Unscripted with Jeff Pedowitz

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Unscripted with Jeff Pedowitz is a series of honest, long-form conversations with remarkable people from very different worlds: security and science, business and medicine, technology and the arts. The subject is artificial intelligence and where it's taking us, but every episode gets past the headlines to what these people actually think, have built, and have gotten wrong. AI is the focus for now. The bigger thread is the ideas, decisions, and people shaping what comes next.

  1. 19 de ago.

    Season 1. Episode 21. Unscripted with Nico Ianeselli

    Nico Ianeselli wanted to be a doctor like his father until he heard it took 11 years, so he earned dual master's degrees in engineering and architecture instead. In this conversation with Jeff Pedowitz, the Chen Moore and Associates technology chief explains why construction's slowness isn't resistance but survival (a missed error means collapse, not a bug fix), and why safety-critical industries need humans in the lead, not just in the loop. He breaks down what digital twins actually do, from simulating hurricanes and full-load bridge scenarios to the 4D construction sequencing that avoided major mistakes on the $2.2 billion Muskrat Falls dam, and makes the case that IoT sensors plus digital twins could stretch a bridge's 50-year lifespan toward 200. Fresh from a conference trip to China, he delivers a blunt geopolitical read: Europe is crawling, America is walking, China is running. He takes on the unanswered AI liability question hanging over the Professional Engineer's stamp, flips the data center energy debate with his 4% versus 96% argument, and closes with a 50-year vision of AI contributing genuinely new engineering principles. His advice to a fearful Gen Z: magic is on the other side of fear.

  2. 14 de ago.

    Season 1. Episode 20. Unscripted with Jennifer Preston

    Jennifer Preston is a biomedical engineer with a PhD who now leads AI strategy for the consultants shaping drug development and commercialization decisions across pharma and biotech. Her firm uses AI to create synthetic patients and synthetic physicians, digital stand-ins that get interviewed and surveyed to test drug messaging before any real human is involved. She joins Jeff to answer the uncomfortable question underneath it all: what does it mean when healthcare starts making decisions based on people who don't exist?

  3. 8 de ago.

    Season 1. Episode 19. Unscripted with Matthew Guggemos

    Matthew Guggemos spent more than 20 years as a speech-language pathologist teaching children to communicate — kids for whom language doesn't come free — and now builds AI at scale as CTO of iTherapy, the company behind InnerVoice, an AAC app with over 50,000 users. He's also a conservatory-trained drummer who played in Michigan State's top jazz band, and he joins Jeff to explain why music, language, and AI are all the same problem: getting nearly infinite expression out of a finite set of constraints.

  4. 27 de jul.

    Season 1. Episode 18. Unscripted with Camberley Bates

    Camberley Bates has spent 30-plus years as one of enterprise technology's most respected independent analysts, paid to cut through vendor hype and tell executives what's real. On this episode of Unscripted, she and Jeff unpack what IBM's earnings dip really signals (AI infrastructure spending delayed mainframe upgrades, not weakness), why 70 to 80 percent of enterprise data still lives on-prem, and why cloud-first has given way to workload placement. She explains the physics nobody can outrun: latency and data gravity make moon-based data centers a fantasy and on-prem AI stacks a boom for Dell and HPE. Bates gets candid about prompt privacy (she wouldn't bet enterprise data stays out of training models), the SaaS valuation crisis, the data center NIMBY wars, and how to decode "AI-ready" marketing. Her prediction for the claim that ages worst: that AI eliminates work. People need work to have value in their souls.

  5. 27 de jul.

    Season 1. Episode 17. Unscripted with Russ Wilcox

    Russ Wilcox, CEO of ArtifexAI, went from a broken sewer decision in his Cape Cod hometown to advising the Pentagon and State Department on the US-China AI race. In this episode of Unscripted, he tells Jeff how mining boring public records, zoning codes, meeting minutes, and permit archives, unlocks the 85 percent of human knowledge trapped in unstructured data. He explains why he believes the US is currently losing the AI race: China treats AI as infrastructure, with data reservoirs and specialized swarm agents, while the West chases god models built on 15 percent of human knowledge. Wilcox maps China's chip packaging dominance, makes the case for cognitive sovereignty, and lays out his three-part playbook for bringing AI to local government: compliance, decision support, and transparency. His vision: AI that revives local democracy through public-private partnership instead of digital techno-feudalism.

  6. 22 de jul.

    Season 1. Ep[isode 16. Unscripted with Keith Pijanowski

    Every impressive AI demo sits on an enormous, expensive, and very unglamorous foundation of data. Keith Pijanowski is one of the people who built it. After a decade-plus at Microsoft (where he helped evangelize Azure before its public release) and data pipeline work at BNY Mellon, he now works on the storage infrastructure that AI training and inference actually depend on. He breaks down why hundreds of GPUs hammering storage for months makes training a workload the software industry has never seen, and why inference is no longer lightweight thanks to KV caching across GPU memory, system memory, and network storage. He predicts power ratings will soon rival performance ratings for GPUs, dismisses space data centers as science fiction while taking ocean data centers seriously, and argues the build-out is rational because the Jevons paradox guarantees efficiency gains produce more demand, not less. His deepest concern isn't the machines. It's people publishing content and shipping code they don't understand. Use AI as a productivity tool, but don't let it turn you into an operator.

  7. 20 de jul.

    Season 1. Episode 15. Unscripted with Klas Nilsson

    Everyone is promising humanoid robots in every home and factory. Klas Nilsson has spent 40 years on the part that turns out to be hard. The Cognibotics founder, who built one of the first digital robot motion control systems at ABB in the 1980s, explains why less than 1% of the world's work is done by robots, and why the answer isn't a smarter chatbot. He walks through why the robotic hand remains unsolved (no existing design, tendon-driven or motorized, is future-proof), why LLMs belong at the task-definition level and never in the servo loop, and why robots are still programmed by position when real work is about force. He predicts another mild AI winter before the community learns which lessons matter, puts general-purpose humanoids seven to ten years out, longer for the average home, and argues the endgame isn't robots replacing craftsmen. It's craftsmen teaching robots by hand and selling that skill. Machines that help humans, so humans only do human thing

  8. 12 de jul.

    Season 1. Episode 14. Unscripted with Lena Smart

    Lena Smart has spent 30 years securing the systems we genuinely cannot afford to have fail — the power grid, financial markets, and as longtime CISO at MongoDB, one of the most widely used databases on the planet. She's defended more high-stakes infrastructure than most people will ever see. And she's here to tell you that AI agents scare her more than any of it. Not because they're malicious. Because nobody knows who owns them when they break. We get into the shadow AI problem CISOs are walking into blind, why the board is asking for AI on Monday and the CISO finds out on Friday afternoon, what Lena actually does when she wants to stress-test a company's chatbot (hint: she asks it for a lasagna recipe), and why she's now helping build the first real certification and insurance standards for AI agents through AIUC. And before any of that — she grew up in the housing projects of Glasgow, left school at 16, taught herself to code from library books, found a modem in a dumpster, and joined hacker bulletin boards under a male name. She still won't tell you what the name was. Lena Smart, Unscripted. Let's get into it.

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Unscripted with Jeff Pedowitz is a series of honest, long-form conversations with remarkable people from very different worlds: security and science, business and medicine, technology and the arts. The subject is artificial intelligence and where it's taking us, but every episode gets past the headlines to what these people actually think, have built, and have gotten wrong. AI is the focus for now. The bigger thread is the ideas, decisions, and people shaping what comes next.

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    The Pedowitz Group
  • Anos de atividade
    2026
  • Episódios
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