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Omar Abdelaziz Is Teaching the iPhone to Do the Tapping
He started by fixing used iPhones. After six years shaping Google’s voice products, Omar Abdelaziz has returned to the device in his pocket - this time with a small blue plug and a larger idea about who should do the busywork.
Prashant Shishodia Is Teaching Machines to Hear the Whole Conversation
From a scholarship classroom in India to Google-scale machine learning and a two-person San Francisco audio lab, Shishodia has kept returning to the same useful obsession: make ambitious models efficient enough to matter.
Nate Okonkwo
Nate Okonkwo (also known as Aneto Okonkwo) is the co-founder and CEO of Remarkable AI, the New York software company formerly called Chatdesk. After 7+ years at Google building Voice Search and the Google Assistant, he left to apply machine learning to customer service - an industry that employs millions and, in his view, was ripe for both better software and better jobs. His platform now helps more than 1,000 brands grow revenue through personalized messaging across email, social, and SMS, blending AI with human agents to hit 90%+ customer satisfaction.