Episodes
Monday Aug 30, 2021
063 - Guest: Sathish Sankarpandi, Digital Avatar Scientist
Monday Aug 30, 2021
Monday Aug 30, 2021
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 look at today's AI headlines. Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog. |
Monday Aug 23, 2021
062 - Guest: Todd Litman, Autonomous Vehicle Policy Expert, part 2
Monday Aug 23, 2021
Monday Aug 23, 2021
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 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. All this plus our usual look at today's AI headlines. Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog. |
Monday Aug 16, 2021
061 - Guest: Todd Litman, Autonomous Vehicle Policy Expert, part 1
Monday Aug 16, 2021
Monday Aug 16, 2021
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 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. Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog. |
Monday Aug 09, 2021
060 - Guest: Tomáš Mikolov, Research Scientist
Monday Aug 09, 2021
Monday Aug 09, 2021
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 machine learning. All this plus our usual look at today's AI headlines. Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog. |
Monday Aug 02, 2021
059 - Guest: Kakia Chatsiou, Political Language Analyzer
Monday Aug 02, 2021
Monday Aug 02, 2021
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 government COVID announcements to extract meaning, application to related fields such as ethics, and what it's like to be in this field. All this plus our usual look at today's AI headlines. Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog. |