Nathan Benaich, a partner at VC firm Playfair Capital, joins hosts Marek Pawlowski and Alex Guest to talk about the confluence of artificial intelligence, machine learning and user experience. Playfair specialises in investing in this area and is actively building London’s growing community of AI start-ups and experts. Marek, Alex and Nathan share examples of digital experiences shaped by artificial intelligence and discuss the relationship with user-centred design.

On this edition

• Marek Pawlowski, co-host & founder of MEX (@marekpawlowski)
• Alex Guest, co-host & CEO of Zingy.life (@alexguest)
• Nathan Benaich, Partner, Playfair Capital (@NathanBenaich)

Links

• Alex’s example of the Nissan factory in Japan 25+ years ago. Here’s what Nissan is doing with robots and humans working together in the UK more recently.
• Nathan’s example of PlaNet – Photo Geolocation with Convolutional Neural Networks
• Marek’s example of the paper about detecting sarcasm on Twitter (PDF)
• Playfair Capital
• nathanbenaich.com
• Ravelin, a fraud detection company in Playfair’s portfolio
• The Oxford paper on the future of employment mentioned by Nathan (PDF)
• Nathan’s LinkedIn post
• Nathan’s Techcrunch article on investing in artificial intelligence
• Kaggle, the data science community with 500,000+ members, mentioned by Nathan
• London AI meetup
• Playfair AI 2016 event
• Google Photos, which uses neural networks, mentioned by Marek
• Microsoft’s TAY, the ‘millenial’ artificial intelligence assistant, mentioned by Alex
• DueDil, a Playfair portfolio company, mentioned by Marek
• Jukedeck, a Playfair portfolio company, and the MEX Design Talk interview with CEO Ed Rex in episode 2
• Gluru, a Playfair portfolio company
• Mapillary, a Playfair portfolio company

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Thanks

• Jukedeck, for the artificial intelligence engine which provided the music