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Artificial Intelligence and You211 - Guest: Matt Beane, Future of Work Author, part 2This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .
To help us get new and valuable insights into the future of work is Matt Beane, Assistant Professor in the Technology Management Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has spent over a decade doing extensive field research on how workers, organizations and even AI defy norms and rules in the 21st century.
His new book: The Skill Code: How to Save Human Ability in an Age of Intelligent Machines, was just published by Harper Business, and he has given you a special deal as a...2024-07-0139 minArtificial Intelligence and You210 - Guest: Matt Beane, Future of Work Author, part 1This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .
To help us get new and valuable insights into the future of work is Matt Beane, Assistant Professor in the Technology Management Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has spent over a decade doing extensive field research on how workers, organizations and even AI defy norms and rules in the 21st century.
His new book: The Skill Code: How to Save Human Ability in an Age of Intelligent Machines, was just published by Harper Business, and he has given you a special deal as a...2024-06-2433 minArtificial Intelligence and You125 - Guest: Mark Lee, Professor of Intelligent Systems, part 2This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .
Will tomorrow's robots be invented... or grown? Mark Lee, Emeritus Professor of Intelligent Systems in the Department of Computer Science at Aberystwyth University in Wales, works in the new field of Developmental Robotics. That's creating computational models of infant development for novel robot learning techniques, and he has trained their humanoid iCub robot from the equivalent of a developmental stage of newborn to nine-month-old. Hence the title of his recent book, How to Grow a Robot: Developing Human-Friendly, Social AI. In part 2, we talk about crossovers between r...2022-11-0728 minArtificial Intelligence and You124 - Guest: Mark Lee, Professor of Intelligent Systems, part1This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .
Will tomorrow's robots be invented... or grown? Mark Lee, Emeritus Professor of Intelligent Systems in the Department of Computer Science at Aberystwyth University in Wales, works in the new field of Developmental Robotics. That's creating computational models of infant development for novel robot learning techniques, and he has trained their humanoid iCub robot from the equivalent of a developmental stage of newborn to nine-month-old. Hence the title of his recent book, How to Grow a Robot: Developing Human-Friendly, Social AI. In part 1 we talk about what meaning m...2022-10-3126 minArtificial Intelligence and You123 - Guest: Dan Turchin, Employee Service AI CEO, part 2This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .
How do you like the experience of calling Customer Service? Yeah... me too. But Dan Turchin is out to change that. Dan is a serial entrepreneurial leader who is passionate about changing the future of work. He’s doing that currently as the CEO of PeopleReign, which automates the lifecycle of service requests - those problems people inside a business might have - through AI. He's run AI-centric businesses like InsightFinder and Aeroprise, and been a senior director at BMC and ServiceNow. In part 2 we talk about Dan...2022-10-2430 minArtificial Intelligence and You122 - Guest: Dan Turchin, Employee Service AI CEO, part 1This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .
How do you like the experience of calling Customer Service? Yeah... me too. But Dan Turchin is out to change that. Dan is a serial entrepreneurial leader who is passionate about changing the future of work. He’s doing that currently as the CEO of PeopleReign, which automates the lifecycle of service requests - those problems people inside a business might have - through AI. He's run AI-centric businesses like InsightFinder and Aeroprise, and been a senior director at BMC and ServiceNow. We talk about how he got...2022-10-1722 minArtificial Intelligence and You121 - Guest: Paul Newman, Vehicle Autonomy CTO, part 2This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .
Do you have questions about autonomous vehicles (AVs) and the contradictory headlines about them? Me too. So I invited Paul Newman, founder and CTO of Oxbotica, a UK creator of software for AVs, to come on the show and clear up the hype and heat around self-driving cars. He is the BP chair of Information Engineering at the University of Oxford and director of the Oxford Robotics Institute, and in 2020 he was awarded the Royal Academy of Engineering Medal for outstanding commercialization of engineering innovation.
P...2022-10-1033 minArtificial Intelligence and You120 - Guest: Paul Newman, Vehicle Autonomy CTO, part 1This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .
Do you have questions about autonomous vehicles (AVs) and the contradictory headlines about them? Me too. So I invited Paul Newman, CTO of Oxbotica, a UK creator of software for AVs, to come on the show and clear up the hype and heat around self-driving cars. He is the BP chair of Information Engineering at the University of Oxford and director of the Oxford Robotics Institute; he serves as a science advisor to the Prime Minister and adviser to the UK Department of Transport, and in 2020 he w...2022-10-0332 minArtificial Intelligence and You119 - Guest: Robbie Stamp, Historian Philosopher, part 2This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .
Don't Panic! Our returning guest, Robbie Stamp, is a friend and associate of the late Douglas Adams and was an executive producer on the 2005 movie of the HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy. But he is also CEO of Bioss International, a global consultancy helping clients focus on decision-making in conditions of complexity, and founder with Adams of the Digital Village. Get ready to think about Life, the Universe, and Everything in this interview conclusion, as TEDx speaker, historian, and philosopher Robbie covers ground from how Douglas' way o...2022-09-2644 minArtificial Intelligence and You118 - Guest: Robbie Stamp, Historian Philosopher, part 1This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .
Don't Panic! This week's guest, Robbie Stamp, was a friend and associate of the late Douglas Adams and was an executive producer on the 2005 movie of the HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy. But he is also CEO of Bioss International, a global consultancy helping clients focus on decision-making in conditions of complexity, and founder with Adams of the Digital Village. TEDx speaker, historian, and philosopher, Robbie takes us on a wild romp ranging from how much agency we have in a world of AI making decisions about o...2022-09-1945 minArtificial Intelligence and You117 - Guest: Chris Summerfield, Cognitive Scientist at Oxford and DeepMind, part 2This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .
If you want an expert on how today's AI compares to the human brain, it would be hard to beat an Oxford neuroscientist who also works at DeepMind. That describes Chris Summerfield, who runs Oxford University’s Human Information Processing lab in the Department of Experimental Psychology and author of the upcoming book, "Natural General Intelligence." In part 2, we talk about the new image generators like DALL-E-2 and how they relate to human cognition, brain-computer interfaces and neuroplasticity, and purple pineapples.
All this plus our usu...2022-09-1227 minArtificial Intelligence and You116 - Guest: Chris Summerfield, Cognitive Scientist at Oxford and DeepMind, part 1This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .
If you want an expert on how today's AI compares to the human brain, it would be hard to beat an Oxford neuroscientist who also works at DeepMind. That describes Chris Summerfield, who runs Oxford University’s Human Information Processing lab in the Department of Experimental Psychology and author of the upcoming book, "Natural General Intelligence." We have a fascinating discussion about how AI - today's transformers in particular - are like or not like human intelligence.
All this plus our usual look at today's AI...2022-09-0533 minArtificial Intelligence and You115 - Guest: Chanuki Seresinhe, BeautifulPlaces.ai FounderThis and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder... and also in AI, when it's used by Chanuki Seresinhe to evaluate the aesthetic appeal of outdoor scenery. Amazing as it sounds, her PhD research trained AI to evaluate the beauty of Great Britain at a one-kilometer resolution, and she's only just getting started. I talk with Chanuki, now head of Data Science at Zoopla, about how she did that and what the applications and ramifications of her work are.
All this plus our usual look at t...2022-08-2934 minArtificial Intelligence and You114 - Guest: James Wilson, Gartner Leadership PartnerThis and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .
James Wilson is a former Leadership Partner at Gartner and now occupies a similar role at Capgemini, helping customers with the ethical issues of AI. He has a new book, Artificial Negligence, just released, looking at the broad issues and challenges of AI. We talk about the dimensions of AI ethics that concern customers, like sustainability, and his work with the Finnish government on their Aurora AI literacy program.
All this plus our usual look at today's AI headlines.
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Justin Harrison is an entrepreneur, founder, and CEO of YOV, Inc. (You, Only Virtual)—a company specializing in posthumous digital communications. In 2019, he found himself staring down death on two fronts: his own, from a near fatal motorcycle accident, as well as his mother’s stage-4 cancer diagnosis. He was terrified of losing his mother and wanted something that could preserve the essence of their relationship. So he embarked on a process of recreating his mother's persona in an AI chatbot. We explore how that works and what...2022-08-1532 minArtificial Intelligence and You112 - Guest: Cansu Canca, Applied AI Ethics Philosopher, part 2This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .
Cansu Canca is founder and director of the AI Ethics Lab, providing ethics analysis and guidance to researchers and practitioners. Prior to that, she was on the full-time faculty at the University of Hong Kong, and an ethics researcher at Harvard. She was listed among the “30 Influential Women Advancing AI in Boston” and the “100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics,” and has given the TEDx talk How to Solve AI’s Ethical Puzzles. We talk about the ethical issues of search engines and recommender algorithms, and get another take on the...2022-08-0834 minArtificial Intelligence and You111 - Guest: Cansu Canca, Applied AI Ethics Philosopher, part 1This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .
Cansu Canca is founder and director of the AI Ethics Lab, providing ethics analysis and guidance to researchers and practitioners. Prior to that, she was on the full-time faculty at the University of Hong Kong, and an ethics researcher at Harvard. She was listed among the “30 Influential Women Advancing AI in Boston” and the “100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics,” and has given the TEDx talk How to Solve AI’s Ethical Puzzles. We talk about her journey coming from the field of medical ethics into AI ethics, and what th...2022-08-0126 minArtificial Intelligence and You110 - Special: AI Interpreted via Monty PythonThis and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .
Nobody expects... an AI podcast to veer into comedy parody. Possibly with good reason. In a show almost completely free of spam and Queen Victoria, we interpret some of today's news and themes about AI through the lens of Monty Python sketches.
If you don't know what Monty Python is, this will confuse you more than a cat and make your brain hurt. If you've seen some of today's news about AI and know the airspeed of an unladen swallow, you're in the right place.2022-07-2513 minArtificial Intelligence and You109 - Guest: Robert J. Sawyer, Science Fiction Writer, part 2This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .
What is consciousness, how might it emerge from or into AI, and how can it be transferred? Fascinating questions tackled by the oeuvre of a fascinating author, Robert J. Sawyer, the "Dean of Canadian Science Fiction," and one of only eight writers ever to win all three of the science-fiction field’s top honors for best novel of the year: the Hugo Award, which he won for his novel Hominids; the Nebula Award, which he won for his novel The Terminal Experiment, and the John W. Campbell Mem...2022-07-1831 minArtificial Intelligence and You108 - Guest: Robert J. Sawyer, Science Fiction Writer, part 1This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .
What if there are zombies among us? In another dive into the nature of consciousness, the "philosophical zombie" is a fascinating topic explored by a fascinating author, Robert J. Sawyer, the "Dean of Canadian Science Fiction," and one of only eight writers ever to win all three of the science-fiction field’s top honors for best novel of the year: the Hugo Award, which he won for his novel Hominids; the Nebula Award, which he won for his novel The Terminal Experiment, and the John W. Campbell Mem...2022-07-1145 minArtificial Intelligence and You107 - Guest: Ben Goertzel, AGI researcher, SingularityNET Founder, part 2This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .
We've talked a lot about artificial general intelligence (AGI) on the show, but never as much as in this interview, when we talk with Mr. AGI himself, Ben Goertzel. Ben wrote a book, Artificial General Intelligence, founded the AGI Society and SingularityNET, and wrote Ten Years to the Singularity if We Really, Really, Try. He was Chief Scientist of Hanson Robotics and was one of the first people to popularize the term AGI.
In the second half of the interview, we talk about the Google e...2022-07-0434 minArtificial Intelligence and You106 - Guest: Ben Goertzel, AGI researcher, SingularityNET FounderThis and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .
We've talked a lot about artificial general intelligence (AGI) on the show, but never as much as in this interview, when we talk with Mr. AGI himself, Ben Goertzel. Ben wrote a book, Artificial General Intelligence, founded the AGI Society and SingularityNET, and wrote Ten Years to the Singularity if We Really, Really, Try. He was Chief Scientist of Hanson Robotics and was one of the first people to popularize the term AGI.
In part 1, we talk about how he got into AGI, his new A...2022-06-2730 minArtificial Intelligence and You105 - Archive Interview: Michael Bowling, AI poker researcherThis and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .
Are you good at bluffing? Do you think you could beat a computer? What if I told you that it was mathematically proven that the computer would beat you? That's what Michael Bowling did for his program that plays heads-up, limit Texas Hold'Em: he proved that it was impossible to do better than draw against it.
Michael is a professor at the University of Alberta, a research scientist at DeepMind, and has been on Scientific American Frontiers, National Geographic Today, and featured in exhibits at t...2022-06-2026 minArtificial Intelligence and You104 - ANI, AGI, ASI - What are we talking about?This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .
For our second anniversary show, we're going to explain some of the terms that are often used on the show and not always spelled out, like ANI (artificial narrow intelligence), AGI (artificial general intelligence), and ASI (artificial super intelligence). What do they mean, why do so many people talk about them, what do you need to know to follow along?
All this plus our usual look at today's AI headlines.
Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.
2022-06-1330 minArtificial Intelligence and You103 - Guest: Tom White, Machine Perception ArtistThis and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .
How does AI see the world? it's easy to take for granted that an AI that is trained on labeled data to recognize certain images very well is seeing them the same way we do, but that's not so. The AI is quite alien, and helping us to see the world through its eyes is Tom White, a New Zealand-based artist. He creates physical artworks that highlight how machines “see” and thus how they think, suggesting that these systems are capable of abstraction and conceptual thinking. He has e...2022-06-0643 minArtificial Intelligence and You102 - Guest: Richard Ahlfeld, AI for Engineering OptimizationThis and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .
When serious engineering with safety of life is at stake - think rockets, engine turbines, aircraft - Richard Ahlfeld brings artificial intelligence to the job. He modeled the Space Launch System as part of his PhD at Imperial College London and now is CEO of Monolith AI, commercializing AI in the role of engineering design and testing. We talk about just how that gets done and what sort of difference it makes over traditional methods.
All this plus our usual look at today's AI headlines.2022-05-3036 minArtificial Intelligence and You101 - Guest: Bryant Cruse, Cognitive AI CEOThis and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .
Bryant Cruse, former naval aviator (we'll talk about that) and Space Telescope mission operations team member (we'll talk about that too), is the founder and CEO of New Sapience, working on bold new advances in artificial general intelligence. We talk about what real understanding by AI means.
All this plus our usual look at today's AI headlines.
Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.
2022-05-2348 minArtificial Intelligence and You100 - What We’ve Learned from our GuestsThis and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .
100 episodes! And 60 guests: What have we learned from them? We've had everyone from science fiction authors to CEOs, from philosophers to government ministers, and from professors to neuroscientists. All of them helping us wrap our heads around the enormous impact of this thing called AI. I realized two things: (1) I learned a tremendous amount from all these experts giving us their time and brains, and (2) That learning is as valuable today as when they came on the show. So this episode is a guide to those past s...2022-05-1641 minArtificial Intelligence and You099 - Guest: Calum Chace, AI Author and Speaker, part 2This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .
Calum Chace is a keynote speaker and the author of Surviving AI: The Promise and Peril of Artificial Intelligence, and The Economic Singularity: Artificial Intelligence and the Death of Capitalism. In part 2, we talk about the metaverse, how AI could be leveraged in the metaverse, and the agricultural and longevity singularities.
All this plus our usual look at today's AI headlines.
Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.
2022-05-0933 minArtificial Intelligence and You098 - Guest: Calum Chace, AI Author and Speaker, part 1This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .
Calum Chace is a keynote speaker and the author of Surviving AI: The Promise and Peril of Artificial Intelligence, and The Economic Singularity: Artificial Intelligence and the Death of Capitalism. We talked in this first part about his concept of the Economic Singularity, a transformation of the socioeconomic space he says will arrive much sooner than Ray Kurzweil's famed singularity.
All this plus our usual look at today's AI headlines.
Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.
2022-05-0235 minArtificial Intelligence and You097 - Guest: Alison Gopnik, Child Psychology Professor, part 2This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .
What is that baby thinking? Alison Gopnik knows. She is the American professor of psychology and affiliate professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, writes for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, New Scientist, and Scientific American, and has appeared on The Colbert Show and given a TED talk. She has much to tell us about how studying children can inform the development of artificial general intelligence, and in part 2, we discuss topics like epigenetics and the AI alignment problem.
All t...2022-04-2529 minArtificial Intelligence and You096 - Guest: Alison Gopnik, Child Psychology Professor, part 1This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .
What is that baby thinking? Alison Gopnik knows. She is the American professor of psychology and affiliate professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, writes for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, New Scientist, and Scientific American, and has appeared on The Colbert Show and given a TED talk. She has much to tell us about how studying children can inform the development of artificial general intelligence, and in part 1 you'll find out what babies are smarter than adults at!
All t...2022-04-1832 minArtificial Intelligence and You095 - Guest: George Dyson, Computer HistorianThis and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .
Those who do not understand history are doomed to repeat it, right? Or maybe the problem is that we should be repeating some history that we’re not. My guest is George Dyson, master kayak builder, keynote speaker about the history of computing, and the author of Analogia: The Emergence of Technology Beyond Programmable Control; Darwin Among the Machines: The Evolution of Global Intelligence; and Turing’s Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe. Hear his stories about John von Neumann, Alan Turing, and why he thinks that...2022-04-1138 minArtificial Intelligence and You094 - Guests: Hannah and Shea, Institute for Digital Humanity, part 2This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .
Hannah Grubbs and Shea Sullivan are from the Institute for Digital Humanity in Minnesota, a bi-partisan, cross-cultural, digital ethics think tank advocating for civil rights issues connected to advances in technology, and it is entirely student-founded and student run.
Their mission is to bring the humanity back to our digital world, and they are extraordinarily productive, forging alliances with other universities, Netflix, the ACLU, and the ADL.
In this second part we talk about the Safety Not Surveillance coalition, the Living Textbook project, a...2022-04-0427 minArtificial Intelligence and You093 - Guests: Hannah and Shea, Institute for Digital Humanity, part 1This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .
Hannah Grubbs and Shea Sullivan are from the Institute for Digital Humanity in Minnesota, a bi-partisan, cross-cultural, digital ethics think tank advocating for civil rights issues connected to advances in technology, and it is entirely student-founded and student run.
Their mission is to bring the humanity back to our digital world, and they are extraordinarily productive, forging alliances with other universities, the ACLU, and the ADL.
In part 1 we talk about how the IDH got started, their work with Netflix on Coded Bias, a...2022-03-2827 minArtificial Intelligence and You092 - Guest: Ben Shneiderman, Human-Centered AI Expert, part 2This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .
We continue talking about human-centered AI design with the man who wrote the book on user interface design: Ben Shneiderman, Emeritus Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Computer Science, Founding Director of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory and a member of the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, all at the University of Maryland.
His new book, Human-Centered AI, was just published, and in this conclusion we talk about what it's like to get into this field, and the role of standards and governance in human-centered AI...2022-03-2131 minArtificial Intelligence and You091 - Guest: Ben Shneiderman, Human-Centered AI Expert, part 1This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .
Who better to answer the call for expertise in human-centered AI design than the man who wrote the book on user interface design? Ben Shneiderman, Emeritus Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Computer Science, Founding Director of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory and a member of the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, all at the University of Maryland, received six honorary doctorates in human-computer interface design.
His new book, Human-Centered AI, was just published, and in this interview we talk about rationalism and empiricism in h...2022-03-1431 minArtificial Intelligence and You090 - Guest: David Danks, Professor of Philosophy and Data Science, part 2This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .
David Danks is a professor at UC San Diego working at the intersection of philosophy, cognitive science, and machine learning, was previously the L.L. Thurstone Professor of Philosophy & Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University and has developed a visual architecture for cognition. He's very adept at explaining complex issues eloquently and approachably.
In this conclusion we talk about how how social media platforms have created problems through irresponsible use of AI and algorithms, some nuance of the legal issues surrounding that, and look at bias t...2022-03-0735 minArtificial Intelligence and You089 - Guest: David Danks, Professor of Philosophy and Data Science, part 1This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .
David Danks is a professor at UC San Diego working at the intersection of philosophy, cognitive science, and machine learning, was previously the L.L. Thurstone Professor of Philosophy & Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University and has developed a visual architecture for cognition. He's very adept at explaining complex issues eloquently and approachably.
In this part we talk about how he got into AI from a start in philosophy, how machine learning, philosophy, and neuroscience intersect, and how we engage the public in meaningful efforts to m...2022-02-2830 minArtificial Intelligence and You088 - Special Panel: AI in MusicThis and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .
We're focusing on AI in music: What's the state of the art in AI music composition, how can human composers use it to their advantage, and what is the AI Song Contest? How do musical AIs surprise their creators and how are they like your grandmother trying to explain death metal?
We have a special panel from around the world to help with this one! Bob Sturm is Associate Professor of Computer Science at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. Dorien Herremans is a...2022-02-2150 minArtificial Intelligence and You087 - Guest: Stuart Russell, AI professor, author, activist, part 2This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .
Part 2 of our interview with Stuart Russell, OBE, professor of AI at UC Berkeley, author of both the standard textbook on AI and the 2019 book Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control. You may know him as the BBC's 2021 Reith Lecturer on artificial intelligence. Stuart is a prominent voice in the public debate about AI risk and the spokesperson for the viral video Slaughterbots commentary on lethal autonomous weapons. This week we talk about what it means for an AI to understand something – or not; reas...2022-02-1430 minArtificial Intelligence and You086 - Guest: Stuart Russell, AI professor, author, activist, part 1This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .
Stuart Russell, professor of AI at UC Berkeley, author of both the standard textbook on AI and the 2019 book Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control is my guest this week. You may know him as the BBC's 2021 Reith Lecturer on artificial intelligence. Queen Elizabeth knows him as a 2021 recipient of the Order of the British Empire. Stuart is a prominent voice in the public side of the AI risk conversation.
So much to talk about! In part 1 we get into the autonomous l...2022-02-0732 minArtificial Intelligence and You085 - Guest: David Brin, Science Fiction Author and Scientist, part 2This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .
See AI and the future of humanity through the eyes of an extraordinary thinker, science fiction author and scientist David Brin. Author of bestsellers such as Earth, Existence, Foundation's Triumph, and the Uplift series, David also has a PhD in astronomy and consults to organizations ranging from the CIA to Google.
What he does for them is get them to open their minds to new possibilities, and that's what he does for us, talking this week about how to restructure government to avoid AI seizing c...2022-01-3134 minArtificial Intelligence and You084 - Guest: David Brin, Science Fiction Author and Scientist, part 1This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .
See AI and the future of humanity through the eyes of an extraordinary thinker: Science fiction author and scientist David Brin is here to expand our minds with his creative and thought-provoking insights. Author of bestsellers such as The Postman, Earth, Existence, and the Uplift series, David also has a PhD in astronomy and consults to organizations ranging from the CIA to Google.
What he does for them is get them to open their minds to new possibilities, and that's what he does for us, t...2022-01-2435 minArtificial Intelligence and You083 - Guest: René Morkos, AI for Construction CEOThis and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .
AI continues to penetrate more and more into our daily lives, including activities that are in the background for most of us - like construction. Have you ever looked at a construction site and thought, "Surely there's a way there could be more people working on this at once?" Well, René Morkos, founder and CEO of Alice Technologies, did just that, and then wrote a PhD thesis on using AI to solve that problem. Learn with me how AI is changing construction.
All this plus ou...2022-01-1735 minArtificial Intelligence and You082 - Guest: Kush Varshney, AI Trustworthiness Research ScientistThis and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .
Never mind fantasies about Skynet and Terminators; how to trust AI is a real issue right now, as AI is used in life-impacting decisions like medical diagnoses and loan granting. Kush Varshney has a PhD from MIT and is a distinguished researcher at IBM’s Thomas J. Watson Research Center in New York, where he leads the machine learning group in the Foundations of Trustworthy AI department. He is the author of the book Trustworthy Machine Learning. We talk about the whole ecosystem of trustworthiness, finding out whe...2022-01-1028 minArtificial Intelligence and You081 - Guest: Tannya Jajal, AI Innovator and AuthorThis and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .
Joining us from Dubai is Tannya Jajal, keynote speaker, AI futurist, and UAE Chapter Lead for the Global Women in Tech Movement. She is a resource manager at VMware, a technology contributor at Forbes Middle East, and author of the new book, Thinking Machines: AI and the Intelligence Explosion.
I invited Tannya to the podcast after running into her on two different AI panels in different countries on the same day (virtually!). We talk about how AI is being taught and developed in the worlds o...2022-01-0333 minArtificial Intelligence and You080 - Special Panel: AI Predictions for 2022This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .
On our last show of 2021, it's time to think about the year ahead, and for that I have a panel of amazing experts!
Richard Foster-Fletcher, founder of MKAI, the inclusive Artificial Intelligence Community, advisor to the United Nations Environmental Programme and UN Framework Convention on Climate Change;
Ben Goertzel, chief scientist of Hanson Robotics and author of Ten Years To the Singularity If We Really Really Try;
Katie King, speaker and marketing consultant, and author of the 2022 book AI Strategy for Sales and Marketing: Connecting Marketing, S...2021-12-2754 minArtificial Intelligence and You079 - Guest: John Zerilli, Cognitive Science Philosopher, part 2This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .
What do you, a citizen, need to know and do about AI in your life now and in the future? Enter the author of The Adaptable Mind; John Zerilli is a philosopher, a Leverhulme Fellow at the University of Oxford, a Research Associate in the Oxford Institute for Ethics in AI, and an Associate Fellow in the Centre for the Future of Intelligence at the University of Cambridge.
We talk about his 2021 book A Citizen's Guide to Artificial Intelligence, which spells out the categories in w...2021-12-2033 minArtificial Intelligence and You078 - Guest: John Zerilli, Cognitive Science Philosopher, part 1This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .
What do you, a citizen, need to know and do about AI in your life now and in the future? Enter the author of The Adaptable Mind; John Zerilli is a philosopher, a Leverhulme Fellow at the University of Oxford, a Research Associate in the Oxford Institute for Ethics in AI, and an Associate Fellow in the Centre for the Future of Intelligence at the University of Cambridge.
We talk about his 2021 book A Citizen's Guide to Artificial Intelligence, which spells out the categories in w...2021-12-1325 minArtificial Intelligence and You077 - Guest: Alexandra Mousavizadeh, Strategic Intelligence Media Producer, part 2This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .
How could you know which countries are doing a good job with artificial intelligence, and which sites are the worst disinformation spreaders? Sounds incredibly useful but impossible to figure out, right? Alexandra Mousavizadeh of Tortoise Media in London has founded global indexes that answer those and other questions: The Global AI Index, the Responsibility100 Index, and the Global Disinformation Index. As Director of the Tortoise Intelligence team, her insights into geopolitical and industry conflicts and state of the art are highly prized by governments and multinationals.
2021-12-0624 minArtificial Intelligence and You076 - Guest: Alexandra Mousavizadeh, Strategic Intelligence Media Producer, part 1This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .
How could you know which countries are doing a good job with artificial intelligence, and which sites are the worst disinformation spreaders? Sounds incredibly useful but impossible to figure out, right? Alexandra Mousavizadeh of Tortoise Media in London has founded global indexes that answer those and other questions: The Global AI Index, the Responsibility100 Index, and the Global Disinformation Index. As Director of the Tortoise Intelligence team, her insights into geopolitical and industry conflicts and state of the art are highly prized by governments and multinationals.
2021-11-2932 minArtificial Intelligence and You075 - Guest: Michael Hind, IBM AI Explainability Expert, part 2This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .
Training an AI to render accurate decisions for important questions can be useless and dangerous if it cannot tell you why it made those decisions. Enter explainability, a term so new that it isn't in spellcheckers but is critical to the successful future of AI in critical applications.
Michael Hind is a Distinguished Research Staff Member in the IBM
Research AI department in Yorktown Heights, New York. His current
research passion is the area of Trusted AI, focusing on governance,
transparency, explainability, an...2021-11-2232 minArtificial Intelligence and You074 - Guest: Michael Hind, IBM AI Explainability Expert, part 1This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .
Training an AI to render accurate decisions for important questions can be useless and dangerous if it cannot tell you why it made those decisions. Enter explainability, a term so new that it isn't in spellcheckers but is critical to the successful future of AI in critical applications.
Before I talked with Michael Hind, my usual remark on the subject was, "If you want a demonstration of the ultimate futility of explainability, try asking your kid how the vase got broken." But after this episode I...2021-11-1533 minArtificial Intelligence and You073 - Guest: Kordel France, AI Engineer and CEO, part 2This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .
From AI in farming to AI in defense, Kordel France has done it, as an AI engineer and now founder and CEO of Seekar Technologies, which is building the first clinical AI tool used to advise neuropsychologists in diagnosing mental disorders. There are a lot of surprises in this episode as we talk about explainability, artificial general intelligence, and the fragility of image recognition AI, among other things.
All this plus our usual look at today's AI headlines.
Transcript and URLs referenced at H...2021-11-0827 minArtificial Intelligence and You072 - Guest: Kordel France, AI Engineer and CEO, part 1This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .
From AI in farming to AI in defense, Kordel France has done it, as an AI engineer and now founder and CEO of Seekar Technologies, which contributed AI to help ease demand on medical staffing and screen for COVID-19 faster. There are a lot of surprises - AI In hunting? - in this episode.
All this plus our usual look at today's AI headlines.
Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.
2021-11-0128 minArtificial Intelligence and You071 - Guest: Jonathan Rowson, Chess Grandmaster and Philosophical Activist, part 2This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .
Jonathan Rowson is a chess grandmaster who was three times British champion, writing books including "The Moves That Matter: A Chess Grandmaster on the Game of Life." He is now a "philosophical activist" working on "an urgent one hundred year project to improve the relationships between systems, souls, and society" at Perspectiva.
Last week we talked about the impact of computers on the game of chess and the people who play it. This week we make the connection with Jonathan's career as a philosopher and how...2021-10-2531 minArtificial Intelligence and You070 - Guest: Jonathan Rowson, Chess Grandmaster and Philosophical Activist, part 1This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .
Jonathan Rowson is a chess grandmaster who was three times British champion, writing books including "The Moves That Matter: A Chess Grandmaster on the Game of Life." He is now a "philosophical activist" working on "an urgent one hundred year project to improve the relationships between systems, souls, and society" via the Perspectiva project. Lots to talk about! We start out with the impact of computers on the game of chess and the people who play it: What does their encounter with AI have to teach the re...2021-10-1836 minArtificial Intelligence and You069 - Special Episode: DisinformationThis and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .
How is disinformation affecting our society, and what does AI have to do with it? I promised back in episode 1 that I would talk about disinformation, and now it's time to open that can of worms. I'll talk about the types of distortions, how social media algorithms spread them, the threats they pose, what's being done about them, and the role of AI in all this.
Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.
2021-10-1136 minArtificial Intelligence and You068 - Guest: Daniel DeMillard, Applied AI CTOThis and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .
Daniel DeMillard has been with IBM's Watson Division and is now CTO of Foodspace, making apps that can connect any dietary or culinary preferences with the products that will fulfill them. We talk about all of that, get into what's realistic and what isn't with natural language understanding, the present and future of AI-assisted search, and... Joaquin Phoenix putting a paper bag over his head? (Some parts of the interview only make sense in context.)
All this plus our usual look at today's AI headlines.2021-10-0444 minArtificial Intelligence and You067 - Guest: Olivier Caron-Lizotte, AI-as-a-service CEOThis and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .
What's it like to actually make AI work for customers in real-world applications where their investment has to pay off? Olivier Caron-Lizotte is the CEO of explor.ai, running a stable of developers to contract out. He's got the battle-tested experience about how that really works today and we get into the details of that.
All this plus our usual look at today's AI headlines.
Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.
2021-09-2737 minArtificial Intelligence and You066 - Guest: Olav Krigolson, Neuroscientist, part 2This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .
Olav Krigolson (@thatneurosciguy) has fried his brain - in the name of science. (It was not permanent.) He's a TEDx speaker and hands-on neuroscientist at the University of Victoria, where he runs the Krigolson Lab, studying brainwaves. He's helped astronauts prepare to go to Mars and can tell what someone's going to say before they say it. (Within limits.) In part 2, we talk about interfacing with the brain and interpreting brainwaves, plus how to use neuroscience to jumpstart your creativity when your stuck in a pandemic rut.2021-09-2030 minArtificial Intelligence and You065 - Guest: Olav Krigolson, Neuroscientist, part 1This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .
Olav Krigolson (@thatneurosciguy) has fried his brain - in the name of science. (It was not permanent.) He's a hands-on neuroscientist at the University of Victoria, where he runs the Krigolson Lab, studying brainwaves. He's helped astronauts prepare to go to Mars and can tell what someone's going to say before they say it. (Within limits.) We talk about those things and applicability to AI in part 1 of our interview.
All this plus our usual look at today's AI headlines.
Transcript and U...2021-09-1336 minArtificial Intelligence and You064 - Guest: Amit Gupta, AI Writing Assistant CreatorThis and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .
Amit Gupta has an amazing life story and is only just getting started. After a close encounter with death, he changed jobs, took up writing science fiction, and wrote an AI to help him. That AI - Sudowrite - is an amazingly capable and creative application of GPT-3 that earned a feature in The New Yorker, and we dig into what it does and how it does it. Writing is about to be transformed.
Mention AI and You when applying for Sudowrite beta access and A...2021-09-0638 minArtificial Intelligence and You063 - Guest: Sathish Sankarpandi, Digital Avatar ScientistThis and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .
Are you ready to interact with hyper-realistic digital avatars - computer-generated people - as part of your health care? They're not about to replace doctors and nurses, but they are ready to be an earlier part of the experience. Sathish Sankarpandi, data scientist at Orbital Global, tells us about the VirtTuri avatar (from "Virtual" and "Turing"). He'll tell us the capabilities and limits of today's AI-backed avatars.
All this plus our usual look at today's AI headlines.
Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp B...2021-08-3035 minArtificial Intelligence and You062 - Guest: Todd Litman, Autonomous Vehicle Policy Expert, part 2This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .
How will local and national authorities plan for self-driving vehicles in their jurisdictions? Todd Litman will help them. He is founder and executive director of the Victoria Transport Policy Institute, an independent research organization dedicated to developing innovative solutions to transport problems. His report "Autonomous Vehicle Implementation Predictions" explores the impacts of autonomous vehicles, and their implications for transportation planning. In part 2, we talk about how AVs are likely to change transportation planning, and put some numbers around the projections. No zombie kangaroos this time, though.
2021-08-2333 min
AIandYouAI & Tech Policy: A Conversation with Alejandro RoarkEpisode 13 of the AIandYou podcast features Alejandro Roark, Executive Director of the Hispanic Technology & Telecommunications Partnership. HTTP is the leading national Latino voice on telecommunications and technology policy. Listen to Susan and Alejandro discuss the intersection of AI technology, policy, and ethics and how to advocate for inclusive policies.Learn about AI, technology, and telecommunications through a leading national voice for the Hispanic community.2021-08-1929 minArtificial Intelligence and You061 - Guest: Todd Litman, Autonomous Vehicle Policy Expert, part 1This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .
How will local and national authorities plan for self-driving vehicles in their jurisdictions? Todd Litman will help them. He is founder and executive director of the Victoria Transport Policy Institute, an independent research organization dedicated to developing innovative solutions to transport problems. His report "Autonomous Vehicle Implementation Predictions" explores the impacts of autonomous vehicles, and their implications for transportation planning. In part 1 we talk about realistic expectations for AV implementation... plus zombie kangaroos.
All this plus our usual look at today's AI headlines.
T...2021-08-1629 minArtificial Intelligence and You060 - Guest: Tomáš Mikolov, Research ScientistThis and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .
Tomáš Mikolov is a PhD and research scientist at the Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics. He's done research for GoodAI and has worked at Google Brain and Facebook AI Research. He gave me some straight talk about the state of research and innovation in AI, and spelled out what it's missing and where researchers are playing it safe. We also talked about his research into "novelty search" and unpacked some ways to understand machine learning.
All this plus our usual look at today's AI...2021-08-0937 minArtificial Intelligence and You059 - Guest: Kakia Chatsiou, Political Language AnalyzerThis and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .
Kakia Chatsiou can tell you what a politician is really saying. Of course, most of us would say that the politician isn’t saying anything at all, but she’s more precise about it, and she uses AI to do it. She’s a professor at the University of Suffolk in the United Kingdom and this work shows up in her research paper Deep Learning for Political Science. She's an expert in natural language processing. We talk about how she analyzes the text of government COVID announcements to extr...2021-08-0238 minArtificial Intelligence and You058 - Guest: Charles Radclyffe, AI Ethics Grader, part 2This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .
Charles Radclyffe's company EthicsGrade grades companies on their AI ethics and governance and he has a lot to sat about what's ethical in AI companies, how to analyze it, what to do with that information, and how businesses can address their ethics.
Charles was formerly head of AI at Fidelity International and founded the podcast Are You a Robot?, which I will be on on August 30 (2021).
In part 2 we compare AI with other industries for their approaches to ethics, and discuss Charles' TEDx t...2021-07-2629 minArtificial Intelligence and You057 - Guest: Charles Radclyffe, AI Ethics Grader, part 1This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .
Charles Radclyffe's company EthicsGrade grades companies on their AI ethics and governance and he has a lot to sat about what's ethical in AI companies, how to analyze it, what to do with that information, and how businesses can address their ethics. Charles was formerly head of AI at Fidelity International and founded the podcast Are You a Robot?, which I will be on on August 30 (2021).
In part 1 we make some distinctions about bias and privacy and talk about the challenges with both.
A...2021-07-1931 minArtificial Intelligence and You056 - Guest: Przemek Chocjecki, Content-Generating AI PhDThis and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .
What if you could do for text what Photoshop does for images? What if you could manipulate it and create whole new sections at the push of a button? Przemek Chojecki has a PhD in mathematics, is a member of the Forbes 30 under 30 list in Poland, wrote the new book, Artificial Intelligence Business: How you can profit from AI, and he has built a tool, Contentyze, that does that. We're going to find out what that's like, what made him jump from academia, and we'll even get i...2021-07-1235 minArtificial Intelligence and You055 - Guest: Tony Gillespie, AI systems engineer, part 2This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .
How do you get a robot to follow the law? Could an AI be taught to obey the Geneva Convention? Tony Gillespie says so, and he's the author of Systems Engineering for Ethical Autonomous Systems,
which is as technical as it sounds. He is a Visiting Professor at University College London, a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, and a fellow in avionics and mission systems in the UK’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory. He has applied the techniques in his book to autonomous car...2021-07-0533 minAIandYouAI & DEI: Conversation with Rhonda AllenEpisode 12 of the AIandYou podcast features Rhonda Allen, CEO of /dev/color. /dev/color is a nonprofit that supports and advances Black software engineers on their path to becoming industry leaders and pioneers. Rhonda brings more than 12 years of experience in strategy, technology, education, cross-sector partnerships, and operations. She leads with the deep conviction that advancing Black technologists will strengthen communities and accelerate progress toward a more equitable future.Learn about AI and the organizational approach of diversity, equity, and inclusion.2021-07-0120 minArtificial Intelligence and You054 - Guest: Tony Gillespie, AI systems engineer, part 1This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .
How do you get a robot to follow the law? Could an AI be taught to obey the Geneva Convention? Tony Gillespie says so, and he's the author of Systems Engineering for Ethical Autonomous Systems,
which is as technical as it sounds. He is a Visiting Professor at University College London, a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, and a fellow in avionics and mission systems in the UK’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory. He has applied the techniques in his book to autonomous car...2021-06-2829 minArtificial Intelligence and You053 - Special Episode: AI in Fiction Panel, part 2This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .
Episode 53 means we've reached our one-year anniversary! So we're marking the occasion with a lighter episode pair, a panel talk about AI in fiction: Books, movies, TV shows. I am joined by literary and science fiction educator Dr. Robert James, who is also a published expert on the Academy Awards; and by Jim Gifford, my publisher and the bibliographer of science fiction author Robert Heinlein. All of us were a team on the creation and production of the 2007 convention of Heinlein's centennial.
In part 2 we t...2021-06-2147 minArtificial Intelligence and You052 - Special Episode: AI in Fiction Panel, part 1This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .
Episode 52 means we've reached our one-year anniversary! So we're marking the occasion with a lighter episode pair, a panel talk about AI in fiction: Books, movies, TV shows. I am joined by literary and science fiction educator Dr. Robert James, who is also a published expert on the Academy Awards; and by Jim Gifford, my publisher and the bibliographer of science fiction author Robert Heinlein. All of us were a team on the creation and production of the 2007 convention of Heinlein's centennial.
In part 1 our c...2021-06-1439 minAIandYouPaths Forward with Ezinne NwankoIn this episode of the AIandYou Podcast, Susan speaks with Ezinne Nwanko, a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley. Susan and Ezinne talk about AI and agriculture, and how to start a career in AI.Learn about agriculture and AI and careers in AI.2021-06-0815 minArtificial Intelligence and You051 - Guest: Ryan Abbott, Law Professor and Author, part 2This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .
AI is changing the law, and on the leading edge of figuring out how that should happen is Ryan Abbott, Professor of Law and Health Sciences at the University of Surrey in the UK, and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. We will be exploring issues raised in his recent book The Reasonable Robot: Artificial Intelligence and the Law.
In the conclusion of the interview, we’ll be talking about self-driving cars, liability and punishment for AI infr...2021-06-0729 minArtificial Intelligence and You050 - Guest: Ryan Abbott, Law Professor and Author, part 1This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .
AI is changing the law, and on the leading edge of figuring out how that should happen is Ryan Abbott, Professor of Law and Health Sciences at the University of Surrey in the UK, and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. We will be exploring issues raised in his recent book The Reasonable Robot: Artificial Intelligence and the Law.
We’ll be getting into intellectual property, and whether an AI should be able to own them – and patent...2021-05-3140 minAIandYouLiving With It: AI and DisabilityEpisode 10 of the AIandYou podcast features Heather Dowdy, who leads Partner Strategy for the Microsoft AI for Accessibility grant program. Heather’s work is diverse and difficult and includes providing grantees with resources to make technology more effective for people with disabilities. As the child of two Deaf parents, Heather loves creating solutions that empower marginalized communities and improve usability for all.Learn about how AI and technology can work for people living with disabilities.2021-05-2518 minAIandYouLet Me In: Housing, Lending, and AI BiasIn Episode 9 of the AIandYou podcast, Susan speaks with Michael Akinwumi, the head of implementation for the National Fair Housing Alliance’s Tech Equity Initiative. Michael’s work helps eliminate biases that are often found in artificial intelligence, particularly in housing and mortgage lending. If you’ve unfairly been denied a loan, Michael will know why. Learn about bias in artificial intelligence, particularly in housing and mortgage lending.2021-05-2520 minArtificial Intelligence and You049 - Guest: Phil D. Hall, Conversational AI Creator, part 2This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .
If you think you know what it's like to chat with today's AI, you may change your mind after encountering Phil D. Hall's work. He deploys chatbots as part performance art, part anthropological study pieces, part boundary-busting provocations, as well as serious tools for business enhancement. In part 2, we expand on his Echoborg creation, how it started, and where we might be heading with conversational AI in business and for helping people.
All this plus our usual look at today's AI headlines.
Transcript an...2021-05-2430 minArtificial Intelligence and You048 - Guest: Phil D. Hall, Conversational AI Creator, part 1This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .
If you think you know what it's like to chat with today's AI, you may change your mind after encountering Phil D. Hall's work. He deploys chatbots as part performance art, part anthropological study pieces, part boundary-busting provocations, as well as serious tools for business enhancement. We talk about his Echoborg creation and what happened when it met some British parliamentarians...
All this plus our usual look at today's AI headlines.
Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.
2021-05-1736 minArtificial Intelligence and You047 - Guest: Rajiv Malhotra, author and historian, part 2This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .
Are the benefits of AI equally distributed across countries? Or is it another tool for agents of globalization and imperialism to tighten their grip and shut out the smaller players on the global stage? Rajiv Malhotra has a new book, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Power: 5 Battlegrounds, that addresses that issue, and draws attention to how India in particular is collateral damage in the struggle for dominance between AI superpowers.
In part 2, we talk about the future of jobs from an equity and inclusion f...2021-05-1031 minArtificial Intelligence and You046 - Guest: Rajiv Malhotra, author and historian, part 1This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .
Are the benefits of AI equally distributed across countries? Or is it another tool for agents of globalization and imperialism to tighten their grip and shut out the smaller players on the global stage? Rajiv Malhotra has a new book, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Power: 5 Battlegrounds, that addresses that issue, and draws attention to how India in particular is collateral damage in the struggle for dominance between AI superpowers.
In this episode, we talk about how Western universalism and Chinese nationalism shape geopolitical s...2021-05-0332 minArtificial Intelligence and You045 - Guest: Rob May, AI Angel Investor, part 2This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .
What happens when an engineer becomes an angel investor and thought leader in AI? You get Rob May, former co-founder and CEO of Talla, an AI assistant platform, now General Partner at PJC, an early-stage venture capital firm focused on investing in, supporting, and building relationships with entrepreneurs who are creating the future. Rob also writes the world’s most popular newsletter on artificial intelligence – InsideAI.
In part 2, we talk about emotion AI, whether we're in an AI bubble, and what startups should - and shoul...2021-04-2624 minArtificial Intelligence and You044 - Guest: Rob May, AI Angel Investor, part 1This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .
What happens when an engineer becomes an angel investor and thought leader in AI? You get Rob May, former co-founder and CEO of Talla, an AI assistant platform, now General Partner at PJC, an early-stage venture capital firm focused on investing in, supporting, and building relationships with entrepreneurs who are creating the future. Rob also writes the world’s most popular newsletter on artificial intelligence – InsideAI.
We talk about the state of startups in brain-computer interfaces, the role of ethical issues in evaluating startups, and just...2021-04-1931 minArtificial Intelligence and You043 - Guest: David Gerrold, Science Fiction Author and Screenwriter, part 2This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .
What could it be like inside the mind of an artificial intelligence that has just evolved consciousness? Our guest today has imagined just that.
David Gerrold has written some of the most widely-read and -viewed science fiction of the last 60 years, starting with classic Star Trek's Trouble with Tribbles episode and several other episodes of that and other Star Trek, Babylon 5, Twilight Zone, and other TV series, plus novels such as The Man Who Folded Himself, and series including the War Against the Chtorr and t...2021-04-1234 minAIandYouEpisode 7: Conceptos Básicos de AIEn el episodio siete del podcast AIandYou encontramos a Susan hablando con Martha Laguna, Gerente Senior de Productos Técnicos en Ethics and Society for Cloud AI en Microsoft. Martha se enfoca en la creación de soluciones de IA (inteligencia artificial) para problemas grandes y pequeños. Además, hablan de algunos conceptos básicos de IA en Español.2021-04-0714 minAIandYouEpisode 6: Follow the CookiesEpisode six of the AIandYou podcast finds Susan talking with Martha Laguna, a Senior Technical Product Manager at Ethics and Society for Cloud AI at Microsoft. Martha is all about building AI solutions to problems big and small; her bread and butter are data. In English, Susan and Martha get into it about data and how online shoppers can be traced around the web.2021-04-0718 minAIandYouEpisode 5: Healthcare and Machine LearningFor the fifth episode of the AIandYou podcast, Susan speaks with Kat Heller, an Assistant Professor at Duke University in the Department of Statistical Science and at the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience. Kat is also at Google Brain where much of her work deals with machine learning and healthcare.2021-04-0722 minArtificial Intelligence and You042 - Guest: David Gerrold, Science Fiction Author and Screenwriter, part 1This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .
What could it be like inside the mind of an artificial intelligence that has just evolved consciousness? Our guest today has imagined just that.
David Gerrold has written some of the most widely-read and -viewed science fiction of the last 60 years, starting with classic Star Trek's Trouble with Tribbles episode and several other episodes of that and other Star Trek, Babylon 5, Twilight Zone, and other TV series, plus novels such as The Man Who Folded Himself, and series including the War Against the Chtorr and t...2021-04-0532 minArtificial Intelligence and You041 - Guest: Peter Asaro, Autonomous Weapon Activist, part 2This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .
Lethal autonomous weapons are here, and we're going to see much more of them. What concerns do these raise, and what should we do about them? Those may seem like intractable problems, but Peter Asaro tackles them. He is a professor at the New School in New York, and is a philosopher of science, technology and media. His work examines artificial intelligence and robotics as a form of digital media, the ethical dimensions of algorithms and data, and the ways in which technology mediates social relations and s...2021-03-2926 minAIandYouEpisode 4: Conversation with Jordan HarrodEpisode four of the AIandYou podcast finds Susan talking with Jordan Harrod, a PhD student in the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology program. She focuses on neuroengineering, brain-machine interfaces, and machine learning. Learn about how AI is used for pain management and how to navigate a career in AI as a woman in color.2021-03-2324 minArtificial Intelligence and You040 - Guest: Peter Asaro, Autonomous Weapon Activist, part 1This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .
Lethal autonomous weapons are here, and we're going to see much more of them. What concerns do these raise, and what should we do about them? Those may seem like intractable problems, but Peter Asaro tackles them. He is a professor at the New School in New York, and is a philosopher of science, technology and media. His work examines artificial intelligence and robotics as a form of digital media, the ethical dimensions of algorithms and data, and the ways in which technology mediates social relations and s...2021-03-2232 minAIandYouEpisode 3: Conversation with Rapha Raphael Gontijo LopesIn episode three of the AIandYou podcast, Susan chats with Rapha Gontijo Lopes, a Research Associate at Google Brain and a Founder at Queer in AI. Rapha is an expert in everyday AI: the ways that artificial intelligence worms its way into our lives, without our even knowing it. Susan and Rapha also talk about the importance of queer representation in AI — why it’s important and how to increase it. Learn about artificial intelligence in daily life and the importance of queer representation in tech.2021-03-0914 minAIandYouEpisode 2: Conversation with Pablo Samuel CastroThe second episode of the AIandYou podcast features Pablo Samuel Castro, a staff research Software Developer in Google Brain in Montreal. In addition to his work, which focuses on how machines learn and creativity, Pablo is an advocate for increasing LatinX representation in the research community. Susan and Pablo talk shop about AI, the importance of representation in the AI community — and even get into some music. Learn about creativity and the importance of representation in AI.2021-02-2416 minAIandYouEpisode 1: Conversation with Lisa RiceOn the first episode of the AIandYou podcast, AIandYou CEO Susan Gonzales sits down with Lisa Rice, the President and CEO of the National Fair Housing Alliance (NFHA). Susan speaks with Lisa about the Tech Equity Initiative, NFHA’s secret weapon in the fight again racial bias in housing and financial services. They also talk about the need for transparency for AI tools, and how to increase diversity and inclusion in the tech field. Learn about housing discrimination, the ethics of AI, and diversity and inclusion in tech.2021-02-0129 min