The Applied AI Podcast
Episodes
AI In Restaurants: How Savory Promotes Human Interaction
10 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Josh Boshard, COO of Savory, discusses the integration of AI in the restaurant industry with Talbot West CEO Jacob Andra. The to talk about the challe...
Why Do AI Initiatives Fail? Jacob Andra and Cydni Tetro on Common Breakdowns for Digital Transformation Projects
03 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textEnterprise AI projects fail at alarming rates. MIT research shows most organizations struggle to achieve meaningful ROI from their AI in...
Legaltech Civil War: Talbot West CEO Jacob Andra & Advisor Adam Wardel Discuss AI Adoption in Law
20 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textYouTube Video DescriptionLaw firms face a civil war over AI adoption. On one side, a model that's worked for decades, generating re...
The Best Machine Learning Model, Lumawarp, Rocks the TabArena Test: Jacob Andra & Dr. Alexandra Pasi
18 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textLumawarp delivers 7% higher accuracy than leading ML models while running 300+ times faster. On the TabArena HELOC default prediction be...
Constitutional AI With Bennett Borden and Jacob Andra
11 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textTalbot West CEO Jacob Andra interviews Clarion AI CEO Bennett Borden on ensemble AI approaches. Bennett Borden served eight years as a ...
Will AI Take All the Jobs? Jacob Andra and Stephen Karafiath Say No
31 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textWhile people fear wholesale workforce replacement, the actual transformation is far more complex and ultimately more optimistic for orga...
Agentic AI and Neurosymbolic AI: Jacob Andra Interviews Dr. Alexandra Pasi of Lucidity Sciences
27 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textTwo major ideas are shaping the next era of artificial intelligence: agentic AI and neurosymbolic AI. Talbot West CEO Jacob Andra and Lu...
Neurosymbolic AI and the Shortcomings of LLMs: Jacob Andra and Stephen Karafiath
17 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textLarge language models have captured headlines, but they represent only a fraction of what AI can accomplish. Talbot West co-founders Jac...
Data Security in AI: Talbot West CEO Jacob Andra Interviews Scott Peiffer of i4Ops
07 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textMost enterprise AI projects fail because companies hold back their data. They spend hundreds of thousands of dollars training models on ...
AI is Much More Than LLMs: Jacob Andra Interviews Dr. Alexandra Pasi on Cutting-Edge Machine Learning
29 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textDr. Alexandra Pasi (Lucidity Sciences) joins Talbot West CEO Jacob Andra to explore why conflating AI with large language models creates...
Jason duPont On AI in the Mortgage Industry: An Interview with Talbot West CEO Jacob Andra
16 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textJason duPont, COO of NEXA Mortgage, reveals how AI transforms mortgage operations from 54-minute loan processing to autonomous underwrit...
Rick Meekins is 6X More Productive With AI + Automation: An Interview With Talbot West CEO Jacob Andra
08 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textRick Meekins achieves 4-6x productivity gains using ChatGPT and automation tools in precisely the ways Talbot West recommends to enterpr...
Bill McCalpin on AI in Mergers and Acquisitions
03 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textJacob Andra, podcast host and CEO of Talbot West, interviews Bill McCalpin, investment banker and chair of The Alliance of Merger and Ac...
Kevin Williams On De-Risking AI Implementations
29 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textKevin Williams, founder and CEO of Ascend Labs AI, joins Jacob Andra, CEO of Talbot West, to discuss the reality of enterprise AI adopti...
Jacob Andra & Stephen Karafiath Discuss Applied AI
21 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textJacob Andra sits down with Stephen Karafiath, technical co-founder of Talbot West, for a wide-ranging discussion on practical AI impleme...
Intro to The Applied AI Podcast
21 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textWelcome to The Applied AI Podcast. We're all about practical results. Hosted by Jacob Andra, the CEO of Talbot West, The Applied AI...