The Boundless Podcast

💬 “In the future people will have to go into jobs that are more specifically human, with human qualities like curiosity and creativity. So I think in the future, it won't be possible to not love your job. This is where AI could take us; pushing us towards discovering our true passions and being more creative.”

🎙️ This is a conversation with Maxime Gabella. Maxime is the founder of MAGMA Learning, a startup with the mission to enhance human learning with machine learning. His research is at the crossroad of theoretical physics, mathematics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.

🎧 In this episode, Maxime talks about how AI is causing job displacement, but how also AI will reskill workers. Not trying to transform truck drivers into data scientists, but using self-learning AI models to personalise individual learning paths and the accrual of new knowledge and skills. Beyond this his start-up Magma wants to revolutionise learning and even compress and optimise the time spent acquiring and retaining information.

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💬 “With AI on a global scale, certain developing nations could leverage the ‘leapfrog effect’. This can occur when a late technological entrant has the two distinct advantages of learning from first movers and of not living with legacy.”

🎙️ This is a conversation with Samiran Ghosh. Samiran has held leadership roles with IBM, Microsoft and McKinsey and he’s worked on the world's largest digital identity program. Samiran has authored chapters on blockchain and AI in books published by Wiley and is a TEDx speaker and Forbes Tech Council member.

🎧 In this episode, Samiran talks about why embedding ethics and morality in machines is so difficult despite having a thousand years of common law. We discuss whether it’s fair that we hold AI decision making to higher standards than human decision making and how difficult it is to ever say whether technology is doing good or bad.

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💬 “The democratization of technology has pluses and minuses next to it. Where you've got the ability for anyone to tell their story, but it also gives anyone the ability to tell any story. And anyone the ability to refute any story.”

🎙️ This is a conversation with Jon Thor Sigurleifsson. Jon Thor is a regular guest on the Boundless Podcast. And those that have heard him will understand why. He explores how technology interacts with moral and ethical philosophy. Jon Thor is a broadcaster and educator who cares about helping people to explore better questions and search deeper into information.

🎧 In this episode, Jon Thor talks about the challenges with navigating truth and accountability in a world with more data being produced daily than a single person could review in their entire life. He discusses how AI can help us to get us expand our knowledge and understanding, but only if we take steps to make this happen. The algorithms naturally will try to keep us engaged, clicking and buying from within our echo chambers.

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💬 “One of the concepts that I'm really interested in is a concept called decentralization. It's actually a world that doesn't have companies anymore. It might not even have countries. Where everybody can boot up an idea, and then everybody else has the ability to frictionlessly contribute to the idea to drive forward that product or that service and be paid fairly for that contribution.” Daniel Hulme

🎙️ This is a conversation with Dr Daniel Hulme. Daniel is the CEO of Satalia and he’s on a mission is to create a world where everyone has the freedom to spawn and contribute to innovations, and have those innovations become free to everyone.

Daniel has Doctorate in AI from UCL, and is UCL's Computer Science Entrepreneur in Residence. He is also a lecturer at LSE's Marshall Institute, focused on using AI to solve business and social problems.

🎧 In this episode, Daniel talks about why capitalism isn’t working and how a marketplace of micropayments could address the limitations of our current economic model. He shares his vision for a borderless world that allows billions more people to innovate, and contribute to solving problems and how we could homogenize workers across borders leading to more equitable distribution of wealth.

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AI must be part of the ‘DNA’ of your business now. You may get the cheaper technology if you wait for the innovation curve to progress, but you will be way, way behind that curve and most significantly you will have missed the opportunity to have established AI in your ‘DNA’"

This is a conversation with Dr Djamila Amimer. Djamila is the founder of Mind Senses Global, her business helps organisations apply Artificial Intelligence (AI) and unlock its full potential. She has developed novel AI techniques that help to deal with uncertainty in project evaluation and she spends time exploring what the next wave of AI will do. Djamila is passionate about AI for good and making AI accessible to everyone.

In this episode, Djamila talks about the importance of quantity and quality in data for AI projects, about why businesses should embed AI in their company DNA, and a future where more powerful AI can apply Causal reasoning and potentially requires far fewer data to achieve equal or better results than today’s models.

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“We are all positively or negatively biased towards certain people. It is a natural phenomenon. We cannot think of everything we do and say, and so automatic processes run in the background, and these are unconsciously biased. Artificial intelligence (AI) can detect these types of biases and show individuals (and society) where they have a negative model about certain types of person. AI can help us to mitigate the effects of these types of biases and reduce conflict.”


This is a conversation with Professor Alessandro Vinciarelli. Alessandro is a full Professor at the University of Glasgow. He’s with both the School of Computing Science and the Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology. His research interest is Social Signal Processing, the computing domain aimed at modelling, analysing and synthesizing non-verbal behaviour in human to machine interaction.

In this episode, Alessandro talks about his work to educate a new generation of AI practitioners that are endowing artificial agents with social intelligence; attitudes intentions, feelings, personality and expectations. We explored the capabilities and limitations at this time of emotion-creating/reading machines and the current use cases. I asked Alessandro what relationships between humans and machines will look like in the future.

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“The AI engine gives a very holistic view as to which investment opportunities are likely to be attractive. A lot of different heterogeneous data sources are fed into the system that interact in a very complex fashion. We don't really know which data sets will prove most valuable in terms of assessing the attractiveness of an investment opportunity. That’s what the AI engine tries to do. It tries to use all of these different data points and combine them in an optimal way.”

This is a conversation with Yasin Rosowsky, Todd Bridges and Michael Neumann of Arabesque. My co-host for this episode is Michael Berns, Director of AI and a FinTech Leader at PwC.

In this episode, Michael and I discovered more about Arabesque S-Ray, an Arabesque company that combines big data and environmental, social and governance (ESG) metrics to assess the performance and sustainability of companies worldwide. The business empowers investors to make more sustainable decisions with a mission to accelerate the transition to a more sustainable future.

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“For Amazon, Alexa is less about capturing personal information and more about how people use it. What kinds of things do they prefer to do with it? What kinds of things do they try out and then drop? Amazon wants to know what sorts of differences Alexa is making in people's lives”

This is a conversation with Phillip Hunter. Phillip is a technology product designer. He’s played pivotal roles in consumer voice and multimodal applications at Amazon Alexa, Microsoft Cortana, and four start-ups. Phillip also led product design efforts for Amazon Web Services.

In this episode, Phillip explains how Amazon innovates so successfully. He compares and contrasts to his time at Microsoft and talks in detail about the work he did with the Alexa product. Finally, Phillip says how important it is now for companies to make a positive change for the environment, rather than waiting to be forced into change.

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“I’m not ok with powerful AI being in the shadows. There needs to be more clarity about where it's being used and how. That's exactly the reason why I do all these courses and wrote this book; to democratize artificial intelligence. To avoid AI being a black box, hidden from everyone.”

This is a conversation with Hadelin de Ponteves. Hadelin is the co-founder and CEO at BlueLife AI. He is an online entrepreneur who has created more than 50 top-rated educational e-courses on topics such as Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain. These courses have achieved over one million sales with students in almost every country in the world.

In this episode, Hadelin explains that overarchingly AI is benevolent and that we shouldn’t lose sight of this despite the current societal challenges arising from the misuse of data, unexplainable models and biases that can arise. We find out why Hadelin’s AI courses are so popular and about his incredible new book published by Packt publishing titled AI Crash Course.

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“Do you what else happened during this crisis? It created a wealth divide even more! In the last two months, the world's 25 richest billionaires have gained $225 billion. This is not linear growth, it’s exponential, a big hockey stick. To get a more equitable society and fair society we need to democratize and decentralize health. Right now.”

This is a conversation with Cyril Lutterodt. Cyril is a Software Engineering and Psychology major turned roboticist. He has built multiple autonomous vehicles and systems and worked on the incorporation of artificial intelligence in real world applications. Cyril is fascinated by the advancements in neuroscience and neuropsychology and now working on his new venture, a HealthTech company with the grand vision of making sickness a thing of the past.

In this episode, Cyril talks about his big ideas for his work and for the whole of humanity. He describes the body scanning technology he is bringing to market, which led us into a conversation about Covid-19 spread prevention and the role of ethics in software and AI development.

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