A Conversation On AI & Machine Learning

Adam Wenchel, Vice President of AI and Data Innovation at Capital One, knows his way around AI. He's an Artificial Intelligence trailblazer with more than 20 years of experience in the field. "If you changed the rules of chess, a human grandmaster would be able to adapt. They wouldn't be quite as good at it, but they'd be able to play the game." He took the only two AI classes available at his college in the late 1990's and his first gig after graduation was working in AI at DARPA--the agency that created the internet. Just outside the door sit all the trappings of smart people trying to solve difficult problems: open spaces, curved monitors, free snacks and the soft ticking of keyboards punctuated by a vintage mechanical keyboard around a corner somewhere.