Oct 5, 2022
"When machine learning algorithms that come from the digital world meet the physical world, there's a lot of challenges that are unresolved."
Today's episode is a chat with Christopher Nguyen, CEO of AItomatic.
"When we became part of Panasonic, we essentially operated out of the global CTO office. And so we became this oracle desk. People come and say, Can you sprinkle a little AI on my product and transform the revenue flow or something?"
AITomatic is a technology company that is addressing a huge shortcoming in industrial digital areas. Machine learning models and artificial intelligence solutions in industry need to incorporate domain expertise from real human experts, or the results from the solutions are often worse than having no insight at all. The process of capturing and using human domain knowledge isn’t scalable, and is fraught with social and cultural problems. AITomatic is developing new methods and tools to capture and incorporate deep domain expertise into industrial digital solutions.
"We learned that most machine learning based predictive maintenance approaches out there are actually worse than nothing."
With a career spanning four decades, Christopher Nguyen’s tech bona fides are second to none. Since fleeing Vietnam in 1978, this multiple-time tech founder has played key roles in everything from building the first flash memory transistors at Intel to spearheading the development of Google Apps as its first Engineering Director. Today, he’s become an outspoken proponent of the emerging field of “AI Engineering” and a thought leader in the space of ethical, human-centric AI. With his latest company, Aitomatic, he’s hoping to redefine how companies approach AI in the context of life-critical, industrial applications.
"We stopped making things in North America in the last few years.. And now we're saying, let's bring it all back. And there's a generational gap between the software generation and the people who make things."
Website: https://aitomatic.com