Microsoft Podcast - A Bit of AI
What’s it like to work in the field of AI? How do you get started with AI? And what is going on this week? A bit of AI is a conversation with technology specialists who works with AI daily, and challenge you to expand your skill set with a recommended weekly MS Learn module.
Presented by Microsoft cloud advocates Henk Boelman & Amy Boyd, check out this episode in conversation with our CEO Steph Locke.
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What makes 'A Bit of AI' different?
Most podcasts about AI focus on the vision: what AI will do in five or ten years, why it will transform everything, and why you should be paying attention. A Bit of AI takes a different approach. Henk Boelman and Amy Boyd — both Microsoft cloud advocates with deep technical backgrounds — bring on guests who are working with AI daily, doing practical work that delivers real results.
Steph Locke fits that description exactly. The episodes she appeared on were grounded in the practical reality of building and deploying AI for businesses — not the aspirational framing of what AI could be, but what it actually takes to make AI work in a production environment.
What topics were covered?
The episodes touched on several themes that are central to GoSmarter’s work:
- MLOps — the engineering discipline of getting machine learning models into production and keeping them reliable. This is one of the hardest parts of applied AI, and the one that gets the least attention in general coverage of the field.
- Democratising AI — Microsoft’s efforts to make AI tools accessible to businesses without large data science teams, which aligns directly with GoSmarter’s mission for manufacturers.
- Practical AI adoption — what it actually looks like when a business successfully adopts AI, and what gets in the way when they do not.