AI won’t always be in the cloud | Edge AI’s Ed Doran

Ed Doran has had a storied career as the “translation layer” - bringing products from the messy research stage to the market. He shares with Devin the lessons he’s learned in launching a variety of high profile products, including his work at Microsoft where he co-founded Cortana, their first voice AI assistant.

Today he’s working as the VP of Strategy at Edge AI Foundation, an organization supporting the mission to bring AI into devices rather than gigantic cloud servers, so AI can analyze data and work offline. This would be a critical advancement in settings like hospitals, mines, or submarines, letting anyone, anywhere, use AI to compute quickly and securely.

Time Stamps:

01:25 The hurdles in a product launch

04:37 Bridging researchers and productization

06:25 Neapolitan Ice Cream Innovation

12:48 Cortana Origins

15:28 Trust and “Vegas Mode”

17:34 The Tone for Voice Assistants

20:28 AI as Coworker

26:30 Edge AI Explained

32:23 Challenges Moving AI to the “Edge”