The Deep View: Conversations

In this episode of The Deep View Conversations, we sit down with Patrick Leung, CTO and co-founder of Faro Health — a startup using artificial intelligence to streamline and reimagine clinical trials. What began as a push to speed up drug development turned into something bigger: a mission to reduce suffering, elevate consciousness, and reshape how we think about AI’s role in health and society.

Patrick walks us through the challenges of clinical trial design, the limits of large language models, and how thoughtful AI implementation could unlock faster, safer, and more inclusive access to medicine.

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In this episode of The Deep View Conversations, we sit down with Russ d'Sa, founder and CEO of LiveKit — the open-source infrastructure powering voice mode for OpenAI, Character.AI, and a fast-emerging voice-first internet.

Russ walks us through how a pandemic side project evolved into the nervous system for the next generation of AI-powered voice applications. But this episode goes far beyond infrastructure. We dive into big, human questions: What does it mean to interact naturally with AI? Are we moving back toward voice as the dominant interface? How will AI reshape work, leisure, and even our se...

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In this episode of The Deep View Conversations, we explore the world of machine translation and artificial intelligence with Olga Beregovaya — Smartling’s VP of Machine Translation and Artificial Intelligence. Olga takes us through the evolution of machine translation, from rule-based systems to statistical models to today’s neural networks and large language models.

She sheds light on how translation has shifted from being a purely linguistic endeavor to one that now sits at the intersection of data science, AI, and human creativity. We dive into hallucinations, under-re...

In this episode of The Deep View Conversations, we dive into the chaotic world of social media, misinformation, and the growing need for scientific credibility with Brinleigh Murphy Reuter — founder of the Harvard-incubated nonprofit, Science to People. Brinleigh unpacks why it’s become so hard to find accurate health and science information online, and how her organization is using generative AI to fix the broken flow of facts between researchers, influencers, and everyday users.

We explore everything from the overwhelming noise of algorithm-driven content and the dangers of viral misinformation, to how AI can empower creators with reli...

In this episode of The Deep View Conversations, we dive into the complex intersection of artificial intelligence and healthcare with Pelu Tran, co-founder and CEO of Ferrum Health. Pelu shares his deeply personal motivation behind founding Ferrum, why AI adoption in healthcare is slow, and how Ferrum aims to solve the “last mile” problem of bringing AI into clinical practice.

We explore everything from trust in algorithms, systemic challenges, and outdated infrastructure to the ethical implications of AI in medicine and the risk of over-efficiency. If you’re curious about the real-world application of AI in hospitals and ho...

In this gripping episode, we dive into the life-saving mission behind ZeroEyes, a pioneering company using artificial intelligence to detect visible weapons before shots are fired. The Deep View Team sits down with co-founder and Chief Revenue Officer Sam Alaimo, a former Navy SEAL, to explore how a tragic school shooting and military discipline inspired a groundbreaking solution to one of America’s most pressing issues: gun violence.

I sat down with Dr. Aaron Andalman, the Chief Science Officer and co-founder of Cognitiv. Andalman holds a PhD in neuroscience, and so today, we’re breaking down the gaps, connections and inspirations between AI and neuroscience; all the things we’ve learned and the many things we still don’t know. 

Episode links: 

The giant squid: https://medium.com/the-quantastic-journal/from-squids-to-ai-how-neuroscience-and-physics-sparked-a-technological-revolution-06d8c291717cNeuroscience and AI: https://neuroscience.stanford.edu/news/neuroscience-and-ai-what-artificial-intelligence-teaches-us-about-brain-and-vice-versaThe specter of AGI: https://www.thedeepview.co/p/how-big-tech-is-using-the-ai-race-and-the-specter-of-agi-to-cement-its-power-agi-openai-googleScale it up: https://www.thedeepview.co/p/progress-predictions-2025-robots...

I sat down with Brad Zamft, the co-founder and CEO of Heritable Agriculture, to take a deep dive into all the science (both biology and computer science) behind the effort to program plants, why it’s needed and what impacts it might have. 

Episode links: 

Heritable Agriculture: https://heritable.ag/Heritable goes after indoor strawberries: https://heritable.ag/heritable-strawberries The sustainability threat of farming: https://vlsci.com/blog/top-issues-in-agriculture-2024/ ; https://www.epa.gov/climateimpacts/climate-change-impacts-agriculture-and-food-supplyThe risks of monoculture and monocropping: https://foodrevolution.org/blog/monocropping-monoculture/The promise of regenerative agriculture: https://theclimatecenter.org/our-w...

I sat down with Dr. Nada Sanders, a distinguished professor of supply chain management at Northeastern University, to better understand the impact that tariffs and a trade war could have on the business and field of AI. 

Episode Links: 

The semiconductor pipeline: https://datacenterpost.com/ais-hardware-hunger-the-global-semiconductor-supply-chain-under-pressure/The latest on the tariffs and trade war: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62z54gwd22oNvidia’s US push: https://www.thedeepview.co/p/nvidia-to-produce-500-billion-worth-of-supercomputers-in-the-u-s-for-the-first-timeApple’s US push: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/02/apple-will-spend-more-than-500-billion-usd-in-the-us-over-the-next-four-years/

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0:00 – Intro 
4:09 – The vulnerability of the AI supply chain
19:13 – I...

I sat down with Dr. Eric Sydell, the founder and CEO of Vero AI, to break down the challenges of oversight, governance and compliance — and the techno-utopia on the horizon — and the ways in which AI can help, hurt, and generally, disrupt everything. 

Episode links: 

Ethan Molick: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/emollick_if-ai-development-stopped-this-week-we-would-activity-7272747981752176640-nTKX/What even is AI: https://www.ibm.com/think/topics/artificial-intelligenceSam Altman says we must regulate AI: https://www.thedeepview.co/p/paris-ai-summit-the-smoke-and-mirrors-of-governanceEU AI Act: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/topics/en/article/20230601STO93804/eu-ai-act-first-regulation-on-artificial-intelligenceChallenge of AI regulation: https...

I sat down with Dr. Stefan Leichenauer, SandboxAQ's VP of Engineering, to break down the ways in which he’s bringing the two technologies together. 

Check out our breakdown of quantum computing: https://youtu.be/-umrjwGFTRw

Episode links: 

Quantum sensing: https://www.baesystems.com/en-us/definition/what-is-quantum-sensingSandbox LQMs: https://www.sandboxaq.com/Quantum computers: https://www.ibm.com/think/topics/quantum-computingSandbox drug discovery: https://www.sandboxaq.com/solutions/aqbiosimSandbox materials generation: https://www.sandboxaq.com/post/building-better-batteries-with-lqms

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At HumanX, I sat down with Dr. David Cox — the VP for AI models at IBM Research and the IBM Director of the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab — to dissect those complex, nuanced differences between biological brains and the artificial neural networks behind LLMs, and how it all relates to the pursuit of AGI. 

Episode links: 

Neural networks: https://www.ibm.com/think/topics/neural-networksConvolutional neural networks: https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/introduction-convolution-neural-network/Everything we know about the human brain: https://ny.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/stn15.sci.neuro.colbrain/what-we-still-dont-know-about-the-brain/MIT Flywire diagram: https://www.nature...

I sat down with Igor Jablokov, the founder and chairman of Pryon, to talk about the ways in which the field of AI has grown and changed, and where it might go from here. Igor worked as a program director at IBM, developing an early iteration of IBM Watson, before he struck out on his own. His first startup, Yap, was later acquired by Amazon, where it evolved into Alexa. 

Episode Links: 

Self-driving progress: https://www.thedeepview.co/p/progress-predictions-2025-robots-avs-and-technical-advancementsReuters copyright lawsuit: https://www.thedeepview.co/p/study-most-people-can-t-identify-deepfakesMusk v Altman: https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/mu...

I sat down with Shaolei Ren, an associate professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Riverside, to break down his recent research into the water consumption, electricity consumption and public health impact of the data centers being used to power generative AI. 

Episode Links: 

The water consumption of GenAI: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2304.03271The public health crisis of GenAI: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2412.06288Water consumption VS water use: https://www.wri.org/insights/whats-difference-between-water-use-and-water-consumptionPepsi Co’s water consumption: https://www.pepsico.com/our-impact/esg-topics-a-z/water#approachGoogle and Microsoft’s water consumption: https://www.th...

I sat down with Dr. Chris Bishop, a Microsoft technical fellow and the director of Microsoft Research AI for Science, to sink into the details of what AI is actually unlocking for science, and what kind of AI is doing it. 

Episode Links: 

5th paradigm of scientific discovery: https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/the-5th-paradigm-ai-driven-scientific-discovery/Microsoft Aurora: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/introducing-aurora-the-first-large-scale-foundation-model-of-the-atmosphere/The environmental cost of AI: https://www.thedeepview.co/p/the-public-health-crisis-of-artificial-intelligenceMatterGen: https://www.thedeepview.co/p/report-ai-is-everywhere-already-even-if-we-don-t-know-itThe dubious nature of AGI: https://www.thedeepview.co/p/the-nobel-prize-and-the-mainstreaming-of-ai-s-x-risk

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I sat down with Liran Hason, the VP of AI at Coralogix, to talk AI guardrails: what they look like, how they work and why we need them. 

Episode links: 

AI has been around for decades: https://www.weforum.org/stories/2024/10/history-of-ai-artificial-intelligence/Deterministic VS probabilistic AI: https://towardsdatascience.com/deterministic-vs-probabilistic-deep-learning-5325769dc758/AI in the enterprise: https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/mckinsey-digital/our-insights/superagency-in-the-workplace-empowering-people-to-unlock-ais-full-potential-at-workAir Canada lawsuit: https://www.forbes.com/sites/marisagarcia/2024/02/19/what-air-canada-lost-in-remarkable-lying-ai-chatbot-case/Character AI sued: https://www.thedeepview.co/p/character-ai-sued-for-mental-health-decline-in-teenage-users-allegedly-encouraged-user-to-murder-hisAI trade runs out of steam: https://www.thedeepview.co/p/nvidia-beats-expectations-but-wall-street-wanted-more

I sat down with Dr. Ruchir Puri, the chief scientist of IBM Research, for a wide-ranging discussion on the state of AI today. We talk about everything from AGI and X-risk to reliability in language models, the viability of agents and the pending economic impact of the technology. 

Episode Links: 

Artificial general intelligence: https://www.thedeepview.co/p/the-nobel-prize-and-the-mainstreaming-of-ai-s-x-riskMicrosoft and OpenAI’s AGI definition: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/microsoft-and-openais-secret-agi-definition?rc=sbfmgmAI agents: https://www.thedeepview.co/p/prog-predictions-series-draft-ef9c081b34af8540AI and job loss: https://www.thedeepview.co/p/chatgpt-s-impact-on-the-labor-market-openai-generative-ai-artificial-intelligence-job-loss-report-stTechnological revolution: https://www.thedeepview.co/p...

I sat down with Dor Skuler, the founder and CEO of Intuition Robotics, to talk about the advent of digital companionship. 

Episode Links: 

Intuition robotics: https://www.intuitionrobotics.com/The loneliness epidemic: https://www.gse.harvard.edu/ideas/usable-knowledge/24/10/what-causing-our-epidemic-loneliness-and-how-can-we-fix-itSocial determinants of health: https://www.cdc.gov/public-health-gateway/php/about/social-determinants-of-health.htmlFine-tuning AI models: https://www.ibm.com/think/topics/fine-tuningCybersecurity and AI: https://www.gartner.com/en/cybersecurity/topics/cybersecurity-and-aiCharacter AI and anthropomorphization: https://www.thedeepview.co/p/character-ai-sued-for-mental-health-decline-in-teenage-users-allegedly-encouraged-user-to-murder-his

Outline: 

0:00 — Intro

3:05 — Why Dor started Intuiti...

We sat down with Irina Raicu, the director of the Internet Ethics Program at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. And today, we’re breaking down the ethics of artificial intelligence, those moral, philosophical challenges that are already resulting from the deployment of generative AI technologies. 

Episode Links: 

AI is using social media data: https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/23/tech/social-media-ai-data-opt-out/index.htmlMusical.ly’s FTC fine: https://apnews.com/article/lifestyle-technology-business-data-privacy-parenting-eafed6bfd7d241549e097e38e8088873X trains AI on your tweets: https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/x-is-using-your-tweets-to-train-its-ai-heres-how-to-disable-that/ChatGPT’s impact on the l...

We sat down with Dr. Jerry Chow, an IBM fellow and the Director of IBM’s Quantum Infrastructure. And today, we’re breaking down what quantum computing is, why it’s important, how it fits into the growing realm of artificial intelligence and what about quantum is real (and what’s just plain hype).  

Episode Links: 

IBM’s Quantum Roadmap: https://www.flickr.com/photos/ibm_research_zurich/53347055153/Quantum-centric supercomputing: https://www.ibm.com/think/topics/quantum-centric-supercomputingIBM launches advanced quantum computers: https://newsroom.ibm.com/2024-11-13-ibm-launches-its-most-advanced-quantum-computers,-fueling-new-scientific-value-and-progress-towards-quantum-advantageIBM’s quantum in use: https://www.ib...

We sat down with Dr. Nada Sanders, an expert in forecasting and human-technology interaction and the author of The Humachine, a book that explores a coming future of AI-enabled connection between men and machine. And today, we’re breaking down the pandemic-fueled rise of AI, and the many levers that will impact our ever-more digital future. 

Episode Links: 

The Humachine – https://nadasanders.com/books/the-humachine/How the pandemic impacted global supply chains – https://www.ey.com/en_us/insights/supply-chain/how-covid-19-impacted-supply-chains-and-what-comes-nextKasparov’s law – https://courtofthegrandchildren.com/kasparovs-law/Corporate AI adoption – https://www.thedeepview.co/p/business-spend...

We sat down with Vijay Balasubramaniyan, the co-founder and CEO of cybersecurity firm Pindrop. And today, we’re breaking down audio deepfakes and deepfake detection; what levers are in place to indicate whether a piece of audio is real or synthetic, and how those levers technically work. 

Episode Links: 

Pindrop – https://www.pindrop.com/The rise of deepfake fraud – https://www.forbes.com/sites/chriswestfall/2024/11/29/ai-deepfakes-of-elon-musk-on-the-rise-causing-billions-in-fraud-losses/Biden robocall – https://www.thestreet.com/technology/how-the-company-that-traced-fake-biden-robocall-identifies-a-synthetic-voiceThe deepfake threat – https://www.thestreet.com/technology/ai-cybersecurity-nonprofit-civai-deepfake-fraud-identity-theft-hijackingHow LLMs work – https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/07/a-jargon-free-explanation-of-how-ai-large-language-models-work/Closed vs. open AI – https://www.americanactionforum.org/insight/open...

We sat down with Dr. Missy Cummings, who served as one of the U.S. Navy’s first female fighter pilots and now works as the director of George Mason University’s Autonomy and Robotics Center. Cummings, an engineer, has been studying autonomous systems for years – today, we break down the autonomy challenge in self-driving cars: how they work, their enormous limitations and a path to a feasible self-driving future. 

Episode Links: 

Lidar breaks down in the rain: https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/24/10/2997?utm_source=www.thedeepview.co&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=openai-launches-o1-unveils-200-subscription-tierGeorge Mason’s...

New Jersey's department of labor, in collaboration with USDR and Google.org, has assembled a set of training materials designed to turn off-the-shelf language models into bilingual unemployment insurance experts. We sat down with two of the people behind the launch to break it down.

For Episode 2 of The Deep View: Conversations, we flew to Abu Dhabi to sit down with President Eric Xing of the Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, the world’s first AI-only university. We talk about everything from his unconventional journey to MBZUAI, misconceptions about the technology, the reality of progress in the field and the idea that, like the printing press, AI might usher in a new age for humanity, the age of empowerment.

 
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Artificial intelligence is a complicated topic, bound by a number of complex threads — technical science, ethics, safety, regulation, neuroscience, psychology, philosophy, investment and — above all — humanity. On The Deep View: Conversations, Ian Krietzberg, host and Editor-in-Chief at The Deep View, breaks it all down, cutting through the hype to make clear what's important and why you should care.

 
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EPISODE LINKS:
Taming Silicon Valley: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262551069/taming-silicon-valley/
Gary Marcus’ Testimony Before the Senate Judiciary Committee...