The AI in Business Podcast
Episodes 1219 total
Open-Minded Conversation May Be Our Best Bet for Survival in the 21st Century
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…
Putting the Art in Artificial Intelligence with Creative Computation
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…
How Machine Learning Builds Meaning from Our Chats, Tweets, and Likes
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…
AT&T Predicts Future, Save Service with Machine Learning
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…
Snuggle up with Technology, But Don't Leave Empathy in the Cold
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…
Putting the Horse Before the Cart May Lead the Way to Artificial General Intelligence
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…
Brain Gains on the Road to Mapping a Personal Connectome
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…
Deciphering the Discovery Engines that Decipher Our Digital Wants and Needs
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…
When Many Intelligent Agents are Better than One
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…
A Global Call to Ban Autonomous Killer Robots for Good
Over the last decade, many first-world militaries have developed, and in some cases deployed, autonomous "killer" robots. Some proponents believe that such robo…
Seeing the World through Machine Eyes - with Dr. Irfan Essa
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…
Navigating the Uncanny Valley with Character Robots
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…
Conscious Evolution of an Economic Social Contract
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…
Turning Up the Synaptic Noise to Create Machines that Dream
Neural network - it's almost a buzz word, but it was looked down on during certain periods of AI development. Nonetheless, most of the public is not aware of wh…
Artificial Intelligence's Double-Edged Role in Cyber Security
Cyber security is closely linked to advances in artificial intelligence. In this episode, we speak with Dr. Roman V. Yampolskiy about the cyber security factors…
Get into the Machine's Head to Better Understand Your Own
It's common knowledge that scientists study the brain to understand how to replicate intelligence in machines; it's less commonly known that scientists also use…
The Spirit in the Machine May Not Be So Far Out
Over 100,00 years ago, it may have been advantageous for human beings to be hyper aware of other living things for the purposes of survival. In the future, betw…
Wanted: Emotionally Intelligent AI that Understands the Human Mind
Most of us can admire AI such as Siri, Watson, and other agents shaping the fabric of future AI-powered entities, but it's also possible to admire them as a "de…
A Wealthier, Healthier Society through Increased Automation?
Dr. James D. Miller, an Economics and AI researcher who received his doctorate from the University of Chicago, sheds light on how economics factors into our inc…
Welcome to AI Kindergarten
Dr. Danko Nikolic, a scientist at the Max-Planck Institute for Brain Research, asks and works to answer questions about how our physical neuronal connections cr…