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

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AI War Games Will Inform Military Doctrine with Katharina McFarland

Sep 2, 2020 · 32m

Katharina McFarland, an NSCAI commissioner, talks about the commission's recommendations on inserting AI into the National Defense Strategy and how war games sh…

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Eric Horvitz on Ethical Uses of AI for National Security

Aug 26, 2020 · 36m

Eric Horvitz, Chief Scientific Officer at Microsoft and a commissioner with the National Security Commission on AI, talks about the commission's recommendations…

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The Conundrum of AI Export Controls with Jason Matheny

Aug 19, 2020 · 38m

Jason Matheny, an NSCAI commissioner who now leads a think tank at Georgetown University focused on the intersections of technology, policy and national securit…

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Episode 48 - Mignon Clyburn

Aug 12, 2020 · 34m

Mignon Clyburn, an NSCAI commissioner and longtime regulator at the FCC, talks about the Commission's recommendations to increase competency in artificial intel…

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Episode 47 - Talking Machines

Aug 4, 2020 · 40m

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…

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Episode 46 - Qualcomm Technologies

Aug 4, 2020 · 43m

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…

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Starting Project Maven with Lt. Gen. Jack Shanahan

Jul 22, 2020 · 48m

This week I speak to Lieutenant General Jack Shanahan, recently retired Director of the Pentagon's Joint Artificial Intelligence Center,or JAIC. He was instrume…

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Episode 44 - Fei-Fei Li

Jul 8, 2020 · 42m

This week I speak to Stanford professor Fei-Fei Li, one of the people responsible for the current AI revolution. Fei-Fei talked about her early days running a N…

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Episode 43 - Pietro Perona

Jun 24, 2020 · 33m

Pietro Perona, a professor at the California Institute of Technology, is one of the brains behind a pair of smartphone apps that help you do just that: eBird an…

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Episode 42 - Eric Horvitz

Jun 10, 2020 · 32m

In this week's episode, the last in a series of six, we talked to Eric Horvitz. Commissioner at the National Security Commission on AI and Chief Research Scient…

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Episode 41 - Gilman Louie

Jun 3, 2020 · 43m

In this week's episode, we talk with NSCAI Commissioner Gilman Louie about line of effort's recommendations to Congress on how to maintain US leadership in AI h…

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Episode 40 - Jason Matheny

May 27, 2020 · 35m

NSCAI Commissioner Jason Matheny talks about his line of effort regarding cooperation on AI with key allies and partners. He spoke about his group's recommendat…

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Episode 39 - Katharina McFarland

May 20, 2020 · 42m

In the third episode of six episodes looking at the National Security Commission on AI 's first quarter recommendations to Congress, we speak with Katharina McF…

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Episode 38 - Jose-Marie Griffiths

May 13, 2020 · 44m

In this week's episode, we speak to Jose-Marie Griffiths, a commissioner on the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence, about the commission's…

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Episode 37 - Andrew Moore

May 6, 2020 · 40m

In April 2020, the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence issued its first-quarter recommendations to Congress, covering seven lines of effort…

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Episode 36 - Vittorio Sebastiano

Apr 15, 2020 · 44m

COVID-19 continues to sweep through the human population, killing some and damaging the health of others. While this podcast is normally focused on machine-lear…

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Episode 35 - Irina Rish

Mar 30, 2020 · 37m

COVID-19 has swept across the world was startling speed, but with equally startling speed, the machine learning community has responded. This week I speak with…

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Episode 34 - David Cox

Mar 18, 2020 · 44m

There has been a debate in the past few years between the symbolists and the connectionists about the future of artificial intelligence. The symbolists say that…

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Episode 33 - Justin Gottschlich

Mar 4, 2020 · 47m

Justin Gottschlich, who founded the machine programming research group at Intel Labs, explains his group's efforts to automate software development. The ambitio…

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Episode 32 - Casimir Wierzynski

Feb 19, 2020 · 41m

This week I talk to Casimir Wierzynski, a senior director in Intel's AI Products Group, Cas talked about his work in privacy, taking me on a tour of the latest…