Your playbook for making AI real, practical, and valuable.
Jie Tao, DSc, an associate professor of business analytics and the director of the AI and Technology Institute at Fairfield University’s Charles F. Dolan School of Business, provides listeners with a practical guide to mastering AI for real results.
Each episode delivers actionable tools, proven frameworks, and real-world case studies to help leaders and innovators leverage AI for business growth and career success. Explore topics from the Practical AI Playbook to insights from Fairfield Dolan's AI and Tech Institute and discover powerful AI applications shaping the future.
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Tuesday Mar 24, 2026
Tuesday Mar 24, 2026
Hosts Philip Maymin, Jie Tao, and Chris Huntley continue their conversation with Stella Maymin, a Harvard sophomore who has worked behind the scenes training models through Outlier. Stella walks through her experience grading outputs, correcting reasoning, and teaching systems to improve at math and image editing, sparking a broader discussion about why process matters more than product when it comes to building better technology.
The conversation turns to Richard Feynman's cargo cult science analogy, the death of benchmarks, and what it means to train a system to truly understand rather than just mimic. Stella also shares how she uses ChatGPT as a personalized study partner and a first reader for her fiction writing, and the group debates college policies around permitted use in the classroom. Throughout, a single thread connects it all: the path you take matters as much as where you end up.