The AI in Business Podcast
Episodes 1219 total
Calling Siri Names? You're Not Alone
After receiving her PhD in Computer Science from the University of New York in 2002, Dr. Sheryl Brahnam's research interests steered her toward studying human a…
Trending Now: The Evolution of Strong Artificial Intelligence
Dr. Joscha Bach is a software developer and researcher, who is currently developing a cognitive AI framework at MIT Media Lab and the Harvard Program for Evolut…
Why We Must Hardware AI if We Want to Sustain the Human Race
Is it possible to make AI friendly to humans via software or will we have to hardwire consideration for humanity into an advanced AI? Louis Del Monte, best-sell…
To Get Real with Artificial Intelligence, Take Off the Hollywood Fear Goggles
Dr. András Kornai wants to put emphasis on the real and near-term ethical considerations around AI. In this interview, Kornai peels off the Hollywood myth "laye…
Tuning the Keys for Robot Harmony
Daniel Berleant is an expert in information science and artificial intelligence, and is the author of the book he Human Race to the Future: What Could Happen -…
How Unconsciousness and Technology Shape Our Chaotic Worlds
Katherine Hayles is best known for her work as a postmodern social and literary critic. Now a professor at Duke University, Hayles joins TechEmergence for a dis…
Thinking Outside the Body
Could we one day upload ourselves into a computer or chip? Keith Wiley thinks that one day, we might be able to replicate consciousness within another entity. I…
Do Unto Your Smartphone as You Would Do Unto Others
When should we care about robots? How quickly should and will that change? These are just some of the thought points addressed by Professor David Gunkel, whose…
Artificial Intelligence Gives Power of Foresight in the Next Decade
We talk a lot about the future of technology on TechEmergence - the long-road potentials and ethical considerations that intersect the various paths of artifici…
A Robot Without a Body is Not Up for Thought
Do you need a body to think? This is a worthwhile (and also a perplexing) question, and an ongoing debate amongst roboticists. Cognitive Roboticist Dr. Mark Bic…
How Humans Do, and Will, Relate to Robots
Stephan Vladimir Bugaj is a modern visionary with extensive experience in screenwriting, technical artistry and directing in animation and games. He is the Crea…
RoboLobsters Have What It Takes to Open Up New Dimensions in AI - with Dr. Joseph Ayers
Do lobsters really have something to teach us about developing AI and robotics? Dr. Joseph Ayers, a professor of Marine and Environmental Sciences at Northeaste…
United Neurons Stand Strong, Divided Neurons Fall - with Dr. Bruce MacLennan
Dr. Bruce MacLennan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Tennessee Knoxville (UTK), a…
Can and Should We Create Conscious Machines - with Dr. Peter Boltuc
Dr. Peter Boltuc has a PhD in Philosophy and is currently a Professor at University of Illinois Springfield. His background in Moral and Political Philosophy ha…
What Our Brains are Good at, and Bad at, and Why That Matters - with Dr. Gary Marcus
Dr. Gary Marcus is the Director of the NYU Center for Language and Music, and Professor of Psychology at New York University, and is author of well known books…
Public Opinion Around Artificial Intelligence, is the Media Helping or Hurting? - with Dr. Joanne Pransky
Dr. Joanne Pransky received her doctorate from Tufts University in the mid 1980's, and began championing public awareness and exposure to robotics and AI techno…
We're Cyborg's Now, but Here's What Cyborg's Will Be in the Future - with Dr. Chris Hables Gray
Dr. Hables Gray graduated with a PhD in applied philosophy from UCAL Santa Cruz, and is best known for his writings on technology, war, and cyborgs (the combina…
The Work and Death - an Interview with Filmmaker Sean Blacknell
Sean Blacknell has spent the last year working on a filmed called "The Future of Work and Death," based on interviews with futurists, economists, philosophers…
The Kind of Artificial Intelligence That Google Doesn't Care to Build - with Dr. Roger Shank
Dr. Roger Schank received his PhD from Stanford, taught at Yale, and altogether has spent around three decades attempting to solve the big problems of artificia…
Computers Do Their Own Kind of "Creative," Not Like Ours - with MIT's Nick Montfort
Dr. Nick Montfort doesn't hold Shakespeare and DaVinci as the high water mark of "creativity," nor does he believe that human creative endeavor is the only wort…