Reinforcement Talking

Is the rise of AI making politics a more dangerously polarised game? Is it even fair or ethical to allow these technologies to impact media? And will the integrity of future election campaigns be doomed? Myesha Jemison is hosted by Anthony Nkyi for a conversation on the holistic impact of the rising presence of artificial intelligence in the political sphere and on the electorate. They discuss how...

What are Killer Robots? What are the laws around LAWS (Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems)? In this episode, we spoke with Rianna Nayee, a Campaigns & Policy Officer at UNA-UK, a group which works on UN reform and specifically LAWS. Organisations Mentioned in the episode:  UNA-UK:  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.una.org.uk⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠     UK Campaign to Stop Killer Robots website:  ⁠https://ukstopkillerrobots.org.uk/⁠ Ar...

Welcome to our first episode of Season 2 of Reinforcement Talking, UCL AI Society's Podcast! This episode is an audio version of our recent AI Debate. It's difficult to think of a question with higher stakes. Some AI experts like Geoffrey Hinton think that AI should be considered just as risky as pandemics or nuclear war; others, like Melanie Mitchell, see the risks as vanishingly small. I...

The more AI develops, the more questions we have as to how these advances will affect our lives. Will AI soon take our jobs? What will happen to our privacy and uniqueness of identity? Will it pose an existential risk to humanity? This episode, paradoxically, is a debate between two AI agents. Generated mostly by AI it gives a rational perspective on how this technology is changing our lives, answ...

The metaverse is constantly changing, confounding, and creating new opportunities - in this episode, Kumardev Chatterjee clears up some of the myths surrounding metaverse adoption and how to move forward with it. We talk digital twins, metacrimes, and the EU's "24 hour beach party" in the metaverse. Kumardev Chatterjee is a global serial tech innovator and entrepreneur, British Cheve...

What does it mean to have ethical AI? In this episode, Marcus Grazette of Holistic AI delves into his past work with privacy policy, mirrors between the GDPR and the EU AI Act, and why we all need interdisciplinary thinkers on AI teams. Plus, we try and find the big questions surrounding how to start regulating and making AI fairer for all. Marcus Grazette is a Public Policy Lead at Holistic AI, w...

What might the future of AI encompass? In this episode featuring Wim Naude, we delve into various potential future scenarios where humanity coexists with Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) - an advanced form of AI possessing human-like capabilities in multiple domains. How can we ensure that AGI adheres to human values? Could AGI bring forth unparalleled economic advancement? Is AGI a potential...

How can AI impact the global balance of power? This episode, we speak with Paul Scharre, one of the world’s leading voices on AI and geopolitics. Paul is a former US soldier, and worked in the Office for the Secretary of Defense working on policy on autonomous weapons. Paul is also an award-winning author: his book Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War, won the 2019 Colby Award and was named on...

AI is considered to have one of the greatest impacts on medicine. Speaking with an expert in the field, a Professor of Neurology at UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, Parashkev Nachev, we discuss how data science and AI are transforming healthcare. Talking about AI assisting clinicians in diagnosis, we question whether knowledge of genetic code will be able to facilitate decision-making. How...

In this episode, we talk to Professor Ryan Nichol Royal Society University Research Fellow, who is an expert in experimental neutrino physics. We explore how AI has transformed the field of neutrino physics, making it possible to identify and study neutrino interactions. Our guest shares insights on the use of AI in the ANITA experiment and the neutrino experiment in the Fermi Lab in Chicago. We a...

Climate Change is a concern for many young people. In this episode, Aidan O'Sullivan, an associate Professor in Energy and Artificial Intelligence at UCL Energy Institute and a Turing Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute, the UK's leading centre for AI and data science research explains how his work helps tackle the environmental crisis and what to expect in the future. We also discuss his startup...

With the recent hype around the use of AI in education, namely ChatGPT, a lot of questions have arisen. In a conversation with Wayne Holmes, Professor at UCL and a consultant researcher on AI in education for UNESCO, we discuss this newly developed and widely available chatbot and the potential for it to change the way we teach and learn - should it be banned or embraced? With advancements in AI a...

AGI, Deep learning, Supervised, Unsupervised… Completely lost in all those buzzwords? Don’t worry: we got you covered.  In the first episode, we will lay the general foundation of how Artificial Intelligence was established as a field, and its development until today. We will touch on the major subfields within AI and their techniques, linking them to real-world applications and providing eas...

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