Barak Turovsky is Executive in Residence at Scale Venture Partners, a leading Enterprise venture capital firm. Barak spent 10 years at Google as Head of Product and User Experience for Languages AI and the Google Translate teams, focused on applying cutting edge Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning technologies to deliver experiences across Google Search, Assistant, Cloud, Chrome, Ads and other products.
Prior to joining Google in 2011, Barak was Director of Product in Microsoft’s Mobile Advertising team, Head of Mobile Commerce at PayPal and Chief Technical Officer in an Israeli start up. Most recently, Barak served as Chief Product Officer – responsible for product management and engineering at Trax – a leading provider of Computer Vision AI solutions for the Retail and Commerce industries.
He lived for more than 10 years in Russia, Israel and the US and speaks three languages fluently. Barak earned a Bachelor’s of Law degree from Tel Aviv University and a Master’s of Business Administration from the University of California, Berkeley.
Barak’s recent work on AI:
- A framework for evaluating Generative AI use cases.
- Barak's interview with GLG Experts Network about Generative AI
- Keynote at CES 2021 about latest and greatest in Languages AI
- Talk at CES 2020 about dealing with bias in AI models (super relevant for ChatGBT/Generative AI)
- Google AI work with Google Ads team to improve ads targeting (Semantic Targeting)
- The Great AI awakening story from New York Times (covering the first-ever productization of deep neural networks with Google Translate), is one of best written stories about ML/AI history and challenges
- Barak presentation to Indian Prime Minister Modi when he visited Google campus
- For some fun – Google Translate vs. La Bamba (Google Translate team playing with visual, AR-based translation feature)
Cool investment thesis resource:
Y Combinator Investment Thesis Map for AI (Note: once again, “Productivity” hardly a big theme)
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