Episode 94: Machine Learning 101 for CEOs with Adam Geitgey
Machine learning can be complex, but it doesn’t have to be. For many product leaders and C-suite executives, it’s about grasping the concepts and being able to direct the work.…
Episode 93: Facial Recognition, Demographic Analysis and More with Timnit Gebru
Whether overt or unintentional, whether human- or technology-oriented, bias is something that every company must be vigilant about. And while it used to be something you might have to worry…
Earlier this year, Jon Prial spoke to entrepreneur and blockchain expert William Mougayar on the use of tokens as mediums of exchange, the importance of...
Are we headed for a real-life version of Westworld? In this episode, Jon Prial welcomes Suzanne Gildert, the Founder and CEO of Sanctuary AI, a...
A few months ago, Jon Prial spoke with Clare Corthell, the founder of Luminant Data, about bias in machine learning models, what the implications of...
Earlier this year, Google Duplex garnered lots of attention when it shared its demo of an interaction between a very life-like bot and a human...
Who better to provide a CEO-level perspective on machine learning and artificial intelligence than Sam Charrington, the host of the wildly successful podcast This Week...
Is it unethical if your company doesn’t do it’s due diligence on avoiding bias? In this episode, Jon Prial talks with Kathryn Hume, the Vice...
After spending the past six months traveling across North America and talking to dozens of companies, Jason Brenier, our VP of Strategy, got clear insights...
In this episode, Jon Prial talks with Jana Eggers, the CEO of Nara Logics, a company with an AI platform that works as a matching...
When your business relies on data, you need customer relationships that are founded on trust. Without it, customers will always question why you need information,...
Everything is going digital. Why should restaurants be an exception? In this episode, Jon Prial talks with Ray Reddy, the Co-founder and CEO of Ritual,...
Differential privacy is a technology that’s quickly moving from academia into business. And it’s not just the big companies that are using it. With the...
A few months ago we talked to Bill Adler, the Founding President and CEO of True Fit, a data-driven personalization platform for footwear and apparel retailers...
With GDPR behind us, maybe you’re breathing a sigh of relief. On the other hand, maybe you see it and all of the changes it’s...
In this continuation of their earlier conversation (see Episode 79), Jon Prial and Alistair Croll, the Founder and Content Chair of Fwd50, discuss GDPR, the critical...
What’s the best way to go to market? It’s by capturing people’s attention. And to do that, you need to solve for interesting. In this...
If you follow the conversational AI space, you’ve likely read an article or two proclaiming “Chatbots are dead!” If you’ve read my overview of conversational...
We all have our own personal biases. The question is how do you keep them out of your data so that you can create better...
In this episode of The Impact Podcast, Jon Prial welcomes Chris Saad, the former Head of Product at Uber Developer Platform. Together, they talk about data rights...
Now that I’ve covered how to put together an initial conversational AI team, let’s get into the nuts and bolts of developing your first project....
In this episode of the Impact Podcast, Jon Prial welcomes investor, entrepreneur and blockchain expert William Mouygayer back to the show. They talk about the...
The Principles of Security First
Want to use security to help differentiate your business? Check out the 10 Principles of Security First to find out exactly how to do so.
Over the past decade, just about everything seems to have gone digital. Today complex algorithms serve up recommendations tailored to our individual tastes, completely transforming...
Bias exists everywhere. It factors into everything that we do and into virtually every decision that we make. An interesting, but problematic side effect of...
We’re excited to announce the release of Georgian Partners Epsilon v1.0, our machine learning (ML) product that helps bring privacy guarantees to our portfolio companies’...
We reached the end of an era when the news broke about the Facebook / Cambridge Analytica scandal. Prior to that, most people had been...
At a time when the risks and costs associated with privacy are on the rise, differential privacy offers a solution. Differential privacy is mathematical definition...
In a world where the risks and costs associated with privacy are on the rise, differential privacy offers a solution. Simply put, differential privacy is...
One of the big challenges that many software companies face is how to overcome the cold-start problem. That’s when a software company needs customer data...
With analytics you can learn some pretty interesting, and even strange, things about the people using your chatbot. The challenge is figuring out the best...
There’s a lot of buzz about conversational AI, and with good reason. As human beings, we feel at ease in natural language conversations. Now that...
Manufacturing hasn’t really changed all of that much in the past 75 years, with one key exception. Today we’re capturing vast amounts of data about every...