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AI Snacks With Romy & Roby: Democratizing AI Technologies

Dr. Anastassia Lauterbach: Democratizing AI Expert

AI Snacks with Romy&Roby is a podcast that translates AI and robotics technologies from complex scientific concepts into easy-to-understand discussions, making them accessible for teens, parents, teachers, and anyone curious about AI. Through real-world stories and expert interviews, the show is dedicated to democratizing AI knowledge and empowering the general population to understand how AI is developed and applied in everyday life. The podcast is part of the Romy&Roby and AI Edutainment universe.

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#98
Today · 44 min
98: Why AI Projects Fail: Consulting Decks, Wasted Millions & What Korea Does Differently — with Frank Meltke
Episode SummaryWhat happens to the enormous sums companies spend on AI strategy — and why does so much of it go to waste? talks to Frank Meltke, a practitioner with nearly three decades of implementation experience who works across three very diffe...
#97
October 20 · 42 min
97: How to Build Data Strategy and AI That Actually Work with Anthony Scriffignano, Part 2
SummaryPart 2 builds on the previous episode, describing how to establish AI governance in an organization, and what AI literacy truly means for business results.Anthony Scriffignano, PhD is one of the world's best data scientists — a thinker who h...
#96
October 13 · 45 min
96: How to Build Data Strategy and AI That Actually Work with Anthony Scriffignano, Part 1
SummaryThe conversation focuses on how to build a data strategy addressing the needs of a business first, not what is available on the market in terms of an AI model.Anthony Scriffignano, PhD is one of the world's best data scientists — a thinker w...
#95
October 6 · 56 min
95: Science Fiction, Mars & AI Consciousness — What Realistic Sci-Fi Teaches Us with Peter Cawdron
In episode 95 of AI Snacks with Romy and Roby, Dr. Anastassia Lauterbach sits down with science fiction author Peter Cawdron — 37 books, NASA and SpaceX consultations, and a First Contact series 36 novels deep — to explore what realistic science ac...
#94
September 29 · 52 min
94: Voice AI & Conversation Design Explained: Dark Patterns, Emotional Debt & Being a Good AI Operator — with Anne Cantera
SummaryAnastassia and Anne Cantera discuss voice interfaces and key design principles for making voice chatbots "right." Anne designs voice experiences at scale, builds orchestration tooling for multi-agent systems, and teaches what she calls omnim...
#93
September 22 · 40 min
93: Can AI Be Empathetic? Human Agency, AI Ethics & Why Trust in AI Is Falling, with Andrew Phipps
Summary:Can a machine put itself in your shoes? In this episode, Dr. Anastassia Lauterbach talks with Andrew Phipps - a PhD researcher in philosophy at the University of Sussex focusing on AI ethics and empathy, and host of the Empathy Unbound podc...
#92
September 15 · 46 min
92: When AI Attacks: Inside the Mind of a CISO with Yaron Levi
Summary:Anastassia sits down with Yaron Levi, CISO of Dolby Laboratories and one of the world's most respected security leaders, to unpack the reality of AI-powered cyberattacks: from AI-generated phishing at massive scale to the first documented A...
#91
September 8 · 56 min
91: What AI Can't Learn with César Hidalgo
Summary:What does knowledge mean in the age of AI? Anastassia talks to César A. Hidalgo, known for pioneering work on economic complexity, data visualization, and applied artificial intelligence.Key Takeaways:AI's knowledge is jagged. Think of the ...
#90
September 1 · 49 min
90: AI in Telecom and Mobile Networks with Chetan Sharma
Summary:Anastassia sits down with Chetan Sharma, one of the most respected strategists in global wireless. For 25 years, Chetan has been an independent strategist advising CEOs and CTOs of the world’s leading wireless companies, e.g., NTT DoCoMo, A...
#89
August 25 · 43 min
89: Machine Translation, Human-in-the-Loop, and the Real Cost of AI Tokens with Josh Gould
Summary:Josh Gould, Group CEO of TheBigWord – one of the world's largest language services providers, operating in over 80 countries with a workforce of 15,000 – explains why today's LLMs look more human than 2013's systems without actually being m...
#88
August 18 · 42 min
88: AI Workforce, with Sam Huber
Remember Napster — the file-sharing site the entire music industry tried to kill? It's back, and it isn't a streaming service anymore. In this episode, Anastassia talks with Sam Huber, the physicist who once ran Lewis Hamilton's engine strategy at ...
#87
August 11 · 42 min
87: Klara and the Sun Explained: Ishiguro's AI, Love & Sacrifice (Before the Movie) — with Rae Muhlstock
Summary:Anastassia is joined by Professor Rae Muhlstock for a close reading of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun — a Nobel laureate’s quiet, devastating novel narrated by an AI, and soon a major film directed by Taika Waititi, starring Jenna Orteg...
#86
August 4 · 35 min
86: AI Changing Medical School with Dr. Marschall Runge on the Future of Doctors
Dr. Marschall Runge returns for a second conversation, this time about the people who will practice medicine next. Marschall S. Runge, MD, PhD, is a practicing cardiologist who spent a decade as executive vice president for medical affairs at the U...
#85
July 27 · 39 min
85: Can AI Find New Problems, Not Just Answers? with Matthias Röder (Beyond Human Series, #4)
SummaryAI is extraordinary at finding answers. But who finds the problem?In the 4th of our Beyond Human series, Anastassia and Matthias Röder go after a question: can an AI formulate a genuinely new problem, or is it forever confined to solving the...
#84
July 21 · 37 min
84: Music, AI & the Future of Music Promotion with Paul Loeb
In this episode of AI Snacks with Romy & Roby, Anastassia Lauterbach welcomes Paul Loeb — entrepreneur, musician, audio engineer, and the founder of DropTrack, the world's first AI-powered music promotion platform. The conversation moves fluidly be...
#83
July 13 · 44 min
83: The Hidden Fuel of AI: Data Lakes, CDN Analytics & Cybersecurity with Tony Falco
SummaryAnastassia sits down with Tony Falco of Hydrolix to explore one of the least-discussed but most consequential challenges in the AI era: CDN and log data. Every click, stream, and page interaction generates hundreds of log files per second. F...
#82
July 7 · 41 min
82: Digital Twins, AI Literacy & the Future of Human Potential with Manuj Aggarwal
What if the most powerful thing AI could do is not replace human expertise — but make it infinitely scalable?In Episode 82 of AI Snacks with Romy & Roby, Anastassia Lauterbach sits down with Manuj Aggarwal, AI inventor, entrepreneur, and founder of...
#81
June 30 · 32 min
81: Artificial Intelligence and its IQ with Dr Anthony Scriffignano
Today I am revisiting episode three. Back in April 2024, I sat down with Dr. Anthony Scriffignano, and at the time, it was simply a good conversation. Two years later, listening back, it is not just a good conversation anymore, it is a roadmap. Eve...
#80
June 23 · 36 min
80: Digital Twins and the AI Revolution in Healthcare with Andree Bates, Part 2
SummaryHow do digital twins in medicine get from the lab to the patient? It all comes down to regulation, data, and trust. In this second part with Dr. Andrée Bates (CEO, Eularis), we cover the FDA Modernization Act 2022, EU AI Act conflicts with G...
#79
June 15 · 45 min
EP 79: Digital Twins and the AI Revolution in Healthcare with Andree Bates, Part 1
In Part 1 of this two-part conversation, Anastassia and Dr. Andrée Bates take the concept of digital twins from its industrial roots — NASA rockets and GE power plants — all the way into the human body. Andrée unpacks what a true clinical-grade dig...

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