Artificial Intelligence and You

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .   Will tomorrow's robots be invented... or grown? Mark Lee, Emeritus Professor of Intelligent Systems in the Department of Computer Science at Aberystwyth University in Wales, works in the new field of Developmental Robotics. That's creating computational models of infant development for novel robot learning techniques, and he has trained their humanoid iCub robot from the equivalent of a developmental stage of newborn to nine-month-old. Hence the title of his recent book, How to Grow a Robot: Developing Human-Friendly, Social AI. In part 2, we talk about crossovers between robotics and neuroscience, conversational robots, and what it might be like in a world where you could go down to your local park and made a robot and have a and meet a robot and have a conversation on a bench. All this plus our usual look at today's AI headlines. Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.        

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .   Will tomorrow's robots be invented... or grown? Mark Lee, Emeritus Professor of Intelligent Systems in the Department of Computer Science at Aberystwyth University in Wales, works in the new field of Developmental Robotics. That's creating computational models of infant development for novel robot learning techniques, and he has trained their humanoid iCub robot from the equivalent of a developmental stage of newborn to nine-month-old. Hence the title of his recent book, How to Grow a Robot: Developing Human-Friendly, Social AI. In part 1 we talk about what meaning means to a robot, some connections with Alan Turing, the role of curiosity, and the relationship of computer vision to interpreting the 3-D world. All this plus our usual look at today's AI headlines. Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.        

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .   How do you like the experience of calling Customer Service? Yeah... me too. But Dan Turchin is out to change that. Dan is a serial entrepreneurial leader who is passionate about changing the future of work. He’s doing that currently as the CEO of PeopleReign, which automates the lifecycle of service requests - those problems people inside a business might have - through AI. He's run AI-centric businesses like InsightFinder and Aeroprise, and been a senior director at BMC and ServiceNow. In part 2 we talk about Dan's vision of optimism for the future of work with AI and his mission with his podcast. All this plus our usual look at today's AI headlines. Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.        

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .   How do you like the experience of calling Customer Service? Yeah... me too. But Dan Turchin is out to change that. Dan is a serial entrepreneurial leader who is passionate about changing the future of work. He’s doing that currently as the CEO of PeopleReign, which automates the lifecycle of service requests - those problems people inside a business might have - through AI. He's run AI-centric businesses like InsightFinder and Aeroprise, and been a senior director at BMC and ServiceNow. We talk about how he got into this field and what it takes to go beyond the usual irritating chatbot. All this plus our usual look at today's AI headlines. Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.        

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .   Do you have questions about autonomous vehicles (AVs) and the contradictory headlines about them? Me too. So I invited Paul Newman, founder and CTO of Oxbotica, a UK creator of software for AVs, to come on the show and clear up the hype and heat around self-driving cars. He is the BP chair of Information Engineering at the University of Oxford and director of the Oxford Robotics Institute, and in 2020 he was awarded the Royal Academy of Engineering Medal for outstanding commercialization of engineering innovation. Paul is really passionate about vehicle autonomy. In this second part he talks about how AVs should handle situations they're not prepared for, regulatory requirements, and what sort of schedule future deployments might follow. All this plus our usual look at today's AI headlines. Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.        

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .   Do you have questions about autonomous vehicles (AVs) and the contradictory headlines about them? Me too. So I invited Paul Newman, CTO of Oxbotica, a UK creator of software for AVs, to come on the show and clear up the hype and heat around self-driving cars. He is the BP chair of Information Engineering at the University of Oxford and director of the Oxford Robotics Institute; he serves as a science advisor to the Prime Minister and adviser to the UK Department of Transport, and in 2020 he was awarded the Royal Academy of Engineering Medal for outstanding commercialization of engineering innovation. Paul is really passionate about vehicle autonomy. Join us in this first part where he distinguishes for us the conditions when a vehicle may operate autonomously sooner rather than later, and defines the Operational Design Domain... and we journey from the Gulf of Mexico to the mines of Australia to the plains of Mars. All this plus our usual look at today's AI headlines. Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.        

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .   Don't Panic! Our returning guest, Robbie Stamp, is a friend and associate of the late Douglas Adams and was an executive producer on the 2005 movie of the HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy. But he is also CEO of Bioss International, a global consultancy helping clients focus on decision-making in conditions of complexity, and founder with Adams of the Digital Village. Get ready to think about Life, the Universe, and Everything in this interview conclusion, as TEDx speaker, historian, and philosopher Robbie covers ground from how Douglas' way of thinking can shape our view of AI, to the meaning of empathy and creativity in light of AI's recent developments. All this plus our usual look at today's AI headlines. Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.        

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .   Don't Panic! This week's guest, Robbie Stamp, was a friend and associate of the late Douglas Adams and was an executive producer on the 2005 movie of the HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy. But he is also CEO of Bioss International, a global consultancy helping clients focus on decision-making in conditions of complexity, and founder with Adams of the Digital Village. TEDx speaker, historian, and philosopher, Robbie takes us on a wild romp ranging from how much agency we have in a world of AI making decisions about our lives, to the sentience of Marvin the Paranoid Android. Grab your towel. All this plus our usual look at today's AI headlines. Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.        

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .   If you want an expert on how today's AI compares to the human brain, it would be hard to beat an Oxford neuroscientist who also works at DeepMind. That describes Chris Summerfield, who runs Oxford University’s Human Information Processing lab in the Department of Experimental Psychology and author of the upcoming book, "Natural General Intelligence." In part 2, we talk about the new image generators like DALL-E-2 and how they relate to human cognition, brain-computer interfaces and neuroplasticity, and purple pineapples. All this plus our usual look at today's AI headlines. Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.        

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .   If you want an expert on how today's AI compares to the human brain, it would be hard to beat an Oxford neuroscientist who also works at DeepMind. That describes Chris Summerfield, who runs Oxford University’s Human Information Processing lab in the Department of Experimental Psychology and author of the upcoming book, "Natural General Intelligence." We have a fascinating discussion about how AI - today's transformers in particular - are like or not like human intelligence. All this plus our usual look at today's AI headlines. Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.