Conference:  Transform X 2022

Authors: Lila Tretikov, John Maeda

2022-10-19

Deputy CTO of Microsoft and former CEO of Wikipedia, Lila Tretikov, joins John Maeda, CTO of Everbridge, to discuss how AI impacts humanity and how to best leverage this technology to grow. They will discuss the evolution of art and artists' role in the age of AI. Lila will discuss how Large Language Models (LLMs) are redefining how we interact with machines today and how advances in this technology will enable non-developers to build applications and immersive experiences with simply a prompt. Lila and John will explore AR/VR/XR, practical applications for headsets like Microsoft's hololens, and how this technology will evolve in the future. Lila and John also draw on their vast experience to outline the most impactful business applications of machine learning technology today.They also discuss how AI mirrors humanity and the importance of being intentional about what data we use to train our models to enhance ourselves best. We think of AI as learning from us. But in its growing capacity to extend beyond any person's memory, computing, or even historical lifetime, it enables us to explore the sum of all human knowledge and to further simulate the possibilities of our future.

Conference:  Transform X 2021

Authors: Jiajun Zhu

2021-10-07

Jiajun Zhu is the CEO and Co-Founder of Nuro. Prior to founding Nuro, Jiajun was a principal software engineer of Google and one of the founding team members of the company’s self-driving car project (now known as Waymo). He joins Scale AI CEO, Alexandr Wang, in a fireside chat to discuss the technical challenges of building autonomous delivery vehicles at scale. Together Jaijun and Alexandr explore why it's vital for society to automate the nearly 100 billion personal shopping trips we make each year in the US. Jaijun shares the key reasons autonomous goods delivery represents 'one of the hardest engineering challenges in history'. In particular, what are the challenges in managing data to optimize the learning process? How do you optimize for the 'long tail' of edge cases rather than solving the most common driving scenarios? How do you build a sensor strategy in conjunction with an AI strategy? Join this session to hear key lessons learned from the first autonomous vehicle company licensed to operate a driverless delivery service in the state of California.

Conference:  Transform X 2021

Authors: Jeff Weiner

2021-10-07

Jeff Weiner is the Executive Chairman and former CEO of LinkedIn, where he continues to help LinkedIn realize its vision of creating economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. He has led the evolution of LinkedIn’s products into a single, holistic, global ecosystem of more than 722 million members. In addition, Jeff is focused on ensuring that compassion is taught and practiced in every primary school in the U.S. Jeff joins Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang in a fireside chat to discuss how leaders can employ AI with purpose and integrity. They explore what compassionate leadership means in practice and some of the positive business impacts that it enables. Jeff shares some of the positive impacts of AI, that build a better experience for every member of the LinkedIn platform - and what other business leaders should be considering as they look at AI to deliver meaningful experiences for their end-users. Join this session to learn how compassion can be delivered, through the right leadership driving the thoughtful deployment of AI.