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Artificial Intelligence and You

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What is AI? How will it affect your life, your work, and your world?

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078 - Guest: John Zerilli, Cognitive Science...

Artificial Intelligence and You ·

2021/12/13

This 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,

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077 - Guest: Alexandra Mousavizadeh, Strategic...

Artificial Intelligence and You ·

2021/12/06

This 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

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076 - Guest: Alexandra Mousavizadeh, Strategic...

Artificial Intelligence and You ·

2021/11/29

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075 - Guest: Michael Hind, IBM AI Explainability...

Artificial Intelligence and You ·

2021/11/22

This 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

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074 - Guest: Michael Hind, IBM AI Explainability...

Artificial Intelligence and You ·

2021/11/15

This 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

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073 - Guest: Kordel France, AI Engineer and CEO, part 2

Artificial Intelligence and You ·

2021/11/08

This 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

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072 - Guest: Kordel France, AI Engineer and CEO, part 1

Artificial Intelligence and You ·

2021/11/01

This 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.

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071 - Guest: Jonathan Rowson, Chess Grandmaster and...

Artificial Intelligence and You ·

2021/10/25

This 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

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070 - Guest: Jonathan Rowson, Chess Grandmaster and...

Artificial Intelligence and You ·

2021/10/18

This 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

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069 - Special Episode: Disinformation

Artificial Intelligence and You ·

2021/10/11

This 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.

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068 - Guest: Daniel DeMillard, Applied AI CTO

Artificial Intelligence and You ·

2021/10/04

This 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

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067 - Guest: Olivier Caron-Lizotte, AI-as-a-service CEO

Artificial Intelligence and You ·

2021/09/27

This 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.

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066 - Guest: Olav Krigolson, Neuroscientist, part 2

Artificial Intelligence and You ·

2021/09/20

This 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

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065 - Guest: Olav Krigolson, Neuroscientist, part 1

Artificial Intelligence and You ·

2021/09/13

This 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

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064 - Guest: Amit Gupta, AI Writing Assistant Creator

Artificial Intelligence and You ·

2021/09/06

This 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

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063 - Guest: Sathish Sankarpandi, Digital Avatar...

Artificial Intelligence and You ·

2021/08/30

This 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

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062 - Guest: Todd Litman, Autonomous Vehicle Policy...

Artificial Intelligence and You ·

2021/08/23

This 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

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061 - Guest: Todd Litman, Autonomous Vehicle Policy...

Artificial Intelligence and You ·

2021/08/16

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060 - Guest: Tomáš Mikolov, Research Scientist

Artificial Intelligence and You ·

2021/08/09

This 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

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059 - Guest: Kakia Chatsiou, Political Language Analyzer

Artificial Intelligence and You ·

2021/08/02

This 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

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