Multiple-founder Bindu Reddy (Abacus.ai, ex-AWS, ex-Google) weighs in on applied research, science and math vs product management, explosive interest in artificial intelligence, risk and diversifying the customer base. Remember: artificial intelligence does not have consciousness or agency.

2m 27s Teach the machine if there's a hotdog in your image or not.

4m 45s Building the artificial intelligence that will build artificial intelligence with Abacus.ai.

5m 50s Taking “high level bets on where the world is going” is a pretty good strategy for life and business; looking for and sometimes finding inevitability as opposed to mere opportunity.

9m 3s Still feeling wonderment about math when your day is about running a business.

10m 20s  Being impatient with the time it takes for research to leave the lab; advantages to AI research where science and math are often months away from commercial use rather than years.

12m 0s Founders moving from 24/7 time with customers into product development; how to risk manage the bets you’ve taken.

17m 50s “AI does not have consciousness or agency.”

20m 16s Bad actors abusing AI is a real problem. AI becoming conscious is not a real problem. The two can get conflated.