Paradigm Shift

The world of AI is replete with innovation. But perhaps it is time to talk about that innovation. How can we innovate and be responsible at the same time? How can industry leaders in AI empower others through their innovations? How can we employ AI for public good and welfare?

Credits:

Narration: Harsha Bhogle
Executive Producer: Gaurav Vaz
Producer: Archana Nathan
Research, Interviews and Script: Vinay Aravind
Narrative overview: Charu Sharma and Shriram Parthasarathy
Title track, sound design and background score: Nikhil Rao, Avyay Gujral and Abhijit Nath.

All clips and voices used in this podcast are owned by the original creators

We thank wholeheartedly all our guests who appeared on this episode

• Jean Philippe Courtois - Executive Vice President and President, National Transformation Partnerships at Microsoft
• Sriram Rajamani - Distinguished Scientist and Managing Director at Microsoft Research India
• Girish Nayak - Chief, Customer Service, Operations and Technology at ICICI Lombard
• Ganesh Shankar -  Founder and CEO, FluxGen

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With its vastly rich history and culture, India is a heritage-lover’s paradise. But there’s a problem. A large number of monuments, museums and art is either badly maintained or looks unsalvageable. Solutions from the world of AI, however, argue that things need not be the way they are right now. AI can be used to travel in time to see how the object was originally and attempt to restore it to a large extent.

Credits:

Narration: Harsha Bhogle

Executive Producer: Gaurav Vaz

Producer: Archana Nathan

Research, Interviews and Scripts: Prthvir Solanki

Narrative overview: Charu Sharma and Shriram Parthasarathy

Title track, sound design and background score: Nikhil Rao, Avyay Gujral and Abhijit Nath.

All clips and voices used in this podcast are owned by the original creators

We thank wholeheartedly all our guests who appeared on this episode

• Benoy K. Behl, art historian, filmmaker and photographer
• Ashwin Srivastava, CEO of Sapio Analytics
• Professor Ronojoy Adhikari, Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics at University of Cambridge
• Fabin Rasheed, Creator of Auria Kathi
• Sahej Rahal, Digital Artist

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AI may not be able to cure diseases, well, at least not yet. But it could help identify a problem well in advance and much before it becomes too late. How? By helping doctors, hospitals, trawl through massive data and images and thereby efficiently screening patients that need immediate care. In other words, AI can make diagnosis faster and in healthcare, time is hope and hope is everything.

Credits:

Narration: Harsha Bhogle
Executive Producer: Gaurav Vaz
Producer: Archana Nathan
Research, Interviews and Script: Vinay Aravind
Narrative overview: Charu Sharma and Shriram Parthasarathy
Title track, sound design and background score: Nikhil Rao, Avyay Gujral & Abhijit Nath.

All clips and voices used in this podcast are owned by the original creators

We thank wholeheartedly all our guests who appeared on this episode

• Gabriel Vaz, a retired journalist based in Bangalore
• Prashant Gupta, program director for Microsoft Cloud
• Dr. Sujoy Kar, the Chief Medical Information Officer of the Apollo Hospitals group
• K Chandrasekhar, Founder and CEO of Forus Health
• Subadra Kalyanaraman, Manager with a consulting firm based in Chennai

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Over the years, the protection of India’s biodiversity and the conservation of nature has been hit by a severe lack of funding and personnel, not to mention the sheer scale of the challenges they have to encounter - from man-made threats to climate change. There is a promise that artificial intelligence and machine learning offers though and this includes scanning our surroundings to identify the species that need to be protected and setting up social networks but for birds.

Credits:

Narration: Harsha Bhogle
Executive Producer: Gaurav Vaz
Producer: Archana Nathan
Research, Interviews and Script: Vinay Aravind
Narrative overview: Charu Sharma and Shriram Parthasarathy
Title track, sound design and background score: Nikhil Rao, Avyay Gujral and Abhijit Nath.

All clips and voices used in this podcast are owned by the original creators

We thank wholeheartedly all our guests who appeared on this episode

• Ashwin Viswanathan, a research associate at the Nature Conservation Foundation
• Tom Auer, a GIS Developer at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology
• Drew Weber, the Merlin Project Co-ordinator at the Cornell Lab
• Jason Holmberg, the founder of WildMe

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Agriculture is complicated. The landscape is changing, there’s climate change and there are a million other factors that affect the farmer’s yield. But it’s what our entire population’s hunger and health depends on. Recent initiatives in AI are finding ways to get the crop to talk to the farmer about what it needs.

Credits:

Narration: Harsha Bhogle

Executive Producer: Gaurav Vaz

Producer: Archana Nathan

Research, Interviews and Scripts: Prthvir Solanki

Narrative overview: Charu Sharma & Shriram Parthasarathy

Title track, sound design and background score: Nikhil Rao, Abhijit Nath & Avyay Gujral

All clips and voices used in this podcast are owned by the original creators

We thank wholeheartedly all our guests who appeared on this episode

• Ananda Verma, Co-founder at Fasal
• Ranveer Chandra, Managing Director, Research for Industry and CTO, Agri-Food at Microsoft Research
• Vikram Kumar, Associate Director at Wadhwani AI
• Jibu Elias, AI Ethicist, Senior Researcher and Lead at INDIAai
• Ram Dhulipala, Senior Scientist at the International Livestock Research Institute and Former Scientist at International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics

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