Podcast · 266 episodes
Eye On A.I., page 3
by Craig S. Smith · English
Eye on A.I. is a biweekly podcast, hosted by longtime New York Times correspondent Craig S. Smith. In each episode, Craig will talk to people making a difference in artificial intelligence. The podcast aims to put incremental advances into a broader context and consider the global implications of the developing technology. AI is about to change your world, so pay attention.
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#336 Professor Mausam: Why India Is Losing the AI Race and What It Will Take to Catch UpWhy India is falling behind the US and China in AI research and innovation, and what must change to catch up.20 Apr 2026 · 1 h · 18 chapters
#335 Sriram Raghavan: Why IBM Is Betting Everything on Small AI ModelsIBM’s Granite small AI models (2B/8B) and why IBM is “betting everything” on directly training small models (Granite 3.2/3.3) rather than distilling from larger models, plus how RL, inference-time…19 Apr 2026 · 1 h · 23 chapters
#334 Abhishek Singh: The $1.2 Billion Plan to Turn India Into an AI SuperpowerAbhishek Singh explains why India fell behind China in AI after early parity, and what India AI Mission will do to make India an “AI superpower” via national compute, data infrastructure, talent…15 Apr 2026 · 35 min · 18 chapters
#333 Adi Kuruganti: Why Your AI Pilot Is Failing and What It Takes to Reach ProductionWhy “AI pilots” fail to reach production, and what it takes for agentic AI to run mission-critical enterprise processes safely.15 Apr 2026 · 58 min · 34 chapters
#332 Dan Faulkner: The Code Is Clean. The App Is Broken. Why AI Development Has an Integrity ProblemDan Faulkner (SmartBear CEO) argues that AI coding accelerates “clean code” but not “application integrity,” creating systemic digital risk.14 Apr 2026 · 55 min · 20 chapters
#331 Sergey Levine: The Robot Revolution Nobody Is Talking AboutRobotic “foundation models” for general-purpose robot control—what the buzzword means, where the training data comes from, and why Physical Intelligence emphasizes cross-embodiment learning over…12 Apr 2026 · 59 min · 22 chapters
#330 Sebastian Risi: Why AI Should Be Grown, Not TrainedThe episode argues that AI should be “grown” and continuously adapted using neuroevolution and local plasticity, rather than only trained with gradient descent on fixed, differentiable networks.2 Apr 2026 · 59 min · 27 chapters
#329 Izhar Medalsy: How AI Solves Quantum Computing's Biggest ProblemIzhar Medalsy explains Quantum Elements’ approach to making noisy quantum hardware usable by building large-scale, physics-based digital twins of quantum devices and using AI/data generation to…31 Mar 2026 · 1 h 1 min · 26 chapters
#328 Kevin Tian: Exploring Doppel's AI-Native Social Engineering Defense PlatformDoppel’s AI-native social engineering defense platform against deepfakes, impersonation, phishing, fraud, and disinformation, framed as an existential “trust erosion” problem.27 Mar 2026 · 48 min · 29 chapters
#327 Baris Gultekin: The Next Phase of AI - Agents That Understand Your Company's Data, longtime New York Times correspondent19 Mar 2026 · 42 min · 22 chapters
#326 Zuzanna Stamirowska: Inside Pathway's Post-Transformer Architecture Designed for Memory and On-the-Fly LearningThe innovative approach of Pathway in enabling AI systems to work with live, real-time data.11 Mar 2026 · 1 h 8 min · 37 chapters
#325 Phelim Brady: Why AI's Future Depends on Human JudgementPhelim Brady, Co-founder and CEO of Prolific9 Mar 2026 · 47 min · 25 chapters
#324 Sharon Zhou: Inside AMD's Plan to Build Self-Improving AIIn this episode, Sharon Zhou, VP of AI at AMD and former Stanford AI researcher, discusses how language models are optimizing their own hardware, specifically through GPU kernel code generation.27 Feb 2026 · 46 min · 27 chapters
#323 David Ha: Why Model Merging Could Be the Next AI BreakthroughDavid Ha, Co-Founder and CEO of Sakana AI24 Feb 2026 · 57 min · 21 chapters
#322 Amanda Luther: The Widening AI Value Gap (Inside BCG's AI Research)Amanda Luther, Senior Partner at Boston Consulting Group (BCG)19 Feb 2026 · 54 min · 19 chapters
#321 Nick Frosst: Why Cohere Is Betting on Enterprise AI, Not AGINick Frosst, Co-Founder of Cohere17 Feb 2026 · 1 h 1 min · 26 chapters
#320 Carter Huffman: Exploring The Architecture Behind Modulate's Next-Gen Voice AIThis episode features Carter Huffman, co-founder and CTO of Modulate, discussing advancements in voice AI beyond simple transcription.11 Feb 2026 · 1 h 8 min · 33 chapters
#319 Subho Halder: Why Traditional App Security Fails in the Age of AI319 Subho Halder: Why Traditional App Security Fails in the Age of AI1 Feb 2026 · 57 min · 21 chapters
#318 Olek Paraska: How AI Is Fixing the Biggest Bottleneck in ConstructionThe application of AI in the construction industry, particularly in addressing inefficiencies and bottlenecks in the pre-construction phase.29 Jan 2026 · 54 min · 26 chapters
#317 Steven Brown: Why Modern Medicine Needs AI-Assisted Decision MakingSteven Brown, founder of CureWise, who shares personal experiences and insights on how AI can transform healthcare.25 Jan 2026 · 1 h · 23 chapters
#316 Robbie Goldfarb: Why the Future of AI Depends on Better JudgmentIn this episode, Craig S. Smith interviews Robbie Goldfarb, a former Meta product leader and co-founder of Forum AI.23 Jan 2026 · 1 h 4 min · 28 chapters
#315 Jarrod Johnson: How Agentic AI Is Impacting Modern Customer Serviceis a biweekly podcast hosted by Craig S. Smith, where he discusses advancements and implications of artificial intelligence with industry leaders.21 Jan 2026 · 58 min · 27 chapters
#313 Nick Pandher: How Inference-First Infrastructure Is Powering the Next Wave of AIIn this episode of Eye on A.I., host Craig S. Smith speaks with Nick Pandher, the VP of Product at Cirrascale, about the crucial shift in artificial intelligence (AI) from model training to inference…17 Jan 2026 · 56 min · 20 chapters
#313 Evan Reiser: How Abnormal AI Protects Humans with Behavioral AIIn this episode, Craig S. Smith interviews Evan Reiser, co-founder and CEO of Abnormal AI, to discuss the transformative role of artificial intelligence in the cybersecurity landscape.16 Jan 2026 · 50 min · 22 chapters