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[Audio] Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Google Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSSArmen Berjikly is an entrepreneur who has dedicated his career to pushing the boundary of artificial intelligence with special focus on emotion and empathy to work with people as they are. He created the company called Kanjoya, which was acquired by Ultimate Software around three years ago. Today he has led Product Strategy for Ultimate Software in San Francisco, and is currently a Co-Founder and Head of Product at Motive Software.Episode Links:  Armen Berjikly ’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/armenb/ Armen Berjikly’s Twitter:  https://twitter.com/armenberjikly?s=20 Armen Berjikly’s Website: https://www.motivesoftware.com/ Podcast Details: Podcast website: https://www.humainpodcast.comApple Podcasts:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/humain-podcast-artificial-intelligence-data-science/id1452117009Spotify:  https://open.spotify.com/show/6tXysq5TzHXvttWtJhmRpSRSS: https://feeds.redcircle.com/99113f24-2bd1-4332-8cd0-32e0556c8bc9YouTube Full Episodes: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxvclFvpPvFM9_RxcNg1ragYouTube Clips:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxvclFvpPvFM9_RxcNg1rag/videosSupport and Social Media:  – Check out the sponsors above, it’s the best way to support this podcast– Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/humain/creators– Twitter:  https://twitter.com/dyakobovitch– Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/humainpodcast/– LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidyakobovitch/– Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HumainPodcast/– HumAIn Website Articles: https://www.humainpodcast.com/blog/Outline: Here’s the timestamps for the episode: (00:00) – Introduction(02:48) – Being people first. People building the organization, the employees and their philosophy with a level of trust, authenticity and value placed on (04:48) – Bringing your own understanding of the capabilities of new technology and the unmet challenges in the human resource space and where solutions are(06:00) – There's a lot of things that are still unmet needs, frustrations, gaps. And what you do is you start to come upon new technologies like artificial intelligence, which is not a solution in and of itself. (06:50) –Science fiction is going to become science fact, regardless of your position on that, it's just undeniable progress that's happened in the underlying hardware capabilities. (08:56) – Being people is the first step one, but just more expansively in the world of human capital, the responsibility is too great to bring empathy into the workplace and AI and NLP could do that(09:58) – Ethical considerations with some of these new capabilities within boundary boxes, with that philosophy, to pursue some of these goals of building better products, solving customer problems(10:57) – Support ethics and AI and build technology from within (12:18) – Technology will be the solution to the problems it has created, but that's a little backwards. Sometimes you need to be more thoughtful about the problems you're going to create before you create them.(14:15) – Companies have to embrace the boundaries and the direction of their artificial intelligence approach(16:28) – Transparency is essential in the tech industry. The cavalier approach is a no-go. If you try and retrofit ethics, try and retrofit morality and responsibility in your advanced technology portfolio, It's a little too late(17:14) – The greatest risk is that AI actually takes no risks. And it's a little bit counterintuitive to think that way, but what AI is, is really a bunch of formulas, It's a bunch of pattern recognition, a bunch of math,  and it is only as smart as the data it's seen before and what it could derive out of that data.(18:48) – We have unconscious bias machines that have the ability to have that bias identified, measured, and hopefully over time, ameliorated or potentially even eradicated. You can only get there if you have extremely diverse training inputs(22:49) – Decision-making support is the worthy goal of artificial intelligence. You have to enable it to work with us and understand our problems. And so that kind of gets into the boundaries that we're starting to push with new technology.(24:22) –The only data that we'll be looking at is data that was intended to be looked at(25:47) – If technology is trying to solve really big, interesting problems or help us make big decisions, and yet is not aware, sensitive and thoughtful about the fact that our emotions matter (26:52) – Being sensitive. When we look at a piece of data, it's not just how many words were said and a word count and a word cloud, which is sort of where things go to today, but we push forward and we say: how is this person feeling?(29:16) – We have zero interest and we are philosophically opposed to the idea of machines running companies and replacing people(29:57) – Let's build technology that works for us and change the situation that we've been subject to where we build the technology, then we end up being sort of subjugated by itAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy &amp; Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

[Audio] Podcast:<a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/6tXysq5TzHXvttWtJhmRpS" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> </a><a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/6tXysq5TzHXvttWtJhmRpS" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Play in new window</a> |<a href="https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/humain-podcast-artificial-intelligence-data-fBRret2PTiU/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> </a><a href="https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/humain-podcast-artificial-intelligence-data-fBRret2PTiU/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Download</a>Subscribe:<a href="https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5yZWRjaXJjbGUuY29tLzk5MTEzZjI0LTJiZDEtNDMzMi04Y2QwLTMyZTA1NTZjOGJjOQ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> </a><a href="https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5yZWRjaXJjbGUuY29tLzk5MTEzZjI0LTJiZDEtNDMzMi04Y2QwLTMyZTA1NTZjOGJjOQ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Google Podcasts</a> |<a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/6tXysq5TzHXvttWtJhmRpS" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> </a><a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/6tXysq5TzHXvttWtJhmRpS" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Spotify</a> |<a href="https://www.stitcher.com/show/humain" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> </a><a href="https://www.stitcher.com/show/humain" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Stitcher</a> | <a href="https://tunein.com/podcasts/Technology-Podcasts/HumAIn-p1224678/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">TuneIn</a> | <a href="https://feeds.redcircle.com/99113f24-2bd1-4332-8cd0-32e0556c8bc9" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">RSS</a>Armen Berjikly is an entrepreneur who has dedicated his career to pushing the boundary of artificial intelligence with special focus on emotion and empathy to work with people as they are. He created the company called Kanjoya, which was acquired by Ultimate Software around three years ago. Today he has led Product Strategy for Ultimate Software in San Francisco, and is currently a Co-Founder and Head of Product at Motive Software.Episode Links:  Armen Berjikly ’s LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/armenb/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/armenb/</a> Armen Berjikly’s Twitter:  <a href="https://twitter.com/armenberjikly?s=20" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/armenberjikly?s=20</a> Armen Berjikly’s Website:<a href="https://welcome.ai/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> </a><a href="https://www.motivesoftware.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.motivesoftware.com/</a> Podcast Details: Podcast website: <a href="https://www.humainpodcast.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.humainpodcast.com</a>Apple Podcasts: <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/humain-podcast-artificial-intelligence-data-science/id1452117009" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> </a><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/humain-podcast-artificial-intelligence-data-science/id1452117009" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/humain-podcast-artificial-intelligence-data-science/id1452117009</a>Spotify: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/6tXysq5TzHXvttWtJhmRpS" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> </a><a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/6tXysq5TzHXvttWtJhmRpS" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://open.spotify.com/show/6tXysq5TzHXvttWtJhmRpS</a>RSS: <a href="https://feeds.redcircle.com/99113f24-2bd1-4332-8cd0-32e0556c8bc9" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://feeds.redcircle.com/99113f24-2bd1-4332-8cd0-32e0556c8bc9</a>YouTube Full Episodes: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxvclFvpPvFM9_RxcNg1rag" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxvclFvpPvFM9_RxcNg1rag</a>YouTube Clips: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxvclFvpPvFM9_RxcNg1rag/videos" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> </a><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxvclFvpPvFM9_RxcNg1rag/videos" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxvclFvpPvFM9_RxcNg1rag/videos</a>Support and Social Media:  – Check out the sponsors above, it’s the best way to support this podcast– Support on Patreon: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/humain/creators" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/humain/creators</a>– Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/dyakobovitch" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> </a><a href="https://twitter.com/dyakobovitch" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/dyakobovitch</a>– Instagram:<a href="https://www.instagram.com/humainpodcast/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> </a><a href="https://www.instagram.com/humainpodcast/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/humainpodcast/</a>– LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidyakobovitch/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidyakobovitch/</a>– Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/HumainPodcast/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/HumainPodcast/</a>– HumAIn Website Articles:<a href="https://www.humainpodcast.com/blog/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> </a><a href="https://www.humainpodcast.com/blog/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.humainpodcast.com/blog/</a>Outline: Here’s the timestamps for the episode: (00:00) – Introduction(02:48) – Being people first. People building the organization, the employees and their philosophy with a level of trust, authenticity and value placed on (04:48) – Bringing your own understanding of the capabilities of new technology and the unmet challenges in the human resource space and where solutions are(06:00) – There's a lot of things that are still unmet needs, frustrations, gaps. And what you do is you start to come upon new technologies like artificial intelligence, which is not a solution in and of itself. (06:50) –Science fiction is going to become science fact, regardless of your position on that, it's just undeniable progress that's happened in the underlying hardware capabilities. (08:56) – Being people is the first step one, but just more expansively in the world of human capital, the responsibility is too great to bring empathy into the workplace and AI and NLP could do that(09:58) – Ethical considerations with some of these new capabilities within boundary boxes, with that philosophy, to pursue some of these goals of building better products, solving customer problems(10:57) – Support ethics and AI and build technology from within (12:18) – Technology will be the solution to the problems it has created, but that's a little backwards. Sometimes you need to be more thoughtful about the problems you're going to create before you create them.(14:15) – Companies have to embrace the boundaries and the direction of their artificial intelligence approach(16:28) – Transparency is essential in the tech industry. The cavalier approach is a no-go. If you try and retrofit ethics, try and retrofit morality and responsibility in your advanced technology portfolio, It's a little too late(17:14) – The greatest risk is that AI actually takes no risks. And it's a little bit counterintuitive to think that way, but what AI is, is really a bunch of formulas, It's a bunch of pattern recognition, a bunch of math,  and it is only as smart as the data it's seen before and what it could derive out of that data.(18:48) – We have unconscious bias machines that have the ability to have that bias identified, measured, and hopefully over time, ameliorated or potentially even eradicated. You can only get there if you have extremely diverse training inputs(22:49) – Decision-making support is the worthy goal of artificial intelligence. You have to enable it to work with us and understand our problems. And so that kind of gets into the boundaries that we're starting to push with new technology.(24:22) –The only data that we'll be looking at is data that was intended to be looked at(25:47) – If technology is trying to solve really big, interesting problems or help us make big decisions, and yet is not aware, sensitive and thoughtful about the fact that our emotions matter (26:52) – Being sensitive. When we look at a piece of data, it's not just how many words were said and a word count and a word cloud, which is sort of where things go to today, but we push forward and we say: how is this person feeling?(29:16) – We have zero interest and we are philosophically opposed to the idea of machines running companies and replacing people(29:57) – Let's build technology that works for us and change the situation that we've been subject to where we build the technology, then we end up being sort of subjugated by it Advertising Inquiries: <a href="https://redcircle.com/brands" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://redcircle.com/brands</a> Privacy &amp; Opt-Out: <a href="https://redcircle.com/privacy" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://redcircle.com/privacy</a>

Why Leaders Must Consider the Ethics of AI with Armen Berjikly from Ultimate Software

We're proud to be sponsored by  Ultimate Software. They're a leading cloud provider of people management solutions with a commitment to continuing education for HR, talent, and payroll professionals. Ultimate Software is hosting dozens of free educational HR workshops around the country. Check out  ultimatesoftware.com/LFW for more information on how to earn free HRCI, SHRM, and APA recertification credits. This week on Let’s Fix Work, I welcome entrepreneur and technologist, Armen Berjikly. Armen currently serves as the Senior Director of Growth Strategy at Ultimate Software, where his expertise in human-computer interactions drives Ultimate's artificial intelligence platform and direction. Prior to his time at Ultimate Software, Armen served as the Founder and CEO of Kanjoya, Inc., a workforce intelligence company that pioneered critical advancements and understanding of human emotion. Yes, all of this makes Armen expertly able to talk about AI in the workplace. If you're interested in the hype, the reality, and hope of AI in the workforce, then sit back and listen to this episode of Let’s Fix Work. In this episode you’ll hear:  The intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) in the world of work What AI is and what it is not Human Resources and AI: what AI is doing to help individuals make better decisions. Plus, will AI replace HR professionals? The importance of building a code of conduct for AI The red line that technology should never cross How AI enables HR professionals to do their job more efficiently and how it enables them to enjoy their job AI can help HR make decisions with more competence and more fairly Armen’s outlook as a leader, on the current state of work in the world today  “Solutions are rarely simple. It's rare to just throw a machine at a problem and magically everything will work, right? It has to be a partnership, like a symphony.” ~Armen Berjikly, Senior Director of Growth Strategy, Ultimate Software “It's so easy to put technology on a pedestal and worship it. But that's not the role that technology needs to play in society. We have hard decisions to make. Can technology help us make decisions better, more fairly, more quickly, and help us lead better lives?” ~Armen Berjikly, Senior Director of Growth Strategy, Ultimate Software Resources from this episode: Thank you to our sponsor: Ultimatesoftware.com/LFW Armen on Twitter https://twitter.com/armenberjikly Armen on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/armenb How Your HR Department Can Develop an Ethical Stance on AI:  https://hrdailyadvisor.blr.com/2018/11/28/how-your-hr-department-can-develop-an-ethical-stance-on-ai/

We're proud to be sponsored by <a href="https://mailtrack.io/trace/link/5fa3f7630a66a614d028e04968381151bcf90342?url=http%3A%2F%2Fultimatesoftware.com%2F&amp;userId=1169355&amp;signature=5a933edebdd8a70d" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Ultimate Software</a>. They're a leading cloud provider of people management solutions with a commitment to continuing education for HR, talent, and payroll professionals. Ultimate Software is hosting dozens of free educational HR workshops around the country. Check out <a href="https://mailtrack.io/trace/link/ea5747e3c45a1dde8659c9374db8ef904e3f4961?url=http%3A%2F%2Fultimatesoftware.com%2FLFW&amp;userId=1169355&amp;signature=91dccf40f328cf5f" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> ultimatesoftware.com/LFW</a> for more information on how to earn free HRCI, SHRM, and APA recertification credits. This week on Let’s Fix Work, I welcome entrepreneur and technologist, Armen Berjikly. Armen currently serves as the Senior Director of Growth Strategy at Ultimate Software, where his expertise in human-computer interactions drives Ultimate's artificial intelligence platform and direction. Prior to his time at Ultimate Software, Armen served as the Founder and CEO of Kanjoya, Inc., a workforce intelligence company that pioneered critical advancements and understanding of human emotion. Yes, all of this makes Armen expertly able to talk about AI in the workplace. If you're interested in the hype, the reality, and hope of AI in the workforce, then sit back and listen to this episode of Let’s Fix Work. In this episode you’ll hear: <ol> <li>The intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) in the world of work</li> <li>What AI is and what it is not</li> <li>Human Resources and AI: what AI is doing to help individuals make better decisions. Plus, will AI replace HR professionals?</li> <li>The importance of building a code of conduct for AI</li> <li>The red line that technology should never cross</li> <li>How AI enables HR professionals to do their job more efficiently and how it enables them to enjoy their job</li> <li>AI can help HR make decisions with more competence and more fairly</li> <li>Armen’s outlook as a leader, on the current state of work in the world today</li> </ol> “Solutions are rarely simple. It's rare to just throw a machine at a problem and magically everything will work, right? It has to be a partnership, like a symphony.” ~Armen Berjikly, Senior Director of Growth Strategy, Ultimate Software “It's so easy to put technology on a pedestal and worship it. But that's not the role that technology needs to play in society. We have hard decisions to make. Can technology help us make decisions better, more fairly, more quickly, and help us lead better lives?” ~Armen Berjikly, Senior Director of Growth Strategy, Ultimate Software Resources from this episode: Thank you to our sponsor: <a href="http://www.ultimatesoftware.com/LFW" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ultimatesoftware.com/LFW</a> Armen on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/armenberjikly" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/armenberjikly</a> Armen on LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/armenb" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/armenb</a> How Your HR Department Can Develop an Ethical Stance on AI: <a href="https://hrdailyadvisor.blr.com/2018/11/28/how-your-hr-department-can-develop-an-ethical-stance-on-ai/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> https://hrdailyadvisor.blr.com/2018/11/28/how-your-hr-department-can-develop-an-ethical-stance-on-ai/</a>

047: Artificial Intelligence and Human Resources with Armen Berjikly

Armen Berjikly, the Founder and CEO of The Experience Project, and Julio Vasconcellos, VP of Business Development discuss their experience of building a technology start-up that unites people who can improve each other's lives. Berjikly discusses how he built his new venture from fund raising to establishing the company infrastructure. He talks about the importance of hiring the right people to work in a start-up and illustrates the key role of a "Mentor Capitalist" in the journey of an entrepreneur. Berjikly also describes the financial and psychological challenges an entrepreneur faces while building a company.

Armen Berjikly (Experience Project) - Connecting Common Experiences