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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Episode 31 - Terry Sejnowski

Feb 5, 2020 · 1h 2m

Terry Sejnowski, author of the book Deep Learning Revolution, who together with Geoff Hinton created Boltzmann machines, a deep learning network that has remark…

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Episode 30 - The 3 Most Interesting Trends In AI

Jan 7, 2020 · 31m

We begin 2020 by looking back at some of the highlights from 2019 including conversations with Turing award winners, Yoshua, Bengio and Yann Lecun, as well as w…

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Episode 29 - Daphne Koller

Dec 11, 2019 · 43m

Daphne Koller, formerly at Stanford University and cofounder of the online education company, Coursera, talks this week about using machine-learning to develop…

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Episode 28 - Aude Billard

Nov 24, 2019 · 34m

My guest this week, Aude Billard from Switzerland's Learning Algorithms and Systems Laboratory, blends control theory with machine learning to build robotic sys…

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Episode 27 - Eric Schmidt and Robert O. Work

Nov 4, 2019 · 46m

Former Google chief executive Eric Schmidt and former Deputy Defense Secretary Bob Work, co-chairs of the U.S. National Security Commission on AI, talk about th…

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Episode 26 - Labelbox

Oct 24, 2019 · 37m

The secret in much of artificial intelligence today is that it depends on hordes of unskilled workers to label the data used to train supervised learning models…

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Episode 25 - Dawn Song

Oct 10, 2019 · 33m

This week, I talk to Dawn Song, one of the world's foremost experts in computer security, about her vision of a new paradigm in which people control their data…

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Episode 24 - Climate Change and AI

Sep 25, 2019 · 47m

A few months ago at the recent international conference on machine learning, a workshop and research paper launched a movement to use machine learning in addres…

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Episode 23 - AutoML with Determined AI

Sep 11, 2019 · 54m

Automated machine-learning tools – or tools that automate the creation of machine-learning applications – are increasingly important in the current talent-scarc…

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Episode 22 - Brendan McCord

Aug 29, 2019 · 58m

This week, I talk to Brendan McCord, who wrote the Pentagon's AI strategy and is now a Special Government Employee at the National Security Commission on AI. Br…

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Episode 20 - John Platt

Jul 31, 2019 · 41m

This week I talk to John Platt, a Distinguished Scientist at Google, about twin problems: finding cheap zero-carbon energy sources and mitigating global warming…

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Episode 19 - Chelsea Finn

Jul 16, 2019 · 30m

This week we return to the world of thinking robots with Chelsea Finn, one of the youngest experts in the field, who talks about her journey, about her work in…

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Episode 18 - Partha Talukdar

Jul 4, 2019 · 42m

This week, we look at AI in India. With its massive population, fast-growing economy, English-language education and large supply of brilliant researchers and e…

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Episode 17 - Yann Lecun

Jun 19, 2019 · 56m

This week I talk to Yann Lecun, one of the brightest minds in machine learning today. Yann's work lies behind some of the most critical AI applications, most no…

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Episode 16 - Trae Stephens and Brian Schimpf

Jun 5, 2019 · 52m

This week I talk to Trae Stephens and Brian Schimpf from Anduril Industries, an AI defense contractor, about the current state of AI research and deployment for…

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Episode 15 - Ken Church

May 16, 2019 · 25m

This week, I talk to Ken Church, a pioneer in Natural Language Processing, whose use of statistical models on part of speech tagging revolutionized the field an…

Episode 14 - Sergey Levine

May 2, 2019 · 37m

This week, I talk to Sergey Levine, one of the most prolific researchers in robot learning. We talked about developing a robot's sense of touch and about robot…

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Episode 13 - Pieter Abbeel

Apr 17, 2019 · 31m

Thinking robots: that's how much of the world envisions artificial intelligence and if there is one person on the planet who understands the limitations and pro…

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Episode 12 - Samy Bengio and Yoshua Bengio

Apr 3, 2019 · 27m

This week I talk to the Bengio brothers, Samy and Yoshua, in their first interview together. Yoshua recently won the Turing Award with Geoff Hinton and Yann Lec…

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Rich Sutton Edit V5-Norm 01-01

Mar 20, 2019 · 38m