Articles by Boaz Ashkenazy

Boaz Ashkenazy is the founder and CEO of Seattle-based AI solutions provider Simply Augmented, and the host of the podcast Shift AI.

Shift AI Podcast: How AI is shaking up the worlds of media, marketing, and startups

Shift AI Podcast: How AI is evolving in 2024, with Microsoft Distinguished Engineer Pablo Castro
How this state senator uses AI to augment his staff, structure arguments, and ‘crush reports’
Shift AI Podcast: Madrona’s Matt McIlwain on Seattle’s place at the center of the AI universe

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Shift AI Podcast: How AI is shaking up the worlds of media, marketing, and startups

by Boaz Ashkenazy on June 19, 2024June 19, 2024 at 10:05 am

How is artificial intelligence making marketers more productive? How are journalists approaching the ethical dilemmas inherent to AI content creation? And how can scrappy startups hope to compete with well-funded… Read More

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Shift AI Podcast: Setting AI guidelines at work, with City of Seattle interim CTO, Jim Loter

by Boaz Ashkenazy on May 24, 2024May 24, 2024 at 7:15 am

As the interim CTO of the City of Seattle and leader of IT-related projects within the city’s departments, Jim Loter has deep insights into how municipal employees use emerging technology… Read More

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Shift AI Podcast: How AI is evolving in 2024, with Microsoft Distinguished Engineer Pablo Castro

by Boaz Ashkenazy on May 9, 2024May 9, 2024 at 6:45 am

As a distinguished engineer working on the Microsoft Azure AI Search team, Pablo Castro has insight into the inner workings of generative AI, AI search, and the approach that Microsoft… Read More

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Shift AI Podcast: Cultivating the next wave of AI startups, with Yifan Zhang of the AI2 Incubator

by Boaz Ashkenazy on April 3, 2024April 3, 2024 at 8:05 am

As the managing director of the AI2 Incubator, where she plays an active role in investing in the next wave of AI-first companies, Yifan Zhang shares a nuanced view on… Read More

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Shift AI Podcast: Building confidence through AI with Varun Puri, CEO of Yoodli

by Boaz Ashkenazy on March 13, 2024March 13, 2024 at 8:06 am

After being tapped by Sergey Brin to run special projects at Google, Varun Puri found himself at Google X playing de facto speech coach for many of his colleagues. Helping people… Read More

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How this state senator uses AI to augment his staff, structure arguments, and ‘crush reports’

by Boaz Ashkenazy on February 12, 2024February 12, 2024 at 10:21 am

Working as one of the chief budget writers in the Washington State Senate for the first time, Sen. Joe Nguyen needed to discuss and debate hundreds of items, collectively worth… Read More

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Shift AI Podcast: AI investing in Seattle with Ascend’s Kirby Winfield

by Boaz Ashkenazy on December 20, 2023December 20, 2023 at 7:49 am

“Nobody cares about your AI…customers don’t care about your AI. They care about the problem that you’re solving and that you’re doing it 10 times better or 10 times more… Read More

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Shift AI Podcast: Laying the bedrock for generative AI at Amazon with AWS VP Vasi Philomin

by Boaz Ashkenazy on November 22, 2023November 22, 2023 at 1:34 pm

“AI has massive benefits for automating and streamlining more tedious, redundant, and time consuming tasks. If we can offload these kinds of tasks to AI, I think humans can then… Read More

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Shift AI Podcast: ‘Chill work’ as the path to productivity, with Rand Fishkin of SparkToro

by Boaz Ashkenazy on November 1, 2023November 2, 2023 at 7:59 am

“My whole hope for the AI revolution … is that AI should make it so people have to work less, but make better decisions around the things that people are… Read More

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Shift AI Podcast: Using AI to read the room with David Shim (CEO, Read AI)

by Boaz Ashkenazy on October 16, 2023October 16, 2023 at 9:01 am

“The future of work will be less monotonous. AI will take care of it on the back end and free up time to do more critical thinking…you will challenge yourself… Read More

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Shift AI Podcast: Riding the wave of AI startup innovation with Pioneer Square Labs’ T.A. McCann

by Boaz Ashkenazy on September 22, 2023September 22, 2023 at 11:14 am

“I think any pitch that doesn’t have AI in it is just not going to get a look unless the team is incredible… but it’d be unlikely that an incredible… Read More

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Shift AI Podcast: What this veteran AI leader discussed with President Biden in a private meeting

by Boaz Ashkenazy on September 8, 2023September 8, 2023 at 10:21 am

“So we were ushered into a room and the president came in. He was engaged, he was witty…he was asking really good questions. Each of us had a chance to… Read More

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Shift AI Podcast: Madrona’s Matt McIlwain on Seattle’s place at the center of the AI universe

by Boaz Ashkenazy on August 26, 2023August 26, 2023 at 6:54 am

[Editor’s Note: On this week’s GeekWire Podcast, we’re featuring an episode of Shift AI, a podcast hosted by Boaz Ashkenazy, CEO of AI solutions provider Simply Augmented, with guest Matt… Read More

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