Voices in AI: Recent Episodes
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Host Byron Reese speaks with special guest Rob Lubow to discuss the nature of AI, writing, humanity, and machine learning.
Episode 118 – A Conversation with Rob Lubow
Byron Reese welcomes Andrea Thomaz on to discuss the nature of intelligence and intellectual growth and how that pertains to both robotics and AI.
Episode 117 – A Conversation with Andrea Thomaz
Byron speaks with Azita Azani about the future of ai and how it can and cannot evolve based on the limits of 'artificial' intelligence.
Episode 116 – A Conversation with Azita Arvani
Byron speaks with author and security expert Davi Ottenheimer on the relationship between ai and security.
Episode 115 – A Conversation with Davi Ottenheimer
Byron Reese discusses the ethics of machine learning, artificial intelligence, and the potential for misuse with Fiona McEvoy of YouTheData.com.
Episode 114 – A Conversation with Fiona McEvoy
Byron speaks with Roman Yampolskiy about the nature of intelligence artificial, and otherwise.
Episode 113 – A Conversation with Roman Yamploskiy
Byron speaks with fellow author and technologist David Weinberger about the nature of intelligence artificial, and otherwise.
Episode 112 – A Conversation with David Weinberger
Byron Reese discusses the nature of intelligence and Artificial Intelligence within the industrial internet with Robert Booker of Win-911.
Episode 111 – A Conversation with Robert Brooker
Byron speaks with Didem Un Ates, the Senior Director of AI customer and partner engagement for Microsoft about Artificial Intelligence.
Episode 110 – A Conversation with Didem Un Ates
Byron speaks with Frank Holland about the nature of intelligence and the ways in which we define, cultivate and attempt to mimic it.
Episode 109: A Conversation with Frank Holland
Byron and Kirk Borne discuss the intersection between human nature and artificial intelligence.
Episode 108: A Conversation with Kirk Borne
In this episode, Byron and Nir Bar-Lev discuss narrow and general AI and the means by which we build them out and train them.
Episode 107: A Conversation with Nir Bar-Lev
In this episode, Byron speaks with Monte Zweben about the nature of intelligence and the growth of real-time AI-based machine learning.
Episode 106: A Conversation with Monte Zweben
In this episode, Byron speaks with Andrew Busey about the nature of intelligence and how we differentiate between artificial intelligence and 'real' intelligence.
Episode 105: A Conversation with Andrew Busey
Byron Reese discusses the nature of intelligence and how artificial intelligence evolves and becomes viable in today's world.
Episode 104 – A Conversation with Anirudh Koul
Byron Reese discusses AI with Ben Goertzel of SingularityNET, diving into the concepts of a master algorithm and AGI's.
Episode 103: A Conversation with Ben Goertzel
Byron Reese discusses security and its impact on AI as a whole with Managing Director Steve Durbin of the Information Security Forum.
Episode 102 – A Conversation with Steve Durbin
Byron speaks with Cindi Howsen of Thoughtspot about the direction of explainable AI and where we are going as an industry.
Episode 101: A Conversation with Cindi Howsen
In our 100th episode special, Byron has a conversation with Stephen Wolfram on the nature of reality, belief and morality itself.
Episode 100: A Conversation with Stephen Wolfram
Byron speaks with Patrick Surry of Hopper on the nature of intelligence and the path that our relationship with AI is taking.
Episode 99: A Conversation with Patrick Surry
Byron speaks with futurist and CEO of the Millennium Project Jerome Glenn about the direction and perception of AI as well as the driving philosophical questions behind it.
Episode 98 – A Conversation with Jerome Glenn
Byron speaks to futurist and author Alexandra Levit about the nature of intelligence and her new book 'Humanity Works'
Episode 97: A Conversation with Alexandra Levit
On this episode Byron has a conversation with Hilary Mason, an acclaimed data and research scientist, about the mechanics and philosophy behind designing and building AI.
Bonus Episode: A Conversation with Hilary Mason
Byron speaks with author and psychologist Gary Marcus about the nature of intelligence and what the mind really means in relation to AI.
Episode 96: A Conversation with Gary Marcus
In this episode Byron speaks with author Eric Topol regarding how Artificial Intelligence could revolutionize medicine and the health care industry.
Episode 95: A Conversation with Eric Topol
Byron speaks with fellow futurist and author Amy Webb on the nature of artificial intelligence and the morality and ethics tied to its study.
Episode 94: A Conversation with Amy Webb
In this episode Byron speaks with Berkeley Robotic Learning Lab Director Pieter Abbeel about the nature of AI, the problems with creating intelligence and the forward trajectory of AI research.
Episode 93: A Conversation with Pieter Abbeel
In this episode, Byron speaks with guest Chris Duffey about the nature of creativity and how machine intelligence can interact with creative concepts.
Episode 92: A Conversation with Chris Duffey
In this episode Byron speaks to Mazin Gilbert from AT&T Labs about the nature of intelligence and why we have so much trouble defining it.
Episode 91: A Conversation with Mazin Gilbert
In this episode, Byron Reese speaks with Norman Sadeh from Carnegie Mellon University about the nature of intelligence and how AI effects our privacy.
Episode 90: A Conversation with Norman Sadeh
In this episode Byron speaks with Cycorp CEO Douglas Lenat on developing AI and the very nature of intelligence.
Episode 89: A Conversation with Doug Lenat
In this episode, host Byron Reese speaks with Ron Green of KUNGFU.AI about how companies integrate AI and machine learning into their business models.
Episode 88: A Conversation with Ron Green
In this episode Byron speaks with Sameer Maskey of Fusemachines about the development of machine learning, languages and AI capabilities.
Episode 87: A Conversation with Sameer Maskey
In this episode Byron talks to fellow author Amir Husain about the nature of Artificial Intelligence and Amir's book 'The Sentient Machine'
Episode 86: A Conversation with Amir Husain
In this episode, Byron and Ilya Sutskever of Open AI talk about the future of general intelligence and the ramifications of building a computer smarter than us.
Episode 85: A Conversation with Ilya Sutskever
In this episode, Byron and David Cox of IBM discuss classifications of AI, and how the research has been evolving and growing.
Episode 84: A Conversation with David Cox
In this episode Byron and Margaret Mitchell of Google discuss the nature of language and it's impact on machine learning and intelligence.
Episode 83: A Conversation with Margaret Mitchell
In this episode, Byron and Max Welling of Qualcomm discuss the nature of intelligence and its relationship with intuition, evolution, and need.
Episode 82: A Conversation with Max Welling
In this episode Byron and Siraj Raval discuss machine learning, teaching ai and the use of ai for the betterment of the world.
Episode 81: A Conversation with Siraj Raval
In this episode, Byron and Charlie discuss the difficulty of defining AI and how computer intelligence and human intelligence intersect and differ.
Episode 80: A Conversation with Charlie Burgoyne
In this episode Byron and Naveen discuss intelligence, the mind, consciousness, AI, and what the day to day looks like at Intel. Byron and Naveen also delve into the implications of an AI future.
Episode 79: A Conversation with Naveen Rao
In this episode Byron and Alessandro discuss AI, social signals, and the implications of a computer that can read and respond to emotions.
Episode 78: A Conversation with Alessandro Vinciarelli
In this episode Byron and Nicholas talk about AI, humanity, social credit, as well as information bubbles.
Episode 77: A Conversation with Nicholas Thompson
In this episode Byron and Rudy discuss the future of AGI, the metaphysics involved in AGI, and delve into whether the future will be for humanity's good or ill.
Episode 76: A Conversation with Rudy Rucker
In this episode Byron and Kevin dialogue about the brain, the mind, what it takes to make AI and Kevin's thoughts on its inevitability.
Episode 75: A Conversation with Kevin Kelly
In this episode Byron and Dr. Kai-Fu Lee talk about the potential of AI to disrupt job markets, the comparison of AI research and implementation in the U.S. and China, as well as other facets of Dr. Lee's book "AI Superpowers".
Episode 74: A Conversation with Dr. Kai-Fu Lee
In this episode Byron and Konstantinos discuss what it means to be human, how technology has changed us in the far and recent past and how AI could shape our future.
Episode 73: A Conversation with Konstantinos Karachalios
In this episode Byron and Irving discuss the complexity of the human brain, the possibility of AGI and its origins, the implications of AI in weapons, and where else AI has and could take us.
Episode 72: A Conversation with Irving Wladawsky-Berger
In this episode Byron and Paul talk about AI, transfer learning, consciousness and Paul's book "Human + Machine: Reimagining Work in the Age of AI."
Episode 71: A Conversation with Paul Daugherty
In this episode Byron and Jakob Uszkoreit discuss machine learning, deep learning, AGI, and what this could mean for the future of humanity.
Episode 70: A Conversation with Jakob Uszkoreit
In this episode Byron and Dr. Minhas talk about AI, AGI, and machine learning. They also delve into explainability and other quandaries AI is presenting.
Episode 69: A Conversation with Raj Minhas
In this episode Byron and Suju discuss differences in machine and human learning as well as where machines could take us in advertising, privacy and medicine.
Episode 68: A Conversation with Suju Rajan
In this episode Byron and Amir talk about the explainability, privacy, and other implications of using AI for business.
Episode 67: A Conversation with Amir Khosrowshahi
In this episode Byron and Steve talk about the future of AGI, how AI will effect jobs, security, warfare, and privacy.
Episode 66: A Conversation with Steve Ritter
In this episode Byron and Luciano discuss ethics, information, AI and government monitoring. They also dig into Luciano's new book "The Fourth Revolution" and ponder how technology will disrupt the job market in the days to come.
Episode 65: A Conversation with Luciano Floridi
In this episode Byron and Dr. David discuss evolutionary computation, deep learning and neural networks, as well as AI's role in improving cyber-security.
Episode 64: A Conversation with Eli David
In this episode Byron and Hillery discuss AI, deep learning, power efficiency, and understanding the complexity of what AI does with the data it is fed.
Episode 63: A Conversation with Hillery Hunter
In this episode Byron and Atif discuss AI, deep learning, and the practical examples and implications in the business market and beyond.
Episode 62: A Conversation with Atif Kureishy
In this episode Byron and Dr. Rosenberg talk about AI and swarm intelligence.
Episode 61: A Conversation with Dr. Louis Rosenberg
In this episode, Byron and Robin talk about AI and the "Age of Ems," brain emulations.
Episode 60: A Conversation with Robin Hanson
In this episode, Byron and Tiger talk about AI, augmented intelligence, and its use in the enterprise.
Episode 59: A Conversation with Tiger Tyagarajan
In this episode, Byron and Chris talk about the brain, the mind, and emergence.
Episode 58: A Conversation with Chris Eliasmith
In this episode, Byron and Akshay talk about how AI augments and informs human intelligence.
Episode 57: A Conversation with Akshay Sabhikhi
In this episode, Byron and Babak talk about genetic algorithms, cyber agriculture, and sentience.
Episode 56: A Conversation with Babak Hodjat
In this episode, Byron and Rob talk about IBM Watson and the history and future of AI.
Episode 55: A Conversation with Rob High
In this episode, Byron and Ahmad talk about the brain, learning, and education as well as privacy and AI policy.
Episode 54: A Conversation with Ahmad Abdulkader
In this episode, Byron and Nova talk about neurons, the Gaia hypothesis, intelligence, and quantum physics.
Episode 53: A Conversation with Nova Spivack
In this episode Byron and Subbarao discuss creativity, military AI, jobs and more.
Episode 52: A Conversation with Rao Kambhampati
In this episode, Byron and Tim discuss autonomous vehicles, capitalism, the Internet, and the economy.
Episode 51: A Conversation with Tim O’Reilly
In this episode, Byron and Steve discuss the present and future impact of AI on businesses.
Episode 50: A Conversation with Steve Pratt
In this episode, Byron and Ali discuss AI's impact on business and jobs.
Episode 49: A Conversation with Ali Azarbayejani
In this episode, Byron and David discuss AI, jobs, and human productivity.
Episode 48: A Conversation with David Barrett
In this episode, Byron and Ira discuss transfer learning and AI ethics.
Episode 47: A Conversation with Ira Cohen
In this episode, Byron and Peter discuss AI use in consumer and retail businesses.
Episode 46: A Conversation with Peter Cahill
In this episode, Byron and Stephen discuss computational intelligence and what's happening in the brain.
Episode 45: A Conversation with Stephen Wolfram
In this episode, Byron and Gaurav discuss machine learning, jobs, and security.
Episode 44: A Conversation with Gaurav Kataria
In this episode, Byron and Markus discuss machine learning and automation.
Episode 43: A Conversation with Markus Noga
In this episode, Byron and Jem discuss machine learning, privacy, ethics, and Moore's law.
Episode 42: A Conversation with Jem Davies
In this episode, Byron and Rand discuss intelligence, AGI, consciousness and more.
Episode 41: A Conversation with Rand Hindi
In this episode Byron and Dennis discuss machine learning.
Episode 40: A Conversation with Dennis Laudick
In this episode Byron and David discuss intelligence, consciousness, Moore's Law, and an AI crisis.
Episode 39: A Conversation with David Brin
In this episode Byron and Carolina discuss computer vision, machine learning, biology and more.
Episode 38: A Conversation with Carolina Galleguillos
In this episode, Byron and Mike talk about AGI, Turing Test, machine learning, jobs, and Takt.
Episode 37: A Conversation with Mike Tamir
In this episode Byron and Bill talk about SRI International, aging, human productivity and more.
Episode 36: A Conversation with Bill Mark
In this episode, Byron and Lorien talk about intelligence, AGI, jobs, and the human genome project.
Episode 35: A Conversation with Lorien Pratt
In this episode, Byron and Christian talk about AGI, AI assistants, transfer learning, ANI and more.
Episode 34: A Conversation with Christian Reilly
In this episode, Byron and Bryon talk about intelligence, consciousness, emergence, automation and more.
Episode 33: A Conversation with Bryon Jacob
In this episode, Byron and Alan talk about robot ethics, military robots, emergence, consciousness, and self-awareness.
Episode 32: A Conversation with Alan Winfield
In this episode, Byron and Tasha talk about speech recognition, AGI, consciousness, Droice Lab, healthcare, and science fiction.
Episode 31: A Conversation with Tasha Nagamine
In this episode, Byron, Robert and Mudit talk about Qventus, healthcare, machine learning, AGI, consciousness, and medical AI.
Episode 30: A Conversation with Robert Mittendorff and Mudit Garg
In this episode, Byron and Hugo discuss consciousness, machine learning and more.
Episode 29: A Conversation with Hugo LaRochelle
In this episode, Byron and Mark discuss the future of jobs, energy and more.
Episode 28: A Conversation with Mark Stevenson
In this episode, Byron and Adrian discuss intelligence, consciousness, self-driving cars and more.
Episode 27: A Conversation with Adrian McDermott
In this episode, Byron and Peter talk about defining intelligence, Venn diagrams, transfer learning, image recognition, and Xiaoice.
Episode 26: A Conversation with Peter Lee
In this episode, Byron and Matt talk about thinking, the Turing test, creativity, Google Translate, job displacement, and education.
Episode 25: A Conversation with Matt Grob
In this episode, Byron and Deep talk about the nervous system, AGI, the Turing Test, Watson, Alexa, security, and privacy.
Episode 24: A Conversation with Deep Varma
In this episode Byron and Pedro talk about the master algorithm, machine creativity, and the creation of new jobs in the wake of the AI revolution.
Episode 23: A Conversation with Pedro Domingos
In this episode, Byron and Rudina talk about the AI talent pool, cyber security, the future of learning, and privacy.
Episode 22: A Conversation with Rudina Seseri
In this episode, Byron and Nikola talk about singularity, consciousness, transhumanism, AGI and more.
Episode 21: A Conversation with Nikola Danaylov
In this episode, Byron and Marie talk about the Turing test, Watson, autonomous vehicles, and language processing.
Episode 20: A Conversation with Marie des Jardins
In this episode, Byron and Manoj discuss cognitive computing, consciousness, data, DARPA, explainability, and superconvergence.
Episode 19: A Conversation with Manoj Saxena
In this episode Byron and Roman discuss the future of jobs, Roman's new field of study, "Intellectology", consciousness and more.
Episode 18: A Conversation with Roman Yampolskiy
In this episode, Byron and James talk about jobs, human vs. artificial intelligence, and more.
Episode 17: A Conversation with James Barrat
In this episode, Byron and Robert talk about human life extension, conscious computers, the future of jobs and more.
Episode 16: A Conversation with Robert J. Sawyer
In this episode, Byron and Daniel talk about magic, robots, Alexa, optimism, and ELIZA.
Episode 15: A Conversation with Daniel H. Wilson
In this episode Byron and Martin talk about the future of jobs, AGI, consciousness and more.
Episode 14: A Conversation with Martin Ford
In this episode, Byron and Bryan talk about sentience, transfer learning, speech recognition, autonomous vehicles, and economic growth.
Episode 13: A Conversation with Bryan Catanzaro
In this episode, Byron and Scott talk about algorithms, transfer learning, human intelligence, and pain and suffering.
Episode 12: A Conversation with Scott Clark
In this episode, Byron and Gregory talk about consciousness, jobs, data science, transfer learning.
Episode 11: A Conversation with Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro
In this episode, Byron and Suchi talk about understanding, data, medicine, and waste.
Episode 10: A Conversation with Suchi Saria
In this episode, Byron and Soumith talk about transfer learning, child development, pain, neural networks, and adversarial networks.
Episode 9: A Conversation with Soumith Chintala
In this episode Byron and Esther talk about intelligence, jobs, her experience in being a backup cosmonaut and more.
Episode 8: A Conversation with Esther Dyson
In this episode, Byron and Jared talk about rights for machines, empathy, ethics, singularity, designing AI experiences, transparency, and a return to the Victorian era.
Episode 7: A Conversation with Jared Ficklin
In this episode Byron and Nick talk about human consciousness, superintelligence, agi, and the future of jobs and more.
Episode 6: A conversation with Nick Bostrom
In this episode, Byron and Daphne talk about consciousness, personalized medicine, and transfer learning.
Episode 5: A Conversation with Daphne Koller
In this episode, Byron and Jeff talk about AGI, machine learning, and healthcare.
Episode 4: A Conversation with Jeff Dean
In this episode, Byron and Mark talk about computer versus human creativity, connectivity with digital systems, AGI, and the workforce.
Episode 3: A Conversation with Mark Rolston
In this episode, Byron and Oren talk about AGI, Aristo, the future of work, conscious machines, and Alexa.
Episode 2: A Conversation with Oren Etzioni
In this episode, Byron and Yoshua talk about knowledge, unsupervised learning, how the brain learns, creativity, and machine translation.
Episode 1: A Conversation with Yoshua Bengio