Episode Summary:
In this episode, Maribel Lopez speaks with Google Cloud Product Manager Bobby Allen about the current benefits and future possibilities of artificial intelligence in the context of Google’s AI services. They explore the flexibility of Googles services that sets them apart, the environmental impacts of LLMs in comparison with their predecessor NLMs, and how companies can take a human approach to AI to make peoples lives better.

Key Themes:
Maribel and Bobby begin by discussing Google’s AI services. Allen explains the wide variety of AI services offered by Google, which fall into three main categories: building AI, building with AI, and using AI. Most organizations are currently interested in using AI, and they have seen tangible benefits from doing so.

Bobby refers to these benefits as the “four I’s”: insight, increase, improvement, and innovation. Companies that adopt AI can see increases in productivity, gain insights into large documents through AI summarization, and more. Ai also has growing applications in compliance and query creation to analyze large datasets.

Last, Maribel and Bobby discuss the future of AI. Bobby points to a human-first future with a focus on the impacts of AI applications, including sustainability and marginalization. He believes that AI should solve real problems and male peoples lives better.

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Episode Summary:
In this episode, Maribel Lopez speaks with Qventus co-founder and CEO Mudit Garg. Mudit explains how automation can help patients receive efficient care and hospitals maximize their performance. Learn how Qventus is helping hospital systems cut down their “excess days,” why efficiency is essential to care, and Mudit’s predictions for the future of AI in healthcare.

Key Themes:
Maribel begins the episode by speaking with Mudit about how Qventus is changing the hospital system for the better. Mudit explains that AI can be extremely helpful for hospital coordination. There are many cases in healthcare where the patient and the hospital system are aligned in their goals, like booking a surgery for a patient, but administrative complexities make those goals difficult to accomplish.

Qventus bases its system on two crucial components – behavioral science and machine learning. Machine learning is a great tool for determining patterns for coordination and scheduling, but factoring human behavior is crucial to create a model that actually works. Mudit credits the success of Qventus to the combination of these factors.

Maribel and Mudit also discuss the future of artificial intelligence in hospitals. Many industries are adopting AI in a wide range of applications, but Mudit suggests that healthcare systems should focus in on perfecting technology that benefits both patients and hospitals. He also notes his interest in Ai’s potential for data siloing, which would cut down administrative work.

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Episode Summary:
In this episode, Maribel Lopez speaks with Roni Jamesmeyer about the changing role of AI in healthcare. Roni Jamesmeyer, the the Senior Healthcare Marketing Manager for Five9, has over twenty years of experience in IT sales, giving her an understanding of the complexity of healthcare delivery. She focuses on Five9's healthcare strategy to help health systems, payers, and life sciences move their contact centers to the cloud and close the gaps in patient communications. Maribel and Roni discuss technological advancements in AI, different uses of AI in healthcare, and Roni’s research findings.

Key Themes:
Maribel and Roni open the episode by discussing the healthcare industry’s past attempts to improve the patient experience and how its goals have shifted. Currently, Roni is seeing healthcare companies working toward an omnichannel experience for their customers – meaning that they can interact over many communication channels.

AI is helping the industry move forward. Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVAs) improve operations in four major ways: security, patient experience, revenue generation, and reduced administrative backend work. Different companies may focus more on some of these categories than others, but all four functions are extremely important to the healthcare industry.

Roni also discusses her AI research findings. She found that AI tuning is crucial to improvement, allowing models to pick up and retain information. As these models are used, they become more personalized and more intelligent and can take on more work as a result. She also found that AI agents open up phone lines, allowing previously missed calls to be answered.

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Episode Summary:
In this episode, Maribel Lopez discusses generative AI with Dr. Sherry Marcus, the Director of Generative AI Sciences at Amazon Web Services. Her insights into the artificial intelligence needs of businesses gives her a unique perspective on the future of generative AI. Learn about the concept of agents in AI, why customers are moving toward the use of multiple models, and the ways AI might evolve in the future.

Key Themes:
Maribel and Sherry begin their conversation by discussing Amazon Bedrock, which is Amazon’s AI building service. The technology allows AWS customers to create their own AI models by offering choices of foundational models that can be customized.

Next, Sherry and Maribel discuss AI agents. In AI, Agents can retrieve real-time data to assist LLMs in providing information they cannot access in their training data. They also discuss how customers are currently using artificial intelligence, and why there is a shift away from specific modes and toward using multiple models for different use cases.

Dr. Sherry Marcus also explains how customers have historically used RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) to answer questions, and how that technology is evolving. Last, she explains why companies are using synthetic data to train their models, her predictions for the future of AI, and her favorite primer on AI.

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In this episode, I interview Kevin McCartan, Senior IT Delivery Engineer at Musgrave, about how he leverages AI (Open AI's ChatGPT and Juniper Mist AI) to streamline network operations.
You can find a copy of the video here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1ZoMXn6c6M

Case studies here
Musgrave Stores Undergoes Transformation with AI-Native Network Enhancements
https://www.juniper.net/us/en/the-fee...

Three Steps on the AI Path to Retail Operational Zen
https://blogs.juniper.net/en-us/ai-na...

Episode Summary: In this episode, Maribel Lopez discusses responsible AI governance with Credo AI’s Head of Product Susannah Shattuck. Susannah builds AI governance tools that help organizations design, develop, and deploy ethical AI at scale. She has been working in Machine Learning Operations and AI governance for the last five years; her passion for AI governance can be traced back to her days on the IBM Watson implementations team, where she saw firsthand all of the things that can go wrong during the ML development lifecycle. Maribel and Susannah discuss the difference between responsible AI strategy and AI governance, the EU AI Act, and how she helps teams build governance plans that work for them.

Key Themes: Maribel and Susannah begin their conversation by discussing the risks of generative AI. Large language models have overlapping risks with older models such as algorithmic biases, but they also come with new risks such as hallucinations, privacy risks, and security risks.
Many companies want to implement AI, but those same companies recognize that they are not prepared for its risks. Susannah helps teams create AI governance plans that protect against risks without holding them back. She notes that it is not possible or practical to eliminate all risks, and that part of building a good strategy is allowing for low-risk use cases.
Later in the conversation, Maribel and Susannah dive into how Credo AI works with organizations to implement responsible governance. They also discuss the EU AI Act, which will shape AI governance in the years to come. Last, Susannah shares her predictions for the future of AI implementation and AI governance.

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Episode Summary:
In this episode, Maribel Lopez speaks with Five9’s CTO and Head of AI Jonathan Rosenberg on AI’s potential in the Customer Experience (CX) and Contact Center as a Service (CcaaS) space. Currently, customers are often unsatisfied with chatbot communication services at contact centers. However, AI’s increasing generative capabilities show potential for exciting future applications.

Key Themes:
Maribel and Jonathan begin by discussing the current state of AI in CcaaS, and how many customers are unsatisfied with their experiences with automated calls. Contact centers have long attempted to automate aspects of the CX experience, first with DTMF and later with directed dialogue.

Unlike these technologies, generative AI has seen widespread adoption. Consumer familiarity with artificial intelligence will lead to them understanding how to interact with generative AI over the phone. Jonathan and Maribel also discuss their predictions for how AI will impact jobs in at contact centers. Jonathan believes that jobs will change, but they will not disappear.

Last, Jonathan defines open platforms and explains how their unique features allow for useful CX capabilities. The future of AI in CX depends on how quickly companies eliminate AI hallucinations. Once models overcome this obstacle, Jonathan predicts that AI will see wide adoption in the CX space.
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Episode Summary: In this episode, recorded live at the IBM Think event in Boston, Maribel Lopez moderates a panel on AI governance with key figures from IBM and AWS. The discussion revolves around the current state and future of AI governance, the challenges and opportunities it presents, and the role of innovation and regulation in shaping responsible AI adoption.

Speakers:

Maribel Lopez, Lopez Research

Karthik Bharathy from Amazon SageMaker

Heather Gentile from IBM Watsonx.Governance

Kush Varshney from IBM Research.

Key themes:

This panel discussed the necessity for organizations to manage data across hybrid multi-cloud environments while ensuring robust governance is discussed. Gentile highlighted the strategic importance of AI governance for organizations aiming to align AI adoption with their ethics, culture, and values.

The panel discussed how companies are shifting from siloed AI projects to enterprise-wide governance frameworks driven by generative AI innovations as well as the need to closely follow changes in the regulatory landscape. Bharathy discusses the collaboration between AWS and IBM Watson to integrate governance tools with AI and ML workflows. This integration aims to simplify risk management and regulatory compliance for customers using generative AI. Collaboration between AWS and IBM is seen Varshney shared insights on ongoing research in AI governance, particularly in addressing issues like hallucination in generative AI and developing algorithms for regulatory compliance.