Eye On A.I.

Eye On A.I.

by Craig S. Smith

Eye on A.I. is a biweekly podcast, hosted by longtime New York Times correspondent Craig S. Smith. In each episode, Craig will talk to people making a difference in artificial intelligence. The podcast aims to put incremental advances into a broader context and consider the global implications of the developing technology. AI is about to change your world, so pay attention.
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Episodes 390 total

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Real AI Transformation Costs HALF of Everyone's Salary for 2 Years | Chris Blackburn, Liatrio

Jul 30, 2026 · 1h 5m

Most companies think they're transforming with AI. They're not, and the gap between what they believe and what's actually happening on the ground is costing the…

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"According to NASA's Definition of Life, I'm Not Alive" - Why Nobody Can Define Life | Dr. Kate Adamala

Jul 29, 2026 · 46m

Nobody has ever built a cell from scratch - assembled entirely from purified molecules on a shelf - that can feed itself, grow, and split into daughter cells th…

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Video Is About to Stop Being One-Way (and That Changes Everything) | Victor Riparbelli, Synthesia

Jul 28, 2026 · 39m

Every company is creating content that nobody reads, nobody watches, and nobody remembers, and the CEO of the AI platform that 90% of Fortune 100 companies use…

Video Is About to Stop Being One-Way (and That Changes Everything) | Victor Riparbelli, Synthesia

Jul 28, 2026 · 39m

Every company is creating content that nobody reads, nobody watches, and nobody remembers, and the CEO of the AI platform that 90% of Fortune 100 companies use…

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"According to NASA's Definition of Life, I'm Not Alive" - Why Nobody Can Define Life | Dr. Kate Adamala

Jul 21, 2026 · 46m

Nobody has ever built a cell from scratch - assembled entirely from purified molecules on a shelf - that can feed itself, grow, and split into daughter cells th…

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6 in 10 Enterprises Can't Find the Root Cause When Their AI Workloads Fail | Paul Appleby, Virtana

Jul 15, 2026 · 44m

Companies are spending billions building AI factories, but most of them can't tell you why their AI workloads are failing, whether their GPUs are actually being…

E365

Inside the Enterprise Browser Rebuilding Security for the AI Era | Bradon Rogers, Island

Jul 13, 2026 · 55m

AI is moving faster than enterprise security systems were designed to handle. In this episode of Eye on A.I., Craig Smith speaks with Bradon Rogers, Chief Custo…

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What Industrial AI Actually Looks Like | Kriti Sharma, Nexus Black

Jul 10, 2026 · 23m

Most AI is built for people sitting at desks. Kriti Sharma builds it for the people who work in refineries, aircraft hangars, and utility networks responding to…

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The Biggest AI Security Problem Isn't the Model. It's This. | Devvret Rishi

Jul 7, 2026 · 47m

What is an AI agent, really? Strip away the hype, and it's a model with access - to tools, APIs, databases, email, anything that lets it take real action instea…

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Big Pharma Fails 50% of the Time in Phase Three. AI Can Fix That | Vin Singh, BullFrog AI

Jul 5, 2026 · 49m

It costs up to $2 billion and fifteen years to develop a drug, and big pharma still fails half the time at the final stage. BullFrog AI founder, Chairman, and C…

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AI Agents Are Failing and It's Almost Never the Model's Fault | Alberto Pan, Denodo

Jul 2, 2026 · 41m

After two years of AI pilots, enterprises are finally diagnosing what went wrong, and the answer keeps coming back to data. Alberto Pan, CTO of Denodo, joins Cr…

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How Modern Science Got Consciousness Wrong From the Start | Philip Goff

Jun 29, 2026 · 1h 1m

What if consciousness isn't a byproduct of complex brains, but a fundamental feature of reality itself, present, in some rudimentary form, all the way down to e…

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AI Is Reading 15 Million X-Rays a Year With No Human in the Loop | Prashant Warier, Qure.ai

Jun 20, 2026 · 41m

Eighty percent of lung cancer cases are diagnosed too late, not because the signals aren't there, but because nobody was looking at the right moment. Prashant W…

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Only 12% of Companies Generate Value From AI. Here's What They're Doing | Sanjeev Vohra, Genpact

Jun 18, 2026 · 59m

Genpact surveyed 500 senior executives to understand why companies are investing in AI but not seeing the value, and what they found was both clarifying and unc…

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India Is Becoming an Architect of the Global AI Order | Ivana Bartoletti of Wipro

Jun 16, 2026 · 56m

The Global AI Summit just happened in New Delhi, and the message from India was clear: this country is no longer just writing code for the rest of the world. It…

E356

The New BRAIN Of the Enterprise | Ryan Gavin

Jun 13, 2026 · 53m

One company now has more AI agents deployed in its organization than it has human employees. Slack's CMO Ryan Gavin dropped that stat into a conversation with C…

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AI Is Already Resolving 90% of Customer Service Tickets - and It's Getting Smarter | Shashi Upadhyay, Zendesk

Jun 12, 2026 · 57m

Zendesk went private two weeks before ChatGPT launched, and the moment it came out, it was obvious that customer service would never be the same again. Shashi U…

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Every Enterprise Is About to Have a 100,000 Agent Problem | Oren Michaels of Barndoor AI

Jun 6, 2026 · 59m

AI agents can now connect to every tool your employees use. The problem is that connecting them and trusting them are two completely different things, and most…

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More Customers Chose the AI Agent Than Anyone Expected | Tom Chen, Aircall

Jun 4, 2026 · 56m

Every time you hit a phone tree or a chatbot with canned answers, you're experiencing the gap between what AI can already do and what most companies are still d…

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Why the Future of AI Isn't Just Bigger Models. It's Models That Evolve | Risto Miikkulainen of Cognizant

Jun 2, 2026 · 1h 4m

Most AI systems follow a gradient, a mathematical slope that tells them exactly how to improve, step by step, toward a known goal. Neuroevolution doesn't follow…