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How Space Armies will Define the Artificial Intelligence Race with David Yakobovitch

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The HumAIn Podcast is a leading artificial intelligence podcast that explores the topics of AI, data science, future of work, and developer education for technologists. Whether you are an Executive, data scientist, software engineer, product manager, or student-in-training, HumAIn connects you with industry thought leaders on the technology trends that are relevant and practical. HumAIn is a leading data science podcast where frequently discussed topics include ai trends, ai for all, computer vision, natural language processing, machine learning, data science, and reskilling and upskilling for developers. Episodes focus on new technology, startups, and Human Centered AI in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. HumAIn is the channel to release new AI products, discuss technology trends, and augment human performance.

Is AI a Job Killer or a Job Creator with David Yakobovitch

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The HumAIn Podcast is a leading artificial intelligence podcast that explores the topics of AI, data science, future of work, and developer education for technologists. Whether you are an Executive, data scientist, software engineer, product manager, or student-in-training, HumAIn connects you with industry thought leaders on the technology trends that are relevant and practical. HumAIn is a leading data science podcast where frequently discussed topics include ai trends, ai for all, computer vision, natural language processing, machine learning, data science, and reskilling and upskilling for developers. Episodes focus on new technology, startups, and Human Centered AI in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. HumAIn is the channel to release new AI products, discuss technology trends, and augment human performance.

The Paradox of Artificial Intelligence: Accountability, Responsibility and Ethics in Artificial Intelligence.

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About HumAIn Podcast:

The HumAIn Podcast is a leading artificial intelligence podcast that explores the topics of AI, data science, future of work, and developer education for technologists. Whether you are an Executive, data scientist, software engineer, product manager, or student-in-training, HumAIn connects you with industry thought leaders on the technology trends that are relevant and practical. HumAIn is a leading data science podcast where frequently discussed topics include ai trends, ai for all, computer vision, natural language processing, machine learning, data science, and reskilling and upskilling for developers. Episodes focus on new technology, startups, and Human Centered AI in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. HumAIn is the channel to release new AI products, discuss technology trends, and augment human performance.

In this Flash Briefing, David Yakobovitch shares his insights Why Amazon's Return to NYC is Good for All New Yorkers.

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The HumAIn Podcast is a leading artificial intelligence podcast that explores the topics of AI, data science, future of work, and developer education for technologists. Whether you are an Executive, data scientist, software engineer, product manager, or student-in-training, HumAIn connects you with industry thought leaders on the technology trends that are relevant and practical. HumAIn is a leading data science podcast where frequently discussed topics include ai trends, ai for all, computer vision, natural language processing, machine learning, data science, and reskilling and upskilling for developers. Episodes focus on new technology, startups, and Human Centered AI in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. HumAIn is the channel to release new AI products, discuss technology trends, and augment human performance.

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Karen Bhatia is the Senior Vice President at the New York City Economic Development Corporation, leading Creative and Applied Tech strategies and initiatives to promote economic development and entrepreneurship throughout the city. Karen is also an attorney, entrepreneur and startup advisor. She was the principal of her own law firm advising tech startups on corporate issues, financing and overall business strategy. 

As an entrepreneur, Karen founded ActionCam, an educational platform explaining public policy issues and providing resources for people to take action. Karen also founded and is President of Stanford Startups NY, a business network of over 650 Stanford entrepreneurs and investors in the area. 

She is also on the Board of Trustees of Mott Hall, a middle school in the Bronx. Karen has a B.A. from Stanford University, a Master's degree in Public Policy from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and a J.D. from George Washington University Law School.

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(00:00) – Introduction

(03:25) –New York City Economic Development Corporation, NYCEDC, is responsible for driving and shaping economic growth throughout the five boroughs as the city's economic engine through real estate used for strategic development, building infrastructure, bringing together public and the private sector academia for all and investments in tech.

(05:24) –Some reasons why New York is such an attractive place for technology: NYC access to capital, extremely diverse industries, top-notch educational facilities and organizations, an extremely vibrant startup community and the largest and most diverse workforce in the country.

(09:58) – All of the industries now integrate technology and need a workforce that's well-versed in technology too. It's not just technology that's growing in New York, but also the applications that industries are leveraging there.

(11:24) – Some of the new centers that have been launched in the last five years: Varick Street Incubator, The Cornell and the Technion relationship, the Data Science Institute in Columbia University, NYU's CUS program, the Urban Tech Hub, the Brooklyn Navy Yard, as well as a program at Grand Central Tech now called The Company, Future Works, The Grid, New York City Blockchain Week in partnership with CoinDesk, New York City Blockchain Resource Center and a Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality lab also located at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

(19:36) – How we ensure that New York stays at the forefront of innovation is the most critical component of all of this. There's a workforce development component of training for VR and AR technologies as well. Our strategy for technology is to think about how we ensure that tech growth in New York is equitable and inclusive. 

(23:30) – The New York City Center for Responsible AI, an applied research lab focused on real pilots, real applications of AI that are being developed in particular industries or in the public sector.

(26:45) – New York City Center for Responsible AI is intended to come away with practical solutions for people as they're developing AI. The second component is to think about access to data. The third part is training.

(33:04) – The Fourth Industrial Revolution and what's coming up, it's about how we ensure that everybody has access to opportunities, that everybody is able to maximize and realize their potential as well. The second aspect is the future of work. 

(39:39) – Ultimately it comes down to people first and ensuring that whatever it is that we're working on has an ethical component and is actually used for purposes that we believe in. To ensure that tech is taken to the next level that it's responsible and that it's inclusive as well.

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Chris Van Pelt joined Weights & Biases as Co-Founder in 2017.Chris co-founded CrowdFlower. He was previously a technical product manager at Powerset, Inc., a natural language search technology company later acquired by Microsoft. Chris has worked as a studio artist, computer scientist, and web engineer, and pours his diverse background into his role as Chief Technology Officer. He combines deep design insight coding abilities that enables him to produce anything, sometimes within minutes. Chris studied both art and computer science at Hope College.

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Chris Van Pelt’s Website: https://wandb.ai/site 

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Outline: 

Here’s the timestamps for the episode: 

(00:00) – Introduction

(01:55) –Enabling AI is a paradigm shift in software development. It's going to change the way that software is getting written. 

(02:32) – Enabling AI by opening up to the community through “benchmarks”, which are  mini Kaggle competitions, oftentimes focused around social good or something to make positive change in the world.

(02:54) – Drought Watch exemplifies one of these benchmarks. It's taking satellite imagery of various drought prone regions in the world, as a call to folks in the machine learning community to create an algorithm to predict drought conditions before they happen so that we can take appropriate action and ensure that the impact on humanity is minimal.

(05:58) – Developer tools for machine learning show two different approaches in the marketplace: data science as a service from data ingestion and transformation to training of models to actually deploying those models. Weights & Biases tries to create an entire platform as a service focusing on the training and experimentation around creating models. 

(07:59) – Figure Eight can give companies data in a highly scalable, efficient and accurate manner. Weights & Biases is a tool intended to build a model. But first you'd need to label the data. FigureEight calls it a “Human in the loop” who targets examples that maybe the model didn't do well to go back through a labeling pipeline and get labels on to further improve the model as it is being retrained. 

(09:56) – Companies like Google have spent tens of millions of dollars, hundreds of years of compute and processing power on working on data sets and labeling data to get it to a good enough steady state that now can outperform a human and still have Humans in the loop. It is a core aspect of any real-world mature machine learning application.

(12:38) – The tooling in the space of deep learning was pretty lacking. Weights & Biases was first trying to address this issue of keeping track of what you had done and then hopefully better enabling teams to reproduce any results that had been obtained in the past. 

(16:13) – We're at least a few years out before we see any meaningful usage of technology, before getting autonomous.

(18:42) – Computer vision started the hype around deep learning a few years back. And it's been really exciting to see the advances in natural language processing over the last couple of years. Image captioning merges both worlds.

(22:50) – We are going to continue to need humans for cognitively challenging tasks such as authentication, fingerprinting and spoofing. Any time there's some underlying pattern in your data that is not getting after the core of what you're trying to predict, but instead, the systematic of something else in your data collection process, that is bias.

(25:00) – Reducing bias by trying to understand data sets. In the initial training data creation and curation process, pull all sorts of statistics over various axes.And once you've created a model, measure how the outputs of that model are performing across an evaluation data center, some set of data. 

(27:42) – As we create deep learning models with tens of thousands or millions of parameters, it becomes really difficult to explain why any given output was chosen or what their thought process was. 

(29:15) – Reinforcement learning is definitely more on the frontier of ML. Some companies use Weight and Biases’ RL at least in an experimental context. 

(31:11) – Research trends include unsupervised machine learning use cases being able to take data that hasn't been labeled by any human and actually surface or unearth patterns simply by looking at all the data.

(32:30) – Data sets are going to continue to become larger and computes is going to become less constrained. It's all about the custom hardware. Many startups are trying to make hardware chips that can do all of this matrix math really quickly and highly parallelized. Those are going to be continued innovation, and likely some big step gains as the market matures.

(37:46) – Using Weights and Biases tools will help you unearth any underlying bias or issue with your model and enable you to debug it quickly. 

How You Can Enable Modern Enterprise Data Science with Armen Kherlopian of Genpact.

-Guest speaker: Armen Kherlopian, Chief Science Officer at Genpact.

-Nuro.AI, based in California develops autonomous delivery vehicles.

-Ride sharing companies such as Uber and Lyft, feature in the discussion.

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The HumAIn Podcast is a leading artificial intelligence podcast that explores the topics of AI, data science, future of work, and developer education for technologists. Whether you are an Executive, data scientist, software engineer, product manager, or student-in-training, HumAIn connects you with industry thought leaders on the technology trends that are relevant and practical. HumAIn is a leading data science podcast where frequently discussed topics include ai trends, ai for all, computer vision, natural language processing, machine learning, data science, and reskilling and upskilling for developers. Episodes focus on new technology, startups, and Human Centered AI in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. HumAIn is the channel to release new AI products, discuss technology trends, and augment human performance.

How Human Centered Design Can Create Inclusive Systems with Chris Butler of IPSoft.

-Guest speaker: Chris Butler, Chief Product Architect at IPsoft.

-Lyrebird, utilizes AI to enable creative expression.

-Philosophie, deals with AI engagement sales, strategy, research, and design.

-Kayak, is a metasearch engine and runs multiple travel search engines.

-Kevin Kelly, is the author of the book: What Technology Wants.

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About HumAIn Podcast:

The HumAIn Podcast is a leading artificial intelligence podcast that explores the topics of AI, data science, future of work, and developer education for technologists. Whether you are an Executive, data scientist, software engineer, product manager, or student-in-training, HumAIn connects you with industry thought leaders on the technology trends that are relevant and practical. HumAIn is a leading data science podcast where frequently discussed topics include ai trends, ai for all, computer vision, natural language processing, machine learning, data science, and reskilling and upskilling for developers. Episodes focus on new technology, startups, and Human Centered AI in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. HumAIn is the channel to release new AI products, discuss technology trends, and augment human performance.

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Armen Berjikly is an entrepreneur who has dedicated his career to pushing the boundary of artificial intelligence with special focus on emotion and empathy to work with people as they are. He created the company called Kanjoya, which was acquired by Ultimate Software around three years ago. Today he has led Product Strategy for Ultimate Software in San Francisco, and is currently a Co-Founder and Head of Product at Motive Software.

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Armen Berjikly’s Website: https://www.motivesoftware.com/ 

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Outline: 

Here’s the timestamps for the episode: 

(00:00) – Introduction

(02:48) – Being people first. People building the organization, the employees and their philosophy with a level of trust, authenticity and value placed on 

(04:48) – Bringing your own understanding of the capabilities of new technology and the unmet challenges in the human resource space and where solutions are

(06:00) – There's a lot of things that are still unmet needs, frustrations, gaps. And what you do is you start to come upon new technologies like artificial intelligence, which is not a solution in and of itself. 

(06:50) –Science fiction is going to become science fact, regardless of your position on that, it's just undeniable progress that's happened in the underlying hardware capabilities. 

(08:56) – Being people is the first step one, but just more expansively in the world of human capital, the responsibility is too great to bring empathy into the workplace and AI and NLP could do that

(09:58) – Ethical considerations with some of these new capabilities within boundary boxes, with that philosophy, to pursue some of these goals of building better products, solving customer problems

(10:57) – Support ethics and AI and build technology from within 

(12:18) – Technology will be the solution to the problems it has created, but that's a little backwards. Sometimes you need to be more thoughtful about the problems you're going to create before you create them.

(14:15) – Companies have to embrace the boundaries and the direction of their artificial intelligence approach

(16:28) – Transparency is essential in the tech industry. The cavalier approach is a no-go. If you try and retrofit ethics, try and retrofit morality and responsibility in your advanced technology portfolio, It's a little too late

(17:14) – The greatest risk is that AI actually takes no risks. And it's a little bit counterintuitive to think that way, but what AI is, is really a bunch of formulas, It's a bunch of pattern recognition, a bunch of math,  and it is only as smart as the data it's seen before and what it could derive out of that data.

(18:48) – We have unconscious bias machines that have the ability to have that bias identified, measured, and hopefully over time, ameliorated or potentially even eradicated. You can only get there if you have extremely diverse training inputs

(22:49) – Decision-making support is the worthy goal of artificial intelligence. You have to enable it to work with us and understand our problems. And so that kind of gets into the boundaries that we're starting to push with new technology.

(24:22) –The only data that we'll be looking at is data that was intended to be looked at

(25:47) – If technology is trying to solve really big, interesting problems or help us make big decisions, and yet is not aware, sensitive and thoughtful about the fact that our emotions matter 

(26:52) – Being sensitive. When we look at a piece of data, it's not just how many words were said and a word count and a word cloud, which is sort of where things go to today, but we push forward and we say: how is this person feeling?

(29:16) – We have zero interest and we are philosophically opposed to the idea of machines running companies and replacing people

(29:57) – Let's build technology that works for us and change the situation that we've been subject to where we build the technology, then we end up being sort of subjugated by it

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Xena Ugrinsky has spent over the last 20 years of her career in technology enabled transformation. The last eight years of those have been focused on the application of data science for corporate performance management. She has a new book titled “Enterprise AI-Your Field Guide to the New Business Normal”.

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Xena Ugrinsky’s Twitter:  https://twitter.com/QueenOfDataTech?s=20 

Xena Ugrinsky’s Website: https://genrexconsulting.com/

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(00:00) – Introduction

(02:39) –At first technology was process optimization. Then there were better individual tools for doing analysis. So there you have spreadsheets. Analytics began to enable in the second phase the ability to do things like driver based forecasting trending analysis. And the third phase and the one that we find ourselves in today is the beginning of applying truly modern mathematical methods in the form of data science to technology

(06:41) – Technology isn't the hurdle anymore, it's people, it's process, it's culture, it's organizational structure. 

(08:23) – Spreadsheets are too deeply ingrained in how business works 

(10:58) – Siloing of functions was causing a bottleneck of data that prevented executive teams from having the right information at the right time at their fingertips to make a decision

(13:15) – Analytics application proliferation have become more accessible to the business community, then the IT organization completely loses control of their tech portfolio and managing costs

(16:56) – The things that have to change in an organization to become an intelligent enterprise don't involve technology at all. You have to consider the people and a culture of inclusiveness that moves away from information as power to empowering everyone with the information

(20:09) – Our traditional organizational structures need to be rethought. And it starts at the top with re configuring the responsibilities of the C-suite

(23:15) – AI as a whole is not going to be the new spreadsheet, AI as a whole describes the transformation of applied data science

(24:23) – Organizations fall into three categories: organizations built up and architected as a data company, traditional organizations that have been early adopters to solve something or to embed it in their product, and the ones that don’t know what is the right way to get started in data science

(32:43) – Organic transformation: when you change people, you change the entire organization

(34:00) – The winners in this race will be transforming so that their organizations are truly data-driven. If you miss this boat, you won't exist as a company