The Silicon Valley Insider Show with Keith Koo
Episodes
Friday Oct 26, 2018
Friday Oct 26, 2018
On Silicon Valley Insider this month host Keith Koo has had a series of interviews on Artificial Intelligence. First was with Beena Ammanath, Global VP of Innovation (AI, Data, IoT, Blockchain) and Founder of the non-profit Humans for AI: https://omny.fm/shows/the-silicon-valley-insider-show/sv-insider-10-12-18-podcast
Next was Professor Gary Smith of Pomona College on his book the "The AI Delusion" which he said AI is good for some repetitive tasks but will not become cognitive to the point where they have common sense. https://omny.fm/shows/the-silicon-valley-insider-show/sv-insider-10-19-18-podcast
The series continues with how AI technology can be used effectively to transform an industry and profession like accounting without losing jobs.
Jotham Ty the CEO of Gappify a technology company commmitted to transformation the accounting industry automating thousands of mundane tasks through the use of Bots utlizing Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML).
Hear how Jotham and team started with a successful consulting firm during the Sarbanes-Oxley (SoX) ear to determining the need to make accounting tasks and the accountants' function less boring and mundane. There are 1000s of accounting tasks that can be automated without losing jobs.
Gappify is a an AI technology that the accounting world can embrace.
More info on www.gappify.com
For the Cyber/Privacy-Tip of the week, Keith talks about how your identity can be revealed using DNA even if you never have taken a DNA exam.
In next week's show, Keith will intereview Jenny Dearborn, EVP of People for SAP. Jenny is considered one of the "Top 50" women in technology.
First airing is 1-2pm on 1220AM KDOW
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Friday Oct 19, 2018
Friday Oct 19, 2018
On this week's Silicon Valley Insider, host Keith Koo continues his series on Ariticial Intelligence and interviews special guest Gary Smith who is the Fletcher Jones Professor of Economics at Pomona College in Claremont, Ca. Gary was also a professor at Yale and has written over 80 academic papers and 13 books and with his most recent being "The AI Delusion".
Keith and Gary talk about why Gary wrote his book and why AI is not yet ready to take over the world. AI is good for very specific tasks but not yet ready for task that involve critical thinking or human judgment. Gary is noted for a term he uses frequently "torturing data" in reference to finding causation in any data set whether valid or not. As a reminder, "correlation is not causation".
Gary's book is available on Amazon.com
For the Cyber-Tip of the week, Keith talks about what to do if you had files lost from the Windows 10 upgrade.
In next week's show, Keith will intereview Jotham Ty who is the Founder and CEO of Gappify a Silcion Valley startup developing accounting "bots". Instead of training entry level accountants, Joatham is training people to develop accounting bots. Tune in next week to about Gappify.
First airing is 1-2pm on 1220AM KDOW
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Friday Oct 12, 2018
Friday Oct 12, 2018
On this week's Silicon Valley Insider, host Keith Koo interviews special guest Beena Ammanath, Global VP of HPE Innovation for Aritifical Intelligence, Data Analytics and Blockchain. Beena was recently named "Woman of the Year" in Data Analytics by U.C. Berkeley and she is also the founder and CEO of Humans for AI a non-profit focused on encouraging diversity and empowering minoritie in the workforce to be confident and successful in using emerging AI technology.
Keith and Beena talk in depth about what AI's potential is for the future and how people can not get left behind by learning the skills necessary to thrive in a technology driven world. Beena discusses how diversity is not just about ethnicity and gender, but also socio economic. That effectively embracing technology can lift up all of the affected groups.
For the Cyber Tip of the week, Keith gives his recommendations for Apple iOS 12 settings.
First airing is 1-2pm on 1220AM KDOW
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Friday Oct 05, 2018
Friday Oct 05, 2018
Silicon Valley Host Keith Koo reports from the greater Shanghai region of China in which he was part of an economic trade mission to discuss mutually beneficial business collaborations between the USA & China in spite of the recent tariffs and tensions between the two trading partners.
Keith's economic mission was part of the US Minority Business Agency and the Zion Shanghai Investment Company. Today's show focused on the following guests:
1) Wendy Yang, President of the Zion Shanghai Investment Company which focuses on cross-border business between the USA, China and Europe.
2) Deborah Magid, Director of Strategy - IBM Ventures who discusses the technologies such as IoT, A.I. and Big Data.
3) Aeronyde an innovative Florida based UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) startup that is researching how UAVs can work not only in the USA but in other regions including China.
First airing is 1-2pm on 1220AM KDOW
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