AI-podden
AI-podden is a popular Swedish technology podcast focusing on current developments in artificial intelligence. The show brings in guests from all parts of society to discuss AI's impact on various fields. It has become one of Sweden's most listened-to tech podcasts. Hosted by Ather Gattami, the podcast offers insightful discussions for a broad audience.
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AI-Podden News - July
In this July AI news roundup, our host Ather sits with Anders Arpteg to unpack the latest frontier model releases, the rapid rise of open-source competitors, and the growing importance of enterprise agent platforms. The conversation explores how innovation is shifting from raw model performance towards infrastructure, governance, efficiency and latent-space reasoning, while Chinese models, energy
AI-Podden News - June
In this June news episode, host Ather Gattami sits down with Anders Arpteg to unpack the biggest AI developments from the past month. The discussion looks beyond frontier model hype to the infrastructure, platforms and specialised models that are starting to define real-world adoption. From GPT 5.6, Claude and China's fast-rising open models to custom chips, enterprise agents, geopolitical pressur
AI-Podden News - May
In this May news episode, our host Ather Gattami sits with Anders Arpteg to discuss how the industry accelerating on several fronts at once: coding, agentic workflows, enterprise tooling and research capability. As Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, Mistral and others push new models and platforms, the competitive edge is shifting from raw model performance toward speed, integration, transparency and d
The Future of Banking Is Invisible
In this special episode of AI-Podden, our host Ather Gattami sits down with Rolf Njor Jensen, VP of Technology at Lunar to explore how AI is reshaping the future of banking. From AI-powered support agents and smarter customer onboarding, to the rise of "invisible banking", we discuss how financial services could move beyond the banking app and become part of everyday digital experiences. We also l
AI-Podden News - April
In this May news episode, our host Ather Gattami sits with Anders Arpteg to discuss how the industry accelerating on several fronts at once: coding, agentic workflows, enterprise tooling and research capability. As Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, Mistral and others push new models and platforms, the competitive edge is shifting from raw model performance toward speed, integration, transparency and d
AI-Podden News - March
In this March news episode, our host Ather Gattami sits with Anders Arpteg to unpack a fast-moving period in AI, from NVIDIA GTC and the rise of agentic, always-on systems to the growing demand for inference, physical AI and autonomous driving. They argue that while the industry is moving quickly and companies are racing to build more proactive, capable systems, current models are still far we
AI-Podden News - February
In this February news update, our host Ather Gattami sits with Anders Arpteg, to recap the latest and most significant shifts in AI. On the menu; OpenAI's $100 billion funding round, intensifying competition from companies like Anthropic, Google, and xAI, and the growing geopolitical role of AI in defense and national security. They also explore the gap between rapid technological progress and slo
AI-Podden News - January
In this months January news update, hosts Ather Gattami and Anders Arpteg, recap the latest and most significant shifts in AI. They including new model releases, the shift toward autonomous agent systems like OpenClaw, and breakthroughs in reasoning such as Gemini DeepThink's results. They also discuss the growing concentration of AI power among tech giants, the role of open and specialized models
Why Data Will Define the AI Winners: Redpine
In this episode, Anders Hammarbäck, co-founder of Redpine AI, discusses how data, not models - will define the winners in the AI era. He explains RedPine's role as a "knowledge layer" that unlocks proprietary, high-quality data to improve AI accuracy and reduce hallucinations, especially in sectors like healthcare and pharmaceuticals. The conversation also covers the potential value of personal da
A Look Back, a Glance Ahead: AI in 2026
Happy New Year listeners! In our first AI-Podden news update of 2026, our hosts Ather Gattami and Anders Arpteg, reflect on the key highlights of AI in 2025 and what lies ahead. They discuss OpenAI's loss of momentum, Google Gemini's rise, the hype and shortcomings of agentic AI, and the growing gap between rapid technological progress and real-world adoption. The conversation also covers infrastr
AI-Podden News - November
In this months November news update, our hosts; Ather Gattami and Anders Arpteg, recap November's biggest AI shifts. Google's Gemini 3 Pro taking the lead, OpenAI facing pressure over massive infrastructure bets and AGI expectations, Yann LeCun leaving Meta for new research ventures, the EU softening its regulatory stance, and Grok sparking laughs with overly pro-Elon responses, capturing both rap
AI-Podden News - October
In October's AI news update, Ather Gattami and Anders Arpteg discuss OpenAI's transition to a full for-profit structure, the rollout of in-chat shopping, and its new browser. They clarify what Google's "Quantum Echoes" actually demonstrates and why practical quantum computing is still distant. The episode also covers recent improvements in AI systems' ability to use computer interfaces and the sec
Dreamforce 2025 & The Next Generation of Agentic AI
In this special episode, our host Ather Gattami interviews Jayesh Govindarajan, EVP at Salesforce AI and AgentForce, live at Dreamforce in San Francisco, where Salesforce unveiled major advances in agentic AI including AgentForce Voice, advanced context engineering, and AFScript. Jayesh explains that successful enterprise AI requires not only powerful models but also well-defined goals, rel
How Kyndryl Powers Global Infrastructure
In this episode, our host Ather Gattami, speaks with Beda Grahn, Managing Director at Kyndryl Nordics & Baltics, about how they use AI to manage and modernize the core infrastructure around the globe. From banking systems to home-care platforms, Beda explains how "Kyndryl Bridge" produces over 12 million AI-driven insights monthly, enabling preventive actions and major efficiency gains, such as c
AI-Podden News - September
In this month's AI news update episode, our hosts Ather Gattami and Anders Arpteg discuss all the latest AI breakthroughs, from OpenAI's Sora 2 and Claude 4.5 to Gemini 2.5 and Grok 4 - and the massive infrastructure race behind them, including the $500 billion Stargate project and Elon Musk's Colossus 2 data center. They explore OpenAI's move toward productisation with its "Instant Checkou
AI Mode: A Google Reveal
In this very special episode, our host Ather Gattami welcomes Robby Stein, VP of Product at Google Search, to reveal some truly exciting Google news: the global rollout of AI Mode. This new feature introduces conversational, multimodal search in nearly 50 countries and 36 languages, allowing users to ask complex questions through text, voice, or images - and receive richer, link-backed responses
AI-Podden News - August
In the latest AI-Podden news episode, our hosts Ather Gattami and Anders Arpteg, discussed insights from a recent Stockholm AI event with Mistral and Anthropic, covering debates on open-source vs. open weights, safety-first agent design, and the rise of "context engineering." They reviewed major lawsuits involving Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic, highlighted Google's new Nano Banana image generator,
AI-Podden News - Summer
In this week's update, host Ather Gattami is joined by regular guest Anders Arpteg, Head of AI and Data at GlobalConnect, to unpack the summer's biggest AI developments. They review the release of GPT-5, which introduced cheaper APIs, longer context windows, and fewer hallucinations but ultimately fell short of lofty expectations, particularly when compared with Claude and Gemini. The discussion e
The Man Behind the Mic.
In this special summer episode, we do something a bit different. Our usal host Ather Gattami steps into the guest seat and is interviewed by close friend; Joseph Michael, Venture Partnerships at Google. Ather shares his journey from PhD researcher to leading Sweden's top AI podcast. He reflects on AI's evolution, the shift from theory to compute-driven progress, and why reasoning and rea
AI-Podden News - June (with Anders Arpteg)
In this episode, Ather Gattami and one of our favourite guests; Anders Arpteg, Head of AI and Data at GlobalConnect, explore Meta's shifting AI strategy, including its investment in Scale AI amid doubts about LeCun's JEPA model and LLaMA 4 performance. They compare Tesla's vision-based Robotaxi rollout to Waymo's sensor-heavy approach, highlighting Tesla's edge in scalability and real-wor
How Nordic Companies Are (and Aren't) Using AI
In this week's episode, special guest; Eva Fors, Managing Director at Google Cloud Nordics returns to the podcast. Eva and our host, Ather Gattami look at how companies in the region are shifting from AI pilots to real deployments, with leaders like Klarna, EasyPark, and Bonnier News using generative AI in areas like customer engagement, M&A, and personalization. While adoption is growing, Eva not
Driving Intelligence: AI on the Road
In this episode, Stephen Jenkins, VP of Technology Strategy at Magna Electronics, shares practical insights into how AI is reshaping the automotive industry - from cutting development timelines with synthetic data to building smarter, more efficient autonomous parking systems. He explores the challenges of trust, safety, and explainability in AI, the current state of self-driving technolo
AI-Podden News - May (with Anders Arpteg)
In this week's episode, we host one of our favourite guests; Anders Arpteg, Head of AI and Data at GlobalConnect, to discuss how AI could enable "single person unicorns" by handling core business functions, based on his keynote at the Data Innovation Summit. The episode also explores leadership shifts at Meta and OpenAI, the growing divide between research and product focus, and a promising new ap
Building AI That Actually Works
In this week's episode, Ather chats with Magnus Hambleton, investor at byFounders and former data lead at Natural Cycles. Magnus has successfully applied transformers to improve fertility predictions in a medical setting. As an investor, he focuses on agentic AI and backs startups slightly ahead of what's currently possible, betting on near-future model capabilities. He remains cautious about LLMs
Where Science Meets AI
In this episode, Salla Franzén, Investment Manager at Navigare Ventures, returns to AI-Podden to explore how AI accelerates discovery in fields like life sciences and neuroscience. She unpacks the risks of tech hype, the need for explainable, trustworthy AI, and the importance of tools that bridge disciplinary gaps. Salla also shares insights on scientific investing, technical depth, and improving
What AI Can't Do (Yet)...
In this week's episode we host John Lamb, Solutions Lead AI & Analytics at TietoEvry. John emphasises that while tools like LLMs are useful for automating repetitive tasks such as code generation or data prep, they fall short when it comes to reasoning and interpreting structured data. He explains that data cleaning still dominates much of a data scientist's time and that current AI tools, though
AI, War, and the Human Touch
In this episode, we host special guest; Senior Business and Tech Correspondent at SVT and author, Alexander Norén. We discuss how AI is transforming warfare, especially through autonomous drones and decision-making systems, as explored in his documentary AI War. Alexander also reflects on AI's impact on jobs, arguing that human-made work will gain value in the future. The conversation end
The AI Revolution: Industry Disruption, Investment Shifts, and Future Challenges
In this episode we speak to Anders Indset, a philosopher, deep tech investor, and best-selling author. We discuss AI's real-world impact, emphasizing Large Quantitative Models (LQMs) that optimize industry-specific data in fields like healthcare, finance, and logistics. Anders critiques Europe's cautious investment culture, advocating for a bolder approach in AI-driven sectors. Inset stresses the
Data, Independence and Bias: The EU AI landscape
In this episode we chat to Niklas Silfverström, CEO of Klang.ai, about Europe's need for AI independence. We discuss data privacy risks, the Cloud Act, and AI bias, emphasizing the need for European infrastructure and language models. Niklas highlights how relying on American AI companies threatens sovereignty, and why investing in GPUs, data centers, and energy is crucial for Europe's competitive
The AI Race: GROK 3, Open-Source Wars, and the Future of AGI
In this episode, we host Anders Arpteg to discuss GROK 3's rapid innovation, the competitive AI landscape, and the rise of Chinese models. We explore Elon Musk's influence, AI power concentration, open-source challenges, and the Tesla Agile DNA. The conversation concludes with insights into AI reasoning, AGI development, and future challenges.
Game on with AI: How King is Levelling Up
In this episode, Ather speaks to Galina Esther Shubina, Senior Director of AI Strategy at King. They discuss how AI improves gameplay and development at King through AI-powered playtesting bots. Galina is excited about robotics but sees major technical challenges ahead. On AGI, she is skeptical, predicting it won't emerge for at least 100 years due to AI's Game on limitations in reasoning. For
Driving AI at Volvo
In this episode, Ather speaks to Mehrdad Mamaghani, Volvo Group's Head of Data Science. They discuss AI's role in predictive maintenance, financial forecasting, and sustainability. Merdad critiques the hype around AGI, emphasizing transparency and practical applications, and highlights the need for AI talent and expertise in Europe.
AI-Podden News - December
Merry Christmas folks! This week, guest host (Sifted's) Mimi Billing and Ather discuss December's AI news updates. Highlights included Uber's entry into AI data labeling, Google DeepMind's Genie 2 for training AI in simulated environments, and Amazon's collaboration with Anthropic to develop a mega AI supercomputer. We covered the importance of new algorithms over mere scaling and the potential of
AI-Podden News - November
This week, guest host (Sifted's) Mimi Billing and Ather discuss November's AI news updates. Topics include; OpenAI's Slush presentation, which revealed both innovation and cultural challenges, and the diminishing returns of AI scaling laws. They explore the rise of specialized models, new players like Gemesis and Mistral, and OpenAI's ChatGPT search feature. The episode also examines AI's growing
AI's Dual Identity: Philosophy Meets Practicality
Christian Guttmann, Executive Director of the Nordic AI Institute, discusses AI as both a philosophical aspiration and a practical tool. He highlights applications like personalized banking recommendations and data querying with large language models but notes their limitations in reasoning and understanding. Advocating for hybrid AI models and richer data, he emphasizes the need for multimoda
Navigating AI Ethics and Regulation
This week we welcome back; Reggie Townsend, Vice President of Data Ethics at SAS Institute and member of President Biden's National AI Advisory Council. We discussed AI development and regulation in the US. He stressed balancing innovation incentives with government restraint and cited the CHIPS Act as key for AI infrastructure, though most investments are private. He highlighted that AI trust
AI-Podden Live - Special Guest, Ingrid af Sandeberg
This episode, recorded live, at the third installment of AI-Podden live at Epicenter, features Ingrid af Sandeberg, Strategic Advisor at Epicenter and Chairman of the board at Stockholm AI. She joins Ather & Mimi on the stage to discuss AI trends and tools, including Notebook LM, highlighting the shift toward smaller, specialized models like those on Hugging Face. She emphasizes the challenges
AI-Podden News - September & October
This episode, recorded live, is the third installment of Ather and Mimi's special news updates at Epicenter Stockholm. They discuss Elon Musk's We, Robot controversy, OpenAI's $6.6 billion funding round, and AI limitations like pattern matching. They also highlighted neurosymbolic AI's potential, Nobel winners in machine learning, and the rapid adoption of generative AI tools, and noted the un
AI First: How is Google Shaping the Future of Intelligence
Ted Schönbeck, Nordic CTO, Google Cloud discusses the current and future landscape of AI, emphasizing its ability to perform tasks that typically require human intelligence, with machine learning allowing systems to learn independently. Google, an "AI-first" company since 2016, has integrated AI into products like Maps and Search. Schönbeck highlights recent advancements in large language models a
Navigating the Future of Intelligent Systems
This episode features special guest, Tom Sodestrom, AWS Enterprise Strategist, speaking on the latest trends in AI and edge computing. Tom shares his insights on the upcoming trends in the next 5-10 years, including the rise of generative AI, increased data volume and importance, productive edge computing, and digital twins and simulation at scale.
AI-Podden News - July & August
This episode, recorded live, is the second installment of Ather and Mimi's special news updates at Epicenter Stockholm. They discuss OpenAI and concerns about its shift from research to product development, as well as AI advancements in math reasoning by DeepMind and OpenAI's new "Strawberry" model. The hosts also touch on Sam Altman's Worldcoin project and the intersection of blockchain,
AI-Podden News - June
This week, guest host (Sifted's) Mimi Billing and Ather discuss June's AI news updates. Topics include Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI over a nonprofit agreement, Anthropic's Cloud 3 outperforming ChatGPT and Google's Gemini, and major investments in Anthropic by Google and Amazon. They also cover the EU AI Act's approval, marking the first regulatory framework for AI in Europe, and the UN'
From NASA to AWS, Sky's the Limit with AI
In this episode, Ather interviews Tom Soderstrom, AWS Enterprise Strategist, on his career and insights into innovation and generative AI. Tom shares his journey from Sweden to the US, becoming NASA's first CTO for IT at JPL, and introducing cloud computing. He emphasises innovation through small, low-risk experiments, or "two-way door decisions," and the formula of Return on Attention plus Return
Hybrid AI Systems: The Future of Intelligent Reasoning
In this episode, Ather interviews Lele Cau, AI research scientist at MotherBrain, part of EQT Partners. They discuss AI as a system integrating software and hardware for intelligent decision-making. Lele describes MotherBrain's role in aiding deal professionals with data and algorithms, emphasising the importance of knowledge graphs in large language models (LLMs) for maintaining relationships and
Driving Innovation with AI
In this episode, Ather meets Caroline Ohlsson, Data & AI Director at Verdane. Caroline explains Verdane's investment in tech-enabled companies and how her team supports them with data and AI. She discusses Verdane's use of generative AI tools like Verdain GPT and Microsoft Co-pilot to boost productivity, and shares examples of AI-driven improvements in code development and sales forecasting. Empha
LIVE at Epicenter: AI-podden News - May
In our first ever live recording at Epicenter Stockholm, Ather and Mimi Billing open with Kai-fu Lee's prediction that AI will take 50% of jobs by 2027 and the market's projected growth to $184 billion by 2024. Despite major investments, the profitability of large language models (LLMs) remains uncertain. OpenAI's financial success is noted, but high development costs are a concern. Privacy issues
Transforming Finance with AI
In this episode, Ather interviews Anastasia Varava, Research Lead at SEBX, SEB Banken, about AI in banking. Anastasia's work at KTH and SEB Banken focuses on machine learning, robotics, and AI applications to enhance employee efficiency, decision-making, crime prevention, and customer experience. She discusses data sensitivity, the shift to cloud services, and security measures. Anastasia sees
The Rise of Large Language Models
In this episode host Ather interviews Mikael Huss, co-founder and Principal Data Scientist at Codon. They discuss the evolution of AI, noting the shift from traditional data science to large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT. Mikael highlights the overshadowing of other AI applications by LLMs and generative AI. They emphasize the importance of deeply understanding business problems before a
AI-Podden News - April
This week our guest host, Sifted's Mimi Billing and Ather discuss April's AI developments, including; implications in geopolitics and business, highlighting Microsoft's warning about AI's potential use to disrupt elections in the US, South Korea, and India. They explore China's advancements in AI, the impact of quantum computing on AI development, and recent innovations in human behaviour model
Redefining Retail with AI
In this episode, Ather hosts guest Alex Baker, global retail strategist, entrepreneur, and Principal at Nordic Retail Hub. They discuss the evolution of AI in retail, highlighting its shift from backend applications to enhancing customer-facing experiences with technologies like dynamic pricing and personalized promotions. They also explore various AI applications that are transformin
Automating Quality Assurance with AI
Ather interviews Vilhelm von Ehrenheim, co-founder and CAIO of QA Tech, discussing the use of AI in automating quality assurance for web applications. Wilhelm details how their AI agents test web functionality to ensure reliability before launch, leveraging large language models for enhanced decision-making. He also addresses the challenges of adapting AI to different platforms and anticipates fut
AI in action: A real-world IT approach
In this episode, Ather interviews Ramprakash Ramamoorthy, AI director at ManageEngine, who clarifies AI's role as a practical tool for pattern recognition and productivity in IT management, rather than a threat to human jobs. Ram discusses how ManageEngine has integrated AI across their product suite since 2011 to optimize IT operations and customer service, enabling proactive management d
AI-podden News - March
This week our guest host, Sifted's Mimi Billing and Ather discuss March's AI developments, including; Elon Musk has sued OpenAI, alleging violation of their nonprofit agreement through a Microsoft collaboration and deviation from open-source values. Concurrently, Musk introduced his open-source language model, GROK. Meanwhile, Anthropic's new AI, Cloud 3, reportedly surpasses ChatGPT and Google's
AI-podden News - February
This week our guest host, Sifted's Mimi Billing and Ather discuss February's AI developments, including OpenAI's new video tool, Sora, and its careful release strategy amidst ethical concerns. They explore the bias issues in Google's Gemini AI and contrast different AI philosophies, highlighting the debate between practical AI applications and the pursuit of genuine intelligence. The conversation
Democratisation of Generative AI
Salman Avestimehr, USC professor and FedML co-founder, discusses AI, federated learning, and large language models. This week's topics include; AI definition, distributed and federated systems research, current challenges in generative AI, and trustworthiness in ML. Ather and Salman explore the future of accessible LLMs on personal devices, stress the importance of data, and discuss ch
Financial trading as a game
In this episode of the AI Podcast, host Ather Gattami interviews Michal Sustr, co-founder of EquiLibre, a company that uses game theory and reinforcement learning for trading. Michal discusses the company's approach to trading, which is based on the idea that markets can be modelled as games. He explains that EquiLibre uses game theory to develop algorithms which can predict the behaviour of other
Generalisation vs Reasoning
Reinforcement learning is a type of machine learning that allows agents to learn by interacting with their environment. DeepMind researcher, David Abel is interested in using reinforcement learning to understand and build intelligent agents. One of the big questions in AI is what exactly "intelligence" is. Another big question is how to build intelligent agents that can reason and solve problems.
AI-podden News - January
In this episode, Mimi and Ather delve into the impact of AI on elections and political communication as well as deepfakes and cybercrime. They address OpenAI's suspension of a developer for creating a politician-impersonating chatbot and an AI-generated robocall falsely imitating President Biden, demonstrating AI's potential misuse in politics. They also discuss McAfee's Project Mockingbird, an AI
The inventor of LoRA - Edward Hu
Edward Hu, Researcher at OpenAI, known for his invention of LoRA, a widely used machine learning method to fine-tune Large Language Models (LLMs) which he co-invented at Microsoft, shares his views on LoRa. Together with Ather he also discusses the development of GFlowNets as a promising tool for the development of reasoning and planning AI systems. Don't forget to subscribe and follow us on Lin
AI-podden News — Dec 23
Mimi Billing, European editor at Shifted and Ather highlight the latest news in AI in December and take a look back at 2023. In this episode, you will hear the latest on the release of Google DeepMind's Gemini in its Ultra, Pro, and Nano versions. How European Union policymakers have reached a provisional agreement on AI rules under the EU AI ACT. Additionally, the episode also cover developments
The Future AI City
Andy Karvonen, Prof. of Urban Design and Planning at Lund University talks of the "Urban Brain", where we have some kind of smart city control room managing all aspects, from traffic to transportation and the management of facilities. Andy and Ather discuss the pros and cons of such a future, delving into the hard but important questions of privacy, surveillance, and so on. Andy and Ather also di
Personalized medicine with AI
Mika Gustafsson, Prof., and David Martinez, PhD student, both at Linköping University conduct research in Bioinformatics and precision medicine. They are exploring how to use complex patient data, both clinical and environmental (such as the lifestyle) to develop personalized treatments and to help understand diseases more in depth in order to take preventive measures. David and Mika explain why b
AI-podden News — 29 Nov
Let's start with the company behind chatGPT, OpenAI. No one has missed the last couple of weeks' happenings at OpenAI, where the CEO and cofounder Sam Altman was fired on Friday the 17th and then on Monday evening reinstated as CEO. There have been a lot of rumours of why he was fired in the first place but I think we need to focus on something different. Usually, when you kick out your CEO and co
Optimize the food industry with AI
Agnes Lindell, Head of Data Driven Business at Elvenite shares her experience in building data driven tools in the food industry, all from some of their most successful use cases to how they managed to do it. She mentioned the biggest challenges and how they managed to tackle them. A few examples include inventory optimization with over 10% of savings, to using AI to efficiently grow various types
Europe should invest more in AI
Kye Andersson, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at Canucci and also author of the recently published Sifted article on the technological, and especially AI gap, between the EU and the US and China. Kye argues that we have too much focus on regulations, especially on less likely scenarios, and we are making the innovation in the EU more difficult. He underlines the fact that there are more urge
AI-podden News - 10 Nov
In this special episode of AI-podden, we have the pleasure to introduce Mimi Billing from Sifted who will be co-hosting AI-podden in this special format where we get updates of the recent AI developments. In this episode, we are discussing why Nvidia is using AI to train a robot how to spin a pen between its fingers, China's claim that they have built an LLM as good as Chat GPT4 and the newest dev
Making impact in Healthcare with AI
The AI Swede of the year (2023) is Max Gordon, and he is also our (returning) guest in this episode of AI-podden! Max is an orthopedic surgeon and Associate professor at Karolinska Institute. Max Gordon shares with us his story of applying AI in Healthcare, how he got into it, where he started, and how he dealt with acquiring data, testing, building the user interface, and having a prototype trans
AI for Sustainability
Nastaran Baleng-Soultani, co-founder of Space Academy and RadCap Ventures shares with us her thoughts about the "AI hype" and the trends of AI startup investments. She describes the ultimate startup settings where she would be interested in investing. In particular, Nastaran expresses her interest in ideas where AI could help us solve climate challenges and be more sustainable, and she provides a
Do the AI benefits out-weight the risks?
Ather's guest in this episode is Eva Fors, Managing Director of Google Cloud Nordics. Eva and Ather discuss the most recent developments in the AI services provided by Google Cloud and how Google Cloud is feeling the sentiment around AI developments. Eva shares her thoughts on the balance between AI developments and regulations. She provides examples of what she sees as the biggest challenges with
AI Fashion is here
Carl-Axel Wahlström, AI Artist and Creator of the AI fashion magazine Copy hares with us his experience and journey of using AI in his creative work, where he describes the AI tools he is using as "friends" that he enjoys working with. He tells us how he came about to create Copy and the journey that led him to create a magazine that is the first of its kind, with really fascinating images that l
How to do Data Engineering
Lars Albertsson, founder of Scling and one of Scandinavia's most skilled data engineers, with experience from Google and Spotify shares his experience as a pioneer in the data engineering field, what his learnings has been, and the approach he takes in solving data architecture and engineering problems. Don't forget to subscribe and follow us on Linkedin.
Breakthroughs in Efficient Deep Learning
We have great pleasure of hosting Mert Pilanci, Professor at Stanford University. Mert Pilanci shares with us his recent research breakthroughs in machine learning. Mert and his group discovered that the training of shallow neural networks can be transformed into super-efficient algorithms that always achieve the best accuracy possible on the first shot. Read more: https://ai-podden.se/
AI in the Security Service
We are excited to host Anders Arpteg this week, Data Science Director of the Swedish Security Service. Anders shares with us the very important role he and his team play in protecting Sweden from bad actors with the help of data and AI! Find more: https://ai-podden.se/
How intelligent should AI really be?
Our guest in this episode of AI-podden is Milan Kordestani, Entrepreneur, Investor, and Author. Milan, who is a serial entrepreneur, tells us about how a couple of his startups apply AI to help people prepare for interviews and provide training and mentorship to help them choose individualized career paths. Milan puts his investor hat on and explains his view on the investment market. He believes
The status of AI regulations in the US and elsewhere
In this episode, we are hosting two great guests, Reggie Townsend, Vice President, Data Ethics Practice. Member of the Biden AI Advisory Committee, and Josefin Rosén, Head of AI at the SAS Institute. We discussed broadly how we can benefit from the technology of artificial intelligence and at the same time make sure that it's used for the benefit of mankind, as well as what measures we should take
Fraud prevention and anti-money laundering with AI
AI-podden with Stephanie Ora and Mark Thundercliffe, SAS Institute. Stephanie and Mark discuss the role of AI, data, and analytics for risk management. We get some examples of how AI could be used to mitigate risks such as fraud and money laundering in financial services. Read more: https://ai-podden.se/
Optimising ads with AI
In this episode, AI-Podden talks with Anders Gustafsson, Chief Strategy Officer, Brightbid. Anders tells us how Brightbid uses AI to help companies better reach their customers through Google Ads. He explains how Google and Bing ads work and how a more data driven approach to bidding per ad and user could increase the conversion rate, that is increase the number of users clicking on a company's ad
Development of AI Driven Products
AI-podden with Dylan Sellberg, Director of Product at Hubspot. Dylan tells us about Hubspot's latest AI developments, especially the new product development he is leading, ChatSpot.ai. He also shares other functionalities where Hubspot implemented AI to improve the product. Read more: https://ai-podden.se/
Multi-Agent and Energy Efficient AI Models are the next big thing
Noam Slonim, Distinguished engineer and Initiator and leader of the Debater project, IBM Noam Slonim shares with us his best boughts on the recent developments of large language models (LLMs)and we discuss how this new technology relates to his previous breakthrough on building an AI that can debate humans successfully and without false claims. Read more: https://ai-podden.se/
EU needs to invest more in AI
Our guest in this episode of AI-podden is Jörgen Warborn, who is a member of the European Union Parliament. Jörgen shares what happens behind the curtain regarding boosting the investments in AI within the EU, but also what happens in terms of regulations. Read more: https://ai-podden.se/en
