The Disruptive Force of AI in Industry | Joseph Sirosh | Stories in AI

What a great time it was, sitting down with former Microsoft and Compass CTO, Joseph Sirosh. In this episode, we talk about how AI has been disrupting industries and which sectors have seen the most growth. We also dive deep into generative AI, how AI has been able to democratize creativity, and how to identify true AI value over short-term hype.

 

Joseph's Bio: Joseph is a technologist with a passion for AI, and is currently the Vice President of Alexa Shopping at Amazon.com. We recorded this before he started this role.

Most recently, Joseph served as the Chief Technology Officer of Compass Inc, building the real estate industry’s first end-to-end platform. Previously, Joseph served as Microsoft’s Chief Technology Officer for AI. During his tenure, he held product and engineering responsibility for all enterprise database, big data and machine learning products. At Microsoft, he built Azure ML, the first Machine Learning as a Service platform in the cloud.

Prior to Microsoft, Joseph spent nine years as a VP at Amazon where he managed the Global Inventory Platform for Amazon’s Consumer Business, and built the machine learning, data warehouse and Transaction Risk Management teams. Joseph holds a PhD in Neural Networks from the University of Texas at Austin.

You can follow him on Twitter and read about what he finds exciting in AI on his Generative AI Substack.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joseph-sirosh-39803b1/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/josephsirosh

Substack: https://josephsirosh.substack.com/

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