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00:02 - Welcome, it's Michael Marooth-Benziga,
00:03 joined today by Dr. Anne-Marie Sastry,
00:05 CEO and founder at Amisight.
00:07 Dr. Sastry, always a pleasure to have you with us.
00:09 Go ahead and kick us off by telling us a little bit
00:11 about Amisight and giving us a brief overview of the company.
00:14 - Michael, great to be here again, as always with you.
00:16 Amisight is an artificial intelligence software company.
00:19 We build learning systems for universities,
00:22 for businesses, for museums, and for government agencies.
00:26 Our mission is to improve the way the world learns,
00:28 and we do that on a SaaS model that offers services
00:31 and content generation as well.
00:32 So these organizations can deliver on their own brand
00:35 to their learners.
00:36 - Terrific, and how does AI allow you
00:38 to build better educational tools at Amisight?
00:41 - If you think about the very best internet experiences,
00:44 the stickiest internet experiences,
00:46 the ones you go back to again and again,
00:49 they're all driven by AI.
00:50 And the reason that they're driven by AI
00:52 is because artificial intelligence has the capacity
00:55 to mass customize, to deliver you information
00:58 that's relevant, interesting, germane, topical,
01:01 and fascinating.
01:02 Education has been left behind in this revolution,
01:06 no longer.
01:07 The reality is that the educational experience online
01:10 has been one of content management rather than engagement.
01:13 At Amisight, we founded our company
01:15 to build engagement in learning,
01:18 to improve learning outcomes.
01:20 That's been palpably the case.
01:22 We've had over 99% retention
01:24 across all of our professional paid learning programs.
01:27 So AI works, and we wanna make sure
01:29 that people delivering education can use AI to the good.
01:33 - Excellent, and talk us through the updates
01:35 in the latest v6.3 version of the platform.
01:37 What's new there?
01:39 - As, thank you very much for asking.
01:40 As people who've been following the company know,
01:43 we've integrated not only new AI features
01:46 that we've built in-house,
01:47 but also commercially available AI features.
01:50 The reason is we were built to do that.
01:52 We built our backbone, the spine of the code, as you will,
01:55 to be able to integrate new innovations.
01:56 And we believe we were the first ed tech company
01:58 to integrate GPT-4.
02:00 That technology enables our customers and our learners
02:04 to be able to get questions answered 24/7,
02:06 and also be able to get help in generating content.
02:09 v6.3 is a major, major infrastructure update
02:13 that we're very excited about.
02:15 It gives our customers efficiency and scale
02:18 and greater security, greater visibility,
02:21 and greater access to data.
02:23 Additionally, it gives our customers greater integrability.
02:26 As more and more of our organizations
02:28 want to integrate more and more software solutions,
02:31 the reality is that almost all of these
02:34 will have some element of AI in order to be relevant.
02:38 Amiscience Learning Platform enables our customers
02:40 to be able to integrate these solutions
02:42 with version 6.3 without any friction.
02:46 - Wonderful, and Dr. Sassary,
02:47 you recently spoke at the keynote speaker
02:49 at CSO's Future of Cybersecurity Summit.
02:52 Can you talk a little bit about some of the insights
02:54 that you shared while you were the keynote speaker
02:56 at this event?
02:56 - It was really exciting and a great honor
02:58 to be able to talk to this audience.
03:00 This audience is comprised of executives and thought leaders
03:03 who are working very valiantly to improve cybersecurity
03:07 in the age of generative AI.
03:09 Now that generative AI is available to the public,
03:11 cyber attacks are easier to launch at scale
03:15 and can be launched with startling efficiency.
03:18 Amiscience's role in this is not only to provide insight
03:22 and hopefully some thought leadership,
03:24 and I'm very proud of the team
03:25 for putting together materials, including white papers
03:27 that you can find on our website,
03:29 to help the communities understand these changes
03:32 as they're occurring,
03:33 but also to be able to provide learning solutions.
03:37 And it's not just learning solutions
03:39 for cybersecurity professionals.
03:40 The reality is generative AI and the advent
03:44 of the production of startlingly, startlingly
03:46 realistic deepfakes means that everyone
03:49 in the organization has to be trained
03:51 in order to mitigate threats.
03:53 The reality is that every organization will need to use AI
03:58 in order to be effective in its business
04:01 and business operations.
04:02 So there's no turning back.
04:04 Rather, what we need to do is make sure
04:06 that everybody gets trained on the technology
04:09 and also trained to keep secure organizations.
04:12 - Outstanding.
04:13 And how is AI being utilized
04:15 in different educational sectors?
04:16 Can you talk a little bit about the major differences
04:18 in different regions or markets?
04:20 Is it the same across the board
04:21 or do we see some differences here,
04:22 depending on where you're at and what markets you're in?
04:24 - It's a great question, Michael.
04:26 When we look at our markets, we have universities,
04:29 there are about 3,300 of those,
04:31 and they all have different objectives
04:32 and strategies for driving revenue.
04:35 We have businesses who need to make sure
04:37 that their employees learn efficiently and effectively.
04:40 We have government who needs to be able
04:42 to upscale for workforce training.
04:44 And we have museums who need to be able to drive engagement.
04:48 So when you look at all of those segments,
04:50 each one does have a different use case.
04:52 Universities particularly need to be able
04:54 to train professionals.
04:56 We have a situation where we expect decreasing enrollments
04:59 in universities and in order for them to stay viable,
05:02 they need to be able to create programs
05:04 for lifelong learners that are consumable,
05:06 mainly online and affordable.
05:09 Amisite helps with that by creating ecosystems quickly
05:12 and efficiently.
05:13 Example, Central Michigan University,
05:15 we recently announced their successful launch
05:17 of their entire professional learning program cohort,
05:20 which Amisite supports.
05:22 And that's very exciting because they have a really set
05:25 of diverse offerings that enable their alumni
05:28 and other members of the community come in
05:30 and consume something affordable
05:32 and stay professionally current.
05:34 When you look at businesses,
05:35 they need to be able to upscale their employees efficiently,
05:38 sometimes all over the world.
05:40 Our customer EGC has scaled to 10 countries.
05:43 Amisite supports their entire learning cohort
05:45 and they've received very, very good results from that,
05:49 actually greatly exceeding their targets
05:51 in terms of employee performance and engagement.
05:54 If you look at government, workforce training is essential.
05:57 And what we're seeing now is that with the predominance
06:01 of interest in cleantech, in chips,
06:04 in artificial intelligence itself,
06:06 people are going to need to be able to execute career pivots
06:09 or adaptations in order to stay economically relevant.
06:12 Amisite provides learning programs that does that.
06:15 And then finally, in museums and K-12,
06:17 'cause these sectors are really linked.
06:19 Museums, every museum needs a digitalization strategy.
06:22 They need a front door and their main mission is learning.
06:25 So they need to be able to provide programs,
06:27 particularly to K-12 learners that are engaging
06:29 and take learners beyond just an on-ground experience.
06:33 The on-ground experience is very important,
06:35 but there needs to be a before and after.
06:37 K-12 schools are interesting
06:38 because what they need principally right now
06:41 is professional development for teachers.
06:43 During the pandemic,
06:44 teachers were horsed onto digital platforms
06:47 that really didn't serve their needs.
06:48 Nobody really expected them to.
06:50 It was an emergency.
06:51 It was an urgent situation.
06:52 But now post-pandemic, we're a bit wiser.
06:55 And with the advent of generative AI,
06:58 teachers very critically need upscaling in generative AI,
07:01 and Amisite has programs in that area.
07:03 So we're excited to be able to help there.
07:05 - Amazing.
07:06 Dr. Sastry, a final question for you.
07:08 On the industry side of things,
07:09 and a bigger take here to close this out,
07:11 AI will have the biggest impact
07:13 on what aspect of our daily lives as we move forward here?
07:16 - All of the above.
07:18 There's essentially no part of our daily lives
07:21 that will be unaffected by generative AI.
07:23 The reason that we've seen this massive toggle
07:26 in understanding of AI
07:28 is that generative AI is now available to the public.
07:31 And people have seen the power of this
07:33 in everything from transforming web search
07:35 to planning their day to interacting with others.
07:38 The prior thinking was that AI wouldn't affect
07:42 the highest paying jobs, the highest wage jobs.
07:45 The current understanding is of course it will,
07:48 and probably in more profound ways.
07:50 The ability to generate texts, to interact with others,
07:53 even to help write an email is transformative.
07:56 Some have said that there'll be a massive firing
07:59 and economic loss.
08:01 Most experts, and we are in this camp,
08:03 believe that greater numbers of jobs
08:06 will be created of higher quality.
08:08 The reality is the barrier to entry to an office job
08:12 was being able to have business skills
08:13 that included writing an email,
08:15 showing the correct tenor, showing the correct temperament.
08:18 AI can help with all of that.
08:20 There's a real opportunity for AI
08:22 to make us all better professionals.
08:24 And we're excited to be able to offer tools on our platform
08:27 that drive us along that journey.
08:29 - Amazing.
08:30 Well, there is certainly a much bigger conversation
08:31 to be had here and a lot more to watch,
08:33 but we really appreciate your insights
08:35 diving into the AI industry,
08:36 specifically what you and Ambicyte are doing about it.
08:39 Dr. Ann-Marie Sassery, founder and CEO of Ambicyte,
08:42 thank you so much for joining us here this morning.
08:44 - Thank you very much, Michael, for the interview.
08:46 We really appreciate it.
08:47 And I want to thank the team for all their hard work
08:49 in all these sectors as well.
08:50 Thanks so much.
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