AI Business Podcast

In the second part of this episode, the AI Business editorial team talks to Katie King, CEO of AI in Business; founder and MD of Zoodikers Consulting; and member of the UK’s All-Party Parliamentary Group Taskforce on AI. We chat about educating the next generation of AI professionals, artificial intelligence through the eyes of politicians, the impact of Brexit, and the importance of international partnerships on AI. We also find out what the House of Lords, the second chamber of UK Parliament, thinks about artificial intelligence...

This week, we focus on facial recognition. The AI Business team takes a look at the embodiment of futuristic evil that is Clearview AI, and the efforts by companies like Microsoft, Amazon and IBM to limit the sales of facial recognition to police – at least for a while. Remember Enemy of the State, the 1998 film with Will Smith? They built that space camera. They named it Gorgon Stare, and it’s out there, somewhere, hovering above our heads. With a 40 gigapixel camera. And it’s now starting to use artificial intelligence. We also ask two important transport questions: what’s wrong with trucking? And who is the self-driving car really for?

'The world seems crazy right now, but don’t worry, it’s always been crazy'. This week, Max Smolaks and Tien Fu take look at the ongoing tech war between the US and China. Having run out of Chinese goods to tax, the Trump administration is going after individual AI companies, while increasing domestic funding for scientific research. Meanwhile, Chinese cloud juggernauts are investing billions in new infrastructure projects, with full support of the state. We also discuss MSN replacing humans with algorithms, problems with online advertising, mountains of money being spent on self-driving cars, the misadventures of Pepper the robot, and of course, the current situation in the US. It also transpires that none of us like working in a WeWork – the main points of contention are dogs and beer.

In this episode, the editorial team talks automated warehouses, the enduring problem of picking stuff up, and pandemic essentials. We discuss Microsoft’s Project Bonsai, best described as a virtual labor camp for machines, delve into Nvidia’s chonky chips, and OpenAI’s shiny new supercomputer, which, in the absence of a memorable name, was christened the Shrugging Atlas. Plus, weird stuff you find on government procurement websites, the sins of Elon Musk, the timeline for mapping the brain, and, once again, killer robots. It’s probably safe to assume killer robots will remain a theme for months to come.... Plus this week's episode of The AI In Business podcast features roving reporter and ICBM enthusiast Sebastian Moss!

In the AI Business Podcast our aim is to present an intriguing section industry news from the past two weeks, discuss the stories we are working on, while always looking out for the strangest, most cutting-edge applications of artificial intelligence out there. In the first episode, we talk about two use cases for AI in fighting COVID-19 – in drug development and medical image processing (and there are more). We delve into the project Gamebreaker – DARPA’s initiative which will use AI models trained on open world video games to devise winning war strategies. We also discuss the the size and processing requirements of machine learning models – a problem which is being attacked from several angles by both software and hardware designers. Smaller size is useful if we really want a gazillion AI-enabled devices promised to us by the Internet of Things crowd. And finally, we look at AI-generated Coronavirus memes – a harmless machine learning exercise that could open the floodgates for a new breed of marketing content.