Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Diaz Nesamoney, Founder and CEO of Jivox (Part 1)

Diaz is a 3x serial entrepreneur. He was a co-founder of Informatica with Gaurav Dhillon. In Jivox, Diaz is working personalization into digital advertising using AI techniques including Machine Learning. A great discussion about the future of digital advertising.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as to the company.

Diaz Nesamoney: I’m the Founder and CEO of Jivox. I’m a serial entrepreneur. This is my third company. I tell >>>

Man and Superman: A Case for Human Happiness

By Guest Author Ajit Narayanan

This Man-Superman terminology smells like some adolescent Ayn Rand-ian fantasy, but I agree that humanity will bifurcate into two types of people: the Happy and the Not-Happy. And entrepreneurship or capital (or even skill) will not be the dividing line here.
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Man and Superman: Is There an Action Item?

In order to give focus to some major changes she sees on the horizon, Sramana Mitra has written several pieces that grew out of her original article, Man and Superman: Human History Bifurcates. The previous articles in this series: Two Distinct Species; What CAN Be Controlled?; Rationalizing Populations; How Long Does Democracy Survive?; The Environmental Time Bomb; Role of Religion, and Will There Be Revolution? Please share your thoughts and help get the conversation going.

As this series has developed, I’ve had the privilege of listening to various perspectives about the possibilities. I’ve also had very interesting exchanges about questions, alternatives, and ramifications.

One particular point of view, over a beautiful luncheon at my friend Enrica’s, concerned online learning.

Clearly, the distinction between Man and Superman is largely in intellectual capacity.
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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Josh Sutton, Data & Artificial Intelligence Global Head at Publicis.Sapient (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: There’s a clear trend of these more complex plumbing of the AI systems becoming available as platforms and then abstraction layers being created such that AI can become a lot more ubiquitous. Where would you start a new company today if you wanted to do something in AI?

Josh Sutton: Where I would look at and where I get excited about the investment opportunities is not in a technology play directly, but in a business transformation play. If you think about it simply, the suite of AI tools right now enables you to make better decisions faster, engage with customers conversationally without having the human capital cost associated with that model, and the ability to perform certain tasks and functions that require limited >>>

Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Josh Sutton, Data & Artificial Intelligence Global Head at Publicis.Sapient (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: Very good. Very helpful interview. I’m finding it helpful to calibrate. I know all of these people but things are evolving. I know Michael who’s the CEO of Cycorp.

Josh Sutton: Michael is the CEO of Lucid. Doug and Steven are the CEOs now. There are two other use case that are probably worth mentioning quickly. One is around the entire virtual assistant space. I’m explicitly saying virtual assistant chat bots. I think chat boxes are a baby step forward. A lot of people are making mistakes now in trying to invest in things that have limited upside. Chat bots are simple.

To me, the step forward to virtual assistants is much more around the ability to ask clarifying questions, understand the ancillary drivers that a person might >>>

Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Josh Sutton, Data & Artificial Intelligence Global Head at Publicis.Sapient (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Do you hear similar efforts within the IBM organization to create a layer where people who are mere mortals can work with Watson as a platform?

Josh Sutton: I firmly believe that that is where they’re headed. Full disclosure, I haven’t seen it to the same extent that I have seen with some other companies. I think they will get there. David has been in the role for about a year now. The challenge is just the length and breadth of it. They’re moving in that direction but they have a more diverse asset than everybody else, which means it’s a bit more complicated.

Sramana Mitra: Besides Microsoft Azure and Watson, are there any other platforms? >>>

Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Josh Sutton, Data & Artificial Intelligence Global Head at Publicis.Sapient (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Interesting. Would you like to do other use cases?

Josh Sutton: Yes, so that was all around insight generation from a structured data point of view. Next I want to move to insight generation from unstructured data. This is an area that I think has massive opportunity. Most of the information that people share is not in a structured format. It’s in the form of call center conversations. It’s very rich but very difficult for traditional platforms to take advantage of, and also very difficult for machine learning models to capitalize on.

This is an area where we’ve been using some natural language understanding capabilities from different platforms to do two different things. One is for a >>>

Man and Superman: Will There Be Revolution?

In order to give focus to some major changes she sees on the horizon, Sramana Mitra has written several pieces that grew out of her original article, Man and Superman: Human History Bifurcates. The previous articles in this series: Two Distinct Species; What CAN Be Controlled?; Rationalizing Populations; How Long Does Democracy Survive?; The Environmental Time Bomb; Role of Religion. Please share your thoughts and help get the conversation going.

I’ve had several conversations about this series at various dinner parties, and a few points that have come up are worth further discussion.

One of them is the rebuttal that if Superman stops supporting Man through extensive welfare, there will be revolution.

I agree. This is a very logical possibility.

So let’s do a thought experiment on what leads up to revolution and what happens in the event of revolution.
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