Artificial Intelligence and You

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .   Who better to answer the call for expertise in human-centered AI design than the man who wrote the book on user interface design? Ben Shneiderman, Emeritus Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Computer Science, Founding Director of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory and a member of the Institute for Advanced Computer Stu...

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .   David Danks is a professor at UC San Diego working at the intersection of philosophy, cognitive science, and machine learning, was previously the L.L. Thurstone Professor of Philosophy & Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University and has developed a visual architecture for cognition. He's very adept at explaining complex issues eloquently and appro...

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .   David Danks is a professor at UC San Diego working at the intersection of philosophy, cognitive science, and machine learning, was previously the L.L. Thurstone Professor of Philosophy & Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University and has developed a visual architecture for cognition. He's very adept at explaining complex issues eloquently and appro...

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...

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 A...

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 Bri...

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 t...

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 organiza...

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .   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 t...

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .   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...

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .   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...

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .   On our last show of 2021, it's time to think about the year ahead, and for that I have a panel of amazing experts! Richard Foster-Fletcher , founder of MKAI , the inclusive Artificial Intelligence Community, advisor to the United Nations Environmental Programme and UN Framework Convention on Climate Change; Ben Goertzel , chief scientist of Hanso...

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .   What do you, a citizen, need to know and do about AI in your life now and in the future? Enter the author of The Adaptable Mind; John Zerilli is a philosopher, a Leverhulme Fellow at the University of Oxford, a Research Associate in the Oxford Institute for Ethics in AI, and an Associate Fellow in the Centre for the Future of Intelligence at the...

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .   What do you, a citizen, need to know and do about AI in your life now and in the future? Enter the author of The Adaptable Mind; John Zerilli is a philosopher, a Leverhulme Fellow at the University of Oxford, a Research Associate in the Oxford Institute for Ethics in AI, and an Associate Fellow in the Centre for the Future of Intelligence at the...

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .   How could you know which countries are doing a good job with artificial intelligence, and which sites are the worst disinformation spreaders? Sounds incredibly useful but impossible to figure out, right? Alexandra Mousavizadeh of Tortoise Media in London has founded global indexes that answer those and other questions: The Global AI Index , the R...

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .   How could you know which countries are doing a good job with artificial intelligence, and which sites are the worst disinformation spreaders? Sounds incredibly useful but impossible to figure out, right? Alexandra Mousavizadeh of Tortoise Media in London has founded global indexes that answer those and other questions: The Global AI Index , the R...

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .   Training an AI to render accurate decisions for important questions can be useless and dangerous if it cannot tell you why it made those decisions. Enter explainability, a term so new that it isn't in spellcheckers but is critical to the successful future of AI in critical applications. Michael Hind is a Distinguished Research Staff Member in the...

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .   Training an AI to render accurate decisions for important questions can be useless and dangerous if it cannot tell you why it made those decisions. Enter explainability, a term so new that it isn't in spellcheckers but is critical to the successful future of AI in critical applications. Before I talked with Michael Hind, my usual remark on the su...

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .   From AI in farming to AI in defense, Kordel France has done it, as an AI engineer and now founder and CEO of Seekar Technologies , which is building the first clinical AI tool used to advise neuropsychologists in diagnosing mental disorders. There are a lot of surprises in this episode as we talk about explainability, artificial general intellige...

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .   From AI in farming to AI in defense, Kordel France has done it, as an AI engineer and now founder and CEO of Seekar Technologies , which contributed AI to help ease demand on medical staffing and screen for COVID-19 faster. There are a lot of surprises - AI In hunting? - in this episode. All this plus our usual look at today's AI headlines. Trans...

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .   Jonathan Rowson is a chess grandmaster who was three times British champion, writing books including " The Moves That Matter: A Chess Grandmaster on the Game of Life ." He is now a "philosophical activist" working on "an urgent one hundred year project to improve the relationships between systems, souls, and society" at Perspectiva .   Last week...

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .   Jonathan Rowson is a chess grandmaster who was three times British champion, writing books including " The Moves That Matter: A Chess Grandmaster on the Game of Life ." He is now a "philosophical activist" working on "an urgent one hundred year project to improve the relationships between systems, souls, and society" via the Perspectiva project. ...

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .   How is disinformation affecting our society, and what does AI have to do with it? I promised back in episode 1 that I would talk about disinformation, and now it's time to open that can of worms. I'll talk about the types of distortions, how social media algorithms spread them, the threats they pose, what's being done about them, and the role of...

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .   Daniel DeMillard has been with IBM's Watson Division and is now CTO of Foodspace , making apps that can connect any dietary or culinary preferences with the products that will fulfill them. We talk about all of that, get into what's realistic and what isn't with natural language understanding, the present and future of AI-assisted search, and......

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .   What's it like to actually make AI work for customers in real-world applications where their investment has to pay off? Olivier Caron-Lizotte is the CEO of explor.ai , running a stable of developers to contract out. He's got the battle-tested experience about how that really works today and we get into the details of that. All this plus our usual...