The theme of the Artificiality Summit 2026 is Unknowing. We start with five speakers—David Wolpert, Caleb Scharf, Wakanyi Macharia-Hoffman, Gašper Beguš, and Nina Beguš—whose work converges on a single finding: the uncertainty surrounding AI is permanent, not a phase.
Scott Stephenson: Deep Learning Speech Recognition
In this episode, we have a conversation with Scott Stephenson, Co-founder and CEO of Deepgram, a company which has built an end-to-end deep learning speech recognition system.
In this episode, we have a conversation with Scott Stephenson, Co-founder and CEO of Deepgram, a company which has built an end-to-end deep learning speech recognition system.
We talk about why end-to-end deep learning sets Deepgram apart from other speech recognition companies, how Deepgram handles accents and bias, how enterprise speech recognition differs from consumer and Deepgram’s goal of becoming a speech understanding company.
Dave Edwards is a Co-Founder of Artificiality. He previously co-founded Intelligentsia.ai (acquired by Atlantic Media) and worked at Apple, CRV, Macromedia, Morgan Stanley, Quartz, and ThinkEquity.
Helen Edwards is a Co-Founder of Artificiality. She previously co-founded Intelligentsia.ai (acquired by Atlantic Media) and worked at Meridian Energy, Pacific Gas & Electric, Quartz, and Transpower.
