AI Zen with Andrew and Jen

Andrew Freed & Jennifer Sukis

A podcast where a designer and a data scientist break down how to create awesome AI experiences. Twitter: @AIZenPodcast

  1. 02/03/2021

    Privacy by Design

    In this episode we get to talk with Nishant Bhajaria, author of Privacy by Design and leader of data privacy teams at Google, Uber, Netflix and Nike about designing and developing ways to protect your users and their data. Privacy by Design available on Manning Publications 35% off code: podaizen21 Nishant Bhajaria on LinkedIn IBM Trust Center for security and privacy

  2. 11/30/2020

    The need to know what we don't know

    We all have implicit biases and assumptions that come into play whenever we're designing and building shtuff. Jen and Andrew share the sad, the horrifying and the sometimes amusing stories of what happens when we don't ask what we don't know and just keep on going without identifying our blindspots. Jen's Medium article on what the heck is Kubernetes > *Jen and Andrew would like to make a boulder sized apology to Sisyphus for mistaking him for Atlas.

  3. 08/04/2020

    The future of designing the future

    Andrew and Jen bounce ideas around with futurist Clayton Bunyard, Ph.D., about biological design thinking, weird skills we'll need in the future, STEM vs STEAM, and how video conferencing tools are going to get much, much better. The Future of Organizational Creativity by Clayton Bunyard, Ph,D. Microsoft Holoporter PeTal Magic Leap University of Houston, Master of Science in Foresight

  4. 03/06/2020

    Designing valuable, feasible AI use cases

    Andrew asks Jen about her methods for helping teams vet and prioritize all the ways AI could be designed into their products.

  5. 01/20/2020

    AI under the hood

    Jen and Andrew get into the inner workings of a few simple AI applications and exactly HOW those magic-like experiences are built.

  6. 11/22/2019

    AI we can be thankful for

    AI has done so many good things for us already. For Thanksgiving, Andrew and Jen reflect on how AI is improving our lives, our world, and our futures. 1. Examples of AI making our life better - 01:12 Saving us time - 01:56 Saving the world - 03:50 2. Things AI has made us more aware of - 07:50 Bias - 08:17 Diversity - 10:33 Behavorial Change - 12:35 Designing for Ethical AI - 13:33 Accessibility - 16:00 3. Opportunities AI gives us for the future - 18:03 Fun new problems to solve - 18:20 Democratizing AI - 21:12 Cool new jobs already here - 22:13

  7. 11/13/2019

    AI horror show!

    Three tales of AI nightmares and apocalyptic robots Andrew and Jen go to the dark places of our possible horrific futures with AI, discuss what it would take for them to become reality, and decide how scared you should really be before you go to bed tonight… Story 1: The Skynet Singularity of Doom (1:00) Story 2: Giving up Control (18:15) Story 3: They Took Our Jobs! (24:15)

  8. 08/23/2019

    Data drives research, drives design, drives data

    Keith Vertrees, Director of User Research with a background in data science, talks data driven design, the data skills designers need, the business skills data scientists need, why we should spend 90% of our time identifying the problem, how data and design should function together, and Jen has the Earth shattering realization that Andrew is a data scientist, not an AI scientist. 0:30 - Intro to user research 2:00 - What a user does vs what they want 6:20 - Being data driven 8:45 - Adapting user research for AI 11:25 - Data aware vs data informed vs data driven 18:00 - A real life example of user research saving the day 23:45 - Skills we need to support data projects References Keith Vertrees, Director of User Research for IBM Cloud Designing with Data: Improving the User Experience with A/B Testing How to Win Friends & Influence People

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A podcast where a designer and a data scientist break down how to create awesome AI experiences. Twitter: @AIZenPodcast

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  • Creator
    Andrew Freed & Jennifer Sukis
  • Years Active
    2019 - 2021
  • Episodes
    13
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © While Andrew Freed and Jennifer Sukis are AI and machine learning experts at IBM, AI Zen is a personal podcast and does not nece
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    AI Zen with Andrew and Jen