In today's Episode we are joined by innovative educators  Brett Salakis and Rob McTaggart. 

Both are involved in education and part of global online communities (#aussieED,  #TheWalkingED & @WorldSTEMedu ) as well as multiple Professional Learning Networks supporting and innovating with technology, curriculum and pedagogy.

In this episode Dan and Lee explore areas such as music and art and really try to explore what makes humans creative and can AI replicate that?  Can computers make Art, Music or even (one of Lees favourites, Wine!).

See further notes here:

https://www.amazon.com/Creativity-Code-Art-Innovation-Age/dp/0674988132

Human and AI Art collaboration  https://www.christies.com/features/A-collaboration-between-two-artists-one-human-one-a-machine-9332-1.aspx

Music and AI - https://bernardmarr.com/default.asp?contentID=1833

In this episode Dan and Lee discuss the areas around Responsible and ethical use of AI.   They look at fairness, security, inclusive and transparent AI and how those that create and use AI systems have to be accountable.

Links:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/ai/responsible-ai?activetab=pivot1%3aprimaryr6

Time to hear what the next generation of our workforce is thinking and experiencing of AI in their lives. Hear from Michael and Olivia, students in Uni today embarking on technology focused course. What does AI mean to them? How do they use AI today? What is their perspectives on an AI led future? 

• https://edukits.co/shop/electronics-kits/the-amazing-annoyatron/
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/olivia-griffith-2024551a8/ 

Don’t know your Supervised from your Unsupervised learning? Do you have your Neural Networks in a not? Fear not, in today's podcast,  Dan and Lee navigate the types of learning that machines can do and how these algorithms work and their application. 

In this episode Dan talks through the machine learning process.  What steps do we need? What data do we collect?  And why does thinking about alcohol make this easier?

Have you ever wondered about what makes a bot tick?  How do you go about setting up a conversational agent in your organisation and what are the benefits to you and your customers/students and staff?  In today's episode we take a look at how to create one and the considerations when doing so.

Microsoft Bot Framework: https://dev.botframework.com/

Microsoft QnA maker:https://www.qnamaker.ai/

The Turing test:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test

Chatbot in action: https://news.microsoft.com/en-au/2018/12/03/cloud-and-chatbot-free-up-it-service-desk/

Qbot in education: https://www.cloudcollective.com.au/bots-for-education/

• Microsoft shares their work on a new Super computer in Azure https://blogs.microsoft.com/ai/openai-azure-supercomputer/
• CPU vs GPU explainer -  Mythbusters Demo GPU versus CPU

Keeping the theme of education and learning, this episode will provide a look back, way back in to the human obsession with creating artificial replicas of themselves. When did it start, who started it, what is the AI winter and how did it accelerate so quickly in the last 10 years. 

• Talos: https://greekmythology.wikia.org/wiki/Talos
• Issac Assimov - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_series
• Uncanny Valley -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley
• Bayes Theorem -  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayes%27_theorem
• Rossums Universal Robots -  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.U.R.
• Alan Turing published a landmark paper  in 1950 to introduce elements of AI
• Enigma and cryptography- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptanalysis_of_the_Enigma
• The Dartmouth Conference of 1956
• The Turing Test was the first serious proposal in the philosophy of artificial intelligence
• The AI Winter - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter

In this introduction to Season 3 we meet our new co-host Lee Hickin.  We also look at what inspired him to get into technology and also look at some of the topical news around pandemic apps, the sharing of data and even play some tic-tac-toe with a WOPR.

Covid Safe app information - https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/techandscience/experts-explain-why-theyre-not-worried-about-covidsafe/ar-BB13oBVC

Paper on contact tracing - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2004.03544.pdf

Ai for Health - https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2020/04/09/ai-for-health-covid-19/