Conversations on Applied AI - Robert Parker - Building Intelligent Environments Using IoT and AI

Robert Parker - Building Intelligent Environments Using IoT and AI

05/05/22 • 49 min

The conversation this week is with Robert Parker. Robert has engineered some of today's biggest life-changing innovations from Amazon Alexa to Fire TV and Prime music. Robert has disrupted everyday consumer life with voice assistance, and entertainment technology. After serving as a Director of Engineering at Amazon for five years, Robert became the CTO of SmartThings, leading the company's product and engineering teams while building the proprietary platform. From SmartThings Robert teamed up with Alex to develop the newest transformative platform bright AI. As a co-founder, Robert develops the technology that makes industry disruption and extraordinary growth opportunities possible. Prior to creating groundbreaking technologies, Robert spent 18 years as a general manager at Microsoft, as an industry award winner and recognized technical leader, he holds more than 20 patents of his own.

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Conversations on Applied AI - Robert Parker - Building Intelligent Environments Using IoT and AI

Transcript

Robert Parker 0:00

A lot of the old school IoT, I'm really going to connect this, let's call it moderately good sensor maybe or slightly accurate sensor to the cloud. And maybe I can control it backwards. Instead of trying to say, you know, the goal that we would have now is to create an intelligent environment. People have talked about situations where they'd like that local Detroit and what what happens with theater that goes down or some of these other things I want to be able to con