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AI Snacks With Romy & Roby: Democratizing AI Technologies

Dr. Anastassia Lauterbach: Democratizing AI Expert

AI Snacks with Romy&Roby is a podcast that translates AI and robotics technologies from complex scientific concepts into easy-to-understand discussions, making them accessible for teens, parents, teachers, and anyone curious about AI. Through real-world stories and expert interviews, the show is dedicated to democratizing AI knowledge and empowering the general population to understand how AI is developed and applied in everyday life. The podcast is part of the Romy&Roby and AI Edutainment

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94: Voice AI & Conversation Design Explained: Dark...

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2026/09/29

SummaryAnastassia and Anne Cantera discuss voice interfaces and key design principles for making voice chatbots "right." Anne designs voice experiences at scale, builds orchestration tooling for multi-agent systems, and teaches what she calls omnimodal design. Anne created VoiceofAI.io - a free AI upskilling resource for designers.Key Takeaways:Getting good AI output is a skill: provide requirements, design systems, and data so the model never has to make things up.Never let AI write for you - let

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93: Can AI Be Empathetic? Human Agency, AI Ethics &...

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2026/09/22

Summary:Can a machine put itself in your shoes? In this episode, Dr. Anastassia Lauterbach talks with Andrew Phipps - a PhD researcher in philosophy at the University of Sussex focusing on AI ethics and empathy, and host of the Empathy Unbound podcast, whose 120+ conversations with researchers, clinicians, founders, psychologists, and neuroscientists serve as his philosophical field work.Andrew left a corporate career - managing over a thousand people across fifty countries — to research the

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46:25

92: When AI Attacks: Inside the Mind of a CISO with...

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2026/09/15

Summary:Anastassia sits down with Yaron Levi, CISO of Dolby Laboratories and one of the world's most respected security leaders, to unpack the reality of AI-powered cyberattacks: from AI-generated phishing at massive scale to the first documented AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign. Yaron explains why the fundamentals of security haven't changed — but the speed and volume of attacks have — and why decades of technical debt are now every organization's soft underbelly.Yaron has over 20 years of

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56:50

91: What AI Can't Learn with César Hidalgo

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2026/09/08

Summary:What does knowledge mean in the age of AI? Anastassia talks to César A. Hidalgo, known for pioneering work on economic complexity, data visualization, and applied artificial intelligence.Key Takeaways:AI's knowledge is jagged. Think of the economy as a game of Scrabble. AI hands you many Rs, As, and Ts but no Us or Es. Work that needs the letters AI provides accelerates dramatically; work that depends on the missing ones becomes the bottleneck. Someone with real architecture experience gets

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90: AI in Telecom and Mobile Networks with Chetan Sharma

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2026/09/01

Summary:Anastassia sits down with Chetan Sharma, one of the most respected strategists in global wireless. For 25 years, Chetan has been an independent strategist advising CEOs and CTOs of the world’s leading wireless companies, e.g., NTT DoCoMo, AT&T Wireless, China Mobile, Qualcomm, Samsung, and Sprint, and he has served on the advisory boards of Ericsson, Telefónica, Kymeta, NextNav, and numerous startups. He wrote Mobile Advertising: Supercharge Your Brand in the Exploding Wireless Market

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43:47

89: Machine Translation, Human-in-the-Loop, and the...

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2026/08/25

Summary:Josh Gould, Group CEO of TheBigWord – one of the world's largest language services providers, operating in over 80 countries with a workforce of 15,000 – explains why today's LLMs look more human than 2013's systems without actually being more accurate, how his company's orchestration layer routes each job to the model that is best at that language pair and domain, and why human linguists have shifted from translating to tuning, reviewing and editing while translation demand doubles every

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42:44

88: AI Workforce, with Sam Huber

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2026/08/18

Remember Napster — the file-sharing site the entire music industry tried to kill? It's back, and it isn't a streaming service anymore. In this episode, Anastassia talks with Sam Huber, the physicist who once ran Lewis Hamilton's engine strategy at Mercedes Formula One, built an in-game advertising company from zero to 120 employees, rode the metaverse wave with Landvault, and now leads Napster's enterprise business from Dubai.Today's Napster builds «streaming intelligence»: teams of specialized,

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42:16

87: Klara and the Sun Explained: Ishiguro's AI, Love...

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2026/08/11

Summary:Anastassia is joined by Professor Rae Muhlstock for a close reading of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun — a Nobel laureate’s quiet, devastating novel narrated by an AI, and soon a major film directed by Taika Waititi, starring Jenna Ortega and Amy Adams. Dr. Rae Muhlstock is a Teaching Professor in the Writing and Critical Inquiry Program at the University at Albany (SUNY). She holds a PhD from the University at Buffalo, specializing in 20th and 21st century fiction, film, and narrative

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35:24

86: AI Changing Medical School with Dr. Marschall...

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2026/08/04

Dr. Marschall Runge returns for a second conversation, this time about the people who will practice medicine next.Marschall S. Runge, MD, PhD, is a practicing cardiologist who spent a decade as executive vice president for medical affairs at the University of Michigan, dean of the Medical School, and CEO of Michigan Medicine — running one of America's largest academic health systems while continuing to see patients.He earned his PhD in cardiovascular molecular biology at Vanderbilt and his MD at

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85: Can AI Find New Problems, Not Just Answers? with ...

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2026/07/27

SummaryAI is extraordinary at finding answers. But who finds the problem?In the 4th of our Beyond Human series, Anastassia and Matthias Röder go after a question: can an AI formulate a genuinely new problem, or is it forever confined to solving the ones we hand it?Dr. Matthias Röder is a music and technology strategist based in Salzburg, and one of the most consistently original thinkers on creativity and machines that we know.He is a former Managing Director of the Eliette and Herbert von Karajan

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84: Music, AI & the Future of Music Promotion with...

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2026/07/21

In this episode of AI Snacks with Romy & Roby, Anastassia Lauterbach welcomes Paul Loeb — entrepreneur, musician, audio engineer, and the founder of DropTrack, the world's first AI-powered music promotion platform. The conversation moves fluidly between Paul's personal journey from bedroom DJ and record label founder to tech executive at Beats by Dre, Apple, GitHub, and Ticketmaster, and the real-world mechanics of how DropTrack is changing what it means to be an independent artist in the age of

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83: The Hidden Fuel of AI: Data Lakes, CDN Analytics...

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2026/07/13

SummaryAnastassia sits down with Tony Falco of Hydrolix to explore one of the least-discussed but most consequential challenges in the AI era: CDN and log data. Every click, stream, and page interaction generates hundreds of log files per second. For nearly three decades, that data has been thrown away — not because it lacked value, but because storing it was prohibitively expensive.Tony brings over 30 years of experience building the internet's infrastructure, from his early days at Akamai helping

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82: Digital Twins, AI Literacy & the Future of Human...

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2026/07/07

What if the most powerful thing AI could do is not replace human expertise — but make it infinitely scalable?In Episode 82 of AI Snacks with Romy & Roby, Anastassia Lauterbach sits down with Manuj Aggarwal, AI inventor, entrepreneur, and founder of TetraNoodle Technologies, for a wide-ranging and deeply personal conversation about intelligence — artificial and human.Manuj's story begins in a small town in India, where he dropped out of college in his first three months and spent his days working

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81: Artificial Intelligence and its IQ with Dr...

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2026/06/30

Today I am revisiting episode three. Back in April 2024, I sat down with Dr. Anthony Scriffignano, and at the time, it was simply a good conversation. Two years later, listening back, it is not just a good conversation anymore, it is a roadmap. Everything he said about hallucinations, about deepfakes, about the AGI debate, has played out almost exactly the way he laid it out. So I wanted to bring it back, not as a rerun, but as proof that some people were already asking the right questions before

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80: Digital Twins and the AI Revolution in Healthcare...

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2026/06/23

SummaryHow do digital twins in medicine get from the lab to the patient? It all comes down to regulation, data, and trust. In this second part with Dr. Andrée Bates (CEO, Eularis), we cover the FDA Modernization Act 2022, EU AI Act conflicts with GDPR, the UK and China regulatory landscape, digital twin ownership and liability, patient-owned health data, decentralized data markets, and what it will take — technically and culturally — to make AI-powered personalized medicine real. Plus: why medical

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EP 79: Digital Twins and the AI Revolution in...

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2026/06/15

In Part 1 of this two-part conversation, Anastassia and Dr. Andrée Bates take the concept of digital twins from its industrial roots — NASA rockets and GE power plants — all the way into the human body. Andrée unpacks what a true clinical-grade digital twin actually requires (individuation, credibility evidence, uncertainty quantification, and regulator-aligned analytical roles), and why many things called "digital twins" in healthcare today are really just well-marketed predictive models. The

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78: AI Costs & the Future of Tech Finance with Carmen Li

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2026/06/08

Most conversations about AI focus on models, capabilities, and use cases. This episode goes into the financial planning and plumbing underneath the entire AI economy. Anastassia sits down with Carmen Li — a former Bloomberg and Citi executive turned founder — to unpack GPU compute cost volatility. Every AI application, every model inference, every startup scaling its product runs on compute — and yet there is almost no financial infrastructure to benchmark, price fairly, or hedge against the wild

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77: Can Humans Compete With Machines? Part 2, with...

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2026/06/01

What happens to human intelligence when AI delivers answers instantly? In Part 2 of our deep-dive with Dr. Vivienne Ming—theoretical neuroscientist and one of today's most original thinkers on artificial intelligence and human potential—we explore the neuroscience behind AI-human collaboration, the research on cognitive dependency, and the uncomfortable truth most AI conversations avoid. Perfect for anyone curious about how to harness AI without outsourcing your own thinking.We cover Vivienne's

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76: Can Humans Compete With Machines? Part 1, with...

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2026/05/25

Dr. Vivienne Ming is a theoretical neuroscientist and serial entrepreneur who's spent three decades building AI solutions. In this episode, she shares her remarkable journey from homelessness in the 1990s to becoming a pioneering voice in democratizing AI and neuroscience. Discover how understanding the human brain is the key to creating truly accessible artificial intelligence technologies—and what her 13 companies reveal about solving humanity's biggest problems.Key Takeaways:AI is intelligent,

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75: The AGI Question - Democratizing AI's Biggest...

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2026/05/19

What's the difference between the AI in your homework helper and true artificial general intelligence (AGI)? Dr. Craig Kaplan helps us understand AGI, narrow AI breakthroughs, and why democratizing AI literacy starts with answering this question. Perfect for students, parents, and teachers navigating AI in education. Addresses transparency in AI architectures, how to build a safe and beneficial AGI through personalized agents, networked intelligence, and transparent interactions rather than

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