Hilary Mason, one of the world's best-known data scientists, fills us in on A.I. systems that generate interactive story narratives and on building a thriving early-stage A.I. company. This episode was filmed live on stage — so fun!

Hilary:
• Is Co-Founder and CEO of Hidden Door, a start-up that leverages narrative A.I. to generate unique, customized dialog and graphics in real time, thereby delivering a groundbreakingly immersive video game experience.
• Was previously Founder and CEO of Fast Forward Labs, an emerging-tech research company that was acquired by Cloudera.
• Was Data-Scientist-in-Residence at Accel, a leading venture capital firm.
• Co-founded several iconic tech communities in New York such as DataGotham and HackNY.
• Studied computer science at Brown University and Grinnell College.
• Is known for sharing useful data science knowledge with the public; she has over 120k followers on Twitter and over 160k followers on LinkedIn.

The first half of today’s episode contains some technical elements but by and large the episode should be appealing to anyone who’s keen to be on the cutting edge of machine learning application and commercialization.

In today’s episode, Hilary details:
• How narrative A.I. can assist creativity.
• How to build ML products with no quantitative error function to optimize.
• How to prevent A.I. systems from outputting non-sense or explicit content.
• The emerging ML technique she’s most excited about.
• What it takes to be successful as CEO of an early-stage A.I. company.
• How she’s hopeful A.I. will transform our lives for the better in the future.

Thank you to Jared Lander and Nicole DelGiudice of the New York R Conference for providing us with an amazing live forum to host a live SDS episode and for the exceptional footage. And thanks to Claudia Perlich for introducing me to Hilary!

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