Very happy to announce that I placed 2nd place winner out of over 700 initial ideas in Davies Innovation Lab Season 5! 🎉

Very happy to announce that I placed 2nd place winner out of over 700 initial ideas in Davies Innovation Lab Season 5! 🎉

Slightly delayed to the announcement party, but I feel now is a good time to sit down and put some thoughts on ‘digital’ paper. I will be able to work on my idea within the Davies AI Team in the future.

Our Nashville (‘honky tonk’) experience was nothing short of incredible. It was a great chance to meet colleagues from various parts of the business and ‘hang out’ with the SLT. There’s something very wholesome and grounding about sharing a pint (or two…) with your SLT and realising they are genuine people with personalities. When I joined a company of this size just two years ago, I feared it might be all corporate speak and numbers, but this experience showed me it’s far from the truth

For a company like Davies to offer such an opportunity is just unheard of. From ideation to a pitch in front of key decision makers, and ability to be enormously impactful on the business. The support from my colleagues, the work we do at DTS, and the sense of the people leading the company from above has given me great pride to be at Davies.

Having the opportunity to have an idea and create something out of it, is a strangely addictive privilege. For my project, I decided to create a Technical POC. I’m not a ‘traditionally’ creative person, but I LOVE buildings things. I love designing various components; putting them together like Lego bricks until something aligns with my vision for it. Being able to code & program, truly is one of the most empowering skills of this century.

Recently, in my free time, I have been experimenting with OpenAI’s Whisper locally, and it’s amazing to see 30x real-time on my M2 (one test I transcribed 3.5min audio in 4.5 seconds). I have started a GitHub project, to manipulate video and audio into text, with next step creation of knowledge graph for easier analytical processing. My inspiration?  Andrew Huberman’s podcasts. I want to create a way to quickly distil hours of scientifically-backed advice into actionable insights – something immensely powerful to an ADHDer like myself.

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