Inspire AI: Transforming RVA Through Technology and Automation
Our mission is to cultivate AI literacy in the Greater Richmond Region through awareness, community engagement, education, and advocacy. In this podcast, we spotlight companies and individuals in the region who are pioneering the development and use of AI.
Podcasting since 2024 • 57 episodes
Inspire AI: Transforming RVA Through Technology and Automation
Latest Episodes
Ep 55 - Gradient Descent: How A Simple (?) Step-By-Step Algorithm Teaches Machines To Think
Imagine learning as a careful night hike: you can’t see the whole path, but you can feel the slope and step where it goes down. That’s the core intuition behind gradient descent, the quiet algorithm that turns errors into progress and powers ev...
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Ep 54 - Access is Destiny: Opening Doors To AI With Mark Cuban Foundation And AI Ready RVA
Curiosity beats credentials. We head to Richmond, Virginia, to share how a free, hands-on AI bootcamp turns nervous high schoolers into confident creators and how a local nonprofit, AI Ready RVA, keeps the doors open long after the weekend ends...
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Ep 53: The Data Center Capital of the World — At What Cost?
The internet doesn’t live in the sky—it lives in a quiet corner of Northern Virginia, inside miles of windowless buildings that hum day and night. We pull back the curtain on how Loudoun County became the world’s data center capital, tracing th...
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Ep 52 - From Control to Collaboration: Rewriting Leadership for the Age of AI w/ Dr. John Dentico
What if the habits that built last century’s companies are the very things holding yours back today? Dr. John Dentico joins us to challenge the factory-floor model of leadership and swap control for something bolder: a system built on doubt, co...
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Ep 51 - Listening With Heart: How AI Turns Personal Narratives Into Actionable Insight w/ Andy Sitison
What if your culture metrics could feel as real as a story told around a campfire? We sit down with technologist and humanist Andy Sitison, CTO of Share More Stories, to unpack how long-form narratives—analyzed with AI—can reveal what surveys m...
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