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Eye On A.I.

Eye on A.I. is a biweekly podcast, hosted by longtime New York Times correspondent Craig S. Smith. In each episode, Craig will talk to people making a difference in artificial intelligence. The podcast aims to put incremental advances into a broader context and consider the global implications of the developing technology. AI is about to change your world, so pay attention.

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44:03

Tricky Business: Deploying AI Models on Hardware

Eye On A.I. ·

2020/12/03

An open-source compiler called TVM helps data scientists optimize their model’s performance on specific hardware.

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49:17

AI in Space with NASA’s Steve Chien

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2020/11/12

NSCAI commissioner Steve Chien, technical supervisor of the artificial intelligence group at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, talks about the growing demand for AI solutions in space, from coordinating an increasing number of earth-orbiting objects to protecting critical communication satellites from attack.

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37:17

Opening AI Career Paths in Government and funding...

Eye On A.I. ·

2020/11/04

This week, NSCAI commissioner Jose-Marie Griffiths talks about her line of effort's recommendations to increase STEM related educational funding by $8 billion in order to prime the pump for an AI ready workforce and to make a variety of bureaucratic changes that will open AI related career pathways for government employees.

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35:35

AI and Allies: coordinating national security with...

Eye On A.I. ·

2020/10/28

Jason Matheny, a commissioner at the National Security Commission on AI and head of Georgetown University’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology, talks about coordinating AI developments with NATO and making India the focus of the US's Indo-Pacific AI strategy to counter China.

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45:56

Programmatic labeling with Alex Ratner of Snorkel AI

Eye On A.I. ·

2020/10/28

Alex Ratner, an assistant professor at the University of Washington and a cofounder and CEO of Snorkel AI, talks about programmatically labeling training data for supervised learning models.

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44:13

Data Wrangling with Joe Hellerstein

Eye On A.I. ·

2020/10/14

In the second episode of a series on the machine-learning pipeline, Joe Hellerstein, a professor at UC Berkeley, talks about data wrangling.

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50:12

Turing Award Winner David Patterson - CPUs to GPUs to...

Eye On A.I. ·

2020/09/30

Turing Award winner David Patterson talks about the end of Moore's law and the evolution of computer chips from general purpose CPUs to GPUs to the recent Cambrian explosion of specialized AI chips, including Google's TPU, in the first episode of five about the machine-learning model-development pipeline with Ameet Talwalkar, co-founder of Determined AI, an open-source platform for ML model development.

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33:16

Great Power Competition in the Digital Age with...

Eye On A.I. ·

2020/09/16

NSCAI commissioner Gilman Louie talks about great power competition in the digital age and the US need for a more technologically literate diplomatic core to counter China's increasing diplomatic efforts on the technology front.

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33:50

Turning AI from a Tool to a Teammate with Ken Ford

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2020/09/09

Ken Ford, an NSCAI commissioner, talks about turning AI from a tool to a teammate and unshackling research and implementation of AI from government bureaucracy in order to compete with nimbler countries such as China.

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32:27

AI War Games Will Inform Military Doctrine with...

Eye On A.I. ·

2020/09/02

Katharina McFarland, an NSCAI commissioner, talks about the commission’s recommendations on inserting AI into the National Defense Strategy and how war games should integrate AI enabled applications in order to inform US military doctrine

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36:09

Eric Horvitz on Ethical Uses of AI for National Security

Eye On A.I. ·

2020/08/26

Eric Horvitz, Chief Scientific Officer at Microsoft and a commissioner with the National Security Commission on AI, talks about the commission’s recommendations that responsible and ethical uses be a primary consideration in any AI system for national security.

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38:31

The Conundrum of AI Export Controls with Jason Matheny

Eye On A.I. ·

2020/08/19

Jason Matheny, an NSCAI commissioner who now leads a think tank at Georgetown University focused on the intersections of technology, policy and national security, spoke in this week’s episode about the Commission’s recommendations on export controls for sensitive technology and the difficult problem of protecting digital assets like algorithms and data.

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Episode 48 - Mignon Clyburn

Eye On A.I. ·

2020/08/12

Mignon Clyburn, an NSCAI commissioner and longtime regulator at the FCC, talks about the Commission’s recommendations to increase competency in artificial intelligence at the Department of Defense and other government agencies. Ms. Clyburn talked about establishing a National Reserve Digital Corps with a scholarship program modeled after the ROTC and the creation of a United States Digital Service Academy similar to mint a new class of civil servants with deep technical knowledge.

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40:23

Episode 47 - Talking Machines

Eye On A.I. ·

2020/08/04

The Alexa Prize Socialbot Grand Challenge is a competition for university students to create a social bot that can converse coherently and engagingly with humans. This year's prize goes to the team from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. I speak with Prem Natarajan, vice president of natural understanding in the Alexa AI organization, about the prize, the evolution of conversational AI, its current challenges and its future promise

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43:24

Episode 46 - Qualcomm Technologies

Eye On A.I. ·

2020/08/04

Qualcomm Technologies is powering the shift to fifth generation wireless communications, known as 5G. In this sponsored episode, I speak to two of the company's product managers leading the company's efforts to use AI to enhance 5G, reduce on-device power consumption, and give developers the tools necessary to make devices smarter and faster.

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48:01

Starting Project Maven with Lt. Gen. Jack Shanahan

Eye On A.I. ·

2020/07/22

This week I speak to Lieutenant General Jack Shanahan, recently retired Director of the Pentagon’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center,or JAIC. He was instrumental in starting Project Maven to integrate state-of-the-art computer vision into drone technology. He then started the JAIC, the central hub for the military’s AI efforts. Gen. Shanahan spoke about the challenges of nurturing innovation within a rigid and multilayered organization like the DOD and the threats the US faces ahead.

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42:57

Episode 44 - Fei-Fei Li

Eye On A.I. ·

2020/07/08

This week I speak to Stanford professor Fei-Fei Li, one of the people responsible for the current AI revolution. Fei-Fei talked about her early days running a New Jersey dry cleaner to finance her Princeton education, her creation of ImageNet, the world's first large labeled image data set, which allowed the validation of neural networks, and her latest work on ambient intelligence, which promises to transform elder care.

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33:57

Episode 43 - Pietro Perona

Eye On A.I. ·

2020/06/24

Pietro Perona, a professor at the California Institute of Technology, is one of the brains behind a pair of smartphone apps that help you do just that: eBird and iNaturalist. But simple as the apps are to use in identifying tens of thousands of species, the science behind them is complex. Gathering enough examples for each species to train a neural network is impossible, so much of Prof. Perona’s work has been focused on making machines more efficient learners, requiring less training data.

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Episode 42 - Eric Horvitz

Eye On A.I. ·

2020/06/10

In this week's episode, the last in a series of six, we talked to Eric Horvitz. Commissioner at the National Security Commission on AI and Chief Research Scientist at Microsoft, about the commission's recommendations to Congress about the need for training, standards and documentation to govern the application of AI in the national security space.

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Episode 41 - Gilman Louie

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2020/06/03

In this week's episode, we talk with NSCAI Commissioner Gilman Louie about line of effort’s recommendations to Congress on how to maintain US leadership in AI hardware and 5G. He spoke about the need for a national microelectronic strategy and policies that would advance spectrum sharing for 5G to create a global alternative to the Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei.

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