Aug 13, 2026 · 33 min · 8 segments
You've no doubt heard about AI agents working autonomously in the background of businesses everywhere. Here's an uncomfortable question: who, or what, is actually checking that they're doing what they…
Svetha VenkateshGuest
Greta ThomasHost
Claire HattonHost
It's not every day we get one of the world's top 15 women in artificial intelligence on the show, so thank you for making the time.
You might have heard that, a question we ask all of our guests to kick off our conversations.
So if you were at a dinner party, Spencer, and you're sitting next to someone you hadn't met before, and they turn to you and they said, so what do you do for a living? How do you typically answer that question?
It's an interesting question because I get asked that quite often and you won't have to answer it in the simplest possible way.
And when I first came to Geelong, I was at a barbecue and somebody asked me that question, what do you do? And I said, I find patterns.
And he said, can you come to my office tomorrow? Because he turned out to be the CEO of Bowen Health.
I find patterns, weak patterns, patterns that have some meaning, hopefully to some end.
And it seems like pattern recognition has been your thing that you're truly passionate about.
Would you say it's a math skill or a data science skill or an analytic skill or a bit of all of them?
So it's always been a discipline in computer science, and it's just been called different things over the ages.
And from that, the pattern recognition then developed into a field, many, many fields, multimedia, which is, for example, how you search on YouTube today.
It's not every day we get one of the world's top 15 women in artificial intelligence on the show, so thank you for making the time.
You might have heard that, a question we ask all of our guests to kick off our conversations.
So if you were at a dinner party, Spencer, and you're sitting next to someone you hadn't met before, and they turn to you and they said, so what do you do for a living? How do you typically answer that question?
It's an interesting question because I get asked that quite often and you won't have to answer it in the simplest possible way.
And when I first came to Geelong, I was at a barbecue and somebody asked me that question, what do you do? And I said, I find patterns.
And he said, can you come to my office tomorrow? Because he turned out to be the CEO of Bowen Health.
I find patterns, weak patterns, patterns that have some meaning, hopefully to some end.
And it seems like pattern recognition has been your thing that you're truly passionate about.
Would you say it's a math skill or a data science skill or an analytic skill or a bit of all of them?
So it's always been a discipline in computer science, and it's just been called different things over the ages.
And from that, the pattern recognition then developed into a field, many, many fields, multimedia, which is, for example, how you search on YouTube today.
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