"Autopilot" with Will Summerlin

Oct 15 2024 12 ep. 47 mins 10

The podcast discusses the past, present, and future of automation and its impact on our biggest industries. Guests include Sergiy Nesterenko of Quilter, Aaron Slodov from Atomic, and Jordan Domash from Responsiv. Host Will Summerlin is the Founder and Managing Partner at Autopilot.

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James Kaplan, Chief Technology Officer of McKinsey & Company’s Technology Practice on AI Adoption

Oct 15 2024 47 mins  
In this episode of the Autopilot podcast, James Kaplan, Chief Technology Officer of McKinsey & Company’s Technology practice shares his unique career journey from a history major to a tech leader, discussing the evolution of technology from the .com era to modern AI implementations. James also shares the challenges enterprises face in adopting AI, evolving dynamics between startu

Agentic AI Employees You Can Hire Today with Surojit Chatterjee, Founder of Ema, ex-Coinbase / Google

Aug 06 2024 30 mins  
In this episode of the Autopilot podcast, Surojit Chatterjee, founder of Ema AI, former Chief Product Officer at Coinbase and ex-Google VP, discusses the future of AI employees in enterprise. He explores how Ema's AI employees can boost productivity for any role and any company by automating mundane tasks. Surojit draws parallels to past technological shifts, emphasizing the curren

How LiveKit is Giving OpenAI's GPT 4.0 Voice in Real-Time with Russell d'Sa, Founder

Jul 16 2024 49 mins  
In this episode of the Autopilot podcast, host Will Summerlin interviews Russell D'Sa, the founder of LiveKit, a company building critical infrastructure for real-time audio and video communication, used by OpenAI to voice ChatGPT. Russ shares his journey from growing up surrounded by technology in Silicon Valley to founding LiveKit, and discusses the complex challenges of deliver

AI-Enabled Medicine: Transforming Patient Care & Mobility w/ Dr. Thomas Fu, Enabled Health's Founder

Jul 09 2024 49 mins  
In this episode of the Autopilot Podcast, Will interviews Dr. Thomas Fu, an emergency medicine physician and founder of Enabled Health. Dr. Fu shares how Enabled Health uses AI and computer vision technology to help combat patient deconditioning in hospitals, improving outcomes and efficiency. They discuss the aging population crisis, healthcare staffing shortages, the potential fo

Powering AI: Energy Bottlenecks, Hyperscalers, & AGI w/ Freda Duan, Principal at Altimeter Capital

Jun 18 2024 51 mins  
In this episode, Will sits down with Freda Duan, investor at Altimeter Capital. They explore critical topics such as the energy bottlenecks in AI development, the future of AGI and ways in which we may have already achieved it today, and the future role of AI agents. Freda also discusses the capital expenditure trends among big tech companies and the nuanced competition between ope

The Cutting Edge of Diffusion and Democratizing AI Video Generation with Paras Jain, CEO of Genmo AI

May 24 2024 52 mins  
In this conversation, Will sits down with Paras Jain, co-founder and CEO of Genmo. They dive into the frontier of AI video generation powered by diffusion models and his unconventional path from self-driving cars to rapidly scaling a lean startup to 1 million global users generating videos from text. Jain shares technical breakthroughs, counterintuitive challenges, the future of pe

Building AI Infrastructure with Benchmark-backed Fireworks AI Co-Founder Lin Qiao

May 03 2024 47 mins  
In this episode, Will Summerlin is joined by Lin Qiao who shares her journey from leading the PyTorch team at Meta to founding Fireworks, a company focused on specialized, customized AI models for enterprise companies and startups. They explore the challenges of training and inference costs in building AI infrastructure, the potential of multimodal models, and the strategic shift f

How AI is Powering Defense, ISR, and the Military Tech Stack with Modern Intelligence's CEO, John Dulin

Apr 26 2024 51 mins  
In this episode of Autopilot with Will Summerlin, Modern Intelligence CEO John Dulin discusses the vital role of AI for the future of U.S. military defense and intelligence. He dives into challenges like integrating AI with legacy systems, his contrarian vision for building the foundational AI platform for national security, initiatives like JADC2 and scaling human ISR analysts wit

AI for Creators: Automating Engagement Between Creators & Fans with Maggie Sin of MyCompanions.ai

Apr 18 2024 36 mins  
In this episode, Will sits down with Maggie Sin, the CEO and Co-founder of MyCompanions.ai. She shares her journey from being an influencer to leveraging AI to address the pain points in fan engagement and monetization, ethical considerations, how current engagements are being outsourced to the Philippines, mental health and the loneliness pandemic, and more. 🔥 Apply to join ov

AI for In-House Legal Teams: Streamlining Research with Responsiv's CEO Jordan Domash

Apr 10 2024 51 mins  
In this episode, Will interviews Jordan Domash, Cofounder and CEO of Responsiv AI. They discuss Responsiv’s data advantage, the use of AI in legal 15 years ago to now, document relevancy classification before AI, how Responsiv helps accelerate research for in-house legal teams, and much more. 🔥 Apply to join over 400 founders and Execs in the Turpentine Network: https://hmplog