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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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039 - Guest: Beth Singler, Anthropologist and...

Artificial Intelligence and You ·

2021/03/15

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ . When you combine anthropologist, filmmaker, and geek, you get Beth Singler, Research Fellow in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Cambridge. Beth explores the social, ethical, philosophical and religious implications of advances in artificial intelligence and robotics and has produced some dramatic documentaries about our relationship with AI: Pain in the Machine and its sequels, Friend in the Machine, Good in the Machine, and Ghost in

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038 - Guest: Beth Singler, Anthropologist and...

Artificial Intelligence and You ·

2021/03/08

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037 - Guest: Steve Shwartz, AI entrepreneur/investor,...

Artificial Intelligence and You ·

2021/03/01

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ . Steve Shwartz is a serial software entrepreneur and investor, with a PhD from Johns Hopkins university in cognitive science and did postdoc research in AI at Yale. He is the author of the new book Evil Robots, Killer Computers, and Other Myths: The Truth About AI and the Future of Humanity, published by Fast Company Press on February 9. In part 2 of our interview, we talk about "artificial intelligence and natural stupidity" (we had to get that

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036 - Guest: Steve Shwartz, AI entrepreneur/investor,...

Artificial Intelligence and You ·

2021/02/22

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ . Steve Shwartz is a serial software entrepreneur and investor, with a PhD from Johns Hopkins university in cognitive science and did postdoc research in AI at Yale. He is the author of the new book Evil Robots, Killer Computers, and Other Myths: The Truth About AI and the Future of Humanity, published by Fast Company Press on February 9. We talk about bias, explainability, and other current problems with machine learning, plus... horse racing. All

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035 - Guest: Michael Wooldridge, Oxford University...

Artificial Intelligence and You ·

2021/02/15

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ . We continue the interview with Michael Wooldridge, head of the Oxford University Computer Science department and author of A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence, an introductory look at AI, published Jan 2021 by Flatiron Books. He's been working on AI for 30 years and specializes in multi-agent systems, which we talk about. He's written over 400 articles and nine books, including the Ladybird Expert Guide to Artificial Intelligence. We cover

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034 - Guest: Michael Wooldridge, Oxford University...

Artificial Intelligence and You ·

2021/02/08

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ . My guest this week is Michael Wooldridge, head of the Oxford University Computer Science department and author of A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence, an introductory look at AI, published last month by Flatiron Books. He's been working on AI for 30 years and specializes in multi-agent systems, which we talk about. He's written over 400 articles and nine books, including the Ladybird Expert Guide to Artificial Intelligence. We cover a huge

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033 - What Is AI? A quick tour of the tech

Artificial Intelligence and You ·

2021/02/01

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ . "What is AI?" That question is one of the ones in the opening credits of this podcast, and in this episode, I'm going to give you a whistle-stop tour of what AI is. No computer experience required; if you've no idea how AI is built and what makes it tick, this will get you off to a good start. If you've already got some chops in computer software, then this episode may help you grasp how to explain AI to your friends. I'll go from the beginnings

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032 - TEDx, Deconstructed: Building and Elaborating...

Artificial Intelligence and You ·

2021/01/25

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ . I promised to expand on my last TEDx talk (https://www.ted.com/talks/peter_j_scott_how_to_save_us_from_being_left_behind_by_ai), and this is that episode. If you're an aspiring public speaker, you'll hear what went into creating the talk, the inspirations and reasons behind every word, the cycle of how it was built and modified in response to feedback. If you're interested in the ideas that it raised, this episode expands on those and gives you

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031 - Guest: Ted Parson, AI Law Professor, part 2

Artificial Intelligence and You ·

2021/01/18

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ . At the intersection of artificial intelligence and law... you'll find Dr. Edward Parson. He's the Dan and Rae Emmett Professor of Environmental Law and director of the AI-PULSE project at UCLA conducting “interdisciplinary research and innovative programming to study how technological advances and scientific knowledge and uncertainties influence law and policy making, and how their impacts can be managed to advance human and societal well-being.”

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030 - Guest: Ted Parson, AI Law Professor, part 1

Artificial Intelligence and You ·

2021/01/11

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029 - Guest: Katie King, AI Business Consultant, part 2

Artificial Intelligence and You ·

2021/01/04

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ . How does a business successfully deploy #AI, especially if they are new at it? Katie King is a UK-based AI consultant and marketing expert, and member of the All-Party Parliamentary Group task force on AI (APPG-AI). She is the author of the book Using Artificial Intelligence in Marketing: How to Harness AI and Maintain the Competitive Edge, and CEO of the AI in Business consultancy, taking her to locations like Dubai and Singapore, and which I am

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028 - Guest: Katie King, AI Business Consultant, part 1

Artificial Intelligence and You ·

2020/12/28

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027 - A TEDx Journey: Getting to the Red Dot

Artificial Intelligence and You ·

2020/12/21

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ . TEDx: The franchise of the TED organization and the venue for speakers on all kinds of thought-provoking topics. What is it like to apply for and give a TEDx talk? This episode is a little different (it's the holidays), and goes into my experiences getting to the TEDx stage (three times) and since then, evaluating technology speakers for one of the premier TEDx events in North America. That TEDx talk is online at

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026 - Guest: Thomas Homer-Dixon, Complex Systems...

Artificial Intelligence and You ·

2020/12/14

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ . Exponential technology such as artificial intelligence causes the complexity of our world to explode. How do we address complexity as an existential risk in itself? Enter Dr. Thomas Homer-Dixon, director of the Cascade Institute at Royal Roads University, in British Columbia. He describes himself as a Complex Systems Theorist, and has a PhD from MIT in international relations, defense and arms control policy, and conflict theory. His research has

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025 - Guest: Thomas Homer-Dixon, Complex Systems...

Artificial Intelligence and You ·

2020/12/07

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024 - The Biggest Question About AGI

Artificial Intelligence and You ·

2020/11/30

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ . We tackle the most important question about Artificial General Intelligence - When Will It Happen? Everyone really wants to know, but no one has a clue. Estimates range from 5 to 500 years. So why talk about it? I talk about how this question was raised in a presentation and what it means to me and all of us. We might not be able to get a date, but we'll explore why it's such a hard question and see what useful questions we can get out of it. All

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023 - Guest: Pamela McCorduck, AI Historian, part 2

Artificial Intelligence and You ·

2020/11/23

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ . Every Johnson should have a Boswell, and the entire artificial intelligence field has Pamela McCorduck as its scribe. Part historian, part humorist, part raconteuse, her books romp through the history and characters of AI as both authoritative record and belles-lettres. Machines Who Think (1979, 2003) and her recent sequel This Could Be Important (2019) help understand the who, what, and why of where AI has come from. In the second half of this

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022 - Guest: Pamela McCorduck, AI Historian

Artificial Intelligence and You ·

2020/11/16

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021 - Guest: David Wood, Futurist, part 2

Artificial Intelligence and You ·

2020/11/09

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ . How do you drive a community of futurists? David Wood was one of the pioneers of the smartphone industry, co-founding Symbian in 1998. He is now an independent futurist consultant, speaker and writer. As Chair of the London Futurists, he has hosted over 200 public discussions about technoprogressive topics. He is the author or lead editor of nine books, including Smartphones for All, The Abolition of Aging, Transcending Politics, and Sustainable

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020 - Guest: David Wood, Futurist

Artificial Intelligence and You ·

2020/11/02

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