How AI Research has shifted to Enterprise AI and Practical AI with Babak Hodjat, VP of Evolutionary AI at Cognizant

<p>🆕 In this episode: How AI Research has shifted to Enterprise AI and Practical AI  </p><p> with Babak Hodjat, VP of Evolutionary AI at Cognizant. </p><p><br></p><p>🚀 You could sponsor today&#39;s episode. Learn about your ad-choices (http://www.humainpodcast.com/advertise/).</p><p><br></p><p>💙 Show your support for HumAIn with a monthly membership (http://www.humainpodcast.com/membership).</p><p><br></p><p>📰 Receive subscriber-only content with our newsletter (http://humainpodcast.com/listen).</p><p><br></p><p>🧪 Visit us online and learn about our trend reports (https://www.humainpodcast.com/reports/) on technology trends and how to bounce back from COVID-19 unemployment. </p><p><br></p><p><strong>Episode Show Notes: </strong></p><p>-Babak Hodjat is VP of Evolutionary AI at Cognizant, and former co-founder and CEO of Sentient, responsible for the core technology behind the world’s largest distributed artificial intelligence system. Babak was also the founder of the world&#39;s first AI-driven hedge-fund, Sentient Investment Management. </p><p><br></p><p>-Babak is a serial entrepreneur, having started a number of Silicon Valley companies as main inventor and technologist. Prior to co-founding Sentient, Babak was senior director of engineering at Sybase iAnywhere, where he led mobile solutions engineering. </p><p><br></p><p>-Prior to Sybase, Babak was co-founder, CTO and board member of Dejima Inc. Babak is the primary inventor of Dejima’s patented, agent-oriented technology applied to intelligent interfaces for mobile and enterprise computing – the technology behind Apple’s Siri.  </p><p><br></p><p>-Babak is a published scholar in the fields of Artificial Life, Agent-Oriented Software Engineering, and Distributed Artificial Intelligence, and has 31 granted or pending patents to his name. </p><p><br></p><p>- He is an expert in numerous fields of AI, including natural language processing, machine learning, genetic algorithms, distributed AI, and has founded multiple companies in these areas. Babak holds a PhD in M