EPISODE · Mar 5, 2019 · 30 MIN
How Companies Can Build AI Products with Sameer Maskey
from HumAIn Podcast · host David Yakobovitch
[Audio] Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Google Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSSSameer Maskey is the Founder & CEO at Fusemachines, a services and solutions provider on a mission to democratize AI. He is also an Adjunct Associate Professor at Columbia University. Sameer holds a PhD, a MPhil & an MS in Computer Science from Columbia University and a BS in Math & Physics from Bates College.Episode Links: Sameer Maskey’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sameer-maskey/Sameer Maskey’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/sameermaskey Sameer Maskey’s Website: http://www.sameermaskey.com/ https://fusemachines.com/ https://www.fuse.ai/ Podcast Details: Podcast website: https://www.humainpodcast.comApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/humain-podcast-artificial-intelligence-data-science/id1452117009Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6tXysq5TzHXvttWtJhmRpSRSS: https://feeds.redcircle.com/99113f24-2bd1-4332-8cd0-32e0556c8bc9YouTube Full Episodes: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxvclFvpPvFM9_RxcNg1ragYouTube Clips: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxvclFvpPvFM9_RxcNg1rag/videosSupport and Social Media: – Check out the sponsors above, it’s the best way to support this podcast– Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/humain/creators – Twitter: https://twitter.com/dyakobovitch– Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/humainpodcast/– LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidyakobovitch/– Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HumainPodcast/– HumAIn Website Articles: https://www.humainpodcast.com/blog/Outline: Here’s the timestamps for the episode: (00:00) – Introduction.(01:42) – Fuse.ai Scholarship program intended for underserved communities to democratize AI.(04:55) – AI should be a global opportunity. Lots of companies are trying to build AI systems and there's not enough AI talent.(06:30) – Neural networks have come back in full force with deep learning to build solutions in computer vision, NLP, and others.(07:46) – AI, ML and Deep Learning, made simple.(10:06) – Neural networks and the human brain functions. (11:24) – We’re still far from making computers use data to process it like a human being.(14:09) – Fusemachines is working on medical dental medicine delivery in Nepal, and various language recognition systems, speech recognition systems and dialogue systems. (16:25) –In spite of research and advancements in translation systems, language learning is not redundant yet.(17:22) – New breakthroughs will be in language translation systems with data collected from the tech Giants.(19:04) – Job automation will happen, so people should learn about AI, Machine Learning and computer science.(21:27) – Self-driving cars will be transformational for the way we travel.(24:03) – Chatbots are useful for reducing the customer service load, but cannot completely replace customer service reps. (26:29) – Global recession might slow down investments into AI-related businesses, but if otherwise, AI will keep pace with it, or actually outpace economic growth.(28:47) – Fusemachines and Fuse.ai will have wide-world impact by training AI practitioners to solve some of the biggest challenges humans face.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
What this episode covers
In this episode, I sit down with Sameer Maskey from Fusemachines to talk about how his company is helping build the products of the future. Sameer is the Founder of Fusemachines and the Fuse.AI scholarship. He is a professor at Columbia University, and was a Research Staff Member at IBM. You can support the HumAIn podcast and receive subscriber-only content at humainpodcast.com/subscribe. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
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