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S1 E28 Why an AI Pioneer from Silicon Valley Wrote his Childhood Memoir – with Babak Hodjat
Today's guest is Babak Hodjat. He is a serial entrepreneur behind several Silicon Valley companies as main inventor and technologist, and currently serves as CTO - AI at Cognizant. Babak is the former co-founder and CEO of Sentient, responsible for the core technology behind the world’s largest distributed artificial intelligence system, and he was also the founder of the world's first AI-driven hedge-fund, Sentient Investment Management. Babak is widely credited as the main inventor of the natural language technology used in Apple’s Siri.
This episode was recorded through a StreamYard call on June 23, 2022.
You find the show notes here: https://webdrie.net/why-an-ai-pioneer-from-silicon-valley-wrote-his-childhood-memoir-with-babak-hodjat/
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