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Nenshad Bardoliwalla, Director of Product Management for Vertex AI, unpacks the three core layers of Vertex AI: the Model Garden, where users access and evaluate a diverse range of models; the Model Builder, supporting fine-tuning and prompt optimization; and the Agent Builder, designed to develop AI agents capable of performing complex, goal-oriented tasks.

Manuel Haug, Field CTO at Celonis, shares how process mining is transforming business operations by connecting directly to digital systems to map workflows, optimize processes, and boost efficiency. He explains how Celonis builds digital twins of business processes, allowing companies to visualize and resolve inefficiencies using data-driven insights.

Ece Kamar is the VP of Research and Managing Director of AI Frontiers Lab at Microsoft. She shares her unique insights on the future of AI, discussing how AI agents are reshaping the way we interact with technology and perform tasks.

Mark Surman, President of Mozilla, will explore the future of open-source AI, emphasizing Mozilla's leadership in privacy, transparency, and ethical technology. Discover how open-source solutions can drive innovation and protect user data in an evolving digital landscape.

Dr. Thomas G. Dietterich, a pioneer in machine learning who was recently honored with the Award for Research Excellence from the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, received one of the top awards for AI researchers.

Stuart Hameroff, a pioneer in the field of consciousness studies and co-developer of the controversial Orch OR theory, takes us on a journey through the intersection of quantum mechanics and the human mind, explaining how microtubules within neurons could be the key to unlocking the mysteries of consciousness.

Pedro Domingos, professor of computer science and author of The Master Algorithm and 2040, will dive deep into the future of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and AI governance.

Bill Moore from BCGX explores the development of Gene, an AI-powered co-host transforming how we engage with conversational AI. Bill walks us through the journey of creating Gene, a real-time conversational agent designed to interact seamlessly with human hosts.

Michael Martin, CEO of RapidSOS, explores how AI and connected devices aid in emergency response and public safety.

Noa Srebrnik from Citrusx explores how AI is transforming risk management and compliance in high-risk industries such as finance and insurance. With a background in regulation, risk, and technology, Noa guides us through Citrusx’s innovative approach to enabling organizations to responsibly leverage AI while adhering to complex regulatory environments.

Krishna Rangasayee, CEO of SiMa.ai, to explore the innovations in AI at the edge and how embedded systems are transforming industries like robotics, automotive, and industrial automation.

Randall Degges, Head of Developer Relations and Security at Snyk, discusses the impact of AI on cybersecurity and software development. With over 20 years of experience as a software developer and security expert, Randall highlights Snyk's innovative approach to enhancing developer security.

Peter Guagenti, President and Chief Marketing Officer at Tabnine, explores the role of AI in software development. He shares his journey from web developer and engineering lead to leading Tabnine, a pioneer in AI code assistance.

Xun Wang, Chief Technology Officer at Bloomreach, explores the power of AI in e-commerce. Xun takes us on a journey through his career, from his early days at NVIDIA, where he played a pivotal role in the evolution of parallel computing and GPU technology, to his current leadership at Bloomreach, a company at the forefront of AI-driven commerce solutions.

Raphael Townshend, founder and CEO of Atomic AI, delves into the revolutionary potential of AI in RNA drug discovery, highlighting Atomic AI's innovative approach.

Danny Halawi, a PhD student at UC Berkeley, shares his groundbreaking research on using large language models (LLMs) to predict future events with accuracy, rivaling human forecasters and prediction markets.

Trevor Back, Chief Product Officer at Speechmatics, shares how the company is pushing the boundaries of speech recognition and conversational AI with their latest innovation, Flow.

Shub Bhowmick is the CEO and co-founder of Tredence. Shub shares his journey from management consulting to leading a team of 2,500 data scientists and engineers. Learn how Tredence is supercharging Fortune 200 clients across retail, consumer packaged goods (CPG), financial services, healthcare, and more with custom AI solutions.

Dr. Sethuraman Panchanathan, Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF), explores the impact of AI on research and innovation. Dr. Panchanathan delves into his journey from PhD student in machine learning to leading one of the most pivotal science organizations in the world. With a background in vector quantization and neural networks, his extensive experience positions him at the forefront of AI advancements

Brian Spears, Director of the AI Innovation Incubator at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, shares his experience in driving AI into national security science and managing the nation’s nuclear stockpile. With a PhD in mechanical engineering, his expertise spans nonlinear dynamical systems and high-dimensional topology, making him uniquely positioned to lead groundbreaking projects in fusion ignition and AI integration.

Avi Kedmi, CEO of SysAid, explores the transformative power of AI in IT service management. Avi shares his journey from the high-tech industry to leading SysAid, a pioneer in IT service management solutions. With over 20 years of experience, Avi discusses how SysAid is leveraging AI to revolutionize service management through predictive modeling and generative AI.

Mrinal Manohar, CEO of Casper Labs, explores the intersection of blockchain technology and AI governance. Mrinal delves into his journey from Wall Street to founding Casper Labs, a leading enterprise-grade blockchain infrastructure company.

Russell Palmer, CEO & Co-Founder of CyberFilm AI, delves into the transformative journey of integrating AI with storytelling, emphasizing the role of strong narratives in creating impactful AI films. He shares his extensive background, from his early days at Microsoft and JP Morgan to co-founding a startup with his brother that pioneers AI tools for the film industry.

Itamar Friedman is the co-founder and CEO of CodiumAI, a pioneering company in the realm of intelligent coding systems.

Lukas Biewald, CEO and co-founder of Weights & Biases, the AI developer platform with tools for training models, fine-tuning models, and leveraging foundation models.

In this episode of the Eye on AI podcast, join us as we sit down with Jonathan Gillham, the founder of Originality AI, a company specializing in AI detection technology.

Peter Cousins, CTO at WorkFusion, pioneers intelligent automation and digital workers for anti-financial crime solutions. Discover how WorkFusion leverages generative and classical AI to combat financial crime and enhance compliance.

Rahul Sonwalkar, founder and CEO of Julius AI, discusses the cutting-edge platform revolutionizing data analysis through AI-powered code generation. Rahul shares his inspiring journey from learning to code in high school to founding Julius AI, a tool that helps users analyze datasets, create visualizations, and gain insights using natural language. With over half a million users in just eight months, Julius AI is transforming the way we approach data science and coding.

Edward Balassanian, CEO and founder of Aimi, is a trailblazer in the realm of generative AI music. Edward takes us through his fascinating journey from engineering and computer science to pioneering a platform that transforms music into a dynamic, interactive service. Aimi’s innovative approach to AI-generated music is redefining the industry by enabling both amateurs and professionals to create high-quality, customized music.

Mohamed Elgendy, CEO and co-founder of Kolena, shares the intricacies of ensuring robust AI performance. Discover his journey from a software engineer to leading an AI quality platform. Kolena is setting new standards in AI testing, addressing the non-deterministic nature of machine learning models with a systematic framework for validation.

Ronen Dar, CTO and co-founder of Run:ai, delves into the intricacies of managing and maximizing GPU utilization in an era marked by a severe GPU shortage. Ronen shares his insights on how Run:ai's innovative software is revolutionizing AI infrastructure, making GPU resources more efficient and accessible.

Saurabh Jain and Damon Rasheed from Opyl and TrialKey.ai share how their technology not only predicts outcomes but also optimizes trial design, saving substantial time and resources in the drug development process.

André van Schaik, a professor of electrical engineering at Western Sydney University and director of the International Centre for Neuromorphic Systems in Penrith, New South Wales, Australia, unveils the capabilities of DeepSouth, an innovative brain-scaled neuromorphic computing system designed to simulate up to 100 billion neurons in real-time.

Will Falcon, creator of PyTorch Lightning, and founder of Lightning AI, takes us through the groundbreaking journey of Lightning Studio, a revolutionary cloud-based platform that's reshaping how AI tools and frameworks are integrated and scaled.

Dragomir Anguelov, Vice President and Head of Research at Waymo, offers a profound exploration into the technical and operational advancements driving the future of autonomous vehicles. With his rich background at Google and now at Waymo, Drago provides an insider’s view on the evolution of machine learning technologies and their pivotal role in developing self-driving cars that are not only intelligent but also safe and reliable

Nick Bostrom, a philosopher at the University of Oxford, is renowned for his work on existential risk, the anthropic principle, human enhancement ethics, whole brain emulation, superintelligence risks, and the reversal test.

Thomas Lah, Executive Director of the Technology and Services Industry Association (TSIA), delves into the influence of AI on technology companies and their operating models.

Ylli Bajraktari, President and CEO of the Special Competitive Studies Project, unveils strategic maneuvers and policies shaping the global future of artificial intelligence.

Terry Sejnowski, President of the NeurIPS Foundation and Francis Crick Professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, directs the Computational Neurobiology Laboratory.

Björn Ommer, a visionary AI researcher and Head of the Computer Vision & Learning Group at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, delves into the fascinating inner workings of diffusion models, shedding light on the pivotal role these models play in advancing technology and society.

Sergey Levine is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley.

Aravind Srinivas, co-founder and CEO of Perplexity AI, delves into the intricacies of Perplexity AI, a groundbreaking conversational answer engine designed to redefine the landscape of online search.

Tianmin Shu, Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University in both the Computer Science and Cognitive Science departments, unravels the fascinating concept of world models and their intersection with artificial and human intelligence.

Vincent Vanhoucke, a distinguished Scientist and Senior Director for Robotics at Google DeepMind, dives into the cutting-edge world of robotic control with RT2, DeepMind's innovative robotic transformer system.

Cris Valenzuela, co-founder and CEO of Runway, an applied AI research company, shaping the next era of art, entertainment, and human creativity.

Anna Marie Wagner, SVP and Head of AI at Ginkgo Bioworks, is renowned for the company's work in synthetic biology and its integration with artificial intelligence.

Richard Sutton currently serves as a professor of computing science at the University of Alberta and as a research scientist at Keen Technologies. Sutton is considered one of the founders of modern computational reinforcement learning, having made several significant contributions to the field, including temporal difference learning and policy gradient methods.

Guillermo Rauch, CEO of Vercel, a company that optimizes frontend deployment, making web projects faster and easier to scale, shares his vision on the future of web development. He emphasizes the significance of JavaScript, the evolution of the web, and the critical role of Vercel in facilitating developers to seamlessly deploy AI-driven applications.

Ian Bremmer, the founder and president of the Eurasia Group, a leading global political risk research and consulting firm. He shares his expert insights into the rapidly evolving landscape of AI development and its implications for global politics, security, and economy.

Matt Powell, Managing Director at ISSVSS, offers a comprehensive suite of AI-powered video intelligence solutions to address security, safety, and business challenges across diverse vertical markets.

Itamar Arel is the CEO of Tenyx, a company that utilizes proprietary neuroscience-inspired AI technology to build the next generation of voice-based conversational agents.

Andy Hock, VP of Product at Cerebras Systems, is part of an AI hardware startup that is out to accelerate deep learning and change computing forever.

Hrant Khachatrian is a notable figure in the field of machine learning and data science in Armenia. He is the founder and director of YerevaNN, a machine learning research lab with two N’s at the end.

Rem Darbinyan, a serial entrepreneur, angel investor, seasoned advisor, author, and keynote speaker with an investment portfolio of over 40 startups. He's the founder and CEO of SmartClick, which builds deep tech innovations based on artificial intelligence and machine learning. He's also the founder and CEO of Viral Mango, a platform that connects influencers with brands.

Vasi Philomin, Vice President of Generative AI at Amazon Web Services. Vasi shares his journey in AI and ML, detailing his contributions to Amazon's extensive array of AI capabilities.

Harut Martirosyan, CTO of Intent.ai. Harut shares insights about Armenia's technological heritage, the influence of major tech companies in the region, and the evolving landscape of AI and machine learning. We also cover the integration of AI in business and its global impact.

Atul Deo, General Manager for Amazon Bedrock. Atul shares his insights on the development and impact of Amazon Bedrock, a platform designed to democratize access to advanced AI models.

Peter Chen, the co-founder and CEO of Covariant, in a deep dive into the world of AI-driven robotics.

Connor Leahy, CEO of Conjecture, an AI company specializing in AI safety. Connor, known for his pioneering work in open-source large language models, shares his views on the monopolization of AI technology and the risks of keeping such powerful technology in the hands of a few.

Karen Hao, who is currently a contributing writer for The Atlantic with an impressive background as a foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal in Hong Kong and as a senior artificial intelligence editor at MIT Technology Review.

Gordon Crovitz, co-founder of NewsGuard and former publisher of the Wall Street Journal, to unravel the complexities of AI-generated misinformation.

Alex Wiltschko, Founder and CEO of Osmo. Alex is giving computers a sense of smell to improve the health and happiness of human life.

Sal Khan, the founder of Khan Academy, a non-profit educational organization that provides free online courses, lessons, and practice exercises across a wide range of subjects to learners worldwide.

Ed Anuff, Chief Product Office at DataStax. Ed sheds light on the innovative ways AI is being incorporated into database technologies, with a special focus on the advancements and applications of vector databases in this realm.

Alex Kendall, founder and CEO of Wavye, a company building autonomous vehicle technology using AI. Alex provides an inside look at Wavye's approach to autonomous driving, which leverages world models and reinforcement learning to create an AI "driver" that can understand complex urban environments.

Asa Cooper Stickland, a postdoctoral researcher at NYU, who is at the forefront of language model safety. Asa recently co-authored a paper proposing tests to measure the precursors of self-awareness in LLMs.

Yann LeCun, a Turing Award winner who has been instrumental in advancing convolutional neural networks and whose work spans machine learning, computer vision, and more.

Alex Klein, the Cofounder & CEO of STEM and Kano Computing, who boasts an illustrious academic background from Cambridge and Yale.

Ahmed Imtiaz, a PhD student from Rice University working on deep learning theory and generative modeling. Ahmed is currently spearheading his research at Google, exploring the dynamics of text-to-image generative models.

Yilun Du, a final year PhD student at MIT EECS with a background in research at leading institutions like OpenAI, FAIR, and Google Deepmind.

Viren Jain, a leading Research Scientist at Google in Mountain View, California. Viren, at the helm of the Connectomics team, has pioneered breakthroughs in synapse-resolution brain mapping in collaboration with esteemed institutions such as HHMI, Max Planck, and Harvard.

Riley McCormack, President and CEO of Digimarc, pioneers in digital watermarking and cloud-based product data.

Matt Hicks, President and CEO of Red Hat, a leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions.

Scott Aaronson, Schlumberger Centennial Chair of Computer Science at The University of Texas and director of its Quantum Information Center.

Arjun Subramonian, a PhD student hailing from UCLA, with a focus on AI fairness and ethics. Arjun's work encompasses the intricate intersections of machine learning, algorithmic fairness, social justice, and ethics, all while ensuring inclusivity and equity in the realm of technology.

Peter Voss, a long time researcher in the field of artificial general intelligence. He was one of the authors of a book titled Artificial General Intelligence, which helped popularize the term, and Peter has a company called Aigo.ai which builds intelligent chatbots for industry.

Isabelle Guyon, is a French researcher in machine learning and pattern recognition. She's known for her work on support vector machines, otherwise known as SVMs, a type of supervised learning algorithm used for classification and regression analysis.

Dmitry Shapiro, Founder of YouAi and CEO of GoMeta. He is no stranger to the tech industry. With an impressive track record, he has made significant contributions to companies like Google, MySpace, and now, he's leading the charge at YouAi.

Dan O'Connell, the Chief AI and Strategy Officer at Dialpad and a seasoned expert in the world of AI-driven business communications.

Raul Martynek, the CEO of Data Bank, one of the industry's leading data center providers, about the intricacies of data storage and the challenges of GPU intensive workloads for AI.

Mike Knoop, Co-Founder of Zapier, a tool that simplifies workflows by connecting various apps and services, making automation accessible to a wide range of users.

Diaa El All, co-founder and CEO of Soundful, an AI music creation platform that helps artists, creators, singers, songwriters, and producers analyze, create, and monetize music.

Alex Zhavoronkov, founder and CEO of Insilico Medicine. The application of artificial intelligence in drug development to advance the field of longevity research.

Michael Jordan, not the basketball legend, but Michael I Jordan, a towering figure in the world of AI. Michael is co-author of the book Machine Learning a probabilistic perspective, which is a standard textbook in the field.

Scott Downes, Chief Technology Officer at Invisible Technologies, whose platform is used for reinforcement learning with human feedback, otherwise known as RLHF, the Dirty Little Secret Behind Generative AI.

Andrew Ng, a well-known researcher and pioneer in machine learning. Andrew has taught courses at Stanford and trained many of the AI luminaries working today. For a time, he was the chief scientist at Baidu, China's AI giant, and he co-founded Coursera, the online education company. Currently, he has an ML Ops company called Landing AI, which has a suite of tools to make it easy for businesses to build, deploy and manage machine learning models

Mathew Lodge, CEO of Diff Blue, a company that uses reinforcement learning to automate the writing of unit tests for Java codes. Matthew talks about how reinforcement learning has been lost in the shuffle around generative AI, but remains one of the most powerful kinds of artificial intelligence in any machine learning developers toolbox, and, in fact, how reinforcement learning is the power behind much of generative AI.

Alexandra Geese, a member of the European Parliament. She's worked on the Digital Services Act in the EU and is now one of the members drafting the AI Act. Parliament has just passed an initial draft of the Act and it's now under negotiation with the European Council and the European Commission.

We know how to build a superhuman AI, and if that recipe is publicly available and, even worse, if the weights of a trained AI are available, then it becomes very easy for a huge number of people to issue instructions that, if they were executed by the AI, could lead terrible catastrophes and, in the worst case, complete extinction. It's very hard, in terms of your feeling of your ego and how you can feel good about what you do, to accept the idea that what you've been working on for decades might be actually very dangerous for humanity.

Clemens Meywald, an expert in AI and enterprise software, talks about solving unstructured data challenges using AI. His company, Instabase, enables users to engage in interactive conversations with various types of content, such as documents and spreadsheets, and he introduces us to the AI Hub, a marketplace where developers and users can contribute models and applications.

Noam Chomsky dismisses the existential threat argument and casts doubt on the intelligence of large-language models. He also weighs in on whether we could talk to extraterrestrials.

Pascal Weinberger, cofounder of Bardeen.ai, talks about using AI to unlock office automation.

Sina Kian, chief operating officer of Aleo, a platform for building private blockchain based applications, talks about zero knowledge proofs to protect sensitive data for training AI systems.

Aidan Gomez, who helped develop the transformer algorithm at the heart of generative AI and large language models, such as GPT-4, talks about transformers and his startup Cohere, a platform that offers users access to pre-built LLMs, as well as allowing users to create their own LLMs.

Connor Leahy, an AI researcher, co-founder of EleutherAI and now co-founder of Conjecture, discusses the darker side of AI. Connor shares his insights on the current negative trajectory of AI, the challenges of keeping superintelligence in a sandbox, and the potential negative implications of large language models such as GPT4. He also discusses the problem of releasing AI to the public and the need for regulatory intervention to ensure alignment with human values.

Danny Tobey, an attorney with the global law firm DLA Piper, is at the forefront of the changing legal dynamics surrounding artificial intelligence. He talked about the current state of legislation and regulation, how regulatory bodies like the Federal Trade Commission are already tackling issues and what the law firm of the future will look like as AI transforms the economy.

Yoshua Bengio, one of the founders of deep learning, tallks about the famous pause letter of which he was perhaps the most prominent signer. And discusses his work on world models and inference machines that would give AI systems the ability to reason on reality.

Edo Liberty, who helped create SageMaker while at Amazon's AI labs, is building out long-term memory for large language models using vector embeddings at Pinecone.io. Edo says it solves the problem of hallucinations in large models like ChatGPT, which as we all know is their primary drawback. Edo's approach is simple: Convert authoritative and trusted information into vectors and load them into a vector database for large language models to refer to, allowing them to give accurate answers. 

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Ilya Sutskever, a cofounder and chief scientist of OpenAI and one of the primary minds behind the large language model GPT-4 and it’s public progeny, ChatGPT, talks about AI hallucinations and his vision of AI democracy.