The AI in Business Podcast
Episodes 1219 total
Swarm Robots - When Will They Enter Society? With Dr. James McLurkin
Dr. James McLurkin works with swarm robots at Rice University, and his unique work on robot communication has landed him on PBS's "Nova," in addition to speakin…
"Finding Quicksand" - The Purpose of Fiction in Building a Better Future - with David Brin
David Brin is recognized as one of the most iconic futurist fiction writers of our time. With huge bestsellers like "The Postman" (later turned into a movie sta…
Real Applications of Virtual Humans - Dr. Regis Kopper
Regis Kopper runs the Duke Immersive Virtual Environment, or "DiVE." His research focuses on the interactions of virtual and real humans. In this interview, he…
Technology as a Driver of Behavior Change - with Happify Co-Founder Ofer Leidner
Ofer Leidner is co-founder of Happify, and app aimed at supporting behavior change for well-being. In this interview, Ofer explains his views on the potential f…
Startup Marketing - Nailing Product Market Fit and Delivering Value Like a Boss - with Seal Ellis
Sean Ellis is recognized as the originator of the term "growth hacking," and is widely recognized as one of the world's best startup and technology marketers. H…
How to Create a Unique Virtual Reality Experience - with Matt Gase of Tool
Tool creates cool digital experiences for big companies all over the world (including UX work for online giants like Google and Facebook), and when they created…
Enhancing Mental Performance via Brain Stimulation - with Thync CEO Isy Goldwasser
Current brain-machine interface technologies like MUSE or Mellon detect your mental activity with a headband, and represent it in unique apps. Thync is aiming t…
Beyond Ice Buckets: ALS Assistive Tech Tends - with Alisa Brownlee
Our podcast frequently covers the business and research sides of emerging technology, but in this episode we talk about some of it's direct applications. Alisa…
Where Augmented Reality Will Change the World FIRST - with the Atheer Labs Team
Ketan Joshi and Vishal Shah of Atheer Labs share their ideas about the immediate future of augmented reality, and how interactive computing can be facilitated t…
What the World Loses and Gains in a "Virtual" World - with Altitude's CEO, Dan Ostrower
Dan Ostrower gets to work with some amazing and innovative companies at Altitude (a creative consultancy), and has a keen eye for for the future. A writer for W…
Walk, Run, Jump in Virtual Reality - with Virtuix's Colton Jacobs
Ever wanted to run, jump, crawl, or otherwise really MOVE in virtual reality? Virtuix has created a harnesses 3-D treadmill to help people do just that, the Omn…
What is an "Immersive" Virtual Reality Experience? - with Birdly's Max Rheiner
Max is project head at Birdly, one of virtual reality's most curious projects. Birdly is a full-body kind of "table" that one lays upon while wearing an Oculus…
The Next Steps Forward in Augmented Reality - with InfinityAR CEO Motti Kushnir
Mr. Kushnir, MBA is current CEO of InifinityAR, an augmented reality company based in Israel. Their augmented reality technology aims to accurately interpret li…
The Question of Human "Enhancement," Past and Future - with John Danaher, Ph.D.
John Danaher attained his PhD from University College Cork in Ireland, and presently writes on various topics related to ethics and human enhancement for organi…
The Y-Combinator Experience - Maximizing Your Success with Accelerators with Survata's CEO Chris Kelly
Chris Kelly founded Survata with an idea of changing the way that the survey marketplace works. With a drive to make his company exceptional, Chris applied to Y…
Rand Fishkin, Founder of Moz - There's More to SEO Then There Used to Be
Rand Fishkin started SEOmoz.org in 2004, while working with his mother in a small marketing company she'd started in Seattle. After years of languishing in obsc…
Prof Nick Bostrom - On Existential Risk and Individual Contribution to the "Good"
Prof Nick Bostrom is widely respected as the premier academic thinker on topics related to strong artificial intelligence, transhumanism, and existential risks…
How Virtual Reality Might Take Over "White Collar" Work Forever - with Anton Þórólfsson, COO of MURE VR
Anton Þórólfsson is working on letting you work from "home"... or from the Amazon jungle, or from the moon. Well... not the actual moon, or your real "home," bu…
Attaining "Embodiment" in Brain-Machine Interface Technologies - with g.Tec Founder Dr. Christoph Guger
Dr. Christoph Guger is founder of g.Tec, a company that focuses on creating devices and parts for the field of brain-machine interface. In this particular inter…
Overcoming Augmented Reality's Current Challenges - with Georgia Tech's Blair MacIntyre
Augmented reality, for the most part, is still relegated to smartphones and relatively novel headset experiences. We've come a long way in the last 15 years sin…