To give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved ' and overdue ' time in the spotlight, TechCrunch has been publishing a series of interviews focused on remarkable women who've contributed to the AI revolution. We're publishing these pieces throughout the year as the AI boom continues, highlighting key work that often goes unrecognized. Read more profiles here. Catherine Breslin is the founder and director of Kingfisher Labs, where she helps companies develop AI strategies. She has spent more than two decades as an AI scientist and has worked for Cambridge University, Toshiba Research, and even Amazon Alexa. She was previously an adviser to the VC fund Deeptech Labs and was the Solutions Architect Director at Cobalt Speech & Language. I always loved maths and physics at school and I chose to study engineering at university. That's where I first learned about AI, though it wasn't called AI at the time. I got intrigued by the idea of using computers to do the...
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