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11/11/21 • 22 min
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Academic turned entrepreneur Michel Valstar joins How AI Happens to explain how his behaviomedics company, Blueskeye AI, prioritizes building trust with their users. Much of the approach features data opt-ins and on-device processing, which necessarily results in less data collection. Michel explains how his team is able to continue gleaning meaningful insight from smaller portions of data than your average AI practitioner is used to.
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11/11/21 • 22 min


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Moxie the Robot & Embodied CTO Stefan Scherer
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10/21/21 • 30 min
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In this episode, we talk to Stefan Scherer (CTO of Embodied) about why he decided to focus on the more nuanced challenge of developing children’s social-emotional skills. Stefan takes us through how encouraging children to mentor Moxie (a friendly robot) through social interaction helps them develop their interpersonal relationships. We dive into the relevance of scripted versus unscripted conversation in different AI technologies, and how Embodied taught Moxie to define abstract concepts such as "kindness".
Key Points From This Episode:
- Welcome to Stefan Scherer, CTO of Embodied and lead researcher and developer of Embodied's SocialXTM technology, Moxie.
- The goal of Embodied: using a natural mode of communication to support children’s social development.
- Mentoring Moxie: how Moxie teaches children social-emotional learning without being a teacher.
- Why Stefan and Embodied focused on the challenge of social-emotional skills, not STEM.
- Developing a technology that captures the infinite answers to social-emotional questions: using neural networks and sentiment analysis.
- How using Few-shot learning reduced the amount of data needed to train Moxie.
- Why it's important to make the transition between freer- and scripted conversations seamless.
- How the percentage of scripted versus non-scripted conversation differs based on the context of the technology.
- Discover how Moxie adapts to children’s changing needs and desires.
- How Moxie as a springboard in teaching children to form long-term relationships.
- The hardware behind Moxie: the ethical considerations around home devices, and data protection.
- Why Moxie looks the way it does: making it affordable.
Tweetables:
“Human behavior is very complex, and it gives us a window into our soul. We can understand so much more than just language from human behavior, we can understand an individual's wellbeing and their abilities to communicate with others.” — Stefan Scherer [0:01:04]
"It is not sufficient to work on the easy challenges at first and then expand from there. No, as a startup you have to tackle the hard ones first because that's where you set yourself apart from the rest." — Stefan Scherer [0:04:53]
“Moxie comes into the world of the child with the mission to basically learn how to be a good friend to humans. And Moxie puts the child into this position of teaching Moxie about how to do that.” — Stefan Scherer [0:17:40]
"One of the most important aspects of Moxie is that Moxie doesn't serve as the destination, Moxie is really a springboard into life." — Stefan Scherer [0:18:29]
“We did not want to overengineer Moxie, we really wanted to basically afford the ability to have a conversation, to be able to multimodally interact, and yet be as frugal with the amount of concepts that we added or the amount of capabilities that we added.” — Stefan Scherer [0:27:17]
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10/21/21 • 30 min

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Kelvin Wursten: Tensor Flow Models in Healthcare
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07/30/21 • 19 min
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Kelvin Wursten, leader of PointClickCare's Data Science team, explains how they are utilizing AI to help solve complicated supply vs. demand calculations in hospital emergency departments, as well as the challenge of balancing building awesome technology while still prioritizing the user's needs.
07/30/21 • 19 min

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09/02/21 • 28 min
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Walmart's SVP of Global Technology Anshu Bhardwaj and VP of Emerging Technology Desirée Gosby join Sama CEO Wendy Gonzalez for a roundtable discussion about representation in AI, explainable & ethical AI, and how representative teams are a key way to reduce biases in AI technology.
09/02/21 • 28 min

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06/17/21 • 17 min
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Sama CEO Wendy Gonzalez explains how the Sama Digital Basics program teaches AI skills to individuals in Africa's largest slum, and reflects on the findings of MIT's 6 year study measuring the program's effect.
RCT Results from MIT: Evaluating the Impact of Sama’s Training and Job Programs
06/17/21 • 17 min

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09/23/21 • 27 min
Rob Carpenter is the founder and CEO of Valyant AI, which is on a journey to solve the complex problem of conversational AI in the food service industry. In today’s episode, Rob explains the three main components of AI speech processing (and the challenges that arise at each of these nodes), how conversational AI has the capacity to improve conditions for human workers in the food service industry, and what this technology is going to be like in the future. After this episode, you’ll understand the importance of being more thoughtful about how you communicate your next burger and fries order to a conversational AI system.
Key Points From This Episode:
- Rob’s early interest in entrepreneurship.
- The original idea that Rob wanted to center his company around, and why it didn’t work out that way.
- What Valyant AI does.
- Long term goals that Rob has for his company.
- Challenges of conversational AI in the food service industry.
- Benefits of being an industry newcomer.
- The “three amigos” of speech processing.
- Examples of customer statements which highlight why a natural language processor is such a vital part of AI speech processing.
- How people need to learn to communicate with AI systems.
- The deficit of employees in the restaurant industry.
- Ways that conversational AI improves working conditions for food service industry employees.
- Progress that we have made as a society as a result of innovation.
- What we can expect from conversational AI in the next five to ten years.
Tweetables:
“I thought the hologram was the hard part and that the conversational AI was solved, but it was basically the inverse of that.” — Rob Carpenter [0:06:47]
“There’s benefits when you get into a new industry or technology not knowing the problems, because you don’t know what your limitations are. I think a lot of times that frees you up to be more creative and innovative.” — Rob Carpenter [0:08:38]
“If I was to postulate where things would end up, I’d say it’s probably a 90/10. 90% is that the technology has to be better, and keep getting better. 90% of everything needs to be handled by the AI. The other 10%, people need to be more thoughtful when they communicate with these systems.” — Rob Carpenter [0:17:22]
“There’s 1.7 million unfilled positions in the restaurant industry right now. 1 in 6 of every position available right now is in restaurants.” — Rob Carpenter [0:20:26]
“Innovation is not only built into economies, but it’s essential for their health and long-term safety.” — Rob Carpenter [0:23:28]
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09/23/21 • 27 min

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08/19/21 • 26 min
LeanTaas CEO Mohan Giridharadas explains how his team is solving the Supply & Demand challenge within healthcare, how the algorithms are stress tested in order to handle extreme edge cases, as well as how drift is defined, detected, and resolved in a customer-centric fashion.
08/19/21 • 26 min

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Trailer: Introducing How AI Happens
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05/20/21 • 1 min
05/20/21 • 1 min

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Predictive & Declarative AI with Theresa Benson
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08/26/21 • 33 min
Theresa Benson, Product Storyteller for InRule Technology, explains the opportunity of combining declarative AI with predictive AI, and how InRule Technology is using predictive AI to empower non AI experts to develop algorithms from their existing domain knowledge.
08/26/21 • 33 min

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09/16/21 • 30 min
Dr. John Kane, Head of Signal Processing & Machine Learning at Cogito, explains the challenges brought on by the oft-repeated truism "speech is more than text", and how Cogito addresses these challenges to deliver real-time conversational insight to their users. Later, John explains the holistic approach to ensuring machine learning technology is created in a bias-free environment.
09/16/21 • 30 min

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How many episodes does How AI Happens have?
How AI Happens currently has 85 episodes available.
What topics does How AI Happens cover?
The podcast is about Computer Science, Mathematics, Podcasts, Technology, Science and Artificial Intelligence.
What is the most popular episode on How AI Happens?
The episode title 'Building Trustworthy Behaviomedics with Blueskeye CEO Michel Valstar' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on How AI Happens?
The average episode length on How AI Happens is 29 minutes.
How often are episodes of How AI Happens released?
Episodes of How AI Happens are typically released every 7 days, 3 hours.
When was the first episode of How AI Happens?
The first episode of How AI Happens was released on May 20, 2021.
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