A podcast that explores the good, the bad, and the creepy of artificial intelligence. Weekly longform conversations with key players in the space, ranging from CEOs to artists to philosophers. Exploring the role of AI in film, health care, business, law, therapy, politics, and everything from religion to war. Featured by Inc. Magazine as one of "4 Ways to Get AI Savvy in 2024," as "Host Jeff Wilser [gives] you a more holistic understanding of AI--such as the moral implications of using it--a ...
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In this episode of AI-Curious, Jeff Wilser dives into his experience at TechCrunch Disrupt (aka “DorkFest 2024”), exploring AI’s trajectory from hype to real-world impact. With 99% of companies showcasing some form of AI, Jeff unpacks the crowded landscape, from AI infrastructure to flashy generative AI tools. Here’s what you’ll hear: Main Topics C…
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Why Most Businesses Fail with AI (And How to Fix It), w/ the Founders of CO/AI
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In this episode of AI-Curious, we delve into the disconnect between businesses’ aspirations for AI and their practical implementation. Featuring insights from Anthony Batt and Shane Robinson, co-founders of Co-AI—a hub for AI knowledge and resources—this conversation explores how businesses can adopt AI more effectively. Jeff, Anthony, and Shane st…
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A World-Class Magician Now Teaches AI (This is his playbook), w/ Mike Jacobson, aka "Magic Mike"
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In this episode of AI-Curious, host Jeff Wilser sits down with world-class magician, brand strategist, and AI educator Mike Jacobson, also known by his stage name, Magic Mike. Beyond his acclaimed magic performances, Mike has expanded his career into corporate strategy, marketing consulting, and AI education, making him a dynamic force across multi…
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In this episode of AI-Curious, Jeff Wilser reports from LA Tech Week, where he delves into the pressing questions surrounding AI’s role in Hollywood. Will AI replace actors and screenwriters, or will it enhance the creative process, making content production faster and more efficient? Jeff shares insights from a fireside chat with Susanne Daniels, …
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Future Tech: AI, Nanotech, Longevity, (and Optimism!), w/ Allison Duettmann
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In this episode of AI-Curious, host Jeff Wilser sits down with Allison Duettmann, CEO of Foresight Institute, an organization dedicated to advancing transformative technologies for the benefit of humanity. They dive into a forward-thinking conversation about AI, nanotechnology, brain emulation, and longevity biotech—exploring how these emerging fie…
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In this episode of AI-Curious, host Jeff Wilser delves into the rapidly evolving world of digital twins and their growing presence in everyday tasks, such as remote work. Jeff discusses Zoom’s new "AI Companion" feature, which allows users to create their own digital avatars—referred to as “digital twins”—that can attend meetings on their behalf. H…
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Open AI's Shift from Non-Profit to Big Tech (and why it matters), w/ Parmy Olson
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In this episode of AI-Curious, host Jeff Wilser dives deep into the shifting dynamics of AI with Parmy Olson, Bloomberg technology columnist and author of the book Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race that Will Change the World. We explore her fascinating character study of Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, and Demis Hassabis, co-founder of DeepMind. Both…
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In this episode of AI-Curious, host Jeff Wilser shares a personal story about how ChatGPT helped him save time and optimize his podcast production workflow. By using ChatGPT’s Advanced Voice Mode, Jeff was able to create a weekly schedule while multitasking in the kitchen. He explains how practical AI tools can transform everyday productivity. Late…
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The Rise of AI Companions: Exploring the Future of Human-AI Relationships w/ Shavonne Wong
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In this episode of AI-Curious, host Jeff Wilser sits down with acclaimed digital artist Shavonne Wong to explore her latest project, “Meet Eva Here”—an AI-powered social experiment examining the evolving relationship between humans and AI companions. Drawing inspiration from the “Be Right Back” episode of Black Mirror, Shavonne has created a chatbo…
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In this episode of AI-Curious, we dive into one of the most polarizing debates in AI right now: California’s SB-1047, the state’s proposed AI safety bill. After months of intense discussion, Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed the bill, which many considered to be the toughest AI regulation ever introduced in the U.S. But why? And what does this mean for …
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How Governments Can Leverage AI for Good, w/ Denver Mayor Mike Johnston
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In this episode of AI-Curious, Jeff Wilser is joined by Denver’s Mayor Mike Johnston to discuss how governments can leverage AI for good. Recorded live from the Denver AI Summit, Mayor Johnston outlines his vision for using AI to enhance public services, streamline city operations, and solve pressing societal issues. The conversation covers a wide …
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In this episode of AI-Curious, Jeff Wilser explores the role of AI in the film industry, focusing on a major new partnership between Lionsgate and AI video startup Runway. Could AI actors and AI-written scripts become the norm in Hollywood? With access to John Wick, Hunger Games, and 20,000 other movie and TV titles, Runway is poised to revolutioni…
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The AI Risks (Almost) No One is Talking About, w/ Tech Critic Sara M. Watson
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In this episode of AI-Curious, Jeff Wilser dives deep into AI critiques with Sara Watson, a leading technology critic. The conversation explores the often overlooked risks of AI, moving beyond the usual dystopian scenarios of robots taking over and instead addressing the more subtle, real-world implications of AI. Sara is a former principal analyst…
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In this episode of AI-Curious, here's your quick, bite-sized weekly roundup of the latest developments in artificial intelligence, starting with OpenAI’s newest model, the bizarrely-named “o1.” Is it a groundbreaking advancement or just another step in AI’s evolution? We explore both sides, offering a balanced look at the bullish and skeptical take…
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AI and Race, w/ Dr. Broderick Turner & Angela Yi
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Two researchers from Virginia Tech recently published a study: “Representations and Consequences of Race in AI Systems.“ I'm thrilled that the co-authors of the study, Dr. Broderick Turner (Assistant Professor of Marketing at Virginia Tech) and Angela Yi (Doctoral Candidate at Virginia Tech) could join AI-Curious to discuss the takeaways from their…
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Welcome to the debut episode of The Weekly AI Edge! This is part of the AI-Curious podcast. Each week you'll be getting short, punchy roundups of key AI news. We'll get you in and out. This week: A company called Weave Robotics announced that it's now taking pre-orders for humanoid robots that can do household chores -- like fold laundry, feed your…
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Fun announcement! Starting next week, AI-Curious will be serving up two episodes each week: 1) One long-form interview with thought leaders in the space (what we've been doing for the past week), and.. 2) "The Edge," a weekly roundup of AI news. This will be short, punchy, and fun(ish). Each week we'll have one headline topic, and then three quick …
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AI in Hollywood (part ii), with Toonstar's John Attanasio and Luisa Huang
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Happy Anniversary! Exactly one year ago, we launched AI-Curious. We've published an episode every week since, rain or shine, work or holiday, human or AI. We've spoken with CEOs, philosophers, artists, inventors -- but it all started with a conversation with two Hollywood producers: John Attanasio and Luisa Huang, the cofounders of Toonstar studios…
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The Case for Decentralized AI, w/ Aethir Cofounder Mark Rydon
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AI, as even its supporters acknowledge, has many problems today. Just a few: Concerns over data privacy, creators not getting compensated for supplying the data that trains the AI models, lack of trust of Big Tech AI, a shortage of the high-powered chips needed to train AI, debates over censorship, and on and on. Could Decentralized AI be the answe…
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AI, Transhumanism, and the Quest for Longevity, w/ Futurist Dr. Natasha Vita-More
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Can AI help us live forever? Okay, that's the click-baitey version of the question, but the real version is far more nuanced. Our guest today is a leader of the transhumanism movement -- Dr. Natasha Vita-More -- and she explains what it is, what it's *not*, how AI is involved, and why we are likely to see a dramatic improvement to our lifespan... D…
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AI to Make Good Writers Great Writers, w/ Mushtaq Bilal
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Is AI going to replace writers? Or is AI just terrible at writing? Maybe neither of these viewpoints is accurate. Instead, AI can be a tool to help people write -- whether that's fiction or academia or emails to your boss. Today's guest, Mushtaq Bilal, PhD, is a master at using AI to assist with writing projects. He writes about this prolifically o…
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Black Mirror Today: The AI Chatbot That Scored $50,000 from Marc Andreessen, w/ Andy Ayrey
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Andy Ayrey likes to experiment with AI. He had an idea: What if he created a room where two AI chatbots talked to each other...infinitely? What would happen? (Wackiness.) Then he had another idea. He created a new chatbot, imbued it with all kinds of content about himself (Andy), and then unleashed the chatbot to Twitter. He affectionally calls it …
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The Most Burning AI Trends, w The AI Daily Brief's Nathaniel Whittemore
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Every day (including weekends), Nathaniel Whittemore cranks out the "AI Daily Brief" podcast. It's excellent. He also runs an AI education community called "Superintelligent." It also looks excellent. In short, there's literally no one on the planet more plugged into what's happening in the world of AI than Nathaniel, better known as "NLW." We nerd…
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Curious Housekeeping, AI Hallucinations
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In this "snack size" edition, we're covering some quick housekeeping and sharing a vignette about some wacky AI hallucinations. The housekeeping: I'm excited to share that AI-Curious is near the end of Phase 1. Soon we'll be expanding, growing, scaling. Soon we'll be adding more coverage of the latest news, trends, and developments in the AI space.…
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Deep Dive into AI and Marketing, w/ AI Marketers Guild Founder David Berkowitz
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If you’re even tangentially involved in marketing, you’re either: 1) Actively using AI; 2) Thinking about using AI; or 3) Falling behind. So today we’re going to go deeeeeep in the world of AI and Marketing, and there’s no one better to guide us than David Berkowitz, Founder of the AI Marketers Guild. The AI Marketers Guild is a community of thousa…
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AI’s and Spatial Biology’s Potential for Curing Cancer, w/ Nucleai CEO Avi Veidman
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For over 20 years, Avi Veidman served in the Israeli intelligence forces, and he used AI to to map the world. In the military he used AI for national defense, and he learned its power. He then realized that just as AI could map a battlefield, it could map cancer cells in biopsies and pathology slides. Enter Nucleai, his company that’s using AI to i…
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How to Fix AI and IP (and Hollywood), w/ Story Protocol co-founder Jason Zhao
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Virtually everyone in the AI space and Hollywood can agree on one thing: the system is broken. There’s no clear way of how to handle AI in Hollywood — or virtually any creative field — which has led to confusion, frustration, anger, and lawsuits. No one seems to have a good solution. Enter Story Protocol. Story, co-founded by today’s guest Jason Zh…
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Why Does AI Hallucinate? Can It Be Fixed? w/ EyeLevel.AI CEO Neil Katz
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As most people who have played with AI know, it can make stuff up, or what’s often referred to as “hallucinate.” (I like to think of it as “bullshitting.” It’s one of the trickiest problems vexing the entire AI space. Why does AI do this? How widespread is the problem? What are the solutions, and is it even something that CAN be solved? To unravel …
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AI to Revolutionize the Health Care Experience, w/ Lyric CEO Rajeev Ronanki
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The health care system in the US is a mess. Few will argue this. Can AI make it better? That's the thesis of Rajeev (Raj) Ronanki, CEO of Lyric, which is working to build AI that will simplify and streamline the health care experience. What can AI make better? How will you, as a patient, have a dramatically different experience in the world of AI-a…
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Robot Dogs and Dystopian Use of AI Surveillance at the Border, w/ Petra Molnar
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Petra Molnar is a Harvard Faculty Associate, lawyer, human rights activist, and author of the just-released book The Walls Have Eyes: Surviving Migration in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. Publisher’s Weekly gave the book a glowing review and called it a “a grave wake-up call." To research this book, Petra spent *six years* studying what she ca…
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7 Ways Crypto (yes, Crypto!) Could Help Build Better AI
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Before launching the AI-Curious podcast, I spent a bunch of years writing about bitcoin, blockchain, crypto, and web3, often for CoinDesk, the space’s main publication. I still write about it. So I’m in a relatively unique position to see the intersection of these two techs. Is there a connection? Can crypto really help develop better AI? There’s n…
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AI and the Law, w/ Patent Attorney Robert Plotkin
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I'm going to guess that most people listening to this podcast are not lawyers. Fair. I'm not either! But there are *massive* questions about how AI impacts the law -- new questions about IP, copyrights, patents -- and also how AI impacts the legal profession itself. Here to guide us through all these questions is Robert Plotkin, a 25-year-veteran p…
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New AI (and AI-agent) Safety Risks, w/ AI Safety Expert Bo Li
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Many have been worried about AI safety. But the stakes were just raised: OpenAI and Google just announced new capabilities that look likely to usher in the new era of “AI agents,” meaning tools that will automatically accomplish tasks for you like buying plane tickets or even how to invest your 401k. What could go wrong? It’s Bo Li’s job to figure …
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AI to Revolutionize Medical Diagnostics (and save millions of lives), w/ Dr. Bryan Dechairo, CEO of Sherlock Bio
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Sherlock Bioscience is developing medical diagnostic tests that are dramatically faster, cheaper, and easier to distribute than traditional models. The impact? This could make health care more inclusive, slow the spread of STDs, and help us avoid future pandemics. Dr. Dechairo and I start with the current problems of traditional diagnostic tests, t…
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The Problems of AI Bias and the Solutions for AI Adoption, w/ Adam Bai
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No tech is just about the tech. True adoption — or lack thereof — is often about issues of culture, which is why I’m thrilled to speak to today’s guest: Adam Bai, who’s an anthropologist as well as the Chief Strategy Officer of Glimpse, a company that leverages AI for market research solutions. Adam’s team has done extensive research on both AI ado…
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Incorporating AI into Education, w/ Dean David Marchick & Professor Angela Virtu
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How will AI impact education? One university isn't passively waiting to see how the dust settles, but is instead aggressively incorporating AI into its curriculum. That would be American University's Kogod School of Business, which has moved at warp-speed to modify its curriculum in 20 classes to incorporate AI this Fall. I'm delighted to be joined…
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The Robot Revolution is Closer Than You Think, w/ Theta Founder Kordel France
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Boston Dynamics just unveiled their new robot, "Atlas." The AI space was floored. Some were excited, some startled, some terrified, all fascinated. Whether we like it or not, thanks to the rapid acceleration of AI, robots -- specifically humanoid robots -- are closer than we think. Robots are now less science fiction and more a short-to-medium-term…
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How 10 AI Experts Are Using AI in Their Day-to-Day Lives
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We've all heard "AI will transform the world!!!" But how are AI experts *actually* using AI now, today, for reals, in their day-to-day lives? I've collected some wisdom and insights from prior guests of AI-Curious to give what is -- hopefully -- some super useful and concrete suggestions on how to incorporate AI into your own workflow. From ChatGPT…
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Building Custom Applications to Help Companies (Actually) Use AI, w/ Dmitry Shaprio
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Dmitry Shaprio has been in the space for decades; he was a product lead at Google and the CTO of MySpace. Now he's the CEO of MindStudio, a company that helps companies create custom apps to integrate AI. And a LOT of companies are using MindStudio. 34,000 apps have now been created using MindStudio, and this ranges from large corporations to solo-…
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Creating a Revolutionary New Drone in 24 Hours, w/ AI Engineer Ian Laffey
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At a recent hackathon, Ian Laffey was part of a team that designed, created, 3D-printed, and assembled a drone in 24 hours... and for under $500. The drone's breakthrough: It doesn't need a signal for GPS, which means that it can be deployed off the grid, and can't be "jammed" in a war zone...like Ukraine. Laffey's drone is now a sensation in the w…
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How AI will (positively!) Shape the Future, w/ Futurist Kevin Surace
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There are many AI doomsdayers. Kevin Surace is not one of them. Kevin has been in a pioneer in the AI space since the 1990s, went he helped develop the tech that would directly influence Siri and Alexa. He has since been named by CNBC as one of the "Innovators of the Decade" and is now a regular keynote speaker. We have a *wide-ranging* conversatio…
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AI and the Search for Puppies
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If you need to get a puppy, what's the best way to go about it? Harnessing AI, of course. I recently decided to get a puppy. I didn't know what to get or how to do it. (I've never owned a dog.) So I made liberal use of ChatGPT in research, analysis, and execution, and then turned to AI for help with puppy training. I doubt you're in the market for …
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AI’s Potential to Democratize Coaching, w/ Dr. Friederike Redlbacher
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AI might change the world. But it can it help change you? You could argue that AI coaching, fundamentally, might be the most important impact of the entire tech. In today’s world, professional career coaching is generally only available for the privileged. What if it was available for all? But what are the risks and concerns? Joining us to break th…
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The Rise of Brain Computer Interfaces (BCI) that Can Compete with Rogue Super-AIs, w/ Trent McConaghy
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If AI gets super intelligent and super powerful, will it be benevolent? Or will it want to crush us like ants? Perhaps they’ll be benevolent. Maybe they’ll be “aligned” with our interests. But if not? What should we do? How can we prepare for this nightmarish scenario? Trent McConaghy has a plan. McConaghy has been working in AI for decades, both a…
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AI and the Ukraine War, w/ TIME Magazine's Vera Bergengruen
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The cover of this week’s TIME Magazine has a bold headline: “The First AI War.” The subtitle: “Palantir and other tech giants are building the future of battle in Ukraine.” The writer of this cover story is Vera Bergengruen, a senior correspondent at TIME. And Vera joins us today at AI-Curious. We cover: How Ukraine is using AI and what it’s accomp…
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AI and the State of Play of Self-Driving Cars, w/ Noah Gedrimas
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Confession: I don't really care about cars. But I *love* the idea of self-driving cars. So what's the status of this idea? There's now a fleet of self-driving cars in San Francisco. How good are they? How safe? What are the limitations? And what are the technical challenges that still need to be overcome, and how does AI fit into all of this? To un…
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The (hype-free) AI Playbook for Machine Learning, w/ Eric Siegel
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Eric Siegel is a longtime expert on machine learning, and is the author of the new book "The AI Playbook: Mastering the Rare Art of Machine Learning Deployment." Eric has been a professor at Columbia University, a longtime machine learning consultant, and he's the founder of the long-running "Machine Learning Week" conference series. Eric's take? A…
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AI in Finance, Bridging Hype to Reality w/ Vasagi Kothandapani
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Can AI make you rich? Or, more to the point, can AI make investment banks, hedge funds, and financial services companies even richer? Not so fast... Vasagi Kothandapani is an expert in helping financial services companies train, develop, and integrate AI. She's the Senior Vice President of AI Training at RWS, a tech-enabled content and language org…
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AI Dispatch from Sundance, and Hilke Schellmann on Bias in AI Hiring Practices
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As our quick appetizer, a quick dispatch from the Sundance Film Festival, where AI was seemingly *everywhere*. For our entrée, we speak with Hilke Schellmann, author of the new book "The Algorithm: How AI Decides Who Gets Hired, Monitored, Promoted, and Fired and Why We Need to Fight Back Now." If you have a job, or will some day get a job, or know…
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The War over AI Training Data, and Key AI Trends w/ Sharon Goldman, Senior Writer at Venture Beat
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What are the most important stories in AI right now? Today we chat with Sharon Goldman, Senior Writer at Venture Beat, who covers all things artificial intelligence. Sharon and I get into: Why the race for training data is so crucial in the future development of AI (2:30); why so much hinges on The New York Times vs. Open AI (12:40); the looming wa…
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