Posts tagged NVIDIA
NVIDIA's Kevin Levitt on Artificial Intelligence, deep learning, and its role in financial services
NVIDIA's Kevin Levitt on Artificial Intelligence, deep learning, and its role in financial services

In this conversation, we chat with Kevin Levitt who currently leads global business development for the financial services industry at NVIDIA. He focuses on global trends in accelerated compute and AI for consumer finance – including fintech, retail banking, credit card and insurance. Prior to joining NVIDIA, Kevin served as Vice President of Business Development at Credit Karma, and Vice President of Sales for Roostify.

More specifically, we touch on the role data plays in the financial industry, how the needs of financial institutions have changed, the age of big data, the definitions between artificial intelligence and machine learning, how to train an AI algorithm, the reasoning behind the incredible amount of parameters machine learning solutions consume, the fundamental purpose of AI/ML in financial services, what NVIDIA’s platforms comprise of, and lastly the future of AI/ML.

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artificial intelligence, digital transformation, chatbots & other robots, big techLex SokolinComscore, NVIDIA, GPT-3
Is Finance asking *interesting* questions? Exploring startups, industries, and the nature of work.
Is Finance asking *interesting* questions? Exploring startups, industries, and the nature of work.

This week, we look at:

  • What it means to ask questions and find answers

  • From asking simple questions that result in neobanks and roboadvisors. Who will win — Schwab or Robinhood?

  • To asking macro questions about the finance / high-tech competition. Who will win — Goldman Sachs or Google?

  • To asking profound questions about the nature of the work, and the art of finding your own questions.

We can't formulate the questions for you. But we can give you a framework of needs for both the individual, and the organization.

The questions that you ask are the answers that you will get.

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roboadvisor, central bank / CBDC, venture capital, artificial intelligence, regulation & complianceLex SokolinNVIDIA, Tencent, Kik, SEC, BitMEX, Careem
Creativity and courage are the vaccine -- from molecular technology, to digital workspaces, to solving for global health data
Creativity and courage are the vaccine -- from molecular technology, to digital workspaces, to solving for global health data

This week, we look at what positive innovations could arise from the pressure cooker of the pandemic. I touch on health care data and privacy, molecular technology, digital work- and play-spaces, and their financial implications. Channeled productively, the next decade could see advances in these fields that we can't yet imagine.

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philosophy, covid pandemic, identity and privacyLex SokolinBlackRock, Mortgages, NVIDIA, Molecular Assemblies, Folding@home, Zoom, Slack, Huawei, Twitch, TikTok, Decentraland, The Sandbox, CryptoVoxels, Ethereum