Earley AI Podcast

Today’s guest is Kirk Marple, Technical Founder and CEO at Unstruk Data. Kirk joins Seth Earley and Chris Featherstone to  discuss organizing historical data and long-term memory. Kirk emphasizes the importance of organizing data in a manner that allows for seamless integration with novel models and shares valuable advice on understanding data. 

Takeaways:

• The semantic web serves as a powerful tool for optimizing business applications and data organization.  
• A prevalent misconception surrounding AI is that individuals need to construct their own models and be data science experts. Advancements unfold at a rapid pace. People need to harness the power of AI and employ it strategically within their business operations.
• Data lies at the core of everything. To optimize the utilization of emerging models effectively it is important to organize data in a way that seamlessly integrates with novel models. AI implementation needs to be approached with a practical mindset.  
• In the last 6-9 months large language models have developed the ability to engage in meaningful conversations with their underlying data. This aspect of interactive communication tends to be overlooked. The focus often leans towards retrieval and entity extraction.
• Over the years, people have addressed the issue of non-equalization of data intent through the provision of taxonomies. In the future Kirk anticipates that AI will play a pivotal role in enhancing this process. 

Quote of the Show:

• “It’s a data set. Not just a hard drive.” (03:50)

Links:

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirkmarple/ 
• Website: https://www.unstruk.com/ 
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/unstruk 

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Today’s guest is Alex Babin, Co-Founder and CEO at ZERO Systems. Alex joins Seth Earley and Chris Featherstone to share two of the biggest misconceptions of AI and a  new AI metric data tool. Using AI to track data improves performance. 

Takeaways:

• The biggest misconceptions about AI are:
  • AI can work out of the box. ChatGPT shows people what it can do but that doesn't mean that AI can do everything.
  • You can throw data at AI and it will execute your needs perfectly.  AI technology is changing, but it hasn’t met this level of expertise yet.
• A best practice to avoid these misconceptions of AI is to start from the beginning. Figure out your company's ROI and reconstruct all the steps required.
• There's a new layer of metric data that has never existed before,  user-generated data or a feedback loop. As you interact with a tool a new type of metadata is born. As you feed more data and information to the tool it creates a data flywheel.
• Ontologies don't always overlap to give a full understanding. AI can be a stitching mechanism to join two ontologies that should be communicating. You can use AI to Alex explains how the two ontologies aren’t connected. Fortune1000 companies can use AI to use data more effectively. 
• Organizations need end-to-end solutions. An enterprise-scale solution doesn't exist right now. They're using fragmented solutions and piecing it together.
• Interconnecting data and compartmentalizing it can lead to end-to-end solutions, skilled AI models (SAMs). 
•  AI is an arms race right now. The focus is on making things bigger, faster, and more powerful. Without governance it can be dangerous. We need to collectively figure it out. 

Quote of the Show:

• “Throwing ChatGPT on top of your problems will not solve it.” (04:51)

Links:

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexbabin/ 
• Website: https://zerosystems.com/ 
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/zeromailapp?lang=en 

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Today’s guest is Maxim Serebryakov, Co-Founder and CEO at Sanas. Max joins Seth Earley and Chris Featherstone and shares what influenced him to start his company. Max discusses what it was like to study artificial intelligence at Stanford and how it created a broad perspective on how things work. Max believes if you go above and beyond you can help anyone. 

Takeaways:

• Max was born in New York, moving back to Russia where his family is from as a child. When he returned to the United States, hearing the accents around him led to the creation of his company, Sanas.
• Artificial intelligence shows the limitations of modern-day voice conversion research. You're not just modulating the pitch and tone, you're changing the underlying phonetics that are present within it.
• Initially, they chose to deploy Sanas in contact centers and enterprises because speech is very structured.
•  Sanas helps large companies improve customer service interactions which is crucial to their service.

Quote of the Show:

• “We ended up building an algorithm that really doesn't exist in the research world. It's very innovative. It works on the edge, works with clients, and it's very efficient.” (11:02)

Links:

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maximser/ 
• Website: https://www.sanas.ai/ 

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Today’s guest is Michael Todasco write extensively about Generative AI. Mike joins Seth Earley and Chris Featherstone to discuss all things generative AI and why people should embrace AI.  He also shares valuable advice on how to build a better connection with your customers.

Takeaways:

• While he was at PayPal, Mike was responsible for innovation and improving employee performance. 
• Embrace AI. Working with AI will result in better solutions.
• It is important for everyone to know what their competitive advantage is and what their end goal is.
• One great way to get proprietary information about your customers is to stage a gated experimentation process.
• One of Michael's experiments was writing a book using an Excel spreadsheet. He took what was written in Excel and pasted it into ChatGPT to craft 56 different writing genres. 

Quote of the Show:

• “Your job is not going to be replaced by AI. It's going to be replaced by a human who's using AI.” (08:17)

Links:

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/todasco 
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/todasco/ 
• Website: https://medium.com/@todasco 

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Today’s guest is Gordon Hart, Co-Founder and Head of Product at Kolena. Gordon joins Seth Earley and Chris Featherstone and shares how ​​machine learning algorithms are a challenge from different perspectives. Gordon also discusses the core problem in his company before they turned it around. Be sure to listen to Gordon's advice on how to validate models in order to have a successful product!

Takeaways:

• Gordon noticed that developing algorithms internally or buying from other model vendors has really had a constant unexpected model behavior. It made him feel he couldn’t trust the models to behave sensibly. 
• Gordon started his company because he noticed that time after time, he was getting blindsided. He knew there was a better way to develop models and validate what they were doing. 
• The key challenge that Gordon and his team ran into was that when you have all the data when they were looking at that one number, they were looking at that aggregate metric computed across their entire benchmark.
• Gordon expresses the importance of going through scenarios with your products. He found that when you break down your evaluation into these different scenarios, the test gives you an understanding of how this model improves in the aggregate over previous models and how are the failures distributed.
• Testing data is more critical than training data because your testing data is used to determine if your new model has the correct behaviors.
• Testing the full pipeline from pre-processing through post-processing rather than testing the model component will oftentimes improve the visibility into how your product is actually going to work when you put it out there.

Quote of the Show:

• “Having your evaluation metrics align with the way that your system is going to be evaluated in the field is a key thing that you can do to get a better understanding of ‘is this model better for what I set out to do?’” (22:36)

Links:

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/kolenaIO 
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gordon-hart/ 
• Website: https://www.kolena.io/ 

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Today’s guest is Daniel Faggella, Head of Research and CEO at Emerj Technology Research. Dan joins Seth Earley and Chris Featherstone and shares how martial arts influenced him to get into artificial intelligence. Dan also discusses what his experience was like with surveillance technology creation technology. Dan had a machine that could generate the next 10 slides of your desired moving picture. Be sure to listen in on Dan giving his advice on how you should properly use open AI!

Takeaways:

• Dan got into artificial intelligence by practicing the martial art, Jujitsu. He started a Jujitsu gym which helped support him when he was in school. Jujitsu helped motivate him and keep his mind balanced.
• Dan mentions how generative AI has been starting to bubble up since the spark of ChatGPT. He sees people starting to experiment with social and proposals. 
• With AI in general, people are looking at junctures within the workflow. Identifying junctures where can push a button will lead to streamlined deliverables.
• Generative AI finds the juncture pockets and knows exactly where those settle in.
• Dan speculates that people will evolve their use of ChatGPT and structure different FAQs.
• Dan believes that one day we'll use Generative AI to create a feedback loop allowing humans to say what's wrong and what's right to train AI systems.

Quote of the Show:

• “The dust has yet to settle on the early cluster of those use cases in Generative AI.” (19:06)

Links:

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/danfaggella 
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danfaggella/ 
• Website: https://emerj.com/ 
• Podcast: The AI and Business Podcast
• Article: Lotus Eaters and World Eaters

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Today’s guest is Michelle Zhou, Co-Founder and CEO at Juji, Inc. Michelle joins Seth Earley and Chris Featherstone and dives into what proprietary data is and how it can be used correctly. Michelle also discusses the one lesson she has learned is that you have to build a product that can help people. You want to achieve your customers' outcomes, not your outcomes. Be sure to listen in on Michelle giving her advice on how to pick out the golden nuggets in AI data to show a coherent and meaningful summary!

Takeaways:

• When Michelle first started with computer science, she wasn't fond of it until she attended Michigan State University where two professors changed her perspective on computers. They gave her the opportunity to work on building graphical user interfaces for power management and worked on projects that dealt with AI data storytelling.
• Michelle explains that the AI data storyteller gives a set of data and tasks of the user which then gives the user visual preferences. It also consists of a series of animated data visualization.
• During Michelle’s first 15 years of research, she was working on understanding users in a task context. For example, what their tasks are, what they're looking for, what their visual preferences are, and what their verbal preferences were.
• Michelle has noticed a lot of students will strive for a degree that their family has done in the past. Michelle says that you don’t always have to follow any degree you don’t want. There are so many unique degrees to pick from.
• Michelle believes that transparency drives responsibility and since they have a powerful AI system, she wants to make sure that they use their AI in a responsible way.
• The one lesson Michelle has learned is that you really have to build a product that can help people. Make sure to achieve your customers' outcomes and not yours. You don’t want to waste their time.

Quote of the Show:

“I want to really democratize the use of this cutting-edge technology.” (23:41)

Links:

• Twitter
• LinkedIn
• Website

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Today’s guest is Juan Sequeda, Principal Scientist at data.world and Co-Host of the Catalog & Cocktails Podcast. Juan joins Seth Earley and Chris Featherstone and shares how to understand the problem that you are trying to solve. Juan also discusses how your company's success should be defined differently. Don’t focus on just on saving money to make money. Focus on solving a problem.  Juan also shares valuable advice on how understanding who you report to helps you speak the same language.  

Takeaways:

• Juan believes the market is immature when it comes to what they want or what they think they want. This is where data catalogs become important so that companies can locate information. 
• From the perspective of the data management world, it’s focused on only technology. The problems that they had been trying to solve 30 years ago continue to be the same problems they’ve been trying to solve.
• If you are on the technical side of your business, it is important to understand who you should be reporting to. Understanding this early on will help you tailor information to meet the correct outcome. 
• Juan’s definition of a knowledge graph is representing real-world concepts and the relationships between those real-world concepts end up forming a graph. The reason why the graph is really valuable is because you can integrate data coming from many diverse sources.

Quote of the Show:

“Keep working on the same vision.” (07:50)

Links:

• Twitter
• LinkedIn
• Website
• Podcast: Catalog & Cocktails presented by data.world
• Juan’s Portfolio
•  Book: Integrating Relational Databases with the Semantic Web

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In this episode, our guest is Andy Fitzgerald and Information Architecture & Content Strategy Consultant.

Highlights:
1:40 - Getting from Ph.D. in English and Literature in information architecture and knowledge graphs
9:23 - Schema.org
14:30 - How can we get search to be like "Google"?
19:00 - The trouble with self-organizing information
20:40 - The KFC debacle in Germany and case for keeping humans in the loop
22:15 - Knowledge graphs and AI
29:35 - Role of linguistics
33:00 - What happens when you don't apply knowledge graphs to AI projects
37:00 - Boutique knowledge graph - UXMethods.org
48:00 - Value of smaller scale knowledge graphs and simplicity

Links:

• Connect with Andy on Linkedin
• andyfitzgeraldconsulting.com
• UX Methods - a community powered, linked data driven knowledge graph for learning about the techniques of user experience design.
• Jim Hendler's papers
• Gall's Law

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In this episode, Seth and Chris talk with Peter Voss,  Founder, CEO, and Chief Scientist at AGI Innovations & Aigo.ai.

Highlights:
2:58 "Software is quite dumb"
3:51 "What is reality?"
5:00 Coining the phrase "Artificial General Intelligence" - what it means
9:00 On understanding cognition in the deepest terms
11:10 What is consciousness?
15:20 Difference between "Artificial Intelligence" and "Artificial General Intelligence"
19:00 The 3 waves of AI
29:45 What is cognitive architecture?
34:30 Quality of data vs quantity of data
38:00 Practical applications for building personalization systems
39:20 What can organizations do to prepare for AI driven systems?
46:30 One corporate bot or multiple bots?
53:45 Automation should be able to deliver the superior customer experience, not the cheaper second class option

Links:

• Connect with Peter on Linkedin
• Visit the Aigo.ai website

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