AI Innovators

Welcome to back to another episode of the AI Innovators podcast! I'm your host, Rob May, and today we're diving into the intersection of AI and human psychology with two incredible guests, Arthur Tisi and Harold Goldstein from Hunova. In this episode, we'll uncover the journey behind Hunova's innovative use of AI to enhance workplace performance and reduce bias, and we'll explore the blend of proprietary models and ensemble techniques that drive their cutting-edge solutions. Stay tuned as we discuss the challenges and breakthroughs in adopting AI for talent assessment, the impact of large language models, and valuable insights for emerging entrepreneurs. Get ready to learn, be inspired, and rethink how AI can revolutionize the workplace. Let's jump right in!**01:00** - ChatGPT made AI more accessible and sparked a lot of curiosity around it.**05:46** - Hunova blends AI with psychology to drive business results.**06:36** - Combining different AI models leads to better performance on social media.**10:44** - Adoption of AI in the workforce has been slower than expected.**15:42** - Bias in hiring is influenced by both AI and human factors, affecting candidates.**19:48** - AI helps reduce bias and highlight diverse talents.**21:18** - Proprietary and diverse AI models deliver high accuracy, not just relying on GPT.**26:49** - Early-stage startup tasks are often avoided because they make people uncomfortable.https://www.linkedin.com/in/arthurtisi/http://www.hunova.com

Welcome to the AI Innovators podcast with your host, Rob May.Today, we're joined by Margaret Quigley from Cohere, a pioneering company in the AI space. Margaret has a unique role that involves sourcing unconventional and valuable data sets for training AI models. From rural villages in Nigeria to complex face recognition apps, her journey through the tech industry is both fascinating and inspiring. Margaret shares her career path, creative data acquisition strategies, and insights into the ever-evolving landscape of AI data needs. Whether you're an entrepreneur, executive, or academic, this episode offers a deep dive into the intricacies of data acquisition and its pivotal role in AI innovation. Tune in as we explore the challenges, opportunities, and future of sourcing data for AI.https://www.linkedin.comhttp://cohere.com/01:00 - Managed partnerships and sourced unique data for facial recognition projects. Now focuses on acquiring text data, with seven years of experience in data acquisition.05:25 - Talks about how companies figure out the value of data by sampling and testing it for quality before making big investments.08:17 - Discusses an app that verified image submissions and collected diverse data from over 15,000 users.11:02 - Highlights the importance of considering emotional factors when evaluating tech, and the balance between synthetic and real-world data.17:09 - Stresses the importance of being mindful, noticing sensations, and practicing body scans regularly.18:11 - Shares thoughts on persisting through rejection in one's career.

Competera enables retailers to increase customer trust by setting and maintaining optimal price positions on a real-time basis by leveraging the power of AI.Competera’s deep learning algorithms enable their enterprise clients’ to rebound on average 6% of gross margin by continuously calculating and re-quantifying billions of possible price combinations. In this podcast, CEO & co-founder Alex Galkin addresses how AI is changing pricing for different types of customers. He also talks about the different AI methods and approaches he prefers as well as the data he uses when it comes to pricing. Learn more at competera.ai

Anyw.ai sells a fully packaged business solution by helping businesses stay in touch with their users. The company gives businesses actionable and quantitative packaged feedback from their users. In this podcast, CEO, Manuel Zahariev, talks about the LLM wave and the premise of their company in the latest wave of AI technology. Learn more at anyw.ai

Lovelace uses AI to bring worlds to life as a generative 3D content/experience platform. In this podcast Kayla Comalli, co-founder and CEO, talks about what can be created in these worlds and some of the challenges the company has faced. By leveraging avant-garde 3D generation, players can seamlessly create bespoke, photorealistic worlds. Learn more at lovelacestudio.com

CalypsoAI gives organizations the ability to trust their AI through validation, monitoring, and ongoing security. The company empowers enterprises to leverage the immense potential of Large Language Models (LLMs) confidently and without risk. In this podcast CEO, Neil Serebryany, talks about the personal security implications of using LLMs such as cyber threats and the production of false information. Learn more at calypsoai.com

Centaur Labs provides skilled data annotation services for companies that are building AI, specifically in the medical and life science industries. The company’s scalable and high quality data annotation platform continuously measures the accuracy of data annotators, whose annotation quality is motivated by pay-for-performance incentives, and optimized by collective intelligence. In this podcast Co-founder and CEO, Erik Duhaime, talks about how Centaur Labs uses AI in data labeling and addresses the fears people have regarding the idea that AI will take people’s jobs away. He also talks about the nature of data annotation changing as the AI space keeps improving and the impact on demand for data labeling. Learn more at centaurlabs.com

Central Casting AI provides game developers with pre-trained non-player characters (NPCs) for games. These characters come with intelligence, behaviors and dialogue that can interact with objects in the real world. In this podcast Co-Founder Jeff Orkin talks about how Central Casting encodes the rules of common sense in to the characters, the business of the video game industry and the gaming community’s future with AI. The company uses the generative models at the developers’ authoring time to assist designers to then output a traditional structured model of behavior called a planning domain in a hierarchal task network planner. Learn more at centralcasting.ai

Consensus is a product led, product first company with a mission to make science accessible and consumable for all using AI. Consensus uses natural language processing to ingest research papers and understand what the consensus is on any type of scientific issue. The Consensus product is essentially a search engine, powered by language models that allows one to search a natural language research question. In this podcast, Co-Founder Eric Olson talks about his athletic but non-scientific background and how he entered the AI space through his career. Eric came up with the idea for Consensus after spending years as a die-hard amateur science consumer and wanting access to better evidence-based information at the click of a button. In the podcast, Eric also talks about how the business was affected when Chat GPT was launched and his future predictions for Chat GPT. Learn more at consensus.app

Radical Ventures is the largest AI focused VC fund in North America. From healthcare and financial services to infrastructure and manufacturing, Radical Ventures partners with founders who understand the transformational power of AI. In this podcast partner Parasvil Patel talks about the culture behind the company and where he expects to see long term moats emerge for AI companies. Rob also gives Parasavil the chance to argue for or against the points Rob made in his Substack article called “5 Contrarian AI Theses For Early Stage Investors.” Learn more at radical.vc

In this podcast Founder, Alex Wiltschko, talks about how Osmo is adding a new sensory modality to machines by teaching them to smell through reading, mapping and writing smell. He also talks about the company’s findings on the difference between vision and smell when represented by machines. Alex has solved the core problem of predicting what a molecule smells like through super human scent prediction performance. Osmo envisions a future where computers will capture and understand the chemical world to help us enjoy new smells and tastes, recall memories, forecast opportunities and danger, and make life-saving decisions. Learn more at osmo.ai

Piction Health uses AI to identify skin diseases to streamline their virtual care delivery. Piction Health provides immediate help and support for the patient’s hair, skin, and nail issues. In this podcast, Cofounder, Susan Conover talks about the use of AI as it relates to images of skin. Susan talks about how the company was formed from her own personal experience being diagnosed with melanoma. Learn more at pictionhealth.com

Intelligent Relations combines the latest AI technology with deep PR industry expertise to democratize access to the media. In this podcast, Chairman, Rob Shavell talks about how he started an AI first PR company and where PR is going in a world of generative AI and large language models. Rob talks about where one can use AI in PR and how Intelligent Relations applies AI to PR. Learn more at intelligentrelations.com

Untether AI helps companies execute AI workloads to run neural networks faster and more cost-effectively using at-memory computing. In this podcast, CEO, Arun Iyengar talks about why GPUs are still holding us back, regardless of their success and how Untether came to fruition. Learn more at untether.ai

MemoryWell combines the power of storytelling with innovative data insights to help care providers provide more empathetic and personalized care to their patients. MemoryWell also launched PlanAllies, which helps health plans onboard and engage new members so that they get the most out of their plans. In this podcast, Founder & CEO Jay Newtown-Small talks about the importance of delivering person-centered care within the long-term care, hospitals and home care space. Jay talks about the AI listening component they are building within their software. Learn more at memorywell.com and planallies.com.

Akooda is the world's first Ops Intelligence platform, providing true insights on top of existing SaaS tools used across the digital footprint. Akooda gives managers and leadership visibility and insights into their customers, projects, and resource allocation to boost revenue and improve productivity. In this podcast, CEO and Founder Yuval Gonczarowski defines the rising category of Ops Intelligence, explains the tools the company has built using semantic analysis and describes the company’s value and strategic add to other organizations from a operational standpoint. Learn more at akooda.co

Synthetic Users is service that uses LLMs for user feedback. Their goal is to make product discovery faster, more affordable and more efficient than ever before for customers. In this podcast, CEO and Founder, Kwame Ferreira talks about the concept of synthetic data while defining what synthetic users are, where they came from, and where synthetic data is going in the future. Learn more at syntheticusers.com

TermScout is an AI tool that highlights key components of common business contracts and informs the user if they are standard market terms or outliers.  In this podcast founders Otto Hanson and Evan Harris talk about the challenges of doing NLP on contracts, why contracts are more commerce tech than legal tech, and how they wish someone would build an asynchronous workplace communication super app.  Learn more at termscout.com

Tommy Weir is the CEO of Enaible, a company focused on enterprise AI productivity tool.  Hear Tommy talk about lessons learned measuring productivity, how to sell AI into large companies, and how generative visualizations are the one piece of tech Enaible would love someone to build to help improve their tool.

Mady Mantha is the Co-Founder and CTO at HappyPillar - an app that uses NLP to help coach parents through better interactions with their children.  Hear Mady talk about the trends in NLP and how they led to the possibility of creating apps like HappyPillar, and the impact they are having on families.