by Aman Y. Agarwal
Machine learning is transforming industries. Learn from the foremost entrepreneurs and innovators around the planet building real-world AI applications for tangible business value (not research projects)! Hosted by Aman Y. Agarwal, the Founder and CEO of Sanpram Transnational Corp.
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August 7, 2022
<p>Have you ever had difficulty understanding what someone was saying because of their accent?</p> <p>Do you have an accent that others don't understand, or hold biases against?</p> <p>As a speaker of many foreign languages, I've always found it to be a very fascinating process. Ask any foreigner in your country about their relationship with the local language, and you'll realise how the topic is packed with various emotions.</p> <p>But as it turns out, AI can help us communicate perfectly with each other in spite of thick accents.</p> <p>My guest Ganna Tymko is the CEO of SaySo, which uses AI (specifically deep learning) to transform heavily accented speech into standard English (i.e an accent from Britain, America, etc) — in REAL TIME, as you speak!</p> <p>Just imagine how it would transform cross-cultural and cross-border communications! We dive into the technology and business aspects:</p> <p>00:23 - Why Aman is getting desensitized to accents</p> <p>04:53 - Why we struggle with accents</p> <p>13:59 - AI projects: research VS design</p> <p>23:13 - How Sayso's tech works</p> <p>33:23 - How our mouth muscles get trained to produce accents</p> <p>41:48 - Taking accent transformation tech to the market</p> <p>47:06 - When training ML models for humans, use human metrics</p> <p>51:05 - Closing</p>
July 8, 2022
<p><strong>"Tech Fluent CEO" for non-technical entrepreneurs: https://aman-agarwal.com/tfc/</strong></p> <p><br></p> <p>A few years ago, DeepFake technology appeared on the horizon.</p> <p>It allows you to take a person's video and voice recordings, and create a digital "avatar" that you can use forever. We saw synthetic videos of political leaders and celebrities saying things they had never said in real life, but which looked so real they were indistinguishable from the real thing.</p> <p>While many were concerned, others saw a more ethical potential –making unlimited videos with "AI models," by simply giving them a script to recite.</p> <p>One such company is Colossyan, and in this episode I sit down with their CEO Kristof Szabo to discuss how they're dealing with the technical and non-technical challenges of building such a unique, AI-first product.</p> <p>This is an example of a product that would be unimaginable a few years ago, but which will be virtually everywhere in the future. AI celebrities (which do not exist) are already taking over social media and have scores of ardent fans.</p> <p>Personally, I can imagine a world where 90% of actors in movies are not real human beings, and where almost every movie you see is "animated." Not sure if that's what will happen, but it's a definite possibility.</p> <p>Here's what we discussed:</p> <p>2:01 – Who are early adopters for a technology like this?</p> <p>7:16 – Challenges in building the technology; what makes it so hard</p> <p>13:08 – Why the "secret sauce" matters less than the product roadmap</p> <p>18:00 – How to recreate body language for an AI avatar? (Also, Aman makes a non-European joke)</p> <p>22:30 – Colossyan's origin story</p> <p>27:00 – Lessons from talking to customers</p> <p>31:36 – Fundraising cycle and product-led growth</p> <p>37:00 – How to keep research and product teams in harmony</p> <p>42:23 – Crazy idea: doing away with the "ML team" in an AI company?</p> <p>46:48 – (Allegedly true) story about Kayak</p> <p><strong>(Ethics Policy: These opinions are 100% my own as an independent observer and educator. I don't own stock in guests' companies or their competitors, nor do I get paid by them in any form for any reason at the time of publishing, </strong><strong>unless specifically stated</strong><strong>. Episodes are also not intended to be an automatic endorsement of any company or its products and services.)</strong></p>
June 17, 2022
<p>You know that the future of transportation is electric, and that future is already here, but it's not "evenly distributed" – some countries, companies, and people are making faster leaps towards switching away from gasoline than others.</p> <p>For companies that operate a lot of vehicles (in transportation, municipal amenities, retail etc), it turns out that switching to electric vehicles is more complicated than it sounds. Which cars do you switch first, which drivers do you allow to drive them, etc.</p> <p>It's a niche problem, but it's growing, and today I speak to an entrepreneur whose company is dedicated to solving it – and their solution uses AI!</p> <p>My guest was Mateusz "Mat" Maj, the CEO of VivaDrive, and in this episode we chat candidly about all the different aspects of managing fleets of vehicles.</p> <p>1:26 - What are green fleets?<br> 2:30 - Why European companies care about having green fleets<br> 4:45 - Building a "digital twin" of a company<br> 11:20 - Using an AI system to improve car fleet operations (in-depth reveal)<br> 20:30 - What an "AI fleet manager" does: big data vs ML<br> 25:00 - Using ML to upgrade to green cars<br> 29:20 - Why is it complicated to switch to electric cars?<br> 38:00 - European power grids aren't ready for electric cars<br> 41:00 - How VivaDrive approached their go-to-market strategy<br> 48:10 - Fundraising strategy (and how they chose it)</p>
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Machine learning is transforming industries. Learn from the foremost entrepreneurs and innovators around the planet building real-world AI applications for tangible business value (not research projects)!
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