Conference:  Transform X 2021

Authors: Jeff Wilke

2021-10-07

Before Jeff Wilke became Chairman and Co-Founder of Re:Build Manufacturing, he led Amazon’s global retail business, deploying lean manufacturing techniques to create the infrastructure and technology that became Amazon Prime. He now integrates new technologies like AI to help rebuild and transform manufacturing. Jeff joins Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang in a fireside chat to discuss how AI can accelerate the transformation of enterprises across industries like manufacturing, retail, and others. Jeff joined Amazon in 1999 to increase productivity and excellence. At the time Amazon's revenue was $2 billion a year. By the time he left, Amazon’s revenue had skyrocketed to over $1 billion a day. During his time leading the world's largest retailer, Jeff experienced first-hand the transformational impact of AI, from internal operations to customer experience. But as AI continues to impact and transform every industry, how should enterprises think about prioritizing their AI use-cases between internal process optimizations or customer-facing experiences? What challenges should business leaders be cognizant of?

Conference:  Transform X 2021

Authors: Austin Russell

2021-10-07

Austin Russell, CEO of Luminar Technologies, sits down with Alexandr Wang, CEO of Scale AI, to discuss the future impact of LIDAR sensors on the autonomous vehicle industry. Austin shares what he saw that was lacking in existing AV sensors that led him to create Luminar Technologies and dives into the core requirements that they set out to fulfill with their own LIDAR sensors. He explores the optimal way to balance the capabilities of different sensor technologies. Together Austin and Alexandr go on to discuss the bottlenecks inherent in learning from data at the scale required to build safe autonomous vehicles, how sensor manufacturers and OEM companies should be partnering together, and the business models and market opportunities that show the most promise in the future. What does the choice of sensor technologies mean for downstream perception, prediction, and planning algorithms? What do we need from today's hardware or software to enable L4/L5 urban self-driving autonomy? What is the most critical strategic decision that CEOs of companies in this space should be thinking about? Join this discussion to hear how LIDAR sensors for autonomous vehicles are moving from small-scale experimentation to large-scale production and what impact they might have in the industry and for vehicle-owners everywhere.

Conference:  Transform X 2021

Authors: Richard Socher

2021-10-07

Richard Socher is the fifth most-cited researcher in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and the CEO of you.com, an ad-free, privacy-preserving search engine. Prior, he was the Chief Scientist (EVP) at Salesforce. He joins Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang in a fireside chat to discuss how leaders should apply research to production applications. Richard discusses the shrinking gap between pure research and the building of revenue-generating products, where enterprises can avoid the common pitfalls of AI adoption (regardless of industry sector), and the areas of research he is most excited about. He discusses how the changing shape of the internet that led him to create You.com, a new type of intelligent and privacy-preserving internet search engine.

Conference:  Transform X 2021

Authors: Eric Schmidt

2021-10-07

The speaker discusses the challenges and opportunities of AI and machine learning, emphasizing the need to democratize the technology and make it accessible to more people. He also highlights the potential risks of AI, particularly in the information space, and the importance of addressing cybersecurity concerns.

• The current challenge in AI is building sophisticated multi-model reasoning systems and optimizing the pipeline
• The goal is to make AI accessible to more people, including those with relatively normal technical education
• Open source and knowledge sharing are critical for accelerating progress in AI
• AI has the potential to be transformative across many industries, but also poses risks in the information space
• Cybersecurity concerns must be addressed to prevent the misuse of AI technology

Conference:  Transform X 2021

Authors: Steven Escaravage

2021-10-07

Steve Escaravage, Senior Vice President at Booz Allen Hamilton and Mark Valentine, Head of Federal at Scale AI, discuss how the Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) community can help federal customers build, deploy and operationalize realistic AI/ML capabilities that bring tangible and measurable wins, within the strict compliance and governance limitations of federal IT environments.