One of Sweden’s most popular technology podcasts that sheds light on current AI developments with guests from all sides of society.
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This week, guest host (Sifted's) Mimi Billing and Ather discuss June's AI news updates. Topics include Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI over a nonprofit agreement, Anthropic’s Cloud 3 outperforming ChatGPT and Google's Gemini, and major investments in Anthropic by Google and Amazon. They also cover the EU AI Act's approval, marking the first regu…
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From NASA to AWS, Sky's the Limit with AI
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In this episode, Ather interviews Tom Soderstrom, AWS Enterprise Strategist, on his career and insights into innovation and generative AI. Tom shares his journey from Sweden to the US, becoming NASA’s first CTO for IT at JPL, and introducing cloud computing. He emphasises innovation through small, low-risk experiments, or “two-way door decisions,” …
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Hybrid AI Systems: The Future of Intelligent Reasoning
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In this episode, Ather interviews Lele Cau, AI research scientist at MotherBrain, part of EQT Partners. They discuss AI as a system integrating software and hardware for intelligent decision-making. Lele describes MotherBrain’s role in aiding deal professionals with data and algorithms, emphasising the importance of knowledge graphs in large langua…
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In this episode, Ather meets Caroline Ohlsson, Data & AI Director at Verdane. Caroline explains Verdane's investment in tech-enabled companies and how her team supports them with data and AI. She discusses Verdane's use of generative AI tools like Verdain GPT and Microsoft Co-pilot to boost productivity, and shares examples of AI-driven improvement…
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LIVE at Epicenter: AI-podden News - May
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In our first ever live recording at Epicenter Stockholm, Ather and Mimi Billing open with Kai-fu Lee's prediction that AI will take 50% of jobs by 2027 and the market's projected growth to $184 billion by 2024. Despite major investments, the profitability of large language models (LLMs) remains uncertain. OpenAI's financial success is noted, but hi…
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In this episode, Ather interviews Anastasia Varava, Research Lead at SEBX, SEB Banken, about AI in banking. Anastasia's work at KTH and SEB Banken focuses on machine learning, robotics, and AI applications to enhance employee efficiency, decision-making, crime prevention, and customer experience. She discusses data sensitivity, the shift to cloud s…
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In this episode host Ather interviews Mikael Huss, co-founder and Principal Data Scientist at Codon. They discuss the evolution of AI, noting the shift from traditional data science to large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT. Mikael highlights the overshadowing of other AI applications by LLMs and generative AI. They emphasize the importance of d…
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This week our guest host, Sifted's Mimi Billing and Ather discuss April's AI developments, including; implications in geopolitics and business, highlighting Microsoft's warning about AI's potential use to disrupt elections in the US, South Korea, and India. They explore China's advancements in AI, the impact of quantum computing on AI development, …
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In this episode, Ather hosts guest Alex Baker, global retail strategist, entrepreneur, and Principal at Nordic Retail Hub. They discuss the evolution of AI in retail, highlighting its shift from backend applications to enhancing customer-facing experiences with technologies like dynamic pricing and personalized promotions. They also explore various…
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Automating Quality Assurance with AI
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Ather interviews Vilhelm von Ehrenheim, co-founder and CAIO of QA Tech, discussing the use of AI in automating quality assurance for web applications. Wilhelm details how their AI agents test web functionality to ensure reliability before launch, leveraging large language models for enhanced decision-making. He also addresses the challenges of adap…
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AI in action: A real-world IT approach
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In this episode, Ather interviews Ramprakash Ramamoorthy, AI director at ManageEngine, who clarifies AI's role as a practical tool for pattern recognition and productivity in IT management, rather than a threat to human jobs. Ram discusses how ManageEngine has integrated AI across their product suite since 2011 to optimize IT operations and custome…
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This week our guest host, Sifted's Mimi Billing and Ather discuss March's AI developments, including; Elon Musk has sued OpenAI, alleging violation of their nonprofit agreement through a Microsoft collaboration and deviation from open-source values. Concurrently, Musk introduced his open-source language model, GROK. Meanwhile, Anthropic's new AI, C…
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This week our guest host, Sifted's Mimi Billing and Ather discuss February's AI developments, including OpenAI's new video tool, Sora, and its careful release strategy amidst ethical concerns. They explore the bias issues in Google's Gemini AI and contrast different AI philosophies, highlighting the debate between practical AI applications and the …
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Salman Avestimehr, USC professor and FedML co-founder, discusses AI, federated learning, and large language models. This week's topics include; AI definition, distributed and federated systems research, current challenges in generative AI, and trustworthiness in ML. Ather and Salman explore the future of accessible LLMs on personal devices, stress …
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In this episode of the AI Podcast, host Ather Gattami interviews Michal Sustr, co-founder of EquiLibre, a company that uses game theory and reinforcement learning for trading. Michal discusses the company's approach to trading, which is based on the idea that markets can be modelled as games. He explains that EquiLibre uses game theory to develop a…
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Reinforcement learning is a type of machine learning that allows agents to learn by interacting with their environment. DeepMind researcher, David Abel is interested in using reinforcement learning to understand and build intelligent agents. One of the big questions in AI is what exactly "intelligence" is. Another big question is how to build intel…
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In this episode, Mimi and Ather delve into the impact of AI on elections and political communication as well as deepfakes and cybercrime. They address OpenAI's suspension of a developer for creating a politician-impersonating chatbot and an AI-generated robocall falsely imitating President Biden, demonstrating AI's potential misuse in politics. The…
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The inventor of LoRA - Edward Hu
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Edward Hu, Researcher at OpenAI, known for his invention of LoRA, a widely used machine learning method to fine-tune Large Language Models (LLMs) which he co-invented at Microsoft, shares his views on LoRa. Together with Ather he also discusses the development of GFlowNets as a promising tool for the development of reasoning and planning AI systems…
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Mimi Billing, European editor at Shifted and Ather highlight the latest news in AI in December and take a look back at 2023. In this episode, you will hear the latest on the release of Google DeepMind's Gemini in its Ultra, Pro, and Nano versions. How European Union policymakers have reached a provisional agreement on AI rules under the EU AI ACT. …
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Andy Karvonen, Prof. of Urban Design and Planning at Lund University talks of the “Urban Brain", where we have some kind of smart city control room managing all aspects, from traffic to transportation and the management of facilities. Andy and Ather discuss the pros and cons of such a future, delving into the hard but important questions of privacy…
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Mika Gustafsson, Prof., and David Martinez, PhD student, both at Linköping University conduct research in Bioinformatics and precision medicine. They are exploring how to use complex patient data, both clinical and environmental (such as the lifestyle) to develop personalized treatments and to help understand diseases more in depth in order to take…
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Let’s start with the company behind chatGPT, OpenAI. No one has missed the last couple of weeks' happenings at OpenAI, where the CEO and cofounder Sam Altman was fired on Friday the 17th and then on Monday evening reinstated as CEO. There have been a lot of rumours of why he was fired in the first place but I think we need to focus on something dif…
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Optimize the food industry with AI
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Agnes Lindell, Head of Data Driven Business at Elvenite shares her experience in building data driven tools in the food industry, all from some of their most successful use cases to how they managed to do it. She mentioned the biggest challenges and how they managed to tackle them. A few examples include inventory optimization with over 10% of savi…
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Kye Andersson, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at Canucci and also author of the recently published Sifted article on the technological, and especially AI gap, between the EU and the US and China. Kye argues that we have too much focus on regulations, especially on less likely scenarios, and we are making the innovation in the EU more difficul…
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In this special episode of AI-podden, we have the pleasure to introduce Mimi Billing from Sifted who will be co-hosting AI-podden in this special format where we get updates of the recent AI developments. In this episode, we are discussing why Nvidia is using AI to train a robot how to spin a pen between its fingers, China’s claim that they have bu…
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Making impact in Healthcare with AI
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The AI Swede of the year (2023) is Max Gordon, and he is also our (returning) guest in this episode of AI-podden! Max is an orthopedic surgeon and Associate professor at Karolinska Institute. Max Gordon shares with us his story of applying AI in Healthcare, how he got into it, where he started, and how he dealt with acquiring data, testing, buildin…
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Nastaran Baleng-Soultani, co-founder of Space Academy and RadCap Ventures shares with us her thoughts about the “AI hype” and the trends of AI startup investments. She describes the ultimate startup settings where she would be interested in investing. In particular, Nastaran expresses her interest in ideas where AI could help us solve climate chall…
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Do the AI benefits out-weight the risks?
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Ather’s guest in this episode is Eva Fors, Managing Director of Google Cloud Nordics. Eva and Ather discuss the most recent developments in the AI services provided by Google Cloud and how Google Cloud is feeling the sentiment around AI developments. Eva shares her thoughts on the balance between AI developments and regulations. She provides exampl…
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Carl-Axel Wahlström, AI Artist and Creator of the AI fashion magazine Copy hares with us his experience and journey of using AI in his creative work, where he describes the AI tools he is using as “friends” that he enjoys working with. He tells us how he came about to create Copy and the journey that led him to create a magazine that is the first o…
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Lars Albertsson, founder of Scling and one of Scandinavia’s most skilled data engineers, with experience from Google and Spotify shares his experience as a pioneer in the data engineering field, what his learnings has been, and the approach he takes in solving data architecture and engineering problems. Don't forget to subscribe and follow us on Li…
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Breakthroughs in Efficient Deep Learning
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We have great pleasure of hosting Mert Pilanci, Professor at Stanford University. Mert Pilanci shares with us his recent research breakthroughs in machine learning. Mert and his group discovered that the training of shallow neural networks can be transformed into super-efficient algorithms that always achieve the best accuracy possible on the first…
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We are excited to host Anders Arpteg this week, Data Science Director of the Swedish Security Service. Anders shares with us the very important role he and his team play in protecting Sweden from bad actors with the help of data and AI! Find more: https://ai-podden.se/Av AI-podden
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How intelligent should AI really be?
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Our guest in this episode of AI-podden is Milan Kordestani, Entrepreneur, Investor, and Author. Milan, who is a serial entrepreneur, tells us about how a couple of his startups apply AI to help people prepare for interviews and provide training and mentorship to help them choose individualized career paths. Milan puts his investor hat on and explai…
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The status of AI regulations in the US and elsewhere
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In this episode, we are hosting two great guests, Reggie Townsend, Vice President, Data Ethics Practice. Member of the Biden AI Advisory Committee, and Josefin Rosén, Head of AI at the SAS Institute. We discussed broadly how we can benefit from the technology of artificial intelligence and at the same time make sure that it’s used for the benefit o…
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Fraud prevention and anti-money laundering with AI
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AI-podden with Stephanie Ora and Mark Thundercliffe, SAS Institute. Stephanie and Mark discuss the role of AI, data, and analytics for risk management. We get some examples of how AI could be used to mitigate risks such as fraud and money laundering in financial services. Read more: https://ai-podden.se/…
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In this episode, AI-Podden talks with Anders Gustafsson, Chief Strategy Officer, Brightbid. Anders tells us how Brightbid uses AI to help companies better reach their customers through Google Ads. He explains how Google and Bing ads work and how a more data driven approach to bidding per ad and user could increase the conversion rate, that is incre…
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AI-podden with Dylan Sellberg, Director of Product at Hubspot. Dylan tells us about Hubspot’s latest AI developments, especially the new product development he is leading, ChatSpot.ai. He also shares other functionalities where Hubspot implemented AI to improve the product. Read more: https://ai-podden.se/…
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Multi-Agent and Energy Efficient AI Models are the next big thing
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Noam Slonim, Distinguished engineer and Initiator and leader of the Debater project, IBM Noam Slonim shares with us his best boughts on the recent developments of large language models (LLMs)and we discuss how this new technology relates to his previous breakthrough on building an AI that can debate humans successfully and without false claims. Rea…
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Our guest in this episode of AI-podden is Jörgen Warborn, who is a member of the European Union Parliament. Jörgen shares what happens behind the curtain regarding boosting the investments in AI within the EU, but also what happens in terms of regulations. Read more: https://ai-podden.se/enAv AI-podden
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Fast - Track AI Production Is Here
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AI-podden med Jim Dowling, Founder and CEO of Hopsworks and Associate Professor in Computer Science at KTH Read more: https://ai-podden.se/enAv AI-podden
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AI developments from a VC perspective
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In this episode of AI-podden, we are hosting Ted Persson, Partner at EQT Ventures who has also a long journey of being an entrepreneur. Ted shares with us the recent developments within Venture Capital in the field of AI, telling us about EQT investments but also about other startups that are doing AI which he finds interesting. We discuss the rece…
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In this episode of AI-podden, we are happy to host Daniel Akenine, National Technology Officer at Microsoft Sweden. Daniel tells us about some of the recent AI updates to Microsoft products, and how the recent developments of OpenAI’s ChatGPT will be used. The new solution that Microsoft will roll out is a tool that will take meeting notes and summ…
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Behavioral Science, augmenting humans with AI, and viral marketing
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AI-podden’s guest in this episode is Sebastian Krakowski, Professor at the Stockholm School of Economics and Digital Affiliate at Stanford University. Sebastian conducts research at the intersection of behavioral science, economics, and AI. Sebastian tells us about his studies on the importance of personalizing AI tools to their users, and how his …
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Building sustainable solutions with machine learning
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Our guest in this episode of AI-podden is Sid Khullar, Senior Director of Machine Learning R&D at Northvolt. Sid shares with us some of the interesting machine learning projects currently conducted at Northvolt towards improved battery technology. Read more: https://ai-podden.se/Av AI-podden
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Large language models use cases in healthcare
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Our guest for this episode is Kobra "Farzaneh" Etminani, Associate Professor in Machine Learning at Halmstad University. Farzaneh shares with us her research on Machine Learning for Healthcare applications and the recent progress in the field of Machine Learning that she sees promising. In particular, she is very optimistic about large language mod…
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AI-podden’s guest this week is Erik Brandt, Chief Data Scientist at Shaarpec. Erik shares their work in healthcare where they use AI for more efficient systems to better allocate resources and free up time for doctors to do less administration to help more patients. Erik tells us how we can use AI to help doctors automatically summarize their notes…
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In this episode, we are hosting Moha Bensofia, CEO of Mendi, a startup that provides cutting edge brain-health technology to help people measure, control, train, and improve their brain function. Read more: https://ai-podden.se/Av AI-podden
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AI-podden’s guest in this episode is Rasmus Adler Wahlberg, Co-founder and CEO of Multiply. Rasmus is a serial entrepreneur, who has spent the last couple of years on Multiply, developing a collaborative product were users can create templates and content with help of AI, that can be shared between team members within a company. Read more: https://…
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We have the pleasure to host Olof Hoverfält in this episode, who is Strategy & Business Design Principle at Reaktor. Olof talks about how they developed the online course "Elements of AI" together with the University of Helsinki, why they did it, and how many that have completed the course so far. Read more: https://ai-podden.se/…
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Så för man in AI i affärsverksamheten
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Fredrik Hofflander, Head of AI på Afry, gästar AI-podden och berättar om hur man ska göra för att få in AI och i ett företag. Fredrik ger råd på hur man ska hantera utmaningar med kompetens, och menar att man ska börja med att titta närmare på företagets behov och förstå vad exakt man försöker optimera eller förbättra, och på så sätt hitta rätt kom…
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