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In this episode, we take a look at some simple steps to protect the privacy of the data for your AI. Welcome everybody to another episode of click AI radio. Well, certainly data privacy has been on the minds of a lot of people and organizations and governments and governments and institutions, and so forth. No surprise there. One of the things though about AI is that, in general, it's not spent as much time if you will, putting a focus on that area. And it's been a bit of a problem and will become more of a problem if we don't do something about it. As we work with our application and use of AI itself. Now I was looking at several different groups and what they talked about and what they felt about it. At the end of this episode, I'm going to throw out two steps that I have seen that help us mitigate the challenges around this right to help to prevent some of the challenges of slippage, if you will, of getting the privacy of people's information out there that that shouldn't be now to frame that up. I want t

In this episode, we take a look at how AI turns your sharing into business growth. Grant Okay, welcome, everybody to another episode of ClickAI radio. So I'm very excited to have here with me today ShareThis business development leader. I think it got that right. Michael Gorman, business development leader. But before I go any further, Michael, would you introduce yourself? Michael You bet. Grant. Yeah, it's great to be here. Like you said, I oversee business development, but also product and marketing at ShareThis. I've been I've been with ShareThis for a couple of years. In that role. I have a background in data, really, data and analytics has been my passion. Also media and marketing sort of themes. I've worked for big data companies like Axiom, I've worked for an email marketing leader, digital impact, they got bought by Axiom. That's how I got there. And I've also worked for big consulting firms. And for ESPN back in the earlier days of my career. Grant Oh, wow. Could you maybe give us a play by play? I

Welcome to ClickAI Radio. In this episode I have a conversation with some AI experts on how AI ethics affect your business. Grant Okay, welcome, everybody to another episode of clique AI radio. Well in the house today I have got a return visitor very excited to have him and a brand new person. I'm excited to introduce you to Carlos Anchia. I've been practicing that I get that right, Carlos. Carlos Sounds great. Good to see you again. Grant Even old dogs can learn new tricks. There we go. All right, and Elizabeth Spears. Now I got that one easily. Right, Elizabeth? Elizabeth You did it? Yeah. I'm really happy to be here. Grant This is exciting for me to have them here with me today. They are co founders of plain sight AI. And a few episodes ago, I had an opportunity to speak with Carlos and he laid the foundation around the origin story of AI for vision, some of the techniques and the problems they're solving. And I started to nerd out on all of the benefits. In fact, you know what, Carlos, I need to tell you

In this episode, we take a look at the question where is the line for artificial intelligence ethics? Alright, everybody, welcome to another episode of click AI radio. So ethics, what are they? Well, you know, if we look at Google definition here, right moral principles that govern a person's behavior, or conduct or con or the contacting of an activity. Alright, so I'll give you an example here, right? Without going into some again, some of my business law classes that I took in college. Here's, here's an example. I was in college and my brother came into town to visit and said, Hey, let's go skiing. Oh, sorry. I said, my brother, I've got to work. He says, Hey, no, come on. I'm in town. Let's go skiing. So what did I do? I lied, I said to my boss, I don't feel well. And I went skiing. Well, to make matters worse, I'm up skiing, and I get hurt. To make things even more embarrassing. As I come down off the hill being pulled by the ski patrol. They open up the sled there, the local TV news station was there in

In this episode we look at can AI help me see better in a cost effective way! Grant Everybody, welcome to another episode of click AI radio. Okay, I have in the house today with me, someone I've been very excited to talk with. He and his organization reached out to me and I was quite surprised when I saw the cool AI solution that they have been bringing to the market. And Carlos has been giving me a little background on this. And I think you'll be excited to hear what it is he's putting together. But first and foremost, welcome, Carlos Anchia. You got Yeah. All right. There you go. Carlos, please, welcome and introduce yourself. Carlos Hey, Grant. Thanks a lot for having us on. Like you said, my name is Carlos Anchia. I'm the CEO of Plainsight AI. And we're bringing to market an end to end computer vision AI platform. I'm really, really happy to be here love talking about AI, computer vision, and how we can get more people to use it. Grant So okay, so tell me a little bit about what got you going down here. A

What are some of the ways AI can benefit your business? So with some of the current talent shortage is going on currently in the US the challenges for businesses to find employees or employees are going to be best for your organization. He got me thinking about what are ways in which I can ask AI Please make my job easier, right? What are some ways that I could make better decisions, whether it's finding the right employees, or whether it's building my business with the right business partners? I stepped back and said, Wait a minute, what are the benefits of AI for business? There's many hype out there for sure. Let's look at a few of these. Alright, so one of these is around efficiency and productivity gains, for sure. Right. That's certainly where we're looking for the benefits of improved operational efficiencies for the organization. There's a case study that I saw, this was from press@taste.com, they were actually talking about, about an AI restaurant, excuse me about an AI driven restaurant. And in thi

In this episode, we take a look at curating those leads which come into your business using AI. Is it possible to underestimate the value of a quality customer in your pipeline, we all have experienced what it means to bring a customer into your business, which later we are kicking ourselves saying, oh, man, I wish you didn't have that customer. Well, can AI do anything for us? Right to lead or not to lead? Right? That's the question to ask AI. Can you help us with this AI? Well, as you know, today, there are multiple AI tools out there which provide insights on qualified leads. Lots of times are looking at things like recency Right? Like how many leads, you know, came in today or yesterday? Or they're looking at frequency? How often did the leads actually touch our organization? Right? Was it through some phone interaction? Or did they click on our sights? Or what did that look like? There's easy to action scores, that of course, you want to try to get in front of your sales teams. And of course, the goal is

So how does Elon Musk manage his time? Is it AI? Come join us and find out. Hi everybody, welcome to another episode of ClickAI Radio. So Mr. Musk, how do you do it? Calling out Mr. Musk. All right. So of course we've I'm sure all seen the video where it talks about how he manages his time, he manages his time, apparently using timeboxing. And on some of these reports that I've seen, he says he spends 80% of his time doing engineering design work. That's pretty amazing. And that, some have said that he manages time down to five minutes slots, holy chicken soup, that's pretty tight. So what it means is that he plans out his whole day on five minute increments, that's quite the level of planning. I don't know for sure if that's what he does, but time boxing. So apparently what you do with time boxing is, as you plan it out, you put it on a whiteboard or a note paper, whatever. And then of course, you fill out the time that you think it's gonna take to get that done. All right. Now, of course, there's some fall

In this episode, we take a look at the skills gap that's really affecting your business. Welcome everybody to another episode of ClickAI Radio. All right. So in overcoming the lack of skills in your business, now I'm going to start with, with the focus on AI itself, right, and what that looks like. And I'm going to pull here from certainly my own experiences, but also this is a report I saw from Deloitte, they had they'd said that, hey, they found that those companies that are seasoned with AI skills, they didn't feel they had a big skills gap. Oh, that makes sense. Right. The other thing they pointed out, though, is that the companies that are doing a lot of AI right now are really focusing more on transformational projects than on cost reduction. So from their perspective, hey, when you're getting started, you're often looking at cost reduction as a way to leverage AI. Hmm, I don't know my experience, I've found that it's been more around sales and say, of course, in the supply chain area, there certainly

In this episode, we take a look at the AI hammer that's looking for a nail. Hey, welcome everybody to another episode of ClickAI Radio. So I was talking with a group of technical people recently. And they talked about a very cool solution that they prepared. So I asked this question I said, so which part of your business will this benefit? And they said, well, we're still trying to figure that out. I said, Oh, you've got a solution looking for a problem. Is that exactly. I said, Well, you know, if you're not careful, AI can turn out to be the same thing, right? One of the biggest mistakes you can do with AI, in fact, this happens quite often is it's the tendency to create AI solutions. without sufficient understanding of the business problem. Everyone gets excited and enamored about the technology, well, maybe not everyone, but some do. And so it turns out that a crisp definition or description of your business problem is of course critical. However, as you know, with AI, you can, you can do a bit of both, i

We take a look at the three things to overcome the FOMO that occurs when you see the one with the most information wins. Hi Everybody, welcome, my name is Grant. So you're growing your business and you're trying to scale. In fact, you even have the data, but you and your executive team might be missing out on profitable insights. Welcome to insight FOMO right. So hey, there was a book written back in 1997 by Stacy M. Clements. I love the title. It was the one with the most information wins. Interesting, right? And in 2012 Tim O'Reilly was an interview think he was talking about his were conference back then. Anyway, he made this comment. The comment was the guy with the most data wins in at the time I think he had referred to a you referred to back then the NBA, you know, the one with the most superstars wins, right? Well, today, the you know, the one with the most data wins in or is it the one with the most insights when right? You might have a lot of data, but you're not able to harvest the power of inform

In this episode, we take a look at controlling your data. And what happens if you don't! Welcome everybody to another episode of ClickAI Radio. So just about everywhere you go, there is some sort of data being collected on you or about you, right? Whether you're online, walking down the street, wherever it is now, or even driving your car, right? Even, you know, your your mobile device, obviously tracking where you are. And that does sound a bit creepy, right? It brings with it a whole new set of issues. But let's talk about this principle in your business. What kind of information are you gathering in your business? So, you know, for example, do you know what information you are gathering? And do you know where that information is in your business? And do you have duplicated information in your business? And if so, which copy of that data is the correct one? Well, there are some benefits, of course, to organizing your business information. One of the reasons that we do this is to help us understand predicti

In this episode, we take a look at the anatomy of growing your business one step at a time with AI. Hi Everybody this is Grant, thank you for joining another episode of ClickAI Radio. So when we think about transforming our business, right, any sort of transformation of your business, obviously requires a vision of where you want to go. And certainly a commitment to make that change, of course requires more than that. But those are two fundamental pieces, obviously. Now managing the change, of course, is one of the more difficult tasks for a business owner. Now of all the things that I could change in my business, which one should I pursue? There's always tons to do in our business. And the other question is, how do I even prepare my team to handle the change? And then how do I make the chain stick so that the organization continues with it over some time? Oh, and then one other question, now that we've made the change, what should be our next change? Right? What are we going to change next? If you've ever wa

In This Episode we look at the question: When do I start trusting AI? Hi Everybody, welcome to another episode of click AI radio. My name is Grant. Alright, so been looking into this problem around trust. And what is it that gets in the way of us leveraging AI? Well, part of the problem comes from some reports. Right. So we'll look at a couple here. One of those was a report from Pegasus and the other was from pega systems, I should say, Now there was a Harvard Business Review report. And of course they they capture what people what we think about in terms of challenges around AI plenty of horror stories out there for sure. Can we actually trust this stuff? We all know about, you know, the Chinese board game go and how AI beat beat the Chinese board game player. kg. I hope I'm saying his name right? Back in 2017. ertainly machines can do a lot. And that's, of course, what we expect what we need them to do when we look at the Harvard Business Review. And what it is that they pointed out some of the challenges

In this episode, we take a look at why AI is ruining your business. All right. Thanks for joining. So how is AI ruining your business? Well, certainly over the years, I've seen several ways the AI ruins your business today, I want to focus on one of them. So first, let's take a look at a report. It came from MIT Sloan Management Review. This was last year in 2020. And they were quoting a study by BCG. That's Boston Consulting Group. And here's what the result was the result of BCG study was that a mere 10% of organizations achieve financial benefits with AI. Holy smokes. That's that's quite the conclusion. So why do only 10% of businesses achieve financial benefits with AI? Well, the ROI to AI gets wrapped up in at least two key areas. So the first is the technical foundation that's necessary to conduct AI. And second, the business problems on which AI is applied. So let's let's take a look at the first one. So what does it take to create a technical foundation? And how do many companies do this today? Well,

In this episode, we take a look at the question. Is there a way to use AI to find my online content? This question was recently posed to me by business owner. Hey, everybody, welcome to another episode of ClickAI Radio. It is good to be talking with you again. All right. So as I mentioned in the intro, recently, a business owner approached me and asked this question, he said, Is there a way to use AI to find my online content? Because I think it's been taken, I think people are taking my material. And is there a way to discover if they're a poacher or not? So what if that happened to you? Right? What kind of content do you have? That is online? And that potentially people could take in fact, how much of online content is plagiarized? Well, we know that there's quite a bit out there, but we know it empirically. But what what does it actually look like? I was looking at, at one site, they were talking about some some metrics, this was back in 2015. So this is a little old. It said researchers found that roughl

In this episode, I have a guest who discusses nutritional AI that you can eat. Grant Everybody, this is Grant Larsen. Welcome to another episode of ClickAI radio. Wow. Today I have in the house with me. Mr. Daniel DeMillard, he is the CTO of FoodSpace, and I am just honored for the opportunity to meet him and to get to hear his story and what he and his organization has been doing with AI. Alright, let's jump into this. Okay, so, Daniel, first of all, welcome. Daniel Thanks for having me, Grant. Great to be here. Grant It is, it is really great to have you here and to have another another patriots in AI, right things that you guys are doing, as I got to know you. And before we started this recording, I was fascinated with the kind of work that you guys are doing and where you focus your use and application of AI. But before we get too deep into that, would you step back in time and tell us? Who's Daniel, where do you come from? And what is it that's brought you to this point to be CTO applying AI in such a c

What I didn't know that I didn't know cause my very first startup company to fail. Thanks for joining, this is Grant. So we started this company, I was right out of college. And as you probably recall, I turn to my wife and said, Hey, I'm not going to take the secure job, I'm going to go do this, this startup company. So we headed to Chicago, and we started working on this company, the focus of the company was to deliver some technology solutions to the healthcare world. That's that's honorable, right? Well, as we all know, in the world of all possible knowledge, there's the sliver of things that you know, and then of course, there's there's the section of, you know, the things that you know, that you don't know, and then there's this big wedge of the things that you don't even know that you don't know. Well, what we did know was that my main partner, he had years of healthcare experience and tons of connections. So we knew that. All right. And then what we knew that we didn't know, was we weren't familiar w

Hey, we tried it once it didn't work, so why would I even try AI? Hey, this is Grant, thank you for joining in this episode. So okay, we tried it once it didn't work. Why would I even try AI? Well, it turns out the global artificial intelligence market, I think Market Insight report estimated it to be I think it top $40 billion in 2020. That's a cumulative or compound annual growth rate at 43%. That's pretty amazing. So there are some amazing achievements around AI. However, you know, there's still a lot of bugs to work out with this stuff. Let's take a look at some. Okay, so let's take a look at one of these failures. That was gender phi, right? 98.4% probability that the word male match to the word professor, and if you put in the word stupid and come back and say 61.7% was female prediction, oops, what the hack right? what it what a mistake. Here's another failure, right, this facial recognition, I'm sure you've heard of this one. You know, you've got some 94 year old granny who has to be held up, you kno

In this episode, we'll take a look at how to run from your SMB pain. Okay, welcome, everybody. So AI requires months and years of training before results are seen. Where do we heard this before? Right? Well, we saw some material not long ago, of course, and we've all experienced this on Amazon, right? Where they're spending well over $20 billion annually on you know, research and development, things like that. What they do is they collect data to give product recommendations for AI, right, and we've been on Amazon, we see a product. And of course, out of that then comes this other set of related products that might be interesting, right or might be related to what we bought. That takes a long time for them to gather that. And as an SMB, of course, we certainly can't take that long, or certainly even spend at that level to get those kinds of AI results. In fact, when you look at it, some people feel that it takes six months just to learn how to do data science. Now that's just to learn it, that's not to actua