Hello, hello, welcome to Smart Talks with IBM, a podcast from Pushkin Industries, I Heart

Radio, and IBM. I'm Malcolm Gladwell. This season we're continuing our conversation with new creators.

Visionaries who are creatively applying technology and business to drive change,

but with a focus on the transformative power of artificial intelligence

and what it means to leverage AI as a game-changing multiplier

for your business.

Our guest today is Dr David Cox, VP of AI models at IBM Research and IBM

Director of the MIT IBM Watson AI Lab, a first of its kind industry academic collaboration between

IBM and MIT focused on the fundamental research of artificial intelligence.

Over the course of decades, David Cox watched as the AI Revolution steadily grew

from the simmering ideas of a few academics and technologists into the industrial boom we are experiencing today.

Having dedicated his life to pushing the field of AI towards new horizons,

David has both contributed to and presided over many of the major breakthroughs

in artificial intelligence.

In today's episode, you'll hear David explain some of the conceptual underpinnings of the current AI

landscape things like foundation models in surprisingly comprehensible terms I

might add we'll also get into some of the amazing practical

applications for AI in business as well as what implications AI will have for the

future of work and design. David spoke with Jacob Goldstein, host of the Pushkin

podcast What's Your Problem? A veteran business journalist Jacob has

reported for the Wall Street Journal, the Miami Herald, and was a longtime host of the NPR program Planet Money.

Okay, let's get to the interview. Tell me about your job at IBM.

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