Your AI Roadmap

Dr. Joan Palmiter Bajorek

Your AI Roadmap the podcast is on a mission to decrease fluffy HYPE and talk to the people actually building AI. Anyone can build in AI. Including you.
Whether you’re terrified or excited, there’s been no better time than today to dive in! Now is the time to be curious and future-proof your career and ... ultimately your income.
This podcast isn't about white dudes patting themselves on the back, this is about you and me and ALL the paths into cool projects around the world!
What's next on your AI Roadmap? Let's figure it out together. You ready? This is Your AI Roadmap the Podcast.
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AI Tools I Love #3: Perplexity: Search with Citations, Images, and No Ads

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12/26/24 • 5 min

Summary
In this episode, Dr. Joan Palmiter Bajorek introduces Perplexity, an innovative AI tool that seems like a combination of ChatGPT and Google. She discusses its capabilities, including providing rich answers with citations, and highlights its advantages over traditional search engines, such as the absence of advertisements and its user-friendly interface. Joan emphasizes the growing popularity of Perplexity and its potential to revolutionize how we access information online.
Check out Perplexity
New York Times Article Cited "Can This A.I.-Powered Search Engine Replace Google? It Has for Me. A start-up called Perplexity shows what’s possible for a search engine built from scratch with artificial intelligence." Feb 2024
Sound Bites
"Right now, Perplexity has no advertisements."
"Perplexity is fantastic, super easy to use."
"I really recommend trying out Perplexity."

It provides rich answers with citations, enhancing research capabilities.
Perplexity has saved users significant time in finding accurate information.
The tool currently has no advertisements, offering a cleaner user experience.
Perplexity's user base is rapidly increasing, indicating its popularity.
The app is available on mobile devices, making it accessible on the go.
Perplexity is not as effective at editing text compared to other tools.
There are discussions in the media about Perplexity's potential to replace Google.
The tool has seen a significant increase in valuation recently.
Joan highly recommends trying out Perplexity for its innovative features.

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✨📘 Buy the Bestselling Wiley Book: Your AI Roadmap: Actions to Expand Your Career, Money, and Joy. Featured in Forbes!
Who is Joan?
Ranked the #4⁠⁠ in Voice AI Influencer, ⁠⁠Dr. Joan Palmiter Bajorek⁠⁠ is the CEO of ⁠⁠Clarity AI⁠⁠, Founder of ⁠⁠Women in Voice⁠⁠, & Host of ⁠⁠Your AI Roadmap⁠⁠. With a decade in software & AI, she has worked at Nuance, VERSA Agency, & OneReach.ai in data & analysis, product, & digital transformation. She's an investor & technical advisor to startup & enterprise. A CES & VentureBeat speaker & Harvard Business Review published author, she has a PhD & is based in Seattle.
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Help me find a NYC Venue for the Book Tour? March 29, 2025

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02/25/25 • 2 min

🗽 Hey NYC, can YOU help me find a venue for a book event?📚

Got a lead? Email [email protected]

Here's what we're looking for:
Location: NYC 🗽
Bookstore. Library. Restaurant. Coffee shop. Offices 🚚📚
Date: Saturday, March 29th (could shift to Friday if needed)📅
Capacity: 20-50 people 👥
Time: Afternoon or evening 🌇
Our Portland book event was SOLD OUT and a huge hit! 🎉
📖 We're aiming for the same here. The venue doesn’t have to be a bookstore or library—we can ship books for signing.
> Know someone who might be willing to host?
Would be sooo appreciative! You get a signed book copy as a finders fee!
Please comment below or DM with any recommendations
Thanks so much for your help! 🤩🔍

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Transforming Speech Recognition with Miguel Jetté of Rev.com

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06/18/24 • 37 min

Miguel Jetté, VP of AI at Rev.com, shares insights into the evolution and impact of AI in transcription and speech recognition. Rev started as a platform offering transcription, captions, and subtitles, heavily relying on AI to improve its tools and products. Miguel's journey began eight years ago, focusing on building speech recognition capabilities.
This technology provides a first draft for "Revvers" (transcribers) to polish, enhancing efficiency and accuracy. He highlights the importance of a large and quality dataset, derived from Rev's transcription work, as a key advantage in training their speech recognition model. Challenges in testing and improving these models include dealing with subjective interpretations of transcripts. Miguel also discusses future directions, including tackling more complex use cases, multilingual support, and expanding technology to other languages and fields like translation and generative audio.
His career path, from a mathematics background to leading AI advancements at Rev, underscores the interdisciplinary nature and rapid evolution of speech technology and AI applications.
Notable Quotes from Miguel Jetté:
🎙️ Rev started as a platform for work at home jobs, diving deep into transcription, captions, and subtitles, powered by AI innovations.
🌍 Expanding our technology to embrace multilingual support and translation is not just exciting; it's a path towards global accessibility.
💡 The interaction between machines and humans at Rev showcases the real magic in improving productivity and accuracy through AI.
Resources Mentioned
Book: Computer speech technology by Rodman, Robert 1999

Miguel Jetté is Vice President of Artificial Intelligence at Rev. He leads Rev’s speech research and development team with over 20 years’ experience in speech recognition and machine learning. Before joining Rev, Migüel was a speech scientist at VoiceBox and Nuance Communications where he created state-of-the-art speech models across major industries in multiple languages. Migüel has a Master’s in mathematics and statistics from McGill University.

Connect with Miguel on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/migueljette/

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Inside Upwork: Lauren Dycus on AI in Product and Market Differentiation

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07/09/24 • 48 min

Lauren Dycus, Director of Product Management at Upwork, details her role and the company's mission. She focuses on work management, which streamlines processes from user onboarding to contract finalization. Upwork, the world's largest work marketplace, supports freelancers with specialized skills, enabling personal and company growth. Dycus emphasizes Upwork's commitment to equity between clients and freelancers, supported by a culture valuing empowerment and fair opportunities. She highlights a new bonus prompt feature designed to enhance freelancer-client relationships and foster long-term partnerships. Additionally, Dycus discusses Upwork's ethical AI approach, stressing human-in-the-loop protocols and data protection to ensure fair treatment for all users.

Lauren Dycus Notable Quotes:
🌐 "Upwork is the world's largest work marketplace, where freelancers can scale companies while growing their own."
💼 "Work management is the heart of Upwork, streamlining everything from onboarding to finalizing contracts."
🤝 "We're dedicated to making the freelancer-client relationship more equitable, ensuring both sides have agency in their work together."
🚀 "Our new bonus feature is designed to strengthen long-term partnerships between freelancers and clients, moving beyond transactional interactions."
📊 "Adopting AI responsibly, we're focused on maintaining human oversight and ensuring data privacy to protect our users' interests."
Resources Mentioned:
Upwork’s AI Principles
Upwork Bonuses
Financial Feminist by Tori Dunlap
About Lauren:
Lauren Dycus has spent the last 15 years shipping features in software and AI product development at Amazon, AWS, DISCO, LTK, Microsoft, Upwork, and more. Focused on building with agile methodologies and user research, she develops teams and products that solve problems while growing global businesses. Dedicated to mentorship and diversity, Lauren's leadership expertise spans games, ecommerce, robotics, legal tech, and cloud computing, to prioritize safe, collaborative environments for product innovation.

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5 Keys to Amazon Alexa's Conversational AI with Emerson Sklar

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10/08/24 • 35 min

Emerson Sklar, Chief Evangelist of Amazon Alexa, joins host Dr. Joan Palmiter Bajorek on Your AI Roadmap to discuss the 5 Keys to Amazon Alexa's Conversational AI. Emerson explores how large language models (LLMs) are enhancing Alexa’s ability to be more conversational, useful, personalized, trustworthy, and engaging. He also delves into the evolution of Alexa, from its consumer-focused origins to broader enterprise applications.

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Quotes

🌟 "The North Star of Alexa has always been to build the best personal AI assistant, something that's as natural as talking to another human."

🧠 "One of the challenges of large language models is they're great at knowing things, not great at actually doing things, and actually acting on the world on your behalf. But Alexa's fantastic at that.”

🔒 "But people rely on Alexa millions of times each day, and we need to make sure that we aren't introducing any kind of behavior that breaks that trust.”

🎤 "I know some brilliant technical folks that are good in front of a room full of colleagues, but the idea of getting up in front of a stage and talking to hundreds or thousands of people is be paralyzing"

🛠️ "Amazon has this notion of leadership principles that are sort of guiding tenants... One of my favorites is customer obsession.”

Emerson Bio:

Emerson Sklar is the Chief Evangelist of Amazon Alexa, where he helps enterprises and developers around the globe realize the benefits that conversational AI can bring to their customers. He is a recognized thought leader, public speaker, and recipient of the 2022 AI Excellence Award. He has spent his whole career helping companies improve their apps, devices, and experiences with a user-centric focus on quality. Before Amazon, Emerson worked at Applause, Bespoken, Borland, and the Army Research Lab. Outside of work, Emerson can be found volunteering for Scouting America, relaxing with his family and flat-coated retrievers, and making unnecessarily complex meals.

Connect with Emerson: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emersonsklar

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LLMs and Multimodal AI with Dr. Stefania Druga of Google

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04/29/24 • 48 min

In this episode, Dr. Stefania Druga (she/her), Research Scientist on the Bard (now Gemini) team at Google, shares insights into her work on developing multimodal AI applications. She explains how Bard, a LLM, is trained on a massive amount of internet data, enabling it to understand and generate text, summarize content, and interact with images. They cover the advancements in AI and importance of multimodal capabilities that extend beyond text to include images and other data forms, pushing the boundaries of AI's application in daily life.

Stefania Druga Quotes

📊 Data Set Sizes: "You can think of what does it mean to scrape the entire internet and that's pretty much it...all the data that was ever created digitally and has the right permissions."
⚙️ “These AI assistants are becoming now embedded in not only standalone applications like Bard and ChatGPT, but also in a variety of products...they can become embedded in your calendar to help with smart planning”
🚀 “I realized in 2016 that AI, voice assistants, machine learning are going to be huge. So I started thinking of how do we teach the next generation? That's how I started working on Cognimates & launched a platform.”

Resources

Fast.ai: Making neural nets uncool again
LangChain: Build context-aware, reasoning applications with LangChain’s flexible abstractions & AI-first toolkit
Stefania’s publications: stefania11.github.io
Cognimates: Stefania’s coding education project started @ MIT Media Lab

Stefania Druga is a Research Scientist at Google Gemini AI. She was a principal researcher at the Center of Applied AI Research at the University of Chicago. She graduated with a PhD in Creative AI Literacies at the University of Washington and a master of science at MIT. During her PhD, she did several research internships at Google X, Microsoft Research, and Fixie.ai focusing on LLM applications for developer tools, programming languages, and data science applications. She loves trail running & drawing with robots. Connect with Stefania:

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Smart Glasses, AI, and AR: Inside Brilliant Labs with Bobak Tavangar

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07/23/24 • 54 min

Bobak Tavangar, CEO of Brilliant Labs, shares his journey of building a company at the cutting edge of artificial intelligence (AI) and augmented reality (AR). Brilliant Labs develops AI agents and smart glasses that merge AR and AI into a lightweight, user-friendly device. Bobak discusses challenges and surprises along the way, reflecting on the importance of data, ethical considerations, and the value of AI that understands individuals deeply. He emphasizes the need for a strong user experience (UX) and the existential purpose of the device, and shares metrics they’ve achieved in sales and community engagement on Discord. Bobak also offers advice for aspiring entrepreneurs, and shares a compelling case for optimism about the future of AI.
Bobak Quotes
📈 We've more than sold out everything we bought to sell.
🔒 We won't even be able to have access to your data...it's for your eyes only.
🤖 We had this vision for Frame and the hardware that we do to be like a Raspberry Pi for AI, that we wanted it to be the first time that anyone with a crazy idea could count on the fact that there's a way it could be embodied.
🗺️ If we focus on purpose, if we focus on first principles, then you're gonna get closer to Mordor.
Resources
Podcast Feedback
Podcast Guest
brilliantlabs.xyz
IG @BrilliantLabsAR
TikTok @BrilliantLabsAR
X @BrilliantLabsAR
About BobakBobak Tavangar is the co-founder and CEO of Brilliant Labs, a company creating an open-source AR glasses hardware platform and pairing that with powerful generative AI models to help you engage with the real world. Bobak studied at George Washington and Georgetown universities before completing a graduate degree at Cambridge University. Bobak is a serial entrepreneur with a core theme running through his entrepreneurial experiences: how to create better ways for people to find and utilize information based on the context of where they are and what’s around them.

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Behind the Scenes of MailChimp and TurboTax: AI Literacy with Nicolle Merrill of Intuit

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04/29/24 • 42 min

In this conversation, guest Nicolle Merrill (she/her), Principal Conversation Designer at Intuit, discusses her role in designing conversational AI experiences and prompt engineering for generative AI products. She emphasizes the importance of understanding the problem being solved and setting clear boundaries for the AI solution. Nicolle also highlights the challenges of evaluating and measuring success in generative AI and the need for experimentation with metrics. She shares her experiences with prompt engineering and the creative aspect of writing prompts, as well as the surprises and complexities that come with it. Finally, Nicolle and Joan discuss the evolving nature of AI design and the democratization of AI technology. Nicolle discusses the evolving field of conversational design and the challenges and opportunities it presents. She shares her career journey and offers advice for aspiring conversation designers. Nicolle also talks about her company, Boring AI, which focuses on AI literacy and training teams to apply AI in the workplace.
Nicolle Merrill Quotes
🎙️ "How do you design with AI? I mean, this is such an exciting field."
💡 "You have to anticipate what the user is going to do and design for it."
🤝 "The ability to dispel assumptions and co-create with stakeholders is crucial in AI design."
💬 "Anyone can build a chatbot. And that is nerve-wracking."
🔧 "What are all the pieces that come together as I'm building out this particular solution?"
📊 "You're on point with the data part. I can't not think about data all the time."
About Nicolle Merrill
Nicolle Merrill is a Principal Conversation Designer for fintech products at Intuit. For the past 6 years, she's worked at the intersection of AI and design. In 2023, Nicolle shifted into prompt engineering and generative AI product design. Nicolle is also the founder of Boring AI, an AI literacy training company and author of the book, Punch Doubt in the Face: How Upskill, Change Careers, and Beat the Robots. She spends her work days asking a lot of questions and investigating how humans interact with AI.
Connect with Nicolle on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicollemerrill/
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BONUS: I got laid off, then I closed an $100k contract

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03/13/25 • 13 min

Dr. Joan Palmiter Bajorek shares her personal journey from being laid off to closing her first $100k contract and establishing 22 income streams, emphasizing the need for individuals to create their own stability in an uncertain job market.

Bajorek discusses the importance of diversifying income streams and building financial resilience. She talks through how to build a simple offer with a tutoring example.

📑 Resources:
📚 See Joan's 22 income streams in Chapter 9 of Your AI Roadmap Book

💰Money Tools: such as a High Yield Savings Account

📄Craigslist Post showing Joan's offer tutoring in grad school!

Joan provides practical advice on how to start side hustles, monetize skills, and shift from a scarcity mindset to one of abundance and opportunity.

Takeaways:

🏗 Developing resilience through multiple income streams is crucial.
🏦 Passive income sources can provide financial stability.
🛠 Creating an offer based on your skills can lead to additional income.
🌱 You can start small and scale your income streams over time.
💡 There are many opportunities to monetize your skills and experiences.

Sound Bites
"Some of the income streams are passive."
"How I could monetize my experience."
"Entrepreneurship is basic algebra."

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BONUS DeepSeek Shocks the Market! Competitive Strengths and Weaknesses

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01/28/25 • 20 min

What is DeepSeek??! Let's unpack DeepSeek strengths and weaknesses.
Dr. Joan Palmiter Bajorek discusses the emergence of DeepSeek, a new AI startup, and its implications in the AI landscape. She compares DeepSeek with established players like OpenAI, highlighting its open-source model, cost efficiency, and performance capabilities. The conversation also touches on concerns regarding information suppression and the future dynamics of the AI market, emphasizing the need for diverse competitors in the field.
In this episode, she talks about stock, valuations, the US economy, hype, and bloat of AI companies,
.... and stability of who will be winning in the AI market in the years to come
Got questions? Send an email to [email protected]
Make a free DeepSeek account: https://www.deepseek.com
AI Tools I Love #3 Perplexity Episode: https://yourairoadmap.buzzsprout.com/2358279/episodes/16318382-031-ai-tools-i-love-3-perplexity-search-with-citations-images-and-no-ads
Takeaways
🌟 DeepSeek is a new player in the AI market.
🔄 OpenAI has shifted from its original open-source vision.
🛠️ DeepSeek's model is fully open source, promoting transparency.
💰 The cost of using DeepSeek is significantly lower than OpenAI.
⚙️ DeepSeek achieves comparable results with fewer resources.
📊 Evaluations show DeepSeek can outperform ChatGPT in specific tasks.
❓ Concerns exist regarding information suppression in AI responses.
📈 The AI market is evolving with new entrants like DeepSeek.
🔋 Future AI developments may require less processing power.
🚀 Liquid AI from MIT is another notable competitor in the space.

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Your AI Roadmap currently has 45 episodes available.

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The podcast is about Ai, Entrepreneurship, Podcasts, Technology, Data Analytics, Business, Artificial Intelligence, Diversity and Careers.

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The episode title 'Behind the Scenes of MailChimp and TurboTax: AI Literacy with Nicolle Merrill of Intuit' is the most popular.

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The average episode length on Your AI Roadmap is 29 minutes.

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Episodes of Your AI Roadmap are typically released every 6 days, 7 hours.

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The first episode of Your AI Roadmap was released on Apr 26, 2024.

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