Oz Veloshin

Welcome to Tech Stuff.

I'm Oswald Loschin.

Today, we're bringing you two conversations that I had last week at an event hosted by Quilt.ai.

And it was a pretty cool experience for me because the conversations took place on stage at the Royal Institution of Great Britain.

Back in 1821, they dissected a month on the exact stage where I was speaking.

15 scientists attached to the institution have won Nobel Prizes, and no less than 10 chemical elements were discovered here, including sodium and potassium.

So I was in ridiculously good company, and I was there to interview two contemporary visionaries.

The first is Ali Aslami.

He is a distinguished research scientist at Google's DeepMind, who built the prototype for what is now AI Search.

It would be fair to say his work has changed the front page of the internet.

The second conversation I had was with Saad Mohseni, CEO of Mobi Group.

He created the first privately owned radio and TV stations in Afghanistan and built media networks in Iran, Iraq, Ethiopia, and India.

And he continues to harness platform technologies like radio, TV, and WhatsApp to drive culture in fascinating and powerful ways.

I hope you'll enjoy both conversations.

So you might not know Ali's name, but you likely know his work because Ali, you built the prototype at DeepMind that became AI Search at Google.

I mean, it's kind of amazing because also for anyone here who's ever been turned down from a job, you were turned down for your first job at Google and you went on to basically redesign the core product.

But one of the things, I mean, growing up in Iran, this is a conference about AI and creativity.

I mean, it wasn't AI, but in your bedroom you were...

you were building websites for powerboat owners in Florida.

In a sense, you were using technology to travel the world and to create alternative worlds for yourself as a child.