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Productivity AI with Expedient’s Brad Reynolds
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On this episode of The Bridge, I’m joined by Brad Reynolds, Senior Vice President of Artificial Intelligence at Expedient. We’re talking about productivity AI and so much more.
Expedient is a data centers and cloud services provider offering infrastructure as a service (IaaS) with local operations in Pittsburgh, PA, Baltimore, MD, Boston, MA, Cleveland, OH, Columbus, OH, Denver, CO, Indianapolis, IN, Memphis, TN, Milwaukee, WI, and Phoenix, AZ. Ranked as one of the Top 3 managed services providers worldwide on Channel Futures' MSP 501 list, Expedient’s converged solutions enable clients to focus on strategic business innovation while the Expedient team handles the operation of the information technology needed to support it.
During our conversation, we discussed how business leaders get ahead of their competitors and unlock the promise of productivity AI without exposing the company to risk, the current state of AI adoption and the parallels to the early days of the internet, the role of corporate policies in guiding the responsible use of AI technology within organizations and more.
Topics covered in this episode:
● Brad's role at Expedient.
● The parallels between music and technology.
● Expedient’s history and evolution from an access aggregation business to a colocation and cloud-centric provider.
● The current buzz and interest surrounding AI in the tech industry.
● The role of AI as a transformative technology for business operations.
● The importance of considering how to become experts in AI as it represents a significant part of the future in technology careers.
● Public large language models (LLMs) and their impact on AI's public perception.
● The challenges created by corporate use of public LLMs and the need for controls and wrappers.
● The need for businesses to provide access to AI and the importance of enabling employees to explore and discover AI's potential uses.
● The current stage of productivity AI adoption in businesses.
● The emotional impact of AI on individuals and its potential to touch various aspects of life.
● Exploration of the concept of the singularity and AI becoming self-aware.
● The challenges of understanding AI's decision-making process and neural architecture.
● The challenge of explaining AI in the context of human processing and language.
● The difficulty of using existing language to describe AI's workings.
● The practical product developed by Expedient for corporate AI adoption.
● The importance of preventing the sharing of proprietary or private information.
Shameless predictions for the next 18 months.
ABOUT BRAD REYNOLDS
Bradley Reynolds is a recognized leader in the AI industry, with a deep understanding of the transformative power of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative AI. As the Senior Vice President of Artificial Intelligence at Expedient, Bradley spearheads efforts to simplify the operational deployment of private AI infrastructure for enterprises given strict data governance and regulatory requirements.
Prior to Expedient, Bradley served as an AI Consultant at Yellowfin Holdings, where he played an instrumental role in helping enterprises harness the power of private AI models. His expertise spans from strategic AI planning to specialized areas such as vector database design, language model pre-training, and model fine-tuning.
He is a staunch advocate of the idea that "AI Models Are the New Compute," and believes that our grasp, personalization, and expertise with these models will guide us through the next computational revolution. Based in Cleveland, Ohio, he is passionate about making AI more accessible and helping organizations explore the vast potential of this emerging technology.
CONTACT BRAD
LinkedIn. https://www.linkedin.com/company/expedient/
YouTube. https://youtube.com/expedient
Twitter. https://twitter.com/Expedient
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