Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Ashutosh Garg, CEO of Eightfold.ai (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: I still go back to the gender question though. It’s not entirely invalid. If you’re a man, unless you’re a transgender, you’re most likely not wearing women’s clothes. You may have experience with baby products, but as a man, you would not have experience with women’s clothing. Ashutosh Garg: Do you want to

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Ashutosh Garg, CEO of Eightfold.ai (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: In 1999, I started one of the first ever online fashion company. A very small subset of merchandise applies to me in a store. I’m a petite, dark-skinned woman with dark hair and dark eyes. I have a certain style. What I want, which is not possible to do in a physical store,

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Ashutosh Garg, CEO of Eightfold.ai (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: You explained to me the data structure. Can you talk about how the learning algorithm learns? Ashutosh Garg: That’s our secret sauce. We use recurrent neural network to model some of these things. Sramana Mitra: How much of this is pattern matching, statistical modeling kind of inferences versus expert system kind of inferences?

Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Ashutosh Garg, CEO of Eightfold.ai (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: You’ve created all these heuristics and you categorized on the basis of that. How many such heuristics do you have? Ashutosh Garg: That’s the beauty of AI. You can’t do it manually. Today, there’s a million different roles in the industry. We can’t do it manually. We use deep learning to model these

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Ashutosh Garg, CEO of Eightfold.ai (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Let me ask you a few questions to clarify how your algorithm is working. What is the database of candidates that you’re working with? If it’s a large enterprise, are they starting with a database of candidates that exist within the enterprise, and are you supplementing that with data from some other sources?

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Ashutosh Garg, CEO of Eightfold.ai (Part 1)

This is one of the best TLAI interviews I have done. Ashutosh has founded two AI-driven companies, so have I. We kick around heavy-duty material. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as to Eightfold.ai. Ashutosh Garg: I got my PhD in AI from the University of Illinoi – Urbana

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