Jacob Bergdahl
If our planet had been created a year ago, humanity would have existed on the planet for ten minutes, and the industrial era would have started only two seconds ago.
The internet would have existed for mere milliseconds. In those milliseconds, humanity has created innovations at an unbelievable speed. The invention of technologies such as smartphones, social media, and machine learning has fundamentally changed how we study, work, and live. And this rate of discovery is showing no signs of slowing down.
Jacob Bergdahl is a software engineer with a Master’s in Information Systems who designs, builds, writes, and lectures. He has studied IT at universities in three countries, created solutions for some of the largest organizations in Sweden, performed talks for company leaderships’, written an Amazon best-selling book, and composed viral articles. Jacob has also worked on Minecraft at Mojang Studios.
Jacob performs inspiring and energetic lectures that fuel curiosity and awakens innovation. He makes innovative and complex subjects entertaining and easy to understand for non-technical audiences. He has talked at relaxed after-work events, energetic kickoffs, leadership workshops, and conferences.
Though he speaks on a wide range of topics around futurology, including gene editing and cultured meat, Jacob Bergdahl’s primary topic is artificial intelligence.
Popular keynotes
Real-world AI
A trademark topic of Jacob Bergdahl and the subject of his book. In this lecture, AI becomes concrete, simple, and understandable. Jacob has a collection of hundreds of real-world AI use cases that range from the well-known to the unexpected. From Gmail’s spam filter and Spotify’s recommendation algorithm to Orbital Insights’ satellite-powered business intelligence, Squirrel’s AI-powered schools, and Domino’s pizza-scanning machines. In a rapid pace, Jacob walks you through a number of real implementations of AI, and explains both business and societal impact, ethical dilemmas, and more. The lectures are kept varied and surprising.
Generative AI
Generative AI quickly became the most popular form of AI after the launch of ChatGPT. With its ability to perform a wide range of tasks, tools such as ChatGPT mark a new era in AI.
Text, image, video, and audio generation becomes better and better at a rapid pace. In this lecture, Jacob walks the audience through how these tools work, what alternatives are available, what is the latest news, what will happen in the coming five years, and more.
Creating value with AI
In this lecture, Jacob Bergdahl presents a powerful and simple framework for creating value with artificial intelligence through four different business strategies. This is a framework that Jacob has used extensively, and that he brings up in his book. Even the United States Army’s AI Task Force reached out to Jacob after they used the framework themselves, saying it helped them convey a complex topic to their executives. Jacob sends you the framework before the lecture, so that you can print or distribute it to use it in creative workshops after the lecture.
Ethical AI
One of the biggest challenges in artificial intelligence is that AI systems have been trained on humankind’s long history of discrimination. As a result, police and court systems that punish minorities more severely than majorities are used around the world. But even everyday tools exhibit biased AI. Ask an image generation AI to create an image of a lawyer, and it will likely create a picture of a man.
In this lecture, Jacob Bergdahl demonstrates how biased AI systems create self-fulfilling prophecies – and present ethical guidelines to prevent it.
Combination
Jacob’s lectures can easily be combined. A typical one-hour lecture from Jacob consists of a combination of all of the above lectures.
Beyond the topics already mentioned, Jacob Bergdahl also has a range of other lectures about everything from murder robots and superintelligent AI, to gene editing and lab-grown meat.
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