AI-Curious with Jeff Wilser

AI-Curious with Jeff Wilser

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AI-Curious with Jeff Wilser episodes

  • Building an AI Business, with SwingVision CEO Swupnil Sahai

    Think of this as an "AI case study" -- a way to make the abstractness of AI concrete by going deep on a hyper-specific example.

    Swupnil Sahai is a former Tesla engineer. He worked directly with Elon Musk on the AI that powers self-driving cars.

    He then created "Swingvision," an AI-powered tennis app, which recently won Apple's prestigious Design Award. (Other winners include heavyhitters like Headspace and Duolingo.)

    The app records your tennis match. It then lets you analyze the results, review your form, and even challenge line calls in real-time. It's now being used by 100+ division 1 college tennis programs.

    All of this is powered by AI. So I spoke with Sahai about how the AI works (7:00), what he learned about AI from Tesla and Musk (11:45), how neural networks come into play (15:30), how they built their data model (19:40), what AI is good at and what it's surprisingly bad at (23:30), and his advice for AI founders and entrepreneurs (36:00).

    SwingVision:
    https://swing.tennis

    SwingVision wins Apple Design Award:
    https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/06/apple-reveals-its-2023-apple-design-award-winners/#:~:text=Image%20Credits%3A%20SwingVision,of%20strategy%20to%20the%20game.

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    39 min
  • AI in Hollywood, with Toonstar's John Attanasio and Luisa Huang

    Welcome to AI-Curious,  a podcast that explores the good, the bad, and the creepy of artificial intelligence.  

    For the debut episode, I'll introduce the conceit of the show, and then we'll speak to some Hollywood producers who are pioneers of using AI:  the cofounders of Toonstar Studios, CEO John Attanasio and COO Luisa Huang.

    John and Luisa bring a somewhat unique perspective of AI in Hollywood. For years, they've used AI *not* to replace writers and actors... but instead to speed up production and build communities. They share first how AI helped lower the barriers to entry for animation (5:30), then how their shows and franchises (The Gimmicks, Space Junk, Fortun3) have embraced AI (11:10), how they think about using AI ethically and responsibly (30:00), their thoughts on the writers and actors strike and a possible way forward (37:30), and finally some ideas of what AI in Hollywood could look like in the future (44:30).

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    55 min

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Every week, Jeff Wilser sits down with the people building, breaking, and reckoning with AI — from the CEO of Upwork to the pioneer who coined "AGI" to an AI social network where bots wrote…