The History of AI

I'm excited to dive into this conversation with you where I really want to start is just from the beginning. Where did you realize that you wanted to get into this whole tech thing? Yes, on tech, well, it's a very long story. If you talk about my tank background, I started in the military and Israel military many years ago, doing what it's called the AI. But now, at that time, nobody called it this way. And I'm very excited because I believe we are in a second coming over AI.

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MLOps Coffee Sessions #169 with Barak Turovsky, MLOps at the Age of Generative AI.

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// Abstract

The talk focuses on MLOps aspects of developing, training, and serving Generative AI/Large Language models

// Bio

Barak is an Executive in Residence at Scale Venture Partners, a leading Enterprise venture capital firm. Barak spent 10 years as Head of Product and User Experience for Languages AI and Google Translate teams within the Google AI org, focusing on applying cutting-edge Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning technologies to deliver magical experiences across Google Search, Assistant, Cloud, Chrome, Ads, and other products. Previously, Barak spent 2 years as a product leader within the Google Commerce team. Most recently, Barak served as Chief Product Officer, responsible for product management and engineering at Trax, a leading provider of Computer Vision AI solutions for the Retail and Commerce industries. Prior to joining Google in 2011, Barak was Director of Products in Microsoft’s Mobile Advertising, Head of Mobile Commerce at PayPal, and Chief Technical Officer at an Israeli start-up. He lived more than 10 years in 3 different countries (Russia, Israel, and the US) and speaks three languages. Barak earned a Bachelor of Laws degree from Tel Aviv University, Israel, and a Master’s of Business Administration from the University of California, Berkeley.

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Bio and links about Barak's work: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1E4Yrmt_Y57oTEYHQQDvt71XzSJ8Ew5WvscAQbHV4K3U/edit

Framework for evaluating Generative AI use cases: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/framework-evaluating-generative-ai-use-cases-barak-turovsky/?trackingId=%2BMRxEZ9WTPCNH2JscILTeg%3D%3D

The Great A.I. Awakening: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/14/magazine/the-great-ai-awakening.html

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