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If you're in the San Francisco Bay area, it's not all that novel to be trained in or working on some form of AI; however, to be doing so in the 1980s and 1990s…

When we think about applying AI and data science to different areas of business, we often think about those domains that offer a wide swath of quantitative metr…

There are hedge funds and financial institutions that already use real-time data and sentiment analysis from social media, articles and videos in real-time to p…

Ten years ago, it would have been difficult to talk into your phone and have anything meaningful happen. AI and natural language processing (NLP) have made larg…

When it comes to data science and machine learning, what are the related skills that are getting people jobs and what are the industries that are supplying thos…

When you go to Harvard Business School and then to McKinsey company to work in private equity, there's really only one thing left to do - go to Silicon Valley a…

While we've featured quite a few companies that use and implement AI systems, we've more rarely gone behind the scenes with companies or consultants providing A…

Tad Slaff is the founder of Inovance, the creator of TRAIDE - a strategy creation platform that use machine learning algorithms to help traders uncover patterns…

It's more common to ask what AI can to do to win at games, but it's less common to ask what games can do to help develop AI. This is a particularly fitting topi…

What is intelligence? For some researchers, it may be quite possible to create an intelligent machine 'in a box', something without physical embodiment but with…

You're a business, and you've collected data - now how do you now make sense of it? Bring in a technology called 'sentiment analysis', a form of machine learnin…

How does automation influence society today? This is an open-ended question with likely endless answers that can be observed in many different areas of society…

This week's in-person interview is with Dr. Adam Coates, who spent 12 years at Stanford studying artificial intelligence before accepting his current position o…

People often mark progress by what they see, but there's often much more going on behind the scenes, the up and coming, that marks actual current progress in an…

How do neural networks affect your life? There's the one that you walk around with in your head of course, but the one in your pocket is an almost constant pres…

Statements about AI and risk, like those given by Elon Musk and Bill Gates, aren't new, but they still resound with serious potential threats to the entirety of…

TechEmergence has had a number of past guests who have talked about neural networks and machine learning, but Dr. Pieter Mosterman speaks in-depth about the pen…

Few astrophysicists are as decorated as Martin Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow, who was a primary contributor to the big-bang theory and named to the honorary positi…

When we think about AI, we often think about optimizing some particular task. In most circumstances through computation there is an optimal chess move, or an op…

There's a small lab in Pennsylvania that may know your gender, age, and understands facets about your personality, whether you're introverted or extroverted, fo…

We've featured a number of artificial intelligence researchers on the show, but today we switch gears and dive into the business side of the industry. In this e…

Are we losing something with technology? There are two sides to every argument, including this one. Dr. Sherry Turkle is of the belief that there's enough mount…

A lot of AI applications are not really "smart", at least not in the sense of the word as most humans might envision a true artificial intelligence. If you know…

It goes without saying that the brain is difficult to understand, with the billions of neurons, fine individual synapses between each neuron, and the different…

Ever had the perfect book recommended to you by Amazon or gave a pleasantly-surprised thumbs up for a song selected for you by Pandora? Both services are powere…

The beauty of a platform like eBay is that you can set a price that you're willing to spend and let eBay do the bidding long after you've left the site. What if…

Over the last decade, many first-world militaries have developed, and in some cases deployed, autonomous "killer" robots. Some proponents believe that such robo…

Most of us forget that just about a decade ago, Facebook's software was incapable of tagging people in a photo, but today can so without difficulty, sometimes w…

Have you ever seen a humanoid robot and felt creeped out? In this episode, we talk with Robotics Engineer Derek Scherer about the psychology of the uncanny vall…

Most of society functions based on a general social contract i.e. we work to contribute to society and earn income to acquire goods. Those who can't earn an inc…