Season 5 · Episode 3
Web3 and Putting Reputation on Code with ML with Omoju Miller
This episode features an interview with Omoju Miller, Founder and CEO of Fimio, a web3 reputation company. Originally from Lagos, Nigeria, Omoju holds a doctoral degree in Computer Science Education from UC Berkeley. Her expertise in machine learning and computational intelligence led her to companies such as Google and GitHub. Omoju also served as a volunteer advisor to the Obama administration’s White House Presidential Innovation Fellows.
In this episode, Sam sits down with Omoju to discuss how machine learning can make applications more secure, what the future of the internet looks like, and the fascinating story behind Fimio.
Episode Guest
Episode Transcript
The full transcript can be found here.
Guest Quote
“So my first view is, in this future internet we have people, we also have bots, we have machines, we have code doing things. And bots sounds like such a horrible word now. [...] You need to have a level of trust on what that bot is. Everything from the humans to the machines collaborating in this decentralized world, we need to have some kind of reputation attached to each of those nodes. And the reason why we need that reputation is, as the thing scales, it becomes overwhelming to get value from it. You need something to help you filter, to find what you're looking for. Otherwise, you get stuck in that environment where you're just completely overwhelmed and you don't even know what to do. So I think of what I'm doing as just reputation to make this decentralized future slightly more attainable.” – Omoju Miller
Episode Timestamps
(00:59): Omoju’s inspiration for starting Fimio
(10:27): The future of smart contracts
(28:47): Using mathematics to guarantee the safety of algorithms
(34:34): What led Omoju to building a mathematical product
(51:27): What open source data means to Omoju
(55:38): One question Omoju wishes to be asked
(57:47): Omoju’s advice for the audience
(01:00:08): Backstage takeaways with executive producer, Audra Montenegro
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