Global AI - The Podcast

In this episode, Somy and JK talk to Sam and Josh, the founders of Decoded AI, a research lab that focuses on making AI risk identifiable, quantifiable, and valuable. They discuss topics such as how to define and measure functional safety for AI systems, how to identify and mitigate common AI security risks such as data poisoning and adversarial attacks, how to substantiate claims about AI systems to build trust and persuade users to seed decisions to autonomous systems, how to align AI systems with human values and ethical principles, how to communicate effectively with stakeholders and users about AI systems, and how to keep up with the rapid innovation and predict the future of AI. This podcast is a great resource for anyone who wants to learn more about the challenges and opportunities of AI security and ethics.

Let's dive into the fascinating world of artificial intelligence (AI) in the healthcare sector with our expert guest and Executive Dean from RMIT University, Karin Verspoor, who brought a wealth of knowledge in natural language processing (NLP) and biomedicine. Together, we explored the remarkable impact of AI on healthcare, particularly in imaging applications, while also discussing the challenges in accessing and standardizing clinical data. We examined the limitations of large language models like GPT-4 in healthcare settings and emphasized the importance of creating targeted applications for specific tasks. Additionally, we shed light on the Australian Alliance for AI in Healthcare's role in addressing safety, quality, ethics, and workforce development and much more.

In this episode, we dive into the dynamic relationship between artificial intelligence and the legal field with our expert guest, Raymond Sun, who bridges their passion for AI and law. We explore the forthcoming impact of AI on the legal industry over the next decade, highlighting potential use cases such as predictive analytics and contract analysis while addressing challenges like bias and transparency. The evolving role of legal professionals, ethical considerations, and the integration of AI with other technologies like blockchain are all thoughtfully examined. Our guest also envisions how AI could enhance access to justice and reshape legal education, offering valuable advice to aspiring legal professionals interested in this exciting intersection.

In this captivating podcast episode, we explore Azure OpenAI Service with Microsoft's David Smith, discussing its differences from OpenAI's direct APIs, the emerging field of prompt engineering, and the potential for organizations to deploy their own large language models. We also delve into the integration of Azure OpenAI with enterprise data, address concerns about data privacy, and highlight some innovative customer use cases. Finally, we touch upon the importance of having a data science or machine learning background to utilize Azure OpenAI Service and the intriguing phenomenon of generating content that is not based on truth. Join us as we uncover the intricacies and potential impact of Azure OpenAI Service in the world of artificial intelligence.

In this episode, we're joined by the Ashish Bhatia, Product Manager of AI Builder from Microsoft Power Platform. We discuss the core capabilities, prerequisites, and what sets AI Builder apart from other no-code/low-code AI platforms. Our guest provides insights on practical usage, pricing, common use cases, and potential challenges. We also explore the evolving relationship between AI and human expertise and take a peek into the future roadmap for AI Builder. Get ready for an engaging and insightful conversation!

For decades now, computer scientists have been using Machine Learning to train computers to understand the world. Computers have filtered through images to learn the differences between particular objects and items. The next progression was to learn to create images, which they've been doing it quite well. Open AI's DALL-E, Craiyon and the likes of Midjourney are on tap. A lot of people are not just using it to create some of their slides but some are also creating their original book covers and what not! Let's learn all about AI in Image generation with Lars Klint, Senior Developer Advocate at the Pluralsight.

Depending on one’s viewpoint, the future of marriage therapy in the age of intelligent machines may be either exciting or frightening. People are becoming more attuned to, and dependent on, technology in everyday living. It seems inevitable that the fields of psychotherapy and AI will eventually be combined. Let's hear this from our researchers (Ahmet Baki Kocaballi and Berkan Yuksel) from University of Technology Sydney.

Microsoft Excel is one of the most complex and productive tools of the Microsoft Office suite, there are millions of active users who work on Excel on almost daily basis. One of the most challenging parts of this product is its formulas. In order for you to learn all of that, you need to keep on using them on daily basis and that's not possible for everyone. In mid 2022, David Bressler thought to solve this problem using AI for all the world. He transformed the way people work with Excel formulas just with the plain English. Let's learn how he did that in this episode!

AI brings unprecedented opportunities to businesses, but also incredible responsibility. Its direct impact on people’s lives has raised considerable questions around AI ethics, data governance, trust and legality. These questions are far from solved, and in fact are active areas of research and development. Are CEOs and other business leaders taking any steps to champions ethics within their organisations or is it just the team of Data Scientists who are responsible to implement those principles? Let's learn all of this and much more from the National CTO (ANZ) of Microsoft, Lee Hickin.

Ever wondered what does it take to work in Data & AI space that too in one of the largest organisations in the world? What are the possibilities of AI with Azure and how can you as an AI enthusiast or someone who has just started their career can get their hands on these technologies and much more. Let's learn from Jiaranai Keatnuxsuo, Cloud Architect for Data & AI at Microsoft Australia.

AI plays an important role in achieving not only environmental but all other Sustainable Development Goals ranging from ending hunger and poverty to achieving sustainable energy and gender equality to protecting and preserving biodiversity. While AI provides unprecedented opportunities, these may not always result in a positive outcome depending on the framework in which they are used. So how do we tackle this? Let's learn from one of Microsoft Cloud Advocates, Renee Noble who has done a great work as a part of her academics.

The neonatal period is the first 28 days of life, which is the stage of developing physiological adaptations for extra-uterine life. This time is a vulnerable period and the high neonatal mortality rate is due to the high level of vulnerability in this period. About two-thirds of infant deaths and about half of the under-five deaths occur in neonatal period. Predictions show that between 2019 and 2030, approximately 52 million children under the age of 5 will die, approximately half of whom will be neonate. To combat this problem, some really fantastic startups have come into the market with their cutting-edge technologies and solutions and we've invited the CEO of one of the notable startups in this domain, Dr. Harpreet Singh. Let's learn from him how AI is being used to save children lives in the neonatal care.

Ever wondered what does it take to create AI based solutions during your undergrad studies? How are the students influenced and what challenges they face during their overall program? Do they get enough mentoring for the latest skills in the market? How Microsoft Student Ambassador program is helping these students to achieve their goals. We invited Usman from Pakistan and Rodanthi from Greece to learn how their region is doing in terms of AI in their studies and local communities out there.

Ever wondered what does it take to create AI based solutions during your undergrad studies? How are the students influenced and what challenges they face during their overall program? Do they get enough mentoring for the latest skills in the market? How Microsoft Student Ambassador program is helping these students to achieve their goals. We invited Eisha from Pakistan and Precious from Nigeria to learn how their region is doing in terms of AI in their studies and local communities out there. 

Artificial intelligence (AI) is all the rage right now. Everything from the way we consume content, conduct business, interact with our peers, transport ourselves, and earn a living is going to be affected by AI-related innovations. In addition to this, AI is now also helping remove accessibility barriers and we can see that many big players in the market have come forward to address the digital accessibility issues such as helping people with cognitive impairments or low literacy skills to understand the content better or speaking out loud for those who can't read it well and so on. But does this mean that AI has made everything compliant enough that so we can safely announce that we're nearly there? Do all the websites, be it on your PC or phone, are good for everyone to browse, shop and fulfill the a11y needs? How about the local market of Australia versus every other country around the world? Let's learn about all of this from a renowned a11y specialist, Pluralsight author and Microsoft MVP, Ross Mullen.

It has been seen that a lot of businesses are exploring different kinds of options to automate their document processing and AI is the biggest catalyst to make it possible by dramatically improving the quality and reducing time and cost. Intelligent document algorithms can spot subtle differences in otherwise look-alike files to process in an efficient manner. Having said that, it does not come without challenges. Can it actually read the poorly written invoice? Does it support multilingual content or those crazy symbols which makes human difficult to understand, at times. Let's learn all about this from Staple AI team about how do they help process documents.

Construction is considered as one of the oldest professions but just in recent years, construction companies have increasingly started using AI in a range of ways to make construction more efficient and innovative. As the transformation is challenging, therefore the risks are high. There's a great need to transform global construction industry by providing solutions to better deliver projects using cutting-edge technology and that's why we've invited Doug and Domenic from Mastt to talk about everything around digitization of construction industry to implementing AI.

It is evident that Artificial Intelligence is already making a big difference in many industries and sports is no different. From footy to cricket to Formula 1, Artificial intelligence is being used in Sports to strategize, train, advertise and do much more. In short, AI is significantly impacting the way one view and consumes sports content. In addition to this, it is believed that AI is making a smarter world for sportspersons, advertisers, broadcasters, with real-time statistics. However, is it really making this big impact or it's just a buzz word in the commentary room? Is it really going to affect the future of sports in a good way? What about the Olympics of today and future? How is it being used right now? Let's learn all about this from Microsoft MVP and a PhD. candidate who has a strong research around AI in Sports, Haritha Thilakarathne.

Artificial Intelligence holds immense promise. It's the one that mimics human brain by learning, reasoning, predicting and making decisions. It's a doubled edged sword. While this can be said of most new technologies, both sides of the AI blade are far sharper, and neither is well understood. This specific technology makes our life easier but it does have drawbacks and that's why we see experts talk about its potential risks, more than ever. What are those potential risks? How are they different to the other technologies. Are they not supposed to go away by the time? Let's learn about this from one of the renowned expert in this domain, Dr. David Goad

According to StackOverflow's latest survey, .NET Core is the most loved development framework. Hundreds of developers use ML.NET to infuse machine learning capabilities to their solutions. If you don't know, ML.NET is a cross-platform open-source machine learning framework which makes machine learning accessible to .NET developers with the same code that powers machine learning across many Microsoft products, including Power BI, Windows Defender, and Azure. In this episode, we've invited the ML.NET team to talk about the capabilities of ML.NET, its roadmap and also asked them about how you as a business or developer can get started with it.

Last year, in 2020, for the first time, there were more IoT connections than the devices with non-IoT connections. By 2025, it is expected that there will be more than 30 billion IoT connections, almost 4 IoT devices per person on average. The future of IoT has the potential to be limitless. Artificial Intelligence is considered to be the main catalyst behind the endless possibilities of IoT and Edge devices -- but why is that? Can't IoT devices just work without AI quite well? What are the implications of implementing it, any security / privacy concerns and the what not. In this episode, we'll try to get the answers of these questions and more broadly try to learn how IoT works with AI and how you as a business or developer can utilize the power of the available tools from one of the global experts, Matt Sinclair from Microsoft.

Artificial Intelligence holds immense promise. It's the one that mimics human brain by learning, reasoning, predicting and making decisions. It helps humans to figure out when to alert themselves or to classify between goods and bads. Having said that, Artificial Intelligence is a doubled edged sword. It's AI which has given birth to deep fakes and social manipulation. It is AI which can make discriminated decisions because of bias. So what does it take to tackle all of this? Are there any ways to fight with the challenges and make the proper use of this technology? Let's hear from one of our experts, Saba Samiei and learn about the tactics of AI.

Every day, AI is bringing new disruption in technology with its adoption in many industries. One of the particular field that's being affected is the field of Education. Many institutions ranging from elementary schools to the universities are being transformed by the intelligent systems that are helping humans learn better and achieve their learning objectives. What's the main goal behind it? Why these institutions are focusing on such innovation. Join us to learn more about this from Deakin University's AI Lecturer, Dr. Bahareh Nakisa.

With the passage of time, ease of accessibility, the digital footprints of users over the internet have accelerated. It is believed that over 2.5 quintillion bytes (about 2.5 e+9 GB) of the data is created every day, and this number is increasing momentarily. AI loves data and that's why it's considered as the lifeblood of AI. In this episode, we're going to learn from Leila Etaati about how Data & AI actually work together and how they influence the overall decision making for businesses.

AI is rapidly improving and becoming ubiquitous in our daily lives that it has eliminated a lot of laborious tasks. While there's still a fear of losing jobs and dangers from AI, there's far more what AI can do in terms of making our lives easier. AI can be used to provide resources, and expertise to empower those working to solve humanitarian issues and create a more sustainable and accessible world without investing too much in it. Let's learn more about this from our renowned guest of this new podcast, Stefano Tempesta.