The AI in Business Podcast
Episodes 1219 total
How "Ordinary" Civilian Needs Drive "Extraordinary" Biotech Advancement - with UPENN's Jonathan Moreno
Dr. Jonathan Moreno's book "Mind Wars" has contributed to his current reputation as one of the most prominent bioethicists in America today. In this interview…
Inevitably Transhuman - Human Nature's Momentum Beyond Itself - with Neuroscientist and Philosopher Nayef Al-Rodhan
Dr. Al-Rodhan spent decades studying the human mind, and it helped him form a theory of humanity, its nature, and its technological future. Namely, that our ver…
Did the Evolution of the Brain… Evolve Our Morality? - Interview with Neurophilosopher Dr. Patricia Churchland
Dr. Patricia Churchland is UC President's Professor of Philosophy Emerita at the University of California, San Diego. He popular books such as "Braintrust: What…
Pushing Healthcare Forward with Emerging Technology - with BioscanR Founder Tracy Ingram
Tracy Ingram's mother was misdiagnosed with a brain aneurism and placed on bed rest for two years - a problem that likely resulted from a typo or similar minor…
Progress and Next Steps in Neuroscience - Dr. Hal Blumenfeld of Yale University
Dr. Hal Blumenfeld is a pathbreaking neuroscience researcher in the domains of deep brain stimulation and epileptic conditions. His recent Yale research work pe…
Understanding the "Self" Through the Lens of Neurosceince - with Harvard's Dr. Rudolph Tanzi
Dr. Rudolph Tanzi is a neuroscientist and renowned researcher at Harvard University. Selected as one of TIME Magazine's 100 most influential people of 2015 for…
How Can We Safely Build Something Smarter Than Us? - an Interview with Dr. Steve Omohundro
Dr. Steve Omohundro earned degrees in physics and mathematics from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in physics from the University of California, Berkeley. Today…
Transformative Futrue Next 10 Years of Emerging Technology - with Vivek Wadhwa of Singularity University
Vivek Wadhwa began as a software entrepreneur and now is a well-known speaker, writer, and Vice President of Academics and Innovation at Singularity University…
The Transhuman is Now - an Interview with Dr. Steve Fuller, Author of "Humanity 2.0"
Dr. Steve Fuller is philosopher and professor at the University of Warwick in the UK. After writing "Humanity 2.0" in 2011, Steve has received increasing attent…
"Evolving Ourselves" - and Interview with Author, Speaker, and Investor Juan Enriquez
Juan Enriquez gave a TED talk in 2009 called "The next species of human," and video went viral - and is now one of the most popular futurist talks in TED histor…
Handling Uncertaintly on a Grand Scale - an Interview with Cornell's Dr. Joe Halpern
Decades ago, Cornell's Dr. Joe Halpern wrote a book called "Reasoning with Uncertainty." In this interview, we discuss alternative approaches to handling large-…
Fact and Fiction in the Left and Right Hemisphere - Neuroanatomy Basics with Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor
Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor became remarkably well-known following her TED talk called "My stroke of insight," where she explained her experience of having a stroke f…
Basic Building Blocks of Artificial Intelligence - with Dr. John MacCormack
Dr. John MacCormick is the author of the book "Nine Algorithms That Changed the Future: The Ingenious Ideas That Drive Today's Computers," and in this interview…
What Would it Take to Model the Human Mind? - Computational Neuroanatomy with Dr. Gregory Hickok
Dr. Gregory Hickok is working on modeling brain circuits related to hearing and auditory information at the University of California, Irvine. Listen into this i…
A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence, and a Look Towards it's Future - with Stanford Researcher Dr. Nils Nilsson
Dr. Nils Nilsson was one of the early researchers in emerging technology back in the 1960s - graduating with his doctorate from Stanford before it had a compute…
Transhumanist for President? Interview with Author and 2016 Transhumanist Party Candidate for US President, Zoltan Istvan
Zoltan Istvan doesn't believe that issues of life extension, genetic modification, and neural prosthetics are the problems for the president in the year 220, bu…
Explaining the Exponential - an Interview with Futurist Speaker / Author Gray Scott
Gray Scott's mission is to bring the concerns of the future to the public - and with recent coverage in Psychology Today, New York Post, and the World Future So…
The Brain, Now Less of a Black Box - a Neuroscience Interview with Columbia's Dr. Jeffrey Lieberman
Dr. Jeffrey Lieberman is no slouch when it comes to understanding the human mind - particularly the diagnoses and treatment of mental illness. In addition to be…
Applying Reason to the Future - Talking Singularity with Dr. Michael Shermer, Founder of Skeptic Magazine
There are "techno-optimists" and "techno-pessimists"… and there's those who just don't know what they're talking about. Skeptic Magazine's founder Michael Sherm…
A Zap to the Head Might Do Us All Some Good - Talking Brain Stimulation with Dr. Brent Williams
It's called "transcranial direct-current stimulation (tDCS)," haven't you heard about it? The process involves zapping your brain through subtle electrical stim…