Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Venkatesh Bala, Chief Risk Officer, Biz2Credit (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: What is the structure of your AI model? Talk about what the architecture of the AI is. Venkatesh Bala: We collect permission-based information when the customer comes to our marketplace. We can build a robust platform that allows us to ingest a substantial amount of data, and we can apply cutting-edge AI tools. 

Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Venkatesh Bala, Chief Risk Officer, Biz2Credit (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Small business credit has been upended in COVID. Banks are processing PPP loans at a frantic pace without the scalable infrastructure to do so. This discussion delves into the realities of that world. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Blackbird.ai CEO Wasim Khaled (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: There must also be a way for those platforms to receive input. If your system has detected some major misinformation that is being amplified in a platform, there must be a way of informing that platform. Wasim Khaled: Absolutely. The platforms are definitely on our radar as future partners. Just this Monday, Blackbird

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Blackbird.ai CEO Wasim Khaled (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: Two questions based on what you said. How prevalent is this kind of cyberattack on the brands today? Wasim Khaled: It is surprisingly very high. It’s amazing that a lot of the organizations have not fully understood the impact that it has on them because they don’t have the methods to detect these

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Blackbird.ai CEO Wasim Khaled (Part 5)

Wasim Khaled: If you look back to the era of the Soviet Union, they weaponized propaganda and disinformation. They recently wielded it using these new tools. Again, it’s self-subscribing to propaganda. It’s the perfect system when you have polarized groups to drill in on that. I want to think about this and consider where that

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Blackbird.ai CEO Wasim Khaled (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: I think the parallel is that cigarette smoking is injurious to health. The whole tobacco industry has agreed to it and gradually society has come to understand that. There were fewer and fewer public places that you can smoke and so on and so forth. An equivalent understanding and rejection of this kind

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Blackbird.ai CEO Wasim Khaled (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: If you were to recommend how these large social media platforms should be regulated, what would you suggest? Wasim Khaled: One of the most important things is that you don’t use a sledgehammer on the entire tech industry, especially with smaller up-and-coming companies that would get squashed if you applied the same broad

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Blackbird.ai CEO Wasim Khaled (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Speaking about disinformation and harmful-to-society information, the COVID misinformation is also equally dangerous.  Wasim Khaled: There’re a lot of complexities that go into the decision-making process in social media platforms where the line between freedom of speech and censorship lies. That’s going to be a contentious topic that pushes into regulation on the

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