Artificial Intelligence and You

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .   Olav Krigolson (@thatneurosciguy) has fried his brain - in the name of science. (It was not permanent.) He's a TEDx speaker and hands-on neuroscientist at the University of Victoria, where he runs the Krigolson Lab, studying brainwaves. He's helped astronauts prepare to go to Mars and can tell what someone's going to say before they say it. (With...

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .   Olav Krigolson (@thatneurosciguy) has fried his brain - in the name of science. (It was not permanent.) He's a hands-on neuroscientist at the University of Victoria, where he runs the Krigolson Lab, studying brainwaves. He's helped astronauts prepare to go to Mars and can tell what someone's going to say before they say it. (Within limits.) We ta...

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .   Amit Gupta has an amazing life story and is only just getting started. After a close encounter with death, he changed jobs, took up writing science fiction, and wrote an AI to help him. That AI - Sudowrite - is an amazingly capable and creative application of GPT-3 that earned a feature in The New Yorker , and we dig into what it does and how it...

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 "Turin...

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 Impleme...

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 Impleme...

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...

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 S...

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .   Charles Radclyffe's company EthicsGrade grades companies on their AI ethics and governance and he has a lot to sat about what's ethical in AI companies, how to analyze it, what to do with that information, and how businesses can address their ethics. Charles was formerly head of AI at Fidelity International and founded the podcast Are You a Robot...

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .   Charles Radclyffe's company EthicsGrade grades companies on their AI ethics and governance and he has a lot to sat about what's ethical in AI companies, how to analyze it, what to do with that information, and how businesses can address their ethics. Charles was formerly head of AI at Fidelity International and founded the podcast Are You a Robot...

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .   What if you could do for text what Photoshop does for images? What if you could manipulate it and create whole new sections at the push of a button? Przemek Chojecki has a PhD in mathematics, is a member of the Forbes 30 under 30 list in Poland, wrote the new book, Artificial Intelligence Business: How you can profit from AI , and he has built a...

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .   How do you get a robot to follow the law? Could an AI be taught to obey the Geneva Convention? Tony Gillespie says so, and he's the author of Systems Engineering for Ethical Autonomous Systems, which is as technical as it sounds. He is a Visiting Professor at University College London, a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, and a fellow in...

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .   How do you get a robot to follow the law? Could an AI be taught to obey the Geneva Convention? Tony Gillespie says so, and he's the author of Systems Engineering for Ethical Autonomous Systems, which is as technical as it sounds. He is a Visiting Professor at University College London, a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, and a fellow in...

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .   Episode 53 means we've reached our one-year anniversary! So we're marking the occasion with a lighter episode pair, a panel talk about AI in fiction: Books, movies, TV shows. I am joined by literary and science fiction educator Dr. Robert James, who is also a published expert on the Academy Awards ; and by Jim Gifford, my publisher and the biblio...

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .   Episode 52 means we've reached our one-year anniversary! So we're marking the occasion with a lighter episode pair, a panel talk about AI in fiction: Books, movies, TV shows. I am joined by literary and science fiction educator Dr. Robert James, who is also a published expert on the Academy Awards ; and by Jim Gifford, my publisher and the biblio...

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .   AI is changing the law, and on the leading edge of figuring out how that should happen is Ryan Abbott, Professor of Law and Health Sciences at the University of Surrey in the UK, and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. We will be exploring issues raised in his recent book The Reasonable Robot: A...

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .   AI is changing the law, and on the leading edge of figuring out how that should happen is Ryan Abbott, Professor of Law and Health Sciences at the University of Surrey in the UK, and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. We will be exploring issues raised in his recent book The Reasonable Robot: A...

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .   If you think you know what it's like to chat with today's AI, you may change your mind after encountering Phil D. Hall 's work. He deploys chatbots as part performance art, part anthropological study pieces, part boundary-busting provocations, as well as serious tools for business enhancement. In part 2, we expand on his Echoborg creation, how it...

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .   If you think you know what it's like to chat with today's AI, you may change your mind after encountering Phil D. Hall 's work. He deploys chatbots as part performance art, part anthropological study pieces, part boundary-busting provocations, as well as serious tools for business enhancement. We talk about his Echoborg creation and what happened...

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .   Are the benefits of AI equally distributed across countries? Or is it another tool for agents of globalization and imperialism to tighten their grip and shut out the smaller players on the global stage? Rajiv Malhotra has a new book, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Power: 5 Battlegrounds , that addresses that issue, and draws attention...

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .   Are the benefits of AI equally distributed across countries? Or is it another tool for agents of globalization and imperialism to tighten their grip and shut out the smaller players on the global stage? Rajiv Malhotra has a new book, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Power: 5 Battlegrounds , that addresses that issue, and draws attention...

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .   What happens when an engineer becomes an angel investor and thought leader in AI? You get Rob May, former co-founder and CEO of Talla, an AI assistant platform, now General Partner at PJC, an early-stage venture capital firm focused on investing in, supporting, and building relationships with entrepreneurs who are creating the future. Rob also wr...

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .   What happens when an engineer becomes an angel investor and thought leader in AI? You get Rob May, former co-founder and CEO of Talla, an AI assistant platform, now General Partner at PJC, an early-stage venture capital firm focused on investing in, supporting, and building relationships with entrepreneurs who are creating the future. Rob also wr...

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .   What could it be like inside the mind of an artificial intelligence that has just evolved consciousness? Our guest today has imagined just that. David Gerrold has written some of the most widely-read and -viewed science fiction of the last 60 years, starting with classic Star Trek's Trouble with Tribbles episode and several other episodes of that...

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .   What could it be like inside the mind of an artificial intelligence that has just evolved consciousness? Our guest today has imagined just that. David Gerrold has written some of the most widely-read and -viewed science fiction of the last 60 years, starting with classic Star Trek's Trouble with Tribbles episode and several other episodes of that...