Competitive Edge / Konkurrenskraft is a podcast about the future of decision-making, business management, and leadership. The episodes are in Swedish or English, depending on who the guest is. The conversations are led by Robin Askelöf, CMO at the tech company Hypergene, which also publishes the podcast. Competitive Edge mixes perspectives and guests to find new angles on how we, as decision-makers, can be better equipped for the future.
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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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A podcast tracing the evolution of action cinema through history.
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Dataministeriet - en podd om dataskydd/privacy. Möt dataskyddsnördar, hör deras berättelser och lär dig mer om rätten till privatliv. Har någon hört talas om GDPR?
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Improsnack är en podd av och med Presens Impro där vi diskuterar impro comedy som humorform och alla de tips, trix och regler som är användbara när man uppträder som ensemble utan förberedelser i syfte att underhålla en publik och riva av skrattsalvor. Medverkande: My Gudmundsdotter Erik Broström Amanda Lindmark m.fl.
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Merry Christmas folks! This week, guest host (Sifted's) Mimi Billing and Ather discuss December's AI news updates. Highlights included Uber's entry into AI data labeling, Google DeepMind's Genie 2 for training AI in simulated environments, and Amazon's collaboration with Anthropic to develop a mega AI supercomputer. We covered the importance of new…
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This week, guest host (Sifted's) Mimi Billing and Ather discuss November's AI news updates. Topics include; OpenAI’s Slush presentation, which revealed both innovation and cultural challenges, and the diminishing returns of AI scaling laws. They explore the rise of specialized models, new players like Gemesis and Mistral, and OpenAI's ChatGPT searc…
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AI’s Dual Identity: Philosophy Meets Practicality
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Christian Guttmann, Executive Director of the Nordic AI Institute, discusses AI as both a philosophical aspiration and a practical tool. He highlights applications like personalized banking recommendations and data querying with large language models but notes their limitations in reasoning and understanding. Advocating for hybrid AI models and ric…
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Navigating AI Ethics and Regulation
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This week we welcome back; Reggie Townsend, Vice President of Data Ethics at SAS Institute and member of President Biden's National AI Advisory Council. We discussed AI development and regulation in the US. He stressed balancing innovation incentives with government restraint and cited the CHIPS Act as key for AI infrastructure, though most investm…
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AI-Podden Live - Special Guest, Ingrid af Sandeberg
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This episode, recorded live, at the third installment of AI-Podden live at Epicenter, features Ingrid af Sandeberg, Strategic Advisor at Epicenter and Chairman of the board at Stockholm AI. She joins Ather & Mimi on the stage to discuss AI trends and tools, including Notebook LM, highlighting the shift toward smaller, specialized models like those …
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AI-Podden News - September & October
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This episode, recorded live, is the third installment of Ather and Mimi's special news updates at Epicenter Stockholm. They discuss Elon Musk's We, Robot controversy, OpenAI's $6.6 billion funding round, and AI limitations like pattern matching. They also highlighted neurosymbolic AI’s potential, Nobel winners in machine learning, and the rapid ado…
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AI First: How is Google Shaping the Future of Intelligence
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Ted Schönbeck, Nordic CTO, Google Cloud discusses the current and future landscape of AI, emphasizing its ability to perform tasks that typically require human intelligence, with machine learning allowing systems to learn independently. Google, an "AI-first" company since 2016, has integrated AI into products like Maps and Search. Schönbeck highlig…
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Navigating the Future of Intelligent Systems
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This episode features special guest, Tom Sodestrom, AWS Enterprise Strategist, speaking on the latest trends in AI and edge computing. Tom shares his insights on the upcoming trends in the next 5-10 years, including the rise of generative AI, increased data volume and importance, productive edge computing, and digital twins and simulation at scale.…
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This episode, recorded live, is the second installment of Ather and Mimi's special news updates at Epicenter Stockholm. They discuss OpenAI and concerns about its shift from research to product development, as well as AI advancements in math reasoning by DeepMind and OpenAI’s new "Strawberry" model. The hosts also touch on Sam Altman's Worldcoin pr…
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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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#34 - Att höja "game of the scene"
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En podd där vi diskuterar improviserad humor och scenkonst. Vi diskuterar hur man tar "game" till nästa nivå i en scen. Efter devisen "om detta är sant, vad är då mer sant?" sker "heightenings" alltså att man höjer/utvecklar det roliga i scenen. Medverkande:My GudmundsdotterErik Broström
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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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Charlene Li - Digital Transformation and Disruptive Leadership Expert - "Generative AI for Leaders"
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NOTE: This episode is in English Join us as we sit down with Charlene Li, a visionary who has been forecasting the future of digital innovation for over two decades. Named by Fast Company as one of the most creative people in business, Li is an expert on digital transformation and disruptive growth strategies. She’s also a New York Times bestsellin…
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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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Hur vi tar hand om en premiss för att, på ett effektivt sätt, skapa "Game of the scene" Med: My Gudmundsdotter Erik Broström
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Ett avsnitt där vi pratar att gå in med en idé till en sketch och vad den idéen (premissen) ska innehålla. Med: My Gudmundsdotter Erik Broström
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Ett till avsnitt om monologer, som är det vi oftast använder som inspiration till våra sketcher på scenen. Med: My Gudmundsdotter Erik Broström
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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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Ari Riabacke - doktor i beslutsfattande - ”Insikter från 40+ avsnitt”
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I det här specialavsnittet är Ari Riabacke, doktor i beslutsfattande, tillbaka för ett samtal om insikter och spaningar från podden så här långt. Vi utgår från en AI-analys av de över 40 avsnitten som visar ett antal återkommande teman. Och det finns minst sagt mycket att hämta från de experter, futurister, föreläsare och företagsledare som varit m…
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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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Simon Kyaga - överläkare i psykiatri och författare - ”Visdom i en föränderlig tid”
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Vi träffar Simon Kyaga som är överläkare i psykiatri och författare av två uppmärksammade böcker, en om kreativitet och nu senast om visdom. Han har också varit sommarpratare i P1 och är med regelbundet i radio och tv för att kommentera aktuella frågor inom psykiatri. I samtalet tar vi oss an ämnet visdom. För vad är det egentligen? Går det att mät…
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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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Nancy Giordano - Exponential Strategist, Best-Selling Author and Global Keynote Speaker - “Frustrated Optimism”
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NOTE: This episode is in English We meet Nancy Giordano who is recognized as one of the world’s top futurists, bestselling author and global keynote speaker. Her expertise in navigating this fast-changing world of ours has made her an invaluable resource for organizations and leaders worldwide. In the conversation we dive into how companies and org…
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