Dr. Yoav Shoham, computere scientist, Professor Emeritus at Stanford and Co-founder of AI21 Labs, joins host Jason Stoughton on The Pulse of AI podcast to talk about his career journey, the really powerful and neat things that his company AI21 is going using NLP, and a wide range of topics around AI and philosophy and ethics and much more.

Yoav's research spans artificial intelligence, logic and game theory. He has been the co-founder of several companies, including his latest AI21 which is an Israeli company aiming to change the way people read and write using AI. He also initiated the AI index out of Stanford. But beyond all of that he is just a really fascinating and interesting person with great insights into AI, its future and its potential impact on society and during this conversation we cover a lot of ground.

If you like what you hear subscribe to the podcast and follow Jason on Twitter @thepulseofai   

The Pulse of AI podcast: Joining host Jason Stoughton on this podcast is Yonatan Geifman, CEO and co-founder, of Deci AI. Deci recently raised $25 million in a series B to support their ongoing R&D and go to market efforts.

As AI becomes more ubiquitous across companies systems there are two big elephants in the room: One is the black box and bias issue, which we talk about a lot on this show, and the other is the big cost of training AI models.

Solving the cost problem is a billion dollar business, which is why I had Yonatan on the show, because he believes that his company has the answer. I love what they are doing and I think you will as well. 

As crypto has fallen from its previous perch high up in the atmosphere where the air gets a little thin back down here to earth where us mere mortals live it is an interesting time to say the least. Everyone is trying to figure out where we go from here. In a lot of ways this reminds me of the dotcom crash where afterwards many people walked away and said “well that whole internet thing was fun but time to get back to reality”, while others kept working at it and well we know the rest of the story, right? 

So the existential question is whether or not we will look back in 5, 10 or 20 years and see this as just the beginning of a multi trillion dollar market with applications for every area of our lives, or if there is something to it, which there obviously is, but maybe the opportunity isn't as big as the hype has suggested? 

To talk about and unpack all of this I invited Brad Newman from Baker McKenzie back onto the show. If you are interested in this topic than you are going to really enjoy Brad's insights. 

And don’t forget, if you like what you here subscribe to the podcast, follow me on twitter @thepulseofai , and ping me on linkedin.

On this podcast I am joined by Byron Reese, to talk about his latest book that just hit the bookshelves titled “Stories, dice and rocks that think: How humans learned to see the future”.  Byron is a successful entrepreneur, CEO, futurist and award winning author.

If you are like me and believe the saying that history doesn’t necessarily repeat, but it does rhyme, and so you spend a lot of time studying history in order to get a better understanding of what might happen in the future, then you will love this book. 

It’s a tour de force that explores three leaps in history that Byron has identified that he claims made us who we are and that by really understanding these it will change how we think about our future. In this wide ranging conversation we talk about the book, his career, technology in general, transformation and even about how he writes so prolifically. 

Dont forget if you like what you hear subscribe to the podcast, follow me on twitter @thepulseofai or ping me on linkedin. 

I hope you enjoy the conversation as much as I did!

On this podcast Jason Stoughton is joined by Gopal Erinjippurath, CTO and Head of Product for Sust Global.

Climate analytics using geospatial data combined with AI and Machine Learning, delivered seamlessly through API’s, is one of the key building blocks that will help companies meet their climate goals. Sust Global seeks to be the leader in this space.

I first met Gopal a few years ago when he was with Planet Labs and I have always been impressed with his passion around the possibilities found at the intersection of geospatial data, AI/ML and climate. 

If you like what you hear subscribe to the podcast and follow me on Twitter @thepulseofai 

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 become ubiquitous within the hiring industry. However, brad argues that companies are potentially putting themselves at legal risk by using these systems because bias is sometimes unintentionally built into the algorithms. 

And in fact, regulatory agencies have announced that they will be taking a hard look at these practices going forward. 

But interestingly, Baker McKenzie recently sponsored a survey of C-suite leaders and few felt that there was a significant risk involved with their practices around AI in recruiting and HR. So obviously there is a disconnect in the marketplace.

We unpack all of this and more in the podcast. And I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

Don’t forget, if you like what you hear subscribe to my podcast, follow me on twitter @ the pulse of AI and reach out on linkedin.

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 AI that understands, and can potentially manipulate, our emotions and how Hume is not only leading the way in advancing AI’s capabilities in this area but is also leading the way in ensuring that AI  should service human well being above all else.

If you like what you hear subscribe to my podcast, follow me on twitter @thepulseofai or reach out on linkedin.

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 proprietary database on 260 million adult Americans, in conjunction with customer data on purchases and product usage, to predict LTV with around 90% accuracy.  

If you like what you hear subscribe to the podcast and follow me on twitter at the pulse of ai.

I hope you enjoy the podcast!

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 resource that you will return to again and again!

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 the data together in real time. 

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, and NLP specifically, is truly incredible.

On this podcast we talk about his new venture You.com, and dig down into other related areas in AI.

On this podcast we talk about his new venture You.com, a privacy focused search engine, and dig down into other related areas in AI. 

I hope you enjoy this podcast as much as I did. 

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 Scientist at hot AI start-up Truera, and Carnegie Mellon professor Annupam Datta.

TruEra provides the first suite of AI Quality solutions that help enterprises analyze machine learning, improve and monitor model quality, and build trust.

In many ways the future of AI depends on opening its blackbox and understanding how to make the systems fair and transparent. Failure to do this will put the brakes on AI adoption. 

I believe that TruEra is positioned to be a leader in this space. 

In addition, Annupam is a really smart and interesting person and I hope you enjoy this discussion as much as I did!

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 investors in the company include AI luminaries Geoffrey Hinton and Fei-Fei Li. 

It is a hot space, they have a great bunch of people on board, they have a desire to advance AI in a very thoughtful way and they are growing fast. In my opinion this is one of the most exciting companies in the space today.

We dig down into a wide range of topics including the challenges inherent in NLP, the opportunities it presents to business leaders, how companies should look at implementing and deploying AI in their company, where NLP is going and more. 

As usual I ask Nick to give us the “pitch” on why you, my hard to recruit audience, should consider applying for some of their open roles!

I hope you enjoy the podcast. 

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 AI in all of its forms is deployed across the entire healthcare ecosystem we will see lower costs, better patient outcomes and an ability to treat more people at scale. So it is important that those in AI help drive these changes as quickly as possible….for the good of society 

I hope you enjoy this podcast as much I did. Let’s get to it!

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, deep automation and the intelligence explosion (AGI). We talk about the advances in each of these areas that are driving their adoption as well as the potential social, psychological and economic impacts each might (will?) have on us as individuals and on the world writ large. 

Steven has some great insights into the coming future. I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I did.

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 incredible insights that he shares during this conversation. If you are concerned about how malevolent actors are using the latest technologies to sow discord through disinformation then this podcast is for you. 

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 leaders are just now beginning to see the potential that NLP represents. But this is quickly changing as companies like Primer begin to release powerful yet easy to use tools that bring NLP out of the research department and place them in the hands of business users.

Primer recently released a new product line called Primer Engines. These are pre-trained engines that can be layered over your data allowing you to do the types of things that just a few years ago were plot lines in Hollywood movies.  

And just as importantly, or maybe even more so, they are designed so that even non-technical business users can easily use them. What used to take months and a significant amount of investment in terms of people and money can now be done in a day. Literally. As Sean likes to say they are reducing the cost of curiosity. All of this makes his company, in my opinion, one of the most exciting players in the space. 

I hope you enjoy the conversation as much as I did.

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, the first in the series, I am joined by Andrew Eye who is the founder and CEO of ClosedLoop AI. ClosedLoop describes itself as “Healthcares data science platform”. Purpose build and dedicated to healthcare, ClosedLoop combines an intuitive end to end machine learning platform with a comprehensive library of healthcare specific features and model templates. They have taken a vertical approach and it is really paying off both for them and their customers.

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 AI adoption by simplifying data labeling and making AI projects look more like software development efforts. Delivering both successfully will encourage companies to more fully embrace AI by removing some of the barriers and hassles that make “doing AI” so difficult. 

On this podcast we talk about Braden’s journey to entrepreneurship, the origin story of Snorkel, how their approach to data labeling works and how it helps unlock the power of AI in the enterprise, why SME’s are the key to data labelling and why Snorkel’s approach empowers them, why you should drop what you are doing and immediately send in a resume and much more.

I am excited for this conversation because Snorkel AI is solving a real problem in the industry that has been holding back AI adoption and I am just really impressed with their team. In my opinion this is definitely a company to keep an eye on.

Let’s get to it!

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 and CEO of Spectrum Systems, founded his company to attack this problem with Contextual AI. 

I invited Justin onto the show because I love what Spectrum Labs is doing but I also think that he has great insights into the problem and the range of approaches needed to solve it. 

Podcast Transcript:

• Spectrum Labs elevator pitch (1:29)
• The professional journey of Justin Davis, Co-Founder/CEO, and why he started Spectrum Labs  (2:32)
• What is Contextual AI and how does it work? (4:47)
• Quantifying the size of the negative/violent/hateful/etc that Spectrum Labs is trying to solve (8:50)
• How does a company work with Spectrum Labs to address this problem?  (12:10)
• How many companies are taking this problem seriously? (16:42)
• Who are Spectrum Labs competitors? (20:29)

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, communities and organizations can implement to minimize harm when reopening their economies. Dr. Oliver's team was made up of 20 leading researchers and policy experts from universities and research institutes throughout Valencia, Spain.

Click through to see time stamps of the discussion for easier listening. 

Transcript Time Stamps:

2:16 - Risto tells us about the origins of the Xprize Challenge and why it is so important

4:09 - Dr. Oliver talks about her background and how her work on other pandemics led her to being in a position to put a team together to advice the regional government of Valencia from the beginning of Covid and how that led to entering the Xprize Challenge

8:07 - Dr. Oliver tells us about her team

10:33 - Risto tells us about the different phases of the competition and what challenges competitors faced

12:55 - Dr. Oliver talks about how she and her team approached the competition, how they leveraged their strengths, key strategic approaches and more

18:00 - Dr. Oliver responds to a question I have around whether diversity was a key competitive advantage of her team

21:02 - Risto tells us what he thinks really made Dr. Oliver and her team stand out from the rest of the competition

22:52 - We discuss how this could be applied to other issues and using AI and competitions in general for policy development

32:34 - We discuss the differences, and pluses and minuses, of short competitions vs longer competitions and what is the best approach to big problems

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:

:19 - Risto explains the genesis of this Xprize

3:50 - Mitja introduces us to his institute and team

6:27 - We talk about why Evolutionary AI is an interesting approach for things like Covid

11:00 - We dig down into each of the phases and goals of the competition

14:12 - Mitja walks us through his teams strategy and how they approached the challenge from a technical standpoint

20:12 - Risto highlights some of the really interesting things that Mitja and his team did to set themselves apart from the competition

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 data, Fairmarkit promotes competitive bidding while reducing manual work within existing processes. 

It is a big market that is ripe for disruption and Fairmarkit hopes to be that disruptor!

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 market.

SHOW SUMMARY:

Start - Outsystems elevator pitch

1:57 - What is Low-Code?

4:01 - How does Low-Code help enterprises digitally transform?

6:54 - Low-Code and AI?

12:14 - What differentiates Outsystems from others in the space?

17:58 - Outsystems Customer Use Cases?

21:29 - How does Low-Code empower IT and does it change the talent mix?

27:09 - Where will the game be won in Low-Code?

29:07 - What types of people are you looking to hire and why should they work at Outsystems?

32:25 - What are the important takeaways that business and technical leaders should gain from this podcast?

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 will benefit from Sagi’s keen insights.  

Summary:

2:06 - Tonkean elevator pitch

3:55 - Who uses No-Code?

7:10 - What is Adaptive Process Automation?

12:00 - No-Code use cases

18:16 - Tonkean is the “Operating System for Business Operations”

22:22 - CIO’s reaction to no-code?

25:14 - No-code helps empower business unit ops 

30:30 - Why will Tonkean be the leader in the space?

33:52 - Why work at Tonkean?

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 development of data-driven AI systems to predict CODI-19 infection rates and to prescribe Intervention Plans (IPs) that regional governments, communities, and organizations can implement to minimize harm when reopening their economies.

Summary of Podcast:

(0:29) Founding of the Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker project

(4:01) The origins of Cognizants AI response effort

(6:08) The creation of the Xprize Challenge and it’s goals

(11:29) The type of data Oxford collects and how they collect it

(15:53) Insights into the importance of sharing data and how it increase its value

(19:15) How is new data incorporated into the models and how they are retrained

(27:15) Human in the loop: The roles of humans and AI in this project

(31:22) Unexpected and counter-intuitive results

(34:33) The Oxford project as a model for addressing other global problems

(38:53) How Covid has changed business and policy leaders view towards data collaboration

(40:25) Last thoughts and takeaways 

On this podcast I have the pleasure of being joined by Ben Taylor, Datarobots Chief AI Evangelist. 

Ben is a recognized and engaging speaker for AI with over 16 years of machine learning experience. He has a diverse career including work with Intel/Micron, as the HPC/AI expert for the hedge fund AIQ where he built out models using a 600 GPU cluster to predict stock movements based on the news, and as the Chief Data Scientist for HireVue. He joined DataRobot in early 2020 when they acquired an AutoML start-up that he co-founded by the name of Zeff.ai.

I hope you enjoy the conversation!

Conversation Summary:

• Ben’s unique career journey (1:10)
• DataRobot’s elevator pitch (5:27)
• Insights into why so many AI project in the enterprise are failing (6:27)
• How he helps educate C-suite leaders around what AI can, and can’t, do (10:00)
• AI is expensive, so how should leaders determine where to apply AI to drive the most value? (13:34)
• Dealing with the shortage of AI and data science talent (16:32)
• Exploring the fundamental differences between software development and AI/Data Science projects (18:19)
• The challenges and opportunities around data/AI moving from the IT department into the business units (22:22)
• Is the Chief Data Officer the right role to drive digital transformation? (24:29)
• What does the ideal CDO look like? (27:32)
• Importance of storytelling for the Journey to AI (28:50)
• Should it be humans plus machines or machines plus humans for true digital transformation? (31:32)

On this podcast I am excited to be joined by Amir Banifatemi of Xprize and Babak Hodjat of Cognizant to talk about a new Xprize Challenge which is designed to develop AI driven insights and solutions to help government officials make better policy decisions around closures and re-opening efforts in response to Covid.

This challenge is based on work started early in the pandemic, completely pro bono, that Babak and his team at Cognizant did based on their expertise in Evolutionary AI. It is really groundbreaking work!

I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I did!

On this podcast discussion I talk with Jay Gopinath, GM of Advanced Tech, Platforms, Innovation Data and Analytics @ Toyota North America and Bret Greenstein, SVP and Global Head of AI and Analytics for @Cognizant, about the sweeping changes that data and AI are driving in the over century old automotive industry. 

On this podcast I am joined by Evan Sparks, Co-Founder and CEO of Determined.ai, to talk about how AI differs today from SaaS software, why that difference will be eliminated in the future, ways in which companies should look at determining if AI is a viable solution to valuable problems, how to successfully build and deploy AI once that determination has been made and so much more.

If you are on the journey to AI in the enterprise this is a podcast that will be an invaluable resource to help overcome many of the challenges that you face on that path.

On this podcast I am joined by CEO and Founder of Eightfold.ai, Ashutosh Garg. Eightfold.ai is experiencing phenomenal growth and just raised an additional $125 million in funding to make it Silicon Valley’s newest unicorn.

People are a company’s greatest asset and AI is dramatically changing how companies identify, engage with and grow talent. Eightfold.ai’s mission is to enable the right career for everyone in the world. A lofty goal that Ashutosh is laser focused on achieving.

I hope you enjoy this podcast as much as I did!

Coming off of Dataiku’s recent announcement of raising $100 million in new funding I got the opportunity to speak with their Chief Customer Officer Kurt Muehmel. 

Dataiku is one of the world’s leading AI and machine learning platforms, supporting agility in organizations’ data efforts via collaborative, elastic, and responsible AI, all at enterprise scale. Dataiku provides one simple UI for the entire data pipeline, from data preparation and exploration to machine learning model building, deployment, and monitoring, and everything in between. Hundreds of companies across the Global 2000 in retail, healthcare, finance, transportation, public sector, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, and more use Dataiku to underpin their essential business operations. 

On this podcast we cover a range of topics relevant to business leaders including:

• Understanding the value of data
• The challenges and solutions to creating a data driven culture
• Re-imagining the customer experience in a data and AI driven world
• And many more

I hope you enjoy the podcast!

On this podcast I am joined by Phil Le-Brun, former CIO of McDonalds and now Enterprise Strategist @ AWS, and Bret Greenstein, SVP and Global Head of AI and Analytics @ Cognizant to talk about how companies can create a data centered and driven culture. and why treating data as a first class citizen is important to this process.

Data is moving from the IT department into the business units and the heavy lifting of digital transformation going forward is really going to be around creating a culture that is data driven and that treats data as a first class citizen.

On this podcast I am joined by Pallab Deb, Head of Partner Solutions and AI Partnerships at Google Cloud and Bret Greenstein, SVP and Global Head of the AI and Analytics Practice at Cognizant to talk about the value of data.

As companies increasingly look to leverage data in their business processes, and as data has moved from the IT department to the business units, the need to understand the value of data, set up processes and build a culture to include business partners in the use of data and fully center their organization around data has become critical to a company's success.  

These two thought leaders offer insights, advice and real world examples to help you do just that!

On this podcast I am joined by JG Chirapurath, VP Azure Data, Artificial Intelligence & Edge and Bret Greenstein, SVP and Global Head of the AI and Analytics Practice at Cognizant to talk about how business leaders can use data in times of rapid change.

If you are trying to figure out how to navigate a world where your historical data models have been made obsolete by the disruption caused by Covid then this is a podcast that will help.

In this wide ranging discussion these two thought leaders offer insights, advice and real world examples to help you address this challenge and thrive.

Data perishability is always an issue but it gains significance in times of rapid change. Covid brought into stark relief just how volatile the world can be, and of course volatility wreaks havoc on historical data models. As business leaders accelerate their focus on data they are realizing that they need to take different approaches to derive maximum value from their data.

Over the next four podcasts I will be joined by thought leaders, business leaders and technologists in the AI and Data space to talk about how companies should be looking at their data in times of rapid change. 

On this podcast I am joined by two executives from Cognizant - Bret Greenstein, SVP and Global Head of the AI and Analytics practice and Babak Hodjat, VP of Evolutionary AI. 

We dig down into the issues around data perishability and explore ways leaders should be adjusting to a volatile world. We also talk about how Cognizants approach using Evolutionary AI helps solve this problem.  

Countries are rushing to create national AI strategies that will ensure that they dominate the field of AI for the foreseeable future. This involves investing in research, fostering and encouraging partnerships between government, academia and business as well as making sure that we train our current workers, as well as our young people, in the skills they need to fill the well paying jobs of the future. AI is built on data and so we also need to find a responsible way to collect and use data which respects the privacy of US citizens while allowing breakthroughs in AI technologies. In short, we have some heavy lifting ahead of us to make sure that we get it right.  

On this podcast I am joined by Congressman Frank Lucas (R-OK) and Bret Greenstein of Cognizant to talk about all of these issues. It is a fascinating conversation because we get the perspective of a policy leader as well as a senior executive at a leading AI company.

 I am pleased to have Congressman McNerney (R-CA) and Bret Greenstein, Senior Vice President and Head of the AI and Analytics Practice at Cognizant, joining me on this podcast to talk about the Future of Work in a world quickly being transformed by Artificial Intelligence.

We all know that AI will eliminate some jobs, create many new jobs and will fundamentally change all jobs. To prepare our current workers, as well as those who are in school and yet to enter the workforce, for the new and exciting jobs of the future we need a concerted effort between government and business. 

In this interesting and far ranging conversation we explore the issue and talk about ways that government and business can help both individually, and in partnership, to ensure that our workforce is prepared. 

For anyone interested in this topic this really is a must listen. I hope you find the conversation thought provoking. 

For this discussion I am joined by Congressman Will Hurd of Texas and Bret Greenstein of Cognizant to talk about what a national AI strategy should look like here in the United States. 

Congressman Hurd (R-TX) along with Robin Kelly (D-IL), and working closely with the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC), recently released a white paper on a national artificial intelligence strategy called “AI and the Workforce”.  

 Recommendations of the white paper include:

• Calling on the US to take a larger role in AI
• Embracing an AI-driven economy
• Preparing the workforce for a transition to AI

 Bret Greenstein is the Senior Vice President and Global Head of the AI & Analytics Practice at Cognizant, leading over 26,000 associates worldwide focused on Data and AI based transformation

Bringing together these two leading voices, one from government and the other from industry, gives us the opportunity uniquely explore issues that are central to developing an effective national AI strategy including:

• How do we develop a national AI strategy that allows us to compete against countries that have different views and restrictions around the collection and use of data?
• How should we protect data privacy?
• How do we address bias in AI algorithms?
• How do we encourage and develop public/private partnerships to further our national strategic AI goals?
• How do we train our workforce so that these goals can be realized?
• And much more.

On this show I am joined by Stephanie Forrest and Risto Miikkulainen to talk about Evolutionary AI: What it is, how it is being used today, the challenges it faces, the opportunities it offers and what its future might entail. If you are at all interested in Evolutionary AI then you will find this discussion extremely informative and interesting. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

On this podcast I am joined by Kenneth Stanley, currently of OpenAI, and Babak Hodjat, VP of Evolutionary AI at Cognizant, to talk about creativity, novelty search, Evolutionary AI, open endedness and all things in between. I was absolutely blown away by the breadth and depth of the insights around these topics. 

On this podcast I am joined by Quoc Le and Risto Miikkulainen to talk about AutoML and the future direction of AI. Risto is an associate VP of Evolutionary AI at Cognizant and also a professor at the University of Texas. Quoc Le needs little introduction because he is one of the preeminent thought leaders in AI today and is known for many things including co-founding Google Brain and as the person behind AutoML. 

On this podcast I am joined by Dr. Jordan Pollack and Babak Hodjat to talk about the Demystification of AI. It is hard to find two people who add more value to this conversation than these two guests. Both are preeminent thought leaders in the field and in this wide ranging and lively conversation we cover a lot of ground that will be interesting to anyone involved in the field of AI generally and Evolutionary AI specifically. Our discussion range’s from the theoretical to the practical and the insights that are provided by both are invaluable.

World renowned AI thought leader’s Joydeep Ghosh and Risto Miikkulainen join me on this podcast in a wide ranging discussion centered around the issue of Trustworthiness in AI. As our businesses and society increasingly rely on AI the issues around trust and explainability have become much more important.  And in fact, failure to successfully address the issue will hamper further adoption of AI. Whether you are a business leader, AI scientist, or a policy maker this podcast will help you understand the issues, both technical and philosophical, around explainability and trust in AI, and will give you insights into ways that top companies and scientists are successfully addressing this challenge. We also talk about how Evolutionary AI can be a key tool in helping create more trustworthy AI.  

Ever since the Covid pandemic spread across the globe many have asked the question “where is AI in this fight”? And it is a valid question because many of the techniques used in AI require large amounts of training data, which a new pandemic like Covid simply lacks. 

However, a project developed by Babak Hodjat and Risto Miikulainen and their team at Cognizant has come the closest I have seen to answering this question. The system uses evolutionary AI which requires less data, utilizes creativity and goes beyond forecasting to basically providing advice. Babak gave me a demo last week and it is pretty exciting and so I wanted to bring them on the podcast so that they could share it with you and talk about what is under the hood.  

In addition to Babak and Risto I am also joined by Bret Greenstein who is the Senior Vice President and Global Head of the Ai and Analytics Practice at Cognizant to talk about how the amazing work they have done is also relevant for business leaders.

This is a really interesting podcast and I hope you enjoy it.. Let’s get to it.

This podcast will help you successfully complete your journey to AI and data transformation. I am joined by Saket Malhotra of Takeda and Bret Greenstein of Cognizant to talk about the importance of data strategy, establishing KPI’s and Metrics, and the importance that change management plays in successful digital transformation efforts. Digital transformation is hard and it is exciting to hear from a company that is doing it right. Lots of great insights to say the least. 

Join me on this podcast as I speak with Bret Greenstein of Cognizant and Inder Kochar of Novartis Oncology about the challenges, opportunities and best practices around centering an enterprise around data and AI. 

Inder brings to light his “Journey to AI” experience over the past several years while Bret brings a cross-industry global perspective. We talk about data strategy, change management, using design thinking to understand and improve the customer journey and much more. If you are struggling with trying to successfully digitally transform your organization then this is a must listen!

Note: The opinions expressed by Inder are his alone and do not reflect those of Novartis Oncology

In this podcast I speak with Babak Hodjat, VP of Evolutionary AI at Cognizant, and his collegue Naveen Sharma who is Head of AI and Analytics for Life Sciences about the exciting and profound changes that are occuring in pharma and healthcare driven both by Covid and the opportunities presented by AI techniques like Evolutionary AI. 

I am a big believer that AI will enable innovation throughout the life sciences ecosystem from better and faster drug discovery to more efficient manufacturing to new business models that will change how patients interact with healthcare. All of which, in my opinion, will foster better health outcomes while lowering the cost curve. Which of course means treating more people better and cheaper. 

It is a really exciting time for this industry and Babak and Naveen really lay out the changes that are happening. 

On this podcast I speak with Babak Hodjat, VP of Evolutionary AI at Cognizant, and his associate Maria Nazareth who is Head of AI and Analytics for the Banking and Financial Services Industry. Covid is forcing banks to accelerate their digital transformation efforts, re-think how they interact with customers, build more resilient models to evaluate risk and much more. And to do all of this they are leveraging data and AI in exciting and innovative ways. Part of the solution in my mind is using an Evolutionary AI approach and Babak explains how this works. The bank of the future is almost here!

Some companies are dealing with the disruption caused by the Covid crisis better than others. Cognizant virtually overnight changed the entire way their almost 300k global workforce operated. It is an amazing story. 

Join me as I talk to Seth Bartlett, Global Chief Operating Officer of Cognizant’s Digital Business, and Bret Greenstein, SVP and Global Head of the AI & Analytics Practice, about how Cognizant immediately responded to the crisis and over the following weeks changed the way the entire company operated. It is a fascinating story and a must listen to every business leader that is trying to transform their enterprise to deal with the disruption caused by Covid.

Join me as I speak with AI thought leader Dr. Michael Zeller about how companies should be focused on quickly accelerating their AI efforts in light of the crisis caused by the Covid pandemic. Business leaders that were already well down the path of AI deployment have weathered this storm better than those that weren’t. The time to deploy AI is now. 

We cover many interesting topics that will be interesting to business leaders who are trying to figure out how to both quickly deploy AI during this crisis and how to build a strategic roadmap for longer term transformation. I hope you enjoy the podcast!

Join me as I talk to Dr. Ashutosh Saxena, founder and CEO of Casper.ai, to learn how their technology, using AI and IoT, power robot homes and how when implemented in nursing homes and assisted living facilities it greatly reduces death from communicable diseases.

Covid has exposed just how vulnerable seniors are who live in nursing homes and assisted living facilities. In fact, studies show that so far fully 20%+ of all deaths due to Covid in the US have occured in assisted living facilities. But it isn’t just Covid that is a threat to them. With their compromised and fragile immunities many in assisted living facilities die of the seasonal flu and other contagious maladies every year. Building “robot homes” could dramatically reduce these deaths and increase life expectancy.

Casper.ai’s vision is to fundamentally change how seniors age in their homes and how assisted living facilities are run. I

This is a really interesting podcast and offers a true vision of the future. Enjoy! 

Join me in this engaging and insightful conversation with Marco Iansiti, David Sarnoff professor of Business Administration and co-director of the Labratory for Information Science at Harvard and of the Digital Initiative at Harvard Business School, and Bret Greenstein, Senior Vice President and Global Head of the AI & Analytics Practice at Cognizant, where he leads over 26,000 associates worldwide focused on Data and AI based transformation

We talk about how the Covid-19 pandemic is impacting companies, accelerating their digital transformation, opportunities for innovation in this time of crisis and examine how various companies are succeeding based on their previous digital transformation efforts while still others are forced to play catch-up. 

This is a must listen for business leaders seeking to deploy data and analytics to build resiliency and business success in this time of crisis.

Over the coming weeks and months, in partnership with Cognizant, we have an exciting line-up of AI thought leaders drawn from academia, business, and the technical sides of Applied AI as well as interviews with business leaders on the front lines of digital transformation.

The mission of this exciting speaker series is to make AI understandable and actionable to help you unleash the power of data and AI in your enterprise. 

In this podcast I talk to two Cognizant executives, Bret Greenstein who is the SVP and Global Head of the AI and Analytics Practice at Cognizant and Babak Hodjat who is the VP of Evolutionary AI at Cognizant. I ask them about their AI journey, how Cognizant is focused on AI delivery, thoughts around the importance of this podcast series for business leaders and we also talk about how the Coronavirus pandemic we are experiencing will drive digital transformation going forward.

On this podcast, I sit down with Shahin Farshchi of Lux Capital and we talk about his career journey, explore questions around the current and future state of AI, and dig down into just a few of Lux’s many investments including Braid Health, Zoox, aeva, mythic and planet.

The war for talent is real and companies are looking to gain a recruiting edge. By applying AI to the process allows you to build stronger relationships with target candidates which makes recruiting much easier.

Join me in this podcast with Founder and CEO of Sourceress Kanun Qui in a wide ranging discussion that includes not only how Sourceress does what it does but also how to get girls interested in coding, the differences between Wall Street and Silicon Valley for engineers and much more. 

Clinical trials for new drug development are time consuming and expensive. It is hard to get participants to join drug trials, to participate fully and to stay in once they are in. This means that clinical trials for new drug development are time consuming and expensive. Which leads to fewer drugs coming to market at more expensive prices. 

In this podcast AICure’s Chief Medical Officer, Ed Ikeguchi, explains how AICure is looking to fundamentally change this entire paradigm through the application of AI. This is a fascinating story and a good look into how AI can dramatically impact healthcare and medicine.

One of the more frustrating things we face in modern cities is trying to find parking spaces. Sometimes it seems that half of our lives are spent circling around the block again and again hoping for a miracle. 

Joining me on this podcast is Eyal Amir, CEO of Parknav, which is applying AI and predictive analytics to solve this problem. It’s pretty cool.

In this wide ranging conversation with Jon Krohn, Chief Data Scientist, neuroscientist, author and more we talk about the way Untapt is leveraging deep learning to make the hiring process more efficient, the reasons deep learning is so important, insights into how to work with clients who are not “data first” and much, much more.

Babak Hodjat is a luminary in the world of AI and in this conversation we cover a number of topics but center much of our conversation around the increasing evidence of a disconnect among a significant number of c-level leaders between their expectations of AI and what is actually happening within their companies in terms of AI.

Join me on this podcast as I sit down with Brad Heintz of Facebook to talk about the current and future state of Pytorch, how it addresses issues such as explainability and privacy, advice around how to more easily bring your models to production and more.

David Karandish, CEO of Capacity, speaks with me about how C-suite leaders can leverage advanced AI and shared knowledge bases to drive revenue by increasing worker productivity and enhancing customer experience. We also dig down into some of the expected and unexpected challenges you might face and how to successfully overcome them.

Join me as I sit down with Jana Eggers, CEO of Nara Logics, and learn how they are taking a different approach to using AI to turn big data into smart actions.

In this podcast I sit down with Gopal Erinjippurath and talk about the importance of geospatial analytics and the opportunities it presents across a wide range of industries and how Planet, with its low orbit satellites is really leading the way in this market.

Olivier Blais is the founder of Moovai which delivers real AI solution for real business problems. If you are a c-suite leader that is trying to figure out how to have more consistent success deploying AI than Oliver has some insights for you.

Deploying AI is hard. So hard in fact that many companies have more failures than successes along their AI journey. With this said, nobody is walking away from pursuing AI because study after study clearly shows that CEO’s understand that deploying AI is a must to remain competitive in their respective markets. Charles Martin, the founder of Silicon Valley based Calculation Consulting, has been helping companies of all sizes deploy AI for years. He is also a sought after speaker. 

I had the pleasure of attending the Open Data Science Conference as a media partner and had the opportunity to sit down and interview Rahul Singhal, the Chief Product and Marketing Leader for Innodata. C-suite leaders are becoming increasingly frustrated that many of their Artificial Intelligence projects are failing. There is strong evidence that one of the core factors contributing to this high failure rate is poor data annotation. I talk to Rahul about this issue. 

PODCAST: Digital Transformation through the application of Artificial Intelligence and other cognitive technologies is hard to do successfully. In fact, many companies are failing at it. Hear how IBM SUCCESSFULLY created an end to end AI enabled supply chain.

Join me as I speak with Michaela Lindinger, founder and CEO of Brain In Spa and sought after advisor and consultant to C-level business leaders at global Fortune 500 companies and fast growth start-ups, and hear her insights into ways you, as a C-suite leader, can increase your chances of success through workforce and leadership transformation. The future is here….are you ready?

Join me as I talk with Andi Britt, Vice President Talent & Engagement Leader Europe IBM Global Business Services, about how to design the HR and employee journey during AI driven digital transformation in the enterprise.

AI in the supply chain is driving efficiencies that should make every CEO jump for joy! Join me as I dig down with senior IBM executives John Moore and Chris Hayes into all of ways AI is being deployed in the supply chain including best practices and insider advice from two people who have helped many companies realize the promise of AI.  

If you have been hearing more and more about RPA (Robot Process Automation) in the enterprise then this conversation with Gene Chao is a must listen. As Global Vice President & GM of IBM Automation his perspective, drawn from a deep well of knowledge and experience, is helpful to understanding the challenges and upsides of AI infused RPA.

Join me as I talk with Chris Popple at Lloyds Banking Group and discover how they are achieving such a successful digital transformation by leveraging AI.

Join me as I speak with Ruchir Puri, Chief Scientist of IBM Research. We talk about some of the exciting new products that IBM recently announced, including Watson Anywhere, We also dig down into a number of important topics including “explainable AI”, overcoming bias, challenges and opportunities for AI deployment within the enterprise, the future of AI and more!

Join me as I talk to one of the true leaders in the world of Artificial Intelligence, Dr. Christian Guttmann, Global Head of AI at Tieto and Executive Director at the Nordic Artificial Intelligence Institute, as we talk about the challenges C-Suite executives face in designing and deploying AI throughout their enterprise and up and down their supply chain. We dig down into many of the issues facing C-Suite leaders such as setting an AI strategy, building data maps, internal and external communications and much much more.

Dr. Guttmann has over 25 years of experience advancing AI technology, in both science and business, and works on strategy and execution for high impact AI systems and products. He is frequently cited in the media, is a highly sought after keynote speaker and consults with industry and government leaders regarding AI and its potential impact on industry and society.

Join me as I talk to Abakar Saidov, the founder and CEO of Beamery. As a C-Suite leader you know that great employees make great companies. The economy is red hot, unemployment is at its lowest level in a generation, and it is hard and getting harder to find, attract and hire the best talent. If you are a C-Suite leader this presents a challenge. Beamery has a solution. Beamery is turning recruitment on its head with the idea that companies should treat candidates like customers by using its Candidate Relationship Management software.

Interview with Andy Byrne, CEO of Clari. As a C-suite executive you are focused on improving your sales process. Clari applies AI to sales and is helping clients achieve amazing results

Understanding how to apply “Enterprise AI” to automate your supply chain and business processes is a must to remain competitive in today’s digital world.

Join me as I talk to Matt Denesuk, Cofounder and Chief Data Officer at Noodle.ai, about what opportunities are available to C-level executives who are looking to deploy AI throughout the enterprise and how to make it happen. Noodle.ai is one of the leading AI companies in the space. And few people have the depth of experience in the field as Matt does. In his past he has held the role of Chief Data Science Officer at GE and General Manager of their Data Science Center of excellence where he led AI programs across all of GE’s business units. He also led Smarter Planet and Industrial Machine Learning Research at IBM Research and was also a partner in IBM’s venture capital group.

The future is here. Is your company ready?

Virtual Assistants and collaborative work environments are coming to an enterprise near you and Voicera is leading the way. Join me as I talk to their CMO, Corey Trefilleti, about the state of the market, what to expect on the near horizon and how you can leverage these new technologies to boost productivity.

The cost of pursuing Deep Learning in many companies is cost prohibitive. Paperspace is seeking to change that with their offering, Join me as I learn from Dillon Erb the really neat things his company is developing.

Join me as we talk to Yoav Barel about Chatbots and natural language experiences. Whether you are a CEO of a retail company, an insurance firm, in fintech or wherever, natural language experiences are going to be the number one way you will interact with your customers in the very near future. Yoav is one of the leading thought leaders in the space. Not to be missed episode!

Join me on this podcast as I talk to Itai Orr, Director of Applied Machine Learning at Imagry, and learn about the technology that is driving the self-driving car revolution.

Are you interested in, or perhaps even tasked with, turning your company into a "Cognitive Enterprise?"  Join me for this exciting and insightful conversation with IBM's Chief Data Officer, Dr. Inderpal Bhandari.  Dr. Bhandari draws on his extensive experience in AI/cognitive systems, as well as his experience helping transform IBM into a cognitive enterprise, to provide advice and insights that are highly relevant to any C-Suite level executive who is about to embark on the journey to an "AI First" world.

Ople is a hot Artificial Intelligence start-up that is building technology that eliminates many C-Suite executives data science headaches by minimizing the risk of AI projects by enabling companies to build and test significantly more data models using less people in a shorter amount of time.

Join me as I talk to the founder and CEO, Pedro Alves, about how he is tackling what he sees as the most significant problems in the industry and his vision for the future.

Are you like most C-Suite level executives in that you are trying to figure out how you can apply Artificial Intelligence technologies to your enterprise to drive real business value while at the same time avoiding the pitfalls and mistakes that can make an AI project costly and time consuming? If so then today’s podcast is a “must listen” as I talk to Rudy Agovic, co-founder and CEO of Reliancy, and one of the leading practitioners of Applied AI for the enterprise.

In this show Rudy tells us how to identify areas in your enterprise where applying AI can deliver immediate business results and also walks us through best practices around structuring the project to avoid the pitfalls that others have faced.

As a C-Suite leader you are given the gift of ever increasing amounts of data about your customers, suppliers, competitors, and partners and yet so often we find that it is hard to turn this data into actionable insights that will help us deliver better business value, serve our customers more effectively and grow profits.

Ntent changes that paradigm. Today I talk with Dr. Ricardo Baeza-Yates, one of the luminaries of the web and the CTO of Ntent, about the power of search and how C-Suite leaders such as yourself should be thinking about how to apply it to your business. The future is here…..is your business ready?

Today on The Pulse of AI I dig down into how AI is changing sales with David Boyce, the Chief Strategy Officer and Chief Customer Officer of InsideSales.com. If you are like most C-Suite level executives that I know you are focused on improving your reps performance and increasing sales. InsideSales.com allows you to do just that with their AI-Fueled Neuralytics platform. The results their customers are seeing are truly amazing.

Dave walks us through what InsideSales.com does, how they do it and why this should matter to C-Suite executives.

As a C-Suite leader today you cannot attend a conference or read the news without hearing about Artificial Intelligence. But what is AI and what can it do? Join me as I talk to JT Kostman, one of the world’s leading applied AI technologists, as he explains in clear and concise language, and with some really fun examples, exactly what AI is and why it is important for C-suite leaders to start deploying it in your business today.

As a C-Suite leader you are on a quest to extract more information from your data faster and easier. To help you do this Serial Metrics has this really cool predictive analytics offering named Orion Search which enables companies like yours to ask predictive questions about your business from your data much like you would ask a question from Google or Siri. Discover what C-Suite leaders at their clients such as Wells Fargo, Bank of the West and Cloud Lending have learned - this is powerful stuff!

In this episode Jason Stoughton, the host of The Pulse of AI, interviews Dr. Eli David, the co-founder and CTO of Deep Instinct, an Israel based cybersecurity company.

Deep Instinct is the first company to apply artificial intelligence's deep learning to cybersecurity. Leveraging deep learning's predictive capabilities, Deep Instinct's on-device solution protects against zero-day threats and APT attacks with unmatched accuracy. 

Deep Instinct uses a GPU-based neural network and CUDA to achieve 99 percent detection rates, compared with about 80 percent detection from conventional cybersecurity software. Its software can automatically detect and defeat the most advanced cyberattacks. 

Deep Instinct just raised an additional $32 million.