Jeong-Suh Choi, CEO Bobidi: Nearly $6 Million raised to Deliver Better, More Inclusive AI Solutions for Developers Category Visionaries

In today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Jeong-Suh Choi, CEO of Bobidi, an AI training platform that’s raised nearly $6 Million in funding, about why inclusive AI needs to be developed together, and how Bobidi’s global network is making it happen. By field-testing AI programs with the audiences they’re intended to serve, Bobidi is helping make the machine learning of tomorrow more effective, efficient, and sensitive.
We also speak about what Choi learned from years at Facebook and eBay, what it was like moving to the US in a time of economic turbulence, the outline of AI in the future and the choices we need to make about it, and Choi’s automated meal service nonprofit, Meal Forward.
Topics Discussed:
Choi’s career with some of the biggest names in tech, and what lessons he brought forward to his own startup journey
How he felt moving to the US in 2009, on the tail end of his financial crisis
The past, present and future of AI as a concept, and increasingly a reality in our daily lives
The shortcomings in cultural sensitivity still plaguing some AI systems, and how Bobidi hopes their global network of contributors can address them
How ‘bug bounties’ can help improve AI software for all of us
Choi’s automated meal service nonprofit MealForward, and how the pandemic connected Choi with the charity sector
 
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