Podcasts by Eye On A.I.
Eye on A.I. is a biweekly podcast, hosted by longtime New York Times correspondent Craig S. Smith. In each episode, Craig will talk to people making a difference in artificial intelligence. The podcast aims to put incremental advances into a broader context and consider the global implications of the developing technology. AI is about to change your world, so pay attention.
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#160 Atul Deo: The Future of Generative AI at Amazon from 2023-12-06T15:00
This episode is sponsored by Shopify. Shopify is a commerce platform that allows anyone to set up an online store and sell their products. Whether you’re selling online, on social medi...
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#159 Peter Chen: Building the AI-Driven Future of Robotics from 2023-12-03T14:00
This episode is sponsored by Oracle. AI is revolutionizing industries, but needs power without breaking the bank. Enter Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI): the one-stop platform for all...
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#158 Connor Leahy: The Unspoken Risks of Centralizing AI Power from 2023-11-29T14:00
This episode is sponsored by Netsuite by Oracle, the number one cloud financial system, streamlining accounting, financial management, inventory, HR, and more.
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#157 Karen Hao: Inside OpenAI's Tumultuous Saga from 2023-11-23T14:00
This episode is sponsored by ISS, a leading global provider of video intelligence and data awareness solutions. ISS offers a robust portfolio of AI-powered, high-trust video analytics ...
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#156 Gordon Crovitz: Will AI SPREAD Misinformation&Fake News? from 2023-11-22T14:00
This episode is sponsored by Celonis, the global leader in process mining. AI has landed and enterprises are adapting. To give customers’ slick experiences and teams the technology to deliver. T...
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#155 Alex Wiltschko: From Molecules to Memories&The AI Approach to Scent Detection from 2023-11-19T11:44
This episode is sponsored by Celonis, the global leader in process mining. AI has landed and enterprises are adapting. To give customers’ slick experiences and teams the t...
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#154 Sal Khan: Revolutionizing Education with AI from 2023-11-15T14:00
This episode is sponsored by Oracle. AI is revolutionizing industries, but needs power without breaking the bank. Enter Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI): the one-stop platform for all your AI n...
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#153 Ed Anuff: Unpacking AI's Role in Data Management from 2023-11-12T14:00
This episode is sponsored by Celonis ,the global leader in process mining. AI has landed and enterprises are adapting. To give customers slick experiences and teams the technology to deliver. Th...
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#152 Alex Kendall: How Close Is AI to Taking the Wheel? from 2023-11-08T13:47
This episode is sponsored by Netsuite by Oracle, the number one cloud financial system, streamlining accounting, financial management, inventory, HR, and more.
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#151 Asa Cooper: How Will We Know If AI Is Fooling Us? from 2023-11-05T14:00
This episode is sponsored by Celonis ,the global leader in process mining. AI has landed and enterprises are adapting. To give customers slick experiences and teams the technology to d...
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#150: Yann LeCun on World Models, AI Threats and Open-Sourcing from 2023-11-02T13:00
This episode is sponsored by Oracle. AI is revolutionizing industries, but needs power without breaking the bank. Enter Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI): the one-stop platform for all...
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#149 Alex Klein: The Next Wave of AI To Rock The Music Industry from 2023-10-30T17:41
This episode is sponsored by Digimarc, the leader in digital watermarking. Digimarc digital watermarks invisibly guard your digital assets to protect against misuse, prove copyright ow...
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#148 Ahmed Imtiaz: Exploring AI Generative Models, Model Autophagy Disorder&Open-Source Challenges from 2023-10-26T17:46
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#147 Yilun Du: AI Debates, Reinforcement Learning,&The Power of Generative Models from 2023-10-22T12:54
This episode is sponsored by Crusoe. Crusoe Cloud is a scalable, clean, high-performance cloud, optimized for AI and HPC workloads, and powered by wasted, stranded or clean energy. Cru...
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#146 Viren Jain: How Google's AI is Pioneering Brain Mapping Research from 2023-10-18T13:00
This episode is sponsored by Celonis ,the global leader in process mining. AI has landed and enterprises are adapting. To give customers slick experiences and teams the technology to d...
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#145 Riley McComrack: Digimarc's CEO on Digital Watermarking in the Age of AI from 2023-10-15T14:00
This episode is sponsored by Shopify. Shopify is a commerce platform that allows anyone to set up an online store and sell their products. Whether you’re selling online, on social medi...
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#144 Matt Hicks: Red Hat’s CEO on Open Source, Linux, and the AI Revolution from 2023-10-11T13:00
This episode is sponsored by Netsuite by Oracle, the number one cloud financial system, streamlining accounting, financial management, inventory, HR, and more.
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#143 Scott Aaronson: Revealing the Truth About Quantum Computing from 2023-10-09T09:14
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#142 Arjun Subramonian: The Intersection of AI, Diversity, and Ethics from 2023-10-04T13:00
This episode is sponsored by Celonis, the global leader in process mining. AI has landed and enterprises are adapting. To give customers slick experiences and teams the technology to d...
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#141 Peter Voss Reveals the Future of Artificial General Intelligence from 2023-10-01T12:00
#140 Isabelle Guyon: The Future of AI and Support Vector Machines from 2023-09-27T22:00
This episode is sponsored by MindStudio by YouAi. MindStudio is the best way to build an AI business. Start driving some serious revenue before everyone else. Mind Studio allows you to...
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#139 Dmitry Shapiro: Breaking Barriers with No Code AI from 2023-09-20T12:00
This episode is sponsored by Shopify. Shopify is a commerce platform that allows anyone to set up an online store and sell their products. It’s the leading commerce platform designed f...
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#138 Dan O'Connell: How AI is Disrupting Business Communications from 2023-09-13T13:59
This episode is sponsored by MindStudio by YouAi. MindStudio is the best way to build an AI business. Start driving some serious revenue before everyone else. Mind St...
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#137 Raul Martynek: How AI Will Change Data Centers Forever from 2023-09-06T06:52
This episode is sponsored by Netsuite by Oracle, the number one cloud financial system, streamlining accounting, financial management, inventory, HR, and more.
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#135 Diaa El All: How AI Could Change Music Forever from 2023-08-23T09:41
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#134 Alex Zhavoronkov: Unraveling AI's Crucial Role in Pharma from 2023-08-16T22:10
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#133 Michael Jordan: How Deep Learning Has Completely Changed Industries from 2023-08-09T07:53
This episode is sponsored by Netsuite by Oracle, the number one cloud financial system, streamlining accounting, financial management, inventory, HR, and more. Download NetSuite’s popu...
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#132 Scott Downes: Navigating the Language of AI&Large Language Models from 2023-08-02T12:40
On episode #132 of the Eye on AI podcast, Craig Smith sits down with Scott Downes, Chief Technology Officer at Invi...
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#131 Andrew Ng: Exploring Artificial Intelligence’s Potential&Threats from 2023-07-26T21:52
Welcome to episode #131 of the Eye on AI podcast with Andrew Ng. Get ready to challenge your perspectives as we sit down with Andrew Ng. We navigate the widely disputed topic of AI as a potentia...
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#130 Mathew Lodge: The Future of Large Language Models in AI from 2023-07-19T21:00
Welcome to episode #130 of Eye on AI with Mathew Lodge. In this episode, we explore the world of reinforcement learning a...
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#129 Alexandra Geese: Demystifying AI Regulations in Europe&Beyond from 2023-07-12T05:36
Welcome to episode #129 of Eye on AI with Alexandra Geese. Navigating the complex waters of the European Union’s AI Act is...
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#128 Yoshua Bengio: Dissecting The Extinction Threat of AI from 2023-07-06T04:00
Yoshua Bengio, the legendary AI expert, will join us for Episode 128 of Eye on AI podcast. In this episode, we delve into the unnerving question: Could the rise of a superhuman AI signal the dow...
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#127 Clemens Mewald: Redefining the Boundaries of Artificial Intelligence&GPT-4 from 2023-06-29T00:26
Welcome to Episode 127 of the Eye on AI podcast with host Craig Smith and guest Clemens Mewald. In this episode, ...
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#126 Noam Chomsky: Decoding the Human Mind&Neural Nets from 2023-06-22T22:56
Welcome to episode #126 of Eye on AI with Craig Smith and Noam Chomsky.
Are neural nets the key to understanding the human brain and language acquisition? In this conversa...
#125 Pascal Weinberger: Harnessing the Power of Generative AI for Creativity&Productivity from 2023-06-15T00:17
Welcome to episode 125 of Eye on AI, where we embark on a journey into the realm of Generative AI. In this episode, we have the pleasure of chatting with Pascal Weinberger, co-founder and CEO of...
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#124 Sina Kian: Reshaping Privacy in the AI&Machine Learning Revolution from 2023-06-08T08:13
Welcome to episode #124 of the Eye on AI podcast, where we bring you the latest insights into the fascinating world of artificial intelligence. In this episode, Craig Smith is joined by Listen
#123 Aidan Gomez: How AI Language Models Will Shape The Future from 2023-05-24T23:17
Welcome to Eye on AI, the podcast that keeps you informed about the latest trends, obstacles, and possibilities in the realm of artificial intelligence. In this episode, we have the privilege of...
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#122 Connor Leahy: Unveiling the Darker Side of AI from 2023-05-10T13:15
Welcome to Eye on AI, the podcast that explores the latest developments, challenges, and opportunities in the world of artificial intelligence. In this episode, we sit down with Listen
Danny Tobey: At the Intersection of Law and Artificial Intelligence from 2023-04-28T03:17
In this podcast, we sit down with Danny Tobey, an attorney with the global law firm DLA Piper, to discuss the changing legal dynamics surrou...
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Yoshua Bengio: Pausing More Powerful AI Models and His Work on World Models from 2023-04-13T00:13
In this episode of the Eye on A.I. podcast, host Craig Smith interviews Yoshua Bengio, one of the founding fathers of deep learning and a Turing Award winner. Bengio share...
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Edo Liberty: Solving ChatGPT Hallucinations With Vector Embeddings from 2023-03-30T15:07
Welcome to the latest episode of our podcast featuring Edo Liberty, an AI expert and former creator of Sage...
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Ilya Sutskever: The Mastermind Behind GPT-4 and the Future of AI from 2023-03-15T19:38
In this podcast episode, Ilya Sutskever, the co-founder and chief scientist at Listen
Ben Sorscher: Data Pruning for Efficient Machine Learning from 2023-03-02T02:54
In this episode, Ben Sorscher, a PhD student at Stanford, sheds light on the challenges posed by the ever-increasing size of data sets used to train machine learning model...
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Yann LeCun: Filling the Gap in Large Language Models from 2023-02-16T01:45
In this episode, Yann LeCun, a renowned computer scientist and AI researcher, shares his insights on the limitations...
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Terry Sejnowski: NeurIPS and the Future of AI from 2023-02-01T17:25
In this episode, Terry Sejnowski, an AI pioneer, chairman of the NeurIPS Foundation, and co-creator of Boltzmann Machines, delves into the la...
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Geoffrey Hinton: Unpacking The Forward-Forward Algorithm from 2023-01-19T08:11
In this episode, Geoffrey Hinton, a renowned computer scientist and a leading expert in deep learning, provides an in-dep...
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Setting the stage for 2023 from 2023-01-02T04:51
To set the stage for some terrific conversations I have coming to you in the new year, in this episode we go back to some earlier conversations that talk about how we got to where we are in deep...
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AI Supply Chain Optimization from 2022-11-09T05:39
This week I talk to Bob Rogers, a Harvard trained astrophysicist who once built digital twins of black holes to better understand them, and now builds digital twins of supply chains to help make...
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NO-CODE WITH AKKIO from 2022-10-20T16:00
Jonathon Reilly, co-founder of Akkio, a no-code AI platform, talks about how users with a web browser and an idea have the power to bring AI to life themselves without having to write code.
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MLOps with ClearML from 2022-10-05T12:18
Moses Guttmann, founded ClearML, talks about the evolution of the MLOps industry over the past few years and ClearML's contribution to it.
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Amazon's Sagemaker from 2022-09-21T14:23:12
Bratin Saha, head of Amazon's machine learning services, talks about Amazon's growing dominance in model building and deploying AI, about the company's SageMaker platform, and whether anyone can...
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AUTOMATED CODE GENERATION from 2022-09-08T15:58:57
Peter Schrammel, one of the founders of Diffblue, an automated unit-test writing software company, speaks about the increasing automatic generation of code and how he sees such automation increa...
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Michael Kearns on Privacy from 2022-08-25T14:21:13
Michael Kearns, a computer scientist professor at the University of Pennsylvania and an Amazon scholar talks about differential privacy, how Amazon's research approach differs from its peers, an...
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XPRIZE TELEPORTATION from 2022-08-10T15:16:10
Jacki Morie, a senior XPRIZE advisor, talks about the ANA Avatar XPRIZE, a competition focused on creating a physical avatar system that will seamlessly transport human skills and experience to ...
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VITAL&MINT from 2022-07-28T04:22:39
Aaron Patzer, founder of the personal finance app MINT and more recently founder of the AI-based healthcare company Vital, talks about keeping customer data private and the promise, giving emerg...
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Amazon's Rohit Prasad from 2022-07-15T07:30:04
Rohit Prasad, Amazon's Senior Vice President and Head Scientist for Alexa, speaks about the development of conversational AI and virtual assistants and the merging of IoT sensor data into ambien...
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Amazon's Astro from 2022-06-23T08:45:59
Ken Washington, who leads Amazon's consumer robotics team, talks about the company's compact wheeled robot called Astro. Ken talked about Astro's evolution, it's popular and possible use cases, ...
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Deep Learning In Iraq from 2022-06-09T02:41:43
Almammon Rasool Abdali, a machine-learning engineer and PhD student in Baghdad, is one of the more prominent members of Iraq's small but growing deep learning community. We talked about his work...
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Oriol Vinyals from 2022-05-11T20:58:08
Oriol Vinyals, who leads DeepMind’s deep learning team, talks about AlphaCode, his group’s code-writing language model, and DeepMind’s winding road toward artificial general intel...
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Google Is For The Birds from 2022-04-27T14:00:19
Tom Siebel of C3.AI from 2022-03-31T17:28:59
Tom Siebel, founder and CEO of C3.ai talks about AI projects including military target acquisition and precision healthcare while musing about the dark side of our ...
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Protein Annotation at Google from 2022-03-16T14:52:55
Max Bileschi, a software engineer at Google Research, talks about his team’s application of convolutional neural networks to predict the function of amino acid sequences in a protein. Eye on AI ...
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Vladlen Koltun from 2022-03-02T13:44
Vladlen Koltun discusses intelligent locomotion in robots and drones and reveals the Megaverse. The Eye on AI podcast is sponsored by Clear.ML, the open-source MLOps solution.
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DeepMind for Science, sponsored by Clear.ML from 2022-02-16T22:13:49
Pushmeet Kohli, the head of DeepMind’s AI for Science and one of the brains behind AlphaFold, the machine learning system that is helping solve the protein folding problem. The episode is sponsored...
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WuDao 2.0 with its lead creator, Tang Jie from 2022-01-26T22:55:30
Large Language Models&GPT-J from 2022-01-12T19:36:44
Connor Leahy, one of the minds behind Eleuther AI and its open-source large language model, GPT-J, talks about the building such models and their implications for the future.
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Robert O. Work from 2021-12-15T13:14:32
Robert O. Work, former Deputy Secretary of Defense and recently co-chairman of the National Security Commission on AI, talks about competition between the US and China to integrate AI into their...
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Enterra Solutions from 2021-11-17T14:00:46
Stephen DeAngelis, head of Enterra Solutions, reminds us that so-called Old-Fashioned AI continues to be a powerful tool. He talked about leveraging knowledge bases, inference engines and symbol...
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A National AI Research Resource from 2021-11-04T20:25:31
Adobe and AI from 2021-09-29T18:17:55
Adobe’s head of research, Gavin Miller, talks about AI-enhanced creativity, guarding against manipulation of visual media and his own AI-enabled robot snakes.
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Seth Dobrin from 2021-09-15T11:38:25
Seth Dobrin, chief AI officer at IBM, talks about the company's tools to increase the trustworthiness, fairness and explainability of AI models.
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Cognilytica from 2021-09-01T14:04:38
This week, I talk to Ron Schmelzer and Kathleen Walch, founders of Cognilytica, a research, advisory, and education firm focused on artificial Intelligence. We talked about the rise of MLOps, da...
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Ben Goertzel from 2021-08-25T14:04:10
This week I talk to the inimitable Ben Goertzel, about his non-profit foundation, SingularityNET, his work with the robotic head, Sophia, his talking Philip K. Dick avatar, his work in medical A...
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Kaifu Lee Tells Our Future from 2021-08-11T19:56:05
AI commentator and investor Kaifu Lee talks about his book AI 2041 in which he considers possible futures for humanity if deep learning applications develop as planned.
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Reorganizing DoD for the AI Future from 2021-07-30T14:39:02
NSCAI staff Justin Lynch, Ryan Carpenter and Lance Lantier talk about how the 1986 Goldwater Nichols Act that reorganized the US military inspired the commission’s recommendations to reorganize ...
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IP Protection for AI from 2021-07-21T18:16:29
NSCAI staff Christie Lawrence and Rama Elleru talk about how intellectual property protections play an unexpected role in guiding US innovation and contribute to the global competition with Chin...
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Steps to Drive AI Innovation from 2021-07-21T18:15:09
NSCAI staff Tess Deblanc-Knowles and Mike Garris talk about the steps the US government needs to take to foster AI innovation in the years ahead.
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A Democratic AI Coalition from 2021-06-30T18:25:10
NSCAI staff Paul Leka and Christie Lawrence talk about forming an international emerging technology coalition to strengthen and coordinate the use of emerging technology for democratic ends.
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Building the Foundation for AI in National Security from 2021-06-24T15:31:53
NSCAI staff Mike Garris and Mike Jackson spoke about what needs to be done to lay the foundations for an AI-infused national security going forward.
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AI for the Heartland from 2021-06-16T16:48:47
NSCAI staff Aristotle Vainikos and Parker Wild spoke about the commission’s recommendations for establishing public-private innovation hubs around the country that can encourage and tap the entr...
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Getting the Intelligence Community up to Speed with AI from 2021-06-09T17:56:03
NSCAI staff Mike Jackson and Darren Wright talk about the commission’s recommendations for bringing the intelligence community up to speed with AI. They spoke about the organizational changes ne...
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Democratizing AI for the Warfighter from 2021-06-02T16:11:24
NSCAI staff David Kumashiro and Courtney Barno talked about the commission’s recommendations on democratizing AI for the warfighter and enabling bottom-up AI innovation.
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Making the Government a Better AI Customer from 2021-05-26T22:35:39
NSCAI staff Kevin McGuinness and Raina Davis talked about the commission’s recommendations for increasing public visibility about the government’s AI needs and lowering the barrier to entry for ...
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US Defense: AI-ready by 2025 from 2021-05-19T14:44:23
NSCAI staff Chris Rice and Courtney Barno talk about what the US has to do to get up to speed on its AI military capabilities by 2025 in order to outpace our competitors, particularly China.
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Educating the Warfighter to use AI from 2021-05-12T17:48:58
NSCAI staff Justin Lynch, Lance Lantier and Shaantam Chawla, talked about educating the warfighter for the AI era. They spoke about what kind of training warfighters need to effectively integrat...
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AI and National Security: US vs China from 2021-05-05T14:27:43
Ylli Bajraktari, executive director of the National Security Commission on AI, talked about what he considers the most important recommendations in the commission’s final report and about the ne...
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Cade Metz on Genius Makers from 2021-04-28T21:51:09
This week, I talk to Cade Metz, the New York Times' lead reporter on artificial intelligence, about his new book, “Genius Makers, the Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google Facebook and the World."...
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Google’s Kent Walker on Ethical AI from 2021-04-14T14:45:59
Kent Walker, who oversees the Google's AI ethics and responsible AI innovation, talks about how Google reviews AI systems for trust and safety and the outlook for safe AI going forward.
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Synthetic Data from 2021-03-18T21:16:36
Creating New Materials with AI from 2021-03-03T17:19:07
Lt. Gen. Michael S. Groen on AI war fighting from 2021-02-17T12:12:34
Director of the Pentagon’s Joint AI Center, Lieutenant General Michael S. Groen talks about improving war fighting and the challenge of China.
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Riiid, the leader in AI for Education from 2021-02-03T12:20:50
David Yi and Yohan Lee from Riiid Labs, the leading startup applying machine-learning to education, talk about making personalized instruction available to anyone in the world with an internet-c...
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Yoshua Bengio and Iulian Serban on AI for Education from 2021-01-28T12:34:20
Turing award winner Yoshua Bengio and his colleague Julian Serban, co-founder of Korbit, an AI ed-tech startup with the aim of democratizing education, talk about enhancing education through the...
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Geoff Hinton on his quest to decode learning in the brain from 2020-12-18T13:54:34
Geoff Hinton has lived at the outer reaches of machine learning research since an aborted attempt at a carpentry career a half century ago. He spoke to me about his work In 2020 and what he sees...
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Biodata as an instrument of National Power from 2020-12-11T18:54:09
Eric Horvitz on AI and Allies from 2020-12-03T15:03:16
Eric Horvitz, chief research scientist at Microsoft and a commissioner on the National Security Commission on AI, talks about ensuring interoperability of AI systems with US allies and working ...
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Tricky Business: Deploying AI Models on Hardware from 2020-12-03T15:01:03
An open-source compiler called TVM helps data scientists optimize their model’s performance on specific hardware.
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AI in Space with NASA’s Steve Chien from 2020-11-12T23:20:13
NSCAI commissioner Steve Chien, technical supervisor of the artificial intelligence group at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, talks about the growing demand for AI solutions in space, from coor...
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Opening AI Career Paths in Government and funding STEM education from 2020-11-04T22:17:43
AI and Allies: coordinating national security with NATO and India from 2020-10-28T16:04:24
Jason Matheny, a commissioner at the National Security Commission on AI and head of Georgetown University’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology, talks about coordinating AI developments ...
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Programmatic labeling with Alex Ratner of Snorkel AI from 2020-10-28T16:02:35
Alex Ratner, an assistant professor at the University of Washington and a cofounder and CEO of Snorkel AI, talks about programmatically labeling training data for supervised learning models.
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Data Wrangling with Joe Hellerstein from 2020-10-14T15:54:36
In the second episode of a series on the machine-learning pipeline, Joe Hellerstein, a professor at UC Berkeley, talks about data wrangling.
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Turing Award Winner David Patterson - CPUs to GPUs to TPUs and Beyond from 2020-09-30T14:38:46
Turing Award Winner David Patterson - CPUs to GPUs to TPUs and Beyond from 2020-09-30T14:38:46
Great Power Competition in the Digital Age with Gilman Louie from 2020-09-16T21:28:03
NSCAI commissioner Gilman Louie talks about great power competition in the digital age and the US need for a more technologically literate diplomatic core to counter China's increasing diplomati...
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Great Power Competition in the Digital Age with Gilman Louie from 2020-09-16T21:28:03
NSCAI commissioner Gilman Louie talks about great power competition in the digital age and the US need for a more technologically literate diplomatic core to counter China's increasing diplomati...
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Turning AI from a Tool to a Teammate with Ken Ford from 2020-09-09T21:38:31
Ken Ford, an NSCAI commissioner, talks about turning AI from a tool to a teammate and unshackling research and implementation of AI from government bureaucracy in order to compete with nimbler c...
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Turning AI from a Tool to a Teammate with Ken Ford from 2020-09-09T21:38:31
Ken Ford, an NSCAI commissioner, talks about turning AI from a tool to a teammate and unshackling research and implementation of AI from government bureaucracy in order to compete with nimbler c...
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AI War Games Will Inform Military Doctrine with Katharina McFarland from 2020-09-02T20:53:21
Katharina McFarland, an NSCAI commissioner, talks about the commission’s recommendations on inserting AI into the National Defense Strategy and how war games should integrate A...
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AI War Games Will Inform Military Doctrine with Katharina McFarland from 2020-09-02T20:53:21
Katharina McFarland, an NSCAI commissioner, talks about the commission’s recommendations on inserting AI into the National Defense Strategy and how war games should integrate A...
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Eric Horvitz on Ethical Uses of AI for National Security from 2020-08-26T17:36:30
Eric Horvitz, Chief Scientific Officer at Microsoft and a commissioner with the National Security Commission on AI, talks about the commission’s recommendations that responsible and ethical uses...
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Eric Horvitz on Ethical Uses of AI for National Security from 2020-08-26T17:36:30
Eric Horvitz, Chief Scientific Officer at Microsoft and a commissioner with the National Security Commission on AI, talks about the commission’s recommendations that responsible and ethical uses...
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The Conundrum of AI Export Controls with Jason Matheny from 2020-08-19T15:41:06
Jason Matheny, an NSCAI commissioner who now leads a think tank at Georgetown University focused on the intersections of technology, policy and national security,
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The Conundrum of AI Export Controls with Jason Matheny from 2020-08-19T15:41:06
Jason Matheny, an NSCAI commissioner who now leads a think tank at Georgetown University focused on the intersections of technology, policy and national security,
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Episode 48 - Mignon Clyburn from 2020-08-12T20:55:11
Mignon Clyburn, an NSCAI commissioner and longtime regulator at the FCC, talks about the Commission’s recommendations to increase competency in artificial intelligence at the Department of Defen...
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Episode 47 - Talking Machines from 2020-08-04T15:00:50
The Alexa Prize Socialbot Grand Challenge is a competition for university students to create a social bot that can converse coherently and engagingly with humans. This year's prize goes to the ...
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Episode 46 - Qualcomm Technologies from 2020-08-04T15:00:24
Qualcomm Technologies is powering the shift to fifth generation wireless communications, known as 5G. In this sponsored episode, I speak to two of the company's product managers leading the comp...
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Starting Project Maven with Lt. Gen. Jack Shanahan from 2020-07-22T19:31:08
This week I speak to Lieutenant General Jack Shanahan, recently retired Director of the Pentagon’s... ListenStarting Project Maven with Lt. Gen. Jack Shanahan from 2020-07-22T19:31:08
This week I speak to Lieutenant General Jack Shanahan, recently retired Director of the Pentagon’s... ListenEpisode 44 - Fei-Fei Li from 2020-07-08T09:00
This week I speak to Stanford professor Fei-Fei Li, one of the people responsible for the current AI revolution. Fei-Fei talked about her early days running a New Jersey dry cleaner to finance h...
ListenEpisode 43 - Pietro Perona from 2020-06-24T18:43:16
Pietro Perona, a professor at the California Institute of Technology, is one of the brains behind a pair of smartphone apps that help you do just that: eBird and iNaturalist. But simple as the a...
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In this week's episode, the last in a series of six, we talked to Eric Horvitz. Commissioner at the National Security Commission on AI and Chief Research Scientist at Microsoft, about the commis...
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In this week's episode, we talk with NSCAI Commissioner Gilman Louie about line of effort’s recommendations to Congress on how to maintain US leadership in AI hardware and 5G. He spoke about the...
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NSCAI Commissioner Jason Matheny talks about his line of effort regarding cooperation on AI with key allies and partners. He spoke about his group's recommendations that the government establish...
ListenEpisode 39 - Katharina McFarland from 2020-05-20T17:22:04
In the third episode of six episodes looking at the National Security Commission on AI 's first quarter recommendations to Congress, we speak with Katharina McFarland, a former Assistant Secreta...
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Episode 37 - Andrew Moore from 2020-05-06T17:39:51
In April 2020, the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence issued its first-quarter recommendations to Congress, covering seven lines of effort, six of which are public and one o...
ListenEpisode 36 - Vittorio Sebastiano from 2020-04-15T20:26:25
COVID-19 continues to sweep through the human population, killing some and damaging the health of others. While this podcast is normally focused on machine-learning, this week I talk to Vittorio...
ListenEpisode 35 - Irina Rish from 2020-03-30T20:36:22
COVID-19 has swept across the world was startling speed, but with equally startling speed, the machine learning community has responded. This week I speak with Irina Ri...
ListenEpisode 34 - David Cox from 2020-03-18T23:22:17
There has been a debate in the past few years between the symbolists and the connectionists about the future of artificial intellige...
ListenEpisode 33 - Justin Gottschlich from 2020-03-04T03:55:20
Justin Gottschlich, who founded the machine programming research group at Intel Labs, explains his group's efforts to automate software development. The ambition is to make it possible for anybo...
ListenEpisode 32 - Casimir Wierzynski from 2020-02-19T03:39:13
This week I talk to Casimir Wierzynski, a senior director in Intel’s AI Products Group, Cas talked about his work in privacy, taking me on a tour of the latest strategies that promise to unlock ...
ListenEpisode 31 - Terry Sejnowski from 2020-02-05T13:09:57
Terry Sejnowski, author of the book Deep Learning Revolution, who together with Geoff Hinton created Boltzmann machines, a deep learning network that has remarkable similarities to learning in t...
ListenEpisode 30 - The 3 Most Interesting Trends In AI from 2020-01-07T00:19:54
We begin 2020 by looking back at some of the highlights from 2019 including conversations with Turing award winners, Yoshua, Bengio and Yann Lecun, as well as with the father of reinforcement le...
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Episode 28 - Aude Billard from 2019-11-24T23:51:28
My guest this week, Aude Billard from Switzerland’s Learning Algorithms and Systems Laboratory, blends control theory with machine learning to build robotic systems that are both swift and preci...
ListenEpisode 27 - Eric Schmidt and Robert O. Work from 2019-11-04T05:00
Former Google chief executive Eric Schmidt and former Deputy Defense Secretary Bob Work, co-chairs of the U.S. National Security Commission on AI, talk about the challenges the government faces ...
ListenEpisode 26 - Labelbox from 2019-10-24T11:55:55
The secret in much of artificial intelligence today is that it depends on hordes of unskilled workers to label the data used to train supervised learning models. But, in order for data science t...
ListenEpisode 25 - Dawn Song from 2019-10-10T12:02:49
This week, I talk to Dawn Song, one of the world’s foremost experts in computer security, about her vision of a new paradigm in which people control their data and are... ListenEpisode 24 - Climate Change and AI from 2019-09-25T11:50:49
A few months ago at the recent international conference on machine learning, a workshop and research paper launched a movement to use machine learning in addressing climate change. The response ...
ListenEpisode 23 - AutoML with Determined AI from 2019-09-11T00:31:38
Automated machine-learning tools – or tools that automate the creation of machine-learning applications – are increasingly important in the current talent-scarce environment. Expensive ML engine...
ListenEpisode 22 - Brendan McCord from 2019-08-29T02:03:35
This week, I talk to Brendan McCord, who wrote the Pentagon’s AI strategy and is now a Special Government Employee at the National Security Commission on AI. Brendan talks about what he believes...
ListenEpisode 21 - Alexei Koulakov from 2019-08-15T02:05:49
This week I enter the ‘smelliverse,’ the dimension of odors, with Alexei Koulakov, a professor at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Alexei uses machine learning to explore the least understood of o...
ListenEpisode 20 - John Platt from 2019-07-31T10:30:30
This week I talk to John Platt, a Distinguished Scientist at Google, about twin problems: finding cheap zero-carbon energy sources and mitigating global warming. John i...
ListenEpisode 19 - Chelsea Finn from 2019-07-16T23:52:12
This week we return to the world of thinking robots with Chelsea Finn, one of the youngest experts in the field, who talks about her journey, about her work in meta-learning and about lifelong l...
ListenEpisode 18 - Partha Talukdar from 2019-07-04T13:37:19
This week, we look at AI in India. With its massive population, fast-growing economy, English-language education and large supply of brilliant researchers and engineers, it should be competing w...
ListenEpisode 17 - Yann Lecun from 2019-06-19T02:53:39
This week I talk to Yann Lecun, one of the brightest minds in machine learning today. Yann's work lies behind some of the most critical AI applications, most not... ListenEpisode 16 - Trae Stephens and Brian Schimpf from 2019-06-05T02:42:20
This week I talk to Trae Stephens and Brian Schimpf from Anduril Industries, an AI defense contractor, about the current state of AI research and deployment for national security, including how ...
ListenEpisode 15 - Ken Church from 2019-05-16T00:57:49
This week, I talk to Ken Church, a pioneer in Natural Language Processing, whose use of statistical models on part of speech tagging revolutionized the field and is what makes automatic dictatio...
ListenEpisode 14 - Sergey Levine from 2019-05-02T02:08:16
This week, I talk to Sergey Levine, one of the most prolific researchers in robot learning. We talked about developing a robot’s sense of touch and about robot dreams and whether he believes we ...
ListenEpisode 13 - Pieter Abbeel from 2019-04-17T01:58:06
Thinking robots: that’s how much of the world envisions artificial intelligence and if there is one person on the planet who understands the limitations and promise of intelligence in robots, it...
ListenEpisode 12 - Samy Bengio and Yoshua Bengio from 2019-04-03T03:11:37
This week I talk to the Bengio brothers, Samy and Yoshua, in their first interview together. Yoshua recently won the Turing Award with Geoff Hinton and Yann Lecun, whil...
ListenEpisode 10 - Pedro Domingos from 2019-03-07T13:05:41
In this week's episode, I talk to Pedro Domingos, author of the bestselling book, The Master Algorithm, which is about the ongoing effort to unify machine-learning paradigms in a single model. B...
ListenEpisode 9 - Liang Huang from 2019-02-20T13:07:06
Resurrecting the Tower of Babel with machine learning: In this week’s episode, we talk to Liang Huang, principal scientist at Baidu Research in Silicon Valley about his breakthrough in simultane...
ListenEpisode 8 - Bernhard Schölkopf & Matthias Bethge from 2019-02-05T10:00
In this episode of Eye on AI, I continue my review of AI research in different regions of the world with a focus on Europe. Europe, with its strong academic tradition, faces unique challenges in...
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Episode 5 - Miles Brundage from 2018-11-06T13:05:30
In this episode of Eye on AI, I talk to Miles Brundage, who studies the societal impacts of artificial intelligence and works on the policy team of OpenAI, the nonprofit A.I. research company fo...
ListenEpisode 4 - Kaifu Lee from 2018-10-22T10:00
In this episode of Eye on AI, I talk to Kaifu Lee, a thought leader on AI in China. Kaifu just published the book, Listen
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In this episode of Eye on AI, I talk to Kaifu Lee, a thought leader on AI in China. Kaifu just published the book, Listen
Episode 3 - Misha Bilenko from 2018-10-08T05:30
In Episode 3 of Eye on AI, I talk to Misha Bilenko, head of AI at Yandex, ... ListenEpisode 2 demo - Jack Clark from 2018-10-08T05:00
In Episode 2 of Eye on AI, I talk to Jack Clark, Strategy and Communications Director at Ope... ListenEpisode 1 demo - Jack Clark from 2018-10-08T04:30
In Episode 1 of Eye on AI, I talk to Jack Clark, Strategy and Communications Director at OpenAI, a nonprofit A.I. research company, in a wide-ranging conversati...
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