Eye On A.I.

Eye On A.I.

by Craig S. Smith

Eye on A.I. is a biweekly podcast, hosted by longtime New York Times correspondent Craig S. Smith. In each episode, Craig will talk to people making a difference in artificial intelligence. The podcast aims to put incremental advances into a broader context and consider the global implications of the developing technology. AI is about to change your world, so pay attention.
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Episodes 390 total

S1 E71

AI and National Security: US vs China

May 5, 2021 · 34m

Ylli Bajraktari, executive director of the National Security Commission on AI, talked about what he considers the most important recommendations in the commissi…

S1 E70

Cade Metz on Genius Makers

Apr 28, 2021 · 33m

This week, I talk to Cade Metz, the New York Times' lead reporter on artificial intelligence, about his new book, "Genius Makers, the Mavericks Who Brought AI t…

S1 E69

Google's Kent Walker on Ethical AI

Apr 14, 2021 · 38m

Kent Walker, who oversees the Google's AI ethics and responsible AI innovation, talks about how Google reviews AI systems for trust and safety and the outlook f…

S1 E68

Synthetic Data

Mar 18, 2021 · 40m

Daeil Kim, cofounder of AI.Reverie, talks about the role that synthetic data can play in training AI models.

S1 E67

Creating New Materials with AI

Mar 3, 2021 · 26m

Alan Aspuru Guzik, a professor at the University of Toronto, talks about his work in new materials discovery with machine learning and building a fully automate…

S1 E66

Lt. Gen. Michael S. Groen on AI war fighting

Feb 17, 2021 · 46m

Director of the Pentagon's Joint AI Center, Lieutenant General Michael S. Groen talks about improving war fighting and the challenge of China.

S1 E65

Riiid, the leader in AI for Education

Feb 3, 2021 · 44m

David Yi and Yohan Lee from Riiid Labs, the leading startup applying machine-learning to education, talk about making personalized instruction available to anyo…

S1 E64

Yoshua Bengio and Iulian Serban on AI for Education

Jan 28, 2021 · 40m

Turing award winner Yoshua Bengio and his colleague Julian Serban, co-founder of Korbit, an AI ed-tech startup with the aim of democratizing education, talk abo…

S1 E63

Geoff Hinton on his quest to decode learning in the brain

Dec 18, 2020 · 39m

Geoff Hinton has lived at the outer reaches of machine learning research since an aborted attempt at a carpentry career a half century ago. He spoke to me about…

S1 E62

Biodata as an instrument of National Power

Dec 11, 2020 · 34m

Chris Darby, CEO of the CIA-backed tech investment company In-Q-Tel, talks about the commission's recommendation that AI for national security be extended to bi…

S1 E61

Eric Horvitz on AI and Allies

Dec 3, 2020 · 26m

Eric Horvitz, chief research scientist at Microsoft and a commissioner on the National Security Commission on AI, talks about ensuring interoperability of AI sy…

S1 E60

Tricky Business: Deploying AI Models on Hardware

Dec 3, 2020 · 44m

An open-source compiler called TVM helps data scientists optimize their model's performance on specific hardware.

S1 E59

AI in Space with NASA's Steve Chien

Nov 12, 2020 · 49m

NSCAI commissioner Steve Chien, technical supervisor of the artificial intelligence group at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, talks about the growing demand fo…

S1 E58

Opening AI Career Paths in Government and funding STEM education

Nov 4, 2020 · 37m

This week, NSCAI commissioner Jose-Marie Griffiths talks about her line of effort's recommendations to increase STEM related educational funding by $8 billion i…

S1 E57

AI and Allies: coordinating national security with NATO and India

Oct 28, 2020 · 35m

Jason Matheny, a commissioner at the National Security Commission on AI and head of Georgetown University's Center for Security and Emerging Technology, talks a…

S1 E56

Programmatic labeling with Alex Ratner of Snorkel AI

Oct 28, 2020 · 45m

Alex Ratner, an assistant professor at the University of Washington and a cofounder and CEO of Snorkel AI, talks about programmatically labeling training data f…

S1 E55

Data Wrangling with Joe Hellerstein

Oct 14, 2020 · 44m

In the second episode of a series on the machine-learning pipeline, Joe Hellerstein, a professor at UC Berkeley, talks about data wrangling.

S1 E54

Turing Award Winner David Patterson - CPUs to GPUs to TPUs and Beyond

Sep 30, 2020 · 50m

Turing Award winner David Patterson talks about the end of Moore's law and the evolution of computer chips from general purpose CPUs to GPUs to the recent Cambr…

S1 E53

Great Power Competition in the Digital Age with Gilman Louie

Sep 16, 2020 · 33m

NSCAI commissioner Gilman Louie talks about great power competition in the digital age and the US need for a more technologically literate diplomatic core to co…

S1 E52

Turning AI from a Tool to a Teammate with Ken Ford

Sep 9, 2020 · 33m

Ken Ford, an NSCAI commissioner, talks about turning AI from a tool to a teammate and unshackling research and implementation of AI from government bureaucracy…