London Futurists

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Anticipating and managing exponential impact - hosts David Wood and Calum Chace Calum Chace is a sought-after keynote speaker and best-selling writer on artificial intelligence. He focuses on the medium- and long-term impact of AI on all of us, our societies and our economies. He advises companies and governments on AI policy. His non-fiction books on AI are Surviving AI , about superintelligence, and The Economic Singularity , about the future of jobs. Both are now in their third editions. He also wrote Pandora's Brain and Pandora’s Oracle , a pair of techno-thrillers about the first superint...

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Stability and combinations, with Aleksa Gordić 28.09.2022 32:33

This episode continues our discussion with AI researcher Aleksa Gordić from DeepMind on understanding today’s most advanced AI systems. 00.07 This episode builds on Episode 5 01.05 We start with GANs – Generative Adversarial Networks 01.33 Solving the problem of stability, with higher resolution 03.24 GANs are notoriously hard to train. They suffer from mode collapse 03.45 Worse, the model might n...

AI Transformers in context, with Aleksa Gordić 22.09.2022 28:41

Welcome to episode 5 of the London Futurist podcast, with your co-hosts David Wood and Calum Chace. We’re attempting something rather ambitious in episodes 5 and 6. We try to explain how today’s cutting edge artificial intelligence systems work, using language familiar to lay people, rather than people with maths or computer science degrees. Understanding how Transformers and Generative Adversaria...

AI overview: 3. Recent developments 19.09.2022 32:54

In this episode, co-hosts Calum Chace and David Wood explore a number of recent developments in AI - developments that are rapidly changing what counts as "state of the art" in AI. 00.05: Short recap of previous episodes 00.20: A couple of Geoff Hinton stories 02.27: Today's subject: the state of AI today 02.53: Search 03.35: Games 03.58: Translation 04.33: Maps 05.33: Making the wo...

AI overview: 2. The Big Bang and the years that followed 07.09.2022 32:28

In this episode, co-hosts Calum Chace and David Wood continue their review of progress in AI, taking up the story at the 2012 "Big Bang". 00.05: Introduction: exponential impact, big bangs, jolts, and jerks 00.45: What enabled the Big Bang 01.25: Moore's Law 02.05: Moore's Law has always evolved since its inception in 1965 03.08: Intel's tick tock becomes tic tac toe 03.49...

AI overview: 1. From the Greeks to the Big Bang 08.08.2022 31:51

AI is a subject that we will all benefit from understanding better. In this episode, co-hosts Calum Chace and David Wood review progress in AI from the Greeks to the 2012 "Big Bang". 00.05: A prediction 01.09: AI is likely to cause two singularities in this pivotal century - a jobless economy, and superintelligence 02.22: Counterpoint: it may require AGI to displace most people from the...

Why this podcast? 02.08.2022 30:38

Co-hosts David Wood and Calum Chace share their vision and plans for the London Futurists podcast. 00.20: Why we are launching this podcast. Anticipating and managing exponential impact 02.45: It’s not the Fourth Industrial Revolution – it’s the Information Revolution 04.58: AI’s impact. Smartphones as an example of technology’s power 09.04: The obviousness of change in hindsight. Why technology i...