Pullstring CEO Oren Jacob: “Alexa, order me 100 gallons of chocolate ice cream”

Pullstring CEO Oren Jacob: “Alexa, order me 100 gallons of chocolate ice cream”

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Oren Jacob, former CTO of film studio Pixar and founder of computer conversation startup Pullstring to talk about the new age of voice technology and talking Barbie (2:30), how the Amazon Echo ended the family shopping trip (7:30), his years at Pixar (12:00), building Mrs Potatohead (13:30), how a stuffed bunny inspired his startup (14:45), cold-calling speech experts (18:30), doing market research in a tent (20:30), raising the first round of venture capital (23:30), the difficulty of doing speech recognition for children (25:30), the many tech revolutions making voice systems possible (28:45), turning algorthms into characters (36:00), whether bots kill jobs (40:00), expecting too much from machines (46:00), and the importance of a voice assistant elegantly saying “I don’t know” (47:45).

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Det här avsnittet är hämtat från ett öppet RSS-flöde och publiceras inte av Podme. Det kan innehålla reklam.

Avsnitt(467)

HourOne’s Natalie Monbiot: “Building the virtual human economy”

HourOne’s Natalie Monbiot: “Building the virtual human economy”

The gig economy is coming for your soul. The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Natalie Monbiot of HourOne, to talk about the digital clone company starting before the ChatGPT mo...

13 Sep 202441min

Hebbia’s George Sivulka: “Bots will be most of the economy within decade”

Hebbia’s George Sivulka: “Bots will be most of the economy within decade”

Artificial intelligence “agents” will create more economic value than humans within ten years. Sound outlandish? That is the prediction of this week’s guest, George Sivulka, founder of AI startup Hebb...

7 Sep 202446min

Captura’s Steve Oldham: “Removing a drop of ink from a swimming pool”

Captura’s Steve Oldham: “Removing a drop of ink from a swimming pool”

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Steve Oldham of Captura, to talk about why sucking CO2 out of the air is not a bad idea (6:30), using the ocean (10:00), their contraption ...

30 Aug 202445min

Refactor's Zal Bilimoria: “I am the investment committee”

Refactor's Zal Bilimoria: “I am the investment committee”

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Zal Bilimoria to talk about being a solo venture capitalist (3:15), how he decided on investments (6:30), happening into climate tech (9:30...

9 Aug 202446min

How lab-grown meat company SciFi Foods failed - and why many others may soon follow

How lab-grown meat company SciFi Foods failed - and why many others may soon follow

It wasn’t long ago that lab-grown meat was booming. Startups raised billions of dollars. Investors boldly predicted the large scale slaughter of cows, chickens and fish would soon end. Then it all wen...

2 Aug 202445min

Mike Lynch’s first post-acquittal interview

Mike Lynch’s first post-acquittal interview

British tech tycoon Mike Lynch faced potentially dying in a federal prison. But in a 12-week trial in America, he beat all the odds and was found “not guilty” last month on 15 counts of fraud brought ...

27 Juli 20241h 15min

Conservation X Labs’ Alex Deghan: “Why go to Mars? it’s a failed version of earth”

Conservation X Labs’ Alex Deghan: “Why go to Mars? it’s a failed version of earth”

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Alex Deghan, founder of Conservation X Labs, to talk about avoiding the sixth mass extinction (3:00), getting near a tipping point in the A...

19 Juli 202450min

UC Berkeley’s Hany Farid: “AI is a misinformation amplifier”

UC Berkeley’s Hany Farid: “AI is a misinformation amplifier”

The Sunday Times tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Hany Farid, a digital forensic professor, to talk about launching a cybersecurity startup called Get Real Labs (3:00), the growing capabilit...

12 Juli 202433min

Populärt inom Business & ekonomi

framgangspodden
varvet
rss-jossan-nina
badfluence
rss-borsens-finest
svd-tech-brief
rss-svart-marknad
bathina-en-podcast
uppgang-och-fall
avanzapodden
fill-or-kill
rss-inga-dumma-fragor-om-pengar
rss-dagen-med-di
lastbilspodden
tabberaset
kapitalet-en-podd-om-ekonomi
dynastin
rss-kort-lang-analyspodden-fran-di
rikatillsammans-om-privatekonomi-rikedom-i-livet
borsmorgon