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November 25, 2021
November 23, 2021
#243 – Kevin Systrom: Instagram
Kevin Systrom is the co-founder and former CEO of Instagram. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: – Theragun: https://therabody.com/l…
Chat about Teaching AI at Stanford with Abigail See
A special discussion episode, where we do not cover AI news but instead chat about our experiences teaching AI classes at Stanford with Abigail See, a graduate…
Using AI to Improve Financial Collections - with Sanjay Deshmukh of Findability Sciences
Our guest this week is Sanjay Deshmukh, Executive Vice President of Findability Sciences. Findability is a SoftBank-backed firm here in the Boston area with abo…
November 20, 2021
#242 – Ben Askren: Wrestling and MMA
Ben Askren is a wrestler and MMA fighter, former Bellator and ONE Championship welterweight champion, a two-time NCAA wrestling champion and four-time finalist…
E56: Constitution DAO, Rittenhouse trial coverage, private sector efficiency vs the government
0:00 Bestie intro 1:14 Constitution DAO: implications, shortcomings, how to move forward? 29:58 Rittenhouse trial media coverage 50:52 Ken Griffin plays heel (a…
November 19, 2021
November 18, 2021
November 17, 2021
Enterra Solutions
Stephen DeAngelis, head of Enterra Solutions, reminds us that so-called Old-Fashioned AI continues to be a powerful tool. He talked about leveraging knowledge b…
No One AI Tool Can Solve All Problems - with Jeff Mills of iMerit Technology
Today's guest is Jeff Mills, Chief Revenue Officer of iMerit Technology. Working in the data labeling and annotation space, iMerit is a company that works with…
AI of the Tiger: Conservation Biologist Jeremy Dertien - Ep. 156
Fewer than 4,000 tigers remain worldwide, according to Tigers United, a university consortium that recently began using AI to help save the species. Jeremy Dert…
November 16, 2021
#241 – Boris Sofman: Waymo, Cozmo, Self-Driving Cars, and the Future of Robotics
Boris Sofman is the Senior Director Of Engineering and Head of Trucking at Waymo, formerly the Google Self-Driving Car project. He was also the CEO and co-found…
Making AI Easier to Adopt into the Enterprise - with Marshall Choy of SambaNova Systems
Today's guest is Marshall Choy, VP of Product at SambaNova Systems. In this episode, Marshall discusses two different approaches to AI adoption: doing it yourse…
November 14, 2021
November 13, 2021
November 11, 2021
#240 – Neal Stephenson: Sci-Fi, Space, Aliens, AI, VR & the Future of Humanity
Neal Stephenson is a sci-fi writer (Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, and new book Termination Shock), former Chief Futurist at Magic Leap and first employee of Blue O…
Facebook Shuts Down Facial Recognition, Google Wants to Work with the Pentagon, AI for Lie Detection?
Our 77th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Check our text version of this news round…
November 9, 2021
November 8, 2021
November 6, 2021
Turning Data Strategy into AI ROI - with TJ Shembekar of IBM
Today's guest is TJ Shembekar, Director of IT for IBM Global Financing. TJ has been with IBM for over 15 years and has gone through the entire journey of bringi…
E54: Spread trading big tech, capital allocation, Zillow's misfire, Progressives suffer losses
Show Notes: 0:00 Besties do a Microsoft-themed intro 7:53 Spread trading big tech, amazing power of Google and Microsoft 17:28 Sacks speaks about Bird going pub…
November 5, 2021
#238 – Francis Collins: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Francis Collins is the director of the NIH and former head of the Human Genome Project. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: – Ten Th…
What it Takes to Make AI Part of the Lifeblood of a Company - with Stacey Shulman of Intel
This is the final episode in our five-part series on AI culture change in the enterprise. Every day this week, we have published an episode covering this topic…
November 4, 2021
A National AI Research Resource
Daniel Ho, associate director of Stanford's Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence talks about the proposed National AI Research Resource, an effo…
The Stages of Enterprise AI Maturity - with Domino Data Lab CEO Nick Elprin
As episode four of five in our series on enterprise culture change for AI adoption, we speak with Nick Elprin, CEO of Domino Data Lab. His company has currently…
AI for Game Mods and Moderation, Tesla‘s Beta Rollback, Clearview AI Tested, ruDALL-E
Our 76th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube Check our text version of this news round…
November 3, 2021
#237 – Steve Viscelli: Trucking and the Decline of the American Dream
Steve Viscelli is a former truck driver and now an economic sociologist at University of Pennsylvania studying freight transportation, including autonomous truc…
Lifting the "AI Fluency" of Enterprise Teams at Scale - with Andreas Welsch of SAP
This is episode three in our series on AI culture change in the enterprise taking place this week through Friday. We will be publishing episodes daily highlight…
Metaspectral’s Migel Tissera on AI-Based Data Management - Ep. 155
Moondust, minerals and soil types are just some of the materials that can be quickly identified and analyzed with AI,…
