Episode Details

My guest for this episode is Manas Talukdar, a senior industry leader in Data Infrastructure for AI. Talukdar has significant experience designing and developing products in artificial intelligence used in mission critical sectors across the world. You might call him a Software engineering polyglot, as he's comfortable programming in Java, C#, Python, and other languages.

He has bootstrapped multiple projects from ideation to prototype to product, is a senior member of IEEE, an AI 2030 Senior Fellow and Advisory, and Director of Engineering at a startup, building a data-centric AI platform. He has filed multiple patents in data processing and machine learning for AI, and has been invited to be an Ambassador at the AI Frontier Network.

In this episode we talk about:

• Why AI won't be smarter than you.
• How instead of taking over the world, AI has the potential to help you get a better job, making the work you do more creative and useful.
• Why you might want your personal data to be included in big data sets.
• Privacy issues - Who's responsible for keeping information private.
• General myths and truths about AI (Artificial Intelligence)
• Why, when faced with the task of choosing between two alternatives, autonomous vehicles known as driverless or self-driving cars, cannot decide whether to hit an old man or a child.

Please note that content for this show and on Talukdar's website, have nothing to do with his employers, past and present, nor does any such content constitute an endorsement of anything of any kind by Talukdar.

Connect with Manas Talukdar: manastalukdar.github.io