-founder of hot AI start-up Einblick.  Einblick describes itself as a visual data computing platform that provides the fastest way for organizations to understand the past, predict the future and make the best data-drive decisions for their business via a collaborative whiteboard that allows people from across the organization to work...

On this podcast I sit down with the founders of Halla which calls itself "the taste intelligence company". Halla claims it has developed the only technology on the market that can accurately predict shopper intent and then recommend the grocery item a person will want to buy next. This of course provides grocers with the capability to offer personalization on a truly 1:1 level. 

On this podcast I am joined by Krishna Gade, Founder and CEO of Fiddler.ai. In this wide ranging conversation we do a deep dive into the challenges, and opportunities, around the ability to make AI trustworth, explainable and unbiased because failure to properly address these issues will impede the adoption of AI.

Richard Socher is one of the smartest minds in Artificial Intelligence. His pioneering work in neural nets and NLP set the stage for much of what is driving AI today. He has been cited over 100,000 times in the field. Past adjunct professor at Stanford, Founder and CEO of MetaMind, Chief Scientist and EVP at Salesforce and now CEO and Founder of You.com, his influence and work in AI in general, an...

Latest Podcast: Richard Socher is one of the smartest minds in Artificial Intelligence. His pioneering work in neural nets and NLP set the stage for much of what is driving AI today. He has been cited over 100,000 times in the field! Adjunct professor at Stanford, Founder and CEO of MetaMind, Chief Scientist and EVP at Salesforce and now CEO and Founder of You.com his influence and work in AI is t...

As adoption of AI increases so do the concerns around potential bias in the systems. But what do we mean when we talk about bias in AI? And how do we know if our algorithms exhibit bias? And perhaps most importantly, how do we eliminate bias from our AI systems?  On my latest podcast I dig down into all of these issues with one of the foremost authorities on bias in AI, co-founder and Chief Scient...

This is my latest podcast with one of Cohere's Co-Founders, Nick Frosst. Cohere is one of the most exciting companies in the NLP space today.  The company recently emerged from stealth mode with $40 million in Series A funding to pursue their mission to build machines that understand the world and to make them safely accessible for all.  In addition to being backed by top flight vc's other investo...

On today's podcast I sit down with Founder and CEO of Vyasa Analytics Dr. Chris Bouton. When we talk about life sciences and healthcare it really is the tale of two cities. Life sciences was an early adopter of AI and analytics and the results have been fantastic. But healthcare has been slower to the game for a number of reasons that we will talk about in this podcast.  The reality is that once A...

On this episode of The Pulse of AI podcast I am joined by Steven ("Captain Hoff") Hoffman to talk about his new book The Five Forces That Change Everything . Steven is an entrepreneur, investor and the founder of Founders Space which is one of the leading start-up accelerators in the world.  The five forces that Steven identifies are mass connectivity, bio convergence, human expansion into space,...

Sean Gourley, CEO and Founder of Primer, joins to share his thoughts and insights about the threat disinformation poses to western democracies, as well as how to define it, identify it and combat it. His passion combined with his deep experience in the space, the unique perch that he sits on today which allows him to view the full landscape and the work that Primer has done in the space gives him...

LATEST PODCAST: My guest is Sean Gourley, Founder and CEO of Primer AI.  Joining me on this podcast is CEO and Co-Founder of Primer, Sean Gourley.  As you know I cover AI in all of its various forms and for me NLP is and always has been one of the most exciting areas within the field of AI. And over the past several years the advances we have seen in NLP have been phenomenal and yet business leade...

This is the first in a four part series exploring how data and AI are set to really disrupt healthcare through conversations with the disruptors themselves including entrepreneurs, founders and AI experts. My goal is to discover exactly how AI and data are being used now, the barriers holding back innovation and what these experts think healthcare will look like in 10 years.  On today's podcast, t...

On this podcast I am joined by Braden Hancock who is a co-founder and Head of Technology at Snorkel AI. Snorkel AI is unlocking a better, faster way to build applications With Snorkel Flow, the first truly data-centric AI platform. To date they have raised over $50 million from top VC firms such as Greylock, Lightspeed, GV and others. Snorkel AI is solving a real problem that has been holding back...

Online platforms are overwhelmed with speech that is harmful. Companies are trying to get their hands around the problem in order to solve it, because it is driving people off their platforms in droves. But it is a difficult problem to solve. Companies need to establish policies, set up governance committees and protocols, find technical solutions and hire moderators.    Justin Dave, Co-Founder an...

On this podcast I am joined by Risto Miikkulainen from Cognizant and by Dr. Nuria Oliver from Valencia Spain who led her team to victory in the Cognizant sponsored Xprize Pandemic Response Challenge which was a four month, $500k challenge that focused on the development of data-driven AI systems to predict Covid-19 infection rates and prescribe intervention plans that regional governments, communi...

On this podcast I am joined by Risto Miikulainen, a professor at the University of Texas in Austin and Associate VP of Evolutionary AI at Cognizant, and Mitja Lustrek, who is the head of the Ambient Intelligence Group at the Josef Stefan Institute located in Slovenia, to talk about the recently completed Xprize Covid Challenge where Mitja and his team came in an impressive second.  Podcast Outline...

Coming off a recent $30 million Series B funding I am joined on this podcast by Victor Kushch, Co-Founder and CTO of Fairmarkit. Fairmarkit is an exciting venture backed company that has created an intelligent sourcing platform that empowers organizations to more efficiently purchase the goods and services they need.  Basically by equipping procurement and supply-chain teams with automation and da...

On this podcast I am joined by Mike Hughes and Antonio Allegria to talk about Low-Code generally and what Outsystems is doing specifically in the space. Low-Code is transforming how software gets developed and we are really just at the beginning of the revolution it is driving. Outsystems is doing some really neat stuff and I love their vision around what it is going to take to win the Low-Code ma...

On this podcast I am joined by Sagi EliYahoo, the Co-Founder and CEO of Tonkean. Tonkean's Adaptive Business Operations platform simplifies the orchestration of complex, enterprise-level business processes with a truly no-code interface. Ops professionals are becoming a critical component of business units and No-Code generally, and Tonkeans platform specifically, empowers them. I think everyone w...

On today's podcast I am joined by Toby Phillips who is the executive director of the Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker at the Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford and Bret Greenstein, Senior Vice President of AI and Analytics at Cognizant to talk about the Xprize Pandemic Response Challenge. The Pandemic Response Challenge is a $550k, four month challenge that focuses on the developm...