AI Business Podcast

Some AI models are trained on great works of art. Others are trained on images of violence. If they were people, which one would you like to meet? Today we're talking about the different kinds of data that can be used to train an AI model. Covering the story of Facebook’s Red Team, tasked with hacking the company’s AI systems in order to make them more resilient, why we hope AI will take the jobs...

After a brief hiatus caused by a certain baby, Max, Tien and Sebastian are once again ready to share their cynical take on the lastest AI news. Including an essay by a robot, Cavanue – an ambitious organization hoping to build intelligent, connected roads for autonomous cars and two stories AI Summit London: Rolls-Royce (the engine people) giving away their ethics framework for AI; and GSK predict...

This week we're taking pleasure in misfortunes of others; discussing Intel’s technical difficulties, Elon Musk encroaching on our turf, and robot poetry. We start with Intel, which is having problems with the 7nm process that are causing delays across its lineup and could put an end to a long tradition of self-reliance in silicon printing. Then Elon Musk we don’t like, for a whole assortment of bu...

This week's episode looks at robot workers, the reasons why Nvidia is worth the big bucks, and virtual personalities in China. Helping us on this mission is special guest Tate Cantrell, CTO at Verne Global, an expert on data centers, HPC, renewable energy, and all matters related to Iceland.

This week we discuss AI in space, spacesuits, Amazon ASS, and space as a billionaire hobby. It used to be the US versus USSR, now it’s Musk versus Bezos - we know who’s got the most phallic rockets. And for the first time ever, the podcast features “A machine says whaaaat?!” - our very own game show where Max and Seb go head-to-head, trying to guess whether a quote belongs to a human, or an AI sys...

In the second part of this episode, the AI Business editorial team talks to Katie King, CEO of AI in Business; founder and MD of Zoodikers Consulting; and member of the UK’s All-Party Parliamentary Group Taskforce on AI. We chat about educating the next generation of AI professionals, artificial intelligence through the eyes of politicians, the impact of Brexit, and the importance of international...

This week, we focus on facial recognition. The AI Business team takes a look at the embodiment of futuristic evil that is Clearview AI, and the efforts by companies like Microsoft, Amazon and IBM to limit the sales of facial recognition to police – at least for a while. Remember Enemy of the State, the 1998 film with Will Smith? They built that space camera. They named it Gorgon Stare, and it’s ou...

'The world seems crazy right now, but don’t worry, it’s always been crazy'. This week, Max Smolaks and Tien Fu take look at the ongoing tech war between the US and China. Having run out of Chinese goods to tax, the Trump administration is going after individual AI companies, while increasing domestic funding for scientific research. Meanwhile, Chinese cloud juggernauts are investing billions in ne...

In this episode, the editorial team talks automated warehouses, the enduring problem of picking stuff up, and pandemic essentials. We discuss Microsoft’s Project Bonsai, best described as a virtual labor camp for machines, delve into Nvidia’s chonky chips, and OpenAI’s shiny new supercomputer, which, in the absence of a memorable name, was christened the Shrugging Atlas. Plus, weird stuff you find...

In the AI Business Podcast our aim is to present an intriguing section industry news from the past two weeks, discuss the stories we are working on, while always looking out for the strangest, most cutting-edge applications of artificial intelligence out there. In the first episode, we talk about two use cases for AI in fighting COVID-19 – in drug development and medical image processing (and ther...