AI for humans

Tomorrow I am giving one of the invited talks in the Applied Data Science track at KDD 2026 in Jeju, Korea. It’s a builder’s tour of some of the audio stack at Boson AI in three parts: how we train models that can hold a conversation, how we design benchmarks that tell us whether the next model is actually better, and how we decide which benchmarks are worth running at all. There’ll be a show and…