31C
Aug 17. 2026

31C Data Talk - Dr. Luc Julia

Time to read: 31 minutes

31C Data Talk - Dr. Luc Julia

31C Data Talk - Dr. Luc Julia

Dr. Luc JULIA helped build the technology behind Siri back in 1997, long before Google existed, and later ran it at Apple after Steve Jobs acquired the company. From there his path runs through HP, Samsung, and Renault Group, where as Chief Scientific Officer he helped turn a legacy automaker into a tech company.

In this episode, Luc explains why he insists "there is no such thing as AI," only many narrow tools that are each better than us at one specific thing, why he still compares AI to a calculator, and why his new book argues that AI doesn't create anything, we do, through the prompt. A rare, grounded conversation with one of the people who actually built the technology everyone else is now chasing.