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Artificial Intelligence and You

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Jun 13, 2022 • 30min

104 - ANI, AGI, ASI - What are we talking about?

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .   For our second anniversary show, we're going to explain some of the terms that are often used on the show and not always spelled out, like ANI (artificial narrow intelligence), AGI (artificial general intelligence), and ASI (artificial super intelligence). What do they mean, why do so many people talk about them, what do you need to know to follow along? All this plus our usual look at today's AI headlines. Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.        
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Jun 6, 2022 • 44min

103 - Guest: Tom White, Machine Perception Artist

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .   How does AI see the world? it's easy to take for granted that an AI that is trained on labeled data to recognize certain images very well is seeing them the same way we do, but that's not so. The AI is quite alien, and helping us to see the world through its eyes is Tom White, a New Zealand-based artist. He creates physical artworks that highlight how machines “see” and thus how they think, suggesting that these systems are capable of abstraction and conceptual thinking. He has exhibited computer-based artwork internationally over the past 25 years with themes of artificial intelligence, interactivity, and computational creativity. He is currently a lecturer and researcher at University of Wellington School of Design where he teaches students the creative potential of computer programming and artificial intelligence. All this plus our usual look at today's AI headlines. Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.        
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May 30, 2022 • 37min

102 - Guest: Richard Ahlfeld, AI for Engineering Optimization

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .   When serious engineering with safety of life is at stake - think rockets, engine turbines, aircraft - Richard Ahlfeld brings artificial intelligence to the job. He modeled the Space Launch System as part of his PhD at Imperial College London and now is CEO of Monolith AI, commercializing AI in the role of engineering design and testing. We talk about just how that gets done and what sort of difference it makes over traditional methods. All this plus our usual look at today's AI headlines. Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.        
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May 23, 2022 • 49min

101 - Guest: Bryant Cruse, Cognitive AI CEO

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .   Bryant Cruse, former naval aviator (we'll talk about that) and Space Telescope mission operations team member (we'll talk about that too), is the founder and CEO of New Sapience, working on bold new advances in artificial general intelligence. We talk about what real understanding by AI means.  All this plus our usual look at today's AI headlines. Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.        
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May 16, 2022 • 42min

100 - What We’ve Learned from our Guests

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .   100 episodes! And 60 guests: What have we learned from them? We've had everyone from science fiction authors to CEOs, from philosophers to government ministers, and from professors to neuroscientists. All of them helping us wrap our heads around the enormous impact of this thing called AI. I realized two things: (1) I learned a tremendous amount from all these experts giving us their time and brains, and (2) That learning is as valuable today as when they came on the show. So this episode is a guide to those past shows to help you decide what you might want to visit or return to. All this plus our usual look at today's AI headlines. Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.        
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May 9, 2022 • 33min

099 - Guest: Calum Chace, AI Author and Speaker, part 2

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .   Calum Chace is a keynote speaker and the author of Surviving AI: The Promise and Peril of Artificial Intelligence, and The Economic Singularity: Artificial Intelligence and the Death of Capitalism. In part 2, we talk about the metaverse, how AI could be leveraged in the metaverse, and the agricultural and longevity singularities. All this plus our usual look at today's AI headlines. Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.        
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May 2, 2022 • 35min

098 - Guest: Calum Chace, AI Author and Speaker, part 1

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .   Calum Chace is a keynote speaker and the author of Surviving AI: The Promise and Peril of Artificial Intelligence, and The Economic Singularity: Artificial Intelligence and the Death of Capitalism. We talked in this first part about his concept of the Economic Singularity, a transformation of the socioeconomic space he says will arrive much sooner than Ray Kurzweil's famed singularity. All this plus our usual look at today's AI headlines. Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.        
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Apr 25, 2022 • 29min

097 - Guest: Alison Gopnik, Child Psychology Professor, part 2

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .   What is that baby thinking? Alison Gopnik knows. She is the American professor of psychology and affiliate professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, writes for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, New Scientist, and Scientific American, and has appeared on The Colbert Show and given a TED talk. She has much to tell us about how studying children can inform the development of artificial general intelligence, and in part 2, we discuss topics like epigenetics and the AI alignment problem. All this plus our usual look at today's AI headlines. Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.        
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Apr 18, 2022 • 32min

096 - Guest: Alison Gopnik, Child Psychology Professor, part 1

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .   What is that baby thinking? Alison Gopnik knows. She is the American professor of psychology and affiliate professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, writes for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, New Scientist, and Scientific American, and has appeared on The Colbert Show and given a TED talk. She has much to tell us about how studying children can inform the development of artificial general intelligence, and in part 1 you'll find out what babies are smarter than adults at! All this plus our usual look at today's AI headlines. Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.        
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Apr 11, 2022 • 38min

095 - Guest: George Dyson, Computer Historian

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .   Those who do not understand history are doomed to repeat it, right? Or maybe the problem is that we should be repeating some history that we’re not. My guest is George Dyson, master kayak builder, keynote speaker about the history of computing, and the author of Analogia: The Emergence of Technology Beyond Programmable Control; Darwin Among the Machines: The Evolution of Global Intelligence; and Turing’s Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe. Hear his stories about John von Neumann, Alan Turing, and why he thinks that what today's computer companies are missing out on is Analog Computing. All this plus our usual look at today's AI headlines. Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.        

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