Interview #85 Bakak Hodjat, CAIO at Cognizant

About this episode

Babak Hodjat discusses the advancements and challenges in agentic AI and its implications for enterprises.

Join Babak Hodjat, Chief AI Officer at Cognizant, as he unpacks what's actually happening at the cutting edge of agentic AI — from agents that run continuously without being asked, to the governance crisis quietly unfolding inside enterprises right now. Babak draws on decades of AI research to break down multi-agent architecture, the TerraLingua experiment that let AI agents form their own societies, and a breakthrough in evolutionary fine-tuning that could change how the entire industry thinks about customizing large language models.

People in this episode

Host: Dr. Tony Hoang

Guest: Babak Hodjat

Topics covered

• agentic AI
• multi-agent architecture
• AI governance
• evolutionary fine-tuning
• large language models
• AI research

Keywords

• agentic AI
• multi-agent architecture
• AI governance
• evolutionary fine-tuning
• large language models
• TerraLingua experiment

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Cognizant

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