506: ThoughtTrace CEO Nick Vandivere

• The problems ThoughtTrace solves for its customers
  
• How the company uses AI to create extraordinarily detailed models for natural language processing for highly specific use cases
  
• Why some people miss the progress made in the realm of AI due to the future promise of artificial general intelligence
  
• Why we should embrace incrementalism with AI
  
• Why you do not need a degree from a top technology school to be effective with AI and data science tools
  
• The right and wrong way to approach AI when first starting out
  
• Why companies should ask if they have the requisite data in-house to build a durable AI model, rather than if they have a large enough quantity of data
  
• Nick’s path from being an Army officer to a CEO
  

Among a variety of other topics.

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This episode is sponsored by Zoho and Sykes