The Tech Blog Writer Podcast - Inspired Tech Startup Stories & Interviews With Tech Leaders, Entrepreneurs And Innovators

Today, I welcome Zuzanna Stamirowska, CEO and co-founder of Pathway, a pioneering French tech startup. Zuzanna, celebrated for her achievements including the Female Founders Challenge award at VivaTech, joins us to explore the innovative concept of 'unlearning' in AI and its transformative implications. Unlearning in AI, as Zuzanna elucidates, involves the ability of AI models to delete specific data points and their effects without undergoing a complete retraining. This advancement is particularly crucial in the realm of linear models like trees, compared to the complexities of neural networks. The concept goes beyond mere technical innovation; it's a step towards implementing privacy rights like the EU's 'right to be forgotten' and addressing the challenge of catastrophic forgetting in AI. I explore how Pathway leverages unlearning for dynamic operational analytics in sectors such as logistics, legal search, and financial trading. We discuss the unique challenges and solutions in applying unlearning to gene