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The Deep View: Conversations#20: The origins of artificial intelligence - Aaron AndalmanI sat down with Dr. Aaron Andalman, the Chief Science Officer and co-founder of Cognitiv. Andalman holds a PhD in neuroscience, and so today, we’re breaking down the gaps, connections and inspirations between AI and neuroscience; all the things we’ve learned and the many things we still don’t know. Episode links: The giant squid: https://medium.com/the-quantastic-journal/from-squids-to-ai-how-neuroscience-and-physics-sparked-a-technological-revolution-06d8c291717cNeuroscience and AI: https://neuroscience.stanford.edu/news/neuroscience-and-ai-what-artificial-intelligence-teaches-us-about-brain-and-vice-versaThe specter of AGI: https://www.thedeepview.co/p/how-big-tech-is-using-the-ai-race-and-the-specter-of-agi-to-cement-its-power-agi-openai-googleScale it up: https://www.thedeepview.co/p/progress-predictions-2025-robots...2025-04-2955 min

The Deep View: Conversations#19: Programmable plants - Brad ZamftI sat down with Brad Zamft, the co-founder and CEO of Heritable Agriculture, to take a deep dive into all the science (both biology and computer science) behind the effort to program plants, why it’s needed and what impacts it might have. Episode links: Heritable Agriculture: https://heritable.ag/Heritable goes after indoor strawberries: https://heritable.ag/heritable-strawberries The sustainability threat of farming: https://vlsci.com/blog/top-issues-in-agriculture-2024/ ; https://www.epa.gov/climateimpacts/climate-change-impacts-agriculture-and-food-supplyThe risks of monoculture and monocropping: https://foodrevolution.org/blog/monocropping-monoculture/The promise of regenerative agriculture: https://theclimatecenter.org/our-w...2025-04-221h 00

The Deep View: Conversations#18: What Trump's tariffs mean for AI - Nada SandersI sat down with Dr. Nada Sanders, a distinguished professor of supply chain management at Northeastern University, to better understand the impact that tariffs and a trade war could have on the business and field of AI. Episode Links: The semiconductor pipeline: https://datacenterpost.com/ais-hardware-hunger-the-global-semiconductor-supply-chain-under-pressure/The latest on the tariffs and trade war: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62z54gwd22oNvidia’s US push: https://www.thedeepview.co/p/nvidia-to-produce-500-billion-worth-of-supercomputers-in-the-u-s-for-the-first-timeApple’s US push: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/02/apple-will-spend-more-than-500-billion-usd-in-the-us-over-the-next-four-years/Outline: 0:00 – Intro 4:09 – The vulnerability of the AI supply chain19:13 – I...2025-04-1644 min

The Deep View: Conversations#17: AI, compliance and utopia: Can tech actually make the world better? - Eric SydellI sat down with Dr. Eric Sydell, the founder and CEO of Vero AI, to break down the challenges of oversight, governance and compliance — and the techno-utopia on the horizon — and the ways in which AI can help, hurt, and generally, disrupt everything. Episode links: Ethan Molick: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/emollick_if-ai-development-stopped-this-week-we-would-activity-7272747981752176640-nTKX/What even is AI: https://www.ibm.com/think/topics/artificial-intelligenceSam Altman says we must regulate AI: https://www.thedeepview.co/p/paris-ai-summit-the-smoke-and-mirrors-of-governanceEU AI Act: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/topics/en/article/20230601STO93804/eu-ai-act-first-regulation-on-artificial-intelligenceChallenge of AI regulation: https...2025-04-1558 min

The Deep View: Conversations#16: AI & Quantum: Sandbox AQ's technological revolution - Stefan LeichenauerI sat down with Dr. Stefan Leichenauer, SandboxAQ's VP of Engineering, to break down the ways in which he’s bringing the two technologies together. Check out our breakdown of quantum computing: https://youtu.be/-umrjwGFTRwEpisode links: Quantum sensing: https://www.baesystems.com/en-us/definition/what-is-quantum-sensingSandbox LQMs: https://www.sandboxaq.com/Quantum computers: https://www.ibm.com/think/topics/quantum-computingSandbox drug discovery: https://www.sandboxaq.com/solutions/aqbiosimSandbox materials generation: https://www.sandboxaq.com/post/building-better-batteries-with-lqmsOutline 2025-04-081h 00

The Deep View: Conversations#15: Tools, not gods: IBM VP on AI, neuroscience and the nature of intelligence - David CoxAt HumanX, I sat down with Dr. David Cox — the VP for AI models at IBM Research and the IBM Director of the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab — to dissect those complex, nuanced differences between biological brains and the artificial neural networks behind LLMs, and how it all relates to the pursuit of AGI. Episode links: Neural networks: https://www.ibm.com/think/topics/neural-networksConvolutional neural networks: https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/introduction-convolution-neural-network/Everything we know about the human brain: https://ny.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/stn15.sci.neuro.colbrain/what-we-still-dont-know-about-the-brain/MIT Flywire diagram: https://www.nature...2025-04-0150 min

The Deep View: Conversations#14: The five taboos that Silicon Valley broke - Igor JablokovI sat down with Igor Jablokov, the founder and chairman of Pryon, to talk about the ways in which the field of AI has grown and changed, and where it might go from here. Igor worked as a program director at IBM, developing an early iteration of IBM Watson, before he struck out on his own. His first startup, Yap, was later acquired by Amazon, where it evolved into Alexa. Episode Links: Self-driving progress: https://www.thedeepview.co/p/progress-predictions-2025-robots-avs-and-technical-advancementsReuters copyright lawsuit: https://www.thedeepview.co/p/study-most-people-can-t-identify-deepfakesMusk v Altman: https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/mu...2025-03-2551 min

The Deep View: Conversations#13: The climate impact of AI - Shaolei RenI sat down with Shaolei Ren, an associate professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Riverside, to break down his recent research into the water consumption, electricity consumption and public health impact of the data centers being used to power generative AI. Episode Links: The water consumption of GenAI: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2304.03271The public health crisis of GenAI: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2412.06288Water consumption VS water use: https://www.wri.org/insights/whats-difference-between-water-use-and-water-consumptionPepsi Co’s water consumption: https://www.pepsico.com/our-impact/esg-topics-a-z/water#approachGoogle and Microsoft’s water consumption: https://www.th...2025-03-1850 min

The Deep View: Conversations#12: Director of Microsoft Research talks AI for Science - Chris BishopI sat down with Dr. Chris Bishop, a Microsoft technical fellow and the director of Microsoft Research AI for Science, to sink into the details of what AI is actually unlocking for science, and what kind of AI is doing it. Episode Links: 5th paradigm of scientific discovery: https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/the-5th-paradigm-ai-driven-scientific-discovery/Microsoft Aurora: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/introducing-aurora-the-first-large-scale-foundation-model-of-the-atmosphere/The environmental cost of AI: https://www.thedeepview.co/p/the-public-health-crisis-of-artificial-intelligenceMatterGen: https://www.thedeepview.co/p/report-ai-is-everywhere-already-even-if-we-don-t-know-itThe dubious nature of AGI: https://www.thedeepview.co/p/the-nobel-prize-and-the-mainstreaming-of-ai-s-x-riskOutline:...2025-03-1150 min

The Deep View: Conversations#11: Why we need AI guardrails - Liran hasonI sat down with Liran Hason, the VP of AI at Coralogix, to talk AI guardrails: what they look like, how they work and why we need them. Episode links: AI has been around for decades: https://www.weforum.org/stories/2024/10/history-of-ai-artificial-intelligence/Deterministic VS probabilistic AI: https://towardsdatascience.com/deterministic-vs-probabilistic-deep-learning-5325769dc758/AI in the enterprise: https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/mckinsey-digital/our-insights/superagency-in-the-workplace-empowering-people-to-unlock-ais-full-potential-at-workAir Canada lawsuit: https://www.forbes.com/sites/marisagarcia/2024/02/19/what-air-canada-lost-in-remarkable-lying-ai-chatbot-case/Character AI sued: https://www.thedeepview.co/p/character-ai-sued-for-mental-health-decline-in-teenage-users-allegedly-encouraged-user-to-murder-hisAI trade runs out of steam: https://www.thedeepview.co/p/nvidia-beats-expectations-but-wall-street-wanted-more 2025-03-0448 min

The Deep View: Conversations#10: The state of AI with IBM's Chief Scientist - Ruchir PuriI sat down with Dr. Ruchir Puri, the chief scientist of IBM Research, for a wide-ranging discussion on the state of AI today. We talk about everything from AGI and X-risk to reliability in language models, the viability of agents and the pending economic impact of the technology. Episode Links: Artificial general intelligence: https://www.thedeepview.co/p/the-nobel-prize-and-the-mainstreaming-of-ai-s-x-riskMicrosoft and OpenAI’s AGI definition: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/microsoft-and-openais-secret-agi-definition?rc=sbfmgmAI agents: https://www.thedeepview.co/p/prog-predictions-series-draft-ef9c081b34af8540AI and job loss: https://www.thedeepview.co/p/chatgpt-s-impact-on-the-labor-market-openai-generative-ai-artificial-intelligence-job-loss-report-stTechnological revolution: https://www.thedeepview.co/p...2025-02-2551 min

The Deep View: Conversations#9: A different kind of artificial companionship - Dor SkulerI sat down with Dor Skuler, the founder and CEO of Intuition Robotics, to talk about the advent of digital companionship. Episode Links: Intuition robotics: https://www.intuitionrobotics.com/The loneliness epidemic: https://www.gse.harvard.edu/ideas/usable-knowledge/24/10/what-causing-our-epidemic-loneliness-and-how-can-we-fix-itSocial determinants of health: https://www.cdc.gov/public-health-gateway/php/about/social-determinants-of-health.htmlFine-tuning AI models: https://www.ibm.com/think/topics/fine-tuningCybersecurity and AI: https://www.gartner.com/en/cybersecurity/topics/cybersecurity-and-aiCharacter AI and anthropomorphization: https://www.thedeepview.co/p/character-ai-sued-for-mental-health-decline-in-teenage-users-allegedly-encouraged-user-to-murder-hisOutline: 0:00 — Intro3:05 — Why Dor started Intuiti...2025-02-1848 min

The Deep View: Conversations#8: The ethics of artificial intelligence - Irina RaicuWe sat down with Irina Raicu, the director of the Internet Ethics Program at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. And today, we’re breaking down the ethics of artificial intelligence, those moral, philosophical challenges that are already resulting from the deployment of generative AI technologies. Episode Links: AI is using social media data: https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/23/tech/social-media-ai-data-opt-out/index.htmlMusical.ly’s FTC fine: https://apnews.com/article/lifestyle-technology-business-data-privacy-parenting-eafed6bfd7d241549e097e38e8088873X trains AI on your tweets: https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/x-is-using-your-tweets-to-train-its-ai-heres-how-to-disable-that/ChatGPT’s impact on the l...2025-02-111h 17

The Deep View: Conversations#7: Here's everything you need to know about Quantum Computing - Jerry ChowWe sat down with Dr. Jerry Chow, an IBM fellow and the Director of IBM’s Quantum Infrastructure. And today, we’re breaking down what quantum computing is, why it’s important, how it fits into the growing realm of artificial intelligence and what about quantum is real (and what’s just plain hype). Episode Links: IBM’s Quantum Roadmap: https://www.flickr.com/photos/ibm_research_zurich/53347055153/Quantum-centric supercomputing: https://www.ibm.com/think/topics/quantum-centric-supercomputingIBM launches advanced quantum computers: https://newsroom.ibm.com/2024-11-13-ibm-launches-its-most-advanced-quantum-computers,-fueling-new-scientific-value-and-progress-towards-quantum-advantageIBM’s quantum in use: https://www.ib...2025-02-0442 min

The Deep View: Conversations#6: The Coming Revolution of Man and Machine - Nada SandersWe sat down with Dr. Nada Sanders, an expert in forecasting and human-technology interaction and the author of The Humachine, a book that explores a coming future of AI-enabled connection between men and machine. And today, we’re breaking down the pandemic-fueled rise of AI, and the many levers that will impact our ever-more digital future. Episode Links: The Humachine – https://nadasanders.com/books/the-humachine/How the pandemic impacted global supply chains – https://www.ey.com/en_us/insights/supply-chain/how-covid-19-impacted-supply-chains-and-what-comes-nextKasparov’s law – https://courtofthegrandchildren.com/kasparovs-law/Corporate AI adoption – https://www.thedeepview.co/p/business-spend...2025-01-141h 19

The Deep View: Conversations#5: Identity Hijacking: The fight against AI fraud - Vijay BalasubramaniyanWe sat down with Vijay Balasubramaniyan, the co-founder and CEO of cybersecurity firm Pindrop. And today, we’re breaking down audio deepfakes and deepfake detection; what levers are in place to indicate whether a piece of audio is real or synthetic, and how those levers technically work. Episode Links: Pindrop – https://www.pindrop.com/The rise of deepfake fraud – https://www.forbes.com/sites/chriswestfall/2024/11/29/ai-deepfakes-of-elon-musk-on-the-rise-causing-billions-in-fraud-losses/Biden robocall – https://www.thestreet.com/technology/how-the-company-that-traced-fake-biden-robocall-identifies-a-synthetic-voiceThe deepfake threat – https://www.thestreet.com/technology/ai-cybersecurity-nonprofit-civai-deepfake-fraud-identity-theft-hijackingHow LLMs work – https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/07/a-jargon-free-explanation-of-how-ai-large-language-models-work/Closed vs. open AI – https://www.americanactionforum.org/insight/open...2025-01-0755 min

The Deep View: Conversations#4: The truth behind self-driving cars - Missy CummingsWe sat down with Dr. Missy Cummings, who served as one of the U.S. Navy’s first female fighter pilots and now works as the director of George Mason University’s Autonomy and Robotics Center. Cummings, an engineer, has been studying autonomous systems for years – today, we break down the autonomy challenge in self-driving cars: how they work, their enormous limitations and a path to a feasible self-driving future. Episode Links: Lidar breaks down in the rain: https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/24/10/2997?utm_source=www.thedeepview.co&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=openai-launches-o1-unveils-200-subscription-tierGeorge Mason’s...2024-12-1743 min

The Deep View: Conversations#3: New Jersey's AI Language TranslationNew Jersey's department of labor, in collaboration with USDR and Google.org, has assembled a set of training materials designed to turn off-the-shelf language models into bilingual unemployment insurance experts. We sat down with two of the people behind the launch to break it down.2024-12-1131 min

The Deep View: Conversations#2: Is the Path to Empowerment Paved by AI? - Eric XingFor Episode 2 of The Deep View: Conversations, we flew to Abu Dhabi to sit down with President Eric Xing of the Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, the world’s first AI-only university. We talk about everything from his unconventional journey to MBZUAI, misconceptions about the technology, the reality of progress in the field and the idea that, like the printing press, AI might usher in a new age for humanity, the age of empowerment. SPONSOR:Google Cloud: For all your cloud needs.Go to https://cloud.google.com/startup/apply?utm_source=clo...2024-09-301h 22

The Deep View: Conversations#1: Why We Need to Tame Silicon Valley - Gary MarcusArtificial intelligence is a complicated topic, bound by a number of complex threads — technical science, ethics, safety, regulation, neuroscience, psychology, philosophy, investment and — above all — humanity. On The Deep View: Conversations, Ian Krietzberg, host and Editor-in-Chief at The Deep View, breaks it all down, cutting through the hype to make clear what's important and why you should care. SPONSOR:Google Cloud: For all your cloud needs. Go to https://cloud.google.com/startupsEPISODE LINKS:Taming Silicon Valley: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262551069/taming-silicon-valley/Gary Marcus’ Testimony Before the Senate Judiciary Committee...2024-09-1854 min

We Earn Media69: Pitch a Timely AI Story with Ian Krietzberg (The Street)In this episode, we analyze a real pitch sent under embargo by the CTO of a tech company to a tech reporter at a leading business publication. We’ll learn how and why this pitch worked, and gain some takeaways of how you too might secure a dream, spotlight coverage like this for your own client or employer. In this episode, you'll learn all about pitching a reporter for The Street… Why timing is everything with pitching stories How a tech reporter views and utilizes embargos Why efficiency and responsiveness is cruc...2024-03-1235 min