Ben Vigoda is an accomplished leader in artificial intelligence and machine learning, currently serving as a member of the DARPA AI Steering Committee and a visiting scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. With a notable career as the CEO of Product Genius and Gamalon, Ben has spearheaded groundbreaking projects, including a significant DARPA-funded machine learning initiative and the development of unsupervised transformer deep learning language models. As a co-founder of Lyric Semiconductor, Ben pioneered hardware architectures for machine learning algorithms. Ben's influence extends to educational contributions at MIT and extensive patent filings, underscored by a TEDx Boston talk highlighting AI's potential.