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August 18, 2020
August 16, 2020
#116 – Sara Seager: Search for Planets and Life Outside Our Solar System
Sara Seager is a planetary scientist at MIT, known for her work on the search for exoplanets. Support this podcast by supporting our sponsors. Click links, get…
Mini Episode: ICE/Clearview, Race Detection and Schools
Our thirteenth audio roundup of last week's noteworthy AI news! This week, we look at the ICE/Clearview AI contract, the growth of race detection software, and…
August 15, 2020
August 14, 2020
#115 – Dileep George: Brain-Inspired AI
Dileep George is a researcher at the intersection of neuroscience and artificial intelligence, co-founder of Vicarious, formerly co-founder of Numenta. From the…
2020, China, Face Recognition, and DeepFakes
Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories, relating to AI's struggles in 2020, Chinese AI surveillance, too…
August 12, 2020
August 11, 2020
Financial Services Analytics, Before and After AI - with Dr. Derek Wang of Stratifyd
Listen to Dan's interview with the great and brilliant Dr. Derek Wang, CEO and Founder of Stratifyd. Dr. Wang's AI-powered analytics company has raised $50 mill…
Here Comes the Sun: NASA Scientists Talk Solar Physics - Ep. 123
Michael Kirk and Raphael Attie, scientists at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, regularly face terabytes of data in their quest to analyze images of the sun…
August 10, 2020
August 9, 2020
Mini Episode: TikTok, Cheap Deepfakes, AI in 2020, and Deference
Our twelfth audio roundup of last week's noteworthy AI news! This week, we look at Microsoft's reasons for the TikTok acquisition, how depefakes are becoming ch…
#114 – Russ Tedrake: Underactuated Robotics, Control, Dynamics and Touch
Russ Tedrake is a roboticist and professor at MIT and vice president of robotics research at TRI. He works on control of robots in interesting, complicated, und…
August 7, 2020
August 6, 2020
August 4, 2020
Episode 47 - Talking Machines
The Alexa Prize Socialbot Grand Challenge is a competition for university students to create a social bot that can converse coherently and engagingly with human…
Episode 46 - Qualcomm Technologies
Qualcomm Technologies is powering the shift to fifth generation wireless communications, known as 5G. In this sponsored episode, I speak to two of the company's…
AI Transformation in Banking Compliance - with Mark Gazit of Thetaray
Today I'm excited to share a conversation with Mark Gazit, CEO of ThetaRay. This New York-based fintech firm raised over $80 million to expand threat detection…
August 2, 2020
August 1, 2020
July 31, 2020
E6: Big Tech antitrust aftermath, potential effects of an M&A clampdown on Silicon Valley & more
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#113 – Manolis Kellis: Human Genome and Evolutionary Dynamics
Manolis Kellis is a professor at MIT and head of the MIT Computational Biology Group. He is interested in understanding the human genome from a computational, e…
July 30, 2020
July 29, 2020
#112 – Ian Hutchinson: Nuclear Fusion, Plasma Physics, and Religion
Ian Hutchinson is a nuclear engineer and plasma physicist at MIT. He has made a number of important contributions in plasma physics including the magnetic confi…
Recommendations for Banking User Experience - with Tanushree Luke of US Bank
Dr. Tanushree Luke, Head of AI at US Bank (USA's 5th largest bank), shares pragmatic opportunities for improving customer experience in banking, by learning fro…
July 27, 2020
July 26, 2020
Mini Episode: AI Fashion Models, AI for Job Hopping, Facebook Simulations, and Weird A.I. Yankovic
Our tenth audio roundup of last week's noteworthy AI news! This week, we look at how AI might threaten fashion models' jobs, how AI is being used to predict job…
#111 – Richard Karp: Algorithms and Computational Complexity
Richard Karp is a professor at Berkeley and one of the most important figures in the history of theoretical computer science. In 1985, he received the Turing Aw…
GPT-3, Limits of Deep Learning, Deepfakes in the Real World
Stanford AI Lab PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou discuss this week's major AI news stories. Check out all the stories discussed here and more at www.skyne…