26.1 AI Podcast

Today, Michael provides us our first truly futurist episode. He shares with us optimism that Apple will catch up in AI, takes us through the benefits of AI on chip, and shares with us that better algorithms will catch up to those who hold a huge data advantage.

Show Notes

We welcome Michael Agustin for this week’s episode. He previously founded Game Salad, a startup that allowed anyone to develop video games using a visual programming interface. For Game Salad, Michael raised $25m in capital, and investors included impressive organizations like Disney. 

Currently, Michael is advancing optical AI, with current startup Curie. Recently he finished with the latest batch of 500 Startups, Curie offers retailers, mobile users’ cameras as a new channel. 

Might sound strange, but today I believe you’ll listen to our first guest who’s truly predictive. Though practitioners of AI inherently are trying to predict rather than react, because of cognitive biases and concepts highlighted by Tversky and Kahneman in their article, “Judgment Under Uncertainty: Biases and Heuristics,” people are biologically geared for reaction not prediction. 

Today, Michael provides us our first truly futurist episode. He shares with us optimism that Apple will catch up in AI, takes us through the benefits of AI on chip, and shares with us that better algorithms will catch up to those who hold a huge data advantage. 


What is 26.1 AI Podcast?

Don Sheu and Brian Ray are friends with one mission: a podcast that covers interesting topics in AI. Don is a dotcom era flameout who was reborn in tech building Seattle's largest tech community; Brian is tech leader known globally as Python Engineer, Data Scientist, and AI Cloud expert. They have joined forces and are interviewing the most interesting practitioners in an emerging AI Space.