Eliza - The Beyond AI Podcast

Guest: Vaike Fors, professor in Design Ethnography at Halmstad University In this episode, we have Professor in Design Ethnography at Halmstad University, Vaike Fors, with us. Vaike shares with us her exciting work within the interdisciplinary field of Human-Computer Interaction. Listen to learn more about how people learn to live with technology and how we, as businesses and society, can start bu...

Guest: Anita Sant’Anna, PhD & data innovation strategist How do you know if your company is ready to implement AI, and what kind of infrastructure and mindset would you need to have in place? Anita Sant’Anna is working with HighFive to help companies explore their AI-related ideas and quickly build prototypes to understand what AI could do for them. In this episode, she speaks about the startu...

Guest: Martin Cooney, Associate Professor in Robotics, Halmstad University How do we humans relate to robots? Do we trust robots more than we would trust other humans? And where in society would it make sense to actually use robots to help with social interactions? In this episode, Martin Cooney shares with us his experiences from working with social robotics in a variety of different contexts. Cr...

Guest: Pontus Wärnestål, Associate professor of Halmstad university, author, designer and public speaker Since when have humans dreamt about creating AI? And do the stories we tell about technology have an effect on what we actually develop? In this episode, former guest Pontus Wärnestål revisits us to talk about AI and Sci-Fi. Additional guest informationResources/Links Pontus website https://war...

Guest: Bobby Lee Townsend Sturm, Associate Professor at KTH How can AI generate Music? Can AI be creative? Is AI going to replace musicians? Today's guest is Bob L. T. Sturm, who is an associate professor at the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden. Bob will explain the Musaic project, which explores Artificial creativity in folk music. Additional guest informationResources/Links Bobby Lee Town...

Guest: Eren Erdal Aksoy, Associate professor of Halmstad university How do robots learn human behaviour? In this episode, we touch upon the technical aspects of how to actually teach robots behaviours, what deep learning means in this context and how neural networks work. With us, we have Eren Erdal Aksoy, associate professor of Halmstad university, who explains very well how AI can actually learn...

Guest: Stefan Byttner, Associate professor of Halmstad university It is never too late to enjoy self-motivated learning for either personal or professional reasons. In this episode, we discuss the topic of lifelong learning and how education is changing from a traditional setting to an online and need-to-know basis. With us, we have Stefan Byttner, associate professor and head of the Department of...

Guest: Pontus Wärnestål, Associate professor of Halmstad university, author, designer and public speaker Why is it important for designers to learn more about AI, and what kind of problems arise as we approach this new design material? Pontus Wärnestål has recently released his new book “Designing AI-powered services”, which goes into depth on the subject of AI as a design material. Listen to this...

This is a short trailer to launch “Eliza - The Beyond AI Podcast”. After a short introduction, we will tell you what inspired us to name the podcast “Eliza”, and we will explain the structure of each episode.