AI-Powered Business Communications with Dan O'Connell, Chief AI & Strategy Officer at Dialpad

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In this episode, Nathan sits down with Dan O’Connell, Chief Strategy Officer at Dialpad. They discuss building their own language models using 5 billion minutes of business calls, custom speech recognition models for every customer, and the challenges of bringing AI into business. If you need an ecommerce platform, check out our sponsor Shopify: https://shopify.com/cognitive for a $1/month trial period.

We're sharing a few of Nathan's favorite AI scouting episodes from other shows. Today, Shane Legg, Cofounder at Deepmind and its current Chief AGI Scientist, shares his insights with Dwarkesh Patel on AGI's timeline, the new architectures needed for AGI, and why multimodality will be the next big landmark. If you need an ecommerce platform, check out our sponsor Shopify: https://shopify.com/cognitive for a $1/month trial period.

We're hiring across the board at Turpentine and for Erik's personal team on other projects he's incubating. He's hiring a Chief of Staff, EA, Head of Special Projects, Investment Associate, and more. For a list of JDs, check out: eriktorenberg.com.

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TIMESTAMPS:

(00:00) - Introduction and Welcome

(06:50) - Interview with Dan O'Connell, Chief AI and Strategy Officer at Dialpad

(07:13) - The Functionality and Utility of Dialpad

(17:20) - The Development of Dialpad's Large Language Model Trained on 5Billion Minutes of Calls

19:56 The Future of AI in Business

(22:21) - Sponsor Break: Shopify

(23:56) - The Challenges and Opportunities of AI Development

(31:17 ) - Prioritizing latency, capacity, and cost when evaluating AI

(39:41) - Most Loved AI Features in Dialpad

(42:01) - The Role of AI in Quality Assurance

(43:10) - The Future of Transcription Accuracy

(44:06) - The Importance of Speech Recognition in Business

(46:59) - Personalizing AI for Better Business Interactions

(47:01) - The Role of AI in Content Generation

(52:47) - The Challenges and Opportunities of AI in Sales and Support

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