The A.I. Advantage™ Show

AIS002:061 [Gareth Rydon] AI to augment not replace, why taking a human-centric approach is key

Welcome to the Evolvepreneur A.I. Advantage Show Join me, Richard Wray, to gain the A.I. Advantage today where we dive deep into the transformative power of A.I. to help fast-track your business. My very special guest today is Gareth Rydon ... My background is in service design where I made things better for people. I co-founded Friyay over a year ago with the goal of spreading the benefits of AI as far and as wide as possible. I've always loved learning from people and generating new and exciting ideas to make their lives easier. With the advent of generative AI this has made this possible on a MASSIVE scale! Read more

AIS002:060 [Nici Sweaney] ​​​​​​​AI's Impact on Women: The New Gender Gap

Welcome to the Evolvepreneur A.I. Advantage Show Join me, Richard Wray, to gain the A.I. Advantage today where we dive deep into the transformative power of A.I. to help fast-track your business. My very special guest today is Dr. Nici Sweaney ... Dr. Nici Sweaney is an AI consultant and founder of Ai Her Way, which focuses on empowering women in business through AI. With nearly two decades in academia and data science, Dr. Sweaney aims to bridge the gender gap in AI usage. She discusses her diverse career path, which includes various entrepreneurial ventures, and emphasizes the importance of AI literacy, particularly for women. Ai Her Way offers services that help businesses automate tasks and integrate AI solutions into their strategies. Dr. Sweaney highlights the rapid advancement of AI tools and the need for users to understand their functionality to alleviate fears surrounding technology. She advocates for greater female representation in AI development to ensure ethical usage. As a practical step, she encourages individuals to identify repetitive tasks suitable for automation. She also promotes her online course, the AI Powered Business Academy, aimed at teaching women about AI strategy and automation. The conversation underscores the importance of using AI as a tool for creativity and problem-solving rather than as a replacement for human capabilities. The episode concludes with a call to action for listeners to engage with AI and explore its potential benefits. Read more

AIS002:059 [Kathryn Carter] ​​​​​​​Small-Scale AI, Big Impact

Welcome to the Evolvepreneur A.I. Advantage Show Join me, Richard Wray, to gain the A.I. Advantage today where we dive deep into the transformative power of A.I. to help fast-track your business. My very special guest today is Kathryn Carter ... Kathryn Carter from Cottage Science Consulting is a versatile problem-solver focused on helping startups and NGOs implement growth systems. Initially skeptical about AI, she became intrigued by its potential, especially in creating chatbots for difficult conversations. Kathryn values nuance in discussions and believes AI can ease mental load, particularly for women and those with cognitive disabilities, by automating tasks like meal budgeting. She uses AI for creativity and problem-solving, emphasizing it as a tool to complement human skills. Kathryn advocates exploring AI to free up mental space, while maintaining critical thinking and appreciating human interaction. Read more

AIS002:058 [Daniel Tolson] Using A.I. To Becoming A Better Leader

Welcome to the Evolvepreneur A.I. Advantage Show Join me, Richard Wray, to gain the A.I. Advantage today where we dive deep into the transformative power of A.I. to help fast-track your business. My very special guest today is Daniel Tolson ... Daniel Tolson is an entrepreneur who has developed AI technology to analyze emotional intelligence and help leaders become more effective. He shares his personal journey of discovering the importance of understanding one's own strengths and weaknesses through scientific assessments. Daniel's AI technology uses a 90-second voice recording to generate an in-depth report on a person's stress type, decision-making style, and other personality traits. This information can then be used to optimize job fit, improve team dynamics, and enhance leadership effectiveness. Daniel emphasizes the importance of trusting in science rather than relying on self-perception or biased self-reporting, as this allows leaders to make more informed decisions about their own development and how to get the best out of their teams. Read more

AIS002:057 [Deborah Tyson] ​​​​​​​Energizing Wellness: Blisspot's AI Frontier

Welcome to the Evolvepreneur A.I. Advantage Show Join me, Richard Wray, to gain the A.I. Advantage today where we dive deep into the transformative power of A.I. to help fast-track your business. My very special guest today is Deborah Tyson ... Deborah Tyson is the founder of BlissBot, a company on a mission to democratize well-being over the next decade. Deborah has embraced AI tools like ChatGPT and Midjourney to enhance her business and creative processes. BlissBot offers personalized wellness programs covering areas like mindfulness, fitness, and sleep, with the goal of making high-quality wellness support accessible to everyone, regardless of cost. Deborah sees AI as a valuable business tool that can free up time and improve the quality of her work, rather than a threat to jobs. She believes AI can help customize and deliver wellness content in an engaging and convenient way to support people facing common challenges like stress, loneliness, and low energy. Read more

AIS002:056 [Wissam Tabbara] ​​​​​​​Impact of AI on B2B Sales

Welcome to the Evolvepreneur A.I. Advantage Show Join me, Richard Wray, to gain the A.I. Advantage today where we dive deep into the transformative power of A.I. to help fast-track your business. My very special guest today is Wissam Tabbara ... Wissam Tabbara, founder and CEO of Truebase, discusses how AI can automate and improve B2B sales processes. The current manual prospecting and outreach methods used by sales teams are repetitive, expensive, and inefficient. Truebase is an AI sales agent that can take over these repetitive tasks, allowing sales teams to focus on more valuable human interactions. Wissam emphasizes that AI is not meant to replace salespeople, but rather to enhance their capabilities and free them up for higher-level activities. He encourages embracing AI technology, as it will continue to advance and provide opportunities for those willing to adopt it. Read more

AIS002:055 [Saurabh Jain] ​​​​​​​Trialkey's World First Clinical Trial Simulator

Welcome to the Evolvepreneur A.I. Advantage Show Join me, Richard Wray, to gain the A.I. Advantage today where we dive deep into the transformative power of A.I. to help fast-track your business. My very special guest today is Saurabh Jain ... Saurabh Jain is the executive chair of Opyl, a company developing an AI-powered clinical trial design simulator. Opyl has analyzed over 360,000 clinical trials to build models that can predict with 90% accuracy whether a trial will succeed. The key is analyzing hundreds of variables related to trial design and the medical technology, rather than just the drug itself. This allows Opyl to optimize factors like patient numbers to improve the chances of success. Saurabh believes this technology could eventually make it unethical to run clinical trials without first simulating them in AI, drastically improving the efficiency and success rate of drug development. He sees broader applications for AI in automating and optimizing complex processes across many industries. Read more

AIS002:054 [Dave Poulos] ​​​​​​​The Wild Wild West Of AI – Who Owns What?

Welcome to the Evolvepreneur A.I. Advantage Show Join me, Richard Wray, to gain the A.I. Advantage today where we dive deep into the transformative power of A.I. to help fast-track your business. My very special guest today is Dave Poulos ... Dave Poulos, has extensive marketing experience and provides insights on how AI is disrupting industries like Hollywood, where actors' jobs are at risk. He explains how AI-generated content can be seen as derivative or bordering on plagiarism, raising legal and ethical questions. The conversation also touches on the difficulties governments face in trying to regulate a global, fast-moving technology like AI. Overall, the discussion highlights the need to view AI as a tool rather than a replacement for human creativity and the importance of maintaining human involvement in the creative process. Read more

AIS002:053 [Jason Souloglou] ​​​​​​​The AI Advantage for Retailers

Welcome to the Evolvepreneur A.I. Advantage Show Join me, Richard Wray, to gain the A.I. Advantage today where we dive deep into the transformative power of A.I. to help fast-track your business. My very special guest today is Jason Souloglou ... Jason Souloglou is a serial entrepreneur with a mission: He wants technology to serve humanity- not vice versa. From PhD to Apple’s Rosetta and IBM, today, he is a proud CEO of SeeChange, a visual AI platform that detects risks for quick resolution in the physical world. SeaChange was inspired by the idea of making cameras more intelligent and able to understand what they see, by breaking down scenes into building blocks like objects, people, and their relationships. The technology has proven challenging to deploy in the real world, with many false positives that require extensive effort to remove. However, SeeChange has found success focusing on high-value use cases in the retail industry, such as improving self-checkout experiences and reducing theft and safety incidents. Beyond retail, the technology could be applied to other controlled environments like prisons to help identify potential conflicts before they escalate. Read more

AIS002:052 [Cyrus Wong] ​​​​​​​A.I. Helping In Education

Welcome to the Evolvepreneur A.I. Advantage Show Join me, Richard Wray, to gain the A.I. Advantage today where we dive deep into the transformative power of A.I. to help fast-track your business. My very special guest today is Cyrus Wong ... Cyrus Wong, a senior lecturer at the Hong Kong Institute of Information Technology, discusses how he uses AI to grade student assignments and exams. By leveraging AI tools like ChatGPT, he is able to grade assignments much more efficiently and provide detailed feedback to students. This saves him significant time compared to manual grading, and allows him to be more fair and consistent in his assessments. Cyrus emphasizes the importance of carefully prompting and guiding the AI to ensure it provides accurate and relevant feedback. He also shares advice for using the most cost-effective AI models that can still accomplish the task at hand. Overall, Cyrus has found AI to be a valuable tool for improving the grading process and enhancing the educational experience for both teachers and students. Read more