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Decoding TechThe Great Chatbot Debate: Do LLMs Really Understand?Do Large Language Models like Chat GPT have the “sparks” of true intelligence, or are they merely “stochastic parrots,” lacking understanding and meaning. Hear a debate on this matter between University of Washington's computational linguist Emily Bender and OpenAI's Sébastien Bubeck. IEEE Spectrum Senior Editor Eliza Strickland moderatesThis program was a partnership with IEEE Spectrum and was made possible by the generous support of the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation. This conversation was recorded on March 25, 2025 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, as a part of the CHM Live series. To watch a vid...2025-04-021h 07

Grandpa Is HimEpisode 4 - Let The StableIn this special release we listen to the Christmas Devotional presented by the Sunset Beach Stake of the Church of Jesus Christ of latter-day Saints. This one hour long performance was written and directed by Karen DimickSong- “Let the Stable Still Astonish”- Stake ChoirSoloist- Kate EnsleyCellist- Isla MadsenSong- “Born is the Light of the World”- Stake ChoirBy Sally DeFord Song- “Come, Lord Jesus”- Children’s Choir Song- “Bring a Torch Jeanette, Isabella” Children’s Choir w/ Huntington Beach an...2024-12-1957 min

Microsoft Research PodcastNeurIPS 2024: AI for Science with Chris BishopIn this special edition of the podcast, Technical Fellow and Microsoft Research AI for Science Director Chris Bishop joins guest host Eliza Strickland in the Microsoft Booth at the 38th annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) in Vancouver, British Columbia, to talk about deep learning’s potential to improve the speed and scale at which scientific advancements can be made.2024-12-1321 min

Fixing the FutureUsing AI to Clear Land Mines in UkraineGabriel Steinberg, co-founder of the nonprofit Demining Research Community and the startup Safe Pro AI talks with Spectrum editor Eliza Strickland about using machine learning to speed up demining operations in former Ukranian battlefields. 2024-05-2928 min

Counsel for LifeWhen children struggle with fear, Featuring Darby StricklandThis episode features Darby Strickland, author of Something Scary Happened. Darby is a counselor who works with families who have experienced trauma, and her new book is designed for children ages four to seven. Darby shares with us some of the ways in which adults can come alongside children who are experiencing fear, and she gives us encouragement for how to seek additional help when needed.Also shared in this episode is Darby's minibook for helpers and parents called When Children Experience Trauma: Help for Parents and Caregivers. Become a friend of the podcast by s...2024-03-0624 min

Fixing the FutureThe Brain Implant That Sidesteps The CompetitionWe've all seen impressive demos of prototype brain implants being used by paralyzed patients to interface with computers, but none of those implants have entered general clinical use. Biomedical device company Synchron is close to actually coming to market with its stentrode technology, promising less spectacular results than some of its competitors, but making up for that with ease of use and implant longevity. Synchron's co-founder Tom Oxley talks with IEEE Spectrum senior editor Eliza Strickland about the new tech, and you can read more in our January issue article by Emily Waltz.2024-01-2426 min

Fixing the FutureYour Life As A Digital GhostWendy H. Wong is a professor of political science at the University of British Columbia, and author of the just released book, We, The Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age. An excerpt from the book regarding the emerging prospect of digitally reanimating the departed is available on IEEE Spectrum's website. In this episode of Fixing The Future, Wong talks with senior editor Eliza Strickland about how the increasing datification of our lives could make this prospect possible—with or without our consent. 2023-10-1825 min

Fixing the FutureFinding Battery Minerals With AIReducing our global carbon footprint by switching to electric vehicles means we need a lot more batteries. And that means we need a lot more copper, nickel, cobalt, and lithium to make those batteries. Josh Goldman of KoBold Metals talks to senior editor Eliza Strickland about using AI to decipher geological formations and find new deposits of these minerals, and you can read more in his recent feature for IEEE Spectrum. 2023-09-2023 min

Fixing the FutureFinding The Wisest Ways To Global AI RegulationAround the world, legislators are grappling with generative AI's potential for both innovation and destruction. Russell Wald is the Director of Policy for Stanford's Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence. In this episode, he talks with IEEE Spectrum senior editor Eliza Strickland about creating humane regulations that are able to cope with a rapidly evolving technology.2023-08-2330 min

Fixing the FutureRerouting Intention And Sensation In Paralyzed PatientsPatients who have traumatic nerve injuries can face significant paralysis, including paraplegia and quadriplegia. Chad Bouton's research is on developing devices that can decode and recode the electrical signals that normally flow between a limb and the brain, allowing damage to be bypassed. 2023-01-2424 min

Fixing the FutureBetter Carbon Sequestration With AIOne potential path to tackling climate change due to rising carbon dioxide levels is to lock the carbon dioxide away in geological reservoirs deep underground. Deep learning AI technologies can produce better models of these reservoirs, essential if they are to be used at a big enough scale to make a difference.2023-01-1018 min

Fixing the FutureThe Why, How, and Maybe Not of GeoengineeringSilver Lining's executive direction Kelly Wanser explains why rising temperatures are behind the push to geoengineer the world's climate, the most plausible technologies, and why we need a lot more research to find out if it's a good idea, and if so, how to do it on a global scale. Hosted by IEEE Spectrum editor Eliza Strickland.2022-11-0126 min

PoisonranaSITD 4/20/22: Meiko Gets Misted, Velvet After DarkJohn Siino reviews this week’s editions of AEW Dark, AEW Dark: Elevation, NXT UK, IMPACT Wrestling, NXT Level Up, NJPW Strong, NWA USA, NWA Powerrr, and Main Event in under 15 minutes on Shot In The Dark.This week on AEW Dark: Elevation, Kris Statlander’s transformation continues, Tony Nese gains the management of ‘Smart’ Mark Sterling and The Hardys team up with Top Flight to take on AFO’s Private Party, Angelico & The Blade.NXT UK has trouble brewing within Gallus, Meiko Satomura asks Isla Dawn for her title back but gets a lot more in re...2022-04-2018 min

What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the futureWhen Your Retina Needs a Software UpdateSecond Sight restored partial vision to hundreds of patients around the world through retinal implants. Then, on the verge of bankruptcy, they abandoned the project. Now, over 300 patients with Second Sight technology in their bodies are asking: what will happen to us?Guest: Eliza Strickland, senior editor at IEEE SpectrumHost: Lizzie O'Leary Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices 2022-03-0623 min

Slate TechnologyWhat Next TBD: When Your Retina Needs a Software UpdateSecond Sight restored partial vision to hundreds of patients around the world through retinal implants. Then, on the verge of bankruptcy, they abandoned the project. Now, over 300 patients with Second Sight technology in their bodies are asking: what will happen to us?Guest: Eliza Strickland, senior editor at IEEE SpectrumHost: Lizzie O'Leary Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices 2022-03-0623 min

AngreementDystopia, Dystopia, DystopiaIn this episode of Angreement, Michelle and Katherine discuss history (again!) but this time with dinosaurs. They also reveal what they google late in the night, talk mind-prisons, super-bowl ads and so much more! “The Contagious Thought That Could Kill You” by David Robson, BBC Future, 2015 https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20150210-can-you-think-yourself-to-death “What Is the Nocebo Effect?” by Joseph Stromberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 2012 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/what-is-the-nocebo-effect-5451823/ Show this video to your kids and see if they smile YouTube Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8GS3Pk8kFk Meta Quest Super Bowl Ad https://www.youtube.com/watc...2022-03-031h 36

Duimpjeworstelen087 // Johan de Joode 🆚 The Shape of Water // DuimpjeworstelenDe schoonmaakster en het zeemonster, het is een gouden recept voor romantiek. Dat vond ook de Academy, die The Shape of Water (2017) beloonde met de Oscar voor Beste Film. De Mexicaanse regisseur Guillermo del Toro kon in deze film al zijn eigen genegenheid kwijt voor de monsterklassieker The Creature from the Black Lagoon uit 1954. Eliza (Sally Hawkins) werkt als schoonmaakster in een onderzoeksinstituut. Als daar een amfibische man – met schubben en kieuwen – wordt binnengedragen, kruipt het bloed al gauw waar het niet gaan kan. Maar er ligt ook schurk op de loer: de lompe veiligheidsman Strickland. Vinden Eliza e...2022-02-231h 08

Digital PlanetThe bionic eye that’s obsoleteImagine receiving the latest medical implant that can partially restore your vision, now imagine the technology behind your implant no longer being produced or supported. That’s what happened to about 350 patients around the world, as the medical start-up company behind a particular implant called Second Sight medical products has hit financial difficulties. Eliza Strickland and Mark Harris from IEEE Spectrum first reported on the story and tell us what happened.iPhone 13 Pro Max – the latest in ophthalmic medicine? As recently as February 2021, medical journal "The Lancet" reported that "Almost everyone will experience impaired vision or an eye...2022-02-2244 min

Counsel for LifeCaring for Victims of Abuse: An Interview with Darby StricklandDarby Strickland joins us in this episode to share her extensive wisdom related to caring for others who have experienced abuse. We discuss her book, Is It Abuse: A Biblical Guide to Identifying Domestic Abuse and Helping Victims, and Darby shares about the ways the Lord has shaped her life as she cares for those who have suffered greatly.Follow Darby:https://www.darbystrickland.com/Follow us:https://counselforlifepodcast.com/http://elizahuie.comhttp://bethmariebroom.comBecome a friend of the podcast by subscribing! Our subscribers are invited to q...2022-01-1923 min

Movies Are ReelDiscussing the Movies of December 2019It's the end of the year, baby! Happy 2020. We brought you the gift of Movie Discourse. Star Wars talk starts at 39:23 and ends at 54:53. Fair Warning, we are very negative on it and you can skip it if ya want. DECEMBER Dark Waters - dir. Todd Haynes; Mark Ruffalo, Anne Hathaway, Tim Robbins, William Jackson Harper Marriage Story- dir. Noah Baumbach; Adam Driver, Scarlett Johansson, Laura Dern, Alan Alda, Ray Liotta The Two Popes- dir. Fernando Meirelles; Anthony Hopkins, Johnathan Pryce Cats: The Movie 2019 - dir. Tom Hooper; Francesca Hayward, Taylor Swift, Idris Elba, Judi Dench, Jennifer Hudson, Rebel Wilson...2020-01-071h 35

AlcohollywoodOSCAR SPECIAL: The Shape of Water (2017)It's Oscar season once again, and like we do every year, we do a deep dive into one of the Best Picture nominees! This time around, Michael Snydel of The Film Stage joins Clint (who's a little stuffy this episode, apologies in advance!) and Jared to talk about Guillermo del Toro's nomination-sweeping fantasy love story The Shape of Water! Set in a Cold War-era America filtered through del Toro's intricate dark-fantasy lens, The Shape of Water follows Eliza, a lovesick mute girl (Sally Hawkins) who falls for an man-like fish creature (Doug Jones) imprisoned in an American milita...2018-03-0200 min

The Story ColliderEliza Strickland: Lost in the deepScience writer Eliza Strickland discovers that in the race to the bottom of the Mariana Trench the most important thing is what they leave behind. Eliza Strickland is an editor for the magazine IEEE Spectrum, where she was assigned the daunting beat of covering technology across the Asian continent. On her third day on the job a tsunami flooded the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, causing the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl. She spent the next two years writing about the catastrophe, its human cost, and the future of energy. And this one time, in Seoul, she rode the...2013-10-2017 min $Dr. Kiki\'s Science Hour (Audio)$ Dr. Kiki's Science Hour (Audio)A Nuclear Conversation - We talk about nuclear energy and Fukushima one year after 3/11 We talk about nuclear energy and Fukushima one year after 3/11. Host: Dr. Kiki Sanford Guest: Eliza Strickland Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/dr-kikis-science-hour. We invite you to read, add to, and amend our show notes. Thanks to CacheFly for the bandwidth for this show. Sponsor: Netflix 2012-03-161h 02 $Dr. Kiki\'s Science Hour (Video)$ Dr. Kiki's Science Hour (Video)A Nuclear Conversation - We talk about nuclear energy and Fukushima one year after 3/11 We talk about nuclear energy and Fukushima one year after 3/11. Host: Dr. Kiki Sanford Guest: Eliza Strickland Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/dr-kikis-science-hour. We invite you to read, add to, and amend our show notes. Thanks to CacheFly for the bandwidth for this show. Sponsor: Netflix 2012-03-161h 02