Babak Hodjat, CTO of AI at Cognizant, discusses the impact of advancements in AI and the factors that have enabled its rapid progress, including increased processing capacity, access to large amounts of data, and improved neural network architectures. Babak also highlights the importance of moving to the cloud and leveraging AI to make informed decisions.
Key Takeaways:
- Advancements in AI have been driven by increased processing capacity, access to large amounts of data, and improved neural network architectures.
- Moving to the cloud is essential for companies to leverage the power of AI and stay competitive.
- AI agents can help companies reduce tech debt and navigate complex data flows, enabling faster and more efficient AI adoption.
- Synthetic data plays a crucial role in building AI models and simulating real-world scenarios.
- AI-enabled decision-making has the potential to transform various industries and improve outcomes.
- Enterprises are gradually moving toward agent-oriented architecture, enabling robust and scalable systems
- Agent-based AI systems can streamline workflows and simplify everyday tasks
About the Guest:
“Babak Hodjat (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babak_Hodjat) is the CTO for AI at Cognizant where he leads a team of developers and researchers bringing advanced AI solutions to businesses. Babak is the former co-founder and CEO of Sentient, responsible for the core technology behind the world’s largest distributed artificial intelligence system. Babak was also the founder of the world’s first AI-driven hedge-fund, Sentient Investment Management. Babak is a serial entrepreneur, having started a number of Silicon Valley companies as main inventor and technologist. Prior to co-founding Sentient, Babak was senior director of engineering at Sybase iAnywhere, where he led mobile solutions engineering. Prior to Sybase, Babak was co-founder, CTO and board member of Dejima Inc. Babak is the primary inventor of Dejima’s patented, agent-oriented technology applied to intelligent interfaces for mobile and enterprise computing – the technology behind Apple’s Siri. Babak has published many papers in the fields of Artificial Life, Agent-Oriented Software Engineering, and Distributed Artificial Intelligence, and has 32 granted or pending patents to his name. He is an expert in numerous fields of AI, including natural language processing, machine learning, genetic algorithms, distributed AI, and has founded multiple companies in these areas. Babak holds a PhD in Machine Intelligence from Kyushu University, in Fukuoka, Japan. Babak is also the author of “The Konar and the Apple”, a collection of short stories based on his youth.”
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