Volkmar Uhlig

Kaoutar El Maghraoui, research scientist exploring AI's effects on reproducibility and agentic systems. Volkmar Uhlig, CTO focused on data platforms and automation. Ritika Gunnar, GM for Data leading enterprise AI and cultural change. They discuss rapid model progress, whether professions will be automated, reproducibility and data readiness in science, and practical back-office and developer agent adoption hotspots.

Volkmar Uhlig, CTO of Data Platform and Engineering, shares insights on integrating AI and the balance between edge and cloud. Olivia Buzek, Lead Developer Advocate, discusses the user experience of Claude Cowork, addressing trust and usability. Mihai Criveti, Distinguished Engineer, highlights the limitations and security considerations of AI in coding. They explore Apple's partnership with Google for next-gen Siri and the implications for on-device AI, plus a surprising admission from Linus Torvalds about using AI for coding projects.

In a riveting discussion, Chris Hay, a Distinguished Engineer and CTO, Volkmar Uhlig, VP of AI Infrastructure, and Phaedra Boinodiris, a Responsible AI Leader, dive into the transformative impact of AI on jobs. They explore the balance between job loss fears and new opportunities. The trio also dissect Scale AI's data security challenges and the controversial rise of chatbots leading users into conspiracies. Lastly, they highlight how AI is reshaping the startup ecosystem, emphasizing the need for human creativity in this evolving landscape.

In this discussion, Kate Soule, an AI and vision language models expert from Granite, Volkmar Uhlig, who leads AI infrastructure at a major firm, and Shobhit Varshney, a senior consultant on AI in the Americas, dive into the burgeoning world of deep research in AI. They explore exciting innovations from OpenAI and Google, the prospects of an OpenAI inference chip, and the rise of smaller vision-language models. The conversation wraps up with an intriguing look at a startup's quest for AI agents, pondering their role in the job market of the future.

Volkmar Uhlig, CTO and VP of Data Platforms, offers engineering and product takes. Lauren McHugh Olende, AI Open Innovation lead, brings enterprise prompting and adoption insights. Kush Varshney, IBM Fellow, covers governance and societal angles. They discuss Copilot usage patterns, differences between search and copilots, the Ralph Wiggum prompting tactic for coding agents, cost and licensing tradeoffs, and AI’s mainstream signals like Super Bowl ads.