Conversations on Applied AI

In this episode, we are joined by Josh Cutler, VP & Sr. Distinguished Engineer for AI Platforms & Transformation Team at Optum. Josh shared with us his 15+ years of experience in applying data and intelligence to solve hard business problems. I really liked Josh's definition of the application of AI being, "How can we help computers make good decisions". This cuts to the core of why we are building these systems and what the outcome should be.

Besides the applications Josh is building with his team today, he shared with us how he got into the field, the startups he founded, and how Microsoft was actually ahead of their time in this space with their Live Labs initiative and so much more. Enjoy!

Finally, if you are interested in learning about how AI is being applied across multiple industries, be sure to join us at a future Applied AI Monthly meetup and help support us so we can make future Emerging Technologies North non-profit events!

• Emerging Technologies North
• AppliedAI Meetup

Here's just a few of the many fun and interesting topics discussed during this podcast:

• Computer Vision
• NLP
• Choose Your Own Adventure
• Nate Silver
• Office Assistant
• Rambl
• Twitter
• Computational Frameworks for Political and Social Research with Python
• MVP
• Fast.ai

Enjoy!
Your host,
Justin Grammens

Thank you to Joe Schnieder for taking the time to chat with me on his history of applying AI using Embedded Systems. As a fellow entrepreneur, educator to the community, Arduino enthusiast, and someone looking at how to apply AI at the edge, this was an awesome conversation.

From his early times at John Deere to his current role as the founder of Dojo5, Joe brings passion, inspiration, and in some ways a much-needed levelheadedness ( is that a word? ) to the industry.

By giving back with his presentations and learnings are well worth attending. I hope that through this podcast you are able to learn about some of the new areas in which AI is being pushed to the edge with smarter devices being able to interact and then react using data from sensors in real-time.

Finally, if you are interested in learning about applying AI, be sure to join us at a future Applied AI Monthly meetup and help support us so we can make future Emerging Technologies North non-profit events!

• Emerging Technologies North
• AppliedAI Meetup

Here's just a few of the many fun and interesting topics discussed during this podcast:

• Applied AI Meetup
• Radio Shack Kits
• Turbo C++
• Precision Agriculture
• Imbio
• AgFuse
• Skynet
• Semtience
• Brain-computer Interface
• Devs
• Borg
• Cobol
• Embedded Systems
• Particle Asset Tracker
• EmbeddedFM
• TinyML
• Topher White
• Rainforest Connection
• Boon Logic
• OpenAI Model Generates Python Code
• Tensorflow Lite
• Dojo5 Learnings

Enjoy!
Your host,
Justin Grammens

I'm thrilled to have had the opportunity to have this awesome conversation with Jon Herke, a leader, and technical evangelist based in the Twin Cities. In this episode, we cover a TON of ground on everything from how Emerging Technologies such as Artificial Intelligence is being taught in schools and how Jon is intimately involved in fixing that through the Futurist Academy, to what's ahead with AI and Graph Databases and the J.A.R.V.I.S project and the Neuralink Corporation, founded by Elon Musk. I hope you enjoy this fascinating conversation with one of the most humble and giving person I know. As he shared with me, the three words that he lives by are: "Learn. Create. Share".

Finally, if you are interested in learning about applying AI, be sure to join us at a future Applied AI Monthly meetup and help support us so we can make future Emerging Technologies North non-profit events!

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• AppliedAI Meetup

Here's just a small sample of the topics we discussed. Enjoy!

• National Guard
• United Health Group
• Graph Databases
• Tigergraph
• AI Racing League
• GPU Servers
• Emerging Technologies
• Cosine Similarity
• Natural Language Processing
• Computer Vision
• Papers on Graph Convolutional Neural Networks (GCNN)
• Predicting IPO's using GCNN
• Parker Erikson
• Artificial General Intelligence
• J.A.R.V.I.S
• Neuralink
• 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
• Deepfake

In this episode, we talk with Senthil Kumaran, CIO/CTO for Virtuwell, a HealthPartners company. He is part of HealthPartners AI and Machine Learning and Enterprise architecture group and a key contributor to the HIPPA/HITEC security and a conference presenter on Predictive Data Analytics, Rules, and Web/Mobile initiatives. 

In this episode, we talk about the US Healthcare system and how AI is being used to provide better customer experience, better health outcomes for a lower cost.

"40 years ago, healthcare we 4% of GDP. Now it's 19% of our GDP... The US is rated at number 20 in the world for Healthcare." - Senthil Kumaran

Topics covered:

• AI Timeline
• Personalized Medicine
• Babalon Health
• IDXDR
• Retina Scan
• Emotional Intelligence
• Beyond Verbal
• Affectiva
• Coursera
• Kaggle
• Sentiment Analysis
• Minnebar

Interested in learning more? Visit us at the Emerging Technology North website or an AppliedAI monthly event!

In this episode, Dan McCreary, Distinguished Engineer in AI and Graph at Optum shares with us his deep experience in Graph Databases, the AI racing league, and why Enterprise Knowledge Graphs will rule the world in the areas of Healthcare and Artificial Intelligence.

• Graph Databases
• Enterprise Knowledge Graphs
• AI Racing League
• Optum
• IoTHackday
• Arduino

Thank you, Dan, for the conversation and to you the listener for your continued support and interest in Artificial Intelligence and how it is being applied to the world in which we live.

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