Unscripted with Jeff Pedowitz

Manas Talukdar has spent 19 years building the infrastructure underneath AI systems: the data backbone of the process industry, the platform behind one of the largest enterprise AI companies, and the ...

10 Jul 28min

Ed Addison took his first AI course at MIT in 1985 and has spent the four decades since building through every wave of the field, from brittle rule-based expert systems in the 80s, to neural nets in t...

10 Jul 33min

Eric Forst spent the first half of his career building the foundational technology of the surveillance economy: pixel tracking at one of the largest third-party cookie networks, then AI-driven sentime...

10 Jul 33min

Nevra Ledwon has spent 25 years in mathematical optimization, the branch of AI that decides which trucks carry which goods, how factories schedule production lines, how airlines crew flights, and how ...

8 Jul 36min

Rajiv Dattani helped run METR, the organization that evaluated whether OpenAI's and Anthropic's frontier models were too dangerous to release, before leaving to build something stranger: insurance for...

8 Jul 30min

Elatia Abate ran global talent for the world's largest brewer and served as head of HR at Dow Jones before Forbes named her a leading futurist, and she has spent the last decade studying what AI actua...

8 Jul 32min

Dr. Jennifer Rochlis spent two decades at NASA building Robonaut, a humanoid robot designed to work beside astronauts in the vacuum of space, then brought that human-machine trust expertise into auton...

8 Jul 34min

Augusto Gonzalez is an economist and researcher from Argentina who uses large language models to simulate entire human populations, running classic economic experiments on synthetic cultural agents. H...

6 Jul 28min