Sapien Weekly: New Hires & AI Data Limits
Hey there, Sapiens! :sapien_love:
Happy Halloween to all who have plans and I hope you'll either be able to go get some candy tonight or already have. (Go Blue Jays!)
Thank you for a great week and your amazing participation in the Hallo-Meme contest! We will be running more events that include you in the near future, and we're very excited for what's to come. Let's break down the rest of the week!
This Week in Sapien: 🧠
New Hires.
Two new faces have joined the Sapien team. We’re happy to welcome Adam Li, our new Data Scientist, and Ali Malik, our new Product Manager.
Adam joins us from British Columbia in Canada, bringing deep academic and applied machine learning experience from UC San Diego and Harvard Medical School to CBC and Kero Sports. He’s passionate about building systems that bridge scientific rigor with real-world impact.
Ali, based in Ontario in Canada, brings his product craft from YC startups like Surf and Tempo, where he turned fast-moving ideas into beautifully functional user experiences, studying at the London School of Economics while working full time.
Our Voices in the World.
“AI actually needs humans more than humans need AI.”
NBC has featured us in a short clip on how AI is affecting the job market, watch our co-founder Trevor Koverko’s take on why human intelligence remains essential.
Our research this week focused on what happens when AI runs out of freely available data on the internet to train on. We’re hitting this roadblock as the sheer size of datasets used for AI models is rapidly exhausting the energy grid. The solution, as so often in this space, is to make sure that there is a continuous human in the loop to keep AI accountable.
This week, we were invited as guests on a space with our good friends at W3 talking about Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and the hurdles we still have to overcome before it can be commonplace.
Catch up on all the highlights 👇
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