#167: The Use of AI in Automating the Middle Mile with Apeksha Kumavat of Gatik
Hosted by Santosh Sankar on September 20, 2023
Summary
During this episode, Santosh is joined by Apeksha Kumavat, the Co-Founder and Chief Engineer at Gatik, a company leading the way in autonomous middle mile delivery. During this episode Santosh and Apeksha discuss the intersection of AI and supply chain, Gatik's vision of bringing autonomous technology to the logistics sector, the hype surrounding AI and its limitations, the challenges of maintaining explainability in models with transformer networks, the importance of considering the specific application and its tolerance for inaccuracies, and more.
Show Notes
Highlights from their conversation include:
- The story behind Gatik (1:00)
- Gatik’s growth and impact in recent years (6:46)
- Understanding AI and Machine Learning (10:43)
- Navigating the hype of AI and ChatGPT (13:38)
- The architecture of transformers and its impact (14:38)
- ML techniques in delivering the autonomous experience (20:11)
- The functionality and explainability of transformer networks (26:34)
- The importance of application-specific accuracy (27:22)
- Final thoughts and takeaways (28:12)
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