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Jubilee Church Wirral – Sunday messagesHelen O’Brien: God speaksHelen on how God spoke in the past and continues to speak in the present.
Helen’s message is split into three parts:
1. God Spoke
2. Speaking to God
3. God Still Speaks Today
Helen shares an incredible story about the birth of her son Mikey, showing how God doesn’t just speak through scripture or directly to us – although He does both of those things – but sometimes by speaking through others.
Helen urges us to listen for His voice and encourages us to seek prayer.
The post Hel...2025-03-3025 min
On The CuspSeason 9, Episode 4: Latasha Lee & Helen Plater with Orphic Training SolutionsOn The Cusp’s special guests today are Latasha Lee and Helen Plater, founders of Orphic Training Solutions. Join your hosts, Matt and Dave, as they chat with Latasha Lee and Helen Plater, the dynamic duo behind Orphic Training Solutions in Shreveport. Orphic Training Solutions is an accelerated learning center that equips individuals with hands-on training to earn certifications in the healthcare industry. Latasha and Helen open up about the hustle of balancing their full-time jobs with their passion for helping others advance their careers. Tune in to hear their inspiring story!2025-01-2917 min
The Marketing & AI Podcast: The MAPHelen Ritchie - Enabling British business leaders for an AI-driven futureAre British business leaders gearing up to be AI-ready? This question is explored with our guest on this episode, Helen Ritchie. Helen is a Digital Marketing and Transformation Specialist, and as a consultant and lecturer has designed and delivered learning programmes on leading digital transformation for such esteemed institutions as the London Business School, the UN, as well as business schools and Universities in India and Singapore.Helen is a passionate advocate for the swift adoption of AI by British businesses and has successfully placed it at the heart of her digital marketing and transformation courses. But...2025-01-1636 min
Property Profits Real Estate PodcastHow Asian Families Invest in Real Estate with Helen DangWelcome to another insightful episode of the Property Profits Real Estate Podcast! Join us as Helen Dang, a seasoned real estate investor and broker from Sacramento, California, shares her expertise on how Asian families navigate real estate investments in the region. Helen discusses unique investment strategies, from cash purchases to family-based ownership models, offering a deep dive into Sacramento's market dynamics and future development plans. Don't miss this engaging conversation on maximizing returns and community-driven investments!
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O'talkin' with DaveHELEN KELLER and the MODERN FEMINIST...Send us a textWhat do HELEN KELLER and the MODERN FEMINIST have in common? They are both DEAF, DUMB, and BLIND...I know that is old terminology and seems harsh, but join Dave and he can explain:HELEN KELLER's role in FEMINISMFoundational beliefs and causes of the initial FEMINIST movementExamples of how MODERN FEMINISTS are selectively SILENTWays to FIGHT for a CAUSE without CONDITIONINGWe owe it to our WIVES, DAUGHTERS, MOTHERS, and FEMALE friends...Giddyup!!!Email David@Otalks.com or OWD@Otalks.com for comments, questions, or i...2024-11-1853 min
The Developing Life PodcastExamining AI Through The Human Lens with Helen and Dave EdwardsHow do we ensure AI enhances rather than replaces human creativity? In episode 22 of The Developing Life Podcast, Technology executives and founders of Artificiality- Helen and Dave Edwards share their vision of a future where AI and humanity work hand-in-hand. Explore their strategies for navigating the ethical challenges of AI, maximizing business growth, and embracing the future of tech innovation. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------In this conversation, technology executives Helen and Dave Edwards delve into the intricate dynamics of artificial intelligence and its profound impact on the future of work, creativity, and society. Drawing from their ext...2024-08-211h 22
Jubilee Church Wirral – Sunday messagesHelen O’Brien: Letters of the BibleHelen O’Brien, one of Jubilee’s Life Group leaders, talks about the letters of the Bible.
Thirteen of the letters were written by Paul. The man who used to kill Christians until he met Jesus.
Helen talks about the purpose of Paul’s letters; among other things, they were written to encourage, teach, ask for help and send love.
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Artificiality: Minds Meeting MachinesOmri Allouche: Gong AIWe’re excited to welcome to the podcast Omri Allouche, the VP of Research at Gong, an AI-driven revenue intelligence platform for B2B sales teams. Omri has had a fascinating career journey with a PhD in computational ecology before moving into the world of AI startups. At Gong, Omri leads research into how AI and machine learning can transform the way sales teams operate.
In our conversation today, we'll explore Omri's perspective on managing AI research and innovation. We'll discuss Gong’s approach to analyzing sales conversations at scale, and the challenges of building AI systems that...2024-05-0540 minArtificiality: Minds Meeting MachinesSusannah Fox: Rebel HealthWe’re excited to welcome to the podcast Susannah Fox, a renowned researcher who has spent over 20 years studying how patients and caregivers use the internet to gather information and support each other. Susannah has collected countless stories from the frontlines of healthcare and has keen insights into how patients are stepping into their power to drive change.
Susannah recently published a book called "Rebel Health: A Field Guide to the Patient-Led Revolution in Medical Care." In it, she introduces four key personas that represent different ways patients and caregivers are shaking up the status quo in he...2024-04-2048 min
Jubilee Church Wirral – Sunday messagesHelen O’Brien: Jesus the Divine AuthorityHelen on giving Jesus the authority to work in our lives and through our lives.
As believers in Jesus Christ, with the power of the Holy Spirit guiding and empowering us, we have authority given to us – but we need to be careful to use it correctly.
Jesus gave us authority to preach the gospel to help the hurting world, not to harm it further.
Through prayer, and exercising our spiritual gifts, we can lead others to Jesus. God has entrusted us with the authority of believers and we should use it wisely....2024-03-1729 min
Biblical Time MachineLeprosy in the Bible — What Was It?The history doctor is in! Helen and Dave welcome Dr. Ricky Shinall — an MD with a PhD in biblical studies — to help us diagnose leprosy in the ancient world. Did biblical leprosy have anything to do with modern Hansen's disease? Were lepers considered "untouchable" pariahs? And what does all of this have to do with ritual impurity? For more, check out Dr. Shinall's article "Skin Disease and Social Exclusion" at our content partner Bible Odyssey. BREAKING NEWSThe Biblical Time Machine Store is open! Check out our 4-part audio study guide called "The Gospel...2024-03-0447 minArtificiality: Minds Meeting MachinesAngel Acosta: Contemplation, Healing, and AIWe’re excited to welcome to the podcast Dr. Angel Acosta, an expert on healing-centered education and leadership. Angel runs the Acosta Institute which helps communities process trauma and build environments for people to thrive.
He also facilitates leadership programs at the Garrison Institute that support the next generation of contemplative leaders. With his background in social sciences, curriculum design, and adult education, Angel has been thinking deeply about how artificial intelligence intersects with mindfulness, social justice and education.
In our conversation, we explore how AI can help or hinder our capacity for contemplation and healing...2024-03-0243 minArtificiality: Minds Meeting MachinesDoug Belshaw: Serendipity Surface & AIWe're excited to welcome Doug Belshaw to the show today. Doug is a founding member of the We Are Open Co-op which helps organizations with sensemaking and digital transformation.
Doug coined the term "serendipity surface" to describe cultivating an attitude of curiosity and increasing the chance encounters we have by putting ourselves out there. We adopted the term quite some time ago and were eager to talk with Doug about how he thinks about serendipity surfaces in the age of generative AI.
As former Head of Web Literacy at Mozilla and now currently pursuing a...2024-02-2345 minArtificiality: Minds Meeting MachinesRichard Kerris of NVIDIA: AI, Creators, and DevelopersWe’re excited to welcome Richard Kerris, Vice President of Developer Relations and GM of Media & Entertainment at NVIDIA, to the show today. Richard has had an extensive career working with creators and developers across film, music, gaming, and more. He offers valuable insights into how AI and machine learning are transforming creative tools and workflows.
In particular, Richard shares his perspective on how these advanced technologies are democratizing access to high-end capabilities, putting more power into the hands of a broader range of storytellers. He discusses the implications of this for the media industry—will it disp...2024-02-1750 minArtificiality: Minds Meeting MachinesTyler Marghetis: The Leaps of Human ImaginationWe're excited to welcome Tyler Marghetis, Assistant Professor of Cognitive & Information Sciences at the University of California, Merced, to the show today. Tyler studies what he calls the "lulls and leaps" or "ruts and ruptures" of human imagination and experience.
He's fascinated by how we as humans can get stuck in certain patterns of thinking and acting, but then also occasionally experience radical transformations in our perspectives. In our conversation, Tyler shares with us some of his lab's fascinating research into understanding and even predicting these creative breakthroughs and paradigm shifts. You'll hear about how he's using A...2024-02-0650 minArtificiality: Minds Meeting MachinesJames Evans: Scientific ProgressWhy is scientific progress slowing down? That's a question that's been on the minds of many. But before we dive into that, let's ponder this—how do we even know that scientific progress is decelerating? And in an era where machines are capable of understanding complexities that sometimes surpass human cognition, how should we approach the future of knowledge?
Joining us in this exploration is Professor James Evans from the University of Chicago. As the director of the Knowledge Lab at UChicago, Professor Evans is at the forefront of integrating machine learning into the scientific process. His wo...2024-01-311h 02Artificiality: Minds Meeting MachinesEd Sim: AI Venture CapitalFew understand how to anticipate major technology shifts in the enterprise better than today's guest, Ed Sim. Ed is a pioneer in the world of venture capital, specifically focusing on enterprise software and infrastructure since 1996. He founded Boldstart in 2010 to invest at the earliest stages of enterprise software companies, growing the firm from $1M to around $375M today.
So where does an experienced investor who has seen countless tech waves come and go place his bets in this new AI-first future? That’s the key topic we dive into today.
While AI forms a core part...2024-01-2350 minArtificiality: Minds Meeting MachinesRodrigo Liang: SambaNova and Generative AI in the EnterpriseOne of our research obsessions is Edge AI through which we study opportunities to build and deploy AI on a computing device at the edge of a network. The premise is that AI in the cloud benefits from scale but is challenged by cost and privacy and Edge AI solves many of these challenges by eliminating cloud computing costs and keeping data within secure environments.
Given this interest, we were excited to talk with Rodrigo Liang, the Co-Founder and CEO of SambaNova Systems which has built a platform to deliver enterprise grade chips, software, and models in...2024-01-1656 minArtificiality: Minds Meeting MachinesBest of: Barbara Tversky & Spacial CognitionOne of our long-time subscribers recently said to us: “What I love about you is that you’re regularly talking about things three years ahead of everyone else.” That inspired us to look back through our catalog of conversations to see which ones we think are most relevant now.
Today, we're revisiting one of our most thought-provoking episodes, originally recorded in April 2022, featuring Barbara Tversky, the author of "Mind in Motion: How Action Shapes Thought." This episode is great way to start 2024 because we are all about to experience what are known as Large Multimodal Models or LMMs...2024-01-111h 06Artificiality: Minds Meeting MachinesStephen Fleming: Consciousness and AIIn this episode, we speak with cognitive neuroscientist Stephen Fleming about theories of consciousness and how they relate to artificial intelligence. We discuss key concepts like global workspace theory, higher order theories, computational functionalism, and how neuroscience research on consciousness in humans can inform our understanding of whether machines may ever achieve consciousness. In particular, we talk with Steve about a recent research paper, Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence, which he co-authored with Patrick Butlin, Robert Long, Yoshua Bengio, and several others.
Steve provides an overview of different perspectives from philosophy and psychology on what mechanisms may give rise t...2023-12-131h 02Artificiality: Minds Meeting MachinesSteven Sloman: LLMs and Deliberative ReasoningIf you’ve used a large language model, you’ve likely had one or more moments of amazement as the tool immediately responded with impressive content from its massive data cosmos training set. But you’ve likely also had moments of confusion or disillusionment as the tool responded with irrelevant or incorrect responses, displaying a lack of reasoning.
A recent research paper from Meta caught our eye because it proposes a new mechanism called System 2 Attention which “leverages the ability of LLMs to reason in natural language and follow instructions in order to decide what to attend to.” The n...2023-12-061h 01
Artificiality: Minds Meeting MachinesJulia Rhodes Davis: Advancing Racial EquityIn this episode, we speak with Julia Rhodes Davis, a Senior Advisor at Data & Society, about her recent report "Advancing Racial Equity Through Technology Policy" published by the AI Now Institute. This comprehensive report provides an in-depth examination of how the technology industry impacts racial inequity and concrete policy recommendations for reform. A critical insight from the report is that advancing racial equity requires a holistic approach. The report provides policy recommendations to reform antitrust law, ensure algorithmic accountability, and support tech entrepreneurship for people of color.
In our interview, Julia explains how advancing racial equity requires...2023-10-2947 min
Artificiality: Minds Meeting MachinesAlicia Juarrero: Context Changes EverythingGrounding her work in the problem of causation, Alicia Juarrero challenges previously held beliefs that only forceful impacts are causes. Constraints, she claims, bring about effects as well, and they enable the emergence of coherence.
Alicia is the author of multiple books, most recently Context Changes Everything: How Constraints Create Coherence. Helen says in this interview that it feels like this book is from the future. It’s about using the tools of complexity science to understand identity, hierarchy, and top-down causation, and in so doing, presents a new way of thinking about the natural world but al...2023-10-221h 04
Artificiality: Minds Meeting MachinesJai Vipra: Computational Power and AIJai Vipra is a research fellow at the AI Now Institute where she focuses on competition issues in frontier AI models. She recently published the report Computational Power and AI which focuses on compute as a core dependency in building large-scale AI. We found this report to be an important addition to the work covering the generative AI industry because compute is incredibly important but not very well understood. In the report, Jai breaks down the key components of compute, analyzes the supply chain and competitive dynamics, and aggregates all the known economics. In this interview, we talk with...2023-10-1541 min
Artificiality: Minds Meeting MachinesWendy Wong: We, the Data, and Human RightsWendy Wong is a professor of political science and principal’s research chair at the University of British Columbia where she researches and teaches about the governance of emerging technologies, human rights, and civil society/non-state actors.
In this interview, we talk with Wendy about her new book We, the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age which is described as “a rallying call for extending human rights beyond our physical selves—and why we need to reboot rights in our data-intensive world.” Given the explosion of generative AI and mass data capture that fuels generative AI models...2023-10-0858 min
Artificiality: Minds Meeting MachinesChris Summerfield: Natural General IntelligenceChris Summerfield is a Professor of Cognitive Science at the University of Oxford. His work is concerned with understanding how humans learn and make decisions. He is interested in how humans acquire new concepts or patterns in data, and how they use this information to make decisions in novel settings. He's also a research scientist at Deepmind.
Earlier this year, Chris released a book called Natural General Intelligence, How understanding the brain can help us build AI. This couldn’t be more timely given talk of AGI and in this episode we talk with Chris about his wo...2023-10-0156 minBiblical Time MachineThe Nasty, Yucky, Funky World of the 1st CenturyFace it — you wouldn't survive two days back in the first century. If the food-borne bacteria didn't kill you, you might keel over from the odors alone! In this episode, Helen and Dave welcome Jodi Magness, biblical archeologist extraordinaire, for a frank and sometimes graphic discussion of what daily life REALLY would have been like in 1st-century Judaea: just nasty! And don't forgot to check out Jodi's book: Stone and Dung, Oil and Spit: Jewish Daily Life in the Time of Jesus. It's terrific. Bonus ContentMembers of the Time Travelers Club get a...2023-09-1145 min
Artificiality: Minds Meeting MachinesMichael Bungay Stanier: How to Work with (Almost) AnyoneMichael Bungay Stanier has an extraordinary talent for distilling the complexity of human relationships into easy to remember and follow frameworks—doing so with just the right amount of Australian humor and plenty of vulnerability. Despite his remarkable success with books like The Coaching Habit, The Advice Trap, and How to Begin, Michael never comes across as one of those gurus who thinks they have all the answers. That mindset comes through perfectly in the title of his newest book, How to Work with (Almost) Anyone—not absolutely anyone, almost anyone. The book is built around five questions for buil...2023-08-1358 min
Artificiality: Minds Meeting MachinesSynthesis & Generative AIAn exploration of how we might conceptualize the design of AGI within the context of human left and right brains.
The tension between AI and human functioning highlights unique cooperation. AI uses language, abstraction, and analysis, while humans rely on experience, empathy, and metaphor. AI manipulates static elements well but struggles in a changing world.
This leads to two distinct design approaches for future AI and considerations for "artificial general intelligence" (AGI).
One approach focuses on "left-brained" AI—controlling facts with internal consistency, while relying on humans for context, meaning, and care. Here, ma...2023-08-0533 min
Artificiality: Minds Meeting MachinesJonathan Coulton: Generative AI, songwriting, and creativityIf you’ve read our show notes, you’ll know that our music was written and performed by Jonathan Coulton. I’ve known Jonathan for more than 30 years, dating back to when we sang together in college. But that’s a story for another day, or perhaps never.
Jonathan spent his first decade post college as a software coder and then through a bit of happenstance and throwing care to the wind, he transitioned to music. In the mid 2000s, he blazed a trail of creating his own career on the internet—without a label or any of the sup...2023-07-291h 01
Artificiality: Minds Meeting MachinesIs it possible for AI to be meaningful?An exploration of the intersection of AI, meaning, and human relationships.
In this episode, we dive deep into the role of AI in our lives and how it can influence our perception of meaning. We explore how AI, and specifically generative AI, is impacting our collective experiences and the ways we make authentic choices.
We discuss the idea of intimacy with AI and the future trajectory of human-AI interaction. We consider the possibility of AI enabling more time for meaningful experiences by taking over less meaningful tasks but also wonder if it’s possible for AI...2023-07-2236 min
Artificiality: Minds Meeting MachinesExistential risk of AIChatGPT, Dall-e, Midjourney, Bard, and Bing are here. Many others are coming. At every dinner conversation, classroom lesson, and business meeting people are talking about AI. There are some big questions that now everyone is seeking answers for, not just the philosophers, ethicists, researchers, and venture folks. It’s noisy, complicated, technical and often agenda-driven.
In this episode, we tackle the question of existential risk. Will AI kill us all?
We start by talking about why this question is important at all. And why we are finally tackling it ourselves (since we’ve largely avoided it f...2023-07-1432 min
Artificiality: Minds Meeting MachinesValues & Generative AIAs Silicon Valley lunges towards creating AI that is considered superior to humans (at times called Artificial General Intelligence or Super-intelligent AI), it does so with the premise that it is possible to encode values in AI so that the AI won’t harm us. But values are individual, elusive, and ever-changing. They resist being mathematized.
Join us as we discuss human values, how they form, how they change, and why trying to encode them in algorithms is so difficult, if not impossible.
About Artficiality from Helen & Dave Edwards:
Artificiality is a research an...2023-07-0925 min
Artificiality: Minds Meeting MachinesCulture & Generative AICulture plays a vital role in connecting individuals and communities, enabling us to leverage our unique talents, share knowledge, and solve problems together. However, the rise of an intelligentsia of machine soothsayers highlights the need to consciously design new coherence strategies for the age of machines. Why? Because generative AI is a cultural technology that produces different outcomes depending on its cultural context.
Who will take on this challenge, and how will culture evolve in response to the growing influence of machines? This is the essential question that requires careful consideration as we navigate the complex interplay...2023-07-0232 min
Living The Next Chapter: Inspiring Conversations with Bestselling Authors and Writing ExpertsE191 - Helen Zee - fertility, intimacy and menstrual health practitioner for women and men who wish to enhance their relationshipEPISODE 191 - Helen Zee - fertility, intimacy and menstrual health practitioner for women and men who wish to enhance their relationshipHelen Zee is passionate about creating a future world of conscious relationships and parenting by firstly exploring intimacy of thyself. As a Fertility Intimacy and Menstrual Health Practitioner she helps open the pathway of higher expression of our truest nature. Supporting the emergence of satisfying relationships, optimizing lifestyle and using conscious conception for optimizing fertility. Helen challenges the status quo of “stuckness and stagnation” to create newness and flow. Helen engages with couples and singl...2023-06-2652 min
Artificiality: Minds Meeting MachinesMind for our Minds: IntroductionThis episode is the first in our summer series based on our thesis for designing AI to be a Mind for our Minds. We recently presented this idea for the first time at our favorite event of the year hosted by The House of Beautiful Business. We are grateful for our long-term relationship with the House and its founders, Tim Leberecht and Till Grusche, and head of curation and community, Monika Jiang. The House puts on public and corporate events that are like none you’ve ever experienced. We encourage everyone to consider attending a public event and bringing th...2023-06-1826 min
Artificiality: Minds Meeting MachinesC. Thi Nguyen: MetrificationAI is based on data. And data is frequently collected with the intent to be quantified, understood, and used across context. That’s why we have things like grade point averages that translate across subject matters and educational institutions. That’s why we perform cost-benefit analyses to normalize the forecasted value of projects—no matter the details. As we deploy more AI that is based on a metrified world, we’re encouraging the quantification of our lives and risk losing the context and subjective value that creates meaning.
In this interview, we talk with C. Thi Nguyen about th...2023-05-211h 07
Artificiality: Minds Meeting MachinesHarpreet Sareen: Cyborg BotanyWe are deeply interested in the intersection of the digital and material worlds, both living and not living. Most of our interviews are focused on the intersection of humans and machines—how does the digital world affect humans and how do humans affect the digital world. This interview, however, is about the intersection of plants and machines.
Harpreet Sareen works at the intersection of digital and material, plant and machine, and art and science. His work challenges people to consider the life of plants, what we can learn from them, what we can see and what we ca...2023-05-1448 min
Artificiality: Minds Meeting MachinesArvind Jain: Glean, Enterprise Search, and Generative AIAnyone working in a large organization has likely asked this question: Why is it that I can seemingly find anything on the internet but I can’t seem to find anything inside my organization? It is counter-intuitive that it’s easier to organize the vast quantity of information on the public internet than it is to organize the smaller amount of information inside a single organization.
The reality is that enterprise knowledge management and search is very difficult. Data does not reside in easily organized forms. It is spread across systems which provide varying levels of access. Know...2023-05-0748 min
Artificiality: Minds Meeting MachinesLukas Egger: Generative AI, a view from SAPThe world has been upended by the introduction of generative AI. We think this could be the largest advance in technology—ever. All of our clients are trying to figure out what to do, how to de-risk the introduction of these technologies, and how to design new, innovative solutions.
To get a perspective on these changes created by AI, we talked with Lukas Egger who leads the Innovation Office & Strategic Projects team at SAP Signavio, where he focuses on de-risking new product ideas and establishing best-in-class product discovery practices. With a successful track record in team building an...2023-04-3046 min
Artificiality: Minds Meeting MachinesKatie Davis: Technology's ChildIs technology good or bad for children? How should parents think about technology in their children’s lives? Are there different answers depending on the age of the child and their stage of development? What can we apply from what we know about children’s play and activity in the analog world to the digital world? How should product designers think about designing technology to be good for kids? How does AI and generative AI affect the answers to these questions, if at all?
To answer some of these questions, we talked with Katie Davis about her rece...2023-04-2352 min
Artificiality: Minds Meeting MachinesAndrew Blum: The Weather MachineWeather forecasting is fascinating. It involves making predictions in the complex, natural world, using a global infrastructure for people who have varying needs and desires. Some just want to know if we should carry an umbrella today. Others want to know how to prepare for a week-long trip. And then there are those who use the weather forecast to make decisions that can have significant, even critical, consequences.
We also think weather forecasting is an interesting topic given the parallels to what we are experiencing in AI. Weather forecasting and AI systems are black box prediction systems...2023-04-0952 minBiblical Time MachineEaster: What Day Was Jesus Crucified?For centuries, historians have been trying to pinpoint the exact date of the Crucifixion, but biblical math is tricky! As Helen and Dave explain in today's third Easter episode, the gospels aren't in agreement on when Jesus died. Did different traditions about Jesus's death and resurrection exist in the ancient world? Or do the different dates reflect different theological messages that the gospel authors were trying to send? As usual, we get to the bottom of it (or at least come to some moderately satisfying conclusions). Read Helen's great article: "Dating the Death of Jesus"Keep emailing us yo...2023-04-0733 minBiblical Time MachineEaster: Meet the Historical Pontius PilateIn the second of four Easter episodes, Helen and Dave investigate the historical Pontius Pilate (or "Ponty P" as Helen calls him). What was Pilate's job in Roman-ruled Judaea? Was Jesus the only controversial messiah figure that Pilate had to contend with? And most importantly, how did Pilate end up buried at the bottom of a lake in Switzerland? Read Helen's excellent book: Pontius Pilate in History and Interpretation See if you can catch the BTM debut of Helen's dog, Tessa, who briefly barks her approval in the background. Thanks, Tessa...Keep emailing us your episode ideas. We ar...2023-03-3131 min
Artificiality: Minds Meeting MachinesJuan Noguera: Generative AI in Industrial DesignWe’ve heard a lot about how generative AI may negatively impact careers in design. But we wonder how might generative AI have a positive impact on designers? How might generative AI be used as a tool that helps designers rather than as a replacement for designers? How might we use generative AI in design education? How do design educators and their students feel about generative AI? How else might generative AI help designers in ways that we haven’t uncovered yet?
To answer these questions, we talked with Juan Noguera about his individual design work, his teac...2023-03-2639 minBiblical Time MachineEaster: Who Was High Priest Joseph Caiaphas?This Easter season, Helen and Dave are doing a series of episodes on the fascinating figures that appear in the Passion narratives of Jesus's trial, crucifixion and resurrection. First up is Joseph Caiaphas, the High Priest of the Jerusalem Temple who — according to two of the gospels, at least — presided over the Jewish council that handed Jesus over to Pontius Pilate. What was the role of the High Priest in the 1st century? Why would Caiaphas have perceived Jesus as a threat, religiously or politically? Helen will explain it all! To learn even more, read Helen's excellent book...2023-03-2037 min
Artificiality: Minds Meeting MachinesDon Norman: Design for a Better WorldWhat role does design have in solving the world’s biggest problems? What can designers add? Some would say that designers played a role in getting us into our current mess. Can they also get us out of it? How can we design solutions for problems in complex systems that are evolving, emerging, and changing?
To answer these questions, we talked with Don Norman about his book, Design for a Better World: Meaningful, Sustainable, Humanity Centered. In his book, Don proposes a new way of thinking, one that recognizes our place in a complex global system where ev...2023-03-121h 03
This Dave In History with Dave JayThe Truth About Helen KellerHelen Keller wasn't just some def/blind/mute kid. She was also a scholar, socialist, author, suffragette, and she MIGHT have also been into eugenics. On This Dave In History comedian Dave Jay and a rotating cast of dummies talk history. Don't fact check us.Follow Dave Jay on IG: @davejaycomicFollow Raza Jafri on IG: @razadots2023-03-1035 min
Artificiality: Minds Meeting MachinesJamer Hunt: Not to ScaleWhat are the cause and effect of my actions? How do I know the effect of the small acts in my life? How can I identify opportunities to have impact that is much larger than myself? How can we make problems that seem overwhelmingly complex feel more manageable and knowable? How might we use the scaling tools of designers to tackle some of the world’s largest and most complex problems?
To answer these questions, we talked with Jamer Hunt about his book Not to Scale: How the Small Becomes Large, the Large Becomes Unthinkable, and the Un...2023-03-051h 08
Artificiality: Minds Meeting MachinesChatGPT: Why does it matter, how special is it, and what might be ahead?Why does ChatGPT matter?
* People always get excited about AI advances and this one is accessible in a way that others weren’t in the past.
* People can use natural language to prompt a natural language response.
* It’s seductive because it feels like synthesis.
* And it can feel serendipitous.
But…
* We need to remember that ChatGPT and all other generative AI are tools and they can fail us.
* While it may feel serendipitous, that serendipity is more constrained than it may feel.
Some o...2023-02-2634 min
Artificiality: Minds Meeting MachinesDavid Krakauer: ComplexityWe’re always looking for new ideas from science that we can use in our work. Over the past few years, we have been researching new ways to handle increasing complexity in the world and how to solve complex problems. Why do we seem to see emergent, adaptive, open, and networked problems more often? And why don’t they yield to traditional problem solving techniques?
Our research has centered on complexity science and understanding how to apply its lessons to problem solving. Complexity science teaches us about the nature of complex systems including the nervous system, ecosystems, econ...2023-02-191h 34
Artificiality: Minds Meeting MachinesGenerative AI: ChatGPT, DALL-E, Stable Diffusion, and the restEveryone’s talking about it so we will too. Generative AI is taking the world by storm. But is it a good storm or a scary storm? How should individuals think about what’s possible? What about companies?
Our take: generative AI is hugely powerful but will always have flaws and potholes. As probabilistic systems, it will always produce errors—how will you plan for that? As systems that are trained on everything on the internet, they are essentially stealing IP from everyone, everywhere—how do you feel about participating in that theft?
We’ve spent year...2023-02-1229 min
Inside Tri ShowHow to survive a triathlon swim: Dave TongeHelen heads to Cardiff, South Wales in this week's episode to spend a morning with Dave Tonge (ep. 103) at Heathwood Swimming. Dave has been teaching triathletes and swimmers how to swim for 25 years. He's also helped many former Wales Rugby Internationals with their swimming so they can take on Ironman Wales. Helen meets one such player, Alix Popham, and the 85 year old who is learning to swim. Then Helen has a session with Dave in Endless Pool.You'll hear:06:00 Dave Tonge welcomes Helen to Heathwood swim24:00 Meet Mike, the 85 year old who's been...2023-02-081h 04
Artificiality: Minds Meeting MachinesKees Dorst: Frame InnovationWhat can we learn from the practice of design? What might we learn if we had an insight into top designers’ minds? How might we apply the best practices of designers beyond the field of design itself? Most of our listeners are likely familiar with design thinking—what other practices should we learn about and understand?
To answer these questions, we talked with Kees Dorst about his books, Frame Innovation and Notes on Design, to discover his views on the creative processes of top designers and understand his practice of frame innovation. We enjoyed both books and find...2023-01-291h 02
The Veterinary Leadership Success ShowEp 64: Is It Time to Give Grooming Another Try in Your Hospital? With Helen SchaeferOur first 'The Veterinary Business Success Show' of 2023 kicks off with a distinguished animal master groomer from Philadelphia, Helen Schaefer.Helen J Schaefer, NCMG CCE is a top-ranked competitive groomer, industry speaker, and educator. In the competition ring, she specializes in American Cockers, Kerry Blue Terriers, Bichons, and poodles, especially in the European Secondary Trim. Whereas in the salon, she is best known for gentle cat grooming techniques, hand stripping of harsh coated dogs, Terrier grooming, and personality trims!Helen has been nominated for multiple Barkleigh Honors for both her educational speaking engagements a...2023-01-0430 min
Artificiality: Minds Meeting MachinesNo-duhs and some surprisesThe latest Big Ideas report from MIT Sloan and BCG makes for an interesting read but contains flaws, obvious conclusions, and raises more questions than it answers.We discuss this report and make some suggestions about how to think about AI based on the survey’s conclusions:* trust matters (no-duh). The data suggests if people trust AI they will use it twice as much.* ability to override the AI matters (no-duh). The data suggests if people can override the AI they will use it twice as much.* people describe an AI as...2022-12-0226 min
Artificiality: Minds Meeting MachinesElon's error calculation at TwitterTwitter as we knew is gone. Elon has fired half the full time employees and 80 percent of the contractors. It’s a brutal way to trim excess fat, reset the culture, and establish a loyal band. But is it a good decision? How could it go wrong?Elon is incredibly successful at running engineering companies. But if you look at his failures—the fixes he hasn’t been able to affect—they are all in the zone of people; specifically networks of people and machines. He’s consistently failed to accurately forecast driverless technology and he’s overestimate...2022-11-1827 min
Artificiality: Minds Meeting MachinesMarina Nitze and Nick Sinai: Hack Your BureaucracyWe all likely want to improve the organizations we work in. We might want to improve the employee experience, improve the customer experience, or be more efficient and effective. But we all likely have had the experience of feeling like our organizations are too difficult, too entrenched, and too complex to change. Any organization—large or small, public or private—can feel like a faceless bureaucracy that is resistant to change. So what can people do who want to affect change? How do you accomplish things that can seem impossible?
To answer these questions, we talked with Mari...2022-10-3056 min
Artificiality: Minds Meeting MachinesTom Davenport and Steve Miller: Working with AIHow will AI change our jobs? Will it replace humans and eliminate jobs? Will it help humans get things done? Will it create new opportunities for new jobs? People often speculate on these topics, doing their best to predict the somewhat unpredictable.
To help us get a better understanding of the current state of humans and AI working together, we talked with Tom Davenport and Steve Miller about their recently-released book, Working with AI. The book is centered around 29 detailed and deeply-researched case studies about human-AI collaboration in real-world work settings. What they show is that AI...2022-10-1652 min
Artificiality: Minds Meeting MachinesHelen Edwards and Dave Edwards: Make Better DecisionsWe humans make a lot of decisions. Apparently, 35,000 of them every day! So how do we improve our decisions? Is there a process to follow? Who are the experts to learn from? Do big data and AI make decisions easier or harder? Is there any way to get better at making decisions in this complex, modern world we live in?
To dig into these questions we talked with…ourselves! We recently published our first book, Make Better Decisions: How to Improve Your Decision-Making in the Digital Age. In this book, we’ve provided a guide to practicing the...2022-10-0237 min
Had I KnownHelen Morse - Artist/Photographer/AuthorSend us a textPhotographer Helen Morse says the pandemic drained her creative desire to make images. But it awakened her desire to write. This week she joins the show to give insight into her art and why now was the right time to write her memoir, The Difficult Girl. She shares some details into the heartbreaking stories in the book and how they have helped her connect with people on a different level than she’s used to. Buy The Difficult Girl Learn more about Helen and her art at https://www.he...2022-09-2558 min
Artificiality: Minds Meeting MachinesKat Cizek and William Uricchio: Co-CreationWe all do things with other people. We design things, we write things, we create things. Despite the fact that co-creation is all around us it can be easy to miss because creation gets assigned to individuals all too often. We’re quick to assume that one person should get credit thereby erasing the contributions of others.
The two of us have a distinct interest in co-creation because we co-create everything we do. We co-created Sonder Studio, our speaking engagements, our workshops, our design projects, and our soon-to-be-published book, Make Better Decisions. We’re also interested in how...2022-09-1855 min
Artificiality: Minds Meeting MachinesGerd Gigerenzer: Staying SmartHow should we respond and react to artificial intelligence and its impact on the world and each other? How should we handle the risk and uncertainty risk caused by the permeation of AI throughout our lives?
To tackle these questions, we talked with Gerd Gigerenzer about his recent book, How to Stay Smart in a Smart World. We talk with Gerd about the impacts of big data on making decisions, the increasing use of AI for surveillance, the risks of trusting smart technology too much, and the broader impact of technology on our human dignity.
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Artificiality: Minds Meeting MachinesEric Pliner: Difficult DecisionsWe all want decision-making to be easier. We want simple tools and frameworks that provide a process for no-regrets decisions. But it just isn’t that easy. Despite how much we understand about the science of decision-making, the act of making decisions is frequently quite difficult. And the quantity of data we can now access to support decision-making doesn’t make decisions easier, it actually makes them more complex.
So what to do? In his book, Difficult Decisions: How Leaders Make the Right Call with Insight, Integrity, and Empathy, Eric Pliner argues that the best way to appr...2022-08-1459 min
Artificiality: Minds Meeting MachinesTom Hale: Oura Ring and the New Data of HealthWe’d all like to be healthier—to sleep longer, have lower stress, and have more energy. But is it possible for an AI to help us accomplish this? And how would that experience feel? What data would we need to provide? How would the AI encourage the behavior changes required? Would it feel like a friend or a bully? Would it work at all?
To answer some of these questions, we talked with Tom Hale, the new CEO at Oura. Oura makes a fascinating device that monitors a long list of signals from your body all thro...2022-07-3157 min
Artificiality: Minds Meeting MachinesFrank Rose: Storytelling in a Data-Driven WorldWe all love stories—they are one of the most important ways that humans communicate. Stories create heroes to root for and villains to revile. Stories create realities and help us align our values and objectives with others. But how do stories change in a world that is awash with data and is overwhelmed by large tech companies that try to motivate—or manipulate–us with stories using data that we don’t see and can’t comprehend?
To help answer these questions, we talked with Frank Rose about his recent book The Sea We Swim In: How Storie...2022-07-1759 min
The Kingstonian PodcastHelen Cooper - Still passionate about the City!Send us a textHelen Cooper was first elected to municipal council in Kingston back in 1980. Eight years later, she became the first woman to take on the job of Mayor. This episode profiles life before politics, during her time around the municipal ‘horseshoe’, and positions she occupied post elected office. Local government is obviously a very important part of community service, but volunteerism plays a critical role with almost every aspect of our society. In addition to her career in politics, Helen continues to contribute.Our theme music is “Stasis Oasis”, by Tim...2022-07-0545 min
Artificiality: Minds Meeting MachinesBen Shneiderman: Human-Centered AIMany of our listeners will be familiar with human-centered design and human-computer interaction. These fields of research and practice have driven technology product design and development for decades. Today, however, these fields are changing to adapt to the increasing use of artificial intelligence, leading to an emerging field called human-centered AI.
Prior to the widespread use of AI, technology products were powerful, yet, predictable—they operated based on the rules created by their designers. With AI, however, machines respond to data, providing predictions that may not be anticipated when the product is designed or programmed. This is in...2022-07-031h 03
Artificiality: Minds Meeting MachinesJulio Mario Ottino: The Nexus“How can we augment our thinking spaces to increase creative solutions? How can we make those solutions real by mastering complexity?” Julio Mario Ottino and Bruce Mau ask and answer these questions in their ambitious and visually stunning work, The Nexus.
In their book, Ottino and Mau take on a big subject—how to augment your thinking by integrating art, technology, and science. It is a thought-provoking and curiosity-enhancing book—perfect for rewilding your attention with its glorious footnotes and gorgeous visuals.
Our takeaways (not to plot bust) for being a Nexus thinker:
* Experime...2022-06-0559 min
Artificiality: Minds Meeting MachinesMark Nitzberg: Human-Compatible AIWe hear a lot about harm from AI and how the big platforms are focused on using AI and user data to enhance their profits. What about developing AI for good for the rest of us? What would it take to design AI systems that are beneficial to humans?
In this episode, we talk with Mark Nitzberg who is Executive Director of CHAI or the UC Berkeley Center for Human-Compatible AI and head of strategic outreach for Berkeley AI Research. Mark began studying AI in the early 1980s and completed his PhD in Computer Vision and Human...2022-05-1554 min
Artificiality: Minds Meeting MachinesBarbara Tversky: Spatial CognitionHave you ever wondered why you can recognize and remember things but can’t describe them in words? That is one of the questions that started Barbara Tversky’s contrarian research and academic career, leading to her theory that spatial thinking is the foundation of abstract thought. While most people were focused on language as central to human thinking, Barbara recognized that our relationship with the spaces we inhabit, including mental ones, provided a unique way of understanding the world. In her book, Mind in Motion, Barbara shows how spatial cognition is the foundation of thought and allows us to d...2022-05-011h 07
Artificiality: Minds Meeting MachinesMegan Brown: Data LiteracyAll major companies are working to increase the value of data science. Setting a goal may be easy but implementation often raises challenging questions. How should companies think about the role of data scientists, the challenge of increasing diversity in data science and increasing data literacy and data-driven decision-making?
In this episode, we talk with Megan Brown, the Director of Data Science for Starbucks’ Global Center of Excellence. Megan has a unique background. They have experience and expertise in both humans (with a PhD in experimental psychology) and in machines and data (as a practicing data scientist). Th...2022-04-2459 min
Artificiality: Minds Meeting MachinesPeter Sterling: Decision EvolutionThis week we talk with Peter Sterling, the author of What is Health.
Peter has had a long career in medicine and neuroscience. He has recently published in Jama Psychiatry, with Michael Platt, on Why Deaths of Despair Are Increasing in the US and Not Other Industrial Nations with many Insights From Neuroscience and Anthropology. While that might not sound like AI, we do wonder what the role of technology might be for all of us to make better personal decisions about our health.
Peter caught our attention with his concise and understandable description of...2022-02-201h 13
Artificiality: Minds Meeting MachinesStephen Fleming: MetacognitionIt’s human to know oneself. We are able to self-monitor, understand our cognition, and recognize gaps in our knowledge. This is called metacognition—we think about how we think. We can think of it as self-awareness or the ability to understand the state of our knowledge. In this episode, we talk with Stephen Fleming, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London.
Steve has recently published a book on this topic called Know Thyself. We wanted to explore a number of ideas with him—metacognition as uniquely human, as an important skill, whether machines need to have so...2021-12-121h 01
The Heart of Hospice PodcastA Conversation With Remembering.Live Founder Dave Kerpen, Episode 098Our guest today is Dave Kerpen - serial entrepreneur, NY Times best-selling author, and founder of Remembering.Live. When Dave lost his mom during the pandemic lockdown of 2020, Dave and his team created a virtual memorial service and memorial website to honor her memory. Through the Remembering.Live website, families can honor their loved ones with virtual memorial services, create a tribute website, so families can focus on being with friends and family. An edited recording of the service can be uploaded as a last memorial. Remembering.Live serves people all over the world, providing a virtual platform and ou...2021-12-0139 min
Inside Tri ShowDave Tonge - swimming tips for triathletesDave Tonge is a swimming coach and world record holder from south Wales. He's been coaching swimmers and triathletes for 25 years. He played a vital role in 2019 to help rugby star Gareth 'Alfie' Thomas overcome his fear of the water to complete Ironman Wales and break the stigma around HIV. Dave also holds the World Record for completing a 24 hour swim in an endless pool, when he covered a whopping 55km. He's also hilarious, has an infectious passion for swimming and is full of useful tips to help improve your swim leg in triathlon.You'll hear:2021-11-171h 06
PandemyShow.com54 - Star Trek Cosplaying in the Pandemy. Helen Irwin, Song Bird Cosplay. London, United Kingdom. 08/23/21Dave transcends time and space to talk cosplay and pandemy with Helen Irwin, AKA, Song Bird Cosplay. Helen explains what cosplay and shares how the pandemy helped her make up her mind to change careers. As vaccination rates continue to rise she is excited to get back to attending cosplay conventions. She shares her experience with the Delta Variant and how she finds people in London in pandemy solidarity. Dave and Helen both envision a future of equality and justice for all as envisioned in Star Trek.SongBirdCosplayThanks for joining us as we unite hum...2021-09-2726 min