Episodes

Monday Feb 21, 2022
088 - Special Panel: AI in Music
Monday Feb 21, 2022
Monday Feb 21, 2022
This 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 an Assistant Professor at Singapore University of Technology and Design. Hendrik Vincent Koops is an AI researcher and composer, holding degrees in Sound Design and Music Composition from the HKU University of the Arts Utrecht, and is co-organizer of the AI Song Contest. All this plus our usual look at today's AI headlines. Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog. |
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Monday Feb 14, 2022
087 - Guest: Stuart Russell, AI professor, author, activist, part 2
Monday Feb 14, 2022
Monday Feb 14, 2022
This 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; reasoning chains; and exciting new research into artificial general intelligence. All this plus our usual look at today's AI headlines. Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog. |
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Monday Feb 07, 2022
086 - Guest: Stuart Russell, AI professor, author, activist, part 1
Monday Feb 07, 2022
Monday Feb 07, 2022
This 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 lethal weapon debate; you may have seen Stuart in his role as activist and spokesperson for the viral video Slaughterbots. We also talk about the public narrative on AI risk and help you make sense of the apparently contradictory positions there. All this plus our usual look at today's AI headlines. Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog. |
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Monday Jan 31, 2022
085 - Guest: David Brin, Science Fiction Author and Scientist, part 2
Monday Jan 31, 2022
Monday Jan 31, 2022
This 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 control in the future, how to fix accountability on the Internet, and... The Lion King. He also has a special message for superintelligent AIs listening now or in the future. He provided links for some of the things we talked about, which are also in the transcript:
It's a smörgåsbord for the mind in this conclusion of our interview. All this plus our usual look at today's AI headlines. Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog. |
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Monday Jan 24, 2022
084 - Guest: David Brin, Science Fiction Author and Scientist, part 1
Monday Jan 24, 2022
Monday Jan 24, 2022
This 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, talking about the role of science fiction, where the real danger from AI will emerge from and why, how superintelligence was treated in Foundation's Triumph, his sequel to Asimov's series, and the systems of power that control our future today. Yes, it's a lot to take in! All this plus our usual look at today's AI headlines. Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog. |
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Monday Jan 17, 2022
083 - Guest: René Morkos, AI for Construction CEO
Monday Jan 17, 2022
Monday Jan 17, 2022
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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 our usual look at today's AI headlines. Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog. |
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Monday Jan 10, 2022
082 - Guest: Kush Varshney, AI Trustworthiness Research Scientist
Monday Jan 10, 2022
Monday Jan 10, 2022
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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 where it goes in areas like privacy, anonymization, regulation, compliance, and oversight. All this plus our usual look at today's AI headlines. Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog. |
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Monday Jan 03, 2022
081 - Guest: Tannya Jajal, AI Innovator and Author
Monday Jan 03, 2022
Monday Jan 03, 2022
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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 of women, children, and the Middle East. All this plus our usual look at today's AI headlines. Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog. |
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