Will Hayes: Equity, Inclusion and AI Delusions

Will joined Lucidworks in 2013 as our Chief Product Officer and was appointed CEO in 2014. He has over 15 years of product, marketing, and business development experience. Prior to Lucidworks, he was head of technical business development for Splunk, where he was responsible for defining the company’s market category and key product feature sets. He created and led the company’s global partner program, building an ecosystem of consultants, developers, resellers, system integrators, service providers, and technology partners. Earlier in his career, Hayes served as a software engineer at Genentech, where he built solutions that supported the sales and drug development teams in their field activities.

What You Learn in this Episode
Why the future of AI is human
How AI and the lack of diversity is creating problems
Why inclusion shouldn't be about social responsibly but economics
Dealing with bias in data and facial recognition 
The future of our individual data
The difference between artificial intelligence and augmented intelligence.