The Beyond Capture Podcast
Beyond Capture is a podcast by Umony, hosted by CEO Dean Elwood, exploring how firms can leverage the vast amounts of data they capture and transform them into a powerful asset.
Umony provides capture, archiving and AI-native surveillance solutions to help enterprises navigate governance and regulatory challenges. Featuring Chief Compliance Officers, regulatory compliance experts and industry leaders, we discuss how to move beyond data collection and transform compliance into a proactive and strategic function.
The Beyond Capture Podcast
From Language to Intelligence: Risks, Ethics, and Human Progress
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In this wide-ranging conversation, Umony CTO Alan Charbonneau sits down with Dietmar Fauser, CIO of Symphony, to explore how language, intelligence, and progress intertwine in the age of AI.
From the evolution of trader voice analytics to the rise of agent-to-agent systems, Dietmar shares how Symphony is bridging human communication and machine understanding, and what it means for industries built on trust, compliance, and speed.
They discuss the limits of large models, the ethics of autonomous systems, and whether humanity can truly manage the pace of its own progress. Along the way, they reflect on the nature of intelligence, the future of work, and the moral systems that keep us human in an age of accelerating machines.
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:01 Technology, scale, and the Symphony platform
03:19 From trading floors to AI: Symphony’s evolution
07:06 The rise of generative AI and the moment everything shifted
15:12 Teaching machines to understand trader language
21:46 AI, autonomy, and agent-to-agent systems
32:03 The risks of progress and the need for guardrails
38:50 Jobs, disruption, and the new AI economy
43:47 Are large models plateauing?
49:19 What do humans still do best?
56:34 “We are programmed for progress”: the accelerationist view
01:02:15 Unlocking collective intelligence
Here’s the link to the research mentioned in the podcast:
https://futurism.com/facebooks-language-creating-ai-bots-are-now-required-to-negotiate-in-english