Ai-podden

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, building the user interface, and having a prototype transforming into a product at Danderyd Hospital where he does his clinical work. Read more: https://ai-podden.se/en

This week we are hosting Nastaran Baleng-Soultani, co-founder of Space Academy and RadCap Ventures. Nastaran 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 challenges and be more sustainable, and she provides a couple of examples. Beyond the idea, Nastaran's focus is on the team and the passion of the team to solve the problems they are tackling. What makes female-founded AI startups different? This is a question that Nastaran answers. While her observations don't show any difference between companies with and without female founders, she notices that female founders tend to focus on sustainability. Ather asks Nastaran whether she would ever invest in an AI company based on a presentation only. Tune in to hear Nastaran’s thoughts!

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 examples of what she sees as the biggest challenges with AI. She goes on and compares with the benefits that we could gain from AI. If you want to hear Eva’s conclusions and notifications, don’t miss out on this episode! Read more: https://ai-podden.se/

Our guest in this episode of AI-podden is Carl-Axel Wahlström, AI Artist and Creator of the AI fashion magazine Copy. Carl-Axel shares 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 of its kind, with really fascinating images that look so real. Read more: https://ai-podden.se/

Our guest in this episode of AI-podden is Lars Albertsson, founder of Scling and one of Scandinavia’s most skilled data engineers, with experience from Google and Spotify. Lars shares with us 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.

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 shot. Read more: https://ai-podden.se/

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/

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 explains his view on the investment market. He believes that simply applying AI without a technological moat won’t be attractive enough for investors. Milan and Ather also discuss Milan’s book “I’m Just Saying,”, where the issue of not being able to have open conversations about different opinions is becoming more of a challenge today. This is highly relevant today as we debate the dangers and advantages of AI in the future. Read more: https://ai-podden.se/

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 of mankind, as well as what measures we should take to prevent the malicious use of AI. Read more: https://ai-podden.se/

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/

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 increase the number of users clicking on a company’s ad per amount of money spent. Read more: https://ai-podden.se/

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/

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. Read more: https://ai-podden.se/

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/en

AI-podden med Jim Dowling, Founder and CEO of Hopsworks and Associate Professor in Computer Science at KTH Read more: https://ai-podden.se/en

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 recent developments of Large Language Models and image generating tools and where we can see the value of such tools. Read more: https://ai-podden.se/

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 summarize them, based on a meeting recording for instance. Another tool will help sales to handle the flow of the sales process to boost the customer relationships. Read more: https://ai-podden.se/

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 studies show that it could have a negative effect on the performance of users of AI if the AI system itself is not fit to the user’s personality, for instance. Read more: https://ai-podden.se/

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/

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 models such as GPT (Generative Pre-Trained Transformer). Read more: https://ai-podden.se/